Damn I’ve bought a lot of crucial stuff over the years

I assume they’re my current memory kit too since I pretty much always go with them

Oh did they not have the Dorling Kindersley branding over there?

Lol why?

Genuinely seems pretty arbitrary given you need to use their app to start the cast anyway

It’s a passive cosmetic effect once you get to that level

If they’re gonna buy a nas anyway, how many years to break even?

A brain that needs to be tricked into falling asleep half the time

Usually it’s not even negative thoughts or anything like that, it’s just busy problem solving

Like if they’ve even got a single braincell, why would someone so obviously tell on themselves like this

Truly baffling

I was a student during the 360s life

So much split screen Halo with my house mates

I say this as someone with an apple laptop:

You don’t buy Apple unless you want to commit to paying over double for accessories.

If you buy an Apple product you’re opting in to being fleeced by them for any related purchases.

It’s a premium brand at the end of the day, there are always more economical options

Thanks for the meal inspo OP

I think I’ll go and make this right now

Aside from other suggestions already made (but seriously the answer is SPD)

• Peglin - think if peggle was a roguelite inspired by slay the spire
• Mini metro - minimalist puzzle game where you built out a metro system
• Balatro - yes you can get balatro on your phone (it was in the op)

Edit: balatro was in the OP so I’ll add another

• Brotato - made a bit harder than the PC version with the touch controls IMO, but still a good time killer on the phone

Yep, this

I’ve probably sunk several hundreds of hours into it at this point

The fact it’s still being actively developed for like over a decade is just icing on the cake

Hmm, tough one. I’m going to maximise replayability and this assumes all DLC too

• RimWorld
• Factorio
• Balatro
• FTL or Slay the Spire
• Civ 6 or Cities Skylines

Honourable mention to several JRPGs from Squaresoft

Edit: I’m now reading the thread and second guessing everything. But gonna keep my original list

What do you mean there are no such things as farmer’s markets?

What do you mean there are no such things as other grocery chains that isn’t Wal-Mart, Kroger .etc?

Exactly that, it’s all in the article.

The only shop is a dollar store.

All these things you expect are absolutely not a given everywhere.

Besides, why the fuck would anyone want to live in the smack of no where?

Predominantly because they don’t have the wealth or income necessary to live anywhere else in most cases. Y’know because of the poverty…?

There are absolutely millions in poverty in developed countries like the US who do not have any ability to buy fresh food.

Being able to eat healthily is a privilege in 2025, which is fucking disgusting, but absolutely true.

There are towns in America where the only place for a hundred miles they can buy food is a dollar store. These shops don’t typically stock anything fresh or particularly healthy.

The people there will be too poor to live anywhere else and might be working multiple jobs (as is typical in American poverty) so will not have time/energy to attempt to grow anything themselves

We are lucky that we can eat healthily, but don’t let yourself think that’s a choice everyone gets

Yeah it’s not a particularly obscure character in some languages, so it’s not really going to affect an LLM at all, it’ll already know what to do with them. Hell you could write in MSN era fancy text using characters incorrectly and I’d not be surprised if an LLM had no issue decoding it.

Heart’s kinda in the right place, but the only outcome is going to be confusion and frustration from humans.

Edit: was curious about the assertion I made about MSN text

Seemingly no trouble

It was the one that would let me sign up with minimal questions when I wanted to join.

I wasn’t sure if I was necessarily going to stick around at that point, so I didn’t want to answer a questionnaire and wait for approval just to try it out

Inertia has me still here

If you can get an old final-intel-gen MBP in decent nick, they can make pretty decent Linux machines if you’re okay with not being able to do any internal hardware upgrades.

tiny-dfr is your friend if you happen to get one with that touchbar F-row, which is probably the only big downside compared to a conventional laptop.

I think it’s mostly because these Devs were impacted by an actual mistake from valve recently, and then this happens during their apparent compensation for this.

Tbf though I agree this article is mostly about clicks. They say the emails went out and they sold 5k copies, so it’s not like the first time

I’ve been playing N64 games just fine on my MiSTer FPGA for like a year or so now.

I can even use my Retrode 2 to use a real cart if I want rather than my network share with a complete 1g1r set for the platform.

I know they’re a “it just works” solution, but I just don’t see the value in the Analogue stuff compared to MiSTer if you’re even remotely techy

You get hardware emulation of almost everything from before the dreamcast for about the same price as this single console