Why aren't they wearing pants?
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. I only discovered it fairly recently and it has already become my go-to read whenever I'm looking for some peace and simple natural spirituality with a generous side of denouncing the absurdity of modern culture and overaggressive "progress" and development.
Boy, the trees are really sneezing today.
When I say I'm tired of working for a living I don't mean that I don't want to work, I meant that I don't want to work for other people doing something I don't care about so someone I don't care about can better achieve something I don't care about just so they pay me money for it. I'm happy to work when that goes directly goes toward my own well-being and that of my family and local community. I just get so tired of doing work that I have no personal investment in beyond "it makes me money so I can then give that money to other people."
So I play Rimworld and dream of what it would be like to have a role in a small community where everyone does their part for the direct benefit of the community and it isn't all just about money.
Every time I see the little "new content" blip next to someone I've subscribed to and it ends up being a short, I feel cheated.
I'm still on my Blizzard boycott that started with the Blitzchung thing. Family and friends have tried to get me to drop it to play with them a few times, but a boycott doesn't seem like it has much purpose (or effect) if you just drop it after a while when nothing has changed.
I'm always glad when I see someone recommend Night in the Woods. It took me to a place no other game has.
Highfive! It is, and part of the reason I use it so often is because I just enjoy programming in it. I feel like enjoying the process is important even if the result is a fraction of a second slower than if I had used another language, because enjoying the process means I'm actually going to get the thing done.
This is literally any other programmer when I use Python for a project, telling me to switch to their preferred language instead because "Python is just for scripting."
I loved this game! I'd send swarms of armored cars against my brother.