They want all of reality to be as sterilized as their imagination. ....and it's cheap

It's hard to believe meadows used to be filled with these. Now we have to plant and protect them from invasive species. North American Aster #wildflowers#photography#nature

At the base of a 100+ year old dam - Keller Lake in central Wisconsin I try to make out here at least once a year, I always expect it to be gone.

Can confirm. When you put them on they change the way you see the world. The steam becomes a path.

Accessible and pleasing system design is part of my work, games are interactive systems with highly constrained rules. They make really good thought experiments for making other types of interactive systems better. I LOVE trying to figure out why they do or do not work for people.

The leveling changes bothered me. In Oblivion you learn the skills you use. There is a limit to how much you can learn... Based on just this little bit - the first (and maybe second) "Gothic" game might be worth looking at. Little jankie, little old, but has the story and visual distinctiveness.

This is something I think about a lot. It's like going to the optometrist. "better... Or worse... Better... Or worse." The Oblivion - but not Skyrim is really interesting. Did you like the leveling system in Oblivion?

That was written by a man with a deep fear of inadequacy. He lives with the terror that an experienced partner will recognize how pathetic he is. He doesn't realize this, so, In an attempt to sooth himself he announces it to the world.

Cool! The Chicago river has a crazy history. Being reversed because we polluted it so badly and all that. Last year some chicagoriver.org people told me me that the city still has combined sanitary and storm sewers. So apparently when there is heavy rain it receives overflow raw sewage.

I am a standard cis white man in appearance. My house used to be owned by a republican. Thursday a door knocker came to my house to ask if I was going to vote for their local candidate. I told her I didn't know - because my wife makes all those decisions.