Not to be “that guy” but they left the solar system in 2012 and 2018, as in crossed the heliopause and the “wall of fire”.
Your point stands, but I thought you might be interested to know that :)
Here’s an article about it https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-voyager-spacecraft-found-a-30000-50000-kelvin-wall-at-the-edge-of-our-solar-system-81411
Haha, that’s a fair point.
I’d have to actually like the game and have been sucked into it to want to spend days and days finding mods that sound like good additions, or address frustrations with vanilla mechanics, and then bash my head against the wall trying to figure out the error logs and why the map didn’t spawn anything this time (I don’t have a tech background, I learn tech on the fly to do specific things, so troubleshooting is a big challenge). Like I have over a thousand rimworld mods I individually, manually, downloaded (I don’t use steam but I found a site that rips mods from steam). I’m currently running about 650 of them, but I had over 100 hours in before I even looked at mods, and it started with running out of storage and having to dedicate half my map to storage space, because I HOARD STUFF and 3 stacks per tile with vanilla shelves is just not enough space. You never know when you’ll need 167 elephant tusks. Oh they are vendor trash that can be used as a shitty improvised weapon and that’s it? Well I found that out after about a month.
I just know factorio would hit my frustration buttons quicker than my obsession buttons because I can’t even bring myself to do the fairly simple automation in rimworld because it’s too finicky and I have to learn stuff and figure out where to lay pipes and shit, so I’d struggle to hit the “let’s find mods to make this game even more overwhelming” stage.
But now I’m even more jealous, if there’s a vibrant modding community and all…
Eh, I’ve worked in a few call centers and from what I’ve seen, they just constantly hire, training groups for various contracts are frequent, and people are pulled from closed contracts to fill in when people leave or are fired from ongoing contracts. They also tend to overhire for each training group because a lot of people will quit or not be good at it.
They CHURN, and they don’t give a fuck because everyone is going to burn out or move on in short order anyway. That’s just the nature of the job. If you don’t seem like a good fit quickly they won’t keep you around. Is all metrics.
They are horrible places to work. Often referred to as “employment of last resort” by employment services people around here.
Non-paywalled link cuz I wanted to read it
What’s a paradox game? I assume that’s some sort of studio?
I wish I liked games like factorio.
I love base building stuff (rimworld is my current obsession, tho I almost like making my heavily modded game function properly more than actually playing it) but automation is just too many moving parts, and too much planing and I can’t bring myself to do any of it right.
If not for that it would probably be entirely my jam. I get downright jealous when I see some of the amazing stuff people do.
Meanwhile I put my hands in my sweatshirt pockets (zip-up sweatshirt, not pull-over) and flap them like wings while slow-running at them, yelling and stomping each step. Basically do what they do, but I’m bigger.
I look insane, but they fuck right off, since it’s all signals they understand.
I used to work at a place that had a sitting pond right against the building with walkways across it and stuff and that was the only way out to the back parking lot… there were always geese… I got fed up and tried that once when I was having a bad day, and it both worked and made me feel a ton better.
Omg are hip huggers and flares finally coming back? That’s amazing news!! I fucking hate wearing high waist pants and in the last few years that’s basically all one can find. Same with skinny pants. They are so fucking uncomfortable. I literally cannot tolerate them (autistic sensitivity for the win…)
Ah, it’s sort of a blessing and curse sort of thing. I have aphantasia, so I can’t see stuff in my mind. Dreams don’t work the same way, apparently, or at least not for everyone with aphantasia, and I get those, incredibly vividly (tho thankfully not all that often, maybe once or twice a month), but because I have absolutely zero experience with “seeing” things that aren’t real, dreams throw me solidly for a loop and I struggle big time with differentiating them from reality. That makes stress dreams and nightmares really really difficult, and I’ve struggled with them for many years.
The well-trodden dream town helps with that because I recognize it as a fictional place, so I choose to spend time there when I can, which reinforces the smaller details of it making it more vivid. It’s why everywhere I dream of repeatedly ends up being part of the town somehow. Not always because I want it there, but because I recognize the place as fictional and part of dreaming. Incorporating all these different places makes them safer; most of them started as bad places, even the glass gardens. That was a college social stress dream originally. I was probably playing some final fantasy type game at the time for the imagery. I got really lucky on that one; it’s a great place to go now.
I did a lot of work, and had to deal with a lot of wildly unpleasant false awakening experiences, to lucid dream enough to get to this place where I have familiar comfortable territory, but I don’t really control things now because taking control tends to backfire… so I let them happen and use god mode to get out of situations I don’t like. Or sometimes to change zones if, for example, I end up in the dungeon labyrinth or mother’s sections of my house (repeated nightmare content that had to go somewhere… now pocket floors between other floors, to make it easier to avoid) Sometimes it’s fun to go dungeon diving, and see what’s actually in there (it’s just basements, one after another, full of boxes of stuff and old furniture and shit, super mundane really except it never ends… like that scene in labyrinth where she meets the trash goblin who keeps loading her up with junk because memories), but sometimes it’s a really unpleasant place to find myself and I just… need to take the quick route back outside.
But I remember these places and events like they are completely real, and that’s really unnerving. I really want to build it into vr so other people could explore it, and it could actually -be- a real place, but I have no idea how to do that. If I ever figure that out though you are absolutely invited to visit!!
I love bad, as in poor quality, dreams. They beat the pants off stress dreams, as I call them; the emotionally charged dreams that shouldn’t be because nothing emotional happens, that have you wake up feeling stressed for unknown reasons. I also prefer them to nightmares and terrors. For obvious reasons.
But I use shit narratives in novel locations to form my dream town. Every new place I experience in a weird or boring dream gets, like, catalogued for later? Idk how to describe it but it takes another 3-5 dreams about the same place, which will happen sooner or later, to cement its special position in my town.
From there I can visit again whenever I want in lucid dreams. My town is like a hub to fast travel to all the other places I have discovered. So there’s like the garden district, that holds the library and glass gardens, the entertainment district which takes me to a bustling city street full of arcades and social stuff, the weird tall buildings district that has a skyscraper-type dorm I have a room in despite having my own full on multi-dimensional house (no idea where that came from but it’s definitely dorm rooms and most of them don’t have windows… I think it’s the barracks from naval base San Diego, but it’s much taller and laid out totally differently.)
At least they didn’t waste more water for their joke tho
They took down all the overpass bridges near me, for whatever reason.
They have been down for months already and the last handful of times I’ve driven by, the equipment has not moved at all. So they tore them out all at once, making getting into my town from the highway virtually impossible, and now aren’t even doing anything with them.
Cool, cool, nobody needs to get here anyway.
I mean I used to wear sunglasses at work at my desk because everything in the office was just too damned bright. Same with a restaurant job for about 2 hours of sunset when the light streamed in the windows.
Who cares what people think? Protect your eyes and do whatever you like when entering a store. As long as you can see fine, it doesn’t matter.
Was 10 the one with blitzball? I never went past that arena, that game should have been released as a standalone, fun as fuck.
I thought for sure, for sure this was bullshit. For sure Linux doesn’t have a touch command. What could it possibly do.?
Changing timestamps and creating empty files…
Of course, that makes so much sense. 🤔
The illusion of choice is even more illusory than it seems.
Even if there was real choice inherent in the systems themselves, most people have limited ability to take advantage of said choice without completely starting over, usually with damn near nothing.
What I mean is most people aren’t wealthy, they don’t have in-demand skills, they don’t have family abroad, they can’t get sponsors to other countries. That means they are effectively stuck wherever they are, until something so bad happens they have to abandon their lives and flee.