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What do you find is the advantage of these over a mouse?

Adding to Fallout New Vegas, which others have mentioned, Skyrim. I got into modding but then sold my Xbox and haven’t yet gotten into the fuller glory of modding it on PC. And, anyhow, I don’t really think of it as a game to finish, just a game to play.

Also haven’t completed BG3 despite liking it. I suffer in games what I suffer in life: the desire to experience it all and not close any options. Which is to say, I struggle with the reality of consequences and so avoid choices and commitments

It’s integrated into the steering wheel, right?

Needs to be more liquid

Along the same lines, I’ve been reading short SF stories here to get away from social media: https://www.freesfonline.net/NewAdditions.html

I support this take. On principle, I retire bands and keep working to discover new music. Especially the type I find on bandcamp, where it’s just some dude in a random basement somewhere creating it

Playing off this, those tracks are like a diary for that period, however long. So I go back to them to recapture a period of time or a mood. Also there’s a weather and seasonal aspect to this. My music diet changes like my food diet diet does across the year

I imagine the rules change, so to speak, as a performer. As with stage acting, that you somehow find a way both to separate and reinvoke the songs? And, I guess, musician dinthe same as OP, right? Fully or partially retire songs eventually

West of Loathing. Timeless.

Yeah sometimes I have what might be decent input on a topic but it would then start painting a picture of my profession, so I don’t. That also goes for some questions that I have which I could use help with, but are specific enough that I don’t post them. It’s likely that it doesn’t matter; but the whole “the Internet doesn’t forget” piece is something to be a little careful about, unfortunately

Perfection

I’d do it somewhere where I could get caught just so I get to say, “It’s consensual”

Manufactured controversy is exactly what it is. It might have been innocuous at some point. But right now, faced with deepening social divides and class inequality as well as an urgent need to address climate change, I find myself impatient and dismayed with attempts to keep us from union and collaboration

Here it is: the start of another generational divide fabricated out of nothing

Just this morning, in a dream, my friends and I were recording a Sasquatch like creature on our phones

Yup, any catastrophe is a reset. But the problems in us remain. The fundamental shifts aren’t learned. I gives weight to that idea of filters of civilizations. We can delay them, but not avoid them

Agreed on that

I don’t understand this not. The link looks the same?

The poor man’s ketamine, isn’t it?

In the sense that they make up the vast majority of what is disseminated in our primary digital social spaces, are often pandering to a small set of intellectual properties that people use to define themselves, and end up shaping the way we then respond to the world around us in derivative, abbreviated ways that doesn’t foster deep interaction? Kinda, yeah. It gets repetitive.

Blocking certain users and magazines helps. Unfortunately, and moreso in the fediverse, it doesn’t unearth much else, tbh. It’s just what we be doing in this era. I think there are a lot of societal factors influencing that.

At the same time, the right meme still gives me that dopamine hit. Big fan of greentexts, for example. So I don’t dislike memes, per se. Just the glut of them.