I’ve recently found that Lutris’s install scripts haven’t been working, at least for the games I tried to install. Not to mention that it seems to take forever to download GOG games.

So I switched to Heroic and I haven’t looked back. It somehow downloads games faster than if I got the installer directly from the GOG website, and it has save synchronisation. Some games still require manual tweaks (I’ve had the most trouble with the classic Resident Evil trilogy), but a lot of them can be done through Heroic’s GUI.

When the install scripts are working, Lutris tends to be better than Heroic when it comes to manually installed community patches and the like - you’ll usually be given the choice between a script for the vanilla game and one for the patched version (In order to install KeeperFX through Heroic, I had to install it manually and then add it as a library option, for example.)

Off the top of my head:

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Pepsi -> Pepno

Okay, that one got me.

This might not be quite what you’re looking for, since it’s an MMO, but there’s a lot of unique quest dialogue in Runescape for those who know what they need beforehand - whether because they’ve done it before or because they’re following a guide.

For example - Doric’s Quest - a simple early game quest where he asks for some items:

Player: You know, it’s funny you should require those exact things!

Doric: What do you mean?

Player: I can usually fit 28 things in my backpack and in a world full of quite literally limitless possibilities, a complete coincidence has occurred!

Doric: I don’t quite understand what you’re saying?

Player: Well, out of pure coincidence, despite definitely not knowing what you were about to request, I just so happened to have carried those exact items!

Doric: Oh my, that is a coincidence! Pass them here, please. I can spare you some coins for your trouble, and please use my anvils any time you want.

There’s even an extra line about having the exact quantities of the items if you aren’t carrying anything extra.

I don’t know how unpopular this is - I’ve never asked anybody:

Phone-optimised UIs suck, even on phones. One of the first things I do on setting up a new phone is tick ‘request desktop website’ in the browser.

If the numbers make sense, do it.

I don’t know why anybody would keep working if they have the option not to.

It’s been years since I’ve used Windows at home, but I still have a Firefox installer exe hanging around on my server on the offchance I ever need to use it again. Thanks for showing me it’s no longer necessary.

I went and it’s the biggest regret of my life.

It took me 4 years to find a job after leaving because half of my prospective employers thought I was overqualified, and the other half said that completing university was no guarantee that I’d handle “real work”. My first (and current) job is only tangentially related to my field and doesn’t require a degree. Or any training, to be honest.

7 years before I bought my house, it sold for exactly half of what I paid for it. If I swallowed my pride and got a shitty minimum wage job straight out of high school, I wouldn’t have a student loan (where I live it’s interest free, but there’s a minimum weekly payment which is based on your wage), I would have been able to buy a house so much earlier, for so much less money, and I would have been paying off my mortgage for so much longer.

In hindsight, my perspective is this: The actual cost of going to university isn’t your student loans (which are still substantial, don’t get me wrong) - it’s time. Your degree has to make you so much more money than most people realise, because at a minimum you’re starting your working life 3 years later than you normally would - that’s 3 years you could have been working and saving, and 3 years of extra inflation to deal with.

My dad played (and still plays) heavily modded Cities Skylines. After upgrading his RAM to 32GB, he’d run afoul of Windows 7 Home Edition’s 16GB limit. I offered to check out Linux on my own computer to see how well Cities Skylines played. I never went back.

Is “must make the dumbest fucking decision possible at all times” in the Mozilla CEO job description or something?

I have no CEO experience, but I’ll make stupid fucking decisions for a fifth of the salary you’re paying the current guy.

I don’t think getting used to it is the same as it not being stressful. People can get used to anything.

…are The Smiths too obvious a choice?

Driving is the most stressful thing many people do on a regular basis since one wrong move from you or somebody else can result in grievous injury or death.

Okay, but at least where I live, prices that increased due to covid haven’t come back down. Supply is now high enough to satisfy demand, but prices aren’t dropping. Of course, why would they? It turns out that customers have self-selected that they really don’t want to starve or be homeless. Even if it wipes out most of their income.

Okay, why wouldn’t UBI effectively get wiped out by inflation over 65 years, as has apparently happened to the prosperity in the '60s, then?

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I think Wipeout was probably the progenitor of this - the entire pitch of the game was basically “Futuristic racer set to techno bangers”, and a lot of other games followed suit with their soundtracks.

Check out Sean Seanson’s PSX Club Mixes for some absolute bops and a nostalgia hit.

FFVII’s Cosmo Canyon

Best song in the game. I will die on this hill.

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I wouldn’t say it’s a strong opinion, but I’ve never seen a convincing argument that “inflation” (read “greedy bastards”) wouldn’t immediately wipe out the extra income - which would be very bad if the UBI were to replace other forms of welfare.