Ear hoodies are peak design.

Neotheta is a great artist - she did a fantastic commission for me.

Because Jennifer Hale delivered a better performance than Mark Meer as Commander Shepard

I played so much Wesnoth when I was young and broke

a person can be a woman

Unfortunately, racism.

It's a term from the car-modding scene. "Rice burner" was a pejorative term for badly-customized imported Japanese cars with more flashy looks than performance upgrades. It then came to just mean "heavily visually modified", and installing such mods was called "ricing"

The thing is - how will your blockchain-based mortgage be enforced? What happens if I start squatting on your blockchain-property? At the end of the day, the answer is "people with guns" - we agree that contracts have legal weight, and there are legal structures (and ultimately law enforcement and their threat of force) that keep you on your land and me out of it. And if we already have to involve all that, what good is blockchain doing that "a database" can't do?

It's a bigger market than M/F games, probably

Yeah it's definitely an HN clone, and that's much-needed because the orange site is a hellhole. I like their invite-tree system, and need to finish tracking down an invite.

I'll give a mention to FUEL, an open-world offroad racing game with a map that was over 5,000 square miles. The racing itself was fairly medium, but the absolutely massive open-world is something that I can see in Forza Horizon and some others

• Software side projects, including a serious crack at a game I've been noodling with in my head

• Hardware side projects, starting with smart home stuff

• The physical house-construction part of smart home stuff, and some other diy projects too

• Mini painting and board gaming, especially trying to pull together some overlapping friend groups

• And yeah, some time no-lifing a game or two

I desperately want to be using more of the whitespace on either side of the comment column.