Just got to the Lower Ward on my planscape: torment replay. The soundtrack is great, found a couple different paths to take by dying I didn’t even think about when I played it last time. Updated my journal.

Justin E Bell - All Gods from pillars of eternity

https://youtu.be/2bqVB1MCN2c

Microfiber cloth is reusable and just as good

He mistook Alaska for Russia last week, he’s not exactly running on both cylinders

Yep nailed it unlocked challenge mode: Antarctica

Planscape torment is in there if you want some old school crpg.

ScummVM is an old point and click adventure game engine with a ton of classics (Sam and max, day of the tentacle, Indiana Jones, etc).

lichess.org for free chess, puzzles and matches for different modes

Alphacross is pretty good for crosswords but it looks like they don’t let you add your own sources which is a bummer and a couple sources have circled letters in puzzles that don’t show up that can make it a little janky

And there’s always DOOM

stooge /stoo͞j/

noun

1. The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian; a straight man.

2. One who allows oneself to be used for another’s profit or advantage; a puppet.

3. A stool pigeon.

Where else am I supposed to keep it

How much land is Trump willing to surrender if Russia invades the US?

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Disclaimer: I have no horse in this race, I don’t hunt or care to start hunting and if recreational hunting is more detrimental to sustained ecosystems than other tactics then it should be replaced, I’m more concerned with using good, reliable information to form conclusions

The first and third link doesn’t appear to link to any citations or data to support it’s claims, so I think it’s fair to treat it as an option piece but I think we should have better standards when making decisions that can affect our stewardship of the world around us

The second is quite long but from what I can gather it is the best of the 4 in that it is based on a survey of peer reviewed research and makes a good thorough case against a subset of recreational hunting, specifically trophy hunting, as unethical.

The last link says overabundance is not a scientific term used in the scientific literature, but I can clearly see it is in many widely cited research papers (two usages, one in linguistics and one in biology)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=overabundant

And in the additional resources section there’s a few broken links and the closest I can find to a peer review article is a letter to the editor of a journal, not identified as a peer reviewed article and without public access to the methodology if it contains one

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304380005003339

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Letter_to_the_Editor_considered_as_research_article_publication_Does_it_carry_any_value_in_terms_of_research_score

CLI with some aliases for viewing commit history and branching, or less frequently an IDE plugin

Disaffected, alienated, hostile come to mind

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization)

It’s cult tactics cynical manipulators in those unmoderated spaces use to indoctrinate young adults and kids to exploit and groom. They target kids who don’t have defenses to their tactics yet, either their education didn’t yet include how to critically evaluate evidence & propositions or they just weren’t mentally ready for that responsibility before engaging with predators. They want to seem edgy and offer truths on topics the kids’ parents or teachers may not be willing to engage with to draw them in to appear like they have some knowledge or power to offer other than just hate and anger.

That can sometimes be an outcome of a moral choice after accepting nihilism (what are ethics beyond or without objective meanings?), but there’s nothing necessarily relating desires for chaos and destruction to subjectivism and nihilism. Some nihilists are all about order and building so the reason they gave is bogus. They just feel the word has negative connotations so they used it without understanding what it means. It would be like saying they are jaywalkers who just want to watch the world burn. Some of them may be jaywalkers, but it’s not the motivation for them being there or necessary for them being there in those spaces.

Glad to see ffmpeg is still going strong, I used it years ago to do some project 1999 EverQuest streaming on twitch running on a Manjaro dist install running EQ in wine.

https://lichess.org/ FOSS run by a nonprofit with tons of players and game modes if anyone is looking to get into it

There’s no good single source but this seems like a good starting point

https://boycott-israel.org/boycott.html

And the site they frequently cite, https://www.whoprofits.org/

Curious when the last time business insider quoted a labor leader without a CEO or capitalist shill quoted in the same article. A US private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) acquired a majority share in the parent corp in 2020. They’re also selling ads for development in the west bank under yad2 https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/germany-media-giant-axel-springer-advertises-israels-illegal-settlements-in-the-west-bank-through-its-classified-ads-website-yad2-incl-co-comment/

I enjoy more arcade style racing games so over the last few years the ones I enjoyed the most were burnout paradise and the remake, trackmania, and forza horizon 4 and 5