On the flip side, this tends to happen because those starting "Okay, so..." have learned that you will have an even longer conversation when you start with the short answer and are forced to work backwards because of questions and challenges.
Source: I am in this picture. 😅
No, it’s Californian food… which is vaguely inspired by Mexican food.
A classic first-person dungeon crawler, but co-op and with a classless skill-based system.
Games like Ultima Underworld, Arena, Daggerfall, Descent to Undermountain, Battlespire, Arx Fatalis... those games are my jam, and they have basically died off. My favorite RPG systems also tend to be skill-based rather than class-based, and Asheron's Call (the original) had one of my favorite systems. I'm also all about co-op these days... so I want a co-op dungeon crawler with a skill-based system that looks and feels modern, like a natural evolution of those classics. And it has to be more than a hack-and-slash... it needs to have the depth and immersion of tabletop dungeon crawlers.
I've actually been working on it for a while now in UE. It's purely a hobby/passion project, so who knows if I'll ever have something to distribute... but since nobody else has been bothered to make it*, I will.
Capitalist.
The word you are looking for is “capitalist”.
Ridley’s theatrical epics are like “first drafts” anyway. I’ll always wait for the extended edition or Director’s Cut. They are always infinitely better. Every time.
Jetbrains IDEs have “Live Templates” that I use extensively.
For little notes and snippets (especially CLI snippets) I use an app called Stashpad, which I LOVE.
I had 3.18 running on my Deck, just as an exercise in my own curiosity. 10-15fps on the lowest settings wasn’t great, but it worked. Credit where it’s due, that’s damn impressive for a PC that fits in your palm.
The only real blocker was that gameplay isn’t feasible on that tiny screen; the game just isn’t intended to played like that.
With the increasing popularity of these different form factors and device types, it seems like people are finally starting to realize just how horrible Windows is… especially for gaming.
If all I get is an aura and 24 hours of disorientation, discomfort, and nausea, I feel like I won the lottery.
I will make exactly one attempt to educate someone who doesn’t treat it seriously. The amount of ignorance and general lack of education and awareness out there is staggering.
First off, wealth and power are the same thing and must be dealt with at the same time. So for a start…
Aggressive progressive taxation, up to 100% (billionaires - even 9-figure multimillionaires- must never be allowed to exist).
Abolish stock markets.
All companies must be employee-owned. Employees share equitable ownership of the companies they work within. Profits are shared only among employees.
Criminalize political spending, lobbying (aka bribery), etc. Candidates all draw from a public fund and platforms and that is all they may use.
Aggressive market regulation to protect competition and prevent consolidation. Our failure to protect the market from excess consolidation and integration is the primary reason we’ve reached the late-stage capitalism hellscape we currently exist within.
Again, this is a start… the tip of the iceberg.
There is a massive amount of leftist documentation on economics. We’re not all communists, but we recognize that any system devoid of regulation/oversight/accountability will always quickly travel rightward and become authoritarian. So the question is what systems and policies can be put in place to ensure not only equity for all, but equity that remains stable indefinitely (or as close as is possible).
Well, of course. We can't let people make their own electricity and cut into the privately owned, for-profit utility company profits!