This combined with local drought for quite a few years now followed by more rain in a month than we typically got in a year caused an insect population explosion, locally. I’ve not seen so many insects in quite awhile.

It’s still like a tenth of what I remember as a kid in the 90’s :(

Haven’t witnessed a locust swarm since like 2002.

…remembering the disgusting camper van grill cleaning job at every gas station 🤮 baked on insect guts and gibs.

It’s still a pretty big exception since I play a lot of games every year and increasingly less AAA (actually, looking at my legit libraries and Faugus Launcher/pirate folder, it’s been roughly 85% indie the past few years. Jesus. That’s both perfectly fine with me and sad about the state of gaming corps), but my overall consumption rate hasn’t slowed.

idk about everyone else but that was the year 2001 when my family got cable internet. I’ve never paid for anything streaming, I’m against subscriptions more strongly than most people admittedly, so I actively avoid them and it changes my hardware buying habits too if there’s paywalled things like online play for example. Consoles are dead to me now. 360, PS4, then the Switch. Now they get none of my money, I bought used and piracy modded them.

idk about better service. I was never convinced by that idea. I was still going to video and game rental stores until they shut down to my dismay, I don’t really get why everyone decided streaming was better, the quality and selection sure fucking wasn’t good and now it’s all fractured cross a bazillion competitor streaming services with exclusive content. Still would go to a rental shop today. I kinda do, my local library. But they have less selection/carrying capacity than my favourite gigantic Video Headquarters shop did. RIP. I despise shitty streaming bitrates even when I’m pirating I opt for an optical disc rip over a rip from a streaming site whenever possible. With Stremio and a debrid service I can stream 4K HDR bluray rips for $5 a month. Pfffff.

Music I buy vinyl and Bandcamp is convenient. I buy more than I pirate. Was the reverse when I was younger.

Games I often buy from GOG first if they have what I’m looking for, then Steam but I buy from 3rd party key shops…the legit ones like Green Man Gaming and such. For awhile barely pirated new. Then CAD dropped and prices eben in USD went way up with bullshit addons and season passes. Now I pirate more again especially if it’s not multiplayer. I don’t pirate anything indie (not just games) tho, personal rule.

China has been indebting a lot of Africa building stuff all over the place longer than Trump has been around, doesn’t get talked about very much. I only knew because I watch a few full time travel vloggers.

Your penis mites got it rough, dayum.

Pretty brutal life getting scalded, mushed, and drowned in lotion whatever.

Years ago one of my older cousins was looking after me and had a cabinet full of various hot sauces. Decided to challenge me to try all of them with crackers and see if either of us would give up. Neither of us gave up 😤. Da Bomb I remember quite well. Mean on its own. Taste not great, heat hits immediately with no build up. I can see why Hot Ones keeps using it lol.

Yes but also MAAADE IN GEEEORRRGIAAAA

That’s interesting, I wasn’t sure if it was like bagged milk not being a country wide thing.

It’s just shorthand for Homogenization. Idk why we only call 3.25% milk fat homo milk however. Might not apply to anyone east of Manitoba either.

Let’s check back in 50-100 years and see what’s more expensive.

Ooh now I can boycott it because of Israel too!

Yeah I don’t like him but Diplomacy with the Mad King bordering our middle power land needs to be considered too.

6 is terrible. Maybe best Capcom forgets it exists.

I’m not a series fan myself. I like GTA 3 and 4 the most and it’s entirely down to tech novelty and in the context of my age at the time. I was 11 when 3 came out and 18 when 4 came out.

4 was my favourite at the time because of the game engine and car physics. 5 disappointed me because they neutered the cars and I didn’t like the character hopping bank heist story that kept taking all my money away for story related reasons.

I’ve tried replaying 4 recently and got bored DNF’d so yeah idk if it holds up especially well.

Cut to present day and we got Rockstar who is a giga rich anti union corporation making a satire game about a country in which satire is dead. In a series they’ve not added a new game to since the PS3 generation because multiplayer became the golden goose. I don’t have the highest hopes.

Reading that, my mind goes to a scene from Honey I’ve Shrunk The Kids when the girl is nearly drowned in mud from the lawn sprinkler system 😅

I can’t remember a year with more rain all at once like this. Farm fields looking dire.

Lazy! CachyOS sets up system snapshots and I could one click install gaming related packages. It’s not much really, I could install regular Arch instead but meh.

You’ve been very patient with this hostile git, commendable.

I think the AUR isn’t possible to keep using as-is so hopefully they come up with some sort of vetting process. Invite system like a private torrent tracker? Idk really.

I try not to use AUR. A few exceptions being the actual program developer maintaining the AUR repo and recommending that method for Arch users on their github page or whatever.