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Seems like an odd place to post this but I’ll bite.

Even the things I love doing involve work. If I want to do some sewing I still need to tidy up before and afterwards, for example, or spend time pinning stuff (and then taping up the numerous stab wounds). It’s a bit reductive.

Instead I try to get paid for things that require minimal emotional “work” from me - that is to say, things that don’t leave me sapped of energy to work on my passion projects. I don’t dislike what I am paid to do but I’m not super enthused about it. That means that when I’m done working I’ve still got the creative juice to work on stuff I actually want to do.

If instead I have to spend my working days pushing myself through stuff then I tend to be left with nothing in the tank, even if I still have time left at the end of the day. Instead I get paid to do something I’m good at but that doesn’t usually involve extended periods of advanced problem solving or frequent uphill battles of effort (there’s always a bit, of course, it’s not a perfect solution!). That isn’t to say what I do is easy, but much of the stuff involved is stuff I’ve been doing for twenty years so is comparatively easy for me.

What a soundtrack!

Now I’m thinking about the old e-penis hardware algorithm scripts for IRC!

That’s an interesting way of phrasing “has actively enabled corruption for decades”.

I was fortunate to find something that I have enough skills for but I absolutely agree on the polymath thing. One would think that it’d be a useful skillset to have but I don’t think most businesses can grasp the concept. As a result my employer doesn’t receive anywhere near the benefits they could from me.

I enjoyed Wasteland 3 a great deal too.

I rather enjoyed Gears Tactics a few years ago.

Mmmmm compiz. Wobbly windows, spinny cube virtual desktops, take me home!

I assume it was made to upsell people to better CPUs. Celerons have always been awful.

That said, if Win7 came preinstalled then we’re talking about different eras of Celeron, at least, I cannot imagine it would be as mediocre as a low-mid AMD CPU from 2004!

I always think of an ex of mine defending criticism of her craptop. “It was good for its time!” No, no it wasn’t. It was built around a Celeron. It was built to be trash. It was ewaste with extra steps.

Godus.

I know lots of people hate it but taken in isolation it’s okay. I found its aesthetics charming and its pace generally pretty chill. It wasn’t good but it wasn’t terrible. Low medium perhaps but I have comfortable memories of listening to an audiobook whilst playing it.

An N64 game I’ve never heard of before? Mark it on the calendar because that hasn’t happened in many a sparrow’s moon.

Thank you! I felt like I was the only person on the planet to think that those games only hit the dizzying heights of “okay, fine at a push”. They’re perfectly serviceable and not much more.

Whilst the Celeron was indeed utter cack, 2 GB has me making four Yorkshiremen-style “2GB? Luxury!” style comments.

I used to run Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 1362 WMLi back in 2005. I had 512 MB of RAM and a 2800+ Sempron processor.

That said, looking at this:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1351vs710/Mobile-AMD-Sempron-2800+-vs-Intel-Celeron-M-1.60GHz

My old Sempron was a better CPU than that piece of junk Celeron you’ve got there. Giving it 2GB of RAM is hilarious!

Honestly? Not really. My best memories of gaming were in my 20s in my student flat. Lots of Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

I played games in the early '90s and don’t have much nostalgia for most of the games themselves. The late '90s had the PSX and N64 and whilst Mario Kart 64 is probably the best in the series I can’t say I feel most of the games of those platforms were “the best”.

I think I would say that the best games are the PC games that came out between 1998 and 2002. Those I can genuinely enjoy today.

I cannot say the same for much that came out in the 1980s. Most of them entertain me for about thirty seconds, without hyperbole.

Once we get past the early 2000s I’m hard pressed to find any games that I think are truly “the best”. 2007 was pretty damn good as was 2009.

When it comes to gaming with friends any game can be good. The game is practically just a framing device. I’ve not made many friends whilst gaming. I’ve gamed with friends but mostly I’ve found that people either just want to be arseholes or are extremely serious about playing online. In person I’ve found that the skill disparity means that it’s a complete crapshoot. I played a lot of Mario Kart 64 over a ten year period and don’t have any outstanding memories of it being the best thing ever (I think it’s the best MK game but that’s because the others are worse).

Mostly I like games that I can use as escapism. Exploring fun places and getting away from the day to day. I’ve rarely had all that much fun gaming with other people. Exceptions exist though - playing through the recent TMNT game with my teenaged niece was a blast. Playing KeyWe with my wife was also great.

Mick-rowave. Based on how Jen pronounces it in Bob’s Burgers

Apple

I can definitely see the appeal of being able to do stuff with the information, and I doubt I could sit down and make a list of every game I’ve ever played. However my memory is pretty good for this sort of thing. It’s very rare for me to lose objects as I have a database-like memory for that stuff.

Amusingly this means that if someone else moves things then I’m comedically awful at searching for whatever it was, and if I move house or re-organise then it takes me a few weeks for my brain to record all the new data. Until then I’m a clueless idiot.

Oh and as I said in another comment - time is my nemesis. I often don’t know what day of the week it is and anything beyond about a week and a half into the future has almost no meaning to me. It’s not a very useful trade-off!

The tradeoff is that I’m terrible at time. Anything beyond about ten days in the future is almost meaningless to me.

Reading the comments - am I the weird one for just remembering?