This is actually something I’ve run into in my day to day. I changed my full name when I got married because I’ve hated my name for my whole life. My old name was very cute and very white, and I frequently got questions about the beloved children’s show I was named after. It made being a working adult pretty hard. What I didn’t expect was that my new name is heavily assumed to be Latino. I was going for the Italian poet but a few people have been confused to find an absolute honky in the interview.

I’ve actually taken to it the same way I do Minecraft. I expect I’ll run out of game to do eventually as everyone keeps saying there isn’t any depth, but I’ve spent the last few days smuggling gravatino orbs off sentinal planets and building a hookah lounge in the portside barracks of my ship. I just wish I could type logs up ingame like I journal in Minecraft.

Honestly I think the loneliness is what really got me into it. Recently I’ve lost touch with my usual gaming group due to scheduling conflicts and it makes it hard to play a multiplayer game knowing what could have been. Nms feels like it gets that and the whole story basically centers around that feeling. It’s kind of cathartic.

It’s mostly aesthetic as far as I’ve seen, though it basically removes the need for houses and you don’t have to go to the Anomaly to start missions.

Would building your own medium size space ship that you can cook food in while autopilot takes you to the next planet help? Because that’s the current update.

Have you tried No Man’s Sky? I’ve just recently picked it up and its got me absolutely hooked.

It’d be a big leap from his very blue leaning image, but weirder things have happened lately so I can’t say that’s impossible.

Hey, send me a DM, I’ll give you my recipe collection and you can ask for tips any time you like.

Can’t say it’s my favorite but I got into an argument with my middle school government teacher about how the actual rules of the us government aren’t written down or enforceable and are only held up by everyone agreeing to play the same game. He said that’s ok because our politicians don’t treat government like a game and some day I’ll grow up enough to know the difference between games and life.

Mr. Nelson, if you’re reading this I’ll buy you a drink and commiserate with you.

The weirdest thing, I didn’t find out that this and Poltergeist weren’t kids movies until highschool. It’s been a bit of a wild ride since because I keep running into movies that aren’t as pg as I remember.

In the same vein, better is not perfect. There are hundreds of things wrong with our political systems and no single thing will fix all of it. Getting paid more than could ever be reasonable does not stop these people from doing everything they can to get more so whether they get more money or less won’t change the corruption you’re taking about. That’s a separate problem with separate answers.

As opposed to the honest and pure politicians we have today…

Straight up, all state and federal politicians should be paid minimum wage by hour. The only way they get a raise is if everyone gets a raise.

Don’t know if it counts, but my suitcase record player has vacuum tubes. Still spins but it needs a needle.

Ahh so that’s Germany’s North Dakota, makes even more sense that it’s comparable to Wichita…

According to Wikipedia It’s the 18th largest city in Germany.

I did some research and my city is almost 1:1 with Bielefeld Germany.

Bielefeld has 4 tram lines, 140 busses on a network that covers most of the city and established bike lanes. Wichita has 40 busses, 13 set bus routes, and 3 bike lanes in the whole city. I’m “lucky” enough to live two blocks from the nearest bus stop, but that bus route doesn’t land anywhere near places I want to go. Great if you’re in rehab thigh I guess.

I have tentative plans to make my own smart lock by way of electric motor and commercial deadbolts with an RF scanner and a back up battery for emergency. It won’t be amazingly secure in a tech way, but I figure the combination of novelty and DIY should make it reliable.

That said, I gotta be that guy and remind everyone that all locks are security theatre and are not going to protect your house from the persistent or prepared. Your best defense is a combination of foresight and social engineering.

Best pet I ever had was a ball Python. She was the absolute cuddiest creature I’ve ever met. If she didn’t know your smell she wouldn’t budge from her current spot, but if she did she’d slide right up your arm and ride on your shoulders all day. Unless you have boobs, then it’s straight to the bra.

She never bit anyone in the years I knew her. She even had a preference for movies, if you played something scary she would hide but if you played kids movies she’d move to your lap.

I do not have tits, but I understand bra sizing and frequently have to advocate for women in my life to go get a proper sizing. I’m baffled by how women can wear a shitty bra for decades but know their measurements in every shingle companies arbitrary standards.