I don’t even own a battery actually! It just came with the lighter adapter so I always use that.

I’ve wondered if it would make sense to have a battery and the answer is still “nah”

Similarly, I have a Dewalt one (20V tire inflator) that Home Depot sells. I got it in 2020 and it still works great!

This is fascinating because I think the core gameplay of the Grand Theft Auto games — what you have to complete to progress the narrative — has never been very good. Since the very beginning, the top-down games.

The hype is always out of this world, but once you sit down and play it’s always extremely simplistic. The core gameplay is made to slow you down, not be interesting. They even add unexplained superpowers (being able to slow down time in gunfights) in an attempt to make the gameplay more interesting.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the guy who produced GTA 3-5 didn’t actually know how to make core gameplay fun.

I loved the semi-open world concept, I still miss the radio DJ!

They made it feel like things were actually happening in the world of the game, which most games still don’t do well.

SSX Tricky and SSX 3. Both were quite fun to play and I’ve played them both in the past few years.

To me, Rockstar Games are cool as world simulators and storytelling engines. My issue is that they plop lazily-designed gameplay on top.

No one ever talks about the core gameplay loops of these games, the thing that makes you progress through the storyline.

They talk about the storyline, but they don’t talk about the mediocre gunfights you have to wade through to watch a cutscene or hear dialogue. Wave after wave of anonymous enemies, like videogames haven’t changed since shooting galleries.

They have to introduce essentially unexplained superpowers (slowing down time) to make it remotely interesting. And even then, I would argue most people are just trying to get through every single mission.

Or the terrible movement/driving/riding physics. I didn’t finish GTA4 (also a “10/10 game”) because some of the missions relied on the abysmal movement.

It’s like… a Rockstar game is like going to IKEA. You’re going to be led through a lot of stupid crap, just because they want to keep you there longer.

That way of playing Stellaris sounds really cool! It makes me want to install Stellaris again

Looking at Medusa turned things with sight to stone. Not her looking at things.

So it would have to be a Toy Story or Beauty and the Beast situation where she was delighted that her things came to life… only to be turned to stone because of how ugly she is.

Same for me! For niche hobbies, Reddit still has a lot of valuable older information. That might change though.

I would even settle for: what’s in the metal cup? Flour as a thickener?

Any time I see hand-shredded cheese I know I’m probably in for a good mac

“Jealous” implies that he wanted to be the ant executioner.

I guess it could mean “only I get to decide who lives or dies” but it seems strange for him to say that and then kill them all.

They kinda just meant “a wrathful god, strong in anger” or something.

This is correct, for me at least.

I don’t read the text out loud in my head. I can, but I’m able to understand and comprehend the intonation and text without “performing” it.

The photos having rust on them are because the authors are quite lazy and they need an image.

So they just look for copyright-free images of a rusty USB and they’re all set.

The 2022 World Cup was literally built by slaves. It has a way of keeping prices down.

I always try to build things that I might want!

I am fortunate to have a lot of other hobbies, so I build little things for myself for those hobbies.

One of my first scripts I ever wrote around 2004 was a Perl script to get what song was playing and automatically update my IM “status”.

I also made databases of comics and CDs for myself too.

The easiest way to get better is by doing, and doing is way easier when it’s something I care about.

It’s really crazy now to think I was spending $129 on OS upgrades. No wonder I waited!

The two states in the north that are the same size… happen to be the size of Croatia! 🫨

They were more expensive in the early 2000s.

See, for example, this MacRumors thread from 2003 entitled “Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Why Is it still $129?”

Jaguar (10.2) was also $129 in 2002.

10.1 was free.

Going up from 2003,

• 10.4 Tiger was $129 in 2005
• 10.5 Leopard was $129 in 2007
• 10.6 Snow Leopard was $29 in 2009
• 10.7 Lion was $29 in 2011
• 10.8 Mountain Lion was $29 in 2012
• 10.9 Mavericks was a free update in 2013

“They didn’t do their diligence on that one”

“The gig is up”

Both from a podcast I listened to. I’m still not sure if they ever learned.

I love a good crime documentary for chores!