The Elden Ring Tiger Electronics LCD game is pretty fun.

I’m no expert, but I’ve bought and sold two houses in my life. Just finished selling one (and buying it not long before that; long story), so the process is somewhat fresh in my mind.

A counterpoint to @SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org’s advice: find a realtor you really trust and then just let them handle everything. Do whatever they tell you to do. Maybe you pay another $10-20k than if you had absolutely optimized everything, but who cares? More likely than not, in trying to figure everything out yourself, you’d screw up something and end up losing way more than that, not to mention your well-being.

I met my last realtor in a Toastmasters group. Fantastic guy. I asked him about everything. I still reasoned about things myself and ultimately made the decisions myself, but it was incredibly reassuring to have his expertise to lean on. I never once got a sense he was working for the highest commission he could get. No decent realtor is going to risk pissing you off and having you tell your friends bad things about them for another $300 commission on top of the $8-15k they’re going to make regardless. It’s not even worth fighting about it for $300 when they could just get the deal done, lose $300 in potential commissions, and move on to the next deal.

Are there bad realtors? Yes. My advice on that is just not to hire one of them (or fire them if you accidentally do) 😉, but the idea that you’re going to be able to cross all your 't’s and dot your 'i’s (or even figure out enough to know where the 't’s and 'i’s are) doing it yourself on your first go-round sounds like a bit of a long-shot to me.

Oh, and @wheeville@beehaw.org’s advice to start by getting pre-approved is solid. Your realtor will probably want you to do this anyway before you start looking, so you’ll be ahead of the game.

Thanks for checking into it. I PMed you.

Yep, I’ve been watching spam just in case. I have three emails there but nothing from VLemmy.

Yes. Just retried and it tells me my email exists. Email field is required.

Just checked spam. I have three emails there, but none are from VLemmy. I tried to register again in case I mis-typed the email, and it tells me the email exists. 🤔

Here are the apps I used that I’m not seeing.

• FoodNoms for calorie counting
• Waking Up for guided meditation
• Finch for gamified general mental health
• Future for asynchronous virtual training
• Tripsy for travel tracking
• Organic Maps for offline mapping
• Transit for navigating most US cities via public transit
• Fastmail for personal email (Apple Mail for work email)
• 1Password for password management
• Elaho for browsing Gemini
• Tidal for music
• Vellum for cool backgrounds
• SwiftScan for scanning documents
• iPlum for a cheap business phone number
• Kagi Search to set the Kagi search engine as the default in Safari
• Parcel for package tracking
• Mona for Mastodon

And I’ll second some others.

• Overcast
• Bookplayer
• Reeder
• AnyList
• Sleep Cycle
• Signal
• Obsidian
• Vinegar
• Noir

I rediscovered Blue’s News recently, although the RSS experience leaves something to be desired. I just go to the web site instead.

So far, I’ve got a cart loaded up with a few, mostly cheap, mostly under-the-radar games:

• Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari
• Spirits of Xanadu
• Fallback
• Breakpoint
• DYSMANTLE
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Beacon
• Halls of Torment

Also looking hard at Weird RPG and TUNIC.

I noticed the news stories link to the same URL that was in the email, so I’m with you. And I’ve gotten several of these class action lawsuit emails in the past. They always feel like they could be scams, but I’ve never received one that actually was a scam. I’m sure there will be one that is someday, but my point is that even the legit ones always feel a little off.

I did a quick bit of research and found some news stories about it on reputable outlets. I believe it’s legit. That said, it was a very quick bit of research, so be sure to do your own to your satisfaction (aside from just posting here).

Yeah, definitely depends on who I’m recommending to. If it’s someone who’s pretty familiar with games, I think it would be Elden Ring. Love the sense of exploration and discovery in that game.

Nice! Not sure why I attributed it to Trump. 🤔

Can you recommend any specific resources on either of those topics? Anything you’ve found particularly helpful?

I switched fairly recently. I was on Ting before, and they appear to be quietly sunsetting that service after Dish Network bought them a few years back. Hoping the same doesn’t happen to Mint. It’s been great so far. Incredible value!

Yeah, come to think of it, I think this is a larger issue I have in life: I always have to be working toward a goal or else I feel guilty. I can see your point of view too though. If there’s no beginning and end, there’s no minimum amount of time you need to play. The goal is just to enjoy.

My perspective is basically the inverse: if there’s no beginning and end, there’s no maximum amount of time I need to play. 😅

I don’t feel this way about open-world games because they do usually have an end and you can skip a lot of the open-world filler content. I get this anxiety about sandbox games. I hate it because I really enjoy games like Cities Skylines and I’d love to get into Dwarf Fortress, but I can’t play them anymore because I could spend 1,000 hours in one of them and never finish. That open-endedness keeps me from playing.

Greater transparency under capitalism is always a good thing. I have to admit, one thing Trump did that I liked was to force hospitals to publish their prices. I can’t think of a good reason people buying a thing shouldn’t know how much it costs beforehand.

All great points, and you’re definitely right that it’s not black and white.

I would like to make a distinction between a “content creator” in the literal sense — just a person who creates content — and a “content creator” as the phrase is commonly used today — a person who makes a living by selling content or by giving away content to market something else.

I, for one, would be very interested in seeing more people on the fediverse creating content, but I’m not super interested in the fediverse becoming a marketing channel for professional content creators.

Of course, it’s an open platform, so pro content creators are more than welcome to join. I’m just not super excited about approaching them and saying, “please come hock your wares to us on the fediverse!”