Tbf I only even commented because GrainEater made another joke comment and figured sure lol.

I don’t have a serious reply that isn’t really covered in your post. I haven’t taken Biden serious since before he became president.

The fact that him clearly being a sock puppet for the Status Quo Dems is so obvious does make me giggle. Especially since he’s doing such a shit job at it.

Never trust a person who’s diet consists of only potatoes. Especially if they bring up politics.

Poorly sourced adrenachrome.

Lmao. I totally forgot about TemTem.

If that seems to be the case than I’m gonna try my best to ignore the game. Hoping the hype will die down in next month or so because I was already sick of hearing about the game before it was even out.

I was trying to do a benefit of the doubt. As an example, I like factory games because the logistics and optimizing aspects makes my brain happy but I can see viewing them as “Capitalism/infinite growth” simulators. But I digress. Palworld sounds shit.

Maybe it’s just me being jaded and cynical af, but is there a chance that the game was intended to be a commentary on worker exploitation? I don’t know much about the game and I doubt the average game consumer would see it that way though.

We are trying but it’s hard lol. Thanks for the kind words.

The main trick with an adblocker is that it would have to be either on our tv or between the tv and our router since we have one tv and that’s the central entertainment source. I tried setting up a pihole with my old RP2+ only to find out that I need port forwarding(I think) turned on and our provider has their routers locked down in some ways and that’s one of them.

I did install Playlet, and get rid of Youetube. Playlet is a Invidious front end for Roku so that is helpful. But we also have Google Dislays that he uses and those are locked out so nothing I can do. I wanna get rid of all the Google stuff tbh.

But yeah, Hulu’s cheapest package has ads, and Prime has always had it but like it’s ads for the rest of their shit, which is also plastered all over their UI anyway. Like we get it Amazon, you guys have 8-10 shows that I absolutely need to watch…

And I’m trying not to shield my kid completely but also don’t really want him to realize how shit the world is so soon. He’s gone from not understanding the effects of ads to going “Ugh, ads…” now and he’s calling stuff click-bait so maybe a parenting win in a consumerist hellscape?

I have a 6 TB hard drive plugged into my computer that acts as our media server and am slowly adding stuff to it so hopefully we can get rid of streaming services and cut back a bit more on ads.

It fucking sucks for a lot of reasons. The oldest is just starting to learn that things cost money and he can’t just get stuff because he wants it. His grandparents spoiled him for the first couple of years and I told them I didn’t want them to buy him a ton of toys and stuff, but they did. I explained to my wife that the reason was partially because my own grandma spoiled us and then got shitty when she would come over and we’d ask for gifts. It’s unhealthy conditioning for a developing mind. Thankfully the inlaws now mostly buy him and our youngest utilitarian stuff like clothes.

Oldest does seem to know at least to some extent that right now we are working with a single income and a teacher’s salary at that. Keep him fed and let him play Switch and he’s mostly good.

But I even had a plan early on that I didn’t want him exposed to commercials and ads to the extent that I could help but life got busy and that fell apart and next thing I know, he’s watching a bunch of consumerist product influencer shit on YT. We don’t have regular TV so like those commercials aren’t an issue but Prime and Hulu still stuffs ads at the beginning of movies and Twitch injects ads into their streams. It’s awful. Like way worse than when I was a kid. They took cigarette ads away from magazines(justifiable) because they figured out they influenced children but unfettered consumerism ads for dumb shit made out of plastic is ok?

Sorry for the rant. It’s just something that sets me off.

Check out I’m the President by Knower. It’s really good.

This motherfucker just said " SA your dad and see if he gets mad" didn’t he?

Who the actual fuck even thinks like that?

Dilbert was trash too.

Sorry fellow unemployed programmers, you can’t get an entry level job because you are now going up against people with MicroShaft on their resumes because the entire industry is fucking bullshit now just like everything else.

I need to look into de la Cruz but right now I’m planning on not voting unless West looks like he stands any remote chance. I low-key hope both Reps and Dems fuck up so bad that neither Biden or Trump get it becuase that would be hilarious but I’m not holding my breath.

I’ve been spending the last 2 days downloading a bunch of horror, ramping up for when I finally get rid of the rest of our subcription services. I can’t even remember when Netflix’s horror selection was even remotely good. Like they have The Ritual and Apostle, but yeah it’s mostly crap.

I installed Playlet and got rid of YouTube on my Roku-based TV(which is also a cesspool of ads) after my kid’s YouTube junk food stuff started serving up ads for Disaronno. Like he was watching KooKoo Kangaroo or one of those magnetic metal ball ASMR videos.

I’d have a pihole running too but we have AT&T fiber and they don’t let you change some settings needed for a pihole.

The US has a bizarre fascination with trying to murder people “ethically”.

Sorry I don’t want my 6yo child seeing fucking ads for alcohol, P2W mobile games, and sex pills

It’s bad enough he’s so susceptible to click-bait “minecraft parkour” type bullshit videos…

I just realized I thought I was commenting on another thread… I’m a dummy.

The pre reality update version can be done in a few months. The update adds like 4 more months worth of grind casually.

It’s gonna be less flashy and quite a bit different than Adventure Capitalist but if you are used to incremental games you should be fine.

Just poke around and fill bars, buy some automaters, try a few challenges and if you like it, the subreddit should have a link to the discord. Last I checked there was a redux version of the The Guide™️ after the original got taken down by the author but the discord is super well maintained and each prestige layer has its own channel with pinned posts for just about anything you need to help along the way.

The game is gonna seem simple at first but as it unfolds it gets pretty big so having those pins is really nice to have. The game has a surprising amount of content for being a incremental.

Hope you like it!

Honestly I don’t really have any interest in it. My wife kept asking me to pirate it and I was in a data hoarding/organizing mood this am and finally decided to grab it for her. If anything it kickstarted my tidying up my media server a bit.