Im back to Balatro after losing all interest in it. Just got a couple more decks to unlock until I can decide I’ve completed it. I obviously never will (get gold tokens on all the jokers? Lolno) but it will feel like a good point to stop with no regrets.

If we’re including video games im gonna say mass effect. I didn’t give 2 enough of a chance because at the end of ME1 the entire known universe bands together to defeat a single big-bad ship and it’s a fully annihilating battle where the good guys barely scrape by. Then thousands of the big-bads turn up at once and the credits roll. Its a devastating ending that really drives home the central themes.

Then in ME2 your guy(orgirl) just wakes up in hospital after the battle? No chance. I just couldn’t get past it long enough to give it a chance. I still have them and I know I should but…

Season 1 of Once Upon A Time. Its OK afterwards, but an awful lot of what made the show good was wondering whether it was real or if the kids a mad fantasist. Afterwards it’s watchable but it’s different.

Then to add on top of that people believing it’s illegal to discuss your wages with other employees. Very little opportunity to be corrected.

Not really. In the UK for hourly employees the employer handles all that before you even get your paycheque. When it’s payday you have a big breakdown in the slip on what’s gone to various taxes and stuff, but you skip all of that and just look at the number that says what’s going in your bank.

If I was self employed, or won the lottery or something I would probably be a little pissed off about the concept.

I’d just copy/paste the lyrics from “what’s my age again?” By Blink 182.

Pretty much sums it up.

Beastly speakers I bet.

Me too but it’d turn into eugenics so quickly.

I was fucking baffled walking out of the hospital with my baby. No training, no proof of education, no tests. Walking out with the nurse in tow asking them "yeah are you sure i don’t need to like sign something?

I keep saying that to my boy, but even the reference goes over his head it’s so old.

I’ve only just learned about that feature. I came from reddit so anything that is even remotely different bewilders and confuses me. I will start to use it though it seems hella useful

Sewage systems are the big one I think.

As kids we had a few “must have been ghosts” experiences.

Me and my brother both woke up at the same time because we heard our mom shout on us from downstairs. We got up to see what she wanted but she wasn’t there. Went back upstairs into her bedroom and she was asleep.

Our bedroom TV once turned itself on in the night, loud static channel. It was unplugged before we went to bed and didn’t have a remote control.

“Must have been aliens” one. Was watching an airplanes blinking light in the sky flying along. It stopped moving and kept blinking for about 5 seconds. Then shone really bright and shot towards the horizon in about a second. This was about 15 years ago and nobody believes me. I still don’t have an explanation for it. I assumed it was brand new military tech but I still haven’t heard of anything that can move that fast.

They invented a collectors edition? Much innovative.

Did they fix borderlands 3 yet? It came on game pass and it turns out it’s impossible to play for more than 15 minutes without resetting the game and doing it from the last checkpoint. I won’t be playing 4 until I complete 3, and I won’t be completing 3 until it’s fixed.

Ffs America you’re supposed to be setting the example here

I’ll be going back and playing all the super Nintendo games I missed out on as a kid I think

amazed at what a birch you are

That’s just an incredible play

I might have to install fortnight again for a quick shot at this. I’ve never knowingly voice chatted with an AI yet and want a go.

I’m excited for this sort of thing to be properly implemented in games, it’s only a matter of time, and wouldn’t mind a sneak preview.

In my defence I said “certain kind”. You must have met some. You tell them to press the green box that says [OK] and they just look at the screen confounded. You tell them to use their finger and they try and give it you back saying they don’t know how to work it.

I tried showing one VR, and they just stood there motionless saying it’s not working. I tell him “you need to actually move your arms, like you’re there, press that button in front of you with your actual hands” “what hands” “your real hands holding the controllers you need to actually do it like it’s real”. Stands there motionless for another 10 seconds. “No. It’s not working. It’s not doing anything.” Forget it. Come off the thing.

If there’s one of these people in the room Jackbox will quickly become a tedious chore.

Quick warning about Jackbox, older people may struggle. It’s incredibly simple, nearly foolproof, but there’s just a certain kind of old person who becomes completely toddler-esque useless around technology.

I still give the recommendation a +1 though. It’s cracking fun.