For me the game still isn't "fine." It's a lot more stable now but even with a completely fresh install and save I'm still running into a lot of the problems that was present during launch like all the civilians looking the same regardless of the setting you're on, NPCs running into each other and then choking up sections of the map. I just keep running into these NPC blobs where they just stand there and do nothing. There's still things they said they fixed like npcs materializing out of nowhere.

An Aeropress, Moka Pot or a Vietnamese Phin Filter are other cheap alternatives to try. But if you're overextracting in a French Press you might be doing something wrong with the brew time and/or the temperature.

It'd also help to know how darkly roasted it is and what type of beans they are.

Imo, this kinda reflects how the term RPG is used so loosely used leading it to be both a misused and overused term.

It's just so generic and meaningless now since it's just anything with stats, equipment, or you pretend to be someone else. Before you could refer to RPGs as games that used systems from the Tabletop scene because that's where they got their inspiration from. It combined a giant world, the importance of player choice, a vast world, and character stats which served as a sandbox for the player to explore. Then it sorta changed into CRPG which people are now also trying to redefine into Western RPG for some reason?

RPGs also weren't ever locked into turn based or real time. Games like Baldurs Gate 1 and 2, and Pillars of Eternity could be considered CRPGs rather than just RPGs and they use both turn based and real time. Baldurs Gate 3 is the exception to the Baldur's Gate series with it locking into Turn based only. But even then, you had games like Underrail staying completely turn based.

It's not just Roblox allowing casino sites and running unregulated markets. They allow for porn on their platform and also allowing child predators and child exploitation on their platforms. I'm not sure why parents even allow their kids to go on the platform since Roblox doesn't care about it.

People Makes Games did 2 videos a year ago digging deeper into it.

Predatory Actions

Exploitation

How finicky is installing custom roms on refurbished Samsung phones or android phones in general usually?
I usually avoid refurbished phones even though the flagships offer better performance and value compared to buying the midrange and budget phones but the lack of software updates are something I'm concerned about. That said, if there was a more clear recommended OS to install I'd be willing to give it a try.

They haven't backed down at all. They're still committed to implementing FaceIt according to the devs in their discord. The only reason it's not implemented now is because of privacy concerns so they're trying to rework it a bit.

I find handwriting also lets me better organize my thoughts and allow me to practise and develop my reading and writing skills in the initial stages. Writing makes it easier to organize or make edits as I rewrite everything when I move it to my pc. It just adds less steps to the whole process because I can properly focus on making my first edit and rework everything. It also makes it easier for me to bring around to other people when I see them. I find with a digital copy, most people just press spellcheck and be done with it instead of commenting on how and why I phrase certain sentences and which words might better communicate my ideas. I'm also a bit overwhelmed sometimes when I go through my digital documents that I end up just chipping away at the editing rather than be able to focus on it.

On the other, the idea of carrying a little notebook around to jot things down when I have a phone in my pocket, or using a fountain pen for longform text (trust me it would actually help you avoid **hand cramps,** aside from being less wasteful) all comes across as... **intentionally inefficient**? I struggle to see intentional inefficiency as anything but pretension. Like it's all just fetishizing living a more analogue life.

For most people hand cramps are caused by using the wrong/bad tool and bad body ergonomics and awareness. After I've upgraded to better pencils and pens, I've had to use way less force to use which mitigated some of the cramping. The rest of it was just me using only my wrists and straining my fingers to write which is entirely incorrect.

I've also tried to go digital for note taking but I find I rarely ever did it properly and also rarely reviewed. I also ended up waiting way longer for the apps to load than needed for such short and simple notes. Now I only ever add events into my calender, the rest I just write down on a piece of paper whenever possible.

In the servers browser I've noticed some community ones but there are only a few and mostly in different regions. Hopefully they will open it up for more players to host soon.

With open world games, I don't care where I go or what I do most of the time because it's just a giant sandbox for me. My issue though is when I return to something so vast, like in Pillars of Eternity, after a while I don't know what to do and I'm overwhelmed by all these quests to keep track of. Even with games like Subnautica I need to focus on just beating it in a few weeks. Then theres Factorio... I'll never understand what I was previously up to because suddenly all my previously laid out plans seemed so dumb.