I was incredibly tempted to pre-order Starfield. Everything about it should be right up my alley. I love Sci-fi, space and all things related. But I learned my lesson after pre-ordering Diablo 4. I decided to try out the pirated version shortly after release and was so disappointed and glad I didn’t buy it. I dropped it after a few hours and had no desire to play it after that.

Also coming into it straight after playing Baldur’s Gate 3 made it look so dated. The plastic doll looking NPC’s and animations, boring dialogue and writing. I’m not even that into fantasy/D&D type settings and BG3 drew me in for many hours.

I really hope someone makes a game as good as BG3 but set in space, similar to Mass Effect etc.

You shouldn't trust anything uploaded there by IGGGames. They've been caught before adding miners to their files. I downloaded the rune release somewhere else seeing as they were the uploader on 1337x. I only really use 1337x for fitgirl repacks.

Poop at work. Not only do you get paid to poop, you save money on toilet paper.

I actually liked Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Both main actors were objectively terrible, but I still liked the movie 🤷‍♂️

I believe Sony owns the Helldivers IP, so they may not have had much choice in the matter.

I switched to 'haha' instead when I caught myself saying lol in real life, haha

I persisted with my wired earbuds until only very recently picked up some wireless ones and can say they’re better in every way. Unless you only ever use them while sitting still. Exercising, gardening, mowing the lawn, working on the car or in the garage, anything where you’re moving about really. Not having the stupid wire getting caught on anything or accidentally pulling your phone out is a godsend.

Audio quality is fine for 99.9% of people. I think some people are stuck on views from 5 or 6 years ago. The tech has come a long way.

What's the point of Denuvo on an always online live service game?

I still remember all the online chatter about Heath Ledger getting cast as the Joker. The guy from Brokeback Mountain and A Knight's Tale?

Then he gives us the most iconic live action Joker potrayal which hasn't really been been surpassed in 15 years.

Ice cream scoopin', shittin' poopin', shittin', poopin'

But more seriously, MF DOOM (RIP) is one of my favourite artists, but he's been covered in a few comments already. But one of my favourites from him is:

Getting paid like a biker with the best crank
Spray it like a high-ranked sniper in the West Bank

I think you guys were a bit too ambitious with the size..

This article is from 2022. I received an email from YouTube yesterday for the Turkey family plan is going up to 115.99 TRY from 59.99.

Genius.com usually has annotations to explain song lyrics. Usually they're guessing the intent of the artist though. Or are you wanting differing interpretations? I'm not sure if there's anything like that.

You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!

I finished Alastair Reynold’s Pushing Ice a few months ago and it’s kind of close to what OP is looking for. Also a really good book!

It reminds of the old days on r/all on reddit before they removed all the porn from it. I fondly remember scrolling like 70 pages deep on r/all and finding all sorts of weird posts

Yeah that’s a good take, it’s like a modern Fifth Element.

I have seen Chronicle, but I probably need to rewatch it. Not sure if they just had bad direction or writing, but they seemed more like siblings instead of love interests.

If you have a decent blender, making smoothies is an easy way. If you don't like the taste you can just hold your nose and gulp it down.

I mean I do grab the torrent link from the fitgirl site, but I find the torrent faster to download than the direct download links.

I would love a Chaos Theory remake/remaster!

I can guarantee you there were people in the 80's and 90's who thought music was better in the 50's and 60's and so on and so forth all the way back through time since Grog hit two sticks together rhythmically

I loved the Raised By Wolves intro, the music was beautiful. The show was very love it or hate it and has sadly been cancelled :(

Also loved the creepy? music on the Severance intro.

Many of the top private trackers rely on reputation. Which is why some of them are notoriously hard to get into. They usually also have active mods, admins and forums. They also generally have posting rules for torrents. Anyone wanting to spread malicious torrents would likely get their account banned in short order once it gets reported. not to mention quite a number of them have their own internal release groups that can be trusted.

While it's not impossible, it's far less likely to be an issue on any well run private tracker.

Chinese style smashed cucumber salad with chilli and sesame oil

A Grand Don’t Come For Free is great, but I have a real soft spot for Everything Is Borrowed

Kaneda, what can you see!?

Bachelor Chow, now with flavor!

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Some people will say the rest of the series isn't worth reading, but I enjoyed them all.

I think it's highly dependent on the player. I'm not a completionist in any sense, I mainly play games to have fun. I stop playing them when I stop having fun. I've put down games after a few hours and I've played some for hundreds of hours.

The gameplay loop in that sense is important whether it remains fun and keeps me coming back. Time is short as you get older and I guess I don't really care about beating games.

I've loved Beth Gibbons' singing style? voice? ever since listening to Dummy many years ago. I recently found out she has a solo album coming out next month. I've not listened to any of her solo work before, she only has one other solo album from over 20 years ago from what I can tell. I don't think it's trip hop, but I'm going to try give it a listen soon.

Airbourne. They’re basically a modern AC/DC. All their albums sound the same, but that’s the sound I want to listen to sometimes.

So if I put my fries on a seperate plate it's a salad? Good to know

I really liked the climbing mechanic. Sadly I had to stop after about an hour. Something about the FOV or camera was giving me intense motion sickness, but otherwise a really nice game.

Red Alert is also a classic

How is it currently with USA peak times?

Since the first patch this week I've had no issues getting in, but I am in Oceania so I'm probably not playing at the peak times.

I’m enjoying Helldivers 2. I’m too old for competitive games and love a good PvE co-op game.

It’s a little grindy to unlock weapons and stratagems, but feels about the same as the first game

Ah thanks, Bedrock Anthem and Livin’ in the Fridge are great!

That’s a good one. I like to use tropical mix frozen fruit in summer. Usually has pineapple, mango, dragon fruit etc. in it

I'm still new to Lemmy so I'm not sure if there are any communities here for it. On Reddit there is r/trackers which has good info on which private trackers are worth trying to get into. There was also r/OpenSignups which posted which trackers had open signups, but it seems like they've shut it down since the protests.