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So you think Trump is now calling for the Epstein files to be released because his minions have finally managed to delete all the really incriminating mentions of him?
#JustWondering #IdleThoughts #Ponderings

Chargers' Khalil Mack pondering NFL future heading into free agency https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-khalil-mack-pondering-nfl-future-heading-into-free-agency

RFK Jr.'s Health Department Is Pondering a National Men's Health Initiative (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/rfk-jrs-health-department-is-pondering-a-national-mens-health-initiative/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p128#a251211p128

NFL Week 16 fantasy flex rankings: Top 150 RB/WR/TE lineup options https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-16-fantasy-flex-rankings-top-150-rb-wr-te-lineup-options

Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.

Pondering Barthes' introduction to the book Tricks, with rough English translation by me and Gemini
​​Les pratiques sexuelles sont banales, pauvres, ​vouées Š la répétition, et cette pauvreté est disproportionnée ä ​l'​émerveillement du plaisir qu'elles ​procurent.
Sexual practices are banal, impoverished, devoted to repetition; this poverty is disproportionate to the marvel of pleasure that they provide.

so far, so amazingly good. the Dell 5290 has a close keyboard but with a nice haptic response and despite less RAM and similar bogomips to my old ZaReason, everything media has been smooth as glass in #Debian13 - never thought I would say so, but if you are new to pondering Linux for that machine that can't do Win11, for everyday use or science lab stuff unfettered by clouds, I wouldn't go near Ubuntu, you'll be just fine in Debian.

NFL Week 15 fantasy flex rankings: Top 150 RB/WR/TE lineup options https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-15-fantasy-flex-rankings-top-150-rb-wr-te-lineup-options

NFL Week 10 fantasy flex rankings: Top 150 RB/WR/TE lineup options https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-10-fantasy-flex-rankings-top-150-rb-wr-te-lineup-options

NFL Week 14 fantasy flex rankings: Top 150 RB/WR/TE lineup options https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-14-fantasy-flex-rankings-top-150-rb-wr-te-lineup-options