Right now I’m reading Fledgling by Octavia Butler. It’s an interesting twist on what a “vampire novel” is, and I’m enjoying it a lot! I’m also reading Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino. This one is great so far, every single essay has had a line or two that has really made me stop and think.
Maxis was the one that came to mind for me, too! I played everything of theirs that I could get my hands on. Still playing The Sims after all these years!
I’m just really bad at forming habits. I know what I need to do, I can come up with routines or ways to do it, maybe even do it for a couple of days. But I just can’t seem to ever get habits I want to form to last for any length of time.
Finally finished up my first playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 and started a new playthrough two days later, ha ha! I did not find Gale at all in my first run, so I got him this time around and am traveling with a different party. Still having a ton of fun with this game, and I’m excited to explore parts of the story that I missed the first time around!
Also about halfway through a third playthrough of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, siding with the Black Eagle house this time around.
Still having a blast playing Baldur’s Gate 3! I just made it to Act 3 and there have been some very unexpected events (don’t know how to do spoiler tags) ha ha! It’s been quite an adventure so far; I’m already planning another playthrough!
Also thinking of doing another run of Fire Emblem: Three Houses to complete the house I haven’t aligned with yet.
I’ve been thinking about making this thread for a few days. Sometimes, I play a game and it has some very basic features that are just not in every other game and I think to myself: Why is this not standard?! and I wanted to know what were yours....
This saved my butt the other day! I got some message that my current save was corrupted or detected tampering? and to stop playing on it. I was able to go back a couple of auto saves, find a good one, and not have to do a bunch of content over again!
So far so good! I completed my training to be a poll worker for the election in November, which I’m excited about! Also going on a quick vacation this weekend, which should be fun!
I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 as much as I possibly can. I’m having a ton of fun with it! I’ve never played D&D, or any of the Baldur’s Gate games, so I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time, but I’m slowly getting the hang of it!
It’s just crappy that good, ethical, quality clothes do cost a lot more. I absolutely understand why, but man does it suck for the average consumer nowadays.
I’ve been slowly upgrading and updating my wardrobe over the last couple of years, and I’ve bought a lot second hand and then been trying to put my money towards the most sustainable/ethical choices that I can when I buy new stuff. (And I realize that being able to do that is a luxury, too.)
Ann Patchett continues to impress, both Bel Canto and The Dutch House were excellent. Loved Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Also discovered T. Kingfisher; read Thornhedge and Nettle & Bone, and definitely want to read more of her stuff.
I like RKG! They play Dark Souls and those types of games- one of them plays, the other two chat about the lore of the game or whatever. Right now they’re playing Elden Ring!
Anyone else have some spooky reads lined up for October? My bookclub is reading Frankenstein this month, which will be a nice change of pace from the usual fare. I’ve got Tender is the Flesh, Rouge, and Black Sheep lined up. I will probably get to The Haunting of Hill House as well, which I’m really excited to read! I just...
Some of my friends are doing the Dracula Daily newsletter this year, where it emails you the chapters as they happen in real time. Pretty cool idea and they’ve really enjoyed it!
I liked Dr. Sleep more than I thought I was going to! I thought it worked as a follow up to The Shining, but still had a lot of original stuff going on, too.
It used to be a todo list set up where I just check off and add whatever books caught my interest but it wasn't very shareable so I moved onto storygraph which I liked more than goodreads as the data visualization and breakdown of books via tags and moods gives me a better idea of where I tend to lean in books I seek out and...
I tried Storygraph, but it doesn’t have features I need, and made too many errors when importing my data from Goodreads. I haven’t tried any other alternatives, though.
For me it was Dead Space 2 when I was 12-ish. For reference, at this point the most gruesome/gorey/violent media I was exposed to was the Halo 3 Flood levels and the original 2 Alien movies....
Silent Hill was the first video game I really played all the way through on my own (and was also on the first console we ever owned). I had played Mario, Sonic, Donkey Kong, Goldeneye, etc. at my friends’ houses, but that was the game that really started it all! I was already into horror stuff at that point, so it was right up my alley, though. I still think of Pyramid Head on foggy days.
Related, but PT was a fun experience when it first came out. Played it once on my own and then once with a group of friends!
The best simple black business socks that don’t show the first gaps and then holes after a few weeks are…? Help me out here, please. I’m still desperate. Everything I buy is rubbish.
Love Darn Tough socks, would definitely recommend them! I haven’t had the chance to use their guarantee yet because my socks have held up well, but I’ve heard good things and that they actually do honor it!
I loved Thinking, Fast and Slow. I really enjoyed how he included a lot of the questions and tests he used so you could answer them as you read the book.
we’re so back. anyways as you can tell by the other pinned post, we’ve been a little busy with a lot of stuff on the backend and that’s probably going to continue into the foreseeable future
Starting off rough, honestly. Local citizens where I live are fucking with the public library and it’s infuriating and depressing and frustrating and I feel powerless to stop them because the majority of the people here are okay with it.
Trying to get books relocated/removed because they find them “obscene” (i.e. featuring gay characters or addressing things like racism). This kind of nonsense has been happening in a lot of libraries around the US, sadly.
A little of both, actually. Not sure what the recourse is, which is part of the distress.
But…coincidentally I just found out the city is hosting a book drive for literacy awareness this week, so my book club is donating copies of all of the books that have been removed to the book drive. Not much but it’s honest work, I guess!
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....
Agreed! I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything by being defederated from whoever we’re defederated from. I would definitely check out wherever Beehaw moved to, if it came to that.
I’m on board with a whitelist if Beehaw wants to stay on Lemmy, too.
And if they move, I’ll just make a Lemmy account on a different instance or kbin or whatever to keep track of a few communities outside of Beehaw. I don’t think you can migrate your account, but I could definitely be mistaken about that (still figuring out this fediverse thing)!
‘The researchers found that there was no “sweet spot” where a woman could position herself without being criticized. Women were either too young or too old, too attractive or not attractive enough, too educated or not educated enough. Introverted women were not seen as leaders and extroverted women were viewed as...
So with the new season also came a new patch, and some detailed reworks - including another total redo of an extremely unpopular card (I guess I’ll bite my tongue now after trashing it). Let’s see how that shakes up gameplay....
I’m bummed about Spider-Ham. I have him in my deck (and also hate when my opponent uses him to bash one of my good cards), and I guess he needed a rework. But I agree that it seems to defeat the purpose of the card.
I somehow overlooked that the Soul Stone also drew a card, so I guess I won’t miss that feature, ha ha!
This weekend I read House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig, which is a YA fantasy/fairy tale retelling, for my bookclub’s pick this month. Not my usual genre, but it was enjoyable for what it was trying to do. The world it’s set in was interesting, and I enjoyed a lot of the characters. The climax and the third act was a bit shaky compared to the rest of the book, though.
Started reading I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai. It’s got this device that the author is using where the narrator is speaking to another person (not the reader), who I think will show up later in the story. Not sure if I like it or not so far.
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 17th
What have you all been playing!...
What are you reading?
Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?...
What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
I was thinking about how I remember Maxis fondly, and I got to wondering what other people’s experiences were like!...
What's a seemingly harmless habit of yours that you struggle to break?
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 26th
What have you all been playing? I’ve been playing more dicey dungeons and cross code! Want to really commit to finishing cross code this time
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 29th
Whatcha all been playing?...
Spooky ghost nails (lemmy.one)
https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/54276bf8-6927-4b99-bdce-9a3be5805b24.jpeg...
What is something (feature, modes, settings...) you would like to see become a standard in video games?
I’ve been thinking about making this thread for a few days. Sometimes, I play a game and it has some very basic features that are just not in every other game and I think to myself: Why is this not standard?! and I wanted to know what were yours....
how's your week going, Beehaw
things have settled down considerably since last week; got to see the eclipse the other day which was cool
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 15th
Whatcha playing!...
Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory. (www.theatlantic.com)
Archive link...
What is your favorite novel of the year thus far?
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/9e5b73dc-cc8c-4f4c-84b5-4d51faa0c01c.webm...
Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?
Examples include: Scary Game Squad, Gamegrumps, Team Double Dragon, and the like....
The Best Books of 2023 (So Far) (www.vulture.com)
Spooky reads for October?
Anyone else have some spooky reads lined up for October? My bookclub is reading Frankenstein this month, which will be a nice change of pace from the usual fare. I’ve got Tender is the Flesh, Rouge, and Black Sheep lined up. I will probably get to The Haunting of Hill House as well, which I’m really excited to read! I just...
What's your favorite tool to track your reading habits? (kbin.social)
It used to be a todo list set up where I just check off and add whatever books caught my interest but it wasn't very shareable so I moved onto storygraph which I liked more than goodreads as the data visualization and breakdown of books via tags and moods gives me a better idea of where I tend to lean in books I seek out and...
What was the formative horror game of your childhood?
For me it was Dead Space 2 when I was 12-ish. For reference, at this point the most gruesome/gorey/violent media I was exposed to was the Halo 3 Flood levels and the original 2 Alien movies....
I'm looking for socks that don't get holes just by looking at them
The best simple black business socks that don’t show the first gaps and then holes after a few weeks are…? Help me out here, please. I’m still desperate. Everything I buy is rubbish.
What is a story from the internet that will remain in your mind forever?
Replanting Logged Forests With Diverse Mixtures of Seedlings Accelerates Restoration (www.technologynetworks.com)
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Which book is your personal bible?
Reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb was eye-opening for me. I turn to the concepts of the book whenever I feel unsure about a decision or opinion.
come back tomorrow (beehaw.org)
how's your week going, Beehaw
we’re so back. anyways as you can tell by the other pinned post, we’ve been a little busy with a lot of stuff on the backend and that’s probably going to continue into the foreseeable future
Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....
What's the coolest thing you've found in a thrift store?
Or just second hand in general
30 Criticisms That Hold Women Leaders Back, According to New Research (www.sheknows.com)
‘The researchers found that there was no “sweet spot” where a woman could position herself without being criticized. Women were either too young or too old, too attractive or not attractive enough, too educated or not educated enough. Introverted women were not seen as leaders and extroverted women were viewed as...
Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom (www.eurogamer.net)
In Cologne last month, Nintendo's public Gamescom showfloor booth let you play Pikmin 4 and Super Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. …
10 Terrifying New Horror Books to Read in September 2023 (bookriot.com)
Get your ghoul on with these exciting new horror books guaranteed to have you sleeping with the lights on — during the day!
[Marvel Snap] 05/09 Patch Notes: Does whatever an absorbing man (cdn.imgchest.com)
So with the new season also came a new patch, and some detailed reworks - including another total redo of an extremely unpopular card (I guess I’ll bite my tongue now after trashing it). Let’s see how that shakes up gameplay....
[Weekly] What are you reading this week? [9/03/23] (imgur.com)
What book is currently on your nightstand?...
'Sea Mist' Woodblock Print Merlyn Chesterman (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4406504...