Novamdomum

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Oh I loved Desperados 3! 😁 I paid £18 for it back in March 22 and spent 61hrs in it. Excellent game. Shadow Gambit is meant to be good too by the same people.

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 7d ago

£70 for a game was never justifiable. In the last 5 years these have been my most expensive purchases:

£27 Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (Finished it - Superb game!) £50 Assassin's Creed Shadows (Played 6hrs - REGRET! Won't ever spend that much on a game again) £26 Manor Lords (Played 4 hours - REGRET!) £28 No Rest For The Wicked (Played 8hrs - Will play more) £28 Tower Simulator 3 (Played 19hrs - Superb game!) £34 X-Plane 12 (Played 8hrs - REGRET!)

Now... people who PRE-purchase games for £70... That's truly mind boggling.

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 1w ago

How do you mean?

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 2w ago

Humanity has “lost the fight against climate change” ...because of a few stubborn, greedy governments who have done everything they can to get us all to believe it's because we didn't recycle enough.

No ordinary person ever had any power to change this. We could only make change happen if we all came together but we won't because apparently we're the problem.

Also worth noting that getting people to feel apathetic and fatalistic using messages like this post is actually a well known strategy to destroy motivation for change. The battle is definitely ongoing and we may yet win it. Don't give up hope or they win.

Novamdomum @fedia.io 2w ago

But what does Ja Rule think?

Novamdomum @fedia.io 3w ago

I get to work from home exclusively. My right to do that is never questioned. My boss is super understanding and my work gives me holidays whenever I want on short notice. I get raises all the time and if any of our clients start being toxic I'm allowed to shove them out of the nearest airlock. Yes, I love being self employed 😁.

Everyone should at least once, seriously consider starting their own business and working from home permanently. Specially now you can literally put everything you love doing, whatever it is, into ChatGPT and it'll tell you the best business for YOU to start, how to structure it, what you'll need and how to make it all work (Yes, yes AI will be the end of us bla bla but in the mean time it's a goldmine of free information and inspiration).

Having a job can be nice and cosy but working for yourself is incredible. There's no HR, no KPI's decided by someone else, no office politics and you can work from home wearing scuba gear if you want to. It really is worth trying to find your bliss and not just accepting things as they are.

Couple of little success nuggets I will add... Only buy hardware/software as you need it, not before. In fact, don't buy anything until there's a clear need. No office space, no business cards even, no cool e-ink tablet to take notes with or other vanity silliness. Nothing you don't need. Don't offer services you don't need to offer. If you behave like a swiss army knife, you'll be treated like one forever.

Whatever you're selling, make it a monthly subscription. This might be the most important bit of advice I have if you want to work happily from home for yourself successfully. Try out a bunch of networking groups and join a couple that focus on friendship first and business second. Those are your office pals who will bring you clients, be clients and give you advice and all you have to do is the same for them.

I guess no one's reading this far down but that's ok. For some reason your post inspired me 🤭

Novamdomum @fedia.io 3w ago

Oh definitely. In fact it's maybe dopamine hoarding so I get to experience it all in one go? But I've had that panicky feeling of being discovered before I finish a positive task forever.

Novamdomum @fedia.io 3w ago

This line is interesting from this article (no paywall or ads).

"Thinking about business cards in the future, they are destined to go the same way as the tie. Some people will use them but they will not serve any real purpose other than to simply establish an image about the person or the company they work for".

I think that feels about right. It hadn't even occurred to me to compare it to tie wearing, but I think it's true. Maybe 2 out of 30 people now wear any kind of suit or tie to the groups I go to and it used to be the standard. I haven't had to order any new cards in over 2 years and it used to be every six months.

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 4w ago

That guy's so funny "If you think that's insane hit subscribe!!" Wait what? These idiots reveal their agenda so quickly. Windows is fine. Honestly, I'm speaking to you from outside the bubble and we're all ok. Everything's running fine and updates are happening without any issue for most of us. This sweaty bearded salesman is just dog whistling Linux users and "mentally vulnerable" Windows users. If you think switching operating systems is going to go smoothly for you, boy do I have a bridge I want to sell you. "Everyone Hates Windows Right Now" yeah right 🤣

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 4w ago

The only thing more certain to exist till the end of time than prostitution is people complaining about it. I like it because it makes something explicit that is implicit in so many apparently non transactional relationships. There are so many people who say prostitution should be banned, who are also in relationships/marriages where they expect sex for shelter, food, safety or whatever. Prostitution makes the transaction clear. People point to the exploitative nature of it, but then reveal their real agenda by also rejecting the idea of making it safer for the people selling access to their bodies. The whole thing is a massively hypocritical pile of double standards. Mix into that cultures with backwards patriarchal religious doctrines and that's where you get the really angry people who talk about dishonor and stoning and all that jazz. Prostitution has been around since there were people and will always be around. When the puritans are in charge it just hides for a bit. This has been my TED talk, thanks lol

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 1mo ago

I used to have a fantasy about doing it in nature and had a gf who once took me to some kind of holy well in Cornwall where we started doing it. Half way through a bus load of Japanese tourists appeared and very politely walked past us as we tried to hide under our blanket. Kinda lost my interest in public sex after that.

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 1mo ago

For some reason it's always been "Landlord vs. tenant late with the rent" for me. If it involves the phrase "Are you sure there's no other way I can pay the rent" I'm in lol (btw... looking at the community guidelines in here your post might be more at home in Ask Lemmy NSFW).

Novamdomum @fedia.io 1mo ago

That was actually the show I had in mind when I asked the question! 😁 It's another one we quote constantly. If I ever want my wife to come see something cool I did, I'll ask her if she's marvelling "Did you marvel?! Are you marvelling?".

Novamdomum @fedia.io 1mo ago

I n..need to do a wee! 🤣

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 1mo ago

Definitely worth mentioning but also definitely not underrated! We still quote it almost daily "Awright, 'arry? D'you see that ludicrous display last night?" 🤣

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Novamdomum @fedia.io 1mo ago

Watch... They'll make money by virtue signalling "no AI use" and then the second AI inevitably goes mainstream pivot to showing off because they use "the best AI". The trick is to make money no matter which way the wind blows.