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Everspace 2 mostly, it's hard to believe there was a time when space shooter was a full genre in PC gaming, and it just melted away.

Anyway the game is fun, you fly around and shoot things, there's a story that seems mostly harmless. Not good, but it's mostly out of the way so you can explore the sectors and slowly level up while working toward buying a new ship. It's like a Diablo mixed with a freespace. There's not a huge variety of gear, probably like twelve guns, and 10 missiles. There is some fun gadget abilities to find that give you some neat abilities, like healing or pulling enemies together. Each ship has a unique super move too which is fun.

Mostly just killing time. I finished disco Elysium a few weeks back and that was amazing. I'm trying to build up the energy to commit to another rpg but it's hard to focus that much.

Wow the thing that everyone who had some knowledge of the behind the scenes dealing was going to happen happened? Well let's be glad they werent admitted in index funds super prematurely, you know the investments that pension plans and such often heavily invest in. Oh wait they somehow altered the rules so it would be a bigger payday for Elon Musk?

Wow the system is real and not fake and totally not rigged to help the already wealthy acquire more wealth while constantly not pulling the rug out from under everyone else.

I'll probably keep watching it, hoping they capture some of the battles well (mostly the mud fight one, and the dragon battle at the eye). But the second season was weird.

Yeah but these smooth brained ghouls are fucking weird.

Where do you want to live? In a cozy long house where a community takes care of each other?

Or in an arena where it's dog eat dog and you have to fight each and every day to stay alive?

And they'll proudly say that the arena life would make them feel more alive or some bullshit that would find them dead within the end of the week of arena life.

I just hit 40 and while it's not normal or typical, I've had the worst year of my life. More and more chronic pain. I work a physical job so its not because of sedentary lifestyle either. My stomach has basically collapsed (constant daily pain that my doctor doesnt know how to treat and referrals to gastro specialists refuse to see me) my food options are extremely limited and thinking about eating depresses me horribly; my feet and legs are sore after a single shift when I could go a day or two before they ached. My shoulders ache every morning, my back is sore constantly. I spend about an hour every day stretching to make things manageable and keep the pain at bay, but sometimes something gives and I'm in horrible pain for about a month while it slowly heals (this is often complicated because I have to keep working while in recovery which likely slows it down or outright prevents proper healing).

I don't know how I'm expected to keep this up for another 30 years. I have a family history of many cancers as well, so I'm sure I'll catch one of those shortly, my eyesight has never been good. And if I'm lucky I might get rheumatoid arthritis from my mom which would basically make work impossible. My mantra these days is to simply try and take it one day at time. Because thinking about the future makes me feel bad.

Meat it's not on the menu for very long it seems.

Vegetarian ascendance at hand.

As someone who works retail in these stores. It's overblown bullshit. They're still making record profits. This is a puff piece to try and get some sympathy for retail owners who are currently one of the most reviled entity in Canada.

They pushed self checkouts hard, cut hours for everything, and then they're shocked when thieves take advantage of that?

My store went from having two entrances that were mostly unguarded, to a fucking "1984" built perimeter fence with wheel locking shopping carts if you don't take the cart through a till properly. We are expected to spider wrap Lego sets and appliances and half of cosmetics and baby. They spend probably over hundreds of thousands of dollar to install security theatre bullshit instead of simply just having staff on the floor working who would mitigate most theft by having a presence there.

And I repeat, grocery stores continue to make excellent profit despite numbers that reveal people are buying noticeably less stuff (because they increased prices so damn much).

I'm sure this will get the "progressive" lib to turn on him finally right?

Yeah, but by believing in things you open yourself up to trying to change the world, and that is the most dangerous thing ever for centrist libs.

It turns out when most of the world shrugs and does the opposite of reducing emissions that things don't get fixed.

China is basically the only country taking it seriously, and meanwhile the west is simply increasing fossil fuel extraction while causing wars over this shit.

it's the only way for the future.

it looks so terrible I can't believe trump is making a mockery of the institutions of presidential power.

so you're going to tear that shit down and make it look decent after you've removed him from power.

removed him from power? That sounds an awful lot like the kind of move a republican would do. We Democrats would never stoop so low.

but you are going to at some point win again right?

Like you aren't just going to leave that ostentatious crap up just because technically an American president had it built so you have to respect the office by leaving it in place.