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My partner hates this mug with a passion. Maybe I should get one 😅

I played the heck out of the Renegade demo, it scratched a FPS RTS itch I didn't know I had. I wonder if it holds up?

App/platform separation is crucial. Finding the same thing for Lemmy. The official Reddit app is hot garbage.

My mom threw a massive tantrum at my school when they suggested I might benefit from medication. To be fair, it was a bad school and their specific recommendations were dubious, but something was certainly "up". My sibling learned they were diagnosed with ADHD in childhood about a year ago, and they're in their forties now.

Mental health stigma is really damaging.

Is the experience at all spoiled by the game's popularity? It's a great game in its own right IMO

I'm playing World of Goo, a physics game from 2008 that I bought in a Humble Bundle forever ago.

I tried it again on a lark and it holds up, I got sucked in. Classic physics game. One level takes me less than 15 minutes to complete, but it varies significantly.

There are interesting conflicting pressures in the game: you want to build with as little as possible, because the building material are your little dudes you're trying to get to safety. Gravity exists, and weight distribution matters: sometimes you must harness this fact to win.

Some levels are about building methodically, carefully choosing where to use the corpse of a sacrificed little dudes, because it is an immutable choice.

Other levels are about dynamics and timing, and you can get tantalizingly close to saving your entire team in these levels.

Its old, its cheap, it should run on most things~1~. Strong recommend.

1: not android: NetFlix did one of their closed market acquisitions making "free" games here

I like this idea! There might be an increased danger of a battery explosion: it'll be near bright sunlight, away from where people will see it, with an old battery. I wonder if there are battery diagnostics that could provide an early warning?

I'm sure most of us have a fistful of old phones somewhere, the idea of using them for something is appealing.

My guess is their terminal got messed up with a mess of control characters in the output of a command. If true, running tput reset would fix it.

Noticing a lot of similarities with vi! Happy to have had that tour, though I'm not sure I've encountered a system without vi or nano yet.

E: I have since discovered that the default mail program accepts ed commands as described here, such as p$ to print the last mail

the cheeto of damacles swings, and we fear it not

if you have a brokerage account, you may be able to sell USD for your target currency in it. you could do this slowly over time.

if you can't do that, you might be able to buy an ETF that tracks your target country's stock market, but some of these are "currency hedged" and in this case you wouldn't want that. the ETF would have a fee (MER) that is worth looking up. 1% is high.

tl;dr: it sounds like you want to hedge currency risk and there are products for that, but it requires a brokerage account and some decipline, ymmv

i've been too plugged-in to trump news. i've banned myself from my primary source of that unhappy chaos, and will get it from a news outlet instead which is much slower and less ragey

i've gotten into audiobooks again, and that has done a lot to lift my spirits. i've plowed through the lord of the rings and am now listening to the silmarillion. i've found the silmarillion difficult to read, but much more accessible as an audiobook - and it's giving me a deeper appreciation of the lord of the rings

eucatastrophe, where art thou?