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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Man, I managed to completely forget about that. My dad was really, really into that game. Like, that’s about all he did for most of 4 years and ended up leaving my mom for someone he met in game.

    I guess SL wasn’t really any worse about that than any other game, plenty of people meet and get married in MMOs, but I think the raging custom-content sex parties in SL probably didn’t help matters at the time.

    Wonder how that game is doing these days. Cursory web search says it’s still alive. I probably would have found it to be pretty interesting if I wasn’t so turned away from it by my family experience.



  • I use my local library from my phone with the Libby app. I don’t know if this benefits them as much as going there in person does. I did go there to get a library card though, you need one to sign up in the app.

    But they have a great catalog of ebooks that I can borrow from, I’ve read the bulk of The Dresden Files that way recently and I’m about to finish it if the last two books ever come off reservation.




  • On machines that were actually strong enough to run it, it was mostly fine. I played on PC and while I admit the later balancing update was probably necessary, I didn’t run into most of the real nasty bugs people liked to talk about. I had a great time putting in 100 or so hours in version 1.

    A solid 80% or more of all the problems Cyberpunk had at launch stemmed from trying to launch it on last-gen consoles. It absolutely was not intended for PS4 or XB1 and targeting those platforms was a mistake. Once they pulled availability for those and buckled down on getting it prettied up for next gen, the quality jumped by a mile within the next year and a half of updates.

    The launch was rough, I grant you that, and maybe I’m just simping for CDPR but even at the time I was in the vocal minority saying, hey this game really isn’t that bad if you give it a chance and run it on hardware that it was intended for.

    And of course now with its updates and DLC it’s just genuinely a great game.









  • I have my doubts about this, we had problems with faithless electors in 2016 as well, that’s how we put Orange Julius in the white house the first time around without the popular vote. If the electors decided they wanted to vote Trump there’s not actually anything preventing them from doing that, there’s no law stating that they must vote in step with their electorate. The intended balance to that is supposed to be that you won’t get re-elected if the people learn about it, but conservatives don’t seem to be concerned with that anymore.

    All that to say, if a large pro-Trump section of the electorate decided to just vote for him no matter who their constituents voted for, there’s no mechanism to prevent this and it would look an awful lot like the election we just had.