Yup, sometime in the next year or two I’ll get laid off, then I’ll just mooch off my spouse.

There’s a saying you might want to get familiar with

“If everywhere you look, all you see is assholes, maybe you’re the asshole.”

D) Move manufacturing and other dirty processes off planet and live here.

According to a US Army study, Iron and Tungsten could create galvanic action, causing both materials to degrade if in contact.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA358781.pdf

So at first glance, it seems like this combo wouldn’t last as long as it could with just Tungsten.

If you use a web email account, just create a draft email and don’t send it. Then log into your email account on the other device and read it there.

I open the picture on my computer, then screenshot it before uploading.

That removes any association with the original picture without relying on any exif stripping that might miss a hash or weird embedded info.

Just like anything else, one chunk at a time.

You can start with a story and build the game off of that, or you can start with the gameplay and build up from there.

Sometimes you just have to start, and see where it goes. Pick an engine and start building something, don’t be afraid to throw it all out and start over from what you’ve learned so far. Make a game that has some of the elements you want to use and try it out, then throw it out and make a different game with other bits. Start small and work up.

The biggest problem is thinking it has to be perfect to move on to the next part.

You can commission art, or you can buy some models and just use those.

You can also just build everything from the ground up, but it would be hard to do that for your first project.

Needs a new cigarette lighter.

If you are reborn as a new person with none of your previous memories, then does it matter that it’s still “you”?

We’ve always had to pay for quality, buying crap on Amazon is always going to be a tossup. There’s plenty of stores out there where you can buy good stuff, you just have to be willing to pay more than slave wages for it.

It’s tough out there, but there’s plenty of quality stuff if you look in the right place.

There are quite a few anecdotal cases of people dying shortly after retirement, or shortly after a spouse dies. Death is complicated and sometimes people “hold on” for weird and unexplained reasons.

People in terminal condition have a habit of dying when loved ones are out of the room.

Does Jimmy Carter feel like this election is something major he needs to accomplish before he goes? Maybe. Or maybe he just keeps busy with all of his volunteer work and other philanthropy, which is keeping him around.

Maybe he’s just one of the lucky ones that happens to be healthy and sharp at 100 for reasons we don’t know.

AKA: Good Day by Nappy Roots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8iinkhR3w

You are not immune.

You do, and don’t fool yourself that you don’t.

You probably don’t click on ads, but they stick in your brain. You might see a half-dozen ads for Doritos, and then when you go to the store a week later, you’re slightly more likely to buy Doritos.

The vast majority of advertising is just getting a brand or an idea into the back of your head so when you’re looking for something in that product category, regardless of it’s a VPN, a web host, a snack food, a car, or whatever, you’re going to have a bias towards what you’ve seen in the past.

Most of my ad-blocking isn’t to stop myself from buying some herbal supplement/spray tanner combo, it’s to stop myself from being biased by the capitalist propaganda machine.

I am not immune from advertisements, and neither are you.

Well you certainly accomplished a lot. I’m proud of you.

I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

Outdated advice (unless buying older stuff) Brother has enshittified like the rest.

I don’t mind them making money, but if they’re only pushing products that can make them money, then you can’t trust them.

What if the best product is only sold at Target? Forget it cause they’ll claim a worse product that’s sold on Amazon is #1 cause they get a kickback.

Find an article with a review, and there’s a 90% chance it links to an Amazon ref link, or similar.

Which means they completely ignore products that are only sold on other stores.

And they probably don’t even look at the product, half the “top 10 lists” obviously just base the list off of Amazon reviews and SOMETIMES reddit posts.

You really have to search to find decent reviews sites like rtngs or similar.

I always assume that anyway