Haha, that’s a fair point.

I’d have to actually like the game and have been sucked into it to want to spend days and days finding mods that sound like good additions, or address frustrations with vanilla mechanics, and then bash my head against the wall trying to figure out the error logs and why the map didn’t spawn anything this time (I don’t have a tech background, I learn tech on the fly to do specific things, so troubleshooting is a big challenge). Like I have over a thousand rimworld mods I individually, manually, downloaded (I don’t use steam but I found a site that rips mods from steam). I’m currently running about 650 of them, but I had over 100 hours in before I even looked at mods, and it started with running out of storage and having to dedicate half my map to storage space, because I HOARD STUFF and 3 stacks per tile with vanilla shelves is just not enough space. You never know when you’ll need 167 elephant tusks. Oh they are vendor trash that can be used as a shitty improvised weapon and that’s it? Well I found that out after about a month.

I just know factorio would hit my frustration buttons quicker than my obsession buttons because I can’t even bring myself to do the fairly simple automation in rimworld because it’s too finicky and I have to learn stuff and figure out where to lay pipes and shit, so I’d struggle to hit the “let’s find mods to make this game even more overwhelming” stage.

But now I’m even more jealous, if there’s a vibrant modding community and all…

Non-paywalled link cuz I wanted to read it

https://archive.ph/uqJsi

What’s a paradox game? I assume that’s some sort of studio?

I wish I liked games like factorio.

I love base building stuff (rimworld is my current obsession, tho I almost like making my heavily modded game function properly more than actually playing it) but automation is just too many moving parts, and too much planing and I can’t bring myself to do any of it right.

If not for that it would probably be entirely my jam. I get downright jealous when I see some of the amazing stuff people do.

Ungh I hate missing garbage day.

Granted, I compost everything I can so it’s mostly just plastic that can’t be recycled, and then my recycling that goes every other week (for which I have two bins because I often forgot to take them out on the correct week, and a month of recycling definitely doesn’t fit in a single bin)

But by the time I actually go to take out my trash, it really needs to go out. And it’ll still take 2-3 weeks to actually get it out there on time…

Not to be “that guy”, but technically it’s the fetus’ placenta. It’s formed by the egg, not the mother. So it’s still wrong to say the baby is in its mother’s placenta.

Omg I would literally kill myself if I tried this. Not on purpose or anything, but frankly I’m amazed I haven’t yet killed myself. My stairs fucking suck.

They are old original stairs and they turn a corner halfway. Where they turn, there is a four-stair fall in the inner corner if your foot slips. Meanwhile on the far side it’s unclear how much further they go, because they aren’t particularly logically shaped, or even.

I mean I used to wear sunglasses at work at my desk because everything in the office was just too damned bright. Same with a restaurant job for about 2 hours of sunset when the light streamed in the windows.

Who cares what people think? Protect your eyes and do whatever you like when entering a store. As long as you can see fine, it doesn’t matter.

This is my go-to as well, never fails. Because a lot of the things people want me to do for them (especially at work in public-facing job) are legitimately things I won’t or don’t want to do.

This is my mom picking my traits in the character creator screen… she was cheap but called it frugal.

Well we want smart so let’s add that, oh but it’s cheaper if we buy the autDHD brand! It’s just as good and half the price!

We want good at something, oh hey look there’s good at everything on sale… fine print says can’t stick with anything, but I’m sure it’ll be fine!

Oh, those two traits are locked in and have unintended interactions like anxiety and depression… well this is going to be a bumpy run but the challenge is half the fun right?

Hmm…

Can any of this be weaponized to protect a property?

Can any wireless be…? Ideally without frying anything locally like an EMP… “you mean an emp? No, and EMP!”

Carrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.

Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.

I don’t know anything about it, so hopefully someone else has more experience, but I found this, so I assume the answer is yes.

https://pigeonpedia.com/how-to-train-a-carrier-pigeon/

I had a similar training selling stuff for a remodeling company.

I quit on the second day of training. It felt gross, and I told them I was really uncomfortable with their tactics and that’s 100% why I was quitting…

I also don’t watch tv and go out of my way to avoid ads :) pihole on the network, Plex and physical media for media needs.

https://www.wikihow.com/Boil-Sweet-Potatoes

I think I might be going on a quest in middle earth…

As long as it’s functional.

But it needs to be a pit toilet.

Nah, they could be exempt the same way lottery winners could be, since they didn’t do anything shady or anti-social to get it. It’s also unlikely they would have the money long (similarly to lottery winners).

Unless they turned into assholes and got put on the list. Then yeet the new rich! :)

Yeeting the rich sounds fun. Just have to be careful where you do it, like the punkin chukin competitions. You know, to prevent any damage to anything important.

Make it a sport, whomever (or maybe top 5) yeets their rich person the furthest wins 10% of their net worth, the rest is used for social programs.