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I wish my hippos were less hungry hungry
  • Granted. The goal of the game is now to eat the least amount of marbles. Nobody makes their hippos do anything and the game has turned into staring at unmoving plastic animals devoid of purpose. Somehow, its popularity outstrips all other sports and games. All televised sports are replaced with people staring at hippos. You find yourself in a tournament for charity. It never ends. You just stare at the hippos for what seems like eternity. What time is it? What day is it? How long has it been since the hippos hungered? Days? Weeks? Years?

  • I'm about 20 hours into Sea of Stars and it has grabbed me in the same way Chained Echoes did. I loved Chained Echoes so much.
  • Sea of Stars never caught me but I 100%ed Chained Echoes. Sea of Stars's combat was way too tedious because all the enemy animations were long to allow for the timing element. The stories are so different as well, especially tonally, and I just dug CE's so much more.

    Do you know what's making Sea of Stars work for you?

  • What game is a good starting point into the genre?
  • I cut my teeth during the snes era and highly recommend Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy 6, but if you're looking for just a taste of the genre then the best short jrpg I'd recommend for someone on the young side is Terra Memoria. I finished it 100% in 15 hours. You don't need a guide because there's an NPC that will tell you if you missed anything and send you right to it. It's light-hearted and the combat was just complex enough for the 15 hours without getting boring.

  • A Study Says Gray Hair May Be Reversible
  • I'm guessing you missed the one where somebody was complaining that money was going towards researching beetle sex before others chimed in with the useful applications that happened because things like that are studied.

  • BACK IT UP
  • GRAS can be self-affirmed by companies. It's a huge loophole.

    Also, the conditions chickens are raised and slaughtered in the US as well as its dependence on undocumented workers that will not jeopardize their jobs by reporting safety issues or contamination hazards are also really large problems.

    Our food supply has issues I would consider pretty gross and it's going to get a whole lot worse over the next few years.

  • ‘An AI Fukushima is inevitable’: scientists discuss technology’s immense potential and dangers
  • If by one, you mean the one with lung cancer that has died but not the 6 with cancer or leukemia that aren't dead yet, yeah, technically one so far. And we're ignoring the 16 not dead from hydrogen explosions, and the two that got radiation burns.

    As for the response, is it your opinion as an expert on nuclear science and disaster response that evacuation should not occur in the case of a level seven incident (highest possible) on the International Nuclear Event Scale? Are your multiple degrees even from accredited universities?

  • I wish my house cleaned itself

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    Hunting and fishing are for psychopaths

    I'm not talking about the consumption of animals here, to be clear. What I'm talking about is spending days and a bunch of money planning to kill something, doing the killing, and skinning/eviscerating what was killed, and often displaying the stuffed corpse. Hunters and fishers refuse to admit they're obsessed with taking pleasure in killing something.

    Miss me with the "tradition" stuff, it's just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don't tell me it's to eat, like I said, I'm not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point. And don't tell me you're respectful to the animals you kill; I don't believe the planning, stalking, and killing is a good way to show respect.

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    The Dead Salmon

    Inspired by https://www.farrow-ball.com/us/paint/dead-salmon

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    A cruciverbalist that I enjoy

    Looks like the hasn't made any crosswords for a while but the old ones are still available. Link goes to the themed ones and there's links to online versions in each post. Enjoy!

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    Knives go in the dishwasher and get sharpened with a pull through sharpener

    My tools serve me, not the other way around. It's not worth the time and effort to wash by hand or sharpen on a whetstone. I don't need an expensive knife to cook at home. A pull through sharpener and honing steel are adequate. Get the right material and you don't have to worry about the metal in the dishwasher.

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    Make blocked users not show up in inbox and profile views

    Blocking a user hides their content in comments, but it still shows up in inbox when viewing all as well as in comment chains in the profile view. It would be great if blocked users didn't show up in these places.

    Let me know if there's more info needed.

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    Rabid Wombat - Kaja Foglio

    I still remember this card and its artwork. Holy moly, the date on it is 30 years ago.

    The Foglios have been involved in quite a few projects over the years and it took a while for me to make the link between this card and Girl Genius.

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    Coop Board game Shadows of Brimstone

    boardgamegeek.com Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients

    Co-op dungeon crawl the monster-ridden Old West mines and frozen Targa otherworld.

    Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients

    Western setting where a new gold rush for dark stone pits gunslingers, lawmen, saloon girls, etc against tentacles, the undead, mutated gangsters, snakemen, and lost technology as they travel between worlds.

    It's coop and there are different missions, most of which have randomly generated maps that are created from a deck on you explore, giving it endless replayability. Characters gain experience, skill, and gear but also can become injured or mutate (nothing the church or surgeon in town can't fix for a price).

    It also has tons of expansions. While the physical games add up in cost and require a lot of organizing, you can give it a try on tabletop simulator.

    There's even a Japanese themed set that can combine with the Western ones.

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    Combat feels so slow

    When I was doing some cleanup and running into enemies in old areas, it made me realize how slow combat is and why. If you have timed blocks, it has to be slow to give players time to react to attacks, so every enemy attack animation ends up being long and they all add up.

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