Factorio!! This work week has been hell and I have a week PTO starting Monday. So time to put in some effort in an asynchronous multi-player game with a friend.

No Man’s Sky is doing a Halloween event, too, so I might play around in that to get some unique cosmetics. And the Expeditions usually have a tailored experience that’s always fun.

I’ve been playing Papers Please in the 30 min or so I have for gaming in the evenings lately. I might play more of that to see if I can get all the endings.

Unless the weather is nice. Then I’m going fishing.

No Man’s Sky or Elite: Dangerous might offer you a stellar exploration experience you would enjoy over Starfield.

No RPG elements in either, though.

Dang I really thought the title of this game was Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Won’t Let Indy Shoot Dogs for a hot minute I need to get some more coffee

Truly a watershed moment for the enshittification of microtransactions

Ah Paradox is finding their model of releasing unfinished games and getting around to solving it later less appealing!

That is a little disappointing, actually, as Paradox made some damn good games this way. Crusader Kings 2, Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris were all made like that.

I call these vegan by convenience foods.

There’s some chocolate chips so cheap as to not include any milk fats.

Oreos also come to mind for this (not all of them, check the ingredients).

Cheap margarine will often lack any milk fats as well, though it’s worth checking or using one meant for Kosher diets.

I mostly see these things happen with processed foods too cheaply made to include real milk or egg, far less often with anything meaty, though the chicken and beef stock I get from the Chinese grocer qualify for that.

Facebook and it’s ilk are the reason I moved away from other forms of social media and internet community.

Working with them in any form seems like a great way to poison the waters if the fediverse.

There should be zero collaboration.

AI job matching… what a stupid hellscape we are building for ourselves to be crushed under

I just throw em in with whatever beans are next in line. It occurs to me now, though, I could espresso grind them and save it for some dessert…

I’ve gotten a few of these, but I just moved so it only included Google maps images of my old apartment, and I guess the data scrape didn’t get my phone number, so it included language like “I bet you wouldn’t like it if I called you at 0000000000, would you?”

I’m savvy enough to laugh and delete, but I’m sure this would be very effective against some older Americans.

Thank goodness the program told me I have value after Tyler stopped replying once I showed him my asshole.

And what’s that?

But why would I want to use the Galaxy store?

Life by You’s cancelation was a big disappointment to hear. I figured if any studio had an understanding of emergent intercharacter storytelling in the way a Sims game needed, it was Paradox.

That said, Para-Lives is still in the works and looks quite promising.

There’s still hope. Just not from EA.

Buddy if I buy Panther Marten lures off Ali Express or from Dicks they come from the same factory in the same packaging at the same quality, but one costs $1.12 and the other $7.99.

It’s being manufactured in China anyway, I’m just avoiding the beak wetting Dicks and Walmart do to pay their shareholders.

Plus it ain’t like the US actually has any qualms with slave labor, just look at all the industries that take advantage of prison labor in the States.

Bullshit! I wanna buy cheap fishing gear for a tenth of the cost at Dicks.

Better get some rods and reels en route before this goes into effect.

Wait he plays a cardassian?? I musta missed that one! Which episode is that?

Lmao this is not one of the well priced ones.

Tho their other foldable is like $700 cheaper than the Samsung one with similar enough specs

Huawei is making some seriously impressive stuff for a decent price, just wish I could get it in the States.

A whole new kind of low quality, unimaginative, worthless crap is headed our way. Hurrah!