Yes, 30 minutes is a bit too short even if you have a good restaurant nearby. In Sweden we get 42 minutes but in most workplaces nobody’s really clocking you. And a couple of options are usually within walking distance.

Still though, I always used to prep for the reasons you said. I feel really lucky now that my workplace has a reasonably good restaurant on site, and there’s no issue taking proper lunch breaks.

A peanut butter sandwich is a snack or a dessert, it’s not real food. You need a way more varied diet.

I’m saying this out of concern, it really isn’t my intention to be rude.

Well I didn’t say fast food. I said restaurant. You know, a place where you could just fill up on salad every day and probably be fine nutrition-wise.

No I am not in the US.

Packing a lunch costs time, and it’s probably not going to be as healthy as what you could get at a restaurant.

I’m pretty thankful that my workplace has a restaurant with cheap but good food.

Yeah but also why do something now if it can wait until next week.

Creem Freeeeeeeeesh

Cockroach Creem Freesh!!

Fuck Russia but I think it is pretty clear that the big aggressor is the USA, and when they interfere then really nobody cares.

Sounds like they might be learning from their mistakes though? If so, they’re smarter than most businesses.

We had our super-intelligent robot hairdresser clone the voice of your old human hairdresser. It knows all the gossip, remembers the names of your grandchildren and can even tell you jokes and riddles! You should feel safe spilling your secrets to Carina the RoboBarber.

Some of it is probably that Danish and Norwegian TV has aired a lot of Swedish programs over the past decades. By contrast, it’s only in Skåne that Danish TV is aired regularly. Nowadays a lot of Norwegian TV is being aired in Sweden but it’s a pretty new phenomenon.

But I think the big reason is that Danish is a genuinely weird language. Danish children learn to speak significantly slower than other kids.

It’s crazy that by age 2, Danish children are almost 6 months behind in speech development compared to Swedish, Spanish, Sudanese and South Korean children. So it really is a difficult language to get your ear used to.

I’m fine with games evolving, and I’m okay with characters evolving even if I think the transition from God of War to Conflicted Dad is a bit far-fetched. I just think the gameplay is pretty bad, especially in Ragnarök. The over-the-shoulder camera doesn’t work very well, the enemies are generic and generally very basic, the parrying mechanics with the yellow/red circles are very on the nose, the combat is boring and very drawn out on the harder levels.

The only boss that made me feel like I was playing a God of War game was Nidhögg. The Thor fight was fine, Gryla was okay. But in previous God of War games, there was a lot of build-up to fighting a boss, you felt like you had a reason for doing so, and the fights themselves were absolutely epic. You’d get a distinct reward for defeating big bosses, like a new weapon, move or at least a meaningful stat boost. Remember climbing Gaia for what felt like hours?

In Ragnarök, a named boss is often just some rando with a generic name that shows up out of nowhere, has 3 attacks, 1 phase and a massive health bar. You’re picking up generic resources here and there and have browse around your bland menus to see what piece of gear that it upgrades. It’s very forgettable. Your big abilities like the Runics can easily punish you rather than help you, and they’re on a massive cooldown. They’re pretty much useless or even counterproductive for the first half of the game.

The “platforming” is absolute shit, in fact it’s no platforming at all, it’s just linear with platforming aesthetics. There’s no pattern for what obstacles Kratos can traverse, except you need to look for the circle on the HUD for context-sensitivity (and I guess the paint on cliffs indicating that THIS IS THE PATH. So if the over-the-shoulder combat is bad, the camera is bad, and it means that we can’t have platforming, then what exactly did we gain from this change?

It’s a shame too, because the dialogue and character design was actually very good. I love how they portrayed Odin and Thor. It’s obvious that the devs are talented and resourceful, it just feels like they made a lot of bad choices for how to design the levels, combat, menus and progression.

God of War 1 & 2 were such good games, especially 2. Then 3 was somehow even better. I’ve been playing Ragnarök this past month and I’m of half a mind to record a 2 hour rant video about how they are risking to destroy the series.

Reddit is trash

In general, making things look like something it’s not just feels wrong. Unironically painting plaster walls to look like stone or brick comes to mind - you’re ruining the plaster.

shithole country

Prunes are actually so nice. You get really shifty looks from people if you suggest it but it’s just a cheap, nice food.

I make up a sentence and then I write it out. Why limit yourself to 12 characters?

Like the actual phrase

Why limit yourself to 12 characters?

is a very strong password, easy to remember, fast to type and has the added benefit of not containing any adjectives.

Except the “big cats” are actually hyena and by “hunt deer” they mean that they fight over a carcass.

Overheard a conversation between an old, rural Swedish farmer and his son that used to be a NATO soldier. They were discussing the Iran war. Old man says Iran has the right to defend itself just as any attacked nation does, and besides, they’re defending against an empire that is one tweet away from attacking us. NATO boy tried to say something about nuclear weapons, but old man wouldn’t have any of it and shut it down immediately.

I was quite astonished to bear witness to this, honestly.

I’ve been the weird environmentally conscious kid for more than 30 years. People’s attitudes haven’t changed. The arguments haven’t changed. You’ll still find people who immediately get excited about global warming, because they like warm weather.

Some people are just astonishingly stupid, and yet, they walk around and talk and have jobs and can appear to be normal. That’s because they are normal. It is normal to be stupid.