If you want to curtail it, just explain that "chat" is the French word for cat, then miaou every time he does it. Worst case scenario, it backfires and you have an excuse to meow a lot.

I'd feel obligated to make a soup. I wouldn't *eat* the soup, but if someone else wanted to give it a sip, I would probably make a half-hearted argument against it for plausible deniability purposes before asking if they minded me filming it.

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Not seeing the context to this initially, my first assumption was you were talking about Sonic the Hedgehog. Still, the imagery almost worked since Sonic isn't pretentious and does have good chili dogs. It fell apart, though, because Sonic runs much better than cybertrucks.

I was several years younger than your kid when my grandma got me a cardboard tipi and told me it contained the spirits of our ancestors. I thought that meant it was haunted and I was terrified to play in it.

Tagging @florencesn.bsky.social in order to shame myself over not having played The Excavation of Hob's Barrow yet, since that's who I learned of the game from (as well as darkwebSTREAMER) and also whose repost of quotepost above set me down this rabbit hole. (I blame the methyphenidate, for that.)

Tangentially related, the games I currently have installed are:

Anna (0h)
Closure (0h)
Darksiders II (12h)
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (0h)
Jotun (stuck on the final boss)
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator (11.2h)

I've only purchased 1 game, A Game About Digging A Hole, in 2025. I obtained 37 games in 2024: 24 via Humble Bundle, 4 that were free, and 9 that I bought during the winter sale that started shortly after receiving my first paycheck in over a year. Of those 9, I've played 4 and beaten 1.

When setting up the tracking project, I set an unofficial goal of playing at least 50% of my Steam games before I am allowed to purchase any new games. There is a tiny whitelist of exceptions, basically @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social , since I've been following it for so long.

For the nosy, the Steam Sale included the above games + Machinarium, Borderlands, Universe Sandbox, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, and Bastion.

I bought Bastion because it was cheap and looked neat. It became my absolute favorite game of all time, still to this day.

Recently, I put together a spreadsheet of every Steam game I own, how I acquired it (Steam, Humble, Other), if I've ever played it, and if I've beaten it.

Of the 987 games I own, I've played 269 (27%) and beaten 128 (13%). Of the 20 games I bought in my first Steam sale, I've played 19, beaten 12.

Not sure why Limbo doesn't list time played, but I have the achievement for finishing the game. I haven't played Dreamfall because it's the sequel to The Longest Journey, which I haven't finished because I have to reboot my computer every time I play it.

Binding of Isaac - 9.8h (U)
Psychonauts - 175.8h (B)
Stacking - 2.4h (U)
Costume Quest - 35.4h (B)
Limbo - ? (B)
The Longest Journey - 111m (U)
Dreamfall - 0m - (U)

It's good to see that *someone* is taking steps to improve the accuracy of AI. The only current difference between Reddit and large language models is that LLMs get tired of repeating the same joke over and over.

For what it's worth, WinAmp still works perfectly fine on Windows 11. I've been using it recently to listen to my old archives.

I'm not an iOS user but I know VLC is on the App Store and VLC can play pretty much everything. Probably more elegant solutions, but that would be the route I'd try first.

I think I saw a couple of them next to a pile of Beanie Babies at Goodwill the other day.

It's hard to compare them. I would say Midsommar is gorier (in small doses) but the mindfuckery is different. I will just straight up "spoil" that no children die in Midsommar. The fact that 2 (o maybe 3) of the characters are anthropological grad students is directly relevant to the plot.