@Toribor
@corndog.ukI had a great time with Death Stranding even though at certain points the story was so dumb it actually made me angry.
I just imagine Kojima trying to explain to Mads about time travel rain that makes you old and babies that are half dead that can sense the ghosts so that you don't die because when you die you explode and that there are also lots of whales made out of goo and that Mads is a soldier but also a baby and then Norman Reedus--
All while Mads is wearing a mocap suit and nodding with a confused look. "So I stand here?"
"Yeah you stand there."
Comedy gold.
Tor was really struggling and I wasn't looking forward to learning how to use something else safely. I2P was such a massively huge improvement at least for my use case.
I never really cared about them tacking on a bunch of useless shit on top of Reddit. As a third-party-app and old.reddit user I kind of figured that if they monitized that piece and let me hang out in the underbelly then it wasn't really a problem. Why not have the normies subsidize the denizens of the old reddit, it's not like we aren't using adblock anyway.
But now that they've killed off the API it's only a matter of time before the come for old.reddit so I'm out before they get around to it.
I built out this GarHAge setup which uses magnetic reed switches for state detection. I've considered that a reed switch getting bumped might get it stuck in a loop of endlessly opening and closing though and tried to care for that possibility in my automations.
Really I just need to get an IP camera for piece of mind when I'm traveling. Even if the state detection is broken I can ensure that it's closed and disable the automation until I can repair it.
I think you've just described the nature of copyright law, which is effective in some ways and ineffective in others.
I've been using Home Assistant for a while but I don't have a ton of IoT devices so I don't have a ton of automations set up.
My most useful though is an alert that triggers when my garage door has been open for ten minutes, and then again every ten minutes after until it has been open for an hour when it will automatically close.
Accidentally left the garage door open all night at least twice before this and thankfully nothing happened but the automation has prevented this at least twice as well.
Also gives me peace of mind in case I accidentally open it when I'm away.
I've been DMing a Scum and Villainy campaign, a space opera based on the Forged in the Dark family of games.
My group has been playing a few different systems together for a couple years now and this might be the most fun we've had. They get to cruise around space stealing, smuggling and generally being a bunch of scallywags. The campaign setting is a really solid base that I've been building on top of and I have so many ideas for things I want to try.
I'm jealous of your 5E campaigns. My D&D group I play with has been on hiatus this summer so I haven't gotten to play much this year but I'm hoping we can start up something soon.
I loved my Asus graphics card... Until it died.
I also loved my Asus Android tablet... Until a hardware problem that made it slower over time even after reformatting it thus eventually making it unusable. (Technically Nvidia's fault I guess).
In theory their stuff is really great, but yeah I have definitely been burned by Asus in the past.
Gamefreak clearly isn't interested in evolving their formula very much. Each game is designed to be approachable for young children who are potentially playing Pokemon for the first time. So yeah, there is a lot of hand holding.
I've found myself hoping the same thing though, that maybe the franchise would grow up with me, but it doesn't look like it is going to happen. I expect that we'll have to mash the A button through the Pokemon catching tutorial until the end of time.