I’m with you, I have a pretty high end gaming PC up in my office and honestly if rather game on my PS5, from my bed. It’s soooooo cozy.

I pronounce them the same. Grew up on the west coast.

What? Of course I pet random dogs on the street. You don’t?

I mean, I ask first, if they’re with a human… if not, well…

Days gone gets a lot of hate but I thought it was a blast and the motorcycle travel was such a great game mechanic.

I couldn’t finish Alan Wake. I really enjoyed the story but the game play was just too kludgy.

There are absolutely, unequivocally, killers for hire. You just aren’t going to find them on the hitman equivalent of Amazon dot fucking com.

No! Didn’t even know about it even though I’ve been gaming since 85

I’ve been playing Prey. Just finished replaying Dishonored a few weeks ago, which led to playing dishonored 2 and death of the outsider. So, I was feeling a stealth sim and decided that after several years of owning the game I should give it a shot. It’s been fun so far.

Me neither.

Makes sense though. If the reentry is botched you’re essentially aiming a ~300lb projectile (or a bunch of tinier projectiles) in this case at who knows what at terminal velocity.

Launches at least control where the thing leaves from and are designed to fallout over non inhabited areas in the event of a botched takeoff.

My first thought was, if you’re benefitting from your son’s blood, he’s paying some sort of consequence. I’m sure there’s some rationalizing happening like “his organs are young and will better flush the toxins” or some bullshit but I feel like something like Newton’s laws of motion would apply here. If you’re getting a benefit is it likely the kid is getting the opposite?

I wouldt risk it with my kids. Sounds sociopathic.

No fucking clue myself but isn’t airdrop an iPhone thing?

Personally whenever I go to Instagram all I get are cat videos and ads about “targeted mushrooms” and kava drinks…

It all checks out ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This has been my experience as well.

I consider myself a pragmatic optimist. I assume the best intentions in those around me, give forgiveness for human error and tendencies, and when someone gives me cause to do so I pragmatically adjust my expectations of them and their actions.

I also assume that, as long as I am trying to do the next right thing in each situation I find myself in, most of those situations will resolve in a positive outcome. Even if others involved are not committed to the same path.

I found much more success and happiness with this philosophy or approach to life.

Just to put the in context, you would need to play every single day for roughly 6.8 hours in order to rack up 2500 hours in a year.

To further contextualize, in the U.S. a full time job, that is a job wherein one works a combination of days each week (typically 5 8-hour days but sometimes 4 10-hour days) is around 40 hours each week, or 2080 hours a year.

The typical worker also takes vacation, sick days, etc equaling between 1-3 weeks each year. Meaning they may not even work an actual 2000 hours each year due to time off.

So you are putting in more time to WoW each year than the typical full time worker is to their job.

And you still have time for other games.

Yeah my wife is convinced he wasn’t on the plane and this is subterfuge. I think Putin had him shot down to make a point, as he’s done with pretty much every other real threat he’s encountered.

We may never know…

It’s not clear to me what you’re getting at here… Then again, the bucket full of shit I don’t understand is a much heavier bucket than the one with shit I do understand.

System 76 is not German according to anything I’ve read. Claims to be designed and manufactured in Colorado, USA…

Did you know that most voters in Florida don’t agree with this shit and that taking glee in the potential eradication of an entire people and their home is exactly the same kind of shit that racists do when they blame all Muslims for terrorism or Hitler and the Nazis did when they targeted a population for their religion (or for simply being related to someone who was a Jew)?

The examples of this “they’re the bad guys” generalism is part of the problem. If you’re really so enlightened, don’t be part of the problem, too, it only alienates more who might be part of solving the problem if they weren’t ostracized over something as stupid as their birthplace or where they choose to live.

I don’t know why, I have absolutely zero against Mayor Castor. I don’t even really know much about her or her politics.

But… Her being a former police chief and now 2 time mayor of Tampa for some reason part of my brain is telling me “prearranged publicity stunt.”

Why else disclose that she’s the one who found the dope? And, while it’s not unheard of to find cocaine floating around the ocean down here, that’s a LOT of cocaine. Enough for a big fat nationwide headline, especially if you’re mayor of Tampa.

So maybe it is a coincidence that she found it and she did not, in fact, trade a favor to get some white girl lost from a drug bust, but I have never been a fan of coincidence.

It’s this plus uptime. Both come down to usability. Nobody wants to use a product that is confusing or unreliable.