bonus trivia: me too!

I'm not a guinea pig scientist but a few of those didn't look like guinea pigs to me.

I love the concept of Nomic and games with rules that change as part of the game. I have not played Nomic but I have played 1000 Blank White Cards which I think falls into the same sort of family and it was fun.

I would play Nomic with the Just Post crew!

he also wrote a novel called Famous People which is a pretty fun read, extremely familiar to anyone who's a fan of his youtube monologues

yeah my main problem is that I hate change, so I'm at least riding out extended windows 10 support til whenever that ends, but I can't envisage a future where I willingly purchase a new windows pc

Oh that controller looks excellent, the killer feature of the steam deck imo is the touchpads, they open up so much. Sure it's not going to match mouse + keyboard for some genres of game but a vast number of my hours on my steam deck have been spent in turn based games with mouse control. If I had the living room media PC setup that I ideally wanted, this would absolutely be my input device and I'd spend a lot more time away from a desk.

Not personally interested in VR but yknow, it's neat. And the Steam Machine bodes extra well for Linux desktop gaming when the time inevitably comes that I have to say goodbye to my current PC.

This is me after I added gum to my backpack

The blue plates are nice, but the brown ones seem to last longer.

it's because the last 5 years don''t count

thanks for reading my new superhero name idea!

it didn't occur to me that when this got croutoned that the title would also have been edited, I was sad when I realised that spam hasn't got quite this weird yet

If there's a lesson to be learnt from roman politics, especially around Sulla -> Augustus, it's that you just gotta Write the Rules Down and have Enforcement Mechanisms. So much was just done on convention with nothing to stop assholes from simply choosing not to bother with it, and it let the republic get frog boiled into becoming an autocracy. The republic probably wasn't much better for your average joe day to day than the empire but if people like Caesar had been nipped in the bud before they got out of hand at least a bunch of people wouldn't have pointlessly died in endless civil wars.

If there's another lesson to be learnt from roman politics, it's if you're going to use mercenaries to stage a coup and install you as leader you should probably pay them or risk having a group of people mad at you who are demonstrably willing and able to stage a coup.

I've listened to history of rome all the way through a coupla times, it's great. And you're right, so so many dicks.

Mike Duncan also did a followup called Revolutions which is interesting, series on various revolutions through history. Haven't finished that one but it seems the final one is a sci-fi speculative fiction thing after 9 series of factual history which sounds super neat?

oh my goodness!! hearing this delights me no end, delights me almost as much as watching the film teen titans go to the movies!!

more like 500 pounds sterling!!

it's so annoying! I have plenty of games on my computer I am on youtube because I want to watch a video not play a shit version of flappy bird! and "not interested" means "try me again in a coupla days, I'll probably have come around to this idea by then"

gives-no-fucks seeks out im-leet for multiplayer fun :)

I love Morrowind so so much. I am so grateful that I bought it when I was a child with a lot more tolerance for janky games and played it a ton as a teenager who was obsessed with wiki bingeing because I have the perfect mix of experiences to make me adore everything about it. I love what it does with travel, I love how the main story treats prophecy, I love how hard it is to sell anything of value. I so so value the player hostility that Morrowind brings.

I have but one thing to say before you set off on your adventures anew: stand up, there you go, you were dreaming. What's your name?

this is the sort of infrastructure we need to invest in tbh

useful for when you want to subtract four from something

oh awesome, love my government :c

very cool tree though!! thank you for posting :)