That’s a young man’s game. I did it back in my day. In fact it was introduction to Paradox Games with Crusader Kings 2. Eventually you get tired of all the futzing around making shit work properly and just decide to wait for a good sale.

Nope. Not money bags. I purposefully chose a used computer that was good enough to be better than my old desktop, but still running DDR4 so I could have a chance at finding some inexpensive RAM. Powerful enough for what I need it for, but not the newest or shiniest.

On my list but maaaan, triple A games are so bloody expensive now!

I’m so bad at Chess that even the Dr. Wolf Chess tutor app eventually gave up, patted me on the head, and used very small words to recommend I download a checkers app instead…

Any company that goes public and takes on Shareholders is immediately evil.

Once shareholders are involved, nothing else matters.

• Giving your employees a raise will make the shareprice rise slightly less than it would have? Fuck you…no raises.
• Providing Healthcare means a lower profit margin which will hurt the share price? Fuck you…die in a ditch.
• Paying a living wage means having to take something from the CEO’s bonus that year? Fuck you…that’s what food banks are for.

The moment shareholders enter the picture, by LAW, they become the only entity that matters. Corporations are legally required to increase shareholder profitability by any means necessary.

Welcome to Capitalism.

Played it and loved it. Didn’t find that it had a lot of replayability after the first two or three times through trying different things just to see what happened.

Ace Combat 7 is on my XBox wishlist. I’ll pick it up some day.

• EU4 = Europa Universalis 4
• HOI4 = Hearts of Iron 4
• KSP = Kerbal Space Program

I refuse to do the subscription. I play what I’ve got, and if there’s a massive sale, maybe I’ll pick up one or two down the road. But paradox subscriptions just feel icky to me for some reason. I’m old, I even still buy albums instead of streaming.

Bought on my XBox.

I always forget that Stellaris is sitting in my steam library as well. It’s like the forgotten stepchild of Paradox. It’s also the one that I have the least amount of DLC for since (even though I’m a sci-fi nerd), I’m a history nerd even moreso.

Old PC crapped the bed literally days after defeating the final Chosen on my way to the third act of the game. Hope my cloud save survived.

Hadn’t heard of it. Looked it up. MMO’s just aren’t my bag. Looks great for people who are into that though.

I’m not american (thankfully). But if I were, and I had a terminal illness, I’d suicide bomb a health insurance headquarters on my way out. Because fuck it…I’m dead anyway.

I love the fact that it’s an entire movie where the side-kick is treated as the main character, while the actual main character is treated as the side-kick. It’s brilliant.

It’s also responsible for by-far my most used line. "It’s like I told my ex-wife. “Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. And besides that, it’s all in the reflexes.”

That is an impossible question because it depends on so many factors of what’s going on on the particular day that I’m asked.

So instead I’ll give you the three that most often rotate into top spot:

1. Children of Men

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

3. LA Confidential

They deserve an invasion

I’d rather they just get nuked back to old testament levels.

Lots of people doing things by rote without actually understanding the underlying fundamentals of what they’re doing

That’s the fault of the YouTube Effect. In color grading or video editing, for example, we have people learning from youtube tutorials on what buttons to push, but nothing about the actual science and theory behind why to push those particular buttons. You’ll watch a ten minute video on “How to get the bleach-bypass look for your video” with absolutely no explanation of what the Bleach-bypass look is or when it would appropriate to use it (for example).

Most new creatives in any field have learned primarily from YouTube content creators that have themselves learned from other YouTube content creators. They’re just re-recording the same tutorial that they learned it from, down and down the line. Maybe at some point down the line, there was originally somebody who went to an accredited film-school/photography school or what have you that actually understood the why of it, but for the most part it’s amateurs teaching amateurs what buttons to push.

PC is nothing until I can get the parts in to get it running.

Everything at the moment is being done on a 4gb Chromebook that I’ve wiped and installed Linux onto. It’s surprisingly capable in a lot of ways, but not capable enough to do more than some very basic blender modelling.

Oh yeah…it’s all backed up. That’s not a worry. Just don’t have a computer powerful enough for 3D modelling, or editing at the moment. So all I can do is write code and hope that when I put it together with the 3D it actually works (it won’t, because honestly I’m pretty terrible at coding but I refuse to vibe it.)