Because their coins have holes in them and it’s awesome.

But do you think you would improve over several years of practicing knitting a couple of times a week? Would you be able to outperform a kindergartener? If yes, I don’t think it works for this analogy.

Isn’t it? A physically disabled person might suck absolute arse at walking, I suck absolute arse at drawing. I will never get good at it, either - I went through 9 years of art class in school and in 9th grade my drawings weren’t much better than 1st. Might as well consider it a mental disability at this point. Okay, technically I DO have a mental disability, it’s called ADHD, and it makes learning some skills so difficult I wonder how anyone can do these things, while others are a breeze to the point where I wonder how other people don’t manage as easily as I do. Yes, I see the irony.

For a while, I’ve wanted to make a few video games. I’ve actually got three in mind. I’d like to make one 3D game, one fast-paced side-scrolling platformer and one tiled top-down game. For each, I have a vision of how to make them fun (hopefully) and differentiate from a lot of existing games. But I can’t do it because I have no art skills and I can’t afford to pay an artist for the sheer amount of work it would take to produce all the assets for a full game. I am also not going to approach someone and say “Heeeeeeey wanna put in a bunch of work for nothing but a share in the proceeds from a game that may never make 20 bucks?” So my best bet, really, is to focus on either of the 2D games, have AI help me out with the art (which may well be quite difficult if I want to keep a consistent style) and then on the 0.000000001% chance that it’s commercially successful, I can commission art for the next game, or on the 0.00000000000000000001% chance that it’s very successful, hire a full time artist or two.

Note that I haven’t done it, but it’s something I’ve considered.

Yeah, the session token expiry time seems to be something really short. In comparison, Steam has asked me to re-login like 3 times over the last 7 or 8 years I’ve used it (I used to be an active hater and only had it for HL2 and claiming the free games like Portal).

Why’s that?

Headspace app, omega 3 supplements, amphetamine, CPAP machine

Even that is not a full guarantee, as you may develop an incurable disorder, or even be born with one.

It is a great way to minimize the throughgoing though.

I’ve given up on the free games. I’m sure some are great, but I have enough of a backlog on Steam, I don’t need more indie games. Plus I may as well pay for indie games - it’s the AA and AAA games I want to grab for free.

Now they still have some great AAA games every now and then that I would actually like to grab for free, but due to how much stuff they put out that isn’t interesting to me, I’ve given up looking at it. Doesn’t help that I have to re-login every time, regardless of whether I’m using EGS or Heroic (which is a way better launcher and the one I have installed right now).

At this point I think I need to invest some time in getting an RSS client set up and getting notifications for EGS free games and other things I enjoy that I keep forgetting about. I guess I had notifications when I had the EGS client installed on Windows and it ran on the background, now I only fire up Heroic when I realize it exists.

Edit: No idea why I didn’t do this sooner, I already have Akgregator installed and found this rss feed for free games from a reddit comment. It’s a Steam community and posts games from several sources, including Epic.

For real? I need to snatch me some KKK guys next time I play.

Not all my life, nor even that major a city (just under 100k population), but that’s where the jobs are. If I were to move to Sweden it would probably be Göteborg to work at Volvo, or Stockholm to work at some tech company. As a foreigner I don’t know the language or the tech job scene enough to pull off some small town.

I was actually born in a much smaller town, bored as hell as a teenager, my peers’ (obviously not everyone, but a lot of kids) daytime activities included booze, drugs and crime. Pretty much everyone escaped after high school, many after middle school. That’s not the kind of environment I prefer living in. The ~100k population range is decent, there’s places to go, things to do, it’s walkable (since we’re in Europe, not US), but if you want to drive out of the city, it’s 10 minutes to the city limit and then you’re gone.

Now if there’s a decent tech scene in like Jönkoping or Lund or somewhere, I’d be delighted to hear about that. But for the most part, those aren’t places you hear about, nor do they pop out much in job search sites. I’m not picky either, I don’t need to work at some big megacorp, a promising startup with an interesting product would be better even.

I’m not looking to move in the next few years anyway, but Sweden is a country I’m interested in, as is Norway.

It looks like my opinion of it is vindicated!

What’s been the least horrible Steven Seagal movie for you?

Bonus fun fact: in Estonia we sometimes call him Steven Seakael which means Steven Pigneck. Besides an obvious play on the name, it’s also because he’s a bit on the heavier side for a martial artist so he’s got a bit of a thick neck

I know, but los isn’t a verb unlike go. In other languages I speak, modal verbs like müssen are followed (not necessarily immediately but before the sentence is over) by the main verb in its infinitive form. E.g “ich muss gehen” would sound normal to me, but “ich muss mal” or “ich muss los” sound funny despite knowing it’s completely normal.

I’m not terribly into anime but my friend got me to watch Cromartie High School and I couldn’t stop laughing. Do suggest smoking a bit of the funny herb first, it’ll be even better.

I wish I could’ve gone to high school as Freddie Mercury on a white horse.

I actually liked Exit Wounds tbh

No idea what’s wrong with me. But tbh I like DMX and Anthony Anderson so that might have been a contributing factor.

Trying to translate Bruder muss los literally word for word is also hilarious because to me it sounds like “Bro must away” but then German isn’t my native language (neither is English, but I like to think I understand it at a slightly higher level than my A2/B1 German lol)

Hella expensive property though. For my Baltic ass anyway

Odoo isn’t as prevalent in the US yet I believe. They have more to lose by pissing off EU.

Fucking Sanduhr Anzeige Programm.

Hop over the border to Belgium and get Odoo. At least it’s open core and easy to customize, cheaper to run.

I heard we don’t even need our eyes by 4545 and in 5555 our arms are going to be limp. Guess the game is going to run all in our brains.

ME/CFS must be hard to cope with. As a person without it, I also sometimes have pretty bad fatigue but it’s mostly my lifestyle. Key difference is, if I get some exercise, I might be a bit tired at first but then I’ll actually have MORE energy. This little trick is a life saver. I don’t know how I’d survive if I couldn’t do that.

You definitely have my sympathy and I hope they crack it soon.