Berttheduck

I seem to remember running in circles kiting a lot in the dlc area.

I really loved Control, one of my favourite games I think.

It’s worth playing just for the Ashtray maze section near the end all on its own, but the rest of the game is also great.

Whistle with my fingers, took a good few weeks of practice over one summer blowing spit all over my fingers but eventually I learned. Still a really useful skill today.

I enjoy both. I switch between fiction/fantasy heavy and science heavy. Sometimes I’ll do a run or a series of one and get a hankering for the other. Usually I prefer my sci-fi more science than fiction. I love the expanse and the martian for example. But I also enjoy the culture and the Polity books which are more fiction than hard sci-fi.

Well shit, I was playing dying light 2 yesterday. It’s mildly better than the other game I’ve been playing Pathogenic which is a rogue lite where you play a pathogen trying to kill the scientist who made you in a lab.

Think I’m pretty screwed either way to be honest. At least I’m dying light 2 I get to be human and do parkour so that’s cool.

Steam OS? Or emulators? It’s not like an old laptop is going to be running modern games

Could you just put Linux on the old machine instead? I suspect that would be safer.

And party on dudes.

What system is that? That’s a lot of d10s.

Gotta love the shiny click clack rocks. Such an easy rabbit hole to fall into.

Just another chipping in on the Eufy solar. I’ve been pretty impressed so far with a few minor niggles.

Generally it works well, connects nicely to the repeater and rings ok. Solar works great no issues with battery power on our south facing front.

The main selling point for me was no subscription or remote server connection.

It’s annoying if it loses connection to the WiFi. I’ve actually turned the security mode (which makes it scream if taken off the wall without turning that off first in the app).

Thanks, damn autocorrect.

Drowning in a small space like underwater caving. I’m a bit catastrophic (claustrophobic). Normally no issues with water but the thought of being trapped somewhere small and watching it full up with water terrifies me. Safe to say I am never going caving or swimming in caves.

Oh and the apparently inexorable march towards fascism in the UK and the west is pretty bad too.

I’m basically only on windows these days because I have a windows mixed reality vr headset and I don’t know how well that would play with Linux.

Those exist, look up intubation and ventilation.

Try slowly increasing your fibre content. Wholegrains beans and crunchy veg are easy ways to start. Most people don’t eat enough and are chronically constipated to some degree.

I’m glad you got checked out that incomplete emptying feeling can be a red flag so good decision there.

Excellent game. I really enjoyed my time with Slay the Princess. The voice acting was top notch, I really enjoyed working out what was going on and finding my way to the ending.

Everyone dies. Only certainty of life.

As part of my job in the hospital I often interact with dying people and their families. Palliative care - caring for people in the last period of their lives, in the UK focuses on patient experience and patient priorities. We generally aim for as pain free and as comfortable an end as possible and have medication which can usually make this a possibility.

The dying process for most people is a lot like falling asleep. They get more and more sleepy and spend less time awake. Eventually they go to sleep and the breathing starts changing with bigger gaps between breaths and eventually the breathing stops.

If it’s done well it’s a peaceful process with minimal pain and agitation.

If this is something you are concerned about it might be worth talking to your doctor about it. We have the RESPECT process in the UK which is a guided conversation about things important to the patient around the end of their life with medical recommendations for what is appropriate (not every treatment is appropriate for every patient).

Googly eyes on everything!

I think I’m a pretty kind and outgoing person. I’m also decidedly socialist, pretty much at eat the rich levels. So I think the world would change for the better, get some huge taxation going on the mega rich and funding for stuff like UBI. Dramatic shifts to renewable energy. People would probably stop killing each other. I can’t imagine doing that to someone else not in self defence.

I commute to work by bicycle and think cars are useful but good public transport is better so that is probably handy.

Down sides I’m a habitual comfort eater and love food so the obesity problem might get worse.

What did you think? I am hearing mixed things.