I think this one happened rapidly because of conquistadors and plague. A rapid empire collapse making the elite location untenable and unaffordable.

I recently read 1491 and it was excellent. It describes how these immense civilizations were in the New World, and how rapidly they collapsed as hogs infected with diseases accidentally escaped the explorer’s camps and killed of 90% of the populations.

It talks about De Soto seeing the banks of rivers filled with dozens of cities of thousands of people, and then two or three years later explorers coming by and finding nothing but ruins.

That seems much more of the type of collapse that would just leave entire buildings empty and abandoned.

friendzone potion, you give it to someone crushing on you or hates you to turn them around. Some might argue showing up with beer / weed is a friendzone potion.

Same, I’ve blocked every single news and politics and it’s bustling

It all started with that smile… that damned smile

I’m very curious what the details are. A Linux Vision Pro sounds very enticing. It could be a lot of fun for inventing new user interaction modalities.

That’s fantastic! Sounds like you’re very well adjusted!

Some parents I know actually never really get angry when their kids do stupid shit and instead talk it out. I have to do wonder if those kids will be super well adjusted or totally deranged. I kind of feel like they’ll be so different from me as to barely be the same species, but probably in a good way, like more evolved

I can second these and add

• yoga
• guided meditation videos
• breathing exercises
• long walks with a heavy pack

Walking, and add a weighted vest or backpack. Start light, like 5lb/2.5kg for a week or two, then increase by that much a week until you get to 40% of your body weight in a few months.

I find that 30lb/15kg is a great place to stop though, much more feels pretty rough.

Then just walk around. You can listen to music, podcasts, nature, bird sounds.

Do that 45 a day and you’ll be significantly healthier in a few months.

I honestly am to the point that I wonder if all our automation is catching up with us and we need to collectively bargain for a 20 hour work week. Now we need twice as many skilled laborers because we’ve automated so many jobs.

Or an automation tax that’s paid back to every citizen as a dividend. If your company uses software or AI then it’s taxed more aggressively.

If we don’t do something in thirty years there just might not be hardly any jobs left.

That is so frustrating. That is outside my wheelhouse unfortunately, so I don’t have anything to give other than sympathy for the legitimate frustration that we have an economy that cannot seem to employ every talented, educated person. I don’t get it, it feels like we’ve reached like a moment where labor (even skilled labor) is lower in demand than ever before. A hundred years ago we could just walk up to a building project and start adding labor on day one, and knowing how to read and write meant an instant job as a clerk. But now we toil for decades to learn skills that just… suddenly aren’t needed? Sure, some folks win big in tech but that’s just as fleeting, I know a dozen out of work senior engineers. It’s a strange and baffling time to try to earn a living. Something has to give.

Ok you got me so hype I decided to do a little BP themed art for inktober

https://lemmy.world/post/37916979

Dunno, I mean even this decorative part looks like it’s getting warped from the sag

You’ve got so much ahead of you! Lucky! I wish I could start over again where you are but wipe my memory.

Definitely keep grinding on the antechamber. You’ll figure it out, if you want some hints

the game is extremely long, just do loops for the heck of them and you’ll start to put clues together. It’s not a few loops to figure out the antechamber, it’s A Lot.

also you have to write

“spoiler spoiler” after the :: like in the image or it doesn’t work

That building really looks like it’s about to drop a corner. The farthest out corner looks about 2’ lower than the rest of that floor!

oh also, spoilers in Lemmy are

Lol had to make it an image

What blows my mind about Blue Prince is when you’ve been playing for probably 20+ hours trying your hardest to get the objective and you finally beat the game…

I’ve never in my life had such a mindfuck realizing how much you can layer into the same game and keep it fresh.

You aren’t wrong though,

this game so mind alteringly hard and random it makes the Myst series look like 3/10 difficulty.

And not unfair! I never feel cheated or like I ruined anything! There’s mistakes sure, but eh, you’ll get it next time. You never ever lose anything you can’t recover.

Plus the real unlocks are the things you learn. The systems.

It’s a lot like Balatro in that way. You play red or yellow deck and beat Ante 8 boss and yay you won the game! Wow that scaling mult joker really made it happen! Fast forward a few hundred games and you’re trying to beat Gold Stake Black Deck surfing the absolute razor edge of numerical possibilities like a damn mentat human computer. You never lose at Balatro, you just start the next loop and you get better.

… with the dropping of the coin …

shivers

one of the best scenes in any game I’ve played

Makes me think of the first time starting Darkest Dungeons, hearing the narrator with an exhausted and despondent voice on the verge of tears:

“ruin has come to our family”

What’s your graduate degree in?

I am obsessed with Blue Prince, myself and some friends have been playing together and it’s the coolest game I’ve ever played. Truly one of the best games of all time