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Many people no longer have the grit, drive and the determination we had in this once great country (UK)..

It grinds my gears that the UK nation has turned some people into gutless wimps..

I hate to say this and I feel sad about it.... but where has their backbone gone and why has it turned yellow?

We were once a nation of solid rock but now it's more like soft jelly...

It grinds my gears 

I think it's the same thing that every old people say in every country...

That's what all old people have always done, just look at this quote by Socrates, born 469 BC:

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.

This looks like a fantastic game, I just added it to my whishlist on Steam!

@dactylopus
Wow, even more insane than the original!

Anyway, this is equal parts fun and sadly true (some nsfw language):

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Otherwise, since it's pride month, how about a game with a queer protagonist?

Some old vintage insanity:

Sims 4 is free on Origin:
https://www.origin.com/swe/en-us/store/the-sims/the-sims-4/?fbclid=IwAR03DjsTjJbVrJqALBC--rtIPtiVdShH-2DqDV_nHEmU5qMml04N62sPB3c

I've seen a lot of complaints about the darkness.  I didn't have that issue.  It looked great, and the darkness was fitting for the story.  Then again, I watched it in complete darkness in the middle of the night.  The previous episode I watched in the daytime and it reminded me that I need to get more blackout curtains.

Great episode, though.  One of my favorites of the entire series.

Yeah, I'm sure it looked better in the middle of the night, but I still think it's a problem when something only looks good under optimal circumstances, because not everyone can stay up late or have good blackout curtains (especially not in Sweden, where the daylight lasts practically forever in summer-time). For comparison, I re-watched a clip from the Battle of Helm's Deep from the LOTR movies, which also depicts a big fantasy battle at night-time, but there I could tell everything going on even on an old laptop screen with full daylight pouring onto it, and the scene still looked good and dramatic:

But I've seen a similar problem in AAA games too, where the graphics are exclusively optimized for cutting-edge computers, and if you try anything less than the highest graphics options, you get an ugly mess with blurry textures and grainy shadows that somehow looks worse than games that came out a decade ago.

It grinds my gears that most modern live-action movies and TV-series are too dark, and I don't mean this in the "grimdark edgelord" sense (even if that can be bad too), but in the literal "too dark to see literally see anything happening" sense. Like when I saw the latest episode of Game of Thrones, and don't worry, I won't spoil who kills who, because I couldn't actually see what was going on on the screen for 90% of the time!

Seriously, I live in Sweden where it's soul-crushing darkness most of the year, so I know making the screen black is a more realistic way of depicting nighttime than just slapping a blue filter on the screen and calling it a day, but come on, if I didn't care about seeing anything happening on the screen whilst listening to actors talking I'd have just bought an audio-book instead.

Gone Home is free on Humble Bundle.

Nice to see you keeping up the good work!

[Transistor]

Transistor is free on Epic Games store now.

[The Witness]

I just wanted to say that The Witness is currently available for free on the Epic Games store.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/

Daylight saving time grinds my gears.
I suppose adjusting the clock one hour back/forth once each autumn and spring made sense in the olden days when the only light source available were fireplaces and expensive candles,
but in today's industrial society with electric light available for everyone, all it does is throw everyone off-schedule twice a year and cause pointless stress and confusion.

Nice little ambience if you need to get a few hours of work in:

Nice!

Second, I always work better with something to listen to in the background!

So, I tried drawing something funny again:

My past self!
I've just spent an hour trying to figure out why text wasn't showing up on a GUI, only to find I'd made an if statement earlier for test reasons that I was supposed to delete...

Yeah, it's so frustrating that a tiny mistake or forgotten leftover can really mess up a whole game, and most of the time you don't even learn from your mistakes because it's always the same mistake; you forgot to delete something or made a typo.

At least the one letter typo in Alien: Colonial Marines led gave us a funny gif:

[Tacoma]

Tacoma is free on Humble Bundle (gotta subscribe to their newsletter, tho).

I've played it a bit, and it's really good so far, I definitively recommend it to anyone interested in sci-fi mysteries!

Did you know the Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology? Always found that tidbit interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland

I had no idea, though I'm not surprised. There are a great deal of celebrities out there who have high degrees in various fields. 

Yeah I'm not saying there aren't, but I mean... look at this guy. 

Well, in Sweden there's a saying about not judging someone based on their appearance; Don't judge the dog by it's hair, or in this case, the hideous hippie haircut with feathers in it!