I wish that was the case. It’s mostly just extreme right lobbying groups like Focus on the Family and the Alliance Defending Freedom, the same groups that control the far right, exert colonial control over impoverished African countries, and generally make the world a worse place for everyone. The same groups that manufactured cases to screw up Dobbs, Wedding cake lawsuits, and death penalty laws for LGBTQ citizens of Uganda.
It’s amazing how bad Linux and Windows are at sleeping on my laptops. My steam deck has a power drain issue too, even when fully powered off.
They’re smoking symbiotes.
The original Subnautica is worth playing, it’s a fantastic game with an interesting world, intriguing story, and actually fun gameplay and vehicles. The vehicles themselves are extremely fun, too.
Try out various ebikes! I use the Transit app which has a bike section that should try and put you on the safest routes in your city. If you buy a bike with a rack, get a pannier or two, they can carry groceries, laptops or beach supplies no problem. Many places with little car parking have bike racks, such as parks, beaches, and small businesses.
Invest in a good ulock or thick chain for protecting your bike! Doing a 20 mile trip to work could be a bit ambitious at first, but start with smaller bite-sized trips, and work your way up (or supplement it with commuter buses or regional rail, if there are options. Bikes + Transit go together!)
I miss the worm lights. My cousin had one, and even though I had the Advance SP, I thought the worm LED was super neat.
Gearing, tires, and geometry make all the difference in the world.
My Transition Sentinel is only geared for mountain biking. It’s a terrible city bike. Tons of shock, high torque gears for steep hills, cannot go very fast. But it’s insane when you need to climb or descend mountains. It has knobby, 2.4in tires.
My city bike is an ebike, and even though it’s a single speed, it’s pretty comfortable going between 10-30mph on that gear alone. The battery allows me to haul lots of groceries or baggage (and climb steep hills), and it’s tires are wide enough to not get stuck in tram rails or gaps in the concrete road. I have knobby tires to avoid popping tires, but smoother, thinner tires will be more efficient.
Edit: if you have a shock, try locking it out if it has lockout.
I’d also recommend checking out city bikes, such as road, gravel, and upright bikes. There’s an incredible amount of diversity, and a downhill mountain bike is about as far from a road bike as one can get. One can roll over a rock the size of a watermelon, the other can coast for meters off of a pedal stroke. Ebikes also are phenomenal as car replacements (or even just as car offsets), but generally cost $1,500+ with tariffs.
Black mesa is worth it, full price. I played both the OG and black mesa back to back. Fantastic game!
Find a used single speed, they need minimal maintenance and have fewer moving parts.
Everyone was telling me that this time they would have fixed it. Called it. I think I’m down to one joycon that doesn’t drift :P
Yes, but that’s okay. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone in Lycra under 45 either.
Are there better alternatives? I was planning on using tailscale until now. :P
Same here, though I heard middling reviews for the first game, so I probably won’t play it regardless. Not that I’d pay $80 for a videogame anyways, lol. Even if it was HL3.
Aww, sorry to see that. I know you love your bike, I’ve seen a few posts on it :(
The Witcher is the only game I’ve ever rage quit and then rage uninstalled. There’s a mission a number of hours in where bandits get you into a swampy bottleneck, while one shoots you at range and the “Pain” animation stunlocks you into dying at the hands of his minions. Fuck that game. Live is too short to grind through that shit :P
The DLC had good open worlds, but the main game just felt too dreary and brown.
It still has some rough edges, even after the major updates. I liked the Panam ending a lot, arguably one of my favorite game endings ever, but the police spawn and logic is still terrible compared to the likes of older GTA games, and the cars still feel gross to drive. Just Cause 2 had better vehicle handling, and that’s a title from 2010.
I want more cel-shaded games. And more engines mean more unique experiences. I hate when every game starts to handle the same way.
It’s a great game, but I dunno how well it will work on phones. The UI is gonna have to be really reworked. I found it a bit clunky even on desktop. The story is fantastic, though. :)
It feels like everything is running on a VM, and the hypervisor is running constantly. Or something odd like that.