Just used one today to finish listening to a YouTube video while I was in the shower. It’s not a “bathroom” speaker per se, just a pretty nice Bluetooth one, Anker Soundcore Boost, with enough volume to rise above the white noise of the shower and ventilation fan.

as our menu options recently changed

They’ve ALWAYS changed… 😭

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Nice. Definitely check out the Hitman series and the Dishonored series if you love stealth

Could be some truth to that. Half-Life 3 would be very hard to live up to at this point…

and why there’s a dude named Ashley

🤣

I wish Valve could count to three :-(

RimWorld is incredible. I’m hard pressed to think of another game with as much customization of play style or as vibrant a mod scene.

Yessss! This is the game that caused me to have the idea to do this post.

I first played it about a year ago. I used the two hour Steam refund period, which in retrospect probably caused me to rush or not give it enough of a chance.

Fast forward to now, when I’m dealing with a nasty chronic health condition and lots of time on my hands. And I’m between games - basically waiting for stuff to come out, like the Factorio DLC.

So I poked around and somehow Elden Ring came up as a possibility. And then I found THIS video:

Elden Ring Is a Masterpiece — my thoughts after 60 hours

https://youtu.be/kdstSHeoNGA?si=xo1ea2b1WGYBexJJ

And it got me so hyped that I ended up watching a ton more videos. And finally I plunked down the $60 and gave it a shot.

Now I can’t stop thinking about it. I am in love with the jaw dropping terrain, inventive enemies, depth of play styles and options, the brilliant way it hints at things instead of spamming a map with quest markers and to do lists. I’ve had moments that felt like I was on the inside of an epic fantasy novel, living an otherworldly fever dream of awesomeness.

I gotta ask - given all that, what’d you think of 4?

How do you know?

Well, to be fair, from what I’ve been hearing, one of the big points of contention of the internal battle at OpenAI was safety itself. Like some on the board being concerned about the “make your ChatGPT” feature debuting at the dev conference thing. So at least some people care. Which is more than I would have thought…

I do like the word “chucklefucks”, though.

Yes! Those AI image threads have been so much fun

🧐 🎩 🫡

Yes! I hated that on reddit. I would sometimes have a cool thing to add, but because the thread was 8 hours old and had a thousand comments already, virtually no one would see it. There were some exceptions: on TV episode discussions sometimes they’d use new/contest mode default sorting for the thread and you didn’t feel like you were shouting into a void.

Yes I did. And it’s brilliant.

VR headset (originally to socialized during covid but ended up completely renewing my interest in video games)

Would love to hear more about this. And which headset you own.

SAN SERO Vented Microwave Cover. I was just thinking about this the other day. I’ve owned this thing for over 9 years and use it nearly every day. At the time I think I paid like $20 for it (it’s $34 now). And I thought that might be silly for what is basically a piece of plastic.

But holy crap, it’s got to be my highest value-to-dollar ratio item EVER.

With it, I hardly ever have to clean my microwave. It keeps splatters to the cover itself, which is trivial to wash out.

And it helps with energy efficiency too, keeping heat close to the food, instead of it being lost as waste heat.

It comes with tiny vent holes at the top, so it won’t steam up much or pop off.

And it has a nice handle built into the top middle of it, so most of the time you can grab that without burning yourself.

It also fits perfectly onto your typical round dinner plate. I mean perfectly.

This thing has been with me through four different homes/house moves, and hundreds of times of cooking or re-heating items on bowls and plates.

It’s easily the best thing I’ve bought in my life.

“The current American imagination seems utterly unable to understand acts of kindness require greater heroism than acts of violence.” -Sarah Manvel

Honestly there’s not that much one can do, but I will:

• Hope Trump is thrown in prison
• Vote straight ticket Democrat
• Hope another Jan. 6 doesn’t occur
• Try not to lose my shit when idiots say stuff like “both parties are equally bad”

I live in a solid blue state, so my national-level votes don’t do much (though I’ll cast them anyway).

In past years I’ve thrown a few hundred dollars at close senate and house races. In 2020 I volunteered for a phone/text bank sort of deal to make sure people were registered to vote.