Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@leafnoodle Excellent. 🔩

@leafnoodle What was Zeromus, assuming you used the Z flag?

@Dex I think, after seeing how aggressively DeNa has gone for the whale model of monetization with Tour (with insidious monetization playing into it), I’m going to give their further mobile offerings a hard pass.

Which is a shame, because the actual game attached to it is quite well done.

A habit I’ve gotten into the past three years: whenever a major development happens, I buy the local papers and put them in my fire safe.

Mostly so, when my niece and nephew ask us what these times were like in 10-20 years, I can pull the stack back out of the safe.

I applaud their creativity in being evil (read: I don’t), but I think I’ll stick to Distance and learning how to go fast in games that don’t directly convert my time into profit.

+: Mario Kart Tour is an actually good racing game that I could keep playing for awhile. They converted it to mobile format surprisingly well, and it’s responsive and fun to play.

-: But it capitalizes on my skill at the game to push other players to spend gobs of real money, and I’m _really_ uncomfortable with that?

For folks asking about bats here: we do have a healthy bat population nearby, but I’m not 100% sure the gnawing on our apples in the tree are from them (young raccoons are also possible, as are squirrels that can’t reach the entire apple).

So, unconfirmed, but if anyone would like to look at the nibble patterns, I’d find that interesting!

Our hummingbird feeder is now feeding the entire forest, at about 4-6oz per day (!!). We’ve brought them reinforcements (two new feeders) to last them through the coming winter.

We managed to salvage about a dozen apples from the tree this year. The rest were eaten by our woodland birds, bats, and squirrels, and we are entirely okay with this.

@Kat@snouts.online Same.

@Kat@snouts.online I’m not there with my own hopefulness, but: if turning this into a teachable moment enables folks to fundraise and grift off of the cleanup effort, while continuing to enable control of the process by the very rich, that’ll likely happen, yeah.

Which sounds kind of dour, but is a vast improvement over where things are right now.

@Kat@snouts.online But if he stops being useful to them as a heat sink and means of drawing attention away from their overlords, I’d expect things to turn pretty quickly.

@Kat@snouts.online It’s not clear how it plays out, but Congress is displeased because the threat is bipartisan. On the R side, the thin veneer of legitimacy was cracking with the base. On the D side, that they were going to do anything other than run out the clock.

I don’t think we should mistake this with removal or improving 2020, though. Both caucuses may be satisfied with keeping him scared until they can install a “centerist” to keep their billionaires happy.

I’m personally foregoing celebration until 45 and Bojo are collectively out of power, but today’s unanimous (unanimous!) developments on both sides of the pond are encouraging.

@roguecnidarian They also patched over a few of the sequence breaks and lost-forevers, and the new chamber dungeon system is very nice.

You can also completely fill in Totakeke in the filename box now to get his special song in the West, which is a nice touch.