As stated in the article for anyone who missed it: it's still available on GOG and is DRM free there. It's also currently discounted to $4.99, so if anyone is worried about having (legal) access to the game then that option is still available (for now).

Boring straight white cisgendered man with regular hair and no facial piercings here: stop trying to normalize your shitty opinions by pretending like everyone thinks them. We don't.

Learn how to cook, go on some camping trips. You'll learn a little bit of self-sufficiency and get a break from society.

Take care of your mental health. The first thing that breaks down in a disaster is usually your mental state.

Discuss your emergency plans with the people that you would be including in them. Know where you're staying if you need to hunker down and know where you're going if you need to leave.

At the end of the day if there's a full economic collapse there's not much you can do except survive and take care of yourself and those you love. A total economic collapse means your money won't be worth anything, your investments will go to zero, and your best bartering chip is going to be food/water over a chunk of gold.

Texan here: we barely get to vote on shit at all. And they're gerrymandering to make it even harder.

I'd call Texas a clown car but it's too big to qualify.

My fix has always been: that's fine! They go off on their own adventures. Now please roll a character that's going to play the game we're running here tonight.

I love Tony's, but they're also reportedly higher in lead content than other brands.

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

Valrhona is a solid non-American brand pick from the list of safer chocolate and they're B-Corp certified. I believe their parents company is French.

When it comes to chocolate you're often forced to pick your poison, so to speak.

Rural dwelling pedant here: Dollar General is not a dollar store. Dollar Tree is, but Dollar General is a garbage store with regular-ass prices. They only stock shit and the prices are often higher than regular grocery stores.

It's the only food store my town has and it sucks so bad. At least Dollar Stores are affordable.

They're also extremely sweet creatures when hand raised. They'll come running and want to be picked up and everything. Eating them or having them die is awful.

You don't have to, you can just look at this one. It's a visual experience.

So sick of Nintendo doing stuff like this. Releasing the GBA SP and requiring a dongle to use headphones? What if I need to charge during a session of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance? This will never catch on.

I'm a pretty avid old video game enjoyer and own multiple CRTs. Also had the pleasure of owning and maintaining a 19" Sony PVM until I traded it to a friend for a mountain of GBA games. Still keep a 13" hooked up for the occasional VHS or old game.

That said, I feel like a lot old sentiment toward emulation and modern display tech is rooted in internet opinions from 2010 or prior.

Yes, older and cheaper LCDs with a Bluetooth controller on old emulation tech pales in comparison to a Super Nintendo hooked up to the cheapest CRT ever. But both display tech and emulation tech have come a long way. High quality upscalers, ultra deep blacks, low latency game modes, insane refresh rates, FPGA, Retroarch run-ahead, cycle accurate emulators, and a dozen other breakthroughs have made retro gaming on modern panels extremely enjoyable.

You can take it from my cold, dead, cheese covered hands!

Beans and rice is the real answer here, +1 to this

Lots of meals are cheap but few will also fill you up.

I have an i5 with a 1660Ti hooked up to this same tv. And an i9/4080RTX laptop that I do I lot of gaming on. Also a Steam Deck to the right of the Xbox.

I just thought it was cute and fun :)

That's way too clever for me lol, her name is Sushi.

I suspect it's a quest for treats...

I found a Pi Hole blocklist that filters out known ai slop websites but even then they're still clogging up my DDG result. Such a pain.

Also: Phantasy Star is great! Have you played the Sega Ages release? It adds some really cool stuff to make it more playable.

I've been on and off with Linux for about 15 years and just want to counter some of the people trying to troubleshoot or criticize to say: it can be really tough.

We need our computers to work and we expect things to function correctly.

I've used dozens of distros over the years. I was a super early Arch adopter, mained Gentoo for about three years, ran my own BSD server for programming projects, and still maintain several small home Linux servers. And even I sometimes want to pull my hair out trying to get semi-new hardware working right in my distro of choice. I spent three hours today fighting Nvidia and sound drivers and eventually just had to give up on that machine after being told that what I want just flat out isn't supported in Linux on the hardware I have.

Take a breath, set it aside until you're ready to take another crack at it, and know that it's a journey. You'll get there or the software will catch up and meet you halfway. No shame in being frustrated :)

I bought a new TV last year after my Hisense kicked the bucket and had a similar experience.

Not sure if it applies to your situation, but I just factory reset my TV, never enabled wifi, and hooked up a smart device I had lying around (Nvidia Shield). Now it all works great and if the smart functions upset me I can throw just the smart TV part in the trash and go back to my VCR.