[-] whelk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I loved this game! I'd send swarms of armored cars against my brother.

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Why aren't they wearing pants?

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago

Boy, the trees are really sneezing today.

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm always glad when I see someone recommend Night in the Woods. It took me to a place no other game has.

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] whelk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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."

whelk

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