Fun social psych fact: research has shown group brainstorming to be an overall process loss. You’re better off brainstorming alone and bringing your ideas to the table individually, ADHD or otherwise.

Lots of reasons why, but you can imagine some of the obvious ones, like only one person being able to speak at once, or groupthink issues where a person or group dominates the process.

I found success just saying Alexa wasn’t working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?

So funny I read this post right after my 3yo dishes l ate all her broccoli, her brothers broccoli, and seconds on… broccoli. Didn’t finish her rice, though.

I think she might actually like fruits and veggies?

That said, I think a good trick is to style the performative foods as Japanese bento style because kids are kinda easily swayed by look and feel of food, so if it’s cute or cool they are more likely to eat it. We’re planning on doing that anyway, mostly cause my wife was raised in Japan where that was common.

Another thing to keep in mind is parents are often the role models, so liking or disliking things will matter. If you hate fruits and veggies, they’ll notice.

This would be a good thing in the timeline where governments actually gave a shit and we had universal basic income for everyone. No human should have to slave away for 8+ hours a day just to survive when most work can be automated.

I thought that too until today, it’s never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.

Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I’ve been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren’t even that important when there isn’t a national outage lol).

My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey’s pawed AWS into non existence.

Mmmm… I don’t mind the Retroarch version and use it on occasion, but this is great news. The 9x experimental support and the running from zip are great news and I’m curious if it’ll make it easier to use the eXoDOS packages more easily.

I’m also wondering if this will impact the planned RetroAchevements’ MSDOS release, since I think they were using Pure for that. I can’t imagine it being an easy feat as it is, but if there’s active work on this I imagine it might push that along a bit. I really am craving a couple of DOS and 9x titles, and good achievement sets really help me get the most out of a game.

A while ago. Only upside is they say they don’t keep your prompts or train models, but I have my doubts.

Also a way more appropriate time for a traditional bachelor party.

Dailies in games suck but imagine if you had a boss give you a free ticket to a gacha every day for completing your reports and junk. A literal 99 cent value sexy waifu toy.

Like ok that’s slightly better than an occasional pizza party but still insulting, lol

This is the worst Weekend At Bernie’s sequel, and that includes the weird, racist voodoo one.

Hmm… maybe. The state of the world has been pretty awful for the past year so I imagine that plays a part. Aside from trolls, lots of us are on edge as the whole world seems to tilt right with propaganda and AI.

That said, I like us.

I browse bluesky too and find I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s a bit more self-policing… Like regarding AI slop, bluesky is fucking rampant with it, like Trump dressed as a clown or Newsom with abs, it’s fucking awful. Lemmy has a couple communities for AI but on average, you try that shit and you’ll get publicly shamed. That could be considered mean, but I appreciate it (especially if it’s AI I can’t even tell).

I’m playing through an old PS2 title Radiata Stories. I don’t get why this title is so overlooked! It’s really fucking funny to play in 2025 cause its weirdly apt with nepotism, classism and going to war over wage theft (kinda, anyway).

I don’t wanna spoil it though.

I agree, although I never quite know how to toast them without waiting to thaw. That, and I get the kind that aren’t precut so I imagine I need to thaw before cut, or cut before freeze, etc.

My wife still tries to if I let her put away groceries, and admittedly they to get moldy fast sometimes. Heating them does undo some of the staleness, though I’d prefer to just eat them all asap after purchase.

Ah our 3yo did that for a while a year ago, it’s very upsetting. At least yours snaps out of it quickly, ours would go for a half hour but I managed to calm her with numbers. We would count upwards as high as we could switching places and she’d calm down. Side effect, she can count past 100 now.

Oh, also it’s apparently similar to sleep walking. Apparently they’ll do that eventually.

Anyone else get their best coding done between the hours of 10pm to 6am when we’re finally enjoying peace?

During grad school, I analyzed my dissertation data in the restricted access room late at night while binging Star Trek TNG and Voyager on my laptop. I’d then go to my 7am meetings with my early bird boomer advisor for my RA job and immediately crash once I got home.

You’re in it for a while. My oldest is a night owl somehow but my youngest is hitting 2 and wakes me up at all 3 times (I think he gets up at 5 but only wakes me when hungry, like a cat).

I don’t think it’ll get better until they’re out of the house.

I vaguely remember elf and dwarf were, uh, classes in some games. But the AD&D one I remember had them as races, but you had interesting classes like… Magic-User. I vaguely remember having 8 hp on one? Oof.

Dragon Quest 3 (and the two previous games) are great on NES. DQ2 is one of the hardest RPGs, though, as the developers admitted they never play tested the final dungeon. First turn AOE insta deaths, mini bosses that respawn, etc. there’s a reason they’re remaking them, though.

Those were inspired by Ultima and Wizardry, though, if you want even older RPGs. Actually, most SSI AD&D games were fantastic, too, and you can access them legally via steam now if you don’t want to futz with DOS, although my favorite Eye of the Beholder games are slightly newer at 1991.