IMO: pack as much of your day with “active novelty” as you can. Even if it’s small stuff.

Kids experience time more slowly because everything is new to them. As adults, much of our world becomes familiar and, frankly, forgettable. It’s the lack of newness that lets time just pass by in our minds since the day’s memories get pruned to hell, letting entire days just get black-holed.

So my advice is do more than just touch grass; live life fully. Don’t just follow your favorite streaming programs, engage with other fans. Get out and join a club. Go to more parks, museums, live shows, craft fairs, summer festivals. Invest in the people in your life. Host and attend more movie nights, cocktail mixers, holiday parties. Listen to new music, listen to new podcasts, read new books. Double-down on hobbies or take on new ones. Finish projects on that todo list. Engage with nostalgia, but mix it up with new things too. Find new challenges and try new things to make sure that is or isn’t for you.

I feel like there’s room for a youtube series about how this is all around us.

“Good Enough: how engineering works in the real world.”

Honestly, I kind of needed this. Thanks, OP.

If I had one, I’d never leave.

Between VR and AI, we’re getting closer every day. You might wanna re-think grabbing the new Steam Frame.

That’s one (of many) great things about Stargate. Not only did it perfect the classic Trek formula, it had good chunk of the same cast, and a bunch of actors from other trek-inspired sci-fi shows.

This one: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes

What in the actual three-ring-fuck is going on in this picture?

I know that church doesn’t have to be as solemn as a funeral, but still… unless these production levels are generating millions for charity, I can’t imagine how people are just okay with this.

I’m waaaaayyyyy too orange-pilled for this. Both images are wrong.

Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

There’s a hidden advantage here apart from moving away from Microsoft, or having 1st party controller support.

Game devs will have a precise target to optimize for.

If enough steam machines and steam decks are out there, it simplifies porting software since you have a handful of fixed targets to hit. A studio could easily buy a few of these appliances for testing and development, and know for certain the product will run as intended. It’s a luxury currently enjoyed by consoles, and it really does help their dominance in their respective niches.

This also helps smaller studios since the bare minimum means targeting a known steam platform, rather than pulling machine specs out of thin air and taking their best shot. It’s a much easier problem to solve and takes a lot less time and money.

I think there will always be room for high-end gaming, but as long as you’re “steam machine 2025 compatible” or whatever, you know what you’re going to get.

<< The Monkey’s Paw Curls >>

2026 marks the first year in American history where a completely home-grown pandemic forces borders to close, and air-traffic to be redirected as to avoid receiving American passengers. The EU, Arab League, and countless other countries congratulate themselves on rapidly orchestrating the containment of the disease to the USA; truly a landmark moment for international relations. Meanwhile, a Georgetown-based super-PAC “La di libertine” gains untold amounts of influence in government, following an uncannily well-timed short-sale of AI-based stocks. When asked about speculations as to their ties to Italian crime syndicates and fascist hardliners, they declined to comment.

Narrator: And that’s when the Fire Nation attacked.

I predict a whole “Weekend at Bernie’s” DeathGate scandal where a whole bunch of executive actions and auto-pen shenanigans happen posthumously under his name, even though Vance is right there. Why? Because it’s exactly the same kind of greedy and stupid this administration has demonstrated so far.

I already learned my lesson here.

Last time I said something like that was November of 2019.

There has to be a better name for that.

Exactly. It befell the same fate as the first Fullmetal Alchemist series, complete with an insane ending that was improvised and duct-taped to the end of an otherwise perfect series. At least they had enough wisdom to soft-reboot it, so they could finish the series the same way the manga did.

Dragonball Z also gets an honorable mention here, where the animation team was constantly at risk of getting ahead of the manga, so they had to build in LOTS of filler episodes to buy time.

I was gonna say. There’s none added because that’s what they are.

“Oops, all preservatives.”

Yup. I’m guessing that seasonal affective disorder and social isolation are a very dangerous combo.

I mean, there’s no actual dogs there, so nothing’s stopping that from happening. They’ll get there eventually, assuming this isn’t the real point.

Malicious compliance writ large.

Also, the number of hurdles you have to clear for this tells volumes about where the site owner priorities lie.