surrendertogravity

Yup, the same thing happened around the idea of “self-care” – it became a way to project an aesthetic, ended up being used as a way to sell people more stuff they don’t need, and now is more about “self-comfort” or pampering.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is surprised by this, or why it makes them have a negative opinion of Bethesda Game Studios.

I understood when they announced that TES VI was in development that it wasn't in active development at this time, but that the announcement was to quell the fanbase who thought TES had been entirely abandoned.

Skyrim took 3 years, Fallout 4 took 4 years, Fallout 76 took 3 years (but wasn't a mainline game), and Starfield took 5 years, which is the longest development time for mainline games by... one year, the horror, and it's an entirely new IP with space systems that I'm sure took additional time to develop engine-specific features to support. I anticipate TES VI will be a larger and more ambitious game than Skyrim and will be influenced by how they've developed Fallout 4 and Starfield, so seeing it release in 2028 with a 5 year dev time vs. Skyrim's 3 seems entirely reasonable.

Feeling comfortable in it as the driver, especially with the design of the front console and cup holders.

When I was shopping for my first new car ever, there were several cars that I thought I probably should consider (Honda Fit '16ish, Scion xB were a couple of them) but they just felt so uncomfortable sitting in the driver's seat. Now, I don't mean the seats themselves were literally physically uncomfortable, but the general environment of the driver's seat.

When I sat in a Scion iM it immediately felt right. The cup holders were accessible and not tucked under the console, the console itself felt clean and minimalistic, useful but unobtrusive. It also still has a turn-key start, rather than a button, and it's silly but that's important to me (and I also worry about being locked out of push-to-start cars should the key fob die). Got it at 30k miles and plan to keep on going for as long as I can take it into the 100k+ amount! Hopefully by the time I have to replace it, the electric and hybrid car options will have increased even more.

A little surprised no one has mentioned corn on pizza! I have a memory of being in a Sbarro as a kid and they had pizza with canned corn kernels on it and something about that just really grosses me out.

IMO it's quite good! especially when paired with banana peppers as well.

haha, came here looking for the saurkraut mention! in my hometown there was a gas station pizza place that offered saurkraut (and banana peppers) and I thought it was quite tasty. :)

Oh, sorry to hear that! I hope we both succeed in eradicating the nasty buggers.

From what I was reading, "sprays of certain systemic insecticides, containing imidacloprid or acetamiprid as the active ingredient, can also provide good control of all stages of brown soft scale." so that might be something to look out for.

I love Madeline Miller’s books set in Ancient Greece. The Song of Achilles is set during the Trojan War, and Circe explores several Greek myths through Circe’s perspective. The Song of Achilles definitely made me tear up at some points, and really made the inclusion of Patroclus and Achilles in the game Hades hit way harder for me.

It's something to do with the web sockets implementation in 0.17 - when any person on your instance subscribes to a community, the community's posts get added to the top of the web ui feed (possibly only if you're on page 1?). so if I'm on page 1 of new and someone subscribes to a self-hosted community, I'll be flooded with all the recent posts from that community as I'm scrolling through the feed.

should be fixed in 0.18 since web sockets are removed there, and it's also less of a deal on small instances as I said.

Sometimes I think about growing cucumbers just to be able to pick off the little white prickles on the outside; I always found it terribly satisfying as a kid!

I think it's reasonable to have an account on another federated server, especially if they're a smaller (sub 100 users) instance that requires applications. In my experience after switching to a smaller server, I was able to see a similar amount of activity on my feed by subscribing to a wide range of communities I'm even mildly interested in.

I like browsing by New and on Beehaw, it's a bit rough because I would see a lot of NSFW communities and have to constantly manually block them, and as it's a more active instance, I would run into the "person subscribes to new community and feed fills with those posts" bug very often. On the smaller instance, there's a lot of overlap between my subs and other users' subs in terms of content so New is still a pleasant browsing experience.

I really can’t tell - does it work on top of Markdown flat files or not? Based on the mention of an exporter, I’d guess not.

Part of the reason I moved from TiddlyWiki to Obsidian was to get my writing into plain text files, so anything that doesn’t interface with the OS file system is off the table for me from the get-go. (Part of the reason I care about this is so that I’m not locked into a specific app and can use VS Code to browse and edit as needed, or build a static site from my files, etc.)