Man this makes me want to play Crusader Kings II! :-)

So I played it for a while several years ago and kinda got bored with it. I got to the bottom of the mine and had married one of the characters, and my farm (such as it was) was mostly automated so not much to do there. I know there are a bunch of story moments but I got tired of wandering around randomly trying to meet the conditions to trigger them. I wanted it to happen organically without looking it up. I just felt like I ran out of things to do and there was no point to keep playing.

At the same time, I want to play it on my Steam Deck because I did enjoy what I did play!

After watching it completely through within the last few years, I can say I rank it higher than Voyager.

Also, LinkedIn

Yeah I have a game that pause is space, so I mapped one of the back buttons to that and it’s perfect.

That’s what I thought too, and then I got sucked in. I watched it a few weeks ago, I usually love her Star Wars stuff but this felt too long…nope.

Hmmm I think my expectations were set incorrectly for this show. From the rumblings I heard before the premiere, it was on a similair level as Andor and was kind of a murder mystery thing. It is nothing like Andor (so far) and the murder ‘mystery’ was solved (at least for the viewers) at the end of the first episode. I was excited about the possibility of ‘Law & Order in space with Jedi’ since it seemed like a fresh genre for Star Wars but this…is more like ‘generic Star Wars plot line #45’. I plan to keep watching because the High Republic era is interesting, but the story has been bleh so far for me.

Also weird that Carrie-Anne Moss figured so prominently in the hype & advertising just to be killed off in the first few minutes. If I was excited that she was in the show (I was ambivalent towards it myself) I would be super mad about that.

I’m afraid Andor has ruined me when it comes to Star Wars media. :-/

That video was fantastic.

Islets. First Metroidvania I’ve ever tried and I love it.

Yeah that first line irritates me. What is weird about Mara Jade? She was great and the Thrawn Trilogy should be episodes 7-9.

Yep, me too. Played it as a teenager in the late 90s. I already backed it as well!

This is not the first time I’ve seen memes like this, and it makes me so glad I’m not involved in programming or software development. I would straight up die.

Ur-Quan Masters Mega Mod, Talos Principle 2, and Pictopix.

Oh no.

Edit: In case I’m coming across sarcastic, I’m not. I loved LD probably the most of the new batch of Star Trek shows. It was just a joy to watch.

For Maryland:

https://extension.umd.edu/resource/lawn-alternatives

I do feel sorry for the admin staff that have to deal with it, and my ire is 90% directed at insurance. However, when they can’t even read the back of the insurance card to follow the instructions to properly file a claim, it just gets tiring.

Haha exactly! I mean, I know this is how it works, it just feels like it’s gotten way worse in the last few years.

Completely agree. Just had to vent.

I completely agree about it being the providers responsibility. The problem is, they don’t want to do anything to resolve the issue either. Other times, it doesn’t even involve the provider, they did everything right but for some byzantine reason it didn’t go through the insurance system correctly and you have to call them and tell them to process it the same way they have processed every other exact same bill from the exact same provider.

Just wanted to vent. I should clarify I live in the US (as if that wasn’t clear from my post LOL!)

So I WAS on 11 until all of the sudden my computer refused to boot with the special hardware thing enabled. Had to downgrade to Windows 10 and the mobo manufacturer’s response was ‘try replacing every other part in your PC’…sorry I don’t have the money to have spare parts of everything just lying around. 10 works perfectly fine, and it’ll give me an excuse to upgrade my mobo in Oct 2025. :-)