Good for them! And they only had to strike for a week. UC grad students were on strike for way longer and barely got anything.

I’m glad you made this thread. ME trilogy is my favorite game ever, but even though I’ve owned Andromeda for years I’ve never played it. Thinking I should try it out for my next game.

Project Zomboid, Terraria, No Man’s Sky, Satisfactory

V Rising (boring), Phasmophobia (boring)

Next game to try is called Smalland, I’m excited

For sure! I’m about to teach a class and am using a really great free textbook from OpenStax. It was really important to me not to increase the financial burden on my students.

Before I turned off NSFW I was getting stuff from a community called “teens”. I doubt they’re doing age verification…

Horizon Zero Dawn. I went long stretches of not playing so it took me over a year to play through it. I enjoyed it a lot! Very cool story and Aloy is a great character.

ME series is my absolute favorite! Hope you have fun with ME2, it’s a blast.

Mass Effect series for me. Great story where choices matter. And the characters are just so wonderful, ending the game felt like saying goodbye to friends.

Testing it now, seems to work pretty well. Aside from search, which you said you’re working on, links don’t seem to work? It would also be nice to have somewhere to see replies to your comments/post. It would also be nice to see what instance each community comes from. Thanks for your hard work!

6:30 AM. I still cry if I have to be awake at that hour.

I was big in fandom spaces circa 2002-2008 and it’s pretty crazy to me how much the culture has changed. Livejournal is where I got introduced to the concepts of social justice and intersectionality and all that, and it’s morphed into something pretty weird.

I’m personally kind of a prude and am uncomfortable with oversexualization but I don’t think this puritan, regressive path is the way to go.

I have pretty severe ADHD too, and while I don’t enjoy driving like some people do, it’s not as scary as I thought and I’m not constantly getting into accidents or anything. Don’t let that be the thing that holds you back.

Apparently I am really sensitive to motion smoothing/video interpolation/“soap opera effect” that TVs do now. I’ve pointed out that people have the setting on so many times and most of them never noticed things looked weird.

Some ones I’ve had a lot of fun with recently: -Herd Mentality, where everyone tries to guess what the most popular answer to a question is -Loaded Questions, where everyone answers a question and someone has to figure out who put what answer (both of these are really great for getting to know people better) -Monikers, great for a larger group, a mix between taboo and charades. Super super fun. -Mind the Gap. Great for mixed age groups like families. It’s like trivial pursuit but you have to answer questions from different time periods.

I’m working on my Astrophysics PhD. I study “galactic cannibalism” aka how galaxies grow and change by eating smaller galaxies. My big focus is on teaching and outreach though rather than research.