I was skeptical of ligatures at first, too, it took me awhile to warm up to it. But yeah, love me some Fira Code now.

The screenshots on steam jump from 2 to 4.

What happened to 3?!

I knew I’d been playing too much GTA (would have been around the VC/SA days probably) when I was out driving one day, heard sirens, and looked up in the corner of my windshield to see if I had any stars.

Dear God… An Israeli-owned chemical company named Israel Chemicals Ltd is supplying chemicals to Israel? Who could have ever seen this coming?!

I have a Zenbook 13 (model UX331F), bought new right around the start of COVID. Installed Linux Mint maybe 6 months ago, audio works just fine, and I didn’t have to do anything special, it just worked right out of the box. I had tried Pop_OS before Mint and I don’t remember any audio issues there either.

Awful lot of strings that should have been integers. It is JavaScript, though, so I guess that tracks.

Aww, Hans Brix!!

I went to school with my Superman pajamas underneath my regular clothes and specifically wore a button up shirt so that I could rip it open and be Superman. If it became necessary, y’know.

Is it really money laundering when his (mom’s) face is on the money?

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun.

You know, you probably shouldn’t keep radioactive dimes in your pocket.

It was US alt rock, I dunno how well it traveled. It was one of the first songs (that I remember, anyway) to use sound effects to censor the dirty words on the radio edit, rather than a beep or mute. Which was actually a good idea, because it made it sound natural, like it was just part of the song.

It wasn’t a bad song, I guess, I remember liking it well enough at the time. I just don’t think it was a good enough song to still be playing as much as it is.

Yeah, that one has a lot of staying power too.

Taste like crab. Talk like people.

“In like Flynn” is a slang phrase meaning “having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired.”

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Yeah for real, the High Evolutionary was such a weird choice. Throughout the movie, I kept thinking to myself, “this is the villain?!”

Matteo from Superstore as his top henchman probably didn’t help things.

Rocket’s origin story was cool, though.

As someone with self-diagnosed mild depression and probably adhd, I’ve struggled with this.

Lots of people have suggested running or walking, can confirm, that does help. I would also add music to that. Throw on headphones, start your favorite playlist, crank it up good and loud, and go for a walk/jog/run. No one is watching you, no one is judging you. Silently lip sync sing with the songs as expressively awesome as you can (or sing out loud for real if you can, but I know this would be hard for me, for whatever reason I’m much less self conscious about my ridiculous facial gymnastics as long as I’m quiet about it). Like for real, pretend this is your song, and you’re performing it live at your band’s concert. Entertain the shit out of your imaginary audience. Belt it out like there’s no tomorrow. To quote Straylight Run’s “Existentialism on Prom Night,” sing like you think no one’s listening. Combined with the physical activity, you’ll feel great when you get back home. For even better effect, find a bunch of songs where the tempo matches your walking speed. Then you can really get into a groove with it.

I also go on walks with my wife most evenings now, no music/headphones, just kinda small talk and enjoying each other’s company, and it’s helped get some things back on track with our marriage too. Better communication. Not both of us sitting on the couch silently doomscrolling and ignoring each other.

I can also suggest 3d printing as another good hobby, though this one will cost you, so it comes with the caveat that you’ll probably want to have at least a bit of discretionary income if you want to pick this one up. There are tons of free, ready-made models on sites like thingiverse.com, thangs.com, or printables.com. Public libraries sometimes have 3d printers available for public use, and any makerspace worth their salt will have some too, if you’re in an area that has something like that. So you can piddle around with it a bit before you really start laying out cash, see if it’s something you’ll like.

Start small, find a dinky little trinket or toy or something that can be printed quickly, and watch that mfer come into existence layer by layer. It’s addicting. When the print bed slides out at the end with a physical object that didn’t exist an hour ago, it’s kind of fantastic.

Once you decide that you like it, you’ll want to get a printer of your very own. You can find very hands-on tinkery printers (creality ender 3 series) for $100 and up, if you’re good getting your hands dirty and buying more parts to “fix” some of the entry-level shortcomings. Good, ready-made “as good as your gonna get” options from Prusa or Bambu are higher priced initially ($500+) but won’t require nearly as much extra money for upgrades and tweaks. Filament usually costs about $20-30/roll depending on how fancy you want. You can do toys. You can do lithophanes (cool 3d printed photographs). You can print replacement parts for random shit in your house that breaks. Guns. Action figures. You can print an entire fucking life sized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton (Reddit link, warning to anyone who’s avoiding the old site). And all the while, you’ll need to read and research and tweak and change and do all kinds of little mental tasks to engage yourself and pull out of your funk.

Your thing will fail sometimes. You’ll run out of filament. Your settings will be wrong. You’ll end up with a big blob of plastic spaghetti. But that gives you incentive to find and fix what went wrong and try again. It’ll come out right eventually, and it feels great when it does.

Once you’ve gotten your feet wet with models from the Internet, you can get into starting to learn modeling yourself, with Blender or FreeCAD or any number of other apps. And if you thought it felt good when your cheesy little boat or octopus from the Internet finished, let me tell you… When your own model, that you created from absolutely nothing, comes off the printer as a real honest-to-god physical object, looking exactly like it did in your head, it’s sublime!

Anyway. Good luck to you. Good on you for reaching out and looking for ways to improve yourself. I hope you find something that works for you.

You monster! How do you even know if they’re tongy enough?

I used to use “Bill Wi the Science Fi”

Damn, what kind of 15 year old broken parts are still worth $15 million?! I feel like they should have been depreciated to nothing, like, a decade ago, unless they’re made of unobtanium or something.