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Playing the original Half-Life is like a formative gaming memory for me… It had been such a massive leap from your DOOM 2s and Dukes Nukem. I was super young though, so I don’t know how much I cared about the narrative.

HL2, on the other hand…Now that I remember vividly. I remember having to use five CDs to install it because Steam had literally just been invented (for HL2). Having to create a Steam account and log into a service to play a game was so foreign at the time lol…

Might be time to re-play.

This might only be true for people who played the original when it first came out (or at least, were playing video games at that time, and are used to the dated graphics).

Also, to add to this: if you haven’t played Portal and Portal 2, then you need to do that now. Like possibly even before HL

If you’re gonna start with 1, I recommend playing Black Mesa as the updated graphics and qol stuff make it easier to tolerate in modern times.

But that’s just me. There is probably some crucial reason why Black Mesa is not the definitive version, and I’m about to hear why

Hmmm… I guess it has been over a decade. Maybe it’s time to play HL2 again.

This has now become canon

There are guitar pedals that have toggle dials (? dunno if that’s the correct term). But they are dials for things with several discrete settings (usually more than the two or three that a typical dipswitch can handle).

Off the top of my head, the JHS pedals where they pack like 7 or 8 versions of an OD circuit into a single pedal (Bonsai, Muffaletta, PackRat), all have such dials. They click into place and there is nothing in between. And it works just fine.

Old television dials also come to mind. Discrete channels with nothing but dead air in between.

You can get kits online for pretty cheap, and probably make something like this yourself if you really wanted to. Just get a kit to make a fuzz pedal or overdrive, and do some custom modifications to the enclosure.

Fuzz maybe.

I just had a flashback to playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater after school

And here I thought that old “SFW porn gif” reddit sub was an original idea…

That’s actually a pretty sick piece of art though.

Check out Fatal Familial Insomnia. It’s just a cute little prion you can get that will let you never fall asleep again. Maybe that would help with the withdrawals?

Side note: it has been determined that prions are not terrifying, actually. No, that is not the prion speaking, don’t be silly.

Yeah I would think that many people on this site are not in the right headspace for psychedelics at the moment. For… Reasons. Set and setting are crucial.

Ketamine on the other hand… Perfect mind set to do a line and enter the hole, and leave your worries behind for an hour or so.

It’s just so fucking boring… Imagine if every story, movies, TV, video games, etc., went back to only being about straight white men?

As a straight white man, it just sounds so fucking boring. I really do not get it.

Same for society in general. What a boring fucking country with boring food and literally no culture of their own beyond bigotry, that these people want. Just because they couldn’t handle seeing a brown person doing better in life than them. To them that’s an injustice that needs to be corrected.

Lol no. Often a video game will get called “woke” for simply having a female protagonist with short hair.

My only hope about public radio/TV, going forward, is that they’re already so used to operating on a shoestring budget from the government. It will unfortunately mean more funding drives, but I will definitely be far more likely to contribute if that becomes literally their only source of income.

And maybe without money from the government, they will be more independent, as lately NPR has been sliding right as an overcorrection over idiots that think reporting objective reality is biased because it makes their side look bad.

The right-wing rot is in Europe too.

Well I imagine efficiency is measured by the amount of work done divided by the number of hours worked… I know the salary-man culture in Japan is pretty grueling, so I imagine the hours are super high. And since they’re so fucking tired (Japanese men sleeping at the office is a meme), the work suffers.

So they are not only working far more hours than average, but getting the same amount or possibly even less, work complete in that time because of energy levels/morale.

Simple math that you’d hope even a CEO could grasp.

Get in a union (while you still can). I’ve been rocking the 4-day work week (with one day WFH) for years. It’s great.