Project M and Brawl Minus were a ton of fun!

They’re Smash Brawl fan mods where the game gets totally reworked. The former makes it like Melee, while the latter makes everything ridiculous.

There are others too that I haven’t spent the time with. Melee itself has a mod with a few new chars, and Smash 64 has an extensive remix.

Mostly digging through past albums of bands I already like. My music taste has largely fossilized. And I realize that the artists I claim to enjoy, I’ve rarely explored their whole discography. So I try to do that. And when I feel like I’ve exhausted favorites, there are plenty of not-quite-favorites to give a deeper look at.

So I’m not looking for new groups too often. But when I am, these resources are useful:

• https://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
• https://www.gnoosic.com/
• Wikipedia (just looking at genre pages, or other bands that members of my favorite groups have been in or toured with, or super groups, etc)
• https://www.metal-archives.com/
• Pandora (used to be pretty good, but I haven’t used it much recently so idk)

So glad they don’t. A lot of modern layouts would do well to change to something simpler.

There’s a certain strain of thought that runs through my mind sometimes, that space is just too big and too empty to really be worth going into. Like the moon and Mars, maybe a couple other in-system planets, are the only things close enough for realistic human trips in lifetimes. And the trips so far have shown us that yes, those are just big balls of monotonous dirt. You ever kinda landed in that state of mind?

In spite of all that, I do still get excited about it, and really enjoyed following Artemis. Excited to see us (maybe, hopefully) land on the moon again soon. It’s remarkable that humans are able to rise to that challenge, and I hope we don’t ever entirely stop.

They didn’t entirely miss the mark there. They publicly released the version after that and the world became worse. That certainly fits for some definition of ‘dangerous’, even tho it’s probably not how they were thinking.

Pretty crazy, since they were already known for being slow. It’s never bothered me, but ordering from them isn’t great if you’re in a hurry.

A friend of mine was telling me about this game the other day. I’m not a car guy, but driving around Japan does sound kinda fun. I’m out on the Xbox Series tho and doubt my PC could run it.

There’s gotta be plenty of other games set in a semi-realistic Japan, right? I’d be curious to hear recs, racing or not.

For sure! Something about making it more organized little by little is super satisfying, theraputic even.

It’s so ingrained in conversational habits. I find myself really struggling for a greeting when I visit someone who I know is struggling or in pain. Like, I don’t want to force them to think about how they’re doing. But then I also don’t know what else goes after that initial “Hey”. v_v

I think there’s definitely something to this. Kinda like a cache, it’s nice to have some pages that you know are interesting or useful in someway that you can find that little bit easier.

But the in-browser search for bookmarks is pretty limited. It just checks the title and url and maybe some tags. I know (or think?) there are some programs out there that index and/or archive your bookmarks and let you do full text search through them like a proper search engine.

Apparently 4614. Several hundred are probably duplicates tho. I’ll bookmark interesting pages that I see at work (since I usually don’t have time to read them) and occasionally import them to my main browser. Like others have said, that’s built up over many years. And in general I’ve tried to be more of a ‘bookmark it and close the tab already’ kind of person lately.

It’s all various levels of hoarding and to-dos I know I’ll never get to, but pretty often I do find myself enjoying browsing through my bookmarks and remembering neat stuff I saw in passing or articles I wanted to read. It’s also fun sorting them out to folders, even tho I know they’ll never be properly organized nor especially useful if they were.

I do very regularly use a few that I keep on my bookmarks toolbar. I make better use of that feature at work too, where I have the most important few pages and environments right at hand.

The premise doesn’t feel true for me. I’m in the US - Verne and Wells both seem well known generally. But that’s highly anecdotal of course.

I’m doing pretty well! Busy lately, but still finding time for things I enjoy.

Chaos computer club sounds cool, what kind of topics come up there?

Nothing wrong (AFAIK) with asking here, but I think you’d dig the !casualconversation@piefed.social community.

I also sometimes consciously dislike things because of annoying ads.

But it doesn’t matter. The overall result is that now you’re aware of that brand, you have a place for it in memory. After time passes it will be The One I’ve Heard Of unless you’re dedicated to remembering to avoid it. There’s something called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works and they know it. :(