Canadian here. We had that pattern too, except for things like Greatest Hits editions which were arguably even uglier.
I’m not sure why it’s like that. It does kind of remind me of the grooves in the side of the original PS1 though.
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. In case anyone sees this and is wondering, I picked up Assetto Corsa. The price was right and it looks like what I’m looking for, for now.
I also will keep an eye on BallisticNG and a few others.
Shout out to the kind Lemming who donated their spare key for Garfield Kart - Furious Racing to me. I’ll leave them unnamed in case they don’t want the attention. I’ve been playing and enjoying it!
Get comfortable talking to yourself / thinking out loud. You’re already thinking thoughts when you game, you just need to externalize them.
Surprisingly there weren’t any rules around video games, it was everything else they had a problem with. TV shows, music, movies, Pokemon cards, too much time on the internet… Everything was “satanic”, and yet I could game all day and no problems there. Maybe my taste in games was just never seen as an issue to them, or it was too much work to audit the content of them.
I noticed there are a lot of games with -punk in their titles. What’s with that?
Nothing against the other suggestions, but pretty much anything you can buy that is “ready to eat” (canned soup) or “easy to make” (Kraft dinner), even if it is already cheap, would still be cheaper to make yourself from scratch. Cooking, in bulk, is your friend.
Two cartons of soup broth $1.77 CDN/946ml each, half a bag of frozen veggies $2.57/500g, boom you have 5 soup meals for <$1 per meal. A cup of flour to make dumplings in that soup and make it more appealing. Compare that to a canned soup which seems to be up in price lately, between 1.50 - 3.00, and you’re laughing, and eating a lot less salt.
I haven’t figured out exactly the cost of making bread (I play with the recipe and how many loaves), but I am absolutely certain it costs less and tastes better than the cheapest bullshit bread you can get at a store. So less than $2 for a loaf, and it actually smells and tastes like bread and doesn’t dissolve in your mouth like cotton candy. No bullshit preservatives.
Pasta with pasta sauce, ez and cheap af, filling. <$1 per meal.
Things that are more difficult imo are meat and cheese due to the cost. I like to buy frozen logs of ground beef which isn’t that appealing on it’s own, but is passable in chili and shepherd’s pie. Cheese can go a long way especially if you shred it for pizza (and you already have flour and pasta sauce from above.)
Speaking of shepherd’s pie, potatoes are cheap and versatile. One tube of ground beef with a layer of frozen veg and mashed taters on top, again <$1 per meal.
Not to mention rice which is maybe the ultimate value-for-money food when you just need something in your stomach. Foodies will crucify me, but I love to eat it with margerine (way cheaper than butter) and salt and pepper. There’s so much more you can do with it, though. Good for bulking up soups too.
If you have a dog and haven’t posted it in a babushka yet… Why not?
Jed’s Other Poem is so fucking good
Tool - Parabol / Parabola Tool - Intermission / Jimmy (although probably among their less popular songs)
Dota without question
Came here to say this. Over 4 years clean now. There were a lot of good times with the squad. And I guess it gave me a relatively high APM which helps at work.
For those people you want to know that you care enough about them to wish a good morning, but not enough to type out the full words
Terrible. But I got over it.
Everybody’s talkin’ 'bout the new massively open-world online multiplayer virtual mobile browser bulletin board tabletop Japanese Western Polish Latin American Korean idle action real-time turn-based strategic role playing game, funny, but it’s still RPG to me 🎶
Yes, and we were both miserable. Now I’m working on fulfilling my dreams that were put on hold that entire time and it’s going well.