Neither, team field work baby!

Inflation is, in fact, a way of making sure the economy isn’t a zero-sum game.

a length of bicycle chain

$200 dollars would be a lot to spend per week on groceries for me and I make a lot more than minimum wage.

$200 would be a lot to spend on dinner as well, but affordable for a special occasion. Not for anything regular, though.

In both cases, I’m talking about feeding five or six people: two to three adults and three kids.

I would not, no.

I’d wait for after the holidays when flights will be cheaper.

I never chased top specs. I always chose the cheapest options that fit the minimum recommended specs for the software I was upgrading for.

I just want more generic Old West sets.

Star…ring Alan Tudyk and Jewel Staire, Firefly… is the best franchise in the history of (video) Sci-Fi… because it’s a space Western with sass.

(But really, Frank Herbert’s Dune is the best franchise in Sci-Fi.)

sending their kids to private school

I want to be me, I am me, I’d say it’s going well.

I am, it’s just okay. Some mice people but the way it is organized is decidedly suboptimal.

Why would you want to get over that?

Nah, I talk to the public for a living. Give me a the high-effort weirdos here, please.

Brogue, Hoplite, Stone Soup and other roguelikes

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Battle for Wesnoth

Heroes of Might and Magic

various card games

basically, any game with significant tactical depth can benefit from well-done turn-based timing

self-hosting, smaller more thematically-focused instances, and aggressively defederating any instance that hosts ads or propaganda

slrpnk.net coming back oniline

When I think of something amusing to say, I tend to say it without stopping to think about if it is appropriate… or kind.

Ostentatious Austin, Texas

My children’s optometrist is a place called “Tropical Optical”. I can’t do it.

and “twelvths”