SynopticVision

This is great, thanks a lot

Yup. I got banned from a sub for using the verb "to Luigi" (someone)

After many years, knowing all too well that it's the kind of game that would have driven me crazy, I started Factorio. I am indeed struggling not to have it swallow my life whole.

I went very far with it but gave up because I was feeling quite fatigued. I think I'm a bit after the underwater (?) Highway. It's a fine game but I don't have the patience for that kind of grind and repetition anymore

Is this guy for real?

I'm using Boost for both Reddit and Lemmy, and as a quick glance on my phone they look identical. To be honest if I was to open a random thread and look at the comments I wouldn't be able to tell where I am.

I'm not sure what you guys mean when you say that Lemmy feels different. If feels smaller but the same, in the good and bad.

And for 50 years instead of 5

No, it isn't. Victim blaming is a thing, but there needs to be some limits or the concept loses any significance.

"Dress modestly when you go out else you get raped" is victim blaming.

"Don't organise an international event in one the world's most dangerous and war-ridden regions of the globe, literally a handful of Kms from a fence, armed checkpoints, and automated machine gun turrets" is reasonable common sense.

Honestly, I agree with you.

Of course, if someone offered to come by my house and set this all up for free I wouldn't say no, but nowadays with a fast enough internet connection and the right tracker you're a few keystrokes and maybe 15 minutes away from any movie or TV series you might feel like watching.

The 15/20 minutes saved don't justify the massive work and maintenance to keep this all running.

Kos, or some say Kosm

Throw as much money as possible into the best institutes for cancer research in the world, until cancer is cured.

Then, for myself, commission the best architects and contractors to have an absolutely exact replica of the Spencer Mansion built for me.

Annihilation is a good book, but the hype it got is much more due to:

• the fact that it arrived at the peak of the new wave of interest for Weird lit,

• its (again, very timely) environmental spin to weird fiction,

• the fact that Vandermeer worked a lot to present himself as THE authority on Weird fiction, with his articles, collections, prefaces to reissues of older books and so forth.