Good, fuck private profit at public expense.
More more more!
I love these projects. My local area has a lot because it’s a sort of environmentally friendly area, despite being in the heart of rural bullshit. I wish more individuals would set up small spaces like that.
My area has a lot of native bees that nest in the sort of tubes pictured here. Most people don’t know about them, so we have big awareness hives- like the picture, but more varieties of habitat for more of the local species.
Those bees don’t make honey, they don’t make hives, you hardly know they exist.. but if they don’t, we all lose.
Ngl, I didn’t make it far enough to find that out :)
Souls-like games aren’t really my jam. I have a lot of them (including ds1,2) because I so desperately want to like them.. but I don’t, generally :)
Someday I’ll be motivated to work through my frustration. They await me. And it will be GLORIOUS!
(Tho if you list off souls-like games, I’ve probably played several I just don’t identify that way..)
Thanks for the context! I appreciate you very much. :)
No worries about no downloading, that was a convenience thing for me. Worth a try!
I’ll check out the tumblr link, thanks!
Important issue hi-light-
Wisconsin has a referendum called the citizenship voting requirement referendum, and if you live in Wisconsin, you should vote NO. (Edit: And if you can’t vote no, you should tell anyone you know from WI about it, because most people in wisconsin have never heard of it - I was a canvasser, I asked. Maybe 2% of my contacts were even aware of it out of hundreds.)
The whole purpose is to enshrine requirements in the Wisconsin constitution that are already required federally, like the requirement to be a citizen, or be over 18 to vote. The wording is that “only” us citizens can vote where presently “every” us citizen can vote. This is a distinction without a difference to most, but words have very specific meanings legally (a context voters don’t normally have and is thus an unfair standard to hold but that’s neither here nor there. I guess.)
That wordplay could easily be used to limit dual-citizen voting in the future, as well as currently pushing the false narrative that non-citizens are voting illegally.
I have a cat who, through no fault of her own (every cat from that queen is neurotic), is super neurotic. She suckles blankets, has zero self control, and does naughty things that she knows are naughty. She can’t help herself. I can watch her in real time process the conflict and she still goes for the thing she knows is bad.
It really sucks to have to deal with that sort of energy when you wanted the opposite. (I had a pair of kittens, along with a pair of adults. One of the calm kittens failed to thrive and died the same day as one of my adults so I was a mess, and the only other kitten I could get on short notice was the neurotic “spicy” kitten. The other adult, who was the whole reason I got kittens at all, died unexpectedly a few months later)
But they do learn that their behavior is unwanted with frequent calm reinforcement. Mine are about a year old now, and all I have to say is “hey (name), please stop”, and they both mostly do. The neurotic cat still has self control issues, but I think of her like someone with ADHD, which I can relate to. It’s just hard to do things that don’t satisfy that impulse. But she’s really trying and I can tell.
You’ll probably get to that point too, and it’s super super frustrating for that first year or so until she learns what is and is not ok. But you’ll make it. You’ve absolutely dealt with worse and more frustrating things, if you still can’t stand her when she’s a year old, she’ll still be adoptable young, and it’ll give you time to hash out the issues with your partner so she fully understands your position and the logic behind it.
My method of reinforcement was to gently remove her head from whatever thing, and say “(name), please stop”. I’m still working on the suckling - it’s harder to stop because it’s a comfort action, but she doesn’t attack my hands anymore (that was just not engaging, removing hand, and ignoring for 5 min), doesn’t chew cords or table corners, etc. it takes a ton of reinforcement, but it does work. Cats are scientists, they explore the world by doing things to it and seeing what happens. If the result isn’t great, they stop.
I don’t really have a solution to the space issue, but maybe you can employ your fiancée to distract the cat while you recharge and prepare. It may also help with the attack issue. If she’s not into the toys you have, try getting different ones (wand toys with changeable heads, laser pointers, but you have to end with an attack toy or they feel unfulfilled, heck I have a staircase, and use a mouse on a string to wear out my cats by making them run up to get it then dragging it back down. They burn out very fast that way.)
Aww, that’s really wholesome.
I’ve seen a lot of these comics and the art is.. like spot on.. is the person who does these comics the actual/one of the actual artists?
I’ve tried looking into them a bit but honestly all the sites are…………. Not great for finding stuff without already being a platform user :)
If they are cannon, (or even if not I suppose) is there any way to download them all? As mentioned the various sites aren’t great if you don’t already use them, and I’m not sure how to get them in chronological order.
I have something like this, but it’s for game boy.
Also utterly worthless; it distorts the picture in uncomfortable ways, and honestly was a much worse experience than just using the screen.
It’s also only a couple inches bigger, so dumb.
I do like those, but I prefer the heart container method. The discrete units are more satisfying to me, because I can’t miss that there’s more.
Some games your bar grows so very slowly you can’t even tell and it doesn’t have the same oomph.
8 was so bad with randoms. You can go like 2 inches at a time between over world encounters. And they were so time consuming even when it only took 2 hits to kill everything - intro transition, battle animations, victory splash… so long!
I have no idea how I managed to sit through those back in the day. Sooooo tedious.
I like the tales series for how they did, mostly dodgeable, but combat could also be fully automated if you were bored. And there’s a lot of combat, so it gets boring. Needless to say I used auto combat a lot (not for bosses or unique enemies tho). I’d prefer if it didn’t do the battle transition, but I understand the function of it.
On console you still have to wait an absurdly long time for the ubishit to load, even if you never use any of it. Pretty sure they threw their launcher in there, too, and just hid it a bit.
Fenyx, a game I love from 2020, takes several extra minutes to boot (and the launch screen completely freezes for the duration, so you don’t know if it’s going to launch successfully or hang) because it has to query the server every single damned time to see if there’s new dlc or news nobody cares about or whatever. Like guys, I didn’t care the first dozen times you tried to get me to check out ways to give you money..
The worst part is I actually did buy one of the dlc for it on switch. I was intensely disappointed. It was not just not worth the money, it wasn’t worth the time to download it; I didn’t even bother finishing it. And still every time it boots up it tells me all about this marvelous new dlc I could buy (there’s another dlc I didn’t buy, but that’s not the one it showcases)! So it takes forever to query the server and then does fuckall with that information. Cool.