I’ve had mine for almost 2 years now. My usage has always been situational. I use it to game when I’m away from my relatively high-end gaming PC. Extended trips. Any time I know I’m going to be sitting and waiting somewhere. Or maybe I’ve just had a long day of remote work and want to play a game but I don’t want to sit at my desk, so I’ll plop down on the sofa or outside with my Deck.

I’m a little confused why this is in the news. First off, it’s just a House Resolution. It’s has no legally binding repercussions. It’s basically the House of Representatives as a group making a statement: “We don’t like anti-Semitism”. The definition of anti-Semitism they decided to point to is the thing that’s really in contention. But again, this affects nobody but the US House of Representatives.

Secondly, the vote on this took place in December. So it seems kind of late to be raging over it.

Full text of the resolution: https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hres894/BILLS-118hres894ih.pdf
Summary of action: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/894/all-info

If you’re in the US and it really bugs you, I’d suggest looking up how your district representative voted and let them know how you feel about it.

Lol, okay. Wikipedia and Reuters are not US government owned or even US-based media sources, and the wiki article is well cited by sources all over the globe. The US state department posts are just there as a tl;dr to be honest. But sure, any source that doesn’t align with your personal narrative must be biased propaganda. I note you didn’t actually address the point.

If he was so unpopular, then why did Putin try to assassinate him, then imprison him on fabricated charges with no intent to ever release him? Why couldn’t he just defeat him in a fair election and then ignore him?

• https://www.state.gov/second-anniversary-of-the-poisoning-of-aleksey-navalny/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexei_Navalny#:~:text=Traces of the Novichok nerve,other undisclosed object(s).
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-critic-alexei-navalny-says-he-has-received-new-criminal-charges-2023-12-01/
• https://www.state.gov/conviction-and-sentencing-of-aleksey-navalny-on-additional-politically-motivated-charges/
• https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/europe/navalny-extremism-trial-verdict-russia-intl/index.html

True enough. It does have controller support. I just find the interface a little more usable with mouse controls.

Balatro is my new obsession. Runs great. I’m using the touchpad for mouse input.

Woof. Their website is chock full of buzzwords (with lots of bonus spelling and grammar errors) with very little actual specs. My personal favorite: “All new flasship gaming processpr” [sic]

Oh, and this helpful bullet list:

6D Immersive Gaming Experience

• Vision Track
• Adaptive Posture
• Sound Comes Alive
• Ultra-Precise Vibrations
• Audio Vibration Enhancement
• Sensory Sync

I have no idea what any of that means, and they don’t explain any of it. But they do repeat it twice, so it must be pretty important.

Just a tip: when asking for game recommendations, it usually helps narrow things down if you give some examples of games you’ve already played and enjoyed.

Seriously. One of my pet peeves is shoes made with no outsole. Around 10 or 12 years ago a bunch of shoe brands decided they could save money if they stopped making shoes with a hard rubber outsole. Instead they just mold the tread into the soft midsole material. They spent a bunch of money convincing people it was fashionable. Probably a lot cheaper to produce for them. But the shoes wear out insanely fast.

I’ve been playing Planet of Lana. It’s a puzzle platformer, very similar to Limbo or Inside. But there are some different mechanics that involve a companion animal that follows you around.

The story says they were in international waters, inside the Japanese economic zone. It’s easy enough to find a map of that area if you need it. What are you implying that they are trying to gloss over?

I agree. If you’re having trouble sleeping, playing an interactive game at bedtime is likely to make the problem worse, not better. If reading isn’t your thing, consider listening to audio books or podcasts.

If they have started charging this service fee customers will be less inclined to tip on top. So if the money from the service fee is not entirely being used to increase staff wages, then the restaurant management is effectively stealing their tips. That is wage theft in spirit if not legal definition.

Yes. The manager will just repeat what they’re told to say. Ask a waiter if they’re actually being payed significantly more since the fee was added.

I just assume the high salary is because the AI will eventually become intelligent enough to target the killswitch operator for elimination first.

Yup. Lots of 90s fashion is in right now. My daughter is wearing flannel shirts. I told her I could have loaned her some of mine but I got rid of them all about 20 years ago.

No designated time zone.

Sushi. I was in college and my dad was visiting me. We were looking for somewhere to have dinner and I saw a sushi restaurant. I grew up eating lots of different foods but that was one I just hadn’t had the opportunity or inclination to try. But college is when you try new things, so we did. And I loved it.

I had to scroll way too far before someone mentioned Chain of Command. Lol.

Horizon: Zero Dawn was pretty good in this respect.