The crazy variety of weapons and their interactions was great. Almost everything was dangerous in the right situation.
Blob gun? Charge it up! Blue laser thing? Shoot the ball form and shoot that for a huge boom! Double pistols? Max DPS in the game with no bullet curve!
The best maps too for CTF. Yeah, I loved that game, especially for in person LAN parties.
If the PoE is stable, then it's a nice and relatively unique board. Not sure about the NPU support. There's a ton of boards and chips coming out with those claims, but I'd like to be able to get clearer info on drivers and library compatibility.
Tom's Root Boot.
One floppy disk, one Linux machine!
Our US city (pop 180k, metro 600k) is just about to lose the last downtown grocery store.
Generations of city councils have allowed (or encouraged!) the demolition of all housing in the city core to replace it with parking lots.
There's almost no one left downtown so the city itself is dying. It's just kind of rotting away. There's currently at least some effort to reverse the trend, but the vice grip that car oriented everything has on people is terrifying to politicians.
I had a similar experience, but managed to hold it together long enough to make it out in 4.5 years (with some summer classes). Knowing how to do things, but not really able to stay steadily on track to achieve goals is a rough combo.
We're moving to more of this for the whole household (there's a couple kids at home still). They're all able to generate meals and do chores. The requirements are being ratcheted up across the board. My wife and I are busier than ever trying to make ends meet, so the work is trickling down to the whole household one way or another.
Interesting strategy, and likely one that has some merit. Though, I'd point to similar problems in Japan where it's not rare to have incredibly tiny homes/apartments, but a very high rate of youths staying at their parents' places well into adulthood.
The US has reached around 50% of young adults continuing to stay with their parents beyond school. It's up to a similar rate as the Great Depression era. We've priced our kids out of independence to try to satisfy a few billionaires' desire to be ever richer.
It's still early days on them being in a position to afford a place, and in the US healthcare is a fucking abomination, so it's going to take some real effort to reach a point of independence.
We're in no hurry to move anyone out. It's still early enough that we planet of time to wire in work on skills and such. I'm mostly worried about the general attitude more than individual skills though. His sense of what it takes to keep yourself afloat in the world and little open desire to achieve independence is just worrying at this point. Likely I'm being too worried at this stage, but I'd rather turn the ship in a positive direction earlier and easier rather than later and with more difficulty.
Oh hell no. My partner and I are in no way interested in just kicking anyone out. The reason we're trying to work on the attitudes and trajectory now is to have time to set goals and work together to build up his skills & resources to enable independence, which is a far cry from a kick out.
I'm sorry to hear that I happened to you even once. We've had some friends of our kids end up being treated that way, so the kids ended up at our place briefly while they found their feet.
Yeah, we're working out how to have that chat and to put some agreed upon goals into place so that no one is suddenly surprised by unspoken expectations. It's hard, though. We'll get through it.
I'm well aware of how hard it is to get to anything resembling a healthy independent living situation in the US these days. It's completely stacked against everyone not already in wealthy starting positions. We have other kids working to build more than a hardscrabble financial situation and we're more than happy to help as we can.
We'll help this kid too. What I'm not interested in doing is providing them a roof, food, clothes, doing their dishes, and paying for their hobbies for the rest of my life. This is an intelligent, capable, and healthy young man. The issue is the attitude we're seeing that he doesn't seem to see what it takes to be an independent adult, even if he's still relying on some help while he builds up the resources to get by in this incredibly shitty society we've allowed to accrete over generations.
Yes, the economy was way better when I was a young adult. I also had some fortunate happenings (bought a house in a stable local market going into the 2008 banks fraud crash) and unfortunate ones (graduated college right into the Dot Com Bubble burst. 3 months of work, then layoffs into years of dead job markets, yay!). I am extremely scared for my childrens' futures because of how anti-humanist the US has become. Letting this kid in question fuck around for a few years while I take care of everything for him and hope my next heart attack (that's one of the unfortunate issues) doesn't kill me before he figures out how to be an independent and self sufficient adult isn't something that I feel will serve either one of us in a positive way.
Requiring someone to provide evidence to back up a claim is not the same as taking a position that the claim isn't true. This is the root component of the burden of proof and the stance many people have towards a god claim: they aren't convinced the god exists due to a lack of evidence provided by the person claiming the god does exist. Until there's actual evidence it's rational and reasonable to withhold judgement.
The unicorn (or other mythological beings) are used as a similar case to illustrate to a theist that they have the same kind of attitude towards the idea of a unicorn existing as an atheist does to any gods. They're both neat concepts, but without evidence showing they actually exist, they're nothing more than an idea for stories and art.