Have you played Caesar 3 with the Augustus mod? Its like a whole new game. It adds a ton and there’s even a whole fan-made campaign.

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 mods installed for Rimworld. The in-game mod management system is pretty basic and simply does not cut it. Definitely interested in more management options.

Extremely disappointed to discover that this isn’t by the other Edward Teach. Please give me Blackbeard’s extensively sourced treatise on porn.

I love driving stick. Or I did up until the day my left knee fell apart. Now it’s just not an option for me.

What, you mean you missed the canonical Fortnite event of Palpatine’s voice ringing out across the galaxy? And then felt like you had somehow missed key plot events despite having watched all the movies because you didn’t participate in some fad videogame marketed to tweens? So it showing up in the opening crawl felt forced, unimaginative, and honestly just stupid?

Yeah, that sounds like my experience too.

Bullshit. You were singing Amish Paradise and we all know it.

Yup, I had someone print off Excel sheets, manually highlight and write in corrections, and them bring the pages over to my desk to have me fix them in the file.

I also once had the city reject a report I submitted because the width of the columns in the Excel file were different from the previous year and they wanted to print it all off on one page.

I used to work for municipal government in a major American city. The database for the entire city downloaded query results to your desktop formatted as Excel 95. Still does.

At one point I had to install special R packages because someone retired and I was tasked with taking over the worksheet they had been maintaining forever and the usual R packages to read data from Excel can’t parse Excel 5.0.

There was also someone in the office who still used a typewriter on the regular.

I, for one, am ready for the great sun god to annihilate the internet. Free us from this monstrosity of our own creation.

That sounds like a great plan. Just make sure you make those reservations now because stuff is probably already starting to book up.

Word of advice from someone who drove to the 2017 eclipse:

Wherever you go to see the eclipse, do not try to leave that day. Plan on staying the night after the event. Traffic is apocalyptic in the area around the path of the totality for about 12 hours after.

The group I was with in 2017 insisted on driving back immediate after. Our 3 hour drive to a spot in rural Tennessee the day before turned into a 10 hour drive back. And it was like that everywhere. Just stay the extra night.

That being said, you should absolutely get into the path of totality. I’m definitely going again. It’s the most incredible thing I have ever seen. The difference between being near thetotaility and in the totality is like the difference between almost climaxing and climaxing. It’s important. Go see it. I promise you won’t regret it.