This doesn’t actually make sense, but it has the feel of truth.

Don’t fall in…

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Duke Nukem was fun for the time. Like, I was playing Doom II back then.
Doom II was actually a lot better. Other than the stripper scenes, Nukem wasn’t all that unique. Sorta Doom clone with bewbs.

But Nukem made enough of a splash for people to remember it and wonder about a sequel.
And wonder they did. For many years.
These are the original “When it’s done” guys.
They mocked up game footage to get funding and gawd knows why else.

And then they released a shit game. Nobody liked Nukem Forever.
And I play crap like that. I’ve got all the Serious Sam and completed the first three games.
Never bothered with Nukem Forever.

Encyclopedia Dramatica remembers.
https://edramatica.com/Duke_Nukem_Forever

You never had to go to work. Still don’t.

Are you curious? 9front is nerdy as fuk. I totally recommend giving it a whirl.
FYI … 9front is useless. Its a programmer’s toy. An OS enthusiasts challenge.

The site. https://9front.org/

The holy document. The Dash1.
This is the funniest piece of technical documentation I’ve ever read.
http://fqa.9front.org/dash1.gefs-sp1.pdf

How is it different? It’s GUI-native. In order to run something, you use ‘mouse chords’ to draw a terminal window, and then you can run stuff in that window. Last time I used it I started to learn acme, the editing environment, which required more mouse chords. I poked at it for a week or so and moved on.

I thought the article did a good job of introducing the fact that consciousness and perception are a hallucination, a trick of the mind as it assembles various datastreams and updates the model constantly. “Reality is a Lego tower all of us continuously assemble, fix, and adjust bit by bit.” This is a standard neuroscience perspective. It’s as ‘true’ as anything else we know about the brain.

And then … well it was some evocative writing, but I think they failed to bring home the final point. When they say ‘reality’, they mean ‘society’. Just substitute that word, and suddenly the whole article makes more sense, is relevant, and has teeth. They were trying to be poetic, when a more direct statement about the cha0s in our streets would have been more effective.

The title does suck.

What a great little site. It reminds me of istheshipstillstuck.com. I’m bookmarking that shit. Thanks, OP!

You, the molerats, the crazy girl, and any other fans. Start a craze.

You guys should all party together.

This fish grabbing sounds like quite a useful talent.

The broccoli is an excellent source of fiber. Fiber fills you up. Fiber is how you are supposed to know you are full.
The fiber is washed out of all the processed food. It doesn’t fill you up properly. So you eat more.
Its all chemicals, man. They are feeding us shit that’s designed to make us eat more.
So, eat that broccoli. And some beans. You won’t want the burger if you’ve had a healthy meal.

I own two GL.inet routers. I liked my Flint so much that I bought an Opal for my office and on the road. These machines are well provisioned. The OpenWRT reviews of them say to just leave the stock bootloader installed. I’ve installed all sorts of packages, multiple subnets, VPN, adblock, etc. GL.inet gear is good stuff.

I use sticky notes on my monitor.

Narcissist here. Nope. Not exhausting.
I think perhaps you’ve met some unhappy people. Not all people are unhappy.
Being self-centered doesn’t make you unhappy. It’s a navigable condition just like any other mood or perspective. Depends on what you make of it.

Um … ozempic happened.

The ‘body positive’ people finally got their way. See? Being fat really is a disease.
Now you can get medication and fix it. (For many people) that makes it a disease, not a behavior issue.
No willpower or even life changes required. The magic medicine fixes it all.

To be clear, I don’t condone the perspective above. Either of them.
Body positive and chemical living are sides of the same coin.

I lost weight by cutting back booze, eating properly, and exercising regularly. You know. The old way.
But I did that at the exact same time as ozempic hit the market, so I’ve an interesting relationship with the product. Ozempic has changed society more than we all quite realize.

That’s not so bad. Onions are quite tasty.

… Unless they are rotten. I grew up around onion farms. Omg, that smell.

You like this deeply branching thing. There are other aspects to gameplay. NV is ugly. I grew up in the southwest and have seen quite enough tumbleweeds. The whole crafting thing was tedious. The game needs fixin, crashes frequently. I gave up when my annoyance level exceeded my entertainment. That was well before your deep branches. NV is meh.

My first attempt to play was only a couple years ago on a modern pc. It didn’t work out. I figured it was just not running correctly. I’d bought them in a bundle, and just figured they were pieces for my collection, not actually games anymore.

You talkin about NV?
Boring. Bland. I played it. Guess I got about a third of the way through. Its not the great game people make it out to be.
Like I said, meh. Although your input is appreciated. Glad you liked it.

Or the first two games? Like, I’m not even sure they are running correctly. It’s old tech. I chalked their being unplayable up to them being literally unplayable.

Oh, you’re fine. It took me 4 1/2 years to get over sobriety and back to normal life.
You’ve wasted much less time.