Yeah, I feel like it's heavily skewed towards the beginning of life, but tbf I feel like the cool things you do later in life are harder to quantify? Could add things like:

• I'm trying to think of how to quantify a "Have 0 debt" option but like, post mortgage or something.
• Establish a friend group
• Hang out with at least one member of that friend group for 5 / 10 / 15 years
• Go to an interesting location as part of your job (conventions count)
• See a historical human-made artifact in person
• See a legitimate dinosaur bone in person (not cast)
• Visit your country's capital
• Create a piece of art and enter it into something that has it be viewed by people outside your family / friends

hydroponics

Do you have any recommendations for a beginners guide?

The convenient thing about the LGBTQ+ community though is that we can pop up anywhere, at any time. The perpetual boogieman.

They can't exactly answer that honestly.

For real, I think I've gone through the "It sucks that never came out" -> "They're still working on that?!" -> "It sucks that never came out" cycle like three times. The first blog post is in 2018 and it states then that it's been in dev for several years. It's never going to see the light of day, or if it does, it's going to be a conceptually outdated, buggy mess that's barely duct taped together. It's just so incredibly hard to dev for that long across multiple engines without it turning into a disaster.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though...

Ubuntu was always the answer I gave, but it feels like they've fallen out of favor with the whole snap debacle.

I agree that kicking the can down the road isn't going to help anything at this juncture, but it isn't a good idea to fund the government for the next 100 years. The world changes drastically pretty much every year at this point, and funding needs to change with it. We just need actual adults as representatives so it doesn't take the entire legislative session to do the basic upkeep of our nation.

FWIW I see you. :( Good luck with them.

So what magic solution have you come up with that I should be doing?

I vote, I don't own a gun, I try to help people where I can. If you say "Riot" then "You first", because rioting alone just gets you killed.

It's extremely dangerous to assume that.

Loddlenaut - A cute little trash collecting game. It seems pretty chill and fun. I didn't get to the point of meeting the titular Loddles because I want to save that for release, but the satisfaction of cleaning up the environment and picking up pieces of trash is already a solid loop even without adding additional mechanics. Potato computer friendly.

One Lonely Outpost - It's a bad sign when you get frustrated by repetitive, uninteresting tasks in the first 30 minutes of the game. From a design perspective, it needs to answer "Why?" a lot better. Why are we gathering archeology fragments? Why are we doing these irritating and honestly unfun tasks? And not in a "Well we're making the world habitable", the answer needs to be more direct: "We're looking for soil analyzer blueprints to be able to tell where to plant our crops". It might have some magic fun hidden later in the game, but I was thoroughly unimpressed with the demo.

Wizard with a Gun - Neat concept and fairly fun to play. I find isometric non-tile-based games clunky, and this game doesn't change that feeling. I might pick it up if my friends show interest in playing co-op.

Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival - Interesting concept, but extremely jank. Poor UI, mechanics aren't that tight or interesting, animations are extremely clunky and 'combat' is laughable. It almost feels like an asset flip.

Paleo Pines - Cute, but something feels off. I'm not sure if it's the animations, the shaders, or something else, but something gives the game a visually half-finished feel. I'm interested to see where this one goes and what further polish it receives.

Mr. Run and Jump - The transition between the first level and the second was really neat. The gameplay is fairly fun.

Soy milk gang!