Motorcycle, bass guitar, kitten.

I am so glad I’m too old to worry about any of this shit.

Just boggles the mind how little science has to do with the CDCs decisions.

If my company is looking at my Lemmy posts all I can say is what a huge waste of time and resources.

I did it for a few years, and blew through all my savings in the process.

Had to start an actual business, LLC, and deal with all the parts that as an engineer I absolutely hate.

Had done about 15 years in the industry with a small tech company, had all the skills, leads, etc, and wanted to do it on my own.

Way underestimated how much time and effort the running of a business part takes, and while I had projects, I didn’t have the time to do them right, payment was always late so my profit shrank, and I burned out in two years.

Hired an admin to help with managing the projects and clients, but it was too little too late.

I’m not saying don’t do it, I’m saying be sure to have all those other elements well in place, cause the actual time spent programming was pretty small.

In the end I took a role as the on site guy for a very large company, making decent money, and I’m back doing the parts I enjoy.

Best of luck to you.

Makes me think the time is right for a dedicated Luke game series.

I take great pride in my work. The results are appreciated by the whole company. I’m lucky that now I’m on a small team of good people, but that isn’t always the case.

I tend to ignore the dead weight when it’s there, because I know I’ll get my part done, and if I have to work extra to pick up the slack, I’m not shy to draw attention to it.

My whole chain of command knows what I do, and not being in management, dealing with lazy ineffective people isn’t my problem.

Focus on you, talk to management about the issues you face, but don’t point out others failures, just let it be implied.

Why is there a next target? Are we at war? We used to declare war on everything, drugs, poverty, crime, but we didn’t send in the Marines.

This can’t be the new normal.

It may never wash away, I’m just hoping we get a chance to paint over it.

I’ve been playing a lot more with sushi buses versus main buses.

Start out with basic hand feeding till I get coal belted to power and red science automated. Then start right in building a sushi belt mall.

Early red, green, and mil science are part of mall until I have enough military to start pushing out and claiming land. Usually when I get red ammo, or I’ll wait to get rockets depending on enemy settings and map layout.

I’ve moved to very much an offensive vs defensive play style, with a focus on keeping nests out of the cloud and just not having any static defenses until artillery.

Then I end up making separate locations for various builds, I like a dedicated sub bases for chips, science, etc, usually linked with trains or a bot network depending on layout.

I tend to build what I need on site, delivering raw resources to each location.

Each play through I tend to focus on learning about a different aspect. Circuits, trains, bots, efficient ratios, just in time resources versus packed buses, etc.

Next time I think I want to make dedicated outposts and a robust train network. Taking what I’ve learned about sushi buses and making sushi trains

Don’t think I’ve launched a rocket from the starter base in a while though.

This is a big part of it. I’m 50, and still skateboard a couple times a week. Sure, they aren’t close friends, but the people I hang out with at the parks give me all the personal interaction I need.

Granted, I am a bit of a hermit by nature.

Always felt the cosmic inflation theory was a place holder until we better understand the early universe.

I’ve found the best way to achieve both the mental break, and the relaxation, are hobbies that that are physically and mentally taxing.

In the summer, its skateboarding and motorcycles, in the winter its snowboarding.

Wears you out enough to get proper sleep, and they require all your mental focus not to get hurt.

Great, this is how religions get started.

I play on basic default settings now, with a random seed.

Played w bugs off and high richness when I started.

I’m on Switch, so cant play with the other planets, but all the updates w 2.0 make things like sushi belts and minimum waste setups possible.

I hated the combat at first, but the more I play the more I enjoy it.

We’ve had plenty of very hot years, including up to a week of 100+ days.

My first thought was “Did they not get data on IL?”.

This year has been cooler, but a lot more storms.

Still plenty of 90+ days this year.

One of the key elements my girlfriend tells me is that I’m the only one to call her on her bullshit.

Guess to each their own.

Lot of great answers here, I’ll add Blazing Saddles and Hudson Hawk.

For snowboarding and skateboarding I’ve always used the Clip by Sansa, works in any weather, pretty damned tough, and if I lose or break it, at $32 I just dont care.

I watch plenty of game stuff online, but there is no way I’m spoiling a game I’ve waited 20 years to play.

I’ll never get the chance to play an OG Zelda for the first time again.

I have the N64 version, as well as the switch.

Think I’ll probably play it on switch just to have wireless controller.