My family’s considered something similar, mostly because of one of my children’s allergies that make plane travel more risky. Helps that I have lots of PTO/work remote and we homeschool the kids though. It’s only like 26-30 hours for us.

Meatwad: “Books are from the Devil and TV is twice as fast”

Frylock: “Twice as fast at what?”

Meatwad: “Information”

Good point about correlation, entirety possible the depressed and anxious people may tend to increase screen use.

Rube flag?

I think part of the issue is more related to the Peter Principle, the job that one must be good at in order to become a politician has a different skill set from that which makes one a good politician.

Never did I suspect this Stephen Lynch song to not feel completely outlandish.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the 2nd best time is today.

ZERO SIEVERT (Steam)

I’m bending rule 4, because the official 1.0 release is announced for less than 1 month from now.

ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive.

I’ve played through it a 2nd time recently, it’s a fun solo experience, the difficulty is largely customizable, the different zones feel unique, lots to explore, even just a little morality testing on some quests. Decent enemy variety, the guns generally feel different, and different ammo types do matter. Skill will take you far, and carelessness, even in the easy areas, will be punished.

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.

I trust someone who’s better with puns and all the latest politics than I to do it justice, but I feel like there’s a rendition of “Brave Sir Robin” as “Brave Sir Orange” that could be quite good.

They do, but unfortunately, they’re radicalized nutjobs, so they aren’t much of an option now…

My wife has a NordicTrack bike, it auto adjusts resistance and incline. Insane people would pay more and not even get that.

Annual Wealth Tax 1% on total assets over 10M, additional 1% over 100M, additional 1% over 1B, etc etc. Raises along with inflation or something.

Without disputing that there were a lot of fuckups, this feels like a kind of pointless article given the uncle called 10 minutes after the shooter was shot by police, not sure there was much he could have done at that point.

Some of us play XCOM, 95% chance to hit might as well be 0% when you need 100%, usually means it’s time for a grenade.

It is was probably transferred from his ear to chin/cheek by something like the floor, his hand or SS. That’d explain why there isn’t a trail and it appears blotchy.

Those style of maps make the gameplay into a frenzy, turns the twitch shooting skill requirement up, drops the tactical planning.

The sad honest truth is probably that there are more bigoted people out there that won’t vote for a Dem if it isn’t a white guy than people who would add votes to one who isn’t, particularly in swing states. Maybe I’m too cynical…

As for replacements, even the people who some polls show as being slightly more popular than Biden haven’t been through anywhere near as much of a dedicated smear campaign as he has, and if they were, we don’t know how they’d poll.

Ok, sticking to roguelites, here’s some other options:

Deckbuilding Style: Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Griftlands, Balatro

Survivor/Bullet-Heaven Style: Vampire Survivors, Brotato, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

Realtime Combat (I’d put Hades/Dead Cells here): Hand of Fate 1/2, Zero Sievert, Wall World, Rogue Legacy 1/2, Risk of Rain 1/2, Heroes of Hammerwatch

FPS: Gunfire Reborn, Roboquest

Turn-based/Pausable: FTL, The Last Spell, Loop Hero, Dungeons of Dredmor, Darkest Dungeon 1/2, Backpack Hero, Into the Breach, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2

Sure I missed some other good stuff.

Not a roguelite/roguelike but if you liked the combat style of Hades, check out Bastion.