Man selling shovels in a gold rush says there's gold out there, and it is in no way uranium that will give you cancer if you fill your pockets with it. Just keep buying shovels.

While I understand your sentiment about Windows, this is how you end up in a world filled with iPad kids who become adults who accept technology that they don't own.

I've bought both boxers and socks off aliexpress, been happy with both - even if the brand on the boxers is "Fardly" which I find kinda hilarious.

Good to know Alan Wake 2 is better. The gameplay loop of the original is definitely a bit repetitive, I intentionally played on "easy" because I knew that going in, and wanted it to feel like less of a slog.

The first 3 Uncharted games also feel like a bit of a slog in many of the same ways for me. There are too many "waves" of enemies in most of the areas and while the stealth mechanics in those games help make things a bit more interesting, the second wave of enemies always finds you immediately and forces you back into guns blazing at enemies going for first-time headshots on the NPCs because it's the fastest way through, and if you miss the headshot and hit the body at all they become bullet sponges even if you follow it up with headshots.

I've heard they can be also quite useful for blind/vision-impaired users to describe surroundings and read signs, etc.

I'm not gonna say I slept on it, but I've had Alan Wake in my library for over 5 years. Picked it up on sale around the time I got Control which I really wanted to play but never got around to. Decided since that whole universe seems more interconnected and with more games than it did when I bought them (Alan Wake 2, the upcoming sequel to Control, etc.), I should just do a playthrough of Alan Wake before I finally get around to getting Control off my backlog.

Played through Alan Wake (the original, not the remake) this past weekend, and while it certainly shows its age in some areas, I had a lot more fun than I expected to. If you're into narrative third person "shooter" games like Uncharted, Tomb Raider, or similar, Alan Wake is worth checking out.

I'm looking forward to finally getting to Control this weekend.

I'm apparently already participating. Haven't booted my PS5 since April.

City Council is all elected, not appointed.

More likely new bots are all being vibecoded and aren't pretending to be anything because everything is stupid now.

Unfortunately, taking it offline also won't work, because iirc games stop working if the console hasn't been online in a month.

Kinda hard to ask her at this point.

And it still won't be that Tiger King guy.

Remember when Trump was leaving office and he was convinced Trump was gonna pardon him, and his team rented a stretch hummer or something like that and then he didn't get a pardon?