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Going to second that rec for Citizen Sleeper. It’s definitely a good follow up for Disco heads and perfect on a Steam Deck.

Just started Persona 3 Reload. As a longtime fan of the series, I do find it a little strange. Everything is laid out exactly as it was when this game came out on the PS2, but it’s all shiny and high rez. They didn’t take the opportunity to redesign much at all, so you see stuff like the interior of the dorms that feels very much like a 2000s era video game building interior where the ceiling is unrealistically high on each floor because they didn’t know how to program a camera back then, but again, super modern textures and lighting on top of that. It reminds me a little of those YouTube videos by like beginner game devs who import a bunch of Nintendo assets into Unreal engine and label it like 4K realistic Mario or something. Thankfully the UI sells the authentic experience.

But boy, did they overhaul the main dungeon and combat. That shit is smooth as hell and just as engaging as Persona 5. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the new vocalist so far. She just doesn’t give the battle theme the swag it used to. Something about the way she over-pronounces “baby, baby” bugs me, I guess lol.

I can zone out and do cardio, but I don’t have the discipline for weights.

You mean the military that’s been failing to hit all its recruitment goals for years?

Goddammit, I need to watch On Cinema.

Tim Buckley is not nearly relevant enough for his pedo ass to be memory holed. People just forgot him like they forgot what they ate for lunch last Thursday.

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Can’t do that without outing the entire staff to ICE, unfortunately.

Figures. I went to the LA Hands Off rally anticipating liberal cringe, especially after reading their list of goals. Saw plenty of it in the attendees, but was actually surprised at how many of the speakers called out Democrats in front of a crowd full of mostly “blue no matter who” types.

It’s objectively a good thing that at least some of the vast amounts of e-waste out there is getting repurposed, but it’s also funny as fuck that US tech companies are already in scavenger mode over China’s halted exports.

Kind of hard to think of a use case for this. Not sure I’d ever trust a piece of tech that big, heavy, and expensive to just transport me into unpaved wilderness far from any of the resources it runs on.

I know way more people who would at least attempt to save my life in an emergency than I think are genuinely good people. But I do actually think that’s part of identifying a decent person. Empathizing with someone suffering in front of you and wanting to help is such a low standard for empathy that even untrained animals sometimes pass this bar. Empathizing with living things more broadly and outside of your personal bubble is a task that’s apparently too much to ask of most people I’ve met. Good way to gauge this is to get someone talking for a bit about the unhoused population of their hometown.