When I was a kid I'd play Fable The Lost Chapters as a regular villager. I'd buy a house, get married, equip a stick (because you had to equip a weapon) and just walk around interacting with the other villagers.
Eventually I'd get bored though, so I'd out-of-rp murder my wife, then "discover" the body and go on a rampage through Oakvale.
It sounds so much worse written down.
I wasn't but you make it really tempting. I also love how I've been on many a different server, and each one has been completely unique in design. It really mastered the balance between a survival exploration game and creative sandbox.
I loved them, I miss them dearly, but no, I don't think they'll come back.
A lot has changed and the internet is not the same, for better and for worse. For one, it's just a lot bigger. You'd think that'd make it easier, but it seems to make it harder. There's too much noise for the communities to stand out, so what usually happens is one or two get huge and the others dwindle and die. Even just look at Lemmy, through no fault of your own, Beehaw is becoming one of the largest instances and it requires active work to spread the weight across the rest of the federation. People gravitate I guess.
Plus, because it's so much bigger, there's less of an identity in the spaces that do survive. Post in any reddit thread, then go to another. Chances are nobody'll be the same (except for a few superusers) so there's no real sense of belonging or community that the old forums had. Back then you trolled your friends, not strangers.
Do you mean a full hob (e.g. 4-6 spots) or a single plug-in 'hot plate' type dealio? For the former Bosch or Hotpoint should be decent enough, I don't know if they make the latter though. I personally stay clear of Beko but that's not because of their hobs, used to have a washing machine they made and it was awful.
Either way we made the switch to induction earlier this year and love it. Just check your pans are magnetic first, or be willing to replace them!
Never been to the US to try theirs but we like it.
Moved out of York earlier this year and will be heading back for a proper visit for the the first time since the move today. Going to be strange driving past the place I lived for years but on the plus side, it's one of the few places in the UK with a taco bell!
Kids have always had wild career dreams, it's not new it's just a different medium. It's fine. I'm not sure it's a conscious decision to escape the grind though. I grew up with kids who wanted to be movie stars or athletes. Why? Because they idolised movie stars and athletes and want to be like them. It's what they're exposed to the most. Now kids are exposed to influencers the most, so they wanna be one too.
I wanted to be a train driver 🚂
On a different occasion when we were selling Christmas trees his groundskeeper came to us and asked for a free tree for the Lord.
They weren't the same of course but we found it funny because the Lord owned the woodlands behind the shop. He didn't get a free tree.
This reminded me of an old rant I have, if legacy rants are allowed.
In a job I had many years ago I met a Lord. An actual Lordy Lord. He used one of these things frequently, but it's not part of the rant.
Where I worked sold stone, big slabs of stone for using as big slabs of stone. He came to us on a particularly rainy day and asked me to show him around the yard. I look out the window, rain is pelting the floor and ricocheting back into the sky. We go outside. He had an umbrella, I did not. He did not offer to share.
So around the yard we go, and I show him all the stone. When we reach the last one he turns to me and says "perhaps I'll come back when it's not raining".
We get a lot of dandelions here anyway so they'd probably end up mingling whether intentional or not - Now I did hear a while ago that all the parts of the dandelion are edible, and that the flowers are delicious fried, but I'm a little afraid of eating things from the lawn because the neighbourhood has a lot of roaming cats and they.. use.. my garden frequently, which puts me off nibbling on them.
I was thinking of intentionally growing them in a raised planter though.
New to gardening, spotted the first strawberry today. I've killed so many houseplants over the years, It's a great feeling to actually have something grow.
I had a uni lecturer pronounce MySQL as "my squirrel"