I used to feel similarly, but just living a rad life should be pretty good, I think, eh? Part of what convinced me was reading Germaine de Staël's Treatise on the Influence of Passions on the Happiness of Individuals and Nations. Bottom line to me was just that fighting for renown is just too much bother, living a great ass life will be great regardless and if renown comes for that, great, why not.

Anyway, food for thought, it's a good read, I recommend it.

Someone's probably tried bugging you with it, but I figure I ought to ask anyway: have you tried Beyond All Reason? Feels much more in line with what I'd hope for from a TA successor.

Now he could get really wild and go for the bizarro-world sequel and make the Aeneid next.

Yeah, Overwatch definitely wasn't a peak, but IMO HOTS is really onto something. I originally dumped thousands of hours into Dota 2, which is a much more robust game, but HOTS really does take an awesome, albeit different direction. Shame they pulled support right when they were starting to find a groove. My partner and I still play it nearly daily.

Songs of Conquest. Had a weird relationship with it at first, almost like I wanted to dislike it, not sure why. I would think "this is so plainly gamified, the map is cartoonish in its resource implementation, the building feels constrictive..."

That said I've kept coming back to it. Something about the high fidelity pixel art, the clarity of its gameplay, the choices it forces, all of it started to really hook me. Even the combat, which first came off to me as insanely swingy, now just feels much more intensely tactical. Sure there are ways to abuse it, but all in all, even the AI is pretty decent (though the autoresolve logic is complete trash).

With the community mods and honestly solid gameplay even with the base factions, I have to say I really recommend it at least for a try to everyone.

NEEEEEERD!

.... actually I was rolling into the comments to say the same thing. Right on brother

Good times, except the "online" for us was invariably at LAN parties with adhoc SC Broodwar tournaments, Halo CtF & FFA, and WoW Alterac Valley shenanigans.

Love these books, some get a bit wild, but my daughter's been pretty hooked on Mrs. Tittlemouse for a good year now. I can probably recite it by memory.

I have to say though, that last graph about "Views on AI Improve with Use" seems extremely disingenuous. It's just indicating that those who use it more tend to have a positive opinion of it, not that "Views Improve". Naturally AI fans are going to use the damn thing. I can only hope that the propaganda doesn't take hold and that the zoomers continue rejecting "AI" normalization.

It'll still try, it just wouldn't have root access. It would just depend on what you allow it access to.

Agreed. I saw it come up and was going to let it run while I worked, but I decided to wait, definitely want to sit back and enjoy when I have the chance.

I'd provide a plug for LMS! If you don't give much of a damn for music video type stuff, it's pretty solid and exposes more metadata through the Subsonic API than Navidrome does. My use case required Composer tags in addition to the usual smorgasbord. Bonus is that it combines SUPER well with Symfonium and is compatible with Audiomuse AI.

All that said, I would switch over to Jellyfin for music if they upped their music metadata game and made genre exploration a bit easier (assuming you have hundreds of distinct genre tags like I do).