Ah yes, Malcolm in the Middle is behind this all along.

I once went to a free lunch event hosted by a local church. The guy in there trying to convert me was using the story of how Moses (the “let my people go” guy) built an Ark that somehow proved God loved mankind.

The original magic and talent behind the Halo series is long gone. All that’s left is a corporate shell with billions of dollars to burn on a soulless cash grab for those looking back at the series with nostalgia.

To be paranoid nowadays is just being aware you’re under constant government and corporate surveillance for their profit/political gain.

The easiest way to keep calories down is to meal plan with healthy ingredients. My usual routine that could be broken once in a while when I felt like it or went out was:

Breakfast: one bowl of Cheerios/corn flakes or unsweetened oatmeal.

Lunch: a large salad with whatever you want just not too much dressing (hint: using Tupperware to toss the salad lowers the amount of dressing you need) or tofu and broccoli sauteed in teriyaki sauce

Snack: whatever you want just don’t go overboard with it

Dinner: a protein bar or protein shake

Combine that with 30 minutes cardio and another 30 of weight training five days a week.

I personally lost around 10 pounds a month. It takes a lot of dedication to keep it up though but you can see results in about two months to keep you motivated. Frankly this only worked because I was an onsite employee the whole time, working remote gives way more temptation to eat.

Those who were too paranoid to visit a shrink were justified all along.

Music piracy’s still alive here and there. The torrents I usually find are massive FLAC files that have very little advantage over much smaller MP3s though. I might need to buy some really fancy gear to appreciate it maybe.

I ended up making a rather large amount of purchases from GOG: the entire catalog for Prince of Persia, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Vaporum, Hotline Miami 2, and Men of War: Assault Squad.

I hope you feel better soon Perfect Dark!

Looks like the hat would fit this guy:

Wow just when I thought Borderlands 4 couldn’t get any worse, they just keep piling on the disappointment. Thanks for giving me even more reasons to consider this franchise dead to me!

Few words are dirtier to Republicans than “nationalize”. They must be torn between following their god-emperor’s hurt feelings and allowing Musk’s company to be taken over by the government. The best I see them doing is cancelling all contracts and subsidies with SpaceX/Tesla and passing them off to its competitors.

I’m not saying other benefits aren’t there, it’s just that we know a lot of regulatory agencies are being severely cut so it’s gonna be less apparent soon enough. I’m in one of the higher tax brackets so aside from unemployment insurance, a lot of safety nets that require means testing are essentially inaccessible to me as well. Frankly it’s a miracle American society is still functioning even with so many tax cuts for corporations and the rich.

I pay roughly 30% of my gross income in th US. The only tangible benefit I get from it is the ability to drive on free roads on my way to work to earn more taxable income. I only wish my money didn’t go to subsidize the rich and make bombs to blow kids up on the other side of the planet.

Good. I never trusted those integrated apps and thought of them as spyware. Mozilla should go back to focusing on making a lean browser and whatever apps they want to offer should be optional instead of hard coded into their flagship product.

Some races and classes are way too imbalanced and basically break the game.

You wouldn’t want to keep such old equipment connected to a network anyway. That’s only inviting trouble down the line.

Oh Sainz I had hopes for you this season…

Most recently it’s Clair Obscur Expedition 33. There’s an actual overworld map but you need to get your bearings in area maps and dungeons because there are none. You’ll have to use local landmarks to get around, find clues for hidden areas, and the direction you actually need to go. I’ve spent hours in single areas just getting lost admiring the design and artwork.

14TB RAID1 setup reporting in.

Ubuntu sometime around 2010. It definitely wasn’t what I was looking for so I didn’t try another distro until 3 years ago. Linux Mint’s working well for me but I’m curious about Bazzite.