there is a two ring it's called marrage

Sports betting ads is an instant unfollow for any podcast Lol.

What do you listen to anyway? My regulars are Just King Things (Stephen King podcast, weirdly touches on a lot of American culture), QAA (conspiracy skeptic stuff), some board game stuff, and weirdo comedy stuff like Seeking Derangements and Doighboys.

I have two things to regretfully inform you of:

1: I occasionally listen to the podcast of the guy who makes the podcast app I use (overcast) and he thought up this idea a decade ago. He never implemented it because he didn't want to fuck with people's business, at least back when the whole thing was smaller scale. No idea why I remember this random thing, I guess I also thought it was a good idea.

2: The way ads are delivered today would screw this up. Podcasts (or at least the one with lots of ads) use dynamically inserted ads now, meaning that there isn't just one file that everyone is downloading that is the podcast. You can download a podcast on Monday, and then download it again on Tuesday, and it'll have a different number and length of ads. There's marketing tech in the background adjusting things based on what people are paying for campaigns and such. And while they don't track that much about you, they can tell generally where the file is being downloaded from a target ads that way, so two people downloading the same podcast at the same time might get different ads.

I also learned this from that podcast app dude. He had to remove a feature where you could stream a podcast from the internet, pause it, and then resume it without downloading the whole file to your phone. It would try to resume from the same time but it'd be jumbled around because it wasn't the same file anymore!

Ads fucking suck I hate them so much!!!!!

I get you. I'm fully on "what's the next good thing I can do" mode and that's all that's getting me through. I've got my little lifeboat tho so I'll be okay, who knows tho.

aws really feels like a trap, easy to start but inertia will keep you on the platform once you start getting huge bills and hitting problems. but it's a "no one has ever been fired for choosing aws" situation so rip.

yay good

I feel really bad saying it to people who find DS difficult but it's true Lol

Something that kind of ruins my life to think about is that to young people a videogame is like, some random crap they downloaded to their phone covered in ads or sells gatcha rolls or something. Or like Fortnite? The people who buy games that cost between $20-$70 and provide a contained experience is shrinking population, and it's getting older and older. So the games are getting more niche, and people are seeking experiences where they feel challenged because they've played videogames for decades.

Dark Souls specifically pioneered a "tough but fair" feel, where the tension comes from the fact that you're scared to move forward, and the frustration is offset by the fact that you can retreat at any moment and level up. It makes you learn about the world as you move through it, and enemies have extremely well telegraphed moves that you can just roll through. It's a game about learning. It's less hard than it has a reputation for, you just have to slow down and accept failure sometimes, but if you aren't fucking with it than that's not really shameful. I've played enough of them, I think.

So yeah a lot of indie games copy those ideas because it makes players slow down and appreciate things they might blow through otherwise. A lot of them have accessibility options that Souls games don't have, like Tunic has something that makes the bosses easier, but they are meant to be hard. And often these games are not as good as From at realizing what players can take or not.

It used to be where games were going for flow above everything, where a game needed to be neither too hard or too easy, but that comes off as boring to a lot of players these days. Personally I'm less willing to deal with hard action combat because my reactions have gone to shit, but I want to have to think over long term. Love a turn based. And I want a story to think about. So yeah no souls likes for me, but I get the appeal for sure.

incredible foreshadowing

the kids still call her Osaka there is no escape

I know a couple things you shouldn't do

yeah it'd be spooky

what if you saw a background extra in a severence shot and it's just your grandfather going to work

The building in Severance is the former Bell Labs building in New Jersey that has been converted into a bunch of smaller offices for other companies. There's people who drive to work everyday to work in the Severance building.

very carefully

My favorite lesbian game of the moment is Misericorde, a VN about nuns and murder

cis people should care, for trans people's sake mostly but if not that than their own. anyone who doesn't see that things are going to get way worse if let this happen is blind. if we don't have each other we have nothing

a member of my husband's archery club was disqualified at a tournament last weekend, saying she had to shoot with her birth gender or some nonsense. the judges printed out the brand new policy and handed to her after she shot, we think they didn't tell us beforehand because they didn't want to lose our club and all our individual entrance fees. anyway we're at another tournament this weekend (different org without that policy) and everyone has trans flags now. having a very transgender saturday

the flags aren't our only plan, we're going to be hitting the other org where we can, but it's nice

I knew he was bad since the hyperloop bullshit happened and fucked up transport all across the country, as morons started waiting for something that was never going to exist. But I'll be honest. I didn't think he was this evil. My bad I guess

Haha thank you. I would be shocked anything about doge after me has anything to do with the old sub, I think it was all gonna happen anyway. And yeah, I did shut it down when I thought it was becoming lame Lol

my subreddit was called shibe. doge was a good shibe but people kept repeating it until it became lame, and then the final nail in the coffin was when someone made the first memecoin off of it. that was 2013 Lol. it has sucked for so long!

didn't even follow it an inch down that direction, maybe my taste in memes saved my soul? when elon named his department that stupid name I felt nothing and I take no responsibility. I am just a dog online

my name has nothing to do with the cars Lol

MUST

Do you know of such a thing? Asking for a friend....