barrbaric [he/him]

It needs your bones more than you do

This is one of the reasons I don’t use apps. I’d just have to not match with any of those 90-95%, at which point you’re basically not using it at all.

Yeah, not to defend the apps or anything but filtering out the people who put in no effort and approve 96%+ makes sense.

I did this at my work and got a little dongle that displays a string of numbers I have to enter when prompted.

I don’t know, this painting of him looks pretty white (please ignore that it was made in the 1920s by an American who had probably never been to Greece)

Blowback, The Dollop, and occasionally Citations Needed but I’ve let that one accrue a huge backlog I may never get through.

“Patriotic Socialist”, which should set off alarm bells for being awfully close to “National Socialist”. They’re doing the exact same thing the nazis did, attempting to use some bits of left-wing rhetoric to appeal to the working class while simultaneously espousing extreme right wing and anti-socialist political beliefs, in this case usually Trump’s. Some of them seem to be suspiciously well-funded for what you’d expect from tiny fringe political organizations.

Real bookheads know that Arthur Dayne could maybe take Aragorn but Jamie is a chump.

• Favorites (I’ll play again after finishing) (21 games)
• Completed (I’ve finished and probably won’t play again) (430 games)
• Dead Games (online games that are literally unplayable due to servers going down) (3 games)
• TBD (I haven’t finished yet) (140 games)

Completed also includes things I decided weren’t worth playing anymore, mostly from bundles back in the day. Stuff like Fallout Tactics and some of the XCOM spinoffs.

to news weirdos.

Doesn’t it have something like a two-hour battery life? Feel like that excludes it from being something you carry around with you like a phone.

Some of us never stopped

It was a thing last… summer? Where reddit announced they were going to start charging for every call a third party program made using the API. This was done with the intent of shutting down 3rd party reddit apps and to get users on the official one so reddit could make more money. However, it also destroyed a bunch of 3rd party tools that mods more or less needed, and which reddit had been promising to implement themselves for years with no progress. There was a brief protest where mods of many subs shut them down (mostly for less than a week, though some are still down IIRC). A bunch of users and moderators left reddit and went to other sites.

I use UBO and have definitely noticed videos stuttering in the last week or two.

IIRC there’s some evidence that cold temperatures weaken the immune system. Assuming it’s valid, that does mean that cold could be the deciding factor between contracting a cold or fighting if off.

Now obviously germ theory is correct and it takes external infection to catch a cold, but it’s a pretty safe bet you’re being more or less constantly exposed to COVID and the flu whenever you’re in an indoor public space.

story-driven games

Disco Elysium is a great story, so long as you enjoy reading/listening to lots of dialogue because there’s not much other gameplay. Baldur’s Gate 3 is technically on sale, but it’s only 10% so eh; maybe Divinity Original Sin 2?

Souls games

Both Sekiro and Elden Ring are fantastic, my only caveats would be that Sekiro doesn’t really have character customization so if you love that part of soulsborne it might fall a bit flat, and Elden Ring can start to drag if you have a completionist mindset and go out of your way to complete every little side dungeon.

strategy games

I’ve heard decent things about Midnight Suns which is on a pretty deep sale. The Total War Warhammer games are good fun, though there is a fuckload of DLC, and the third game apparently has major issues.

GTA-like games

Mafia 3 is close, but 1 and 2 don’t really have much to do in the open world IIRC. The Saints Row games are hella cheap (do note that 2 needs a mod to be stable and even then it’ll crash occasionally) EDIT: Don’t get the newest one, just called “Saint’s Row”, it’s terrible. Cyberpunk 2077 maybe qualifies?

Doesn’t fit any of those categories, but I will always recommend Outer Wilds, a fantastic exploration/puzzle game that I wish I could play again for the first time.

Lastly, piracy is always the correct thing to do, but if you insist on paying for games, at least consider using piracy as a demo.

on suicide watch

Checks COVID wastewater levels

And looks like we’re going into 46 in a few weeks.