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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Wild to me you got down voted for this. Even in an expensive city, if you make almost five times the median income you’re upper class, even if there’s an erosion of what that buying power gets you. Otherwise what do we call someone who makes $100,000 and supports a family of four? $80,000? $50,000? There are many, many people in those pricy cities making those amounts or less.

    I feel like you can really see the skewed demographics on lemmy (bias towards tech workers, their salaries, and their lifestyles) during economic justice discussion.



  • Marauders is fun! Solid gameplay loop. It is more basic than Tarkov in a mechanical sense, but this means it’s easier to convince your friends to play and easier to jump in and out of. It’s still a more tactical and methodical shooter than a lot of what you find in the mainstream. There is also a pretty unique space flight mechanic as part of the raiding process that the devs are still working on.

    I’ve gotten my money’s worth for sure. I think I’m around 130 hours played so far, and I could see myself putting in at least twice that as development continues. More if my friends keep at it too.





  • I thought the same about Liftoff. I downloaded it and Connect at the same time and felt ok about both, but didn’t see them as improvements over Jerboa. As of five minutes ago I started giving Connect another shot; the Sync hype has me wondering if the grass is greener anywhere but I’m not willing to drop $20 to remove ads for a federation access point.










  • The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin. Fantastic and heartbreaking. It’s kind of a crossover in science fiction and fantasy, set in a world that experiences apocalyptic levels of climate and geological change every few hundred years. Jemisin does excellent world building and a very admirable job of writing parts of the narrative in second person in a way that seems seamless/not gimmicky. Highly recommended.