What does this have to do with PC gaming?

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Maybe a little more under high load, but those are going to be intermittent and not constant.

I’m just saying it’s not that much more electricity usage, and the recycling more than offsets the CO2.

It is the only song of theirs that I will not immediately change the station if it comes on.

One day, out to a cliff That overlooks the water I jumped in to save a girl It was somebody’s daughter And now the ring that’s on my hand It was given to me by her And to this day we all sit around And dream of ways to get higher

-Nickleback, Leader of Men

In the original Civil War, the Confederacy had the land advantage and a surplus of people willing to fight.

The North had just as many people willing to fight, but also money.

And because they had money, they had better weaponry, better cavalry, and healthier, happier soldiers.

Further, there were many people in the South who did not agree with the Civil War and who supported the North’s conquest of the South.

The South was in a very bad situation financially and organizationally to fight a civil war, whereas Cascadia, being Washington, California, and Oregon would have quite a bit in its favor, Especially if we did something outlandish like ask the Chinese for help in exchange for a trade agreement.

Having a new country pop up between America and the far west would be disastrous for America’s financial stability.

I am not saying that we should start a civil war or that we should actually secede from the union. I am just saying that this would not resemble the civil war at all, and barring an early blitzkrieg or a nuclear assault, they could win.

I mean, yes, or we could annex the tip of Idaho and exile everybody that voted for Trump Or that does not swear allegiance to the new Republic of Cascadia.

Part of me would rather have Washington, Oregon, and California become the new Republic of Cascadia.

The other part of me would be happy to become a Canadian.

Either way works for me. Somebody just roll out the bill and I’ll sign.

Fair warning, if you cum first she will use her psychic powers to remove your genitals.

I ficking love imagemagick.

Magick mogrify -format PNG *.HEIC

Replace HEIC with whatever file extension you need to convert.

Add -q 6 or -quality 90 to reduce the file sizes.

Use -format PDF to bulk convert images to pdfs.

because of the background and helmet, and the elfs clothing.

Why would we assume that you have to be 21 years old or the equivalent to drink alcohol in a medieval fantasy world?

There are still many parts of the modern world that allow 16 year olds to drink.

And even in the medieval time period of Europe, pretty much everyone would drink alcohol because it was cleaner than water, although younger people would tend to drink “small beers” that had very light alcohol.

My assumption would be that in this time frame, if the bartender judged you competent and capable of drinking, they would sell you alcohol.

If they didn’t, they wouldn’t, and the only consequence would be that you’re on your own in dealing with the effects of alcohol on you.

Its always a child, isn’t it?

It works out really well for Amazon because they can look like they tried to be the good guys while actually not doing anything.

forget what number you’re on and say, “um”.

Okay, how about a game where you are a voodoo priest, and you move a doll through a board full of traps and whatnot, and then the person who you have possessed with your voodoo doll then follows the path that you navigated with the voodoo doll.

Spice it up by having extra events happen while the person is moving through the real life version of the board that you then have to use your voodoo powers to compensate for while you now no longer have any more control over the person who you’ve taken over.

I guess that’s more of like a puzzle thing, so sure, for an RPG, How about an Isekai game where you plop down into a magical world and you’ve got all the pop-up screens and everything like you would see an anime and manga, but there is no Demon King, there is no great evil to defeat. It’s just you exploring the world and having fun with your kind of cheat OP powers while meeting people and learning about the history of this world you’ve been plopped into.

You can have actual events happen by like being involved in small-scale battles between kingdoms and uncovering lost relics and dungeons that have never been explored even by the locals and building a party of people to establish your own kingdom in a neglected land.

The latter would give you an opportunity to go like City Builder Sim-style for a bit of the game.

Or if you think that’s stupid, How about a role-playing game where you and a bunch of your other magician, wizard, witch, whatever friends, have built the first fantasy spaceship, and now you’re flying through the celestial realms, visiting all of the other planets in the solar system, and encountering new people, and helping them to solve their problems that have nothing to do with your planet but rather with the goal of establishing diplomatic relationships with other nearby planets.

This shit is easy. Coming up with an idea for a game, a new one that sounds fun and interesting to play that covers a different storyline and gives opportunities for dozens of different authors and creators to put a piece of themselves into it and come up with interesting fun things to do, that shit is fucking easy, and I don’t know why they’re not fucking doing it.

I don’t know how it has become so fucking easy for large corporate content creators to push the narrative that coming up with ideas for new stories or new games is actually difficult.

There are so many games that have yet to even be thought of.

There are so many storylines that have never touched pen to paper that we could experience, And I know that it is a little risky to offer something to people that they have not personally experienced before, but holy shit, why do we have to remake everything 650,000 fucking times?

I have a good friend who’s been going through this stuff. He’s an adult, and he is married, but he still needs support, because he’s not really fully able to function without some support.

The number of infantilizing remarks that he receives on a weekly basis is honestly shocking, and across the board they all come from people whose job it is to help him.

Like, I don’t know how much that surgery costs if you get it done by a doctor, but like, if you’re trans, and that’s something you want to do, that is a hell of a deal.

One of the few times where correlation and causation are probably actually tied together.

Sorry, your insurance doesn’t cover that, so it would have to be out of pocket.

Bring a cashier’s check for $7,400 to lunch and we’ll take care of the rest! ❤️