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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything not tech/Linux related. It's 90% of my feed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's about how well it fits in. You produce and find guns and can equip yourself and the pals with certain weapons. Modern firearms in a generic fantasy setting. It's like a meme game that has too much production budget.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Your phone does the same thing just without communicating it. Samsung phones let you change the percentage of the battery is "100%" charged.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's cool that YouTube started doing a recap. It's fun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Top song is Comin Around by Andrew Duhon.

Top artist is The Tedeschi Trucks band, no surprise there. Best God damn band on tour right now. Listened to them so much this year as I got tickets to one of their shows this past July.

It was a good year of listening for me.

Edit: after scrolling through the comments, pretty cool seeing very few repeated bands.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Make them better coffee and then don't comment on it until they ask.

Most people seem to connect bitter and strong and it's a hard habit to break out of. People are used to crappy coffee.

Just getting them to a stage where they buy quality beans and grind them fresh is a big leap, but once they reach that baseline you can introduce roast levels.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

When Firefox announced that a ton of their add-ons/extensions were coming to the mobile app, it got me to switch from chrome after almost 15 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any RPG with dialogue and choices. Bonus points for custom characters or male/female options.

Before my girlfriend got into games, I would often play a new game with her and ask her to design the create-a-character and ask for her input on dialogue choices. Sometimes we would take turns reading aloud in game text and documents. It got her invested without the stress of having to handle the game.

She eventually bought herself a switch and blasted out 500 hours of animal crossing during the pandemic lockdown and now she is all in on games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it's fully supported by the statistics and multiple large channels have tried to get away from the shitty thumbnails, but those videos get significantly less clicks.

We can hate it, but it works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As a Tesla owner of 5 years with a cross country road trip in the car, Teslas charging has never failed me. It's rare to encounter a charging stall not working, but every location has multiple chargers and they repair stalls quickly.

Almost every location I've been to has at least 8 stalls if not more. The navigation in the car also keeps track of stalls in use, electricity prices, expected wait time and if any stalls are not working.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

You can still be hyper critical of a product you use. I rely on tons of Google services and also use a pixel, but that doesn't stop me from being disappointed in their behavior at large when it seems like the leadership is allergic to making the easy winning decisions.

The realistic alternative is Apple and frankly fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That makes the country as a whole 7/7 in protecting state level abortion rights. As an Ohioan I breathe a sigh of relief today.

 
 

Week 7: Americana

This week we are reading and discussing chapter 14 and 15.

 

Week 5-6: Living in the Past

We will not be meeting on Sunday 8/7/2023 due to most of us being busy with travel but we are planning on meeting the next Sunday 8/14/2023.

With that, the group has agreed that our next reading selection is all of Part 3, chapters 9-13.

This post will serve as a backup on-going discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time.

Some discussion questions to get started:

  • Do you think Jake did the right thing in this first trip to 1958
  • Will Jakes cell-phone in the lake come up again? (it is a Nokia after all)
  • Is the past going to get more obturate the longer he stays there?
  • did he cause any massive changed in 2011?

Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods.

Happy Reading.

 

Week 4: The Past is Obdurate.

This is a catchup post for the community. I forgot to make a the week 3 post and the week 4 post is being made after the discussion. I will post the next discussion this week.

Questions for this week:

  • Did you suspect No Suspenders to be involved?
  • How did you feel about Dunning's choice of weapon?
  • How will Harry be different in 2011?
  • Did you make the connection to Steven Kings IT and Derry?
  • Are the associations with IT working for you?

Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods.

Happy Reading.

 

Week 2: Life Turns on a Dime.

This week we are reading and discussing chapters 3 and 4 of 11/22/63 by Steven King.

Week 2 meeting will be on Sunday 7/16/2023 at 9pm EST / 6pm PST.

We are considering recording our meeting sessions but we will see how that goes. It may turn in to a twitch stream.

This post will serve as a backup discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time.

Some of our discussion questions to get started:

  • Did you have any preconceived notions about Steven King and his writing?
  • Have you read any of his previous works?
  • Where do you think the story is going?
  • What do you think of the main character?
  • Does anything stand out to you about the writing style?
  • Any particular lines that stood out to you?

Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods.

Happy Reading.

 

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Week 1 WELCOME

This is our first post. It will be updated with a basic summary of what was covered and serve as a backup discussion for anyone that cant make our usual Sunday meeting.

The club has nominated 11/22/63 by Steven King as our first book. Our first discussion will be Sunday 7/9/2023 covering chapters 1-2.

If you need a copy of the book we can provide a pdf.

Happy reading.

EDIT UPDATE:

First meeting down. We covered the prologue and chapters 1-2.

We have decided to stick with the Sunday 9pm meeting time. This week we will be reading chapters 3-4 and discuss this Sunday 7/16/2023 at 9pm EST / 6pm PST. That discussion will continue on the Week 2 post.

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