Hi friends. Seeing as how the last Steam NextFest just wrapped up, I'm curious about the demos you may have played and what your thoughts were.

Okay. Yes. This sounds like the dumbest question.

I just have a PDF that has a bunch of data in the ugliest possible way and I've attempted to pull it into an Excel sheet by myself and mess with the powershell to make it better, but it's awful, I'm too novice, and I frankly don't have the time.

This is a personal request, not actually condoned by my workplace, but the data wouldn't be sensitive. So could I find someone on like fiverr? Or, I dunno where to even look honestly.

Any suggestions?

I am an absolute Linux baby running Mint23(?) on my PC. I wanted to play an ancient game from my childhood that I cherished but I don't really know how to get it off the Internet Archive onto my computer.

The game

Any suggestions?

Assuming an ISS like situation, every time the moon is showing, it's a full moon, no? Or do orbiting bodies still see it as crescent, waning, etc because it's still just in the shadow?

But then what if the werewolf is on an interplanetary expedition? What about Io, Ganymede, Europa, etc? Is it only our moon that causes lycanthropy to, y'know, wolf out? Or is it any moon? What if it is only our moon, then it seems like lycanthropes would be on the top of the list as either experimental pilots or just travelers.

What say you all?

I know this has been an infuriating topic for a while now, but gosh it's getting on my nerves. I'm trying to watch Secret Level, finally, and I can't see half of what's happening because so many scenes across many of the shorts are pretty much pitch black.

Why?? Why not, y'know, just give us a little bit of fucking contrast? Instead, I have to choose whether to have a light on or to not see the scenes.

As in sweetie, pumpkin, sugar, angel, etc.

I'm starting up another campaign shortly and I used to use OneNote for my session notes because it's so easy to just put stuff anywhere on the page, which is really helpful for the scattered way I think.

But I switched to Linux since my last campaign and I can't find something that I like that's similar in that sort of freeform canvas.

I tried obsidian and hated it. I tried OneNote in browser and it's just so much worse. I tried Notion and I did like it for a bit, but it's really pushy about using its AI and linking to other pages and such.

So, yeah. I mean, my next thought is literally to start using Krita or Paint or something because I can't find a program that's just kinda bare bones and free form but lets me enter text wherever and slap down some character art, maybe draw a few arrows or something.

Help?

What if you're wearing cargo pants?
What if you're wearing a shoulder bag?
What if you're wearing something with only two pockets?
What if you have a jacket on?

Where, oh where do your things go???

This isn't really a meme, sorry!

But there was a meme yesterday about how bad days are just a 28 step process to make a cup of coffee. Which yes, I agree with.

But bad days are also "clean kitchen" is too overwhelming and big and vague - looking at you, executive dysfunction. So someone made a little tool to break it down into pieces so it doesn't feel as overwhelming?

Goblin tools! There's a website and an app. I think the website is goblin.tools

I'll try to keep this short, sorry!

We met at a tumultuous time in my life ~7 years ago and bonded over shared trauma very quickly. Since then, we've been excellent friends. In this years since, we've both been through a tremendous amount of personal growth and strife and have grown closer and closer. She's just the kindest and most beautiful soul and makes me feel safe and like I have worth. She's said similar about me.

We've had a ton of friends mistake us for dating - to be fair, we're both touch starved and since we're so close emotionally, we're typically physically close as well. Like holding hands, kissing one another on the head or arm, snuggling, etc. Because of the mistaken notions of friends, we had a very real conversation about what "we" are, and the first conversation we had alluded to the fact that she had some romantic interest, and I was happy to move forward with a romance. The conversation was cut short and the next time we had a conversation, I was more forward that I wanted and was hoping for romance after sorting through my feelings since the first conversation. But she began to back pedal.

She's afraid that things will change. And she's also afraid of her own internal anxieties pushing forward to chew at her and cause resentment if she feels like she's not good enough. In her words, she's not a very exciting person and her idea of a good time is phone in hand laying on the couch.

I've known her long enough and spent enough time with her to know this, but I don't want to push the issue and create discomfort. But that being said, I do want a relationship to come out of our friendship.

I'm stuck in what I can do, if anything. I can try to reassure her and I can propose a trial period or whatever. But I don't want to come off as pushy and I don't want to betray any of her feelings, nor do I want to breathe any life into those anxieties she harbours. Can anyone offer some advice? Or just some thoughts, even.