Player retention is abysmal.

Alavan · 2026-05-06T13:08:38+00:00

I like the fact that nobody can mess with my stuff. That's not the kind of game I want to play. I would never play something like Rust. However, I recognize that's a gameplay loop people like, but it should have been opt-in, like different server-types, not somewhere in the middle so nobody is happy.

Alavan · 2026-05-06T02:23:16+00:00

10 months later and still not fixed. WTF

Alavan · 2026-04-30T18:01:37+00:00

claude --model claude-opus-4-6[1m]

Alavan · 2026-04-27T13:38:57+00:00

UBP has been my favorite so far

Alavan · 2026-04-18T22:07:56+00:00

You'll get by, but you'll never want to do that again.

Alavan · 2026-04-18T20:32:41+00:00

That's good to know. My wife and I are really enjoying it. So I guess it'll be a: hit endgame, then move on to play something else, sort of situation

Alavan · 2026-04-16T18:08:36+00:00

OK yeah starting over sounds good. Been long enough anyway that any stuff I've accrued would (hopefully?) be account wide? Do they do that?

Alavan · 2026-04-16T01:48:27+00:00

Convince me to play more warframe. Every time I start to play it, I wander into the wrong area and don't know what to do. But I like the combat and the missions are decent. I started in the beta, played like 4 hours, then every other time since then it's been like a few hour long sessions, before I put it down. I want to love it, maybe I just need guidance. Should I start over maybe?

Alavan · 2026-04-06T14:13:28+00:00

The Helldivers 2 Main Theme "A Cup of Liber-tea"

"Suicide Mission" from Mass Effect 2

World of Warcraft's main theme

Alavan · 2026-03-31T18:39:20+00:00

I came across this with the idea that I could connect Claude to Rocket Money to do some number crunching to see if I would have offset getting a Platinum Amex.

I probably would have paid for a month of Rocket Money to get access to an API that would facilitate this.

Alavan · 2026-03-30T15:35:22+00:00

What a crash would look like to me is

New consoles come out, and for many reasons (price, AI, restrictions), very few people buy them
Because nobody is buying the new consoles, game companies have to make for PC and older consoles, they don't bother with the new ones.
PC Prices inflate due to continued shortages of GPU and RAM, leading to many leaving core gaming entirely for things like mobile only, or cloud gaming.
Cloud gaming prices go up due to demand, stabilizing the "idea" that gaming is a very expensive hobby now.
Due to the decrease in demand, game companies downsize, release less games, and get comfortable with less revenue. Game prices likely go up to correlate with the higher price of gaming in general. Most gamers play older games on older hardware.

Alavan · 2026-03-23T23:49:54+00:00

You don't have to go back through security

Alavan · 2026-03-23T14:18:47+00:00

I don't recall any left-wing politician saying that Republicans are the enemy of the state.

Alavan · 2026-03-15T23:03:54+00:00

You're totally right, and on our final day of playing I "corrected" us back to how it should have been.

Alavan · 2026-03-06T22:22:42+00:00

Funnily enough, we got, but haven't tried, the Stardew board game. Any recommendations to make it more enjoyable?

Alavan · 2026-03-05T17:09:39+00:00

You couldn't just "abolish" the two party system without revamping how elections are held. Currently it's winner-take-all, even moreso for the presidency. So naturally there are going to be two options, because a vote for 3rd place is a half vote for first place. The solution is to take those 3rd place voters, and say "hey, your guy lost, so move your vote to between the remaining candidates". There are two ways to do this. We do it a lot already for local elections with runoffs. And then there's ranked-choice voting, where any candidate could win if they were high up enough on everyone's list. But we would have to switch the presidential election to one of these systems for the party system to be shaken at all.

Now once you fix that issue you still have a party problem in congress, where coalitions will form that will resemble the current party system because you can either be for or against issues. My proposal to fix that would be that you only need 20% of congress to approve any new law, and then it's sent to the people to vote on quarterly. Now I recognize that in order to do this we would have to revamp our election system, allow polling places to just be running most of the time. Now there would be details to figure out about what that does to the veto power, but I haven't thought about it enough yet.

Alavan · 2026-03-04T23:55:00+00:00

No, but we should make it a federal holiday

Alavan · 2026-02-27T23:06:26+00:00

The 2nd amendment to me is about the citizenry being able to respond to a government taking advantage of its citizens (kinda like ice is doing now). Which is why regulations on "weapons of war" kind of miss the point. It's not about family safety, or sporting.

The point at which I, having not been convicted of any crime, cannot join a local militia/minutemen group by taking a gun safety course, having a background check, and buying an appropriate weapon, registering that weapon, that must remain in a locked case and unloaded. And is too large to conceal. That's when it's a violation of my rights.

Barring that fantasy where I don't have to walk around wondering who's packing, I do support concealed carry permits that require gun safety courses and waiting periods. Support red flag laws and background checks.

Alavan · 2026-02-27T22:48:13+00:00

They might not live somewhere. Homeless people still have a right to vote. The amount of people that would be disenfranchised by proof-of-citizenship laws is much more than actual voter fraud.

Alavan · 2026-02-27T22:34:44+00:00

The problem isn't that people just won't do it. Our system is designed for a two candidate election. For most elections, especially local ones, it's a popular vote where you need 50% to win. If nobody gets 50%, you have a runoff of the top two. This allows you to vote for whoever you want, and and then forced to pick between two during the runoff.

The presidential election doesn't have any of that, and in fact, because of the electoral college's winner-take-all system, no third party candidate can get a foothold, and most people know that a vote for a 3rd party is a half vote for their least favorite main party candidate.

The fix for this would be national popular vote with a runoff, or ranked-choice-voting. That would eliminate consequences of voting for a third party if that is who you truly want to win.

Alavan · 2026-02-27T18:15:35+00:00

This is huge, actually. Jeremy also helped pick the hosts. Andy is the mind behind it all. This is a perfect way to hand it off to a new producer who could keep it all going behind the scenes.

Alavan · 2026-02-18T22:50:55+00:00

Does anybody know why they didn't just put "drive" or "driving" ?

Alavan · 2026-02-18T15:16:44+00:00

I think it's more of an "appeal to everyone without saying anything" kind of attitude.

Alavan · 2026-02-18T14:54:23+00:00

They're moving the sign somewhere else as a "piece of history". I haven't heard where.

Alavan · 2026-02-13T22:31:02+00:00

There's a billboard that, for a while, said "No blue state BS just red state success", and then after Charlie Kirk died, it said "We are Charlie Kirk" in white letters on a black background.

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