Some people at Trader Joe’s say that, too.

$20 is the limit for me. I’m perfectly fine waiting a few years to play the game, if it still exists by that point. If it doesn’t, then I’m glad I didn’t waste my time.

Funny you mention it, the next large purchase I have planned is a gaming PC to replace my aging 2018 laptop, and I plan on going all-in on Linux. From what I can tell, AMD seems to be the way to go, and as a long time Fedora user, I’m interested in Nobara.

What’s your setup? Any recommendations?

To be fair, Internet grumblings on Reddit were actually a good starting point for me. The first, most important step, was learning that ADHD existed as something much more than just the wild child that’s bouncing off the walls.

Then I started seeking out people with ADHD sharing their experiences (and, of course, memes), and I was shaken by how much some of them resonated with me. There were habits, fidgets, quirks I had that I had never seen or heard of anyone else doing that turned out to be common with ADHD.

To your point, yes, there were and still are plenty of people recklessly and inappropriately linking everything to ADHD or promoting harmful misinformation, which is why I purposely stuck with reading personal perspectives and not “authoritative” statements. Even so, I kept seeing more and more things that perfectly described me and I finally felt seen. Which led me to looking into professional research about ADHD that ended up explaining even more of my entire life, in turn pushing me to finally seek a diagnosis.

All that to say there are some good resources on the US side. You just have to be willing to dig through mountains of dog shit–and recognize that it’s dog shit in the first place–to find the occasional nugget.

I’m waiting for Ol’ Pete to lay down a policy directive determining that those of us on stimulants, anxiety meds, antidepressants, etc. are unfit for military service. I’ll gladly take medical retirement with full benefits for life because of some Adderall. Good luck manning Cyber and Intel.

Your perspective is way off. It sounds like you’re young, single (no kids, at least), and doing well for yourself. Which is great!

I have a pretty well-paying job, at least enough for my family and I to live comfortably. But I also have adult responsibilities, including taking care of said family. Sure, on paper, I could feasibly afford to get both, but there’s no sense in getting two systems that–to my earlier point–seem to serve identical functions. Especially not when I’d also like to go out with my wife, prep a high schooler for college, help my younger child with severe special needs with everything he needs to thrive, sometimes go on vacation, do some other hobbies, responsibly maintain vehicles and things around the house, and so on. All that on top of purchasing frugally (every single piece of furniture in my living room, for example, we got secondhand for free).

So yes, it’s very much an either/or decision for me, as it is for a lot of people.

I don’t have a Steam Deck yet. Given the choice between that and the Switch 2, at this point, I’m still going with the Steam Deck.

Damn, I felt that one particularly hard

What are some good free providers besides OpenSubtitles? I recently migrated my library and I’m hitting my daily limit filling in what I’m missing.

I’m choosing to interpret this as the human being the patient and that (harmlessly) forking pot-bellied pigs is therapeutic for us.

Hit me. I love evolutionary fun facts.

As soon as they showed the JoyCon mouse control I was hoping there would be support for standard mice. It still doesn’t do anything to steer me toward a Switch 2 over a Steam Deck, but it’s an excellent move for accessibility.

Where are you hosting your instance now? I’ve been looking into a cheap VPS for the things I’d rather not host on my personal home network.

See, and look how he turned out!

It’s not even worth allowing the term “woke” any legitimacy at this point.

https://ioi-xd.net/files/wokeornot.html

As it turns out, not a lot.

I see what you mean. There’s definitely been a lot of marketing overreach with the franchise. But there’s something about Final Fantasy that makes it a money-printing machine. Maybe it’s the long legacy, nostalgia, or the fact that they’ve been with it since the beginning, but FF marketing campaigns have (almost) always been wildly successful in a way that Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, or even Dragon Quest (in the US) can’t live up to. Just look at Kingdom Hearts, Super Smash Bros, and even that Louis Vuitton promo with Lightning.

Not that I’m trying to sell you on this set. I get that a lot of people don’t like Universes Beyond.

It’s finally gotten way out-of-hand, even for me. Gen XI will be the first main series Pokémon games in 30 years I won’t be pre-ordering, let alone even buying. First-party Switch games were already way too expensive, rarely ever going on sale, and now we may be moving to an $80 standard. And it seems the main selling point of the Switch 2 in the latest Direct was a bunch of ports. At that price point, there’s no reason not to just get a Steam Deck and sail the high seas for first-party titles. At least Valve won’t brick my device if I hurt their feelings.

FIN is the best-selling MtG set of all time and there hasn’t even been a prerelease event yet. Blowing up the budget is plenty justified in this case.

I really hope there comes a day where all this nonsense builds up and finally ends with “algorithms” imploding on themselves.

An unrealistic hope, but a hope nonetheless.