A Literal Cabbage. What do you want from me?
Usually because you actually own the retail/physical version but they can rescind access to a digital copy at any point.
But I usually buy old games or new ones second hand, so, I exist on a slightly different market place...
Good to see them embracing the mantle of the Nasty Party once again. What the fuck is going on!
I get the MSRP outrage, but I mean it's not an unusual cost for launch day titles, especially for physical media.
I don't think I've ever paid full retail for any game or console I've ever owned though. And I do like to own my games by buying physical media (or at least the installer files).
Wild. Possibly market rates are different - don't know if the EUR is particularly weak right now? I don't follow the conversion rates...
What games currently cost that much though, is my question really, I guess. The last expensive titles I can see right now for standard editions of games is like, 70Eur equivalent for AAA type titles.
I mean I own a switch, and I've never paid anything close to that for games... I've gone to maybe £45-50 for launch titles but what games cost £70?
Who the hell is paying 90EUR for switch games?
I ate mountains of Ye Olde Oak hotdogs as a student.
I'm now a vegetarian but some days I do think back fondly to them. My usual "guilty pleasure" snack now is a "bagel pizza" - cheap bagel, ketchup, slices of cheddar grilled to be just barely melted. I had it once at a friends' house whose mum was Canadian, and it lives rent free in my mind.
He also taught me D&D, painted me a Kroot Auxiliary tau army(!) and was/is a wonderfully odd chap.
On an ideal (working) morning if be up a couple of hours before I need to leave the house to bathe, make breakfast and something for lunch, clean the kitchen a little (which is my domain in the house), sit and watch TV or read for a bit, then leave with plenty of time to get to work.
Sometimes I manage this.
Otherwise it's snooze the alarm a few times, get out of bed, shower, make some toast quickly, lob some food at the cats and leave a little later than ideal, and get to work just in time.
Unfortunately my partner works from home and gets up later than me so my comfy bed has a chronic cuddler in it, and she's normally surrounded by our cats too so my bed is a wonderful nest that's difficult to crawl out from.
You can certainly reply to them when they appear in the "messages" section of the inbox.
I don't know about composing and sending them though...
"I was only supporting British entrepreneurs in a commercial landscape dominated by Americans, darling!"
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Portugal is secretly Eastern European, after all...
My only complaint is that I can still see bread.
If I'm home alone I like to treat myself to a pickle-on-cheese amuse-bouche from time to time (IE. Every time I pass the pickle cupboard)
I was moving away from my Garmin watch for a variety of reasons, but this might be the nail in the coffin if they introduce or restrict their free offering.
Gadgetbridge might work but I don't know if it will sync with bike computers as well...
I need to squirrel myself away for a weekend and get stuck in. I know I'll love it because it's the kind of game I enjoy - the entry point feels a bit higher than I'd expected though!
I bought cheap earbuds today
Today I went to the supermarket, and spotted a deal on cheap earbuds.
I've been 50/50 on them, but a £40 pair for £20 was good enough for me to take a punt.
Are they great? No. Are they good enough? Yeah, sure, why not. They play music they take calls, and they act like earplugs when it's noisy out. And they don't get tangled up. Plus, if I like using them I'll consider getting a pair which aren't objectively e-waste when these inevitably die.
ProtoArc EM05 NL
Full disclosure - this is the first trackball mouse I've used for quite a while (since the early 2000s), so I'm not exactly an enthusiast, but i wanted to share some thoughts on this thing after a few months of consistent daily use in an office environment.
Firstly for the money it's great. I paid about £42 for it and it's been a significant improvement for my postuerenif nothing else (and way better than my traditional mouse) Reading some reviews about it I was a little concerned about:
- The size - apparently some people found it too small
- The "skirt" of the mouse
- The feel of the silent mouse buttons
Size wise I've found it comfortable. I have average sized hands and my pinkie rests on the desk, though not to the detriment of using the mouse.
The "skirt" did take some getting used to, and I don't really think it adds much to the device - though it does stop the hand slipping (as it's a smooth plastic without rubberisation), so I understand it's purpose.
The mouse buttons fe
What are your vices or guilty pleasures?
So, as we begin another week: what are your little vices or guilty pleasures that help you get through the day?
a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered morally wrong in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character trait, a defect, an infirmity, or a bad or unhealthy habit
Small Distro Concerns
I have an old notebook which I've been toying with a few smaller distros on (typically easy to install, liveCD types), and while I enjoy the tinkering aspects of this, I had a thought that I've been mulling.
In the past I've run distributions based on larger, better supported, systems (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc.) and if or when they have folded, like crunchbang did, or PeppermintOS (however briefly), I just changed them out.
However, if I were to go back to peppermintOS, say, would it be feasible to 'convert' the system to the parent distribution? So, could I force peppermintOS to 'become' Debian, for example? Or is this overly simplistic? It's a level of engagement with my operating systems that I just haven't had!