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I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too.
Other versions of me:
@Nemo@midwest.social
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Like most technology, it’s not the thing itself, but what we do with it. Making sterile seeds that destabilize food production for the sake of ensuring yearly profits? Booooo. Making drought-resistant crops? Yay!
Mattress, about five years. Towels, every decade or so.
Just keep the ones you have clean with regular washing, and they don’t wear out that fast.
One of my friends and mentors did that. I used to nanny for her twins and they’ve grown up to be bright, ambitious, adventurous young women. I’m proud to know them.
Honestly, it’s made us both more determined to put the work into our relationship. Fourteen years together now and going strong.
The best one I’ve found (though I’ll check out HPF, thanks!) is Bullet Journal. Not any of the fancy add-ons, just the original, Carrol-method rapid logging. The idea of migration, mindfully and manually taking all undone tasks and deciding if they really need done or can be discarded, is one of the best features, and one that’s so often missing from digital tools.
I also appreciate that it’s more-or-less time-agnostic, and that note-taking is just as much a part of rapid logging as tasks organization is. The only frill I use is the Final Version Perfect system of priority discovery, which seamlessly fits into the basic bujo methodology.
I just took a trip and the estimated arrival time assumed I would drive 15mph over the limit without stopping the whole way.
Personally, I scream for icecream.
It’s just relative upbeats and downbeats. Easy to calculate on the fly and no language recognition necessary.
I don’t feel attacked, I feel seen.
Smiling, winking, and other ways to show mirth are still on the table.
Best? Hard to say. But favorite?
Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick. It’s quite short, like many of his books, and you could absolutely knock it out in a day.
Never laugh again. There are plenty of other ways to convey humour, but no orgasms would destroy my marriage.
I DO have my own website, and I’ve never had to block anyone.
40, not planning on it
Cut off both ends, slice in half, eat skin-on.
Today One (aka Tarn Adams) who is making Dwarf Fortress and formerly worked on Liberal Crime Squad is way up there.
Redigit (of Super Mario Brothers X and Terraria) is another from the current era.
But if we can go oldschool, Sid Meier is a legend. Civilization and Pirates! are two absolute favorites, especially the remake of Pirates and Civs 2 & 4.
But the real OG, the man who showed me I wanted to make videogames, is Tim Sweeney. Sure, now he’s rich and famous, but back in the day, even before UnReal, he ran Epic Megagames out of his parents’ basement and sold floppies by mail. His first game, ZZT, came with the tools included to not just edit levels, but to make a whole new game of your own using the ZZT engine. By the time I discovered it there were already hundreds of user-made games being traded on BBS.
I fell in love. I joined the IRC channels and bulletin boards, I made the games I wanted, I shared them with my friends and over the Internet. It sparked a love in me that still burns today. Sweeney moved on, I moved on, but I will always owe him my regard for releasing ZZT into the world. It changed my life.
I heard more and more about it in the time between reddit announcing their API changes and the actual last day RIF was usable unmodded. Then RIF suggested lemmy.world, but so many people were signing up that the page wouldn’t load right, and I went in search of another instance. I signed up with both slrpnk.net and midwest.social and have been here ever since.
Doesn’t even have to impact. The gravity of other bodies in orbit will pull out-of-plane objects closer to the plane over time.