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Potatos_are_not_friends,

Butter and noodles is a banger

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Nah - That requires me to own a stigmata spoon and I don’t bring religion to my cooking.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Damn, companies were using Citrix because remote desktop companies were iffy and AWS/screenshare companies like zoom and TeamViewer weren’t “enterprise-y” enough.

What a blow.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Hell yeah!

It wasn’t until my 30s until I was comfortable dancing.

It helped to have a partner with you. Then you can go, “Let’s just dance weirdly” and then laugh while making moves on the dance floor.

If you have no partner, alcohol is also a excellent friend!

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Like get those hip pains from over exerting? I get that now in my 40s from dancing.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

It was kinda cool for some things.

Like seeing where I went on October 14, 2018.

Or how many times I visited the “Steve’s Spaghetti Store”.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

At first, I thought you meant planetars (from D&D), and I didn’t know about that piece of trivia and felt inferior as a nerd.

But no, you really meant planarians (from reality), which is a science word and I now feel inferior because I am a moron.

Planarians are flatworms (phylum Platyhelminthes) found in freshwater bodies and their regenerative abilities have been documented for centuries (Pallas, 1766; Dalyell, 1814). Planarians can regenerate new heads, tails, sides, or entire organisms from small body fragments in a process taking days to weeks.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I typed a “no worries” after the project manager crashed a server that took me 1.5 hours to bring it back up again.

Shame on me for giving them too much access.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Me at the arcades in the 90s with my friends. After a while we all just go home kinda bored.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

How does a DM deal with players who look for these wild ideas?

I think it’s fine to think outside of the box and metagame. But does it end up in a slippery slope where it feels like the players just want to outthink every encounter where it’s just a rube Goldberg set of plays?

Potatos_are_not_friends,

But say by adventure 10, they’re still trying to beat the system. It feels exhausting trying to create a story like “A vampire council, but they have anti-magic doors so you can’t disguise yourself. And also no rats. And you can’t teleport in there. And summoning a devil or warping the castle is forbidden. And…”

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I typically avoid multiplayer games because I’m just interested in doing my own thing.

But sometimes, it’s fun to just goof off with strangers, especially ones venting their hearts out to strangers on the Internet. Kinda like a radio talk show but with just 3-4 people.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Oh man! I tried that game and literally the first 15 minutes was some asshat talking over everyone and getting upset nobody was listening to him.

Uncertain if the game sucks or people suck. But I uninstalled so fast.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Having played it, seems fine to me. Their delivery has been nothing but exceptional.

For example:

“What if you can throw your cult member into jail into old age and then when they die of old age, turn them into worm food?”

Cult of the Lamb devs: “Yeah we can do that.”

Potatos_are_not_friends,

DoomRL creator then made Jupiter Hell, which has the same kinda energy.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Honestly I use this to settle all food debates.

Not because I believe it to be true or accurate. Buy because humanity needs answer and here is one!

Potatos_are_not_friends,

8 years ago when I was struggling, I was getting paid $20 to write a 1000 word article.

I can’t imagine how low the price is now, especially with AI.

It’s going to get worse.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

As a windows user, switching to a Mac for software development… I absolutely get it.

As a Linux user, using a mac is for software development… Kinda unnecessary overhead.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I used to be a pure Win dev and used Docker, and so did half of my in-person team. And when we had windows issues, it was always this weird edge-case of “oh, this is only happening on Dave’s comp. Or Sarah’s. Or Steve’s.” Even on the same computer brands.

Then pandemic happened, and my company gave everyone Macs to work remotely. And my dept tripled and troubleshooting remotely sucks ass. But these Macs, it was all the same. Dealing with tech issues took an hour vs the whole day. And people spent more time coding than fighting their OS.

On windows, You can absolutely use WSL and all these other work around, but I kept having to fight Windows to do something. Drivers. Or permissions. Or some weird ass setting. But on Macs, troubleshooting and problem solving was way easier. Weird to say, but Apple just gets out of your way.

In terms of “I’m just trying to code”, as a Windows user for over 25 years, holy shit Mac just works right out of the box.

And once Linux/proton is more mature, I really can’t see using Windows at all.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Sunk cost fallacy

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Thanks for this share!

I put it on my wishlist a while back because I love old school dungeon crawlers. Reading the review now makes me excited!

Potatos_are_not_friends,

That was actually a smart hack, because Xbox had limited memory.

If you wanted to make a comparison, it would the Morrowind bug that if you did specific things in hour 15, it’ll definitely cause your game to crash in hour 120.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I first learned about the patient gamer lifestyle in like 2017.

I’ve been through No Man Skies, through Fallout 76s. I been seen big budget AAA games take over TV and now aren’t even heard of again (Anthem, all those superhero games like Gotham Knights and Avengers, Babylon’s Fall). I’ve watched multiplayer games rise and fall.

And if I’m ever curious, I wait and pick up the best version of the game when it is at 90% off.

And best part of this patient gamer lifestyle - games like this, I never even have to bother with. Doesn’t even phase me.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

That’s such a good feeling!

Like when you just find a cool game and then go, “Holy cow! This is from 2014?!”

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Nearly every “startup” I’ve been at was pretty toxic.

From the CEO who bragged about working 100+ hours, to the brown nosers who tried to impressed the company by sniping coworkers and creating cliques.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Both the DNC and the RNC serve the same master,

One guy literally said he wanted to be a dictator. One guy literally told a bunch of folks to storm the capital. One guy for four years continued to bring his friends into government, rolled back popular laws, wasted billions on a non-existent wall. And continues to spiral.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

This screams “Were going to make this popular by talking about how popular it is”, and seems to be the work or game PR.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

This is pretty common with outside contractors.

We just come in, say we’ll pay them x dollars and they give us code that passes the test. But that code will not at all align with any prior patterns.

I absolutely know I’m guilty of it when I do freelancing. Sorry.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I originally thought it was the former.

But now I’m strongly hoping it’s the latter! Pretty smart move.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I dunno about running a steam deck like a computer.

I have one and while the gaming experience is top notch, and I’m sure general usage like surfing is fine, I can’t imagine spending $400-600 just to use it like a computer, especially when things like Raspberry Pis exist as cheaper alternatives.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Sega has so many hit and misses that it’s hard to be excited.

Going to guess:

  • New sonic that this time, they absolutely positively listened to fans
  • A Yakuza game or total war game.
  • Some old series revival, but not exactly what fans want. Like reviving Virtual Fighter, but as a mobile game.
Potatos_are_not_friends,

People are embarrassed by this?

If there’s any consolation… This stranger on the internet loves that you sing to your cat and how much you love them. Absolutely no shame in that.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Well they better learn. Or else… THEY DIE.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

This is like a random list.

There’s hades. There’s vampire survivors. There’s FTL.

Those are radically different games.

Would have been better to call it a list and broke it into subgenres.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

The fact that the option is by default on is a dark pattern. Opting in should be the default, not the other way around.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

That high stress could include smelling urine of a predator.

Imagine just dying because you smell cat urine.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

My cats bring me toys because they think I cannot hunt.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

My wife and I agreed to this years ago before we had children to always explain to our kids in detail. I explain engineering and technology, she explains medical science and history.

I thought we would raise super smart kids but they’d just ask their question, go “oh neat thanks” and then play video games again.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I worked for a few startups in my career. Ones with “visionaries” who run the company. Who are trying to reinvent old into new, who is trying to reimagine something boring into something magical. Sprinkle a few buzzwords, do a Tedx talk, podcast tour, get on news and blogs, and write a book to sell their vision (as well as how their company did it).

And these visionaries who wrote a book managed also got a New York Times best seller label.

I can’t explain how it feels to see books written by your former boss who has done some shady shit get all sorts of 4-5 star praise for their “genius”, and then see it validated by NY Times.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I’ve seen proof of concepts and Kickstarters.

Uncertain if they’re good or just a nostalgic gimmick

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Haha! This! I still have mine in my treasure box of 1990s-2010s tech, with my iPod and my green Gameboy pocket.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Why go to a dive bar when you can create the same experience at a public park with a fountain?

Potatos_are_not_friends,

As a person who YOLO’d baking recipes for years then finally actually followed the instructions and then created some bangin’ cookies… I agree.

This whole “follow the damn instructions” kind of has some value I think.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I have microwaved my flour and did not turn into my baked good.

Please send help

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Seems fine to me!

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I always like the “Put Saturn back in Saturday” retort

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Every single therapist I worked with shared the “Fuck Freud” opinion.

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