Oh my god. This is why I voted for him and it made me regret voting for him.

And now he regrets it too? I mean I suppose that’s kind of a good thing but I think mentioning it now just opens an old wound and pisses me off.

Even from a narcissistic point of view, getting a fair vote system would have made him be remembered as a notable PM forever. We’d actually have elections we enjoy voting in.

I’ve had USB-C devices since my first Nexus 6p in 2015. Every charger I’ve ever had still works. I’ve had one cord fail in all that time. While USB-C has its flaws, durability isn’t one of them for me.

I’ve been wanting to as well out of nostalgia but I know it will be bad by today’s standards, or even adult standards in general.

So I’m not going to do it… Yet.

I just bought this after playing satisfactory and I love the optimism in this game.

I’m so into it. Sure you can tell it’s made by a small team but I couldn’t tell it was made by 2 people. I don’t like playing with mods but this one worked well with them to get rid of a bit of storage monotony.

Oh my god, that’s awful. I am in shock people are dismantling our healthcare system and their voters think it’s a good idea.

Which Provence are you in?

Joe-joe-bah oil!

I loved exile so much! It was made by pesto studios and I feel like cyan wouldn’t want to make any of the non cyan Myst games. However they sought after and received the rights to all of the Myst games. So who knows, maybe they would.

This demos so well! I played the original 1997 Riven, I hope 2024 Riven can make an impression on newcomers!

It’s so deep, expansive and immersive and I’m not sure if there is anything else out there that has the same feel.

I think you’re right in that it’s better to be subtle.

The thing about audiences is that they span the gamut, so a little bit of in-your-face is likely seen as warranted for that spectrum of the audience, and a little bit of subtle for observant viewers casts a wider net.

Although I find Doctor Who to be among the least subtle in whatever it tries to do in the genre so, anything over the top kind of feels like it fits in the show as long as they intersperse the season with less obvious commentary as well. My partner only complained that everyone was running around and screaming the whole time 😂

Let’s just hope nobody interprets using proper pronouns as leading to a nuclear apocalypse 🫣

I liked the commentary. I find in sci-fi a short parallel to our world is often not seen as a jab because the veneer of sci-fi is enough to disguise it for most people.

I asked my partner if he noticed the commentary and he didn’t at all 😅

There is a drug called loyal in testing, someone linked to it here as well.

https://kbin.run/m/science_memes@mander.xyz/t/388022/-/comment/3632342

It’s mostly sold as alternate history for the space race, but it’s first and foremost a drama.

Drama about people that happen to go to space in an alternate world.

Drama about people having sex with >! their dead children’s best friend who they also raised once their parents went to space and died, the repercussions which amazingly happened for multiple seasons, it’s kind of weird. !<

The driving force of the show is not the alternate history.

Oh my god. I played those when they came out, except the newest one.

They were good for its time for the people who loved Myst games and then sought any adventure games that remotely resembled point-and-click adventures. We played really cool but definite imitators like Schism Mysterious Journey, The Longest Journey, Atlantis games, and The Journeyman Project.

Then came a developer called Microids with another pre-rendered point and click: “Amerzone”, everyone played that.

Once we got used to low-budget point and clickery it was only natural that when Microids came out with Syberia we all played it and loved it in the vacuum of adventure games back then. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone blindly as they were a product of its time.

I still have to play the newest Syberia and Longest Journey, for nostalgia’s sake only.

Ok now I want to know where people live, if they have AC, what temperature their bedrooms are and how it effects their night water habits.

I’ve never tried keeping water by my bed at night, and chugging if I wake up in the middle of it now I’m night bottle curious 🤔

Like, will I feel magically hydrated and limber in the morning? Just another thing that I add to my routine to make me feel great in the morning?

I’ll update if I piss the bed.

Do people wake up in the middle of the night and drink a whole bottle of water? Am I missing something?

I’m usually like “don’t want to be warm under the covers and need to pee, I don’t dare hydrate past 9 pm”

Foundation is one of the few adaptations that I think benefits from it’s lack of fidelity to the source material.

I think they actually made these changes more in an attempt to make it good than poor writing or lack of respect for the source material.

I’ll be more pissed at apple not finishing the series than the writing or accuracy.

Tbh this isn’t a bad take. The books revolutionised science fiction writing and it deserves credit for that but that was 1942. They haven’t aged well. But nuclear powered everything is funny to read about from today’s perspective. I loved that the show actually mentioned nuclear powered ashtray as an Easter egg.

Asimov forgot to even acknowledge women existed until much later. So the show is less gender swap and more actually including women at all 😅

Omega mart in Las Vegas might come close?

Can’t think of large scale ones unless you include the rest of Las Vegas.

Our RO-filtered water also flash boils. And flash freezes!

Distilled water is okay now that diets are more complete with vitamins. Especially if you’re eating your veggies. But that would be expensive and unnecessary 😄

I use RO-filtered water and for fun we safely discovered it does flash boil in the microwave.

I use it in a proper glass tea kettle though. It stay clean for months now, it used to get messy in a few days using tap water. I also think tea steeps tea better in low TDS water. From an osmotic point of view, that makes sense.

Normally our tap water is nearly liquid tums 😅