What to care about today?

A social issue? The inadequacy of public education in lower income areas? The under-representation of nonwhites and women in certain fields? The increased anxiety and decreases cognitive function measured in Gen Z?

Something political? Like the pedophiles in charge of the nation? The pillaging of our national coffers by corporate interests? Or the immigration gestapo disappearing citizens and putting children in cages? Or maybe more seriously: the ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs or the Palestinians? Perhaps Putin's war on Ukraine?

Perhaps something more existential? The loss of pollinators such as bees and other flying insects? The currently-ongoing mass extinction event and loss of biodiversity? The almost certain rise in seawater temperatures? The increasing frequency and intensity of severe weather events and drought?

I think I'll get a little meta about it amd care about how little politicians seem to care about any of these things, and how little power I have to make a genuine positive influence on the world during my brief time in it.

I liked playing games on my gameboy, but long gone are the simple days of "insert cartridge, turn on, play". Even the 3DS is kinda bloaty and games dont really feel luke they were designed for the medium.

I liked playing games on my N64 and xbox, but now that I know about modding games it's hard to live with the QoL issues that I know could be fixed.

I liked playing games on my PC, but windows gets worse each generation and finally I had to switch to Linux, where even minor changes take hours. Some people love when their computer has a problem because it gives them something to do -- they get to fix it. I have enough to do, I'm just trying to play games.

I feel like I've been elbowed out of the past time. The user experience is so poor that I end up unhappier for trying. I guess I'll buy a dart board?

Loved Fallout 3 Loved Metro 2033 Lovef Horizon: Zero Dawn

I'm big into lore and atmosphere, not huge into resource collecting and base building.

Gotta be 1st or 3rd person, I'd like to feel like an explorer. Any thots?

The lighter syrup was a simple syrup with pureed cucumber that sat in the fridge for half a day, then got strained. I used powdered sugar because that's what I had.

The darker syrup was made by pureeing and straining a cucumber, then bringing that juice to 145° while mixing in Sugar in the Raw.

A bartender warned me about heating the vegetables and giving it a "soupy" taste, and they had a point. The immersion syrup is less sweet and more watery, but has a more refreshing cucumber flavor. The heated syrup is sweeter, but doesn't have that fresh crispness. Both are okay but neither are great.

Basically a gin sour.

• 2 parts gin
• 1 part lemon juice
• 1 part cucumber simple syrup that I made using powdered sugar instead of normal sugar because that's what I had laying around
• mint garnish

A summery drink to celebrate another summer conquered (desertposting).

Corpse Reviver No. 2 with a bit of orange.

• 1 part gin
• 1 part Lillet (or Cochi)
• 1 part Cointreau
• half part lemon juice
• half part orange juice
• absinthe rinse

Honestly, it is better without the orange. Usually I do 3/4 part lemon juice to keep it from tasting like an expensive gin sour.

Sausage!

For how long must light be emitted for a human eye to perceive it?

• Would a person notice a flash of light that lasted 10 ms?
• Does the intensity of the light matter?
• How much light is a photon, anyway? Does is take thousands or trillions of photons interacting with the eye to register as light?

1am where I live and I'm wondering

Hopefully this will cause the software and game development industry to optimize their programs as intensly as they did 30 years ago. I assume that upper management types have largely forgotten the value of having a quality product, and that subsequently the time allowed for QA and optimization has shrunk in order to ship the product quicker. The ease of patching has made it worse. Hoping to see some more competent coding in the future.