I had so much fun with the first Kerbal game. One of my big achievements in gaming is an orbital docking. Nothing like doing actual rocket science to make you feel good. I hope NASA doesn’t get a rocket into orbit and realise they forgot their solar panels, battery or parachutes. Thank god for save files.

Depends on the crowd you’re out with but it is nice to see the younger generations drinking less. Got to be healthier for them.

Technical definition Drug- a substance which has an effect on the body. Ie literally everything you ingest.

Common parlance - a thing you take which has a medical or recreational effect. Ie paracetamol or weed.

Smoking (a drug) and alcohol (a drug) are common enough that they don’t count as drugs to most people so medics will usually ask smoking alcohol and drugs as 3 separate questions to cover all bases.

Socially acceptable drugs that are very common (tobacco and alcohol) Vs illicit drugs is usually the distinction being made, at least in the UK.

Does it get better? I watched the first 1 or two episodes but stopped because the first real decision the young black female hero makes for herself is to join up with a gang of criminals which felt really problematic to me.

Most suicides are spur of the moment things in execution. So the more steps it takes to complete suicide the more chances for reflection and regret and the less likely it gets carried out.

Compare the steps required from gun and overdose.

Gun: decide on firearm, retrieve from storage, load, shoot.

Drugs- decide on the drug of choice, find a source of the drug, purchase enough to complete suicide (tricky to judge with many drugs and expensive with things like heroin), often purchase alcohol as well, prepare drugs (if tablets pop them out of the packets or prepare the heroin), take drugs (if taking tablets probably going to be swallowing tablets for a good while).

In the UK we limit the amount of drugs you can buy at one time (like paracetamol, a common overdose choice) as the extra step of having to visit multiple shops or come back repeatedly reduces suicide rates.

A solid decade before Minecraft at least no idea where it came from.

I’ve only hallucinated when I was young and really feverish and sick. I was scared of “lava buckets coming up the stairs” according to my dad.

I work with people with delirium who commonly hallucinate, it’s often things like people or animals. Common things are small children and dogs for the nicest ones and spiders or aggressive people for the less nice ones. They also don’t realise they are hallucinating a lot of the time. Being unwell is hard.

It’s a great book but I dunno about boy meets girl. It’s more civilisation dies and is reborn a few thousand years later with the weird leftovers of the previous one.

Or did it have a romance I am forgetting?

Solovair make boots in the UK which are basically Dr Martens but still hand made. They are fairly light boots which can be resold and come in various styles.

I’ve had 2 pairs for a few years now and they are wearing beautifully. I’ve not had to re-sole them yet but it should be easily doable.

Democratic detonation has been one of the best for a long time. Gives you lots of different options in terms of loadouts. Not sure if it’s still considered best compared to the newer options though.

Hope.

Nice, that’s good to know. I know most gaming is not an issue due to proton these days.

I’ve got a hp reverb G2, which is windows mixed reality. I don’t think this one would work. The G2 is a pretty small user base compared to meta headsets.

I’ve got a hp reverb G2 which runs through windows mixed reality, which is helpfully not supported now anyway. It’s also one of the smallest user bases for vr I think. Have you heard anything about that headset? When I looked initially (ages ago to be fair) I couldn’t find much about it with Linux.

VR gaming support and I do play Helldivers 2 on occasion despite the ridiculous anticheat. My understanding is neither of those would work on Linux.

Though with proton and MS getting increasingly crap I am more and more tempted to make the switch.

Life outside of work. I’d love more time to spend with my wife and dog. Time to watch movies, play video games, hike, read, camp. Hell if I didn’t have to work so much I might actually do some strength training.

Good for you putting yourself out there.

Alcohol is not a healthy coping mechanism. It’s actually a depressant so whilst it removes your inhibitions and allows you to focus on other things for a while it overall makes you more down.

I love slay the princess, such a great game and a great story. A good one for video games as art.

I really enjoyed it but I found the pay off of all the meta stuff to be a bit lacking. The first section though was some of the best atmospheric game I have ever played. I especially didn’t appreciate needing to watch a couple of YouTube videos to “finish the story”. I did appreciate what it was trying to do and the first part of the game with Leshy was truly excellent.