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Shadow of Mordor took me two attempts to get into it, but I’m glad I went back for the second attempt because the game ended up surprising me with how excellent the storytelling and gameplay was.

Shadow of War was pretty good as well, but the online stuff was starting to kill it for me and it was clearly designed with microtransactions in mind (even though I believe they removed them?). Still a fun game though, and didn’t feel like a waste of money especially on sale.

A new entry in the series could be a lot of fun if they held true to what made Shadow of Mordor such a fun game, in my opinion.

The early entries in the Ratchet & Clank series. I believe they remastered the first three at some point for PS3, but I’d love to see them updated again to today’s definition of HD and released on PC as well. Unfortunately I only played the first four games back on PS2 since I switched to full PC gaming since then, but those games were all a lot of fun. After playing the recent PC port of Rift Apart, it made me realize how much I missed playing the series, and if they remastered and ported the entire series to PC, I’d easily lose an entire paycheck to that.

I agree, was general advice that an unnatural infatuation should be an indicator, not specific for OP. I don’t know enough about them to know whether that’s the case, but it’s never impossible, and a therapist should never make things worse at least and may help them better understand their emotions (if they’re doing their job).

This exactly, you don’t tell them “I love you” in any way, implicit or explicit, unless you are already in a genuine relationship. To begin with, if you don’t know anything about the person besides what they show on the surface, how can you possibly know you want to be with them? Unless of course all you care about is appearance or something, or you have an unnatural infatuation and should seek help instead.

We’ve been trying to contact you regarding your car’s extended warranty.

Not 30 years, but usually just looking at each other says enough, with maybe a head motion if it’s time to go. Facial expressions say a lot on their own, and if you know someone well enough, even subtle differences can say a lot.

I agree, open source devs don’t owe anyone anything (unless they’re accepting commissions or something). Also, generally speaking, being a good developer does not translate to being a good community moderator. There should be no expectation of the latter.

Depending on where you live and the season, that could be called stepping outside.

Having been to quite a few countries in Europe, I’ve heard more about UK tourists than USA tourists, although the few UK tourists I met were friendly.

The USA is a massive country with hundreds of millions of people. There are rude people, but there are also friendly people. It just depends on where you are (and unfortunately in some places who you are). Having been to Seattle, people were generally friendly, but you can’t blame the barista for wanting to get through the line that goes out the door and two blocks down the road.

One thing you can try out for storage is buying regular 2.5" solid state drives (the kind you install in a computer) and using a SATA to USB adapter to plug it in. It’s probably less durable than a proper external SSD, but gives you a path forward if you later want to install them into some kind of network storage server (or have a friend do it, if you’re not sure how).

I haven’t checked the prices very thoroughly, but you might be able to get the internal hard drives for cheaper as well. If you’re willing to go with magnetic drives (3.5" HDDs), you can get bulk storage for (relatively) dirt cheap, of course at the cost of having a noisy drive spinning up each time you open a file on it.

As someone close to someone with a lot of money, I can say it introduces a new set of worries that I hope I never have. That might also be an issue of greed though.

The problem, from my experience, is not that a person has a lot of money. It’s whether a person makes that money a part of their identity. Someone who detaches their own personal value from the value of their assets is more willing to contribute the excess back to society, for example, and will be able to experience the comforts associated with wealth without the stress of spending it on those comforts.

Sadly, far too many people do associate personal value with wealth, and I feel like this has led to a lot of the inequality that exists today.

Kinda in the same position, I don’t drink, never have (though I’ve had it in my mouth), and don’t really ever plan to. Not really interested ngl, and I’ve seen it go wrong enough to know how bad it can get.

That being said, I have no issues with anyone who does, in moderation at least. If they’re having fun, then that’s great for them!

It looks like some generics are pretty cheap, but many inhalers look to be unreasonably expensive here. Thanks US healthcare system :(

At least if you can find one of the generics, it can be under $40 it looks like.

I was remembering the cost of my wife’s regular-use inhalers (she used to have pretty bad asthma) which were over $100 each, but it looks like daily-use ones are different than emergency ones. It could also just be a US thing.

Having never had asthma myself, I never really thought to look up the differences or prices to be honest.

You had me curious so I went and looked it up, and it looks like emergency inhalers actually can be found for under $100, if only barely! TIL, I figured you needed insurance to cover it to even consider buying one.

Not if JS creates the input in the first place :)