It’s not going to result in lower prices for consumers. It’s going to result in higher prices on Steam.

It’s also going to fragment the game market on PC. That may or may not be a good thing depending on who you ask, but personally, I like not having to hunt around for the best store to purchase my game in. I go to Steam and I know I’m not getting completely shafted. This is essentially going to allow scummy corps like Ubisoft and EA to implement a “Steam tax” because I don’t want to use their shitty, bloated, spyware riddled miserable excuse for a storefront.

Replace AI with something like Flex Tape, and you really get a sense of how stupid the push to get AI into everything is. Flex Tape is great, but I don’t need it when ordering a pizza ffs.

Thanks for the rabbit hole

I’ve been there. I know what you mean, but also, you’re essentially confirming what I’m saying. You’ve trained yourself to sleep through them, which is why you need 8. The problem is that you’re just increasing your training and making it harder and harder for yourself to wake up.

When the first one goes off and you snooze it, and go back to sleep, your body tries to start a new 3 hour cycle, but then 10 minutes later your next alarm interrupts it. That’s what that heavy, groggy brain fog is. It compounds with each alarm as well.

If you do this over an hour, you’re also robbing yourself of an hour’s worth of good quality sleep.

If you want to fix this, cancel all your alarms except the last one, and put your phone somewhere you have to get out of bed to reach. Disable snooze completely. Snooze is the enemy. Also, set a new alarm tone as your current one is now useless.

You can also get a cheap smart bulb and have it fade in to full bright at the same time as the alarm.

I also found it useful to use a Playlist or radio alarm clock.

Going forward, routine is your best friend here. I know it sucks, but stop sleeping in on your days off, and go to bed as close to the same time every night as you can.

Source: I nearly lost my job due to oversleeping. I learnt because I had to, I’m not an expert

Don’t do this. You are just training yourself to sleep through alarms

Ah, I didn’t know about the meme and thought you were talking about literal spaghetti for some reason… I say “I thought” but I clearly didn’t do it right

I mean… stop carrying spaghetti in your pockets?

Ahh should’ve looked before I posted! You beat me to it!

what did you expect?

Pfft. Learn to time travel n00b. Skill issue.

Mate, I made this on a phone while taking a shit.

Americans will use anything but metric

I hate how close that guess is 🫠

Dark Souls/Souls likes in generals. If I want to bang my head against the same problem endlessly and get hopelessly frustrated, I’d just do my day job

My dad used to be a police officer in South Africa. He had several interesting artifacts from his time there.

One such artifact was an unmarked black cylinder with a spray nozzle. One day after school, I had managed to get locked out of one section of the house and could only get into the kitchen and my dad’s office. (Houses in SA often have security gates inside locking off sections of the house.)

It was sitting in this office, waiting for someone else to get home and let me in that I absent mindedly started playing with this cylinder. I sprayed a small bit out. It made made a really cool heat haze effect in the air. Awesome, but what the fuck was this stuff? Well I’d just had a highschool science lesson on how to test an unknown gas… you waft it towards yourself, you do not sniff it directly. So I sprayed out a bit more and wafted it carefully towards my face…

Instant regret. My nose felt like I’d just done a netti pot of hot sauce. Eyes streaming, snot dripping.

Lesson 1 learned. Don’t play with random cylinders of mysterious chemicals.

I found out later that it was tear gas.

Hey pop quiz: What’s the worst thing you can do if you get tear gassed?

That’s correct! My dumb ass ran straight for the kitchen tap. Lesson 2. DO NOT USE WATER to clean off tear gas. I will say that I knew IMMEDIATELY that I had fucked up a second time. Felt like my entire face was on fire. Baaaad times!

is that bugs bunny on the podium?

They’ve just released a new game Kiln

It’s pretty fun! Also their last game didn’t get the attention it deserved imho. Keeper

It’s a tentative favorite of mine. Tentative, only because every one of their albums is amazing, and picking a favorite is like picking a favorite child