No worries, we’re all trying to make it through the best we can and I didn’t feel anything adversarial in your critique, just a desire for you and your fellow worker to be treated with dignity in their labor

That’s fair. I meant cost as in cost to me, the consumer, which is the price, but I think what you’ve said here is a valuable thing to consider when wondering why it’s so expensive and yet shit now.

The feeling bad part is aging.

Quality has absolutely gone down, though, while cost has gone way up.

It’s not quite as convenient, but I switched to making popcorn in a wok. It’s faster and way, WAY cheaper.

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism complete with transhumanism a la Iain M. Bank’s The Culture series

If they come inside your house throw em some cash. I’d say $5 for bringing it in the door, $10 for putting it near where it’s gonna be and $20 for placing it where it’ll go and unwrapping/assembling it.

That’s what I do, at least, no clue if these values are appropriate.

Goddamn right!!

The only thing I need on a screen is the GPS, everything else is an annoyance.

Well you don’t want to eat every fish you catch, that’s not good for the fish population. You want to ensure you’re only taking fish that have had a chance to spawn, determined by size.

Catch and release fishing is fine for the fish. If you gut hook them and they won’t survive, well, you eat that one, but it’s also easier to avoid that if you know what sort of fish you’re looking for and change your hook/lure accordingly.

Go fishing.

For real. Take some time to focus on something new and “pointless”. Soak in some gorgeous views and learn about your local waterways. Reconnect with the land around you.

Life’s easier with a clearer head.

Both. If there’s a screw, I’m tightening it, baby.

Yeah, fuck it. I’m gonna razz em tho.

I’m telling the kids “take two or three!” And when the costume-less ones show up I say “hmm, no costumes? You can only take two or three then.”

Phenomenal excuse to dress up in costume and get drunk

There needs to be more costumed holidays

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.

I don’t think you can stop the calls or texts, elections are a product just like everything else here and those are the ads.

They got your info and you can’t take it back now

I despise getting ready in the dark and getting home in the dark. It’s harder to fit in a lil fishing after work and I can’t wear shorts and crop tops outside on the deck.

Winter stinks!

The bitch of this world is that most any activity is pro-fossil fuel because of the way our infrastructure is built.

This isn’t much of a gotcha, but it’s a sad observation of the state of the globe.

MicroProse has really been filling a niche I’ve missed with these “old style” games. I mean, maybe an odd post to comment this specifically on, because this is and old game, but their recent releases in general seem to harken back to an older era of gaming that I’ve missed.

Hey, maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll get to try their hands at another MechWarrior!

I’m not always American when I’m entering the bathroom, sometimes I’m Russian.