Why is Obama doing the milkin'?

I tried Mastodon and I just couldn't do it. But I don't use Twitter either. I've been using Lemmy/BeeHaw for 10 minutes and it already seems like a drop-in, minimal learning curve to reddit. this looks super promising!

I'm in this picture!

I finally found a way to end my inability to stop playing WoW after 18+ years of it. I didn't consider myself "addicted" - as I am able to maintain career & family, it was more about it meant I didn't play any other game. I ended the issue by requesting a "private information removal" - which hard-deletes every aspect of your entire battle.net account. Gone. 13,000 hours and it feels great. I also don't feel like I "lost" anything. When you see a 2 hour movie, but then you leave the theatre when it's over - do you regret spending 2 hours? No, you don't.

AAAAnd the very next act I took was to make a new Battle.net account to play Diablo4. The wheel of time, and all.

In other thoughts, I don't expect D4 to be forever, and I look forward to smaller/indie games on Steam. Looks like I need to try Dwarf Fortress, RimWorld, and others.

On a related note, my father had a triple bypass this morning. He's fine and recovering. But last week they (parents) were talking about family history and connecting all the dots about WHY this happened, and it took everything in me to not mention that his chronic obesity might be a factor.

I promise I don't desire to be a corporate apologist, but that "predatory" seems a bit extreme when it's ALL cosmetic stuff. Totally optional, and NONE of the game content is behind those transactions.

The company isn't an angel by any means, but this game is pretty darn good.

I used a Rasberry Pi 4 to make a pi-hole ad blocker. I then learned you could just plug in a harddrive to it (USB) to make a very simple NAS. I bought an SSD to USB case/adapter, and with basic tutorials online I now have a network drive. To reiterate, I have no programming skills. Both the pi-hole and now the NAS were from copy-paste command line walkthroughs.

It's not a fancy "NAS" as far as redundancy or backup, but now all 4 of the gaming PCs (wife and kids have their own) can connect to the same drive for sharing stuff. I also use it to manually back up all our photos/videos. I love it.

I said similar wherever this was what posted earlier, but yeah, even if you replace beef with poultry there's a considerable difference.

These types of stories partially led to us switching seat from beef. I'll still get it at restaurants, but almost never buy beef (or pork) for groceries. Small steps!

On topic, can someone clarify if/why IGG is bad?

They seem to have quite the following and popular on 1337x. Not a joke/troll, genuinely curious.

Valheim was freaking incredible. We jumped in during the massive wave of popularity it got, and I was instantly addicted. My KIDS (10 and 7) played as well, with and without me. In fact, the 10 yr old made villages that surpassed my 'home'. I think it was 200 hours before I was able to peel away from it. Again, amazing experience.

But this is the correct way to do it!

Is IGG that bad? Not that this counts as "evidence" to the contrary, since it was IGG saying it, but on some random comments section (also in 1337x) IGG was rather adamant that it's all unfounded and their stuff is clean.

again, to be clear, I'm not educated on the matter in either case, and I typically stick to FitGirl.

what's wrong with erythritol?

I still remember this being an option in SimCity, late 90s version? The "disaster" event was the laser beam missing, and cutting lines through your city and starting fires. I'm sure Sierra's technology hasn't influenced the real thing though.

or maybe they lived down there as seapeople for a few years?

exactly. there's a word for it, for sure, but the idea that a sadder story existing means we can't talk about a more unique one too?

Like so many others that have chimed in from similar posts - I LOVED my windows phone. the UI was just so good. But yeah no apps.

I'll come out and say that I see it as a good thing. I'd rather not another "Skyrim" that lasts 12 years and can't move on. I also can appreciate a story that "ends" to get my rpg -closure as well.

I prefer my urine fresh, thank you.

1. I made a "cave" under the basement stairs. I completely closed in the normal opening that people make into a closet. Then I cut a hole in the drywall that goes under the stairs. Finally, I installed a whole-wall cabinet, except that ONE of the doors actually opens to the hole, Narnia-style. Kids love it. And me...

2. in office, used more cabinets to make computer station for my and wife's PC. Single piece counter all the way. l installed PC towers in 12" cabinets. Ventilation you say? I cut holes in the wall, install 140mm noctuas, and tie then to PC. So when PC turns on, whole cabinet exhausts to basement stairwell behind wall.