Journaling helps me to quiet my mind and organise my thoughts. It lets me track my mood and trends over time. I do some gratitude journaling which helps me to be more positive. I also use it for like annual review things looking at bigger picture things.

When I’m using my safety razor I do 3 passes. With the grain first to remove most of it then across and finally against the grain to get that really smooth shave.

Very hopeful ☺️ makes me thing that thing can get better even with the States and fossil fuel industry dragging their feet (or actively scrambling in the wrong direction).

I’m currently playing Demons souls remaster for the first time having started with the original back in the PS3 days. It looks how I remember it but has some lovely quality of life upgrades (hold down to select the first thing in your hotbar). It’s almost a comfort game for me at this point. It’s by far the easiest souls game, shields are OP in this and tanking behind one will see you through most things. Level ups all increase defence and soul farming is easy to do.

Oh hell yes!

Gonna brick it all over again.

I wonder if they will make the alien more aggressive this time. So much of the last one was less scary once you realised that walking basically made you invisible to the alien. Following it, 1 turn back, down a corridor was the safest place to be, usually.

Easily one of my favourite horror games, they really nailed the atmosphere.

On a larger scale yes very much so. It’s mushroom zombies which gives them some cool variants and interesting ways to have threat rather than just the shambling hoard.

On a small scale is about a journey made cross country in the apocalypse by two people and their relationship.

I’d recommend both the games, though the first is better, and the TV series as very enjoyable and worthwhile.

I have a Tilley hat already! Love it and it’s lasting really well. I didn’t know they did other stuff.

This is a great list. A couple to add:

Necromunda is an FPS which plays like Titanfall 2 in 40k, so excellent moment to moment gameplay, some really cool levels and set pieces highly recommended.

The proper old school Fire Warrior which is an FPS I played probably 15 years ago no idea if it holds up today.

If you have VR Battle Sister was pretty fun nothing special but holding and using a bolt gun up close was awesome.

The Kurzgesagt video about this is really, definitely worth a watch.

My guess is detail and economy of scale. Airsoft guns commonly use the design of a really world gun either licensed or legally distanced so can be very close to reality in looks. Airsoft is also quite a popular hobby so many manufacturers are involved. You are also looking at an M4 variant which is the single most popular Airsoft gun in the world. There are literally hundreds of variants running from cheap manual springs to high pressure air tanks and costing thousands. Prop guns are more niche, they are detail orientated and don’t need to function the same way. Maybe they make a pop and eject a case from the side of the gun which is more complex to do mechanically than send a little plastic bb out the barrel. There are less people buying each type of prop gun though so it will cost comparably more per item even if it technically doesn’t do as much.

I think your comment is more well thought out than the article. Very nicely written.

I’m sure your dad knew you loved them and would be happy you still remember them this fondly.

Well done! Try to keep at it for another month, a habit takes 3 months to set in. If you can manage for another month then you’ll likely continue doing it which will be great for your long term health.

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.