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Reminder that I was advised to age down the characters in BOOKS & BONE to children because it was too silly and light-hearted for adults.

This was, of course, nonsense.

Please write more fun, light-hearted fantasy for adults. Make it cute and sweet and funny.

Because my book is light for its content matter but it's not *that* light.

And the idea that when we become adults, we must only consume the dark and gritty is both ridiculous and sad.

The Light Keeps Us Safe, initial impressions 

It's this weird mix between

a really strong aesthetic, and interesting stealth gameplay mixed with mechanics about light

and

an interface that makes it feel like they didn't think the game was worth the effort to just polish it a little bit more.

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The Light Keeps Us Safe, initial impressions 

Things that feel Early-access-y:

It has dialogue, but it doesn't have subtitles.

The main menu and loading screens have text at the bottom of the screen telling you what version number it is.

There's a mechanic for scanning your environment for reasources. Pressing the key doesn't do anything that visually looks like a scan - floating icons that represent where resources are just appear.

The health and food bar look like placeholders.

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The Light Keeps Us Safe, initial impressions 

• The game has an amazing atmosphere
• It's very tense (it's so tense I had to stop playing after only 20 minutes or so, but that's probably exasperated by my current sitch)
• It's very pretty
• Despite coming out of early access.... it feels like it's still an early access game - the last few touches that are needed just aren't there. (cont)

This is Fork Mask.

He wears a big fork as a mask, his head is a pincushion packed with forks, and he carries a large combat fork as a staff that can fire fork missiles.

#SuperSentai Goranger

@DialMforMara I've been playing through it again on my phone, and... I don't think it's worth it.

fun with linux 

Amazing.

I have the Zoom client installed on my computer (the only things I use it for don't need encryption). And every time I leave the computer for any length of time, when I come back, the Zoom client has started on its own.

It's not a specific interval. It's not a specific time. It just seems to be any time I'm away from the computer for more than 15 minutes; when I wake the computer back up, Zoom's sitting there, waiting.

I check running daemons, I poke at background tasks - nothing.
Finally, it occurs to me: "when I wake the computer up". So on a hunch, I check xscreensaver - which has an oooold screensaver called "zoom". I don't have that screensaver installed, but it's listed in the possible screensavers, so xscreensaver checks for it - and it doesn't just check the screensavers directory, it checks $PATH too.

I remove the "zoom" line from ~/.xscreensaver - and the problem goes away.

I found this pun I made a while ago again. 

The quest for the holy grail? Oh, you mean the travelling grailsman problem.

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