How on Earth does one spend 557 hours on Final Fantasy VI? I’ve finished it at least a half-dozen times over the years since it came out, and I doubt I’ve spent that much time with it. And at least one of those sessions I got everyone to max level and taught them every spell in the game. I suppose I have not taught Gau all the possible Rages, but doing that sounds insufferable.
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I highly recommend Tametsi on Steam. It’s Minesweeper, but each puzzle is designed to be solvable with zero guessing, and it uses different shapes and some other neat tricks to keep it interesting. It’s 98 cents on Steam right now.
The swings.
Some of my fondest memories are of swings. Not just from childhood either. I vividly remember an intense session in university, and another from only a few years back was special for a variety of reasons. And now, my daughter is just old enough to really start appreciating them. I don’t think I’ll stop swinging until I’m incapable.
Do the final two episodes of Star Trek: TNG count? If so, that.
For a series with its ups and downs, they really nailed everything that’s great about Star Trek in the final two episodes with none of the lows. Relevant social commentary, intelligent dialog, an intriguing science fictional mystery, some action, and a superbly dramatic Picard! Not just Picard either. Almost everyone in the cast gets a chance to shine across the three time periods. Brent Spiner especially gets a nod for the subtle changes to old Data’s character.
My wife and I run a small English school here. It’s a nice place, but I do really miss Canada sometimes.
I don’t know what Pop OS is though.
We filter our tap water here in Korea. Most people do, but as I understand, it’s safe to drink it just straight from the tap. It’s just better through a machine that gets rid of any lingering chlorine and heats it or chills it for you.
Underwater. 2020 horror movie that takes place - you guessed it - underwater. It wasn’t bad, just kinda mediocre. It was pretty action packed, and the effects weren’t bad, but I never really felt for any of the characters, and I thought the monster(s) were underdeveloped and poorly utilized. Still, not a bad way to waste an hour-and-a-half.
MUD stands for “Multi User Dungeon”. They were online, text-based RPGs. Think ZORK, but multiplayer and online. Precursors to MMORPGs, but free.
MOO stands for “MUD Object Oriented” due to the object oriented nature of the programming language used in room and object creation. They mostly ditched the combat and role playing for exploration, education, and user interaction. Sort of like IRC, but taking place in a virtual, text-based space.
I spent a disgusting amount of time with MOOs in the 90s. Diversity University, RiverMOO, BayMOO, LambdaMOO. MOOs differed from MUDs in that you could program rooms and objects yourself, and they were more chat and exploration than MUDs which were mostly RP and combat. MUDs are still around, but the only MOO still up is LambdaMOO.
I live on Jeju-Do: a South Korean island with a population of ~700’000. Half of the registered electric cars in all of Korea are on the island. Anecdotally, just driving down the road to work, every third car I see is electric. We’ve got electric buses, scooters, and bikes all over the place too. If only we could stop the pollution blowing over from China (not that Korea is innocent of polluting their own air.)
While sometimes mildly amusing, I don’t miss the strings of puns that dominated ~50% of the “discussions” I clicked.
It was only 13 years ago that the FDA changed its stance on BPA from “safe” to “some concern”.