Another tough but not impossible migration for my crew, but there isn’t a good enough alternative yet. Plus they finally got around to fixing streaming on Linux, apparently, and I’m about to swap back once my new m.2 is installed.

Really? I nearly gave up a few months ago, especially since rebate was pretty limited when I checked. I might still hold off though, I’m still worried about… well, everything, right now.

I forgot the name but I did know about it! Kinda excited, Star Control III didn’t have the same vibe. Hope these posts also encourage someone to check out II, there is a fan remake you can download for free.

Product of the times isn’t a great way to put it, but you can certainly make the argument that most people have shades of grey morality.

Science can back you up, too, as I teach social psychology and when you dig in, you find that normative human nature is pretty complex but generally very supportive for in-group and mildly empathetic even with strangers. It’s only when you dehumanize a group do you get the worst behavior, and in all four cases you see that, be it slaves or indigenous people.

When you look at those times, it’s people who recognized their humanity that ended up in the just side of history.

In California I don’t think I even see these so called USA #1. Maybe “I love LA” but that’s mostly cause it the fires. Pretty sure the consensus here is that Finland or Sweden or some other northern European country are #1 because they actually have socialist programs, like parental leave and real healthcare and education.

I mean, in so much as a single person representing a county goes. The first colonies were a mix of religious zealots, Virginian drug dealers (well, tobacco but that’s almost worse), and a little Dutch (who were quite active in slave trading at the time). Quickly got a few more from French and Spanish, too.

However, the US also includes annexed Mexican territory (which has its own mixed history of subjegation and torture) and slews of different immigrant populations (with their own mixed intentions). A section of my own family is here cause they tried for Scottish independence, although there’s a good chance they were sent here for being belligerent drunks.

That said, ain’t a single country on this earth without their fair share of bullshit. America is just a lovely mix of those assholes, honestly.

Hey, thanks for the 3DO shout-out, although I’m not sure it falls into the same category of failure. When my dad was getting his shit together (at least, somewhat together), he got to work with those guys before getting a more stable job. While it’s certainly true about FMV gaming, their demise in particular is attributed more to business practices, like utilizing costly third parties for hardware- ironic since they all seem to do that now.

Many of their games hold up, though there aren’t very many and the only solid IPs got cross platform releases or ports (e.g. Gex) especially after it was clear 3DO was tanking. I think playing Star Control II on 3DO might have defined who I am as a gamer, and I highly recommend playing subsequent rereleases (it was PC only without 3DO!)

Denyay, defwend, depwose.

0% in this economy? Interest rates are still up, it’s been hard to find any 0%s after rate hikes, they really are desperate.

Maybe it is hyperbole because to them, 91k might as well be 9.1 million.

Just load an old save until you get the right choices. You guys are doing that too, right? This playthrough has really gone south since 2016 though, I need to see if I have something to load… maybe 2014 to be safe.

You guys ok if I reboot this reality and load that file rq? You might lose progress, I’m not sure how it impacts your saves.

Reminder of a poll recently, conservatives may still be brainwashed even after shit moves like this, but a ton of independents and moderate voters are souring over shit like this. They’re your real leopard face feeders.

They’ve practically already lost 2/3 of those people, although by definition they’re the flipflopiest group so it’s not great. I still wish the rightwing cultists will come to or at least actually inject bleach into their veins.

Jokes on everyone, he did his open casket.

You know, at that point it’s not even emulation, just good ol’ abandonware. That, or real patient gamer discounts… which I would make fun of except it took me like 15 years to try and love Portal. Lol

Ok, other guy got downvoted for this very same thought, but really, $250 a day seems like kinda a lot. I guess it you count taxes, maybe? Or maybe savings? Its weirdly too low for hyperbole but too high to sound right.

My expenses with a morgage in a major city, utils, gas, daycare, transportation, insurance, food for four, and a little to savings… and even I don’t think we hit $250/day. Even without doing the math, that’s $7500 every 30 days, we definitely don’t make that much even before taxes.

Oh wait, now I see, I spend jack shit on entertainment. A perk of being addicted to playing 20 year old games on emulators, I guess. If I had normal hobbies, yeah ok I can see how that’d probably be around $250 a day on average.

Tl;dr, moral of my thought experiment, pirate the mother loving shit out of your entertainment. Arr!

I wonder if he’s narcissistic enough to still at least do the election for his third term. He’d need significantly more cheating this time around to overcome the margins he’s gonna lose by with all his voters dead or faces eaten by leopards.

I like the little butterfly effect details. Blazing Saddles even got a different person hired at this place.

Oh, and Godzilla is real.

I’m down for spreading an LLM that is constantly very wrong. My students are driving me nuts trying to get away with passing off GPT as their own work and this would at least make me laugh.

We know that it’ll probably be a suicide, as Windows is slowly taking it’s own life as we speak.

It’s just lobbyists and politics ruining progress. I’m aware what we’re missing out on but, you know, there are considerably worse things about being American right now so… picking battles.

There’s a chance I’ll end up in Japan but I heard similar issues there.