I’m always hearing and reading nightmare stories about HOAs; this is a good step in the right direction.

Oh no, now I’m gonna be looking at enamel pins on Etsy for the next 3 hours. Thanks for reminding me.

I used to take a double-shot of Nyquil before when I should be going to bed just so I could get to sleep at a decent time.

I’m diggin’ the style of this manga. Have a source?

He just read the headline about how experts say AI could easily replace CEOs in the near future.

Them: “You play a girl character? That’s pretty gay.”

Me: “I’m not the one staring at man-ass for several hours each day.”

Basically just Fire Emblem Heroes right now.

I keep trying to find a fun game that isn’t a pay to win where you need to whale hundreds of dollars for a -chance- to get something usable (FE Heroes is kinda like this but not too bad) but everything on the app store seems like garbage whenever I look. It’s all designed to punish you if you don’t pay enough money. I don’t mind paying a bit for a game I like but I can’t really find anything good.

I might end up just buying Slay The Spire, even though I already own it on PC.

My dad had a well at once house he had. Something broke on it, and the city (suburbs, but still) stepped in and forced him to pay several thousand dollars to have excavators come out and hook the house up to city water. They wouldn’t let him fix the well.

Edit: I think the pump gave out, and the city stepped in because zoning laws changed since the house was built. The well was grandfathered in to old zoning laws until the pump broke.

I thought you were making a political statement at first. “How does this make sense?” I asked myself. Oh, they mean the twitter/other platform format.

I think Nvidia is noticing Microsoft killing it’s OS for gamers and enthusiasts, and is worried AMD will overtake them when people switch to Linux.

I was beginning to think this would never happen. Usually, when an Epic Store exclusive comes to Steam, it does so with a 50% off sale, at least the few I’ve seen. We’ll have to keep an eye out for that.

I wore some of these at work for a while to listen to music, since earbuds were an OSHA safetey issue.

• They are horrible in loud environments. I had to turn them up so high thay they would vibrate, which was an unpleasent feeling.
• However, you can still hear them fine with OSHA approved earplugs, but then the music sounds all muffled.
• You can find lots of different ones on Amazon and such just by searching for bone conduction headphones, ranging from cheap to expensive.
• The ones I got cost about $20 at the time, and had an okay sound quality, but not much bass.

I leaned about these from the Soundband Kickstarter over a decade ago, whoch I backed. None of the backers ever got a product, as it seems the creators dropped the project and ran with the money. Those ones had the bone-conduction wrap around the ear. Instead of sit on the bone in front of the ear.

Edit, to add a few points:

• They were comfortable enough to wear for several hours, but the vibration got real annoying if I had to turn up the volume due to a loud environment. The band that wraps around the ears could get uncomfortable after a while.
• It didn’t irratate my skin, but vibration at loud volumes was uncomfortable.
• I wore these with glasses no problem.
• The band that wraps around wasn’t tight, but fit okay enough to not flop around while working. Not sure about for jogging or other work-outs.

I saw everyone flipping out over the pointless microtransactions in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Why am I not seeing the same level of hate for this, or more? This means that the content is already complete and in the game, yet simply made inaccessible by way of timed release and possibly paywall.

I think it’s a form of ADHD over-clarifying.

Nobody _earns a billion dollars. It can only be stolen and exploited from other peoples’ labor.

I think games as a while have shifted focus from being fun to being addicting, with few exceptions. Little Big Planet and Twisted Metal were fun; Roblox wants your money. And then there’s the micro transaction hell that plagues mobile games, which seem to be most of what children play or only have access to these days.

Hmm that looks a lot like Akira Toriyama’s art style…

“…the anime series adaptation of the late Akira Toriyama’s SAND LAND manga”

Oh, that makes sense. Were they planning this before he passed, or are they just trying to jump on the popularity train because Toriyama recently passed and everyone is talking about it?

I actually saw this documentary about people with a quicksand fetish, who go out in groups and just lounge in quicksand (without the getting swallowed/dying part). They said they loved the way it felt on their skin and being enveloped by it, among other things. It wasn’t desert quicksand, but it looked kind of wet.

I think most real-life examples have been plagued by corruption to the point that they fall into a different category altogether.

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to convert them into apartments?