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Why not just not play them if you don't like them?

I think that hunting games are not fun at all, but I can very easily address that by just not playing them, which avoids starting a fight with people who do like them. If I decided "I need to tell people to play games as I see best" and impose a ban, I'd be going out and starting a fight with people that just doesn't need to happen.

Ah, gotcha. What type of cheese did it turn into, out of curiosity?

I've had no problem with various tools to compute ReplayGain levels. I currently use bs1770gain.

What about volume normalization is problematic for you?

I wouldn't. I'd leave things at now.

I think that the Internet has pretty much monotonically improved over time. Oh, sure, there are some things that I miss, but overall? Today wins solidly. Today:

• Bandwidth is much higher.
• Availability is much more widespread.
• Security is a lot better in most respects. Used to be most traffic on the Internet wasn't encrypted.
• Flash and ActiveX are gone on the Web.
• IPv6 is widely available, alleviating address constraints.
• Email spam is more or less solved, though it does make running your own mail server today a pain.
• Open source is a lot more widespread and mainstream.
• I'd say that the reliability of a lot of online services is better.
• The widespread use of containerization and VMs has dramatically reduced the cost of having a small server in a datacenter.
• GOG and Steam are pretty amazing ways to buy video games. The selection is inexpensive, readily available, and ludicrously vast.
• Ditto for Amazon compared to brick-and-mortar plus mail order.

I liked the first book a lot, and recall liking the series less as it went on.

I guess...uh...that it'd be less dense, so that'd dick up tides on Earth.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html

Mean density (kg/m³): 3344

https://eurekamag.com/research/001/061/001061121.php

At 8 deg C, mean densities of blockformed and conventionally-hooped cheeses were, resp., 1.094 and 1.091 g/ml.

So that's 1094 kg/m³.

Basically, Earth's tides would be about a third as strong, which I imagine would affect a bunch of things, especially coastal ecology. Dunno how much tides affect weather.

Also, probably alters the reflectivity of the Moon, so would affect the brightness of the Moon. Might affect a lot of nocturnal critters and such. Hard to estimate, since that depends a lot on what cheese is involved.

Less energy density, though.

On the other hand, maybe a less-fire-risky battery would be grounds for increasing the current 100Wh maximum that the FAA places on laptop batteries.

While details of the Pentagon's plan remain secret, the White House proposal would commit $277 million in funding to kick off a new program called "pLEO SATCOM" or "MILNET."

Please do not call it "MILNET". That term's already been taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILNET

In computer networking, MILNET (fully Military Network) was the name given to the part of the ARPANET internetwork designated for unclassified United States Department of Defense traffic.[1][2]

Probably have better luck working on making mines that self-disarm to bound the time that they're a danger. If states assess mines to be militarily-important --- and this war has shown them to be pretty useful --- they probably won't forego them.

Harris raised a lot more than Trump did in the last presidential general election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/us/politics/trump-harris-campaign-fundraising.html

The Democrats, their allied super PACs and other groups raised about $2.9 billion, versus about $1.8 billion for the Republicans.

Also this legitimates the tech. Just like porn and VHS, the drug cartels endorse stardink.

"Hi there! I'm José Perez. Between 2025 and 2032, I ran over two thousand tons of cocaine into the United States. And when I needed reliable, high speed Internet access to safeguard my very valuable cargo, I knew that I couldn't settle for the second-best. I used Starlink™. Only Starlink™ gave me the peace of mind that my critical business operations would remain robust in the face of unexpected difficulties, be they hurricanes or US Coast Guard cutters. In today's fast-paced, competitive business world, whether you need a reliable video stream to a conference room in one of your branch offices or to a night-vision piloting camera on a semi-submersible smuggling platform, you can count on Starlink™!"

Sure, at first glance, that sounds like he's strongly committed, but I don't see anything in the article about him buying those $250 bottles of Trump cologne. And that's before we talk about how much Trump memecoin he's purchased. A $50 MAGA hat is just entry tier, and you can find a wife any old place.

Not ignored—not played yet.

Journal, July 3, 2025:

The day opened with a round of Barbie Project Friendship.

I then followed it up with survival horror Amnesia: The Bunker from survival horror specialists Frictional Games.

Next on the list was gay dom/sub dating sim Blood Domination.

Then hard milsim Command: Modern Operations.

I wound down with some relaxing time in art toy Zen Trails.

I have always been partial to variety.

Fatalities per capita is probably less interesting than fatalities per unit of distance driven.

While it's usable and I've read material that way, I've found that I want a larger screen. I've read books on a Kobo e-reader, a tablet, a laptop, and a desktop, and those are fine. The phone requires movement to the next page with more frequency than I'd like.

I agree that OLED screens doing light-on-dark look great at night, though.

EDIT: YouTube clip of an OLED and LCD phone side-by-side in the dark:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I1aGY0Wq5KU

I got 1000 games, 200 of which are GOG offline installers.

Nothing but food and bills now as I wait for it all to collapse.

While I'll believe that you have solid storage longevity, prepping for societal collapse by archiving 1000 video games seems kind of unorthodox.

Well, under GE Proton, presumably.

I don't think that it's going to work. I assume that the people who most aren't happy are moderate Republicans who can't stand Trump and company:

Disgruntled Republicans sick of being bullied by Donald Trump and Democrat centrists imperiled by the Left are secretly having conversations about forming a third party in American politics, The Swamp can exclusively reveal.

But they aren't gonna be enough votes alone. The people they'd best get along with are probably moderate Democrats, but the Democrats just ran Harris, who is also pretty moderate, so I doubt that moderate Democrats are especially upset at the moment. I think that they'd have a tough time attracting a bunch of moderate Democrats.

If you had just had an election between, I don't know, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, then maybe you could try to run off with the Democratic center.

The second problem is that the US electoral system always stabilizes around two big-tent parties. It can be disrupted temporarily, but you're gonna eventually get two parties. If one or both of the Big Two parties splinter, they will just reform into a new two parties in a few years. So even if you get people who are unhappy with the status quo, once things stop shifting around, you're gonna have two big-tent parties again.

It's not clear to me that introducing a new party solves problems here. Like, you want a different coalition, you can do that within the parties. You're gonna have to make concessions and sell people on it, but long run, you'd have to do that with a new party too.

EDIT: I guess technically they could get a few Greens, but the American Greens are more of a left-wing protest party than specifically being anti-carbon or whatever, the way the German Greens might be. That's probably not gonna have much overlap with moderate Republicans. And there's the Libertarian Party, which might like more relaxed borders and lower barriers to trade, but LPers probably aren't going to generally be really enthusiastic about a muscular foreign policy, which I bet the unhappy people want.

EDIT2: My guess is a more-likely outcome, if the GOP stays Trumpy post-Trump, is that a bunch of Reagan Republican types give up on Trump, just join the Democratic Party and get some policy concessions out of the Democrats.

Just giving an example; translate to your preferred environment!

If you use pixz, you can get indexing-permitting-for-random access, parallel compression/decompression and (generally superior to gzip's LZ77) LZMA compression with tarballs.

        $ sudo apt install pixz
    $ tar cvf blahaj.tar.pixz -Ipixz blahaj/