please boost for more answers 🙏🏾
just trying to gauge if people feel something like I do:
when you see your name written somewhere, do you "feel it in your heart" ?(like a pull or a strong identification with it. it is really fucking hard for me to describe it)
given name, chosen name or... something else.
The developers of that revival engine were pretty pissed off about the leak and said the launcher is "incomplete" and that it never should've been released, and that they're still working "behind the scenes" and made "a lot of progress" in it...
It's been DECADES since then and nothing else really materialized from it, and the launcher honestly works flawlessly for most of us, so honestly if it weren't for the leak many of us would've never gotten to use it at all :/
To elaborate: When EA shut it down in 2003, one of its developers got pissed off and leaked a developer build of the game that has (VERY) limited offline playability.
Then, later, some people tried to work on a revival engine for it, but it became vaporware and never amounted to anything... then its developers had a schism and one of them leaked the mostly-functional GUI launcher for playing it in single-player... purely out of spite.
And now everyone who still plays the game nowadays uses it!
vegan cooking tip; egg replacement
Need to replace egg in a recipe? Try flaxseed!
Supposedly you can mix flaxseed flour with water and it becomes an egg-like substance, but we don't have it in flour form here, only semi-crushed, so I worked out a different solution: boiling it!
Add a little bit of flaxseed (a tablespoon or two) into a pan, add enough water to submerge it but not very much more, then stir and boil it until it becomes an irritatingly gooey substance that's difficult to get off your stirring implement.
Far as I can tell, it's a 1:1 match for egg in terms of texture/consistency/structure. I've used it to great success in pancake batter!
staying cool in the heat poverty hacks:
- black out your windows with foil, cardboard, blankets. make your space as dark as possible. light = heat.
- unplug all electronics. laptop chargers, phone charges, lamps and lights and appliances you aren't using. every plugged-in electronic item in your space is generating heat.
- overfill your fridge/ freezer if possible. fridges can die in the extreme heat and the more physical stuff in there the easier it is for the fridge / freezer to stay cool. freeze bulk water bottles for yourself or your pets.
feel free to add more heatwave survival tips in the comments. 🖤
#AskFedi: What are your 'comfort games'? I'm especially curious about anything that has some sort of crafting or building mechanic (it can be an unusual one!) :boost_requested:
Snark about so much of Open Science advocacy
Before you do your Open Science advocacy thing, may I suggest that you ask yourself this question:
Are you just harassing early career researchers and students who don't get to make decisions about these things?
And if the answer is "no," ask yourself:
Really? Are you sure? Maybe double-check.
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I hate that when I write a particularly good email at work, nowadays everyone will just assume I used ChatGPT. Even if I’m still better at it than the bot. Something I’ve always taken pride in has been commoditized. Without getting into whether or not that’s good for the world, it’s a bad feeling for me personally.
From Life With a Side of the Unexpected:
"A lot of disabilities are invisible. Your reaction to them isn't."
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.