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I LOVE The Long Dark, but I do wish they’d have different seasons if you survive long enough. Something tells me that even summer would be no picnic on that island with the crazed wildlife and geomagnetic storms. Maybe for a sequel someday?

Also I admit that I like playing non-story games with the wildlife turned down to mimic more reasonable behaviors. Then it really does become more of you against the elements, rather than you against crazy wolves. @_

This. No programs I routinely use images for support it.

And now we have plotlines for another few hundred Doctor Who episodes!

I remember that when Star Trek Online was first announced, it was VERY different than what it is now… and it actually more closely resembled what you were describing. Each character would be free to do some of their own hero stuff in the galaxy but also be on ‘hub ships’ where you were a smaller part of a much larger whole, participating in shipboard stuff. Then it changed hands or somesuch, and the new leadership said, “Nobody just wants to be some random person on a starship! Everyone wants to be the captain!”

To which I said, “No, actually… ._. I think I would enjoy just vibing on a supercool space ship with my Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism lifestyle.” So it would be interesting to see someone try to do STO as it was originally intended.

A strategy/management sim where you are a Madam running a brothel. Lots of ways to take it-- set it in different places/eras to signify how far under the radar you have to be, change your regime from harsh to compassionate, build out the brothel itself, recruit talent (ethically or unethically), decide if you want to theme the establishment to attract a certain clientele-- lots of interesting things you could do with the setting!

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The cat DOES match the top very well. Good color choice. ^_

I keep hearing from lots of news outlets that “the economy really isn’t that bad, guys”, and sure, compared to the Pandemic or Great Recession, maybe… but the big elephant in the room, the thing that NOBODY is talking about, is housing. Housing is still utterly impossible to attain for most people, and I have yet to hear of any good solution for it other than “hope the market fixes itself-- but NOT with a real estate crash, that would be bad! ;-;”.

Office real-estate is crashing because so many places are still trying to make WFH, well, WORK, and lots of people are asking (quite reasonably I think) “Why don’t we just rehab those office blocks into housing?” Unfortunately that is an expensive endeavor that the big real estate firms don’t have the appetite for, because it involves running new utility lines and doing lots of other changes to the structure of the buildings to make them actually livable. It’s easier for them to build their McMansions outside of the major cities while the cities themselves start to rot away.

There are SO MANY solutions to this that don’t suck, but no-one is going to try them because the profit margins are too slim. >_<

The “Well, shit.” look on his face really sells it for me.

It’s a working breakfast. Gotta stay on that grind!

The moment I hear someone try to call ANY job “unskilled labor”, I have to fight the urge to shove the tools into their hands and say, “Okay, YOU do it, then, since it’s so simple.”

I would love to have one! ;-; Could you maybe just offer financing terms that I could afford? Please?

Reminds me very much of Tenra Bansho Zero.

Rules for winning an Anime fight: Always bring a sword to a gunfight, your fists to a swordfight, and a small, furry animal to a fistfight.

It’s for the best, really.

I stopped reading at the phrase “purpose and people officer”. I suffered from toxic levels of corporate bullshit when I was younger and I have a strong averse reaction to it now. Someone is getting paid six figures to have a bullshit title like that and it is ABSOLUTELY proof of what is wrong with the corporate class.

I generally run to ControlNet if I need something really specific; either finding an existing vector outline of a shape you want or sketching it in yourself, and then reinforcing it with a good prompt. This is the only way I’ve found to get good output that involves specific letters in logos, for example.

The downside, for me at least, is that ControlNet is always a resource hog and it always takes longer than a standard generation.

Chooooooonnnnkkk! <3

They’re both great games, but they play very differently. The scale of DSP is vast-- you’re a giant robot that can fly to different planets, and you end up setting up supply chains that span entire solar systems-- and in late game, you can even go to OTHER STAR SYSTEMS if you need something exceptionally rare in greater quantities.

Satisfactory is so first-person that it can seem daunting, and unlike DSP you have the very real chance of dying. And, for some reason, in a spacefaring society you have to reinvent the gun. >_> That said it is much more intimate, and the struggles are much more rewarding. Getting that new node producing can feel much more satisfying (no pun intended) when you remember all the fauna you had to fight through to get to it, the pathing you had to do to connect up all the power cables and belts…

So, for me, I’d say it depends on how you feel about that sense of scale! If you want to feel big and powerful, give DSP a try. If you want more of a challenge and prefer a smaller-scale experience, try Satisfactory. Oh, also, Satisfactory has multiplayer available, so if you ever want to try and get more friends involved, that’s the obvious choice!