Wendy’s is falling off a quality cliff unfortunately, while also driving up prices. Used to go there a lot, haven’t been in a while.

Gifts are from us, to parents/grandparents individually, everyone else as a couple if possible, else single.

Sesame Street is great for exposure to a variety of types of people and some cultures. PBS in general is pretty good for that.

Bluey is fun for parents and kids, though it can give kids some high expectations from their parents.

Numberblocks is a good math concepts/counting show.

Storybots is a good learning about the world kind of show.

Paw Patrol has some life lesson kinds of things, but has more action/adventure stuff.

Aged like 21, working in a gas station convenience store register, man walks in, seems homeless and wasted, asked me to call 911 for him, says they’ll know him. Obviously not covered in the manual, but I figure that if someone asks you to call, you call.

I call, talking to the operator trying to explain… The dude just goes down like a sack of potatoes, whacks the top of his head on the counter, knocks over a couple of displays, and starts twitching on the floor. The operator got ALOT more compliant, EMTs picked the guy up (he was a frequent flier), he had a like 3in bump on his forehead that looked like a horn.

I cleaned up the store, trashed the food he damaged, bleached all the other stuff. Weird day.

CPAP, comes with a cell chip in it to relay data for the Dr to monitor/access. Cell chip stops working after 5 years.

Edit: Realized this could use more clarity. The cell plan for the chip expires after 5 years and cannot be renewed, meaning the entirely functional machine needs to be replaced or the Dr can’t properly monitor necessary vitals.

I just want to see some more exceptionalism from Flute Guy.

It’s not just that it means nothing, it’s that it exists as the implication of something or anything that can be used to identify with the in-group.

For the awareness of the elderly, 6-7 is starting to evolve, at least locally, into a call and response with the response to a 6-7 hand gesture being 8-9 with a kind of horizontal movement of vertical hands in a similar fashion. I’m unsure how local the trend is, it’s true origin, or if it will spread.

It’s interesting that to those not initiated into the call and response by peers will see knowledgeable non-peers providing the response as mocking or failing to understand the meme, thus further cementing it’s role as a tool as an in joke to the 6-7’er, despite them now being on the outside of the evolution of the joke, which is a wonderful contradiction.

Having never used OF, I assumed it was a pay to access content model, I guess they additionally allow tipping, which isn’t a surprise, I assume there’s also a pay for specific content creation model. But what I don’t know is if the tipping, while linked to a creator, is linked to a specific piece of content. If it isn’t, wouldn’t a creator with any amount of mixed content be hard to evaluate? You couldn’t prove the tipping was related to an excluded category in that case.

Once Upon a Galaxy has been my default game since I first played it.

It’s an asynchronous alternating activation autobattler (like Arcane Rush, or Storybook Brawl/Hearthstone Battlegrounds but you play against ghosts). Games take about 10-15 minutes.

It’s largely public domain fantasy themed, but has been expanding into the “legally distinct” cultural references as they add content, basically every captain/unit/treasure is a reference.

The shop mechanic is simplified, there’s no currency, you just get a set of choices, and can pick 1. You get two shops per round by default, lots of ways to get extra.

Asynchronous play means that you face challenging opponents that naturally evolve with the meta game but you can also take time to make thoughtful decisions.

The draft pool for the shop has a large base pool that you add to by selecting a custom sebset from a second large pool as your captain’s deck. The progression is through unlocking cards for each captain’s secondary pool, and unlocking new captains. You can naturally earn all cards through play, most captains are free, new captains are paywalled for a limited time.

Monetization is through 3 paths: cosmetics, acceleration of card unlocks, access to paywalled captains. I haven’t found it to be particularly exploitative or negative feeling.

My only gripe is minor, that it doesn’t have mid-run save/resume, but that is on their road map.

There is essentially no story, if that matters to you.

If it’s not obvious, I’m really enthusiastic about this game. I’m not affiliated/sponsored in any way. Happy to answer any questions.

It sounds very infrastructure/trade based than politics, so I’d stay away from nation/country terms. Regional Planning would be a generic term for the infrastructure piece, could use Commerce if trade is important. >

I’m going to steal this from my favorite author, the power to arrive late to things, and it frequently happens even if you aren’t trying to.

Bonus power: the power to get an excessive amount of water on the floor when washing dishes.

There are many more, it’s a fun series.

It depends on what you mean by viewpoint.

If they’re disagreeing about objective reality, 0/10. If we can’t agree on an objective level, there’s no point.

If they’re disagreeing about following the social contract of tolerance, -10/10. They break the contract, they aren’t covered by it, they should be removed with prejudice.

If they’re disagreeing about the value of certain concepts, solutions or programs, 3/10? I’d talk to someone about something for a little while, I might give them a reference, but it’s not my job to educate them.

Of course just talking to people, I’m like a 5/10 in general…

An Open World is only too big if it requires loading screens at transition points that aren’t natural. An Open World can have an insufficient density of relevant content, where exploring it has too little marginal utility to the player, and therefore it is ultimately not useful to exist.

It sounds like the adapter is trying to provide the mic in on your phone.

Test by seeing if the mic is suppressed by having only the adapter plugged in but no aux. If the mic works appropriately with no aux, how many black lines are on the aux you’re plugging in? If there’s three, then that aux cable is a TRRS 'requesting" mic control. If you can get one with 2 (TRS), that might resolve it.

If the mic doesn’t work with just the adapter, then it’s the adapter’s fault.

Conservatives do not understand subtext, satire, or allegory. They don’t assign what they like or don’t based on any meaningful understanding of the message it conveys. They get told what to like and believe by authority and follow it, constantly dismissing or dissonancing any message from what they consume that doesn’t align with their instilled beliefs.

Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace was originally planned to be a covert Sith Master. He force jumps, he uses mind control, and he “accidentally” sabotages them. But the negative reaction to him was so strong, Lucas reworked the last 2 scripts of the prequels and is why Count Dooku basically comes out of nowhere.

• Do you use youtube mainly? Daily, but secondary to Twitch
• Do you care about clickbait? Nope
• Did clickbait make you stop seeing some creator? Clickbait that are lies damage my opinion of a creator, clickbait that’s honest is irrelevant
• Did you use youtube but clickbait (among other things) made you to stop using it’s platform? Still use YT
• Do you think clickbait is the major of the YouTube’s problems? Nope, discoverability, live streaming, and comments are all bigger imo
• Do you see something good in clickbait among the bad things? Like, which ones? Only negative is when it is intentionally deceptive.
• Could we see clickbait as a necessary evil? It is as necessary as all advertising is, if it’s honest, fine, if not, then no.

In a car, outside a Panera, after hours.

I’ll be honest, I can’t remember all my particular criticisms, but here’s my impressions that I have left:

It’d be more accurately titled Star Trek: Burnham, because 95% of the time, every problem or mystery is somehow related to Burnham, everyone else is just supporting cast.

Like Picard, each season felt very disconnected from the others, there’s some continuity, but you could almost name the season based on the feel of an episode.

Plots more often than not felt underwhelming, as they were solved by essentially deus ex machina, mcguffins, surprise reveals or abrupt character changes.

It was largely visually ok, actors all did at least a decent job.

I have 0 desire to ever rewatch a single episode.