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atrielienz, in What genuinely interesting people do you follow on mastodon?

Christopher Moore. I like his books.

late_night, in What websites do you highly recommend to other likeminded hobbyists?
@late_night@sopuli.xyz avatar

p5js.org. It is a beginner-friendly website for creating stuff in JavaScript straight into a browser. They also have resources and tutorials. After trying to learn coding for a long time, this is the place where it finally clicked for me.

slazer2au,

Coding train on YouTube is quite fond of p5js and has some awesome videos on building things in that.

late_night,
@late_night@sopuli.xyz avatar

Ooh nice, I will definitely look into that

cashews_best_nut,

codewars.com is great if you’re into coding puzzles. It has them in just about every language imagineable. I’m amazed it’s not more well-known cos it’s a great site.

scottywh, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

Depends on the game…

Really enjoying Gotham Knights currently…

Certainly didn’t have any trouble getting into Red Dead 2.

I have struggled to stick with Cyberpunk 2077 though… Haven’t tried getting back in since this recent update though.

shinigamiookamiryuu, in What things do you do while eating?

Photograph my food. It definitely beats saying grace (though I do that too).

Haven’t done it recently only because I’ve run out of new meals to photograph.

msbeta1421, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

My tastes have definitely changed.

I’m old and I’m busy. I don’t have time for fetch quests that are uninspired time sinks. I don’t have time to play through a game with janky mechanics just for a few bright spots. I don’t have time to farm repetitive shit just so I can do X thing.

I’ve found that most AAA games care more about the time you spend playing rather than whether the game is fun or not. Diablo IVs rapid fall from grace is a prime example of this. This will not stop; it is the end point of the business model. A fun game that people sink 40 hours into and drop is much less profitable than a mid-game that demands a perpetual 10 hours per week.

Others have already hit on it, but my best gaming experiences in recent years have been games that I didn’t buy on release and only found through online word of mouth and hype.

RememberTheApollo_, in So how much "bad" debt are you in?

A car loan for a completely unnecessary car.

Can we afford it? Yes, with reasonable budgeting, no sacrifices needed.

Will the car appreciate? Undeniably.

Do we need a toy like this? Fuck no.

Did it anyway. I’ve been poor for such a long time it’s really hard to justify any frivolous purchase at all, but we have good jobs now. I waffle between “This is stupid” and “I’ll never get to do this again, so why not now?” Literally YOLO.

The rest of debt is “good”, like the mortgage building equity, a CC to keep credit rating good (paid off monthly).

papalonian,

You can’t leave a comment like that and not tell the car bois what you got.

RememberTheApollo_,
papalonian,

You bought a literal racecar? Hell yeah dude. Live your best life.

RememberTheApollo_,

Hah, too old for that risky stuff. Hitting a wall at a buck twenty doesn’t sound like fun. Yeah, they absolutely are race cars, but they are built to be street legal as well. That’s the direction I’m in.

papalonian,

That’s awesome man. Hope it brings smiles for a long time.

RememberTheApollo_,

Thanks!

whoisearth,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

But cars don’t appreciate in value…

Good on you with everything else and I’m with you 100%, but as soon as you drove that car off the lot it’s been deprecating in value.

Subverb,

I have a 1964 Lincoln Continental convertible. Cars can appreciate, I assure you.

whoisearth,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

Historically speaking they don’t. I understand there are outliers for sure.

RememberTheApollo_,

Yes they do.

You just have to pick the right car, and it’s not gonna be an off-the-shelf regular car.

whoisearth,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

If you look at all the cars that have ever existed 99/100 times that car is deprecating.

Yes, OP may have bought a classic car or something with high resale value. I was simply speaking in generalizations. The vast majority of cars depreciate in value once you drive them off the lot.

RememberTheApollo_,

TBF you made generalizations that a) they don’t appreciate, and b) my car’s value depreciated off the lot directly to the initial statement I made that the car I purchased would appreciate.

I can assure you that these statements are incorrect in regards to my purchase. If you want to walk back your statements to not be in reference to my initial position, who were you talking to then?

ericbomb,

I mean if it can be paid off with fun money and doesn’t ruin retirement plans, not the end of the world if the interest rate was good!

RememberTheApollo_,

Got a ~3% rate a couple years ago, so not bad.

Dumbkid, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time
@Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah but people change hobbies change and priorities change. Don’t ever try to force yourself to play games because you feel like your supposed to. I don’t eat candy anymore because I stopped enjoying it. I’m not gonna just eat it because I used to love it.

If thats how you play games now just do you, have fun with those games now, don’t need to over think it

doubletwist, in What things do you do while eating?

I read books/ebooks.

Or I read the back of the cereal box, over and over and over…

pineapplelover, in What things do you do while eating?

I watch youtube/libretube or been watching StarTrek

JollyRoberts, in What genuinely interesting people do you follow on mastodon?

@CAVOK the general way i went was to follow and pickup interesting people from them.

NeoNachtwaechter, in Why wasn't NYC's Central Park concept copied by other cities?

naturally surrounded by city high rises.

Something seems odd with the idea that high rises were ‘natural’ :-)

For me, the “concept” is terribly wrong.

A park itself is fine, but you can’t use one park as an excuse for not having other parks, green areas etc. anymore in a big city.

New York has 5 times more people than Munich. But Munich’s biggest park is about the same size as New York’s Central Park (a little bigger even). And if you count all the green areas, parks etc. in Munich together, they are 6 times larger (counting only the ones that are publicly accessible and listed in wikipedia) than that Central Park.

So, give your New Yorker’s 30 central parks and lots of other green spots, and you got a concept.

someguy3,

Located such that.

Who said I want to use it an excuse for no other parks?

What’s with all the bad faith discussion.

intensely_human,

Nobody said you wanted to use it that way. OP’s probably referring to the lack of parks in Manhattan.

Turun,

What’s with all the bad faith discussion.

Good question. Do you need a mirror to figure it out?

A_Random_Idiot,

Something seems odd with the idea that high rises were ‘natural’ :-)

They are better than spreading single family homes and ground floor commercial spaces over a huge swath of land that would inevitable need clearcutting and plowing under to be suitable for development.

TauZero,

Central Park is not New York’s largest park. It’s the 5th.

lvxferre, in What things do you do while eating?
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

If eating alone (I usually eat in family), I’m usually listening to music. Past that… it depends, really. If I’m treating myself I’ll probably just eat and listen to music, but if it’s a “normal” meal I might do it in the front of the computer or TV while browsing or watching stuff.

Schemata, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

It’s funny you say this because games I know I would love years ago, still appeal to me I.e. Baldurs gate but now I am very much a collect and compete kind of gamer… It’s weird I used to love in depth stories but now a days tetris, doom, card games. It’s weird.

hperrin, in What things do you do while eating?

I listen to the hottest tech news while I eat my Bretfast.

GustavoM, in What things do you do while eating?
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

I use either one or both of my hands to dive the food into an unknown world inside my mouth.

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