I’m not 100% sure yet. I think I want to make a beginner kaizo hack… But mainly just learning the tool right now and will see if I’m inspired to do something after

Yeah the main thing I’ve noticed is solo queues tend to be way chiller. People are mostly just minding their own business. Group queue however is, for the most part, shoot on sight. Which at least feels a little less bad since you have people with you

Yeah definitely mostly melee. The way enemies respond to hits in different parts of their body is suuuuper satisfying haha. There are guns and bows and arrows but ammo is pretty sparse

I really like dying light! The first game is one of my favorite zombie games. Above average open world game imo. Dying light 2 is decent but not as fun as the first imo. The beast so far has been really fun though. None of the games are anything too special, but the combat and parkour are pretty satisfying

Yeah I don’t think the combat is hard by any means, I just found it really boring

Yeah I totally feel this. I’m constantly really exhausted and often feeling really hopeless. Fwiw I only posted this particular one as I’m in Seattle and it being this close to home is very alarming to me. I try not to post much to these communities.

It’s a weird thing where I agree and want to see a better ratio but the situation does often feel that dire

Turning my partners desktop into a nas but need some kind of desktop environment replacement. Feel like this could be a good option

While definitely more clunky than the original games system, I don’t recall any boss fight where you couldn’t at least die at the edge of the boss area you enter on and grab your stuff without actually fighting the boss. Ive done this pretty frequently

Earthbound and mother 3 with English patch!

A lot of these springing up lately. Love to see it and I hope they can survive 🙏

Yep breathed a huge sigh of relief seeing my state here. Hope more join on

Idk I mean SIE published 46ish? games on psvr 1. That’s a pretty decent amount for niche unproven tech

Eh. I’d argue they were actually pretty supportive of the first psvr and the PSP. Psvr 2 and vita though? Totally agree

Imo the biggest failure of the vita was the egregiously priced proprietary memory cards. Outrageously expensive for very little space. Made the value proposition compared to the post price drop 3ds (which used micro SDS) a no brainer unfortunately

Of course. I super heavily relate to what you’re feeling and I empathize. I feel ever since the election / inauguration my whole world view has shifted radically. I also have been at a lose at what to do with the information. I want to share it with people and show them what I’ve been seeing. But it feels like no one else wants to see it or can’t see it for a variety of reasons.

The podcast that this piece is from has been a really interesting thing to be listening to recently and it’s helped contextualize how I’ve been feeling. The 2 women are people who until the last decade or so were lightly conservative and the show has been them just delving into more and more interesting and complex topics. The audio for this episode is free. I think they do one free one a month. Def recommend checking more of it out if you’re interested

https://archive.org/details/the-nvidia-ai-gpu-black-market-investigating-smuggling-corruption-governments

Oh yeah I for sure agree with that. Standardized tests are fucking stupid. There are issues with the way it’s set up and think it can and should be changed and overhauled. I don’t think giving youth some direction on things to learn is bad but it for sure right now drives kids to a certain capitalistic end goal. Which I also still think isn’t totally un-useful in this fucked up system we find ourselves in (though it can be done kinder). Give kids the tools to understand why the system is fucked up while also gentally preparing them to work through it and maybe try and change it for the better.

I think we’re mostly on the same page. I do sometimes get worried about homeschool stuff as this perpetuation of the hyper individualistic nature of the United States (where I live) but there are some things a traditional school system can learn from it. Thanks for talking through it with me though c:

I’m sorry y’all had a bad experience in traditional school. But I still think a healthily funded well curriculumed public school system can be a great thing. I recently had my 10 year high school reunion and it was a really awesome time with a bunch of smart thinkers and kind souls. Ofc that’s not the experience for everyone, but a lot of people have great experiences in school. I mean I was also bullied in school but overall am very happy I had my public school experience. I’m sure unschooling can go well too. We can trade anecdotes all day though. I can’t say for sure that unschooling is actually bad and public schools are actually good. What I do know is I’m not ready to throw away the public school system just yet

I want to respond to the unschooling bit here as I have some personal experience.

First I acknowledge that this is an anecdotal thing and there are likely examples of unschooling going way better. Second, I really do empathize and appreciate people wanting to not have kids grow up in a system that perpetuates toxic aspects of capitalism.

This being said, I think unschooling, while having a fine motive, can set up children to have extremely difficult lives. We have family friends who are unschooling their children and their knowledge and behavior is concerning to me. The eldest is 13 years old and doesn’t know how to read, because she never had any interest in learning. I am fine if a child wants to be a creative. But learning to read and write I feel is too important a skill to leave out of any curriculum. I won’t let that become just some tool that perpetuates capitalism.

Do I enjoy our capitalist society? No, and I want to work towards a better future in that regard. But I also think unschooling just tries to cover ears to the reality we live in. I think it’s important to teach children to criticize the systems we are in. But if a child grows up wanting to be a creative, but can’t read, write, do simple arithmetic, all sorts of skills that one would need to just survive in a capitalist dominated world… Like what’s the point. Traditional school does not have to be nefarious. I grew up in Seattle public schools and was taught to criticize these systems despite being a cog in it at the time.

I would say I am concerned when he is willing to capitulate on my rights as a trans woman. I don’t have any interest in him being the next face of the party