Was playing Metroid Dread, but I kind of stalled out at the final boss. It's weird how the difficulty ramps up for that last boss.

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It kind of seems to me that MS doesn't actually want people to use Windows 11.

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Originally posted by nym

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Was playing Metroid Dread, but I kind of stalled out at the final boss. It's weird how the difficulty ramps up for that last boss.

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Okay so I finished Dread, and it turns out the final boss wasn't actually that hard, I just didn't realize he was invulnerable most of the time. I thought I was playing Metroid, not Zelda.

Overall, the game was fun and enjoyable, but the ending is really not great.

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They Might Be Giants' new album BOOK. It's really... A TMBG album. I don't know how to describe it, but it feels more like 90s TMBG than their newer stuff has. It's pretty refreshing.

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I just watched Outlaw Star, a show I haven't watched since it was on Adult Swim, and I'm pretty sure I never saw the ending. Boy that was a wild ride. It was mostly enjoyable, but I can't help but feel that most of the main characters were pointless. Anyway, it held up better than I expected, although I must admit that all of the space combat was whack as hell.

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In enterprise, there's something to be said for newer endpoint protection suites that have advanced incident response dashboards, I believe the buzzword is EDR? But I really think that's about the extent of it. Anything that wouldn't get stopped by Defender likely won't be stopped by anybody, but if you have a cohesive way to see everything that was touched by the malicious app... Well there's definitely some value in that.

And then of course there's the big compliance aspect. You gotta have that check mark, doesn't matter if your endpoint protection is no good, you just have to have it.

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Originally posted by ひりゅう

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Best advice I've got on that one is find a way to get to a point where you can eventually do things for yourself that make you happy, regardless of others and regardless of how simple it might be for yourself.

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This is it. I don't think older people are actually happier, we're just better able to find and actualize things that make us happy. In my late 20's as I saw my friends take up expensive hobbies (and I did as well!) I realized that there's no such thing as a cheap hobby. Even rock collecting, if you're actually interested in it has expenses.

But as you get older, you get more disposable income (unless you come from generational wealth), and so you're able to say, "Hey, I really like playing with old computers, so I'll buy some and tinker," or "I like developing games, so I'm going to block off this time that I wouldn't be doing anything else because all my friends are working/invested in their own hobbies."

We're not happier, we're just more sure of who we are, and we're able to chase our happiness. Hopefully, you'll be able to in your own time.

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Why does your physical layout perfectly match dotUser's virtual layout? My first thought on seeing your post was, "Why would you fix that, it matches perfectly!"

Anyway, here's mine.



Also, since I've had this comment before: I'm aware that my email address is visible, I'm not terribly concerned.

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Originally posted by Peardian

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One of the old office chairs at my work is growing crystals on the arm rests?

???????

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I played Mario Party Superstars for a while. It was a lot of fun. I don't think I'm done with it, but I haven't played since early last week, hence the past-tense.

It seems to me that Nintendo is really releasing this one for the fans. A lot of the complaints that I've heard about Super Mario Party are resolved. Everything is just faster and a bit more polished. Like most remakes, I find that it makes me want to play the original games, but more than that, I really appreciate the quality-of-life improvements. Overall solid effort. If you enjoyed the older Mario Party games, but want to see them updated a bit, give it a try.

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http://web.ai/

It's like a time machine to the turn of the millennium, but curated to the Caribbean.

In particular, Samantha's homepage is probably the most adorable thing I've ever seen. I wonder if she (or anyone in her family) knows that it's still around.

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