I played for a month or so when it first came out. I got the game for free, as I had pre-ordered it several years prior when it was first announced. It was originally going to be a monthly subscription, so they had the game listed for no cost for pre-orders for the initial week or so, then they decided to switch to a paid copy of the game and no monthly cost. Those who added it to their account during the initial announcement at $0 got to keep it.

I even got to play the beta a little before the official launch, and I could have played the alpha before that if I had remembered the game existed.

It is a beautifully rendered game, but the storyline felt lacking. Also, I’ve never really played an mmo before this one for any substantial length of time, so it might just not be my style of game. But I didn’t find it very engaging, aside from the visuals and the soundtrack which were both great.

I do wish the button could be a toggle, though. You have to press and hold it down to keep the IS active, at least on the version 3 model. It isn’t too hard to do, but still, a bit annoying to have to tell each person who uses it to push and hold the button or else they aren’t correctly taking advantage of the main feature of these binoculars.

Canon 12x36 Image Stabilization III Binoculars. They’re pricey at ~$700, but I’ve had a pair for several years, and they’re so nice to use. When you press the button to activate the IS, it makes everything clear and sharp. It’s like looking at a pair of binoculars on a tripod, but handheld. Very convenient to quickly whip out the binos to look at something and have a clear image.

I’ve started to use Playnite. It’s nice to have a complete catelog of all my games. Most of my real games (ie ignoring random freebies) are on steam, but I’ve collected a bunch elsewhere like gog, epic, humble bundle, and others. You can give it credentials and set up nearly all the major catelogs so that it can generate a listing of all games you own.

I use it to mark when I completed a game, but I’ve only had it for a couple years, so I generally go by memory or by steam statistics of hours played.

Downside is that it’s Windows only. It’s open source and free, and I still have a windows machine for most of my gpu games, but I mainly game on my steam deck or my Linux laptop these days, so I need to find another option or see if Playnite is wine/Proton compatible.

I made this after noticing that the original meme had an arm that doesn’t match to any of the people in the crowd.

Notice this row has three hands up, unlike the other rows of hands, but still only two people.

If the further person happened to be raising both of their arms, it still doesn’t work, because they would have to be wearing a shirt with different sleeve lengths. And it can’t be the closer person, because they’d have arms with two different skin tones.

Firefox used to let you self-hosted the account sync. They changed the method they used a few years back and it wasn’t backwards compatible, so I stopped self hosting, but they might still have that option.

Not a breakdown of the whole intro exactly, but this breaks down the melody musically and makes some comments about how it relates symbolically.

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Now with doppler effects!

No, that’s not correct. If you create a new file as root, it will own that file. But editing an existing file doesn’t change the owner or group of that file.