The Elden Ring Tiger Electronics LCD game is pretty fun.

I’m no expert, but I’ve bought and sold two houses in my life. Just finished selling one (and buying it not long before that; long story), so the process is somewhat fresh in my mind.

A counterpoint to @SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org’s advice: find a realtor you really trust and then just let them handle everything. Do whatever they tell you to do. Maybe you pay another $10-20k than if you had absolutely optimized everything, but who cares? More likely than not, in trying to figure everything out yourself, you’d screw up something and end up losing way more than that, not to mention your well-being.

I met my last realtor in a Toastmasters group. Fantastic guy. I asked him about everything. I still reasoned about things myself and ultimately made the decisions myself, but it was incredibly reassuring to have his expertise to lean on. I never once got a sense he was working for the highest commission he could get. No decent realtor is going to risk pissing you off and having you tell your friends bad things about them for another $300 commission on top of the $8-15k they’re going to make regardless. It’s not even worth fighting about it for $300 when they could just get the deal done, lose $300 in potential commissions, and move on to the next deal.

Are there bad realtors? Yes. My advice on that is just not to hire one of them (or fire them if you accidentally do) 😉, but the idea that you’re going to be able to cross all your 't’s and dot your 'i’s (or even figure out enough to know where the 't’s and 'i’s are) doing it yourself on your first go-round sounds like a bit of a long-shot to me.

Oh, and @wheeville@beehaw.org’s advice to start by getting pre-approved is solid. Your realtor will probably want you to do this anyway before you start looking, so you’ll be ahead of the game.

Yeah, definitely depends on who I’m recommending to. If it’s someone who’s pretty familiar with games, I think it would be Elden Ring. Love the sense of exploration and discovery in that game.

I switched fairly recently. I was on Ting before, and they appear to be quietly sunsetting that service after Dish Network bought them a few years back. Hoping the same doesn’t happen to Mint. It’s been great so far. Incredible value!

Yeah, come to think of it, I think this is a larger issue I have in life: I always have to be working toward a goal or else I feel guilty. I can see your point of view too though. If there’s no beginning and end, there’s no minimum amount of time you need to play. The goal is just to enjoy.

My perspective is basically the inverse: if there’s no beginning and end, there’s no maximum amount of time I need to play. 😅

I don’t feel this way about open-world games because they do usually have an end and you can skip a lot of the open-world filler content. I get this anxiety about sandbox games. I hate it because I really enjoy games like Cities Skylines and I’d love to get into Dwarf Fortress, but I can’t play them anymore because I could spend 1,000 hours in one of them and never finish. That open-endedness keeps me from playing.

Greater transparency under capitalism is always a good thing. I have to admit, one thing Trump did that I liked was to force hospitals to publish their prices. I can’t think of a good reason people buying a thing shouldn’t know how much it costs beforehand.

Sounds like you’re talking about Home Assistant maybe?

Maybe for future astroturfing?

This is a great tip, but it has one caveat. I believe this will return a 404 (not found) if your instance hasn’t pulled the community yet. If I create a brand new community on one instance, go to another, and click a link like the one you’ve proposed, I will see a 404. Then, if I search for that same community on the instance with the 404, it will find it. I believe at that point, the link will work, although it may require me to click on the search result first before the instance is “aware” of the community.

At least, that’s the way it worked for me a couple of days ago. 😅

I had a similar experience with The Witcher, but the first one. Bounced off the game twice. Third time was the charm. I fell in love with it and then ended up playing the other games in the series as they came out. I’m not sure what made me keep trying, but I’m glad I did.

Long before that, when Morrowind was released, I couldn’t quite understand it. I had grown up on JRPGs, and the openness of Western RPGs was confusing. I kept trying and eventually fell in love with it too. This opened up a whole new genre for me.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown had a similar effect for turn-based strategy games and Elden Ring for Soulsborne games. I’m still looking for the games that will open my eyes to several genres. I occasionally try games in genres I don’t typically like in hopes this will be the one. It’s really cool to have that new door opened for you.

I’m @RadDevon@techhub.social. My activity ebbs and flows over there, but my interests are games, urbanism, technology, and various other things.

What’s the best way to link to that? I don’t think I’ve done it right.

I would add to this community migration, which will be important as instances start going offline. User migration is great, but, whereas on Mastodon, the content lives on the user, I believe here it lives on the community.

The fing-longer is definitely my favorite answer, but the what-if machine has to be the actual answer, right?

I tried it as well, and it’s pretty simple if you’re comfortable in a terminal or on the command line.

On macOS, I used DB Browser for SQLite to view the data, and that works pretty well. Installed with Homebrew: brew install --cask db-browser-for-sqlite. Then, I just launched the new app and opened the reddit.db file. That file gets created wherever you run reddit-user-to-sqlite.

Yes, many parts of MGS 1, but some that stand out for me:

• Colonel Campbell breaking the fourth wall and telling you to look on the back of the game box
• Psycho Mantis moving the controller with his mind
• Psycho Mantis talking about your other Konami save data

Unnecessary, yes. In error, maybe or maybe not. Some people just may not want to come up with a name apart from the URL and decide to use the URL fragment as the name.

I’m guessing the user who created “/c/showerthoughts” named it “/c/showerthoughts”. You’re seeing the community names, and that one is named the same as the URL.

Oh, weird. What instance are you on?

No, communities are like subreddits. What you’re talking about is an instance. It’s like a whole other Reddit that can interact with all the other Reddits. If one Reddit starts misbehaving, the party’s not over because we can all just migrate to another one.