superduperpirate

Do you even ~~lift~~ shitpost bro?

There are some decent to good video games available on Android & iPhone, of a wide variety of genres.

If you have the self discipline to not let gaming take over all your spare time (whistles innocently while totally not looking in mirror), it’s absolutely worth getting into.

Where to start? I recommend keeping it simple. If you don’t already own a desktop or laptop computer at home, it’s probably easiest to stick with games on your phone.

• ask friends & family what games they play, particularly those who fall on the same side of the Apple/Google divide as you.
• open your app store and look at lists of popular games by genre. Pick a free one, download it, and try it out. If you don’t like it, delete it and try another one.
• if there’s a news or culture site whose judgement you trust & like to follow, even if it’s not a technology or gaming related site, it’s worth spending a couple minutes to see if they have review articles or recommendation lists available. You can even find a related Lemmy community and ask there.

Personally, I play the following:

• an older logic puzzle game
• a free klondike solitaire game
• Egg, Inc - this is an idle incremental game available on both iOS & Android
• Leaf Blower Revolution - just started this one. It’s in the idle incremental genre as well. Available on iOS, Android, and through Steam. Supports cross platform play by way of cloud saves. I picked it up a week ago and it has been fun so far.

I don’t have the reflexes for active combat games. I like RPGs but prefer to play those on desktop.

Jerruh is an idiot for building his stadium along a SW-NE axis.

He should’ve built it along a NW-SE axis instead. Sure, he would’ve had to slide the stadium a little further west toward Collins Street, but it would’ve meant one less reason for him to be the laughingstock of the league.

He could still maybe salvage it if he put some good tinting on the SW windows.

If you like Museums:

• Museum of Fine Arts (1001 Bissonnet St)
• Houston Museum of Natural Science (5555 Hermann Park Dr)
• The Menil (1533 Sul Ross St)

Space Center Houston (the tourist wing of NASA’s Johnson Space Center) is a great place to visit.

If you like big spectacle places, see if you can take a tour of Minute Maid Park (Astros baseball stadium) or NRG Stadium (Texans football stadium).

If you enjoy live theater, options include:

• The Hobby Center (800 Bagby St)
• The Alley Theater (615 Texas Ave)
• Stages (800 Rosine St)

If you think you’ll have the appetite for it, there are lots of good dining options at every price point from a wide variety of culinary traditions. Try some bbq (if you’re from Saudi there are at least some halal bbq options, we have a pretty sizeable halal crowd). Try some Texmex restaurants. Try a pho restaurant. Try a taco truck.

Take a tour of the Hermann Park Zoo (6200 Hermann Park Dr). It’s a big damn zoo with a lot to see. You could also head down to Galveston and visit the Moody Gardens (1 Hope Blvd in Galveston). They have a giant rainforest pyramid and a giant aquarium pyramid. There are a lot of good dining options in Galveston but I don’t know offhand whether any of them are explicitly halal.

Good luck with your visit. The Texas Medical Center has some of the best medical care in the world. I hope you kick cancer’s ass.

Lemmy for scratching the reddit itch

Facebook (by way of a disabled account) for archiving pictures of now-deceased family members

Discord, if it counts as social media, for tracking guilds for a game I used to be addicted to, also servers for subreddits I used to frequent & servers maintained by some of the fanfiction authors I follow

Knock knock

Who’s there?

Who.

Who who?

You’re making a good owl!

My parents told me this was my favorite joke when I was around your daughter’s age. Apparently I used the joke non-stop and my parents still laughed every time because of how much I cracked up at my own joke.

People who don’t return their cart to the cart corral in the grocery store parking lot

Feeling your butt cheeks on the toilet seat just before you lose the battle to hold everything in.

No shows in DC I guess?

• in my jurisdiction, you have to meet certain criteria to be eligible for a mail in ballot, they don’t just get handed out willy nilly
• i don’t trust the post office with anything vitally important, like a ballot or money
• the early voting place is pretty close to my work, close enough that i hit it up a week and change ago on my lunch break

I’m glad to see the Yankees lose, I hate them the most. It’s a shame that it was to the Dodgers, who I hate the second most.

Literally any other combination of teams from this year’s playoff field would’ve been one I would be happy to watch. Especially if we’d had Cleveland from the AL (longest title drought in the AL playoffs) and either San Diego or Milwaukee from the NL (never won a WS).

I can’t even take joy from Ohtani winning a WS, because of who he won with.

Instead we got the two teams with the most arrogant and entitled fanbases in the sport, so I’ve been watching Schitt’s Creek instead.

It’s a tongue in cheek way of referring to neurodivergence. The same way that someone might refer to neurotypical as neurobland.