Affinity is free as of a couple weeks ago. And there’s talk of a Linux native version being considered iirc.

Requires a free license, so the old adage about you being the product probably applies.

Leverage and the continuation Leverage: Redemption.

I’ve heard it both ways.

Sounds about white.

That’s how we do it! Take no prisoners and don’t accept substandard booty.

Yarrrr!

A chore, frequently an obnoxious experience and lastly a trap.

I don’t want a promise of ‘maybe we will let you view this until we capriciously remove it from our service’. Either I own what I pay for or no deal. I try to heavily prioritize GOG over Steam and while I have some streaming services in my orbit (not my choices) I always have ‘backup’ copies of my own.

That’s a special kind of pain.

“What do you mean ‘force start’ isn’t doing anything?!?!”

It honestly depends. If it’s something I was on the fence about AND it’s not absurdly overpriced, probably just buy. Or put on a Steam wishlist for some future sale while I keep trying to find elsewhere.

Take it as a challenge and waste inordinate amounts of time finding it ‘free’!

Exactly!

Not UK, but absolutely!

There’s something very soothing about walking after dark, though it does mean the local nature trails are closed (due to coyotes). And said darkness arriving as early as 4:30 is quite a plus.

Thank you for sharing this!

The dystopian future Disney would love to have.

This is the one I had to transport back outside on a very noisy July 4th. The constant loud fireworks (most likely illegal) that lasted well past midnight must have been quite traumatizing.

The opossum I’ve had to remove from my house gently resisted being picked up and that’s it. I wore gardening gloves to avoid an accidental scratch and had my wife carry a box below it in case I lost my grip, but it was all unnecessary. The little guy/girl wasn’t too concerned about being carefully carried outdoors.

And yes, opossums are ABSOLUTELY adorable.

My parents had a zebra when I was in my teens. Northern California but born on a zebra farm in Texas.

I never got within 10 feet of that jumped up donkey, but got to be woken up by its braying every single morning. Only my dad was able to interact with it. I think it was traumatized by the 33 hour trip from Texas to us, but you never know.

Wow.

I’ve been lucky enough to interact with a rescue skunk. It was basically a disinterested cat… sniffed my hand a bit then wandered off.

The rescue possum was quite a bit more nervous. Oddly much more so than the one I had to remove from my house (got in through a previously unseen hole under my kitchen sink).

Spatula City!

The Dogg Zzone and Bigfeets.

Both absurd comedy by Cracked alum Robert Brockway, Seanbaby and Jason Pargin (the latter only for Bigfeets). Just a Patreon plug and nothing more.

I’m behind on my listening, but this is a top tier podcast!

Information dense but delivered in such an engaging format.

Bigfeets.

It’s a watch along podcast for quite possibly the lowest depths of US reality TV, Mountain Monsters.

Their other podcast The Dogg Zzone 9000 is at least as funny, though it is dependent upon which cursed media artifact from the wrong dimension which they’re reviewing.

I’ve really been enjoying it!

Almost TOO detailed and well researched, but I think that’s more on me for listening to her masterful work as distraction while doing other things.