I’m noticing your username and I’m thinking I know why we have different experiences

I uh think we maybe have had disparate Lemmy experiences but I’m curious to see the oddity you’ve found

Factorio!! This work week has been hell and I have a week PTO starting Monday. So time to put in some effort in an asynchronous multi-player game with a friend.

No Man’s Sky is doing a Halloween event, too, so I might play around in that to get some unique cosmetics. And the Expeditions usually have a tailored experience that’s always fun.

I’ve been playing Papers Please in the 30 min or so I have for gaming in the evenings lately. I might play more of that to see if I can get all the endings.

Unless the weather is nice. Then I’m going fishing.

No Man’s Sky or Elite: Dangerous might offer you a stellar exploration experience you would enjoy over Starfield.

No RPG elements in either, though.

Dang I really thought the title of this game was Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Won’t Let Indy Shoot Dogs for a hot minute I need to get some more coffee

Real granko of you to post this now

Men, women and everyone in between.

Also, crop tops kick ass in the summer. Breezy…

It’s all about attitude.

I got a belly and I get a lot of positive attention when I rock a crop top.

Ah Paradox is finding their model of releasing unfinished games and getting around to solving it later less appealing!

That is a little disappointing, actually, as Paradox made some damn good games this way. Crusader Kings 2, Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris were all made like that.

Facebook and it’s ilk are the reason I moved away from other forms of social media and internet community.

Working with them in any form seems like a great way to poison the waters if the fediverse.

There should be zero collaboration.

A zoo in Thailand. The hippo’s name is Moo Deng which translates to bouncy pork. It’s adorable.

It’s kinda cool to be living through Cold War 2, I bet my dad felt similar reading propaganda in his youth

Ads are hell. Political ads are another level. I do my best to avoid em whenever possible. It just sucks to dwell on the state of politics in the US.

I think the election getting closer does this. Especially among American Communists who are going to be perpetually frustrated by the DNC and RNC media getting pumped at them.

I sympathize, but it is kind of annoying. Tho I think they see it as a form of agitprop to put politically minded “humor” (in quotes because it often isn’t even funny, it’s just pointing out the disconnect between messaging and action of the parties) in the eyes of a typically non-political audience.

Life by You’s cancelation was a big disappointment to hear. I figured if any studio had an understanding of emergent intercharacter storytelling in the way a Sims game needed, it was Paradox.

That said, Para-Lives is still in the works and looks quite promising.

There’s still hope. Just not from EA.

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No, you’re right. They’re gross. They’ve been gross and remain gross.

I’ve got a flagship Samsung device from 2020. The screen has cracked in an unimportant way on the front and over one of the camera housings on the back, but I can’t even tell which camera is affected by it, so I guess I didn’t need that one anyway.

Hate the camera bumps. Sucks that those became standard.

I was looking into getting a new phone but it just seems like a waste of money.

The Huawei devices look good and for a fair price, but I can’t even get them in the USA. So… I guess I keep this?

The foldable looks kinda useful for reading and in use with a stylus, but they’re so much money… and I bet that thing gets dust in it and scratches easily.

Have phones gotten any new exciting features in a while?

I remember enjoying upgrading my phone in the aughts and early tens, but it seems like most devices have plateaued and they’re all pretty much the same now.

The exception being foldables, but I’m not really sure that’s something I want or would use fully.

No, we don’t have that kinda thing in the USA. Shame, though, sounds interesting.

We have “farmer’s markets” which can be a place where you buy direct from farmers for far below store prices, but more often than not it’s become a way for farmers or businesses that call themselves farmers to sell “artisanal” goods for far above store prices. These aren’t regulated by any government authority and while they had been a way to get quality produce for less by cutting out middlemen, they’ve been commercialized and have become another expensive way to get food. Although you can find some very high quality meats and other rarities at some that are hard to find elsewhere.