specialseaweed
@specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Update on my American Brown Ale. Bottling complete! 1 day ago:
Good luck! Great pics. I love a good brown.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 weeks ago:
Yea, it would be more about starting a habit that would result in future security. In a perfect world, it starts here with $75 and a tenner every month, then they start putting in $20, then they ramp it up as they’re able.
- Comment on What are some common *unforced errors* to be wary of? 2 weeks ago:
Problems are like compound interest. You’re going to deal with them sooner or later but if you do it later, it costs more. Deal with them sooner.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 weeks ago:
The absolute best use is opening a Vanguard account, putting $75 in VOO, and forgetting you did it for about 20 or 30 years. Even better, put a $10 in there every month as well.
For a gift for myself when I’m not strapped for cash, I use gift cards and cash for something I would never buy myself. It just feels like it makes a bigger impact that way. I remember it.
If going the charity route, go to your nearest unhoused shelter and ask what they need. I volunteer at one that is hanging on by a thread (no real funding other than a small grant from the county, it’s just volunteers). Sometimes donations aren’t hitting everything we need and something has run out. Hot chocolate packets and cup of noodles are so valuable (easily transportable, usable, stable, and withstand outdoor weather) that we were giving out handfuls yesterday instead of our typical limit of 1 per person per day. It’s wild how important those little things are.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
We played Rock Band (yarc) for hours at our Xmas Eve party last night. 20 or so people and just about everyone cycled thru to play. That game will never die.
- Comment on Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU 2 weeks ago:
It’s even worse than that. The student gave an interview and said they wanted to go see a play so they slapped the paper together in a half hour and dint read the material the paper was supposed to be based on.
Absolute cowardice by Oklahoma.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 weeks ago:
Got them the cosplay they wanted for Xmas. That’s their big gift.
And in this moment, I realized my kid fits some theater kid cosplay archetype that I didn’t know existed.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 weeks ago:
Gamebillet has been killing it lately
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 2 weeks ago:
did I just get psyllium husk pilled
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 weeks ago:
Boy you called that shot. That’s exactly what I’ve got.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a great question. I’m not sure. I played Blue Prince and really liked it, but my family went and found Seance because they thought it was like Roottrees and Immortality.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 weeks ago:
Alright, this must actually be a thing because that’s what my kid said about Date Everything, too. The kid is way into voice acting.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 3 weeks ago:
-Shape of Dreams: Need to scratch that hack n slash itch. D4 is boring and PoE 2 ran horrible on my machine. -Cuphead: One of my kids has wanted to play this for years. Xmas present for him. -Date Everything: The other kid wants this one. Xmas present. I dunno, man. -The Seance of Blake Manor: Our family loves these kinds of games and it’s one of the only ways to get us all in a room. -Split Fiction: I hate the price still but my wife loved It Takes Two. Fiiiiiiine.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 3 weeks ago:
As the dad of a teenager, I am “encouraging” him to put nudity blocking systems on his phone.
oh shit would you look at that i just taught him how to go around me and hide his behavior better im sure there will be no future consequences whatsoever
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 3 weeks ago:
“While cross-country skiing this morning”
While gliding in his k-hole this morning
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 3 weeks ago:
He’s definitely neurodivergent and not drug addicted. Definitely.
- Comment on In the US one can graduate *cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude*. There should be another honor added if you survive a school shooting. 3 weeks ago:
well this one’s a bummer. here’s your upvote.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
There are many of us that skip the local OS and go straight to our own source, but there are also many that use the local OS for apps or whatever. Those are the people I’m talking about. They’re the ones getting fucked.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
If for some reason someone turns on the wifi on my LG tv (I have teenagers and their friends), I have the device itself blacklisted from the network.
But that’s not a reasonable level of granularity for a typical user. We need privacy protection laws to end this sort of behavior from manufacturers.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
Projectors have the exact same problems. Their OSs are awful with ads, too.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 1 month ago:
Replaced the last Windows computer in the house with CachyOS this morning. Fuck off Microsoft.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Broke out the GameCube. SSX3 and Double Dash.
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 2 months ago:
Eternal Darkness for Gamecube.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
How old is he?
- Comment on Psychonauts, 3D platformer with a big heart 3 months ago:
My kid played it in 3rd or 4th grade and didn’t know the game had a “continue” after you lost all your lives. They would restart the whole thing every time. They were like three quarters through the game on one run when I realized and told them.
Every house has a legendary game. This one is ours.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I’m a long time Eclipse player and the commitment for a game like this always looked crazy, so I’m excited to play it this way.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
When POE2 came out, I played it for a couple hours, hated it, and went back to Diablo 4. I saw it at PAX a week ago and thought I’d give it a try again since I quit D4 and was jonesing for that fix. It’s doing pretty well so far. I’m in Act 3.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 4 months ago:
When I was renting (most of my life), I would find an apartment that was close to my job. I hated commuting with a furious passion.
- Comment on ‘You never want to leave:’ TikTok employees raise concerns about the app’s impact on teens in newly unsealed video 4 months ago:
I know someone that works there. After a few glasses of wine they get real honest about how it’s an insane asylum in there.
- Comment on Calibre-Web-Automated v3.1.1 - The Community Update 👬 Hardcover Integration 💜, Calibre Plugins 🔌, Split Library Support 💞, KoReader Sync 🗘 and much more! 📚 5 months ago:
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea and it’s one of my most used apps.