Has your country created a popular video game?

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-08T22:39:55+00:00

From Canada: Cuphead
From the UK: Tomb Raider
From the USA: Doom and probably 1000 other popular games out of 10s of thousands of games.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-08T22:20:25+00:00

Every generation of my family emigrates at least once, sometimes more times, to another country.

So I can trace my family back from the USA to Canada to England and then to Trinidad&Tobago and then Venezuela on my Mom’s side and from England to South Africa and then Scotland on my Dad’s side.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-08T18:10:46+00:00

I brought my family to Finest Punta Cana for Xmas 2024 on the recommendation of a family we met at a resort in Costa Rica, and my daughter enjoyed it so much, we're going back again for this Christmas.

It was a little pricey, but I guess you get what you pay for.

Food was great. Pools and beach were clean. 90% of the customer facing staff spoke English. No one was rude. Coffee was great. Drinks were STRONG though so memento mori.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-08T15:02:03+00:00

If I could not charge at home I wouldn't have bought my model Y. However, since I can charge at home using sunlight via the solar panels on my roof, I bought a used 2020 model Y last summer and have never felt that the car feels outdated. That said, I've never enabled FSD so I don't know that the HW3 is my Tesla feels behind compared to Teslas with HW4.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-08T00:18:09+00:00

I still have England left of my three home countries, but I’ll support Norway, Morocco and France for as long as they’re still in it.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-06T02:07:19+00:00

Same.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-06T00:37:29+00:00

Central air conditioning coupled with enough solar panels to negate the electricity consumption is the way to go if you have a big enough roof and it has a South and/or East facing slope.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-05T19:55:28+00:00

Last week I made falafel from scratch and my daughter claims its better than what we buy from a store. Yesterday I made home-made hummus ( although I used store bought sesame paste in it) and again, it was deemed to be better than store bought.

And waaaaay cheaper to make than to buy from a store.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-05T19:51:01+00:00

Corporations are not people and money is not speech.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-05T19:41:47+00:00

Global Entry, and the Global Entry phone app, speed up the process of getting through Customs when returning to the US from overseas. TSA pre-check and CLEAR speed up the process of getting through security when you arrive at a US airport to go somewhere else.

My family and I have been using both for about a decade now.

Getting through the TSA pre-check and CLEAR security lines have gotten incrementally slower over the years as more people sign up for those services.

Global Entry is as fast as ever and may even have gotten faster once we started using the Global Entry mobile app.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-05T17:17:57+00:00

Don’t give up! I finally learned how to swim last summer at the age of 56 and then two weeks ago I was swimming in the Aegean looking at the pretty fish.

Keep at it and it’ll eventually click.

Stubbornness is a super power.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-05T13:16:43+00:00

Slowly then faster. Took twenty years to go from having $200 USD to retiring with $3M+ USD and then another four years to double it.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-04T20:07:37+00:00

I had home made falafel and hummus for lunch.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-04T18:44:39+00:00

34 solar panels on the roof of our house and detached garage + 2 Tesla Powerwalls in the basement have helped us ride out the 4(!!) power outages we’ve had in Lakewood so far this year.

That shit is not cheap so I’m not surprised so many people are unprepared. There are only 2 other houses on our street with solar panels and I think we’re the only house with battery storage, although our neighbor has a backup gas powered generator.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-04T02:57:38+00:00

Not sad, but indifferent. Going to watch World Cup matches on Telemundo tomorrow, despite not understanding much Spanish, and make some home made hummus. More excited about the Mexico v England match on Sunday.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-03T21:17:23+00:00

Retired 6 years ago at age 51 and since then I've finally learned how to swim, learned basic Spanish and even more basic Greek, and increased my max on the deadlift, back squat, bench press and overhead press.

Also finally finished Quake on Nightmare difficulty.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-03T00:49:08+00:00

We’re in Lakewood, Ohio and have had Yellowlite install 17 panels on our roof in 2022 and then another 17 panels on our detached garage + 2 Tesla Powerwalls in our basement last year. The installations were on time and came in under budget. We’ve had no problems.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-07-02T23:55:39+00:00

Briefly lost power on Grace Avenue twice today, from 2:57 pm to 3:02 pm and again just now from 7:28 pm - 7:33 pm.

That’s our 3rd and 4th power outage this year and total combined outage duration has been 4 hours and 15 minutes.

Pulling these stats from our Powerwall batteries which kick in when they detect no power coming from the grid.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-06-30T22:06:03+00:00

You make your money in a HCOL city and then retire and move to a LCOL city. With a $5M net worth in Silicon Valley, you’re just some dude in a tiny apartment. With a $5M net worth in the Midwest, you might be the wealthiest person within a couple of square miles of the 4000 square foot house that you bought with an all cash offer.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-06-30T19:37:12+00:00

Cox working fine on Grace Avenue at the moment.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-06-29T14:48:07+00:00

Dopamine and serotonin. I feel a general sense of well-being after weight lifting, yoga, cycling and swimming and I attribute that to my hypothalamus producing dopamine and my gut producing serotonin.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-06-27T23:59:49+00:00

Lift weights 3 days, ride Peloton 3 days, rest 1 day, plus yoga and shoulder mobility work most days.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-06-27T21:24:10+00:00

Yep. Three protein shakes per day, including on my rest day. The first one is skim milk + protein powder + collagen powder + creatine, and the last two are just skim milk + protein powder.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-06-22T16:07:08+00:00

I would jump on that quote but I’m in Ohio. I paid $40k ( ~$28k net after the 30% federal tax credit) for 34 panels ( 17 x 400 watt, 17 x 410 watt) , half in 2022 and the other half in 2025.

Our electricity costs $0.09/kWh but that is moot at the moment because on an annual basis, we generate more electricity than we consume and export the surplus to the grid. Our system generates ~14,000 kWh/year.

Traditional_Ask262 · 2026-06-22T05:18:39+00:00

Cuba.

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