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I have high hopes for Alan Wake and Metal Gear

Okay. Well, we're all hungry. We're gonna get to our hotplates soon enough, alright?

This is one of my favorite books. I’ve read it probably 4 or 5 times, and every time I come back to it, depending on where I am in my life, I get something different from it—as a son, as a father, as a man struggling personally, it just speaks to me on so many different levels.

I have books scattered throughout the house, and so what I’m reading changes depending on where I am.

• If I’m going to sit outside, I’ll grab the book I keep on the table next to the back door. Currently that’s Stephen King’s Bag of Bones

• If I’m going to read in bed, then I pick up Tuesdays with Morris by Mitch Albom

• If I’m going to read in the bath, I’ll grab my Kindle and work through Alma Katsu’s The Deep

• If I’m in my office chair, I’ll work on The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defence, by Suzette Haden Elgin

Kind of a funny way of going about things, but there it is, heh

Ah I just don’t want to be spammy is all.

Are we allowed to submit other people’s pictures we come across here? I assume so? I’m going to miss /r/itookapicture and /r/earthporn terribly :( 99% of my wallpapers come from those two places.

I want Lemmy to succeed, I want to be optimistic about it as an alternative to Reddit, but OP is correct, and we need to be honest about this very simple fact:

The Reddit we knew and loved is gone, and that’s a sad, tragic thing, and there likely won’t be a 1:1 replacement for a long time, if ever.

It’s okay to admit to ourselves that this whole situation sucks, because it absolutely does. That doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy Lemmy and other federated things like it, and it doesn’t mean that federation doesn’t have advantages over Reddit, but let’s be honest: most of us were happy at Reddit, using our favorite 3rd party app (like Apollo), and we wouldn’t be here if the admins weren’t happy to kill what we once loved.

All we can do is try to make the best of it.

Fuck, City wining the triple is going to make me sick.

Juniper for R/S, Palo for firewalls. At home I use pfsense and UniFi APs and in that environment they’re great.

I know this opinion is wildly unpopular, but I think pirating is unethical. If you can’t afford something, or you disagree with spending money for it, then fine. Don’t watch that show/listen to that song/play that game. But the people who make things deserve to get paid. It’s not right to refuse to pay for something while also consuming that content. Many of the justifications for pirating just feel like entitlement to me.

I like that Lemmy and Masto don’t have those fucking algorithms. It’s a relief.

That's helpful to think of it that way, thank you. Perhaps I will reconsider :)

I'm interested in getting into this, but I think I'd probably end up abandoning it and having it feel like a chore, then feel guilty about not getting it 'done.'