Yes, but I like the pace to be somewhat slower than the usual default. I mod time in Stardew Valley to pass half as fast outdoors, and half that fast indoors or in dungeons. I like the rhythm of the day-night cycle and the changing of the seasons, but I like the pace to be leisurely.

YEARS OF DOING and yet THERE ARE STILL even more TASKS TO BE DONE

This is my #1 demotivator. It doesn’t matter how many tasks I do, it will never be enough.

Took this one just now. It’s hard to get Xena to look at the camera!

So did they not commit suicide, or was Jobst just wrong about the exact circumstances leading up to it?

What does she mean there was a “generational shift” that led to people burning CDs? Back in the floppy disk days, everyone was copying floppies—I remember when my grandfather bought a Mac to use at home, and immediately his friends at work loaded him up with copied disks. Which generation is she thinking of that wasn’t pirating a ton of software?

Americans are notoriously terrible at protesting. I was in high school in the '00s and our American history textbook had a sidebar about the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. The bit that stuck with me: a French dignitary interviewed on the scene was unconcerned about the protesters. He pointed to an untouched BMW (or similar luxury car, I forget the exact make). “In Paris,” he said, “That car would be burning.”

Revanced still works. If yours stopped working, download the latest patches and make an updated .apk.

If you call someone “daddy,” it means you’re having sex and you consider them to be the dominant partner in the relationship (or are roleplaying that for sexual reasons). Your language partner is being a creep.

There is some very old slang, “daddy-o,” which isn’t sexual and would be used with a friend, but using it makes you sound like a jazz musician from the 1940s.

I do this about once a month. I could just bite the bullet and rent a space in a nearby lot, but that’s $85, so I’m actually saving money on the tickets as long as I don’t hit both move-your-car-for-street-cleaning days.

So after removing the categories that I disagree with (love for yourself is not the same emotion as romantic love for another person, songs about how you’re glad you broke up are clearly about the emotions that replaced romantic love, and songs about lust may be about someone you also romantically love, but love and lust are different emotions) I can conclude that love songs are, in fact, declining in popularity, but also still make up a large percentage of popular songs.

I have 40+ hours in the game and I haven’t even explored all of the existing islands, I’d better catch up!

This is only a map of Catholic popes! You need a separate map to show the Discordian popes:

It would look something like this:

In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the world is ending, and the 13-day timer is very real. You basically get told “do as much as you can before the world ends” and let loose. So there’s urgency AND side questing.

And of course you have the opportunity to spend that time doing things that are completely irrelevant to making progress, like collecting silly outfits and forcing Lightning to wear them so that Hope can laugh at her.

Sonic Roboblast 2 Kart and its successor Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers are open source, and pretty fun! The exact degree to which they’re free-as-in-libre depends somewhat on Sega’s policy of turning a blind eye to fan games, so although GPL-2.0 permits commercial use I wouldn’t recommend testing it.

There is a lively modding scene (or there was for SRB2K last time I was playing it; I haven’t played RR yet). Ring Racers has single-player content if that’s what you’re looking for, I hear it’s quite challenging.

Steam should really just let you set games not to update without having to futz around with Offline Mode. Refusing updates for specific games is currently possible-but-very-annoying: you need to set “Only update this game when I launch it” and then ALWAYS switch Steam into Offline Mode before launching; if you ever accidentally launch it while online, it will update and Steam won’t let you roll back.

How good of a friend are we talking? I care about my roommate’s new nephew. I know his sister, and we’ve played D&D with his brother-in-law. The baby is, like, a relevant part of being friends with them. Similarly, if he went on vacation I’d want to hear about how it went, especially if anything interesting happened.

On the other hand some of my coworkers at my last job liked to talk about this kind of stuff, and I didn’t really care, but it was nice to have something to talk about while I was setting up a new printer for them, or whatever.

I can’t believe how many otherwise seemingly reasonable people are still involved in the MTG and D&D content ecosystems after Hasbro hired the fucking Pinkertons to threaten a Youtuber. How little self respect do they have? Promote a game that isn’t made by someone who would send thugs to your house!

Even if you buy a DVD, the only thing you are “buying” is the physical media and a license to operate the softwate. You don’t own the software stored on the media, you must use it in accordance with the license agreement or potentially face legal action. The main thing about digital storefronts is that it’s easier to revoke the license.

“Real world politics”? Did I miss the news that Undead Demon Margaret Thatcher is running in the next UK election?

There are definitely some things it is healthier not to know, and I’m pretty sure this is one of them. It’s why I don’t ask my mom questions about my dad, who I have never met since being old enough to form memories and I would like to keep it that way.