I swear “quietly” is the new “slams”.

They all have cousins, so…

Being an entomologist would be sweet as hell. You walk into the lab on a Tuesday morning and Jerry, a gray-bearded researcher with spectacles and a friendly demeanor is like, “Hey, come over here, Kevin. Come look at this bug.”, and you go over there and see the coolest fucking bug.

I imagine he spent the entirety of the ban raging like Dennis Reynolds and counting down the days. “IDIIIOOOTS! IDDDIIIIOOOOTSS!!!”

Apologies if this sub is German only, as I only speak English, but Gothic 2 remains to this day one of the most meaningful and impactful RPGs that I’ve played in my life. The atmosphere was both sad and mysterious, and the soundtrack was remarkably beautiful. It still accompanies me regularly.

I didn’t care for the direction the series and it’s mechanics took in Gothic 3 and onward, but I’m pleased that I can always return to 1 and 2 to relive the experience Piranha Bytes had crafted.

Something about this sentence really makes me want to be a pirate. Like a lot.

The stress was a bitch. I work full-time in a grocery store and had a wife and newborn isolated at home every day. Not only was I constantly exposed to the public, but every little symptom or perceived symptom (lot of psychological/false positive over two years) would get the anxiety brewing inside of me, fearing I would eventually bring it home and potentially lose one of them. Every wet cough out of that kid would keep me up at night. This got a little better as the pandemic went on, and I wouldn’t say I was in a constant state of paranoia, but fuck me if it wasn’t a slice of Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride.

You could argue my wife has it worse, though, being isolated at home with a baby for so long with little to do over the long Canadian winters. It definitely wasn’t how she imagined mat leave would be.

I was Lawful Neutral, but gave my monitors to my wife in exchange for a better single monitor. Nothing special, just a 27" Samsung w/ a high refresh rate and richer blacks that I found difficult to achieve with my old monitors. I found that I rarely (if ever) used both of them. Only while looking up information in MMOs like Classic WoW, but I play those so seldom these days that I’m getting a lot out of a single.

Yeah, both Messenger Lite and Facebook Lite are fucked. Post a photo or video on Facebook Lite and it’s guaranteed to be blurry piece of shit. If it’s shot horizontal, it’s going to be low-res vertical with letterboxing on the top and bottom. I have to hop on the main app just to post a discernable video for my family.

If I didn’t live on the other side of the continent and Facebook were my only real lifeline to my friends and family, I wouldn’t use it at all anymore. But now there’s this sunken-cost fallacy shit on top of it all, and how I get daily memories from the deceased like my father and grandmother. “Hope you’re having fun in Canada, love you, Gram”. Some of these messages are still applicable today, and I don’t know how to separate from that.

I’ve switch primarily to DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine. The results are akin to what Google once produced.

If Sync Pro ever works with Lemmy I’ll be so happy. Everyone is mourning Apollo and I’m over here feeling like I’m attending Sync’s funeral alone.