Thanks for the reminder that I need to order trichogramma wasps to fix my moth problem again. Downside of keeping my quail inside; moths infest very easily. Upside, i learned years ago that trichogramma wasps (stingless egg parasites) are cheap and work like a dream on pantry moths, plus they are so small you’ll never see them (like moving sand)

Yes, but also absolutely no.

If every game becomes a paralyzing consequence nexus, some of us wont play them who would otherwise actually play a linear RPG like we’ve come to expect from the FF franchise.

Final fantasy is not the same niche as baludars gate, and they really need to not see themselves as competitors. Fewer cutscenes and more play? Absolutely. Changing the entire genre of the game? Ehh.

I genuinely dislike games where I can play multiple times and not get all the content. Im always stuck. I want to experience as much as I can for the least time investment (hated choose your own ending books for the same reason), but they are made to be infinitely replayable and I’m not into that. There are more games out there. 🤷🏻

Unsurprising that actually feeling safe increases use over “trust everyone bro, even the people who threaten you, painted lines will stop them!”

We all thought nazis were a back in the day problem too, though. Maybe better we don’t make that assumption this time.

My parents held a seance with a “medium” (a grifter my mom knew), trying to contact the spirit in the house named Edward (the man who built the property and lived there until he died in a fire he started while drunk).

I was 10-12 or so and it was really dumb. They recorded the session on a boom box (this was the 90s) and importantly I rested myself on it throughout the whole thing so I probably ruined the whole thing because the only notable anomaly on the tape was a heartbeat, and it was probably mine.

However, as a result of all the chatter around the supernatural, I had “unexplained occurrences” for the next couple weeks due to being attuned to that sort of thing which I’d normally have blown off. Im not religious, not spiritual, and don’t really believe in supernatural phenomenon, other than “we cant explain this but it definitely happened” sort of stuff. Many of the things I experienced the following weeks I’ve been able to explain as my knowledge of the weird natural world expanded, so…

Technically you always taste the contents of your bowels, you just aren’t conscious of it.

Your digestive system has tastebuds all up and down it, just like your tongue. Unlike your tongue, they very thankfully aren’t hooked into sensory processing parts of the brain, instead, they are used to help determine everything’s good. If they detect something is off, bacteria byproducts, spoilage, etc, they cause the purges to happen (vomiting or diarrhea depending where in the digestive process it is, sometimes both!!)

But thats basically why you can sometimes feel very spicy food move through and burn along the way.

How was it? Delicious?

This reminds me of the dude who built a computer that technically runs doom inside satisfactory or factorio (I think satisfactory).

I’m struggling to find the video now, but he wrote a ton of optimization code to make it run faster, because it’s painfully slow. I think the video was sped up 1,000x or so just to show it was, in fact, playing.

I love looking at natural older faces at rest because they tell a story about the expressions that person made most frequently throughout their lifetime. Like a little glimpse of the life that person led.

Its just wild to me how angry/condescending all the conservatives tend to look when their faces are at rest.

Probably why mar-a-lago face has become popular with them. Being a bootleg barbie beats being angry old men.

The last time I went under, I was talking to the nurses about the equipment in the room and stuff and the last thing I really remember is asking what drug they gave me, and when I learned it was fentanyl I was like “oh, this is fentanyl? It’s pretty nice. I can see why it’s a controlled substance, yeah.”

I’m entirely sure I continued to be annoying though, even if I don’t remember it. Mostly because they don’t tend to bother trying to get me to count, they just kept me chattering. Same thing when they wake me up. I tend to be… “helpful”… removing monitor pads and such and slurring my way through asking how it went, if I gave them any trouble, and when I come around a bit more, asking if they amputated the wrong limb (I’ve never had a limb removed).

Exactly what I do. I fucked up long ago and had to grind an end boss for weeks to not replay the entire game (saved with basically nothing in inventory).

Now I rotate save files, always keep stacks of consumables, etc. and absolutely never use awesome or unique items. Because you never know.

The sad part is I’m much better at games now, having had 30 more years to practice, so I rarely even need those crutches… unless theres an easy to use hotkey for it, I probably wont use them much. The situation that convinced me to be abundantly cautious has literally never happened, or come close to happening, again, and not at all because I changed strategies.

The book Cat Sense by John Bradshaw is a good read (you can probably find a free pdf thats complete, and years ago I uploaded the audiobook to audiobookbay, but this preview will do for not linking to amazon or potentially breaking rules).

He got around the problem of cats not doing cat things in a lab by just, you know, having cats at home and observing their behavior. Sure, its only a look at domestic cats for the most part, but its a great read anyway.

If you dig down about 2 foot (or several inches lower than the lowest root you find) and install a rubber barrier that goes from the bottom of the trench to up above the soil, it wont be able to spread to you anymore :)

You could use brick, stone, or cement, but if any cracks exist or form it’ll eventually find the way through, where that’s significantly less likely with a solid sheet of rubber.

Should add sunchokes/Jerusalem artichoke in there somewhere, as they are food. I don’t think kudzu is? Lets replace that one.

Sunchokes spread like crazy as long as they have full sun, and are super difficult to eradicate, but are thwarted by being planted in sunny clearings in densely wooded areas. They can’t spread into the shade.

Make the land difficult for development, but useful for the community!

The urge never went away for me, I vaped 0% for several years. It’s the habit that’s addictive for some people.

Mine was 45mg methylphenidate (as ritilin) time release in the morning and 15mg after school. For a total daily dose of 55mg, (which is more than the 35mg max daily dose they’d give me now as an adult, and way more than the 18mg I actually take occasionally). I was 90lbs until I started cheeking it at 11-12, and got punished both for not eating dinner AND for “stealing” food from the fridge at 11pm when it all finally wore off and I got desperately hungry (also for cheeking the pills but that’s its own problem). Thanks for the food issues, fam. They work so well that living with people makes me feel guilty in my own house!

Sorry we both dealt with shit.

My test administrator genuinely laughed while I was doing the test because I couldn’t stop asking questions/making comments about it.

Apparently that specific test is administered with a human present for exactly that reason. Clear as day indicator of Overactive Brain Disorder.

I was diagnosed at 5 originally but didn’t have any records of it because I stopped medication at 13, the earliest age my parents would listen to me about how bad I felt on medication (was on a super high dose they wouldn’t even give me as an adult, no wonder I hated it) and then raw-dogged the next 20 years, so they skipped a lot of the truly basic stuff and went right for a confirmation test of impulse control. Of which I have absolutely none.

I have a 2023 chevy bolt and I just pulled the fuse for all that stuff. It doesn’t really disable anything important. If you still want navigation or location-based charging, you can remove the onstar module behind the screen without issue, and the video tutorial made it look pretty damned easy to DIY. That disables all the spyware/internet stuff but leaves everything else working. I’ll probably do it eventually, for location-based charging and nothing else, but its very low priority at the moment, cuz I hardly ever go anywhere that can use the full level 1 12amp pull (my friends and family aren’t confident their wiring can handle it, which is totally fair, I don’t use 12amp at home for the same reason, and I’m getting a new outlet installed that will make it a level 2 charger anyway)

It also has physical buttons for all the important stuff. That and being able to disable the spyware were my two main criteria, with cargo space as a close third (used to have a civic coupe, loved the size, but useless for moving stuff)

When I got my first consoles around 8, it was from my neighbor who wanted to get a ps1, so he sold me his snes and genesis and about a dozen games for each. After that I got every major console (used ofc) though I stopped xbox at the 360 because I always buy used at least a generation behind, and the whatever came after one was already out, and almost entirely backward compatible. Why get xbox one when I could get the whatever came after and get two consoles for the price of the one?

I might get the xbox whatever’s current at some point, but the big companies basically destroyed the used game market with their shenanigans, discless consoles, pushing digital games over everything else and barely even releasing games on disc in the newest generation, and then fucking up the used market further by making everything online, shutting down servers, and revoking licenses for stuff making people realize if they don’t have it physically they don’t own it.

At at this point I’m just not really into collecting games anymore. It’s no longer a fun cheap way to get occasional gems among lots of average games (I have like 500 discs, a lot of those games are very meh).

I still game, but I’d never pay for a digital copy that I can’t sell/give away when I don’t want it anymore, because that’s not what gaming is to me. So my current method of aqusition gives exactly the same amount of money to devs and studios as my former method of buying used games, and I feel zero guilt as a result. They weren’t getting my money anyway, the difference is that now nobody does. I do throw indie devs money a lot more often than I would if buying the used disc, but I’m still broke (more broke, in fact) so I can’t afford to do it all the time, much less buy all these games at whatever price they decide they want to get for it.

It could be more like pens and marker on the surface, rather than needled tattoos. That might work, and still ‘count’ as tattoo for narrative purposes. But really the same problem applies with the chair situation, which is arguably harder to explain away, since he falls to the floor without the chair. Really, if his time is fully stopped, he should be hovering when chair-less.

Perhaps time isn’t really fully stopped, so he can be aware of whats going on (as it sounds like he might be). That sounds very much like a djinn thing to do.