a baby duck

Intel skepticism aside, I hope they can deliver on this. M-series Macs seem streets ahead in terms of battery life right now and it doesn’t feel great buying any other portable.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon Loop Hero Pirates Outlaws

I install a few others every now and again to try new things, but it’s usually ad-driven / endless predatory MTX bullshit.

Steam just had a free weekend so I’ve been playing it. I like it a lot and I do think it’s worth playing, but it’s definitely a clunky console port, the added latency of forced multiplayer doesn’t do it any favors, and the amount of QoL locked behind microtransactions or a $13/month subscription just feels bad.

I occasionally see those types of ads in subs downloaded through the Plex UI, but usually it’s in an intro or at the end. Haven’t seen them in the middle of a dialogue yet.

About 20 years ago I was so outraged by Bonsai Kitten that I asked a friend’s mom to help me write letters to ISPs and law enforcement to try to get it taken down.

It was a site with pictures of cats in glass jars, but it had very graphic details about how they supposedly kept cats alive in jars and grew them into weird shapes… I still think it’s pretty tasteless, but it was clearly someone’s idea of satire. It felt like a big deal back then, but these days it would be nothing more than a bad meme.

It’s a comic from 2011. Here’s the source: https://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/

It’s been a terrible launch and there are still major issues that need fixing. Too little content, bad progression system, bad matchmaking system, mostly boring skill tree for loud… But I’m still having a lot of fun with it despite all of that. I wanted more out of a finished game, but at least most of the heists that it shipped with are interesting and fun. 99 Boxes can go to hell.

Payday 3. Having fun learning the heists when matchmaking actually works, but it’s been a bumpy launch.

SPEEDO SPEED BOY. WIND IS ON MY FACE!

Porkbun, mostly for the cost, transparency, clean UI, and ease of use.

I’ve used GoDaddy, namecheap, and Google Domains in the past. GoDaddy is the only one I had a problem with, but Google sold to Squarespace recently, and I prefer porkbun to namecheap for the reasons listed above.

You can say last filter instances with the “Connect” app if you’re on Android. Currently my favorite client compared to Jerboa, Sync, and Thunder.

Same, except with sports teams, communist subs, furry content, and “rule” memes.

Also the Prigozhin news yesterday occupying every third post because there are multiple posts on multiple communities across every instance highlights one of the big drawbacks to aggregation imo.