But you have heard of me?

My understanding was that it had to do with the laser in the CD/DVD/bluray drive “burning” the data onto the disc.

Misspelled “lame-o” is my guess. Though my spelling of it is a guess as well.

I’m honestly surprised no one has mentioned Chrono Trigger yet. Absolutely fantastic soundtrack.

Secret of mana 3 is also great. The track that comes to mind is “where angels fear to tread”

Shame they’re making that harder going forward by removing pixel specific info from the build tree

That’s where the chaos comes in, how would they reconcile the dichotomy between an ostensibly divine message that directs them to follow the teachings of the religion that they profess to follow and the actions of their own party that directly contradict that in a lot of ways? Chaos would be an understatement for a lot of them.

I’m sure the mental gymnastics involved with trying to reconcile both sides would be worthy of the Olympics.

Kind of against the letter of the rule since this isn’t really intended to cause chaos for the sake of chaos,but I’m sure chaos will result nonetheless.

“This is God, there’s a reason why i put variations on love thy neighbor in every single religion. Differences in faith and race don’t matter, helping others and making the world a better place do. You’ve disappointed me, do better”

Kind of against the letter of the rule since this isn’t really intended to cause chaos for the sake of chaos,but I’m sure chaos will result nonetheless.

“This is God, there’s a reason why i put variations on love thy neighbor in every single religion. Differences in faith and race don’t matter, helping others and making the world a better place do. You’ve disappointed me, do better”

In a similar vein, this is the second time today I had a chance to reference this quote on the nature of language from the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett.

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)

That sounds fun, might do that part time in this scenario while getting through the backlog of media that’s piled up over the years.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

Probably related to this, very fun column to read.

You can, its an option if you use tailscale. https://tailscale.com/mullvad

Also look into using tailscale lock to secure things more if you do decide to use it

Saints row: the third remastered please

A fond memory is beating the light world in lttp and seeing the dark world for the first time

Stressed about finances, I splurged on a few things that were not essential, but were wanted for varying reasons, some sentimental, some out of sheer practicality in that treating myself is a good thing every once in a while. Now my budgets blown for at least a month or so until I can rebuild the savings I dipped into.

Long live the three seashells

Nothing wrong with using the output as a starting point then editing it from there

Thanks, I really appreciate it. I am working on making some things better for myself. Its just hard to keep up motivation some says when progress is slow due to other factors and the regret and frustration play on on daily loop most days.

I see this in my future. My mom has made my life a living hell emotionally speaking for years now. It was bad enough before Covid, but still tolerable. After Covid, suffice to say she drank all the antivax koolaid and has tried to shove it down my throat at every opportunity.

Frustratingly, she’s also one of the only people who regularly keeps in touch with me. I’ve already gone low contact but I am not currently in a situation where I can fully cut her off. The low contact part bothers her immensely since she refuses to understand how her actions over the years has pushed me away.

The sad part is, I feel bad about cutting her off. I want a good relationship with both my parents, especially before something like this happens. For this, and many other reasons not relevant to this thread, my life’s a long string of frustration, regret, loneliness, and pain. I don’t see it getting better any time soon. I’m so tired of all the pain and emotional turmoil.

Not what I had in mind when I said that, but intent doesn’t translate well over text. What I had in mind is protection for the school/students from people who would rather enforce their views through force, nothing more than that. The idea is that everyone has a chance to get an education.

Fund free education and health care for everyone in the world regardless of race, nationality and creed. Imposed no matter how much kicking and screaming certain countries might do to oppose it. With appropriate countermeasures for each specific country that opposes it. A random country in the middle east that hates educating girls or whatever? Armed guards and other related measures as needed. US has entrenched for profit health care? Fund legislation that rips out the entire system by the roots etc.

Excess funds would be invested in such a way as to fund those programs in perpetuity. With safeguards put in place so that I can be reasonably certain that it won’t be easy to dismantle from within or without.

Assuming I have enough money left over, I’d do the same for housing.

If I still have money left over if also fund ways of tackling the climate crisis and changing corporate strategy so instead of chasing infinite growth in a finite world the mentality is more about stability and stewardship, of the company and of the planet.