Sold. Any tips for getting into the game? I’ve looked into it before and it’s seemed a bit daunting as a new player - although everyone I’ve seen taking about the game seems to be really friendly and welcoming to new people and it won’t really suck to suck at the game.

I’d happily recommend it to an adult on a tight budget, but it’s not premium. It’s a lightweight, soft plastic with a textured surface where you’d want it that I think feels nice but I can see why some might not. It will not survive an afternoon with an eight year old with anger issues, but I treat mine with some care and put it back in the (very cheap and flimsy, but included) plastic case it came with and I’m not worried about it. It’s decent enough, imo.

The problem with recommending controllers is that so much of this is subjective. I wanted something that felt more like the Switch buttons than my wired PDP Afterglow Xbox controller did (hate that thing), and what I got was exactly what I wanted and was impressed for what I spent on it. I don’t have an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C to compare it to which seems to be the direct competition in the price point (seriously, check out the Retro Game Corps vid ) - and there were some trade offs for both - 8BitDo was maybe slightly more premium feeling but similarly light and had Android only Bluetooth and wouldn’t work with my Switch, the GameSir has firmware upgrade issues (don’t upgrade the firmware!). Honestly, if you can get the 8BitDo, that might be the better choice for your use case - with the dongle it has a higher polling rate so less input latency, but I’m not playing anything where I’d even notice that. Also I suspect I prefer the ergonomics of the GameSir, but again that’s subjective. Or just buy one of the more expensive 8BitDo controllers, it sounds like you’re on less of a tight budget than I was.

You’re getting downvoted by people who didn’t watch the video, lol. I saw it when it was posted because the YouTube algorithm knows me way too well, it’s kinda terrifying actually.

Growing up in the 90s, my father worked for the Florida Division of Forestry, and control burns were just a thing I heard about at the dinner table, sometimes when getting smoked out on the playground I’d ask him if it was a prescribed burn or a wildfire. So was him being asked to help every few years when California was on fire again.

I was astonished to find out as an adult that prescribed burns weren’t as widespread as they seemed, and this video does a pretty good job of explaining some of why that is. And yes, it’s partly racism - control burns were a part of indigenous forest management and part of the racist maligning of indigenous practices as non-scientific and backwards. In the modern era, there’s also elements of entrenched thinking on the part of forestry services, and money issues (governments, in general, don’t like paying for preventative measures, they prefer paying more after something awful has occurred), and NIMBYs not wanting to be inconvenienced.

I do think the framing unfairly maligns Smokey Bear as a symbol though, in the past 30-ish years he’s been more about regular citizens being responsible with fire, and responsible forest management.

I’ve had a Gamesir Nova Lite since September, and I strongly prefer playing games with a controller whenever possible so I’ve used the heck out of it, and I’ve had no problems. I really like how the buttons and joysticks feel and it’s supposedly got hall effect joysticks. I only use it on Bluetooth so not sure how it is with the dongle, but it has one. It’s on Amazon and they’ve got their own site to order from that does worldwide shipping. For the $25 I spent on mine, it’s a lot nicer than you’d expect from the price, I’d assume it’s similarly cheap in the EU. Retro Game Corps did a side by side video with an 8BitDo a while ago. The company marketed the shit out of it to influencers, but it’s legitimately good. (It doesn’t have a headphone jack and gyroscope, fyi, in case you care about that.)

Maybe I’m missing something obvious here, but how do you use the stove?

Along with the forage and fishing thing, I’d probably go help the hat mouse repair the abandoned house and be roommates with them.

Foraging the first day probably makes the most sense - you’re not the farmer, Willy might not just give you a rod, but the training rod is cheap enough.

Minnesota had deep fried ranch at the state fair last year.

Wasn’t this basically the plot to Michael Crichton’s novel Timeline?

Ultimate convenience microwave - add a camera inside the microwave and use image recognition to identify the food and automatically cook it perfectly.

And this is how you end up with an AI subscription-based microwave that sells your data.

I’ve run across Ubuntu in the wild once and I don’t work in tech - I was in Target and one of the self checkout machines was Ubuntu having a kernel panic.

I’ll take it for free, I suspect a Cybertruck might be fun to paint in dazzle camouflage, at least it’ll hide the shape

I’m ripping this response directly from another conversation on this image, I don’t actually know anything about cello.

He’s playing Penderecki!

Good news, you (probably) can! Find a flagship phone you like from a year to three ago, and go buy a gently used one. Buying things used is almost always better for the environment than buying them new.

Peter Thiel, who owns JD Vance, has a company called Palantir, just to add another layer to this joke.

Sure, but we’re also the last state to have 3.2 beer. Come on in-Bev, bribe our politicians to finally end this!

I agree with everyone else saying this is probably an Alyx sequel for the Deckard headset they’re developing…

But if it’s legit HL3 it’ll be hilarious if they announce it on April 1st.

YOU JUST KILLED A KENNEDY!