A lot of them are actually just re-purposed leather or pleather from jackets I find at swap meets and thrift stores. I also occasionally get scrap leather from my dads friend who owns a ranch

I bind my own books using fiberboard and leather, and wood glue has always worked for me. My oldest book is around 9 years old and it is still going strong

Same, 80% of my gaming was on older releases. The only game I played released in 2025 was an indie TD game called Dungeon Warfare III, mostly because I played and loved I and II.

007 games are great hidden gems. Everyone knows Goldeneye, but Nightfire, Everything or Nothing, and From Russia with Love are all amazing spy shooters. Hopefully this one gets the same magic

My first instinct was to say no, but as I thought about it more it became more of a gray area. Comics use art and illustration to convey scene, and the only “reading” per se is dialogue and sometimes narration. Most novels lean more on description and imagination. But certain books/plays like Hamlet or The Iliad are also mostly dialogue/narration yet we consider those to be “reading”, essentially just without the art.

I’ve been a Steam only buyer for a long time. There are so many cool features and extra stuff, most games work out of the box, and they’ve been putting in a lot of effort on the linux scene with proton and the deck. But even despite all that, I’m starting to move to GOG. The sad truth is that you don’t own any of your games on Steam. I’ve been having more and more games be removed from my library, and games that either just don’t work or are “updated” into something worse. Not Steam’s fault really, but GOG is much more consumer friendly and I actually get files I can use and keep forever, no required updates or DRM. I really like Steam, and am having a hard time leaving it, but GOG is just the better choice from a long term and consumer ethics perspective.

Looks delicious! There are a couple of techniques to get good pics of food; here are a couple I can think of off the top of my head:

Take the picture in an area void of distractions like an empty table
Center the item of interest in the middle of the plate and make sure it’s clean of crumbs or fingerprints
Use garnish to make colors pop (e.g. like green chives on white mashed potatoes)
Take the pic in good lighting, sunlight from a window is best
Get close enough to the food to fill the whole frame, leaving a little space on the edges . Get even closer to get good food textures

A lot of pre-1990 games are pretty clunky, so you kinda have to see them either as someone from the era would or try to appreciate them for what they are today. That being said, a lot of them are still fun with this in mind.

The Gauntlet series is probably my favorite early game. It’s better played with 2-4 people, but can be played alone. It’s essentially a dungeon crawler, but the levels and enemies are interesting and fun to navigate.

Some other good ones are Dig Dug (pacman but more fun and underground), Galaga or Galaxian (arcade space shooters), Adventure for the Atari 2600 (first rpg and first easter egg in video game history), Rampage (be a giant monster and destroy buildings), 1943 (airplane shmup (shoot em up) with cool powerups and pixel art) and toobin (also a shmup where you’re on an inertube and navigate perilous waters. Sounds boring but it has really cool level progression and game mechanics later in the game).

Indeed it would be

The Halo 4 theme was so good that I would let it play out before starting a game most of the time. Definitely my favorite title theme.

Some other good ones are Skyrim, LOZ Ocarina of Time, and Star Wars Republic Commando

I use an Xbox series controller on Linux, and it works great. I like the ergonomics and stick feel personally. 8bitdo also makes excellent third party controllers

This was never a debate. This is me calling out your hateful behavior. Ad hominem is exactly what I’m doing, because I’m not arguing with you, I’m calling you out on your bad character. This is supposed to be a place for uplifting content, yet all I see you doing is tearing people down

Looking at your mostly downvoted comment history, I can see you’re the irrelivant, wrong and off topic one. If you don’t relate or care about a post, stay on Reddit with the other bigots and haters. Don’t relate to a post? Move on. Don’t like religion? Keep the hate to yourself. Simple.

I found the Redditor

Like others have said, this is an age old question. Plato’s Cave is my favorite rendition of the question.

The simple solution would be reason. Unless we live in a dystopia in full effect, like in 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, there will usually be multiple sources and perspectives on an issue or event, AI or not. Get info from all sides, and make a well informed personal decision with the info available. Never believe something initially and only do so if it is confirmed by multiple sources. Use logic, science, reason, ethos, or even faith as tools to seek and verify truth

I feel like stories have never been my go to. I always find myself playing games with excellent gameplay, rather than story (Mindustry, Balatro, Galaga, etc). I love a good story don’t get me wrong, but gameplay is my main attraction to games, and I feel thats where games started. If you look at retro games like Dig Dug or Adventure, or even modern indie titles like Balatro the attraction is basically 90% gameplay

I agree, AAA games are long dead. However there was a time where AAA games were amazing, maybe around the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era. Back when devs were allowed creative freetom to make the games they actually wanted and try new things. I think a lot of people with these complaints miss that level of catered quality from back then

The medium usually doesn’t change the story itself for me, but it does change the vibe of the reading experience. I’ve always compared reading physical books vs ebooks to a sense of place, like reading a book in a fluorescent-lit office vs reading in a comfy chair in front of the fireplace. The office is better for efficiency and learning, while the fireplace is much more comfy and relaxing

I recently discovered that Fahrenheit 451 (my favorite dystopian novel) is considered a banned book. This is really ironic because it’s litterally about a dystopia that bans books.

Games with amazing OSTs:
TES Skyrim
TES Oblivion
TES Morrowind
LOZ Minish Cap
LOZ A Link to the Past
LOZ Ocarina of Time
Sonic and the Secret Rings
Minecraft
Halo 1-4 & Reach
Bonus: Music by Ola Gjeilo (not a soundtrack but falls closely in line with Skyrim’s explore music, might even be better)

Favorite tracks from said games:
Skyrim: Far Horizons (London Symphony Orchestra Version)
Oblivion: The Wings of Kynareth
Morrowind: Over the Next Hill
Minish Cap: Mt. Crennel (Orchestral Remake)
Link to the Past: Lost Woods
Ocarina of Time: Gerudo Valley
Sonic & the Secret Rings: The Place that was Found (Evil Foundry)
Minecraft: Wet Hands
Halo 1-4 & Reach: main title themes
Ola Gjeilo: The Rose II