Irish and Caribbean. The accents sound musical.

I cut down construction paper to use as the front and back covers (I usually print a front cover, but the back is black), then use a sheet of transparency film on each side to protect the whole thing and give it a more finished look.

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A comb binder for bookmaking.

I print off a lot of RPG books and music that would otherwise cost a fortune. Now it’s basically the cost of toner and paper.

I like having an e-reader for most stuff, but some things are just better as physical objects that can be marked up and tabbed.

After the murder of Pertinax on 28 March 193, the Praetorian guard announced that the throne was to be sold to the man who would pay the highest price. Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, prefect of Rome and Pertinax’s father-in-law, who was in the Praetorian camp ostensibly to calm the troops, began making offers for the throne. Meanwhile, Julianus also arrived at the camp, and since his entrance was barred, shouted out offers to the guard. After hours of bidding, Sulpicianus promised 20,000 sesterces to every soldier; Julianus, fearing that Sulpicianus would gain the throne, then offered 25,000. The guards closed with the offer of Julianus, threw open the gates, and proclaimed him emperor. Threatened by the military, the Senate also declared him emperor. His wife and his daughter both received the title Augusta.

Archbishop Harold Holmes by Jack White

Abiotic Factor is an interesting crafting game that takes place in a science facility during a mysterious emergency. I’d recommend playing with friends, but I think it’d be fun solo, too.

I also had fun with Subnautica, though that one is a few years old now. I have not tried the sequel, but I’ll probably pick it up some day. It’s a game where you have crash-landed on an alien ocean world, and you have to explore to make better tools to try and escape.

I’ve been playing Hardspace Shipbreaker lately, where your character is someone who disassembles spaceships. The fun of the game is moving around in zero-g and safely take stuff apart without setting off the nuclear reactor, or explosively decompressing a ship right next to you. You upgrade your tools as you do more jobs.

There’s a popular indie game right now called Megabonk; if you like rogue-light games, it’s a fun one. Avoid waves of monsters and upgrade your character by picking the best of three random power-ups as your level goes up.

I actually don’t think I’ve ever played a game by an Indian studio, which is a shame because I’m sure there are some great storytellers and coders from there who make spectacular games. I should look around and see what available.

Regarding great games, what genres do you like?

A lot of the “old games were better” is because we mainly remember the best of the best. There has always been shovelware.

On the other hand, I do agree that AAA gaming is fairly stale. I believe it’s mainly because the games are huge investments that have to be a “safe” bet, which is one way to make art (of any type) boring.

But there are indie studios making amazing games these days, because the incentive there is to differentiate their product from the others. Once an idea gets popular enough, AAA studios will pick it up and grind it into the dirt.

I would disagree with the idea that games are worse now. I think the best stuff is getting made today, it’s just harder to find it in a deluge of shovelware. Look in the indie and AA space for interesting games.

Lots of stuff from I Might Be Wrong by Radiohead. Like Spinning Plates, especially.

AI you say? Here’s 69 million dollars. Make it happen!

If I’m camping, absolutely. Preferably in a hammock. It’s hot as hell where I live.

The Senate doesn’t have gerrymandering like the house does. There’s definitely still bullshit based on the way representatives are appointed per State, but they can’t redraw districts to pick their voters like they can for the House.

I’ll never learn to spell the word “medieval” without spell check.

That’s right.

Happened to me a few months ago, I rented a room and inspected the mattress as I always do.

Tons of bedbug stains on the corners. I asked for a refund and they refused, so I requested a charge back with the pics I took.

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Think of it like your email provider: you can still get email from Hotmail even if you have an AOL.com account.

Where this analogy breaks down is that some instances have defederated from others. This means “we don’t want your data, and we won’t import it.”

But if you pick an instance that is widely federated then you can see and interact with most of Lemmy.

Really puts the “anal” in analysis, if true.

Reactionary ideology is absolutely associated with the far right.

Conservatism is a reactionary ideology.

Conservatism is the theoretical voice of this animus against the agency of the subordinate classes. It provides the most consistent and profound argument as to why the lower orders should not be allowed to exercise their independent will, why they should not be allowed to govern themselves or the polity. Submission is their first duty, and agency the prerogative of the elite. Though it is often claimed that the left stands for equality while the right stands for freedom, this notion misstates the actual disagreement between right and left. Historically, the conservative has favored liberty for the higher orders and constraint for the lower orders. What the conservative sees and dislikes in equality, in other words, is not a threat to freedom but its extension. For in that extension, he sees a loss of his own freedom.

-Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind