large lipid stores

So for chronically (lol) underweight people or people with little-to-no body fat, this is much less likely to be an issue?

That’s a fair critique of Kenshi, yeah 😂 I have a soft spot for it because I started following it back in, like, 2011, when Chris was the sole dev and didn’t even want to do a Kickstarter for it. It’s up there with Grim Dawn amongst the greatest success stories of games I’ve backed (it’s quite a short list lol).

Star Sector is indeed a bit tough to get into, and I still don’t like actively piloting ships. This might be attributable to inputs: I’ve got a Kinesis Advantage II ergo keyboard, which is stupid comfortable for 14-hour stretches of typing, but means I have to remap every single key in every single game I want to start playing. What keeps me playing is the sheer amount of community-made content available, which adds a lot of replayability in the form of new ships, weapons, factions, and questlines. Also Nexerelin, which adds a lot of 4X elements, changes the gameplay significantly.

I was looking at Cosmoteer just recently, funnily enough! I was thinking about buying it, but my brain actually used the meme on me:

We have Cosmoteer at home

I’ve just pulled up the store page again, will probably watch some more recent Let’s Plays to get a better idea of the experience.

How about Avorion? I like what I’ve played, I just suck at building and haven’t put in the time to learn it any better, but it has heaps of good reviews.

What’s your jank tolerance like? If “moderate to high”, Mount & Blade or Outward might scratch the itch for you. If you’re up for post apocalyptic ronin shenanigans with more of a strategy feel, Kenshi might be enjoyable. Technically, Noita is an open-world fantasy game. It’s really hard (I’m really bad), but I love it nonetheless.

Going more mainstream there’s shedloads of mods for classics like Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim to update graphics, mechanics, or just new content. Witcher 3 is still really good, too.

Oh boy, based on your list there you might be me. Have you played Kenshi or Star Sector by any chance? If not, I would like to recommend both.

… Right, the topic… Yeah, I agree, less crunch = good, more time to play all these fantastic games = good!

If you really, actually don’t give a shit, you can bounce. Work out a way to split assets with your partner and go do whatever you want with your life. Your family will probably hate you for leaving, your blood relatives and/or friends might lose respect for you, getting another job might be hard, but you’d be free and none of that would matter.

Unless you actually do give a shit, but just need something to change? Are you sure that giving up what you’ve got would be the change you need? What is it you want?

These look great, cheers!

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Seeing a reasonable argument made for the point, and then doubling down on what you think, rather than taking it on board?

You sure do sound like your little brother, yeah.

Let’s just say I’ve lived in three of the four corners, and one of those was in the southern hemisphere 😊 I’m glad you haven’t had the same experience as me though, because my experience has involved getting stung a lot.

Patently untrue. Source: I always mind my business and wasps go out of their way to fuck with me. Also they murder bees, and I like bees. Fuck wasps, and fuck the world for making them an integral part of the ecosystem.

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If you’re being honest, perhaps you could share some of your reasons for saying so with the class? The request itself sounds pretty reasonable, and the tone is polite.

“Standard journalistic procedures” my arse. Cite ‘em from someone that isn’t fuckin’ Linus Sebastian. I strongly recommend watching the first video from GN, reading Linus’ response directly on their forums, and then watching GN’s follow-up video. If this was “just a cash grab”, why wasn’t it monetised? Why was there no sponsor segment? More importantly, how would GN reaching out have been relevant here? And why did Linus’ official response address precisely none of the concerns raised, while also misrepresenting the situation with Billet again?

Your post is nothing but a regurgitation of Linus’ whining that his corporation isn’t getting special treatment. You barely even bothered to digest it first. And, as others have said, LMG didn’t reach out to GN before trashing their testing methodology on their own, much larger channel. They don’t reach out to the manufacturers of the things they try in their AliExpress/Wish.com/Walmart videos. Back channels were not the appropriate place for these criticisms, so GN made an unmonetised video to highlight the problem for viewers who blindly trust Linus and LMG’s content, when it’s frequently inaccurate and sometimes extremely inaccurate.

If you want to criticise Gamer’s Nexus or their team, address the substance of the points in their video. If it was “just a cash grab” as you want to make it out to be, then there would not be anything to address. But all their points are sourced and cited, and verifiable for anyone who wants to bother expending the effort.

As it stands, I have noticed all the points Steve makes in that video for myself to varying degrees. This is not the first instance of this behaviour from Linus and LMG, and the response from them has indeed been disappointing.

Edit: I also want to point out I’ve been watching LMG content far longer than I have GN content, I have spent hundreds of dollars on LMG merch from lttstore.com and have been very happy with all those purchases. I am a fan of LMG, and I think quite highly of Linus himself, but I am capable of looking at this objectively, and I am personally disappointed in Linus and his responses so far. I think he’s better than his actions, in this instance, and I really wish he’d take the criticism on board.

It is simply unfair to call GN’s video drama. It’s not. They raise valid concerns, cite their sources for all the points they’re making, and those concerns are only validated further by the response from Linus and LMG.

ITT: another reason for me to get a place that has a back yard!

Make sure you have somewhere to post pictures and ask questions, I saw what I thought was mold on my Lion’s Mane substrate but it turned out to be part of the mycelium. I tossed the whole thing because I’m an idiot (though in fairness to myself I really, really can’t afford to get sick from infected mushrooms) 😞

Nah dude, I’m seconding GPT4All. It’s free and SUPER easy to set up, so there’s no harm in seeing if it’ll run on your system. It should; I heard someone got it running on a raspberry pi, so your system is almost definitely strong enough.

I’m gonna say that for a game costing $70-100, an extra $10-25 every 1-3 months for some skins and crafting materials is egregiously expensive, and anyone who thinks differently needs to step back and look at what Diablo 3, Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, etc provided for free in years past.

It’s insulting to charge full price for a game, and then put a store in that game. We all already paid at least $70 for this experience. We’re all paying customers, we all deserve better.

I’m glad for you that you’re enjoying the game generally. I’m not; the store and the nerfs and the general culture over at ActiBlizz have left a bad taste in my mouth, so at the end of the day I think to myself that I could go play D4… But I’d rather play something else, and so I do. I don’t plan to buy any future ActiBlizz products, as things stand. We’ll see if things change after the Microsoft acquisition.

I played the shit out of Diablo 3 post-RoS (you know, after it got good 😋). I cannot bring myself to invest in Diablo 4. I only play it to socialise with one friend; I don’t touch it otherwise. ActiBlizz are gunning to take the title of “Worst Gaming Company” from EA, it seems. Thanks, Bobby.

I was diagnosed around 11 or 12, but my father warned me (like a threat) that I wasn’t to let it interfere with my school work. I got no help with it, and I did not trust therapists so I was not in therapy. I largely ignored it, it was an interesting fact about me that most people couldn’t pick up on and so were surprised to learn.

Around 32-33 I was berating myself for the nth time why I can’t just be normal and go out to bars and clubs and have fun socialising, or why I always seem to say the wrong thing at work, and it hit me like a tonne of bricks that being on the spectrum isn’t just some funny little quirk. I thought back over everything I could remember, started looking up studies on adult outcomes for autism, and found in them the pattern of my life (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769945/ will get you started, if you’re interested). It explained so much about myself and made it possible for me to get a handle on some of the things that have made life harder.

At work, for example, I can now step away if a conversation is overwhelming me. And I know that fidgeting like “flapping my knees” (I dunno… Feet together on the ground, I swing my knees out and back together without hitting, in sync; my parents used to yell at me for it) is actually “stimming”, and I shouldn’t stop myself from doing it. I know I don’t have a temper, I have very specific triggers for meltdowns - amongst which is not feeling understood/able to communicate. Quite a common one, that. I can feel a meltdown coming now that I know what to watch for, and this makes it easier to walk myself back from the edge. This is important because I do harm to myself, when I have an episode. There’s a video floating about the internet of some asshole harassing the front desk clerk at a hotel and the poor kid starts hitting himself in the head repeatedly while the cunt behind the camera shouts at and berates him more… I saw myself, in that kid.

My relationships have suffered because I was unaware of symptoms that presented themselves through negative behaviours. This i don’t feel like going into very much, but suffice it to say I’ve become a better partner, and my partner is better able to support me in the ways I need as well.

I would recommend getting tested, personally. If you are indeed on the spectrum, knowing the details will help you and those around you make accommodations, and your life will probably get subtly easier in just about every way.