So given Dr. Glaucomflecken is an opthalmologist, I’m at least 37.3% sure he meant her eyeglass prescription in diopters. Isn’t that right, Johnathan?

Izzy never does that, but she’s old and creaky so I don’t think it’s comfortable for her to lay on her back.

I had a long haired cat lay on his back to cool off. He could spread his fluff open that way to get some airflow. Only cat I’ve ever had that I needed to keep cool rather than warm.

The (non-geriatric) females tended to want to play. Dangling a favorite toy was fun for the feline and safe for the primate.

It can be. If you look on a lot of the websites for video games they grant licenses to stream the game’s audio assets in the context of streaming gameplay.

Oh shit, I didn’t think of that. You think there are any F-14s left?

Wrong. Its:

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day.

Give a fish a man, he eats for a week!

I’m all but two of those.

There also wouldn’t be gestapo in Minneapolis.

I’m sick of this lie that the internet isn’t real.

Have you ever heard it said that character is who you are in the dark? Kind of a Jungian take, the whole “you change your persona depending on environment and company, you’re only ever your true self when you think nobody’s watching.”

Well, I think the internet is “in the dark.” It brings out the actual in people.

I don’t. In fact I don’t have two devices running the same distro at the moment.

My desktop is running Fedora KDE, which offered solid Wayland performance with my hardware.

My laptop is running Mint Cinnamon. Fedora would work on it, but it’s funny how often I have to dig out the laptop to do something because the software doesn’t work on Fedora.

My tablet is running Fedora GNOME because for a touch UI it’s the least worst. It’s fuckpuke, but it’s not boiling caustic fuckpuke.

My HTPC is running Bazzite. Mostly in desktop mode because most of what I do with it is watch Youtube and there isn’t a good solution to do that in Steam Big Picture mode.

I have a couple Pis running PiOS because there’s basically not a better solution.

Confirmed.

Debating letter vs spirit of law is a symptom of a shittily written law.

The fairies in A Link to the Past were on a spectrum between Tinkerbell gossamer wings and a tiny dress, to angelic bird winged and long gowns. When a fairy appeared on screen, there would be soothing harp music.

On the N64, fairies were either firefly like glow balls with insect wings, or…pointy, head-tentacled, vine clad women that screech like a witch when they emerge or retire?

I forgot Eve Online existed. I got a free trial to it once, tried installing it on my Pentium III desktop, it booted but had this weird pink cast to it, so I installed it on my dad’s Pentium 4 desktop, got through the tutorial, like shot some asteroids, encountered another player in game, asked what the point of the game was, the other player responded “Whatever you want it to be.” and I quit the game and never looked back.

Factorio is the least pointful game I’ll accept: Here is a hammer, a pistol with 100 shots, 10 iron plates, a furnace and a drill. Build and launch a rocket.

Okay, where’d you get only 500 meters of solid rock?

Chicks going to cons cosplaying as Lara Croft with half a shoebox up her shirt will never stop being funny.

Let me tell you about some fun I’ve had twice now:

Some of a tooth snaps off. You go to the dentist, “Yep, that needs to come out.” You schedule an appointment with a dental surgeon. On that day, what’s left of the tooth is torn out of your face, and a titanium drywall anchor dusted with cadaver bone is forced into the hole. You spend a couple months with a titanium cap sticking out of where your tooth used to be. Once it’s healed enough, you go back to the dentist and the titanium cap comes out and they bolt a fake tooth to the implanted anchor, which hurts a part of your body that has never felt sensation before so it feels like it’s 3 feet behind your head. And now one of your teeth is ceramic, weirdly numb, and food can get stuck under it.

Others in here have said “brush your teeth” but one of mine broke because resorption. The tooth hollowed itself out from the inside, for no apparent reason. So, don’t randomly lose the tooth lottery either.

My first thought was “dude, where’d you get 500 meters of solid rock?”

It does remind me strongly of the people I’ve cut off, yes.

It’s not so bad when it’s your first time through the game and you’ve never seen any of it before, when you’re taking in the scenes for the first time. It’s a bigger issue on the second playthrough, which…this game isn’t designed for a second playthrough. The fun isn’t in the mechanics and it isn’t exactly a feast for the eyes (the monochrome dithered retro styling is interesting in full 3D and I understand it was a pain in the dick to get the Unity engine to do that, but it’s still a bit…harsh), so most of the fun is learning what happened, and if you’ve been through it before, well.

Talking to NPCs to find out things about the immediate area is a major part of the game.

If you do what the King says, you’ll encounter NPCs that have some early world building dialog, an easily climbed tower to start filling in the map and get the shrine sensor, four convenient shrines, one of which has the climbing bandana in it, great time to get that because you don’t have a hat at all yet so the extra armor plus the climbing speed buff is excellent to have, there’s a stable with a sidequest that teaches you how to catch horses, you’ll find Hestu along the path up to Kakariko and likely increase your inventory (or learn that koroks exist), and then in Kakariko the shrine there is a combat tutorial, there’s a fairy fountain nearby, plus Impa sets you on the main quest of the game. Having done four shrines, you can add a heart or stamina wheel sector. Pikango is here, and there are several sidequests in Kakariko to get stuck into.

Impa sends you to Hateno to get the memories sidequest going. Major location in the game with some adventuring and side questing to do, more expository dialog and world building, you get the camera and shiekah sensor, get sent back to Impa, and then you’re kicking around in Kakariko with no immediate goal. You look out one of the exits of town you haven’t taken yet and you see a wide open area with two visible shrines and a tower. Course charted, you get sucked into the Zora plot. Once that’s done, you’ll have Mipha’s Grace, an additional heart, some more armor, and then the training wheels are off and now it’s up to you to pick a direction to explore.

“I didn’t do what the NPC said and didn’t find something important the whole game” gives big “why don’t my kids ever call” energy.