What a great article. Practical and poetic.

It would have been nice to have a connection made to Flow, since that’s what was being alluded to throughout, but maybe excluding Flow was deliberate in some way I’m missing?

I initially thought you had terrible taste in music after listening to the first song… I had NewPipe set to 2.0× speed.

Whoops!

Thanks for the recs, OP and everyone else.

I stopped setting book completion target goals when I realized I was choosing shorter books to hit my target. I then switched to a page-count goal for the next year, but that didn’t survive January. (Too much paperwork.)

In the genres I read most (progression fantasy and LitRPG), some of the books are massive web serials, like one “book” this year was ~18K pages. I’m still only about ¾ done since I took a break to read a few shorter series.

Now, my only real goal is to read every day (4 years+ and it’s effortless, now) and to try to read at least one non-fiction book/month. (Fell behind on that one this year; life got busy/stressful, so I’ve been reading exclusively “popcorn fiction” for the last 4 months.)

Also, I read a lot (100-300 pages/day, typically), so one non-fiction/month I don’t count as a reading target; it’s just about diversifying my reading and doing some self betterment/education/professional development.

It’s nice to see people talking about it. I caught a streamer I follow playing it like a month ago and it looked like a lot of fun.

I don’t have enough time to game to justify buying it at its most recent sale price, but I have my eye on it for the first time it gets a deeper discount or gets bundled.

It’s not a flagship, but I’m really liking my Sony Xperia 10V. It’s lightweight, narrow, has amazing battery life (I’m at 80% after a full day of light use, 1h37m SoT), has lots of RAM, microSD, and 3.5mm. Its processor is weak, apparently, but I haven’t noticed; I don’t do heavy gaming on mobile and it’s snappy enough for web browsing and has enough RAM to keep lots of apps running.

So, there are good compact phone options. Hopefully other people keep buying them to keep them profitable for companies to support!

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The full analysis is of course much more complicated, but I can’t stay to talk about it because I have a date.

lol, agreed. This is one I think I’ll actually play!

I agree. I wish the voting age was 16. (Or even younger, but 16 would be a big step in the right direction.)

At 16, students could take half the day off to go vote. Hell, it should be a grade-level field trip. Research shows that those who vote in their first eligible election are likely to continue voting, and democracies are dying from a lack of political engagement.

I like base 12 a lot, but Reverse Polish Notation is a mess when you get up to working with polynomials.

With polynomials, you’re moving around terms on either side of an equation, and you combine positive terms and negative terms. In essence, there’s no such thing as subtraction. (Similarly, division is a lie; you’re actually just working with numerators and denominators.)

Reverse Polish Notation makes that a mess since it separates the sign from its term.

Also, RPN draws a distinction between negative values and subtraction, but conceptually there is no subtraction with polynomials, it’s all just negative terms. (Or negating a polynomial to get its additive inverse.)

But, yeah. It’s a shame we don’t use base 12 more.

You monster.

I literally can’t believe that someone authentically believes that. My mind jumps to you trolling.

The idea is also that a compromised system will remains compromised after all storage drives are removed.

I’m not parent poster, but I didn’t read that at all. International propaganda works, and has the potential to destroy democracy in America (and lots of other countries, too.)

What am I missing?

Thanks for posting. I just watched review videos for all 5, and they all seem skippable, with better options available in their genres, all with some klunky mechanic or grindy/repetitive gameplay loop that frustrates.

Looks like I’ll likely skip this month, depending what the remaining 3 games are.

Neither are in MAM (private tracker for books). Sorry.

ngl, I had to read the article before I could parse it.

This makes more sense to my brain:

“Reddit updates branding 6 months after mass user protests ahead of rumoured IPO”

I’ve heard there are (more expensive) debris services that seed back, but I haven’t researched it. I’d already paid for Real Debrid when I read that and it hasn’t come up for renewal yet.

I still don’t understand why creating rumours about your character would be triggering for anyone.

How would a made up stories like “Borun caught a cheater at dice and string him up upside down hanging from the flag pole” or “Borun’s horse went lame, but instead of putting him down, he paid a farmer to take care of him for life” bring up trauma? Especially since you’re writing these yourself…

Or is the existence of rumours triggering somehow? In which case, maybe P&P RPGs aren’t an appropriate activity since a lot of adventures rely on piecing together rumours to identify what’s really going on.

That’s brilliant. And it only needs 6GB of video memory. I can actually run it with my low-mid end gaming build!

Well, big flathead screwdrivers aren’t for screwing things in. Small ones have a place for decorative screws, like on light switch covers, but big flathead screws should never be used.

So big flathead screwdrivers are better as pry bars than as screwdrivers.

This one is a bit out there, but I feel like Backpack Battles is a series of self-generated puzzles.

It’s an autobattler where you shop between each round to buy items and bags, and items affect other items in specific positions around them. So, you’re constantly trying to react to what the shop is offering you to build a combo (and get balanced defenses), then rearrange your bag to try to maximize your item synergies.

It’s completely free to play in early access until its full release in April. And the global leaderboards are very active. Good luck getting to Master Rank, let alone Grandmaster! (I’ve plateaued in Diamond… I need to work on my early game.)