There’s also an anime with a rather similar premise

First time I met my SO’s dog he bit me. We are married now and the dog is my best bud, so things worked out in the end.

NMS is closer to Minecraft in genre than a story driven RPG.

It’s an exploration and survival sandbox game, with a little bit of story sprinkled on top.

The most similar game I’ve played to it is Out There. No Man’s Sky is extremely similar to Out There in a lot of ways, except NMS is 3D and things like mining or fighting you have to do in-game rather than in a fade-to-black style cutscene.

Give Out There a try, and if you like it, you will love No Man’s Sky. If you don’t like it, you will probably find No Man’s Sky more enjoyable but a bit bland. Out There is on smartphone app stores as well as Steam.

I have a $15 USB powered soldering iron and it scares me a bit every time I use it. Nothing should be able to get that hot off of a 5V USBA plug.

To check if it’s hot I always just poke it into the wet sponge to hear the hiss. It’s also a very satisfying noise.

I want a form of government where to become president you have to travel to 7 ancient temples and at each one pass the trial and acquire the artifact

iPads have filesystem access these days. The approved apps thing I’m curious what they will do about.

Even if I’m playing a game I bought from GoG, I still need Steam involved for its controller support or Proton if I’m on Linux.

They are on a path towards merging iOS and macOS and fully merging their iPad and MacBook product lines. They’ve been on this path for a while, you can see it in things like moving the MacBook to ARM, adding mouse support to the iPad, making the iPad OS more desktop-like and making the desktop OS more iPad-like.

This is just the next step on that path. The eventual goal will be all of their devices will run the same OS with only subtle variations.

I’ve owned GBA, NDS, 3DS, and my brother had the DS Lite. Every Gen 1 DS I’ve seen has had its hinge break eventually. All the others on this list seem more durable. My GBA in particular went through some rough spots.

But yeah, adding moving parts is always going to add more points of failure.

My Crahgers

Yeah EtG is HARD I personally have only made it to thr 3rd boss. My brother is really good at it and has told me what happens when you get to the end.

StS 2 is still early access so it is not really finished yet. I’m not sure what a “good moment to finish” would be like, although even just beating the final boss for the first time is an achievement, but personally that’s not where I wanted to stop. My group kinda petered out after completing most of the unlocks, although we plan to come back on full release and/or when they add more significant content.

This seems kinda tough but here are some games that come to mind:

Slay the Spire 2

• 1-4 player co-op
• main gameplay is turn-based tcg-like deck builder (in multiplayer, turns are simultaneous but teamwork works best when you slow down and don’t all go at once)
• plot gets unlocked bit by bit mainly through achievements, which don’t always come from winning a run
• Strong class identities, and this is built on in multiplayer. You form your build from cards and items drafted from random selections, but the pools of available cards and items are dependent on your class.

Enter the Gungeon

• 1-2 players
• bullet hell roguelike dungeon crawler
• main story requires wins or at least deep runs for progress most of the time
• class selection defines your initial items, but your build can change a lot depending on what items you find
• the late story is highly dependent on your character selection

Sanctum / Sanctum 2

• 1-4 players
• FPS Tower Defense
• there are classes which form the basis for your build crafting, although other build crafting choices you make can kinda override that
• build crafting is a lot deeper in Sanctum 2 than Sanctum 1
• Story is told in pieces level-by-level
• its not a roguelite, but it’s a level-by-level game with lots of options for modifiers, which makes it playable in short sessions with a lot of replayability

Well, what is sign language for clitoris?

Too many people believe they are AI is capable hands.

Half a century of companies suing each other over code licenses suggests otherwise

The first generation of Arm Mac’s were pretty cost effective.

I trust deepseek because I can run it fully offline on my own machine