Sock-shoe-Sock-shoe-pants.

1.5x is probably my happy medium where I can still take stuff in. 2x is just to fast for me. Age might have something to do with that as well.

They could all quit en masse. That’d be pretty funny.

It was the last egg level I needed to get the key. I never did beat it. The other 4 egg levels were pretty difficult as well.

The Jade Temple level for the final chicken egg in Guacamelee 2. It’s fucking bullshit!

John Ralston Saul’s The Doubter’s Companion - The Dictionary Of Aggressive Common Sense sums it up pretty well:

GAMBLING, STATE - RUN When governments raise money by acting as croupiers, the systems they manage are degenerate and are closer to their end than to their beginning.

The Burmese, for example, could always tell when a dynasty was close to falling; it would set up a state lottery. Early in the 1970s, Western governments turned to licensed gambling to provide the funds which TAXATION no longer seemed able to raise. This initiative has been blamed on many specifics: the financial crisis, tax reform which drastically reduced the contribution of the large corporations, the cost of social programs. The combined result was a lack of money which turned into DEBT and that debt into chronic restraint.

From the moment a government encourages its citizenry to finance the state by gambling — which means by idle dreaming — instead of through creativity, work and productivity, that state is in an unacknowledged crisis.

The only nation to have prospered via gambling is Monaco, which is not a nation. It is a corporation specializing in tax avoidance presided over by a croupier prince.

Personally, I think it’s a mug’s game.

Who’s the bigger fool? The one handing over your personal information to Meta/Google, or the one giving it to OpenAI in the first place?

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I pretty much only use it for simracing, and for that it’s unbeatable.

I did enjoy both Moss games though as a diversion. I’m not sure the VR aspect is entirely necessary to the games, although it definitely added to the experience. The motion controls are probably more essential.

Superhot VR is pretty good as well. I couldn’t get into Half Life: Alyx though.

I’m not that starved for content that I need to speedrun it. 1x speed is fine for me.

You don’t have to listen to everything.

I know. The few shows I have are enough for me.

That’s too many podcasts! How can anyone listen to that many?

Some More News,

I also recommend Even More News - a more regular, more informal podcast from the same crew. Jonathan is also there.

What are 1 or 2 podcasts that you would recommend to others?

The Romesh Ranganathan Show, The Harry Hill Show, The Weekly Planet and Once We Were Spacemen.

My Canadian ex-wife introduced me to this band when Gordon was the latest album. This and Maroon are still some of my favourite albums. Oh, and Stunt is pretty good as well. I used to play “Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel” when I was busking.

Looking them up today - holy shit! They’re still putting out albums. I’ve got some catching up to do.

Fuckin’ classic. What a voice! And the bass player FUCKS.

I remember having a ‘silent number’, i.e. opting out, was pretty rare.

True, but they also included your address.

Does no-one remember phone books?

By being in the present. By being aware of the sights, sounds, and events happening around you without any emotional attachment. My job entails being the passenger in cars with inexperienced drivers that can potentially do the most dangerous and life-threatening things possible, and I may have to intervene at a moment’s notice to prevent catastrophe. I am alert to this possibility, but I am never scared or anxious about it.

I am both relaxed and alert at the same time. I’m not sure I’ve explained that very well, but the Tao Te Ching might help you get the idea.

I’m ok with being wrong and revising my knowledge. I’m not ok with trying to talk to someone that refuses to admit when they’re wrong even when they’re presented with clear evidence of the fact.