This album was a frequent listen for me when I was in high school, every once in a while I go back to it and it still holds up.

Would love Earthworm Jim or MDK reboots but I think those are under Infogrames / Interplay not Activision?

With the abundance of retro platformers I still think this is a niche worth revisiting

Was just thinking about this game the other day. It was super fun and had a more interesting / entertaining vibe than other vehicle combat games (Twisted Metal, not sure what else)

I was all over that and Carmageddon, which also doesn’t have a very good modern equivalent.

Oooo this is a good one!

Similar situation - I’d been at a job for about 10 years that robbed me of all of my time, but didn’t pay me enough to comfortably stay home or take vacations.

I went freelance but current events happened and now I’m home a lot. I beat Elden Ring. I put like 100 hours into Rimworld. Gaming can get super depressing in a concentrated binge, so what I also have done:

1. Backpacking. Nerd out on gear for a week or so, go to REI and drop some money, and go walk for days at a time. I love it. Most recently just did a 15 mile out, sleep, 15 mile back trip and it definitely was good on my brain (rough on my body)

2. DIY tech projects. I had a couple raspberry pis around. One is now a synth / sequencer / workstation with a midi keyboard using the Zynthian OS and the other is going to do some self-hosting.

3. Fixing my furnace. This one isn’t one I recommend.

4. Cigars for me, but any kind of highly indulgent consumable that people like to talk about. Chocolate, wine, cheese, etc.

5. Exploring. You’d be amazed what you can find just walking around. A friend just showed me a crazy underground stream that I’ve been walking over for YEARS now and I had no idea it existed. Going to go check it out.

6. Plants and Birds. I have a front porch. My days of nothing to do usually start with about an hour or so on the porch with a cigar, watching and trying to identify the birds that come to my feeder and admiring the progress of my plants that are growing out there.

This is one of those things where every time I start thinking about it I just… stop thinking about it and remember to keep an eye on what my son is up to on the internet.

Yeah, Artemis is an app for Kbin that is in a very limited beta right now (I’m not in it) - *edit got the link wrong the first time **and the second time. Artemis

Yeah… it is a little overwhelming when just dipping your toes. In the initial push to get off of reddit I ended up with a lot of accounts… Beehaw, sh.itjust.works, fedia.io, kbin.social, readit.buzz, infosec.exchange, infosec.town, defcon.social, tildes, squabbles, etc. At some point you just have to use something.

If I had to guess what I’ll be doing in the future, I’d say it will resemble reddit where I had multiple accounts for different purposes but not different platforms, just different content filters and topics. Eventually there will be at least one app that works with both Lemmy and Kbin accounts and make it all more or less seemless and arbitrary.

Right now I’m primarily using Kbin and Beehaw, I don’t know which account will eventually be more important to me. I’m also using Ice Cubes for Mastodon with a couple different Mastodon accounts. What would push me all-in on a kbin instance would be if I federation between Lemmy instances and mastodon instances reached a level of functioning that didn’t feel like I was missing anything. I’d rather not have a million different apps and accounts just to see different versions of the same shit.

I’m on both (repeatedly, multiple servers and accounts) but even with Memmy I find myself gravitating towards Kbin and once Artemis is out I’ll probably stay there. Beehaw has the best interaction on its local communities, but Kbin is just a better feed for me mostly. No brand or server loyalty for me, I will continue using all until one seems to address all my wants.

My man wrote children’s books and poetry but also enjoyed drugs and was a hippy (not the dirty stinky kind, more just a counter culture guy). He rules. Check out his songs, it makes it all kind of come together.

It used to make sense, like… people that need no provocation to go into something they won’t shut up about, or things like that. Lately it has just stopped being used in any way that actually makes the “Nobody:” part matter.

“How was robbery today honey?”
“I don’t want to talk about it.”
“Oh baby…”
“:(“

Hahaha the person that takes another bite and walks out but just stands outside. Nobody was worried about this guy.

AI will replace all of us at our jobs.

With Bermuda grass.

Thank you for saying what I was unable to get out in less than 5000 characters - this summarizes what I was assuming to be true but didn’t actually check the numbers on.

Reddit can eat my cheeks. Every time I open the app now there’s some sponsored post or dumb thing that makes me hate if.

Please forgive me for the length of my other reply, this topic (the use of scary sounding data to make people do things they don’t want to, stop doing things they do want to, or spend money) has been getting under my skin lately and also I have a lot of free time because of a guild strike timing up poorly with a career change. Also I couldn’t sleep.

It was too much and I fault nobody for not reading it and will accept any heckling that results.

Right now I’m cooking on just a regular electric stove and cooktop. I can cook whatever I want, but heat up time, temperature change time, top temperature, and temperature control are lacking. I get better results consistently on anything other than an electric cooktop. Induction stoves do handle all these things well, but there are some major quality of life issues with any glossy flat-top for me (other people may not have these issues).

• They’re kinda ugly. When they’re new they can look nice and clean, and boiling water on induction makes you think every other cooking method is dumb and slow, but overall I don’t like the look.
• Cooking casually over a few months, guaranteed to end up with some cooked on impossible to clean gunk and going over it repeatedly with bartenders friend (try breathing that if you accidentally heat it up - blech) and still never totally getting it clear. I’ve moved out of apartments with gas stoves that had extended periods of poor stove cleaning and never needed more than a sponge and a Brillo to get it looking new.

Likewise, in terms of energy efficiency, for heating anything gas has always been superior to electric. That’s why radiant heat or gas is a more efficient and environmentally sound way to heat your house than electric.

Hear me out here because you’re going to think I’m an absolute moron dying on a lot of stupid hills… but this is why I’ve become disillusioned with a lot of health and environment science that gets published to get end-users to make lifestyle changes.

Lately for steaks and burgers I’m cooking outside on a charcoal grill because it just makes them taste better than my stove does… high heat / short time and the grease drips out a bit which makes me feel healthier… but it involves standing next to burning charcoal and smoke which, terrible right? Standing next to a grill inhaling all that? Burning all that charcoal into the atmosphere?

Here’s an article telling people to stop grilling with charcoal, which points out that grilling with propane is like driving your car 8 miles and charcoal 22. Here’s a uh… Ted talk? Which explains how it’s bad because of deforestation also.

But then here’s a pie-chart showing the leading causes of deforestation: chart

How many people are worrying that much about driving their car 22 miles? All these little things that bring joy to your life have less of an impact than the person who wrote the article’s daily commute in a lot of cases, industrial agriculture, suburban sprawl and the demand for paper make these environmental impacts seem like absolutely nothing. There are so many things bad for the world and ourselves out there, yet somehow it’s always us at home that need to buy new things and change our lifestyle? I do make lifestyle changes, but primarily in ways that improve my quality of life.

Sometimes it’s good science and bad reporting, we have known for a long time now how terrible cigarettes are for your health. Obviously smoking cigars or pipe tobacco means you’ll get oral, throat, or lung cancer too right? A quick google shows me dozens of articles and studies telling me so. But then you dig deeper and find that when the FDA did a review of all the available studies they found this:

Because the desired outcome was to just be able to say it’s a public health risk, they say in their conclusion that it is, but their actual data shows that non-inhalers that smoke 1-2 cigars a day have an only slightly elevated risk that does not meet the conventional criteria for statistical significance. Very few people smoke more than 1-2 cigars a day and inhaling them is painful and insane. Almost nobody reported on the study that way, instead it was reported as “See, they cause cancer” by almost all major media, except a handful of conservative publications which really ruffles my pretty far left feathers

People should cook on what they think makes their food taste best. Nobody should replace what they own because of 8.4% of children (percent of child population with asthma) having a gas stove in the house was associated with a 20% increase in diagnosis, which we are unsure if the gas stove was causal or just an irritant that led to diagnosis of existing condition. There are also studies that found no link

In my opinion, for the vast majority of people, properly installed and ventilated it’s a non-issue. Just a lot of stove selling and fear-mongering.

I’m not a republican or climate denier or anything and I’m a big proponent of environmental causes, like to an extent that might be annoying for many… but there just isn’t good enough data for me to stop preferring to cook with gas.

Elevated levels of benzene higher than those of second hand smoke do not indicate that it’s anywhere near the same level of cancer-causing as cigarette smoke - it sounds like cherry-picking.

To run a gas stove you need great ventilation in your kitchen, there hasn’t been some insane risk of cancer from cooking in commercial kitchens or well-ventilated home kitchens with gas stoves that I’m aware of. I’d be willing to bet that increased incidence of asthma would also be the result of improper ventilation as well.

I currently have an electric stove and I hate it after having gas stoves for years. Will be going back to gas ASAP.

That said everybody has their own preferences and risk-tolerances and can do whatever they want, it’s just going to take more data for me to be willing to get an induction stove when it comes time to upgrade instead of a gas one. Electric cook tops just objectively suck.