Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

@aescling taking your phone in the shower will not give your pokémon walkies

@aescling get wet

@coriander these posts are extremely “trying to start a cult without actually starting a cult” vibes

@coriander you're being a curmudgeon but it's valid ✨

@aescling anyway i meant desktop distros not embedded/server

@aescling not sure i would describe alpine as “pretty ok”

@coriander counterpoint: golden retrievers

@noracodes i now know (since writing this blogpost) that this use of `stat` is not portable (i have BSD stat not GNU); it’s not hard to find the GNU instructions on the internet tho [ask me if you need something portable across systems]

@noracodes https://blog.ladys.computer/2023-05-06/touch_grass/

@coriander i think whether they’re games or not probably depends on what you are using “game” to signify, but they are constrained systems players can set goals in that they can then work to achieve

the goals however are open-ended, player-driven, and aesthetic in nature rather than being a part of the ruleset

i think you could argue they are game systems, like Minecraft or D&D

@akjcv i was going to joke about moving from delaware but then i looked up where they are and they are in D·C, it’s just called Virginia for tax reasons

@akjcv you could probably commute from maryland pretty easily

@coriander they absolutely could have released half the assassins creeds and remastered the existing ones twice as often and made more money because people pay more for a single player game with a good story than they do an annual derivative fetchquest slog but this time in france!