on one hand, bicycles are indeed very epic. on the other - if you plan on going somewhere that’s >30min away by bike (and not up a hill) and don’t want to arrive sweaty, then maybe the bus is better

it is fantastic for both lil notes and grand projects! and you can even link to those little notes and slowly evolve them into a grand projects

you can basically create a personalised Wikipedia! and Obsidian will help you with it, as it can detect when you write in plain text a word or phrase that also is another note’s title, then you just click and bam, it’s linked. And if you change a note’s title, all mentions will update too!

you can also make conspiracy boards with the canvas note type, all usual formatting works within them

it’s a great tool to keep a lot of information organised and linked together, without having to open a billion files and cross reference them (you can also open notes in split screen).

learning how to use it will only take an hour or so, and then you’ll be zooming

i’ve recently been using it to collect and organise information for a big project i’m working on, and being able to link mentions of things to bigger topics and themes as i’m doing the data collection is just wonderful, no more “(IMPORTANT LOOK HERE!!!)”

it’s not difficult to clone a star with 20 year old software either

working really hard on shaking people by the shoulders through the internet

people will already ignore half the questions you ask in an e-mail even if you make them into bullet points

not fan of the Jesus fandom (most of them at least) but Jesus was a pretty epic character when you actually read that book about him. indeed responding to hate and violence with kindness instead of retribution is important in stopping the cycle of violence, though i must note - he did die in that story, and none of us are currently divine children walking the earth knowing what comes after, sometimes stopping the cycle is impossible if you want to survive.

i will always accept with an open heart the people who were once bigots and changed, or those who are having doubts about their bigoted beliefs - both mean they’ve learnt and grown, and their past mistakes shouldn’t define their whole life

the conversations are naturalistic storytelling that doesn’t just spell out information to you

linguistics and translation are not the premise of the game. the premise is piecing together the timeline of events, and eventually solving the mystery of the game, through reading those “boring” conversations

it takes roughly 15s to get off the planet after the first loop, bro :u and the thing you look at every time you wake up is crucial to solving the mystery

you can just say the game isn’t for you, or that you tried playing it and it didn’t align with your expectations. instead of making yourself out to look like you’re impatient to the point where 15s bores you, and unable to focus to the point of saying that reading is boring because you get to access new information without having a mini-game jiggle keys in front of your face before every piece of text.

i apologise for getting rude at the end here, but man, you’re insulting my favourite game based on your misinterpretation of what it’s trying to do, just say you don’t get it

the exploration at a certain point should stop feeling random :0

have you not wondered about the things you’ve discovered? have you not thought about figuring out the “why” of things?

well, i’d encourage you to give it a bit more time, it’s so incredibly worth it

but if it simply doesn’t click with you after you’ve put several hours into it - as heartbroken aa saying it makes me feel - it’s possible the game just isn’t for you

have you tried playing it for at least ~2h-4h? for some (myself included) it can take time to get the ball rolling & for the game to truly click

eh not quite, a paid beta tester is hired to create standardised, and well written bug reports. when someone buys an early access game it’s the same as a game foundriser with a donation tier that gives them access to beta versions, you’re not required (and barely even expected) to provide well written bug reports. quite frankly i think it’d be an infuriating experience if a dev decided to relay on their early access players’ “bug reports” for their beta testing, since most of those are just a screenshot of their game with words “found bug fix please”, what did they do to get that bug? they don’t remember. what’s their specs? they say windows10. what version of game were they running? they say they took the screenshot 10 minutes ago (have they updated the game? maybe, maybe not)

me with Outer Wilds but also i say nothing about the actual game and just keep trying to get them to play with vague ass “it’s a lighting in a bottle once in a generation gaming experience c’mon guys try it, i can’t say more, i don’t want to lessen your sense of wonder and awe as you explore, the only thing i can say is that it’s about space and it’s a mystery game, sort of, let me look up some equally vague reviews, i can also play you some ending reactions from the 30 different playthroughs i watched, but only the ones that, you guess it, are vague enough”

it’s a double edged sword really,

it allows some games to get enough funding to be finished. indi devs can basically start with a strong demo & then work on their project with an actual budget

and it allows other games to never be finished and still sold, indi devs can start strong, and then give up, and still make passive income out of people who don’t scroll down to reviews to check if people aren’t complaining about the game being abandoned, or in forever-early-acess-hell

i highly doubt that my religious grandparents were into bdsm and with high protocol M/s dynamics

you can technically unteach your autocorrect a word but you do have to catch it trying to “correct” it and longtap the culprit, which can be tricky when it only happens sometimes and you have a habit of typing fast

my phone occasionally decided to “correct” “that” to “thar”, it is deeply annoying

then it comes down to a framerate drop and bullshit (and if you’re playing a non-you character, you can also blame them personally eg. “Link what the fuck are you doing?”)

freestyle & impromptu intermittent fasting

i’d absolutely ask Thomas Bergersen and Nick Pheonix

this may be my favourite picture on the Internet, every time i see it it makes me laugh without a fault

there’s also the problem of techbros and companies everywhere thinking that AI is omniscient and can replace every other profession. who needs a human journalist when you can train an AI on their work (because they work for you and their work is your property ofc) and then just fire them all because you have a perfect AI that you can just set to run forever without checkig its work and make infinite money :)