I want a modern difficult farming Sim with an in depth relationship mechanic and no fucking combat. The old harvest moon games are good, but I've kinda played them to death and for some idiotic reason they removed stuff like rival marriages from the remakes. Rune factory has combat, and so does stardew valley (in addition to having a relationship mechanic that's just, really shallow), and it seems like all the farming Sim games that don't have combat are like baby's first farm Sim and are all cutesy and aren't very difficult

Like it feels like this would be an easy thing to do, right?

Whaling still uses harpoons, just more modern and sophisticated ones. It's more akin to hunting than fishing.

I would also add that Kafka did very much publish stuff when he was alive; he wasn't a tortured genius writing in secret, he was like, writing short stories for the newspaper. He published a novella of his weird random ramblings on things. He was probably kinda known as the bug guy before he died.

Also like, some of his longer posthumously published books are very obviously not finished. I'd wager Kafka's statement is less a tortured artist thing and more of a "this book straight up doesn't have an ending why would you publish it" or "please don't my editor is probably going to try and finish it" thing. Should you publish an author's clearly unfinished work is a completely different question with different arguments

Snails are more in the same category as squids and octopuses, and I know people who won't eat those because they're 'gross'

Human sized roach. I mean Gregor just kinda died of his own accord didn't he? You just gotta emotionally reject it as having ever been your son and maybe throw an apple or two at it.

I know it sounds naive but honestly I just wish I could consume media and when I like it I can just send them some money without any hassle.

So the artist gets a cut of every stream? Isn't that just Spotify's model, which is infamously kinda shit for the actual artists?

Nowhere - everyone hates us because we're too busy fucking with what hand we do sports with

Alternatively, nowhere because you just kinda still end up functionally right handed anyways because everything's built that way and it's easier to just go with the flow even if you can technically use either hand.

Given this is Lemmy/Reddit overspill I think the more unpopular opinion mentioned here would be "you shouldn't be apathetic towards social problems and instead actually try to do something about them"

I'm not really an expert on this, I just know that the ingredients list on a pack of whale lists Balaenoptera acutorostrata as it's species and I've never seen any other species for sale. We've been hunting these guys for a millenia and ever since I think the mid 20th century it's the only species hunted, mainly because that's simply what's native to Norway.

As for why? Norway's been a pretty poor country for most of its existence and any reliable source of food is a welcome one, and it's not like whale's the worst thing to eat. This was never a profit thing like the more sterotypical American whaling industry, it's first and foremost a food one.

You know all those books and literary analysis you had to do in Englidh class that you hated? Yeah what if we made a game about those guys? Oh and don't worry, we got guys from all over the globe, so we're going to make you relive that pain regardless if you're from Spain or Korea. Oh you liked that part of class? Good news! We made Rodion Raskinolov an anime waifu!

Alternatively: solving a centuries long race war in the only way we know how - with 13 year olds and 90's themed warfare! It's not a child soldier if the military doesn't know about it! We swear this is deadly serious we gave the kid a FN P90

Yeah I kinda feel like the first step would be to figure out how to do that rather than trying to sidestep the issue

There's ways to cut stuff up without actually handling a knife if it's like a physical issue - those little mini food processors for example are really good for most veggies (they struggle on harder or stringy things but for onions and garlic and whatnot they're pretty good)

I got sent to some nutjob's site where he tells you all about the superior space technology NASA refuses to use called slingshotting the rockets into space. I say nutjob because most of his site is dedicated to conspiracy theories and holy shit it's still active he's even got a youtube now

More fun and innocent - Speculative biology! Hell yeah weird alien turtle dinosaurs! Actually pretty cool and I think still active? The illustrations are really neat

Also hilariously, I also found a site all about finding interesting web 1.0 pages which even links to what you've linked. It's also full of tips and tricks on how to recreate that web 1.0 jank on your own blog!