What's brown and rhymes with snoop? ::: spoiler spoiler Dr. Dre :::

Reminds me of the dwarf psychic that escaped from prison, i.e. a small medium at large

Apex enshitification

In my neck of the woods "thank god for this people crusher, I love it when my government crushes people and I will continue to vote for whichever candidate promises to crush the most people" is a depressingly common sentiment 😞

I recently had a hankering to play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Because the game is so old and buggy, and because I'm running Linux, it took a lot of patching and tweaks to get running. Probably took around 4 hours, because you can't tell which random fix someone posted a decade ago will work until you try it. It was a very authentic experience of gaming in the early 2000s, and the struggle made playing the game all the more fun.

I think this capacity for "productive discomfort" has an older name that feels almost out of date. It's patience

Fuck. Most of the problems in my life seem to be addressed by the most simple and difficult things I've heard a thousand times, yet fail to adequately incorporate into my life ("patience is a virtue", "drink water & eat vegetables", "stay active" etc.)

Oh jeez, I should've considered that before posting, I can hear mod sirens in the distance 😰

Ah, well if it isn't the reason we can't have nice things reminder of the impermanence of possessions & the profound joy of companionship

Ah, the perfect response to "are you having a boy or a girl?"

Do you have a source on this? It'd be great ammo for convincing my associates to ditch the platform

"If not sun, why sun colored?" I imagine a sun lamp would be like a sleep ray for cats!

Thank you for creating fun hole content

Gah, she's so little oh my god! Maybe I'm projecting a bit from my own situation, e.g. Here's Fiona demonstrating couch scratching technique next to the couch she scratched (unrelated scratching post in the corner).

Thank you for your post, Hazel looks a lot like Fiona The highlight of my day is the iced coffee my wife made for me for my drive to work. I have a software development job where the lack of direction is anxiety inducing. Today I was able to work for about 10 minutes before I hit a dead-end (unreproducible bug, no logs) now I'm waiting to hear back on scheduling a call with the customer and browsing Lemmy until I get to go home. I feel insane pretending to look busy so that digital currency can be moved from one column to another, and in turn the global economy decides that I am allowed to have food, housing, and healthcare (USA).

If I was on windows I'm sure the unofficial patch would've done it all, but in linux I had to use a couple of virtualisation tools I'd never heard of (whereas every game I've tried from this decade runs out of the box with Proton). The most hair-pulling step was that I had to run the game via a symlink because if the full path to the executable was too long it'd crash to desktop before I even got to hear the menu music. God bless the protondb commenter that figured that out.

How might I find people nearby that would like to join, and then coordinate details? Knocking on doors has gone poorly.

I agree, that's why I was hoping for something that would work well in-browser: no additional download required. It's me: the lonely bored person that wants something to do. I've tried going door to door, but people around here haaaate that.

I prefer optimistic nihilism, such as John keats' epitaph "Here lies one whose name was writ in water". ashes to ashes dust to dust, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning, same as it ever was etc.

Ahh, such a great community we have.