The move isn’t to reject the fandom.

The move is to build the instance with explicit values — pro-trans, pro-queer, progressive moderation, zero tolerance for bigotry.

This feels like building a forum to discuss Mein Kamph, and then saying it’s going to moderated with a focus on inclusion, human rights, and diversity.

With the whole HP thing, there are IMO far too many people fully separating the art and the artist. I just can’t morally do that.

I think most people don’t understand how insanely, mind-mindbogglingly large 52! is.

I’ve received disbelieving replies before after saying that every freshly full-shuffled deck, where that shuffling started from a shuffled state (not new deck order), is in a unique card order never before used by humanity since the invention of the four suit and 52 card deck.

But that statement is absolutely true. The chances of it being false are so microscopically tiny that they are, for all intents and purposes, zero.

Wind Waker had is own unique art style that’s going to hold up forever. It’s timeless.

There are some uglier (by modern graphics standards) games on the system, but even several of those are stupidly fun.

My favorites on the platform were Mario Kart: Double Dash (still my favorite in the entire Mario Kart series) and Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Definitely check them out when you get a chance.

Increasingly, portion sizes are starting to come down a bit. The one-two punch of shrinkflation causing the restaurants to serve less, and the spread of GLP-1 drugs starting to help people eat less, are slowly whittling away the issue over time.

I think a lot of us are eventually going to upgrade to stronger systems (steam machine or something else), but it’s going to be a long freaking time in that scenario before I stop streaming to my Deck when I’m home. It’s just the king of comfy, kicked back on the couch or bed gaming.

The only life hack that I use on a regular basis is covering toilet flush sensors with TP. It works pretty reliably to keep them from flushing until you’re actually ready to leave.

Figured that out earlier in life when a certain office toilet would wait until I was exactly 50% done peeing, so that I couldn’t stop or dodge, and then it would power flush and send up a nice germ-ridden uriney mist. Blocking the sensor until I was done totally fixed it.

Pretty much any other life hack that looked interesting to me has been effectively pointless and did not see continued use. I don’t think I’ve ever tried one that was detrimental though… just useless.

I mean, if you just absolutely had to play a Linux-hating kernel anti cheat game, then install a small-as-possible partition for Windows, dual boot, and stay in Steam OS every single moment you’re doing anything else but that game.

But most Windows-on-a-Steam-Deck people I’ve encountered just drive Windows all the time. I will never understand.

I’m thinking about finishing out my career with that kind of transition.

I’ve always done various office work and have been good at it, but I know I’m on borrowed time.

At some point in the next 1-3 years, they’ll automate 90%+ of what I’m doing, and I’ll be out the door. And being late 40s, with the job market being what it is, and admittedly me not skilling up much most of the last decade or so… I have I just don’t have what’s needed to get back to work in favorable conditions once that inevitable canning happens.

Fortunately, I have a friend of the family who’s a long time HVAC guy, and the company he works for has been short handed for quite a while. I figure if I start training up in the very near future, I’ll be able to transition over without too many issues, and If I’m careful, I won’t have to beat myself up too much in the decade or so before I retire.

I think the powers that be have an ultimate goal of combining AI and robotics to automate the trades too, but they are much further away on that… it should be a safe space for long enough.

Oh no! Who could have possibly predicted that starting a new war in the middle east would raise gas prices?

I mean, work is work. And it’s doing something important. No shame here.

Seriously, this is the definition of a “work there for 15 minutes until you find literally anything else” bridge job.

In their statement, they vilified the victim by claiming she was fleeing law enforcement.

Hmmm… I wonder why she did that? Running for her life, perhaps?

Now he shall forever and always be known as Donald Dump.

Kind of figured, it has too many in-focus points at varying distance from the “camera.” So it still has some uncanny valley in it.

I haven’t encountered this, but it’s rare that I’m in actual desktop mode. Normally I’m using a flavor of Nested Desktop.

Also, fully gas up your car (or make sure you’re at the top of your safe charging range if you have an EV). If you need to use your car briefly as a heat island, you’ll want to have the ability to do that for as long as possible.

If you’re doing consideration of past people, give consideration to baby Thomas Midgely Jr.

He’s the dude that effectively invented leaded gasoline AND chlorofluorocarbons. It can be argued that no other single human in history did more widespread damage to the environment than he did.

If it were just one 30+ year old cat, it’d be more believable. But the wiki article says that he owned two, and the other one lived into its mid-30s.

Pretty sure that I have a better odds of quantum tunneling my entire self to the Andromeda galaxy in the next ten minutes than a single person has to own two 30+ year old housecats that were born within a few years of each other.

They said OP post was TLDR, so they didn’t see that part 🤣

Not picking it up myself, but definitely hope that you enjoy it.

NGL, the whole FEX-compatibility thing that’ll let you also play non-VR games on it with a normal controller is kind of neat, though I have no idea of how it will perform vs Steam Deck / Steam Machine / other starter PC.

If I were in a situation where I didn’t have normal displays everywhere, I’d consider it as a traditional AR solution.