Games I have played and recommend:

Inscryption (-60%, $8) is fun if you are looking for an easier Slay the Spire (roguelite deck builder) with escape-room-style meta-puzzles

Doom Eternal (-75%, $10) blazes a new trail for the stale FPS genre and is a great game to use to learn flickstick

Into the Breach (-50%, $7.50) I LOVE this game but also find it really really stressful because you have to play perfectly in order to have a chance against the final boss. Every turn is basically like solving one of those chess puzzles.

Games I’ll be picking up:

CrossCode (-70%, $6) is some kind of hexbear favorite but I’ve never played it

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (-85%, $6) - I really loved the first one as a modernized Half-Life 2, although have heard this one is not quite as good

Sonic Mania (-75%, $5) - this is apparently a retro-styled sonic game made in the modern era; I’ve never played a sonic game before but loved Pizza Tower, so looking forward to this

There is a lot of national labs work focusing on this these days, basically doing really high-tech quality assurance to audit that the chips ending up in military hardware are what they expect. Was approached for one of these jobs but turned it down. The work is super interesting & unique and the people involved were very bright and would have been great to work with, but I couldn’t stomach the idea of spending my life and creative efforts auditing a chip that goes into a missile to ensure it isn’t deterred from its unimpeachable goal of ripping the bodies of Palestinian families to shreds.

they will get this and accomplish absolutely nothing I LOVE CENTRIST PARTIES

I do a stupid sport that has a high death rate. However, my public attitude toward it is “this is risky and stupid and you probably shouldn’t do it” not “aTCUally if you look at this super special cohort of people who act perfectly it is not risky but super cool actually, you should all join in” anyway have some existential humility

Not eating vegetables 200 micromorts

Drinking once a week 100 micromorts

Hate doing cardio 500 micromorts

Riding a motorcycle 27,000 micromorts

Bad sleep hygiene 300 micromorts

someone who is good at risk management please help me budget this i am going to die in two years

yes, it is more dangerous than cycling.

In places like southeast asia where the mopeds take over the road in swarms and there are only a couple cars that are not the dominant vehicular life form it is much different.

you came into a thread about how a lot of motorcyclists died and now are complaining about how condescending it is to be told that what you are doing is unsafe

if it’s literally a matter of not being able to afford it then fine, but if you can afford it you are trading a very, very large amount of risk to save that money.

if he succeeded in convincing you that would have done more for your long term health and risk of death than literally any other intervention so I don’t blame him for trying

I know a lot of medical providers and they see a lot of mangled bodies from motorcycle accidents.

this friend has less regard for your continued survival than a hitman on a fat contract to shoot you in the head

Not trying to be a pick me ass millennial but holy shit the millennial generation has been a fucking appalling disappointment. So many terrified articles written by boomers when we were coming up in our early 20s about how much things were gonna get shaken up. Then seeing 95% of my cohort become clueless tepid shitlibs at absolute best who are constitutionally incapable of imagining even a slightly better world.

Anyway the idea that politics would naturally drift left with generational change was brutally murdered by first millennial presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his unbelievably crackertacular high high hopes dances.

The only piece of advice I would give younger people is don’t listen to your elders, especially about politics. They are housebroken pieces of shit.

Man declares board game to be over now that he’s winning

all I remember from reading the foundation series when I was 14 years old is that he uses the exact same plot twist in like three separate books

The only good thing about this is how incontrovertibly it demonstrates that the dems are totally unworthy of your vote, even to fairly clueless liberals.

watching him stand squinting and sweating outside in a middle eastern climate is always a treat

half the people say it was a psyop and the other half say it was legit and he is not a great guy

Not really, there isn’t any opposition to it. Mostly people just don’t know about it.

Statement by the Communist Party of Kenya: https://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/unmasking-rutos-betrayal-and-mobilizing-kenyas-sovereignty-and-justice

Thanks for the rec OP, just picked up a copy! Hopefully I can convince other people to play it with me. I’ve also been playing Spirit Island recently which is a lot of fun.

Yes electoralism is a fuck but if bowman loses I will be pretty demoralized. I guess it will at least be a pretty clear indefensible example of the dems being shit that I can bring up to the libs in my life on a level they can understand. Let’s replace this young progressive black house member with a random 70-year-old white dude. Hillary Clinton endorsed him!