There were parts of RDR2 that I adored and parts I loathed. Riding around exploring, hunting, and discovering the environment was a joy. I put a ton of hours into the game just doing that.

The quests were a nightmare to me. Ride to location A to get the quest. Ride to location B to start the quest. Ride to location C as part of the quest and if you dare to wander off the exact route or try an innovative solution and you FAIL

Didn’t mean that as dig, just that you have to assume based on context clues.

They’re not explicitly named, but it’s fairly obvious who they are.

It’s tough to pick between Kid A and In Rainbows, but I think In Rainbows sneaks by for me.

Another happy Libra 2 owner. I came from an older Kindle Paperwhite. There was a week or so of adjustment to some minor gripes, but not sending more money to Amazon was worth it to me.

• it’s slightly larger and heavier
• it’s slightly less responsive
• the dark mode button isn’t on the main reading screen, it’s buried in a menu screen

You can install custom interfaces but I haven’t dug too deeply into that. I tried Koreader briefly but it looked like a Linux window manager from 1995 and I didn’t have time to tinker with it so I rolled back to stock.

Not the face itself, but the design looks like the work of Joel Veitch. He ran a website called rathergood.com back in the early 2000s where he did animations like this. He did fake music videosand even got a commercial deal with Quiznos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Veitch

Google Play Music was my favorite of them all. Good UI, good music selection, decent quality, good integration with my Google ecosystem. Then Google did a Google and turned it into YouTube Music.

Spotify was a decent replacement - the best part was how it has an app on EVERYTHING. I listen to mostly albums so the mediocre playlists and crap shuffling rarely factor in. The worst was funding Joe Rogan, price increases, and paying artists shit.

Tidal pays artists more, and they have higher quality audio, though the UI is kind of meh. At least I’m not indirectly funding Joe Rogan anymore.

They’re expensive in upfront costs, but I think they’re more cost effective in the long run. I’m a husky guy who runs hot, so all the regular Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, etc. stuff would wear out yearly - I’d get tears between the thighs or dead elastic in the waistband - and get wicked swampy.

I think the oldest of my buck naked boxer briefs are about 5 years old now and are still going strong. They cut down on swamp ass too.

If you keep an eye out, they go on sale pretty regularly, so I’d grab a couple pairs here and there and over time replaced all my underwear with them.

Maybe I’m just cynical but literally nothing surprised me in the book.

Nut jobs with guns? Check.

Nut jobs feeding bears? Check.

Nut jobs accused of sex crimes against children? Check.

Nut jobs infighting about muh freedoms? Check.

Nut jobs surprised when leopards bears eat their faces? Check.

There’s a pretty interesting book about New Hampshire libertarians called “A Libertarian Walks into a Bear”. It’s about a libertarian utopia that was overrun by bears.

The soundtrack is amazing. The Rza produced it and it introduced me to The Flaming Lips, Sunny Day Real Estate, Method Man, Mazzy Star, and Nick Cave.

Jolene - Dolly Parton

I bounced off Perdido twice, then tore through The Scar then went on to read his whole back catalog. It’s my favorite of the Bas Lag “trilogy”.

I’ve never been a fan of the classic meatloaf with ketchup glaze.

I’ve been tinkering with a combination of this recipe: https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/1770-house-meatloaf

with some techniques from Kenji Lopez’s: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-all-american-meatloaf-excerpt-recipe

• Ground veal is hard to find and unethical to boot, but using just beef and pork plus powdered gelatin gives you the same texture and moisture retention.

• I add carrots, garlic, mushrooms, and/or other leftover veggies I need to use up and get the kids to eat but, don’t put them through the food processor cause I like the bigger pieces that hand dicing yields.

• I cut down on the salt from the barefoot contessa recipe too, especially if I’m using a salted chicken broth or better than bullion in the garlic sauce.

• A few anchovies and a pinch of msg bumps up the umami.

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Where Wallace at, yo?

I tried a number of them but never found one that felt right. I went back to the stock Pixel launcher. It’s far from perfect but I’m getting too old to tinker on features I’m not using anymore. I use the same 4 or 5 apps every day so it wasn’t worth the time investment.

If you avoid initiating the conversation with him, the two human/drow/humanoids will patrol a bit and conveniently both stop under a large chandelier that has a little pin holding it up. Dropping it can one-shot them both.

There are candles all over that dais that will ignite grease pools.

There’s a wooden bridge behind and above Dror that will easily break and drop whoever is standing on it into the chasm.

Knock a goblin into the pit behind them and there are two spiders that will eat them.

Using the environment to your advantage helps a ton.

Fucking passive voice as per usual - “the woman was struck”, not “the pig shot her in the back.”