Trainguyrom

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As others have said loss of interest can happen and the interest can of course come back with a vengeance. I'd recommend picking up another hobby until gaming suddenly grasps your interest again.

Two types of hobbies that have lasting positive impacts on people are creative hobbies and physical hobbies. Your brain is wired to invent and create and your body is wired to move, so being able to do each for fun is brilliant for your mental and physical health. Hop on a bicycle, go for a walk and enjoy the crisp fall air, stop off at that gym you forgot to cancel your membership for, and start doing it regularly.

For creative hobbies you can get a pack of printer paper for a couple of bucks and a pack of Crayola crayons or colored pencils and just start doodling. If you suck at drawing make wierd geometric shapes to rebuild the fine motor skills that computers have killed. Or if you want something more in-depth model making is always great because it has elements of fantasy while having entry points at any skill level. Personally I've been getting back into model railroading which if that seems boring to watch a train go around in circles, consider it has its own table top roleplay scene in the form of operations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

My 4 year old when we tell her something she doesn't want to hear will do the same, except it always starts with "WELL,"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It was also a nightmare of paperwork to change it (both to get married and divorced), and I don’t want to do that yet again.

My wife and I have been married for a few years now and the pharmacy still has her name hyphenated as maidenname-legalname because that was the only way to get the prescriptions consistently processed by insurance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At least as far as US law is concerned, a federally hosted and administrated social media platform gets interesting with America's unusually strong free speech laws, since there's content which is legal but unethical which they likely would not be allowed to block or moderate, such as bullying, hate speech, misinformation, etc. but also illegal content would be immediately moderated away, which might include content that falls into legal grey areas or ethical but technically illegal content, like someone copy/pasting the contents of a paywalled article, or discussing any kind of DRM or digital security bypass

Honestly I think there's good reason for governments to host a Mastodon instance for their representatives to use for communications, but inviting the public to use it might get weird for sure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Too big of a map ultimately becomes a deal breaker for me because it will inevitably have too much empty space and get too boring and time consuming to play through.

Smaller more refined maps are better than larger maps where the team can't sufficiently justify every single corner and make sure every inch truly is fully designed and makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

The upscaling technologies they've been building into modern graphics stacks also have benefits for much older games where the performance isn't necessarily needed. There's an old game I like to play, Railroad Tycoon 2, which doesn't run at resolutions higher than 1024x768 and modern upscaling can make that game look absolutely gorgeous despite being 4+ pixels per original pixel. I'm sure it provides similar benefits to emulators and the like too!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

On the subject of Matrix parodies, I just want to throw this classic out there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like you've read the books much more recently than I have because I simply can't remember much of any of those details, just my takeaways from the books

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Thunderbird still supports RSS, however I've found many news sources don't provide proper RSS feeds anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

If he's anything like American conservatives he probably appreciates the comparison more than anything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I remember it being unclear if the professed feelings for her by Peta were genuine or also manufactured for the cameras, and while the ending implied Peta had genuine feelings for her by that point, he likely was also thrust into a position he didn't necessarily want either

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago (2 children)

/sfc scannow

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