When I was a kid I’d play Fable The Lost Chapters as a regular villager. I’d buy a house, get married, equip a stick (because you had to equip a weapon) and just walk around interacting with the other villagers.
Eventually I’d get bored though, so I’d out-of-rp murder my wife, then “discover” the body and go on a rampage through Oakvale.
It sounds so much worse written down.
I just checked them out on Spotify and their discography is hilariously messed up
It is really great to hear this community is more open, it put me off sharing metal tastes in the past.
Also turns out I listen to way more power metal than I thought. Started a power metal playlist and recognised loads of bands.
I wasn’t but you make it really tempting. I also love how I’ve been on many a different server, and each one has been completely unique in design. It really mastered the balance between a survival exploration game and creative sandbox.
Yeah, the last decade went really quick for me. I know everyone says that but it’s true. Things that make me feel old are how GTA V made fun of hipsters and New Girl made fun of millennials. That era is gone man.
Even Bowie’s Blackstar is 7 years old and that feels like last year.
I like a lot of what I consider ‘classic’ metal, which I hope is not offensive. Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Dio, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin. I like a lot of nu metal too, I hope that doesn’t get me banned.
I’d like to try more, I think it’s just the extreme varieties I can’t really get into.
I do not usually listen to David Guetta, but Titanium was everywhere the summer of 2011. I heard it in college, on the street, in the car, and at house parties. Actually, mostly house parties.
To this day I can taste cheap vodka, amaretto and jagermeister when I hear that song.
I loved them, I miss them dearly, but no, I don’t think they’ll come back.
A lot has changed and the internet is not the same, for better and for worse. For one, it’s just a lot bigger. You’d think that’d make it easier, but it seems to make it harder. There’s too much noise for the communities to stand out, so what usually happens is one or two get huge and the others dwindle and die. Even just look at Lemmy, through no fault of your own, Beehaw is becoming one of the largest instances and it requires active work to spread the weight across the rest of the federation. People gravitate I guess.
Plus, because it’s so much bigger, there’s less of an identity in the spaces that do survive. Post in any reddit thread, then go to another. Chances are nobody’ll be the same (except for a few superusers) so there’s no real sense of belonging or community that the old forums had. Back then you trolled your friends, not strangers.
Thanks for sharing this, I love it. What a mystery though, I’m struggling to find anything else about them too.
Money For Nothing has one of the best intros of all time. Facts
It’s really great your little sister has an older sibling already looking out for her. That in itself is a great start.
It’s going to depend highly on what actually happens. She’s 4, she’s a bit young still. Given you’re posting online I think it would be relatively safe to assume that when she’s older she’ll also be online? Being a part of an international community is the easiest way of expanding one’s views.
As a .NET developer with a strong dislike of JavaScript being able to write a frontend using C# is fantastic. The only complaints I ever hear about it is actually around Visual Studio support and not Blazor itself.
I really hope it takes off.
You don’t need to be out to explain why it’s okay to be LGBTQ+. If those questions ever come, answer them as if you were an ally. The answer is the same anyway.
But right now don’t stress - not every religious organisation will be homophobic, I went to a Catholic secondary school (UK) that was supportive. Unless you’re familiar with this particular group already they might not be as bad as you think.
As for what you can do personally, if you’re atheist (and open about that) then show her you don’t have to be Christian to have good morals. Just generally be a good older sibling. Hopefully it all works out.
Kids have always had wild career dreams, it’s not new it’s just a different medium. It’s fine. I’m not sure it’s a conscious decision to escape the grind though. I grew up with kids who wanted to be movie stars or athletes. Why? Because they idolised movie stars and athletes and want to be like them. It’s what they’re exposed to the most. Now kids are exposed to influencers the most, so they wanna be one too.
I wanted to be a train driver 🚂
If a community exists solely to hate on others, even as a joke, eventually it won’t be a joke.
Maybe I just don’t get the appeal though.
You just reminded me of 3D Pets which might be the first game I ever played on PC…
https://oldgamesdownload.com/3d-pets-pc-pup/
I can distinctly remember the janky animations of the dog running after a ball. And the dog and cat coming out of an egg. It was weird.
I have one to add:
Programmers believe languages have a flag.
I used to work on a system that supported multiple languages and had to fight very hard not to put a country’s flag next to each language on the front end. People’s responses to the “wrong” flag being used for their language ranged from slightly annoyed to extremely volatile…
Does Blazor count? I’ve done a little with that. Mostly though, no. My job doesn’t require much frontend work and even if it did it would be jQuery at best.
I don’t think you’d really need to either unless you genuinely enjoy being at the bleeding edge. React, Angular and Vue aren’t going anywhere any time soon. That could be laziness talking…
I had a uni lecturer pronounce MySQL as “my squirrel”