Whuut? I had no idea that even existed. Wild! Thanks!

John Wyndham also wrote The Kraken Wakes in which aliens try and wipe out humanity via environmental collapse. It’s kinda eerily prescient, only we’re doing it to ourselves instead of aliens. Great author!

Haha! I remember loving the shit out of Cabin Boy when I first saw it years and years ago. I tried to give it another watch a little while back and gave up. It’s awful!

I kinda bounced off the books. I read all three, but I felt like they were just trying a little too hard to be vague. The second in particular is an absolute slog. I thought the movie was much better than the books, and I’m 99% of the time the other way-round.

His next book: Borne was amazing. Probably my favorite of his.

I unabashedly love his first album. I Love Rocky Road, Another One Rides the Bus, Happy Birthday, Gotta Boogie: classics all!

Tametsi is my favorite Minesweeper clone. Every level is crafted - not randomly generated - and is completely solvable by logic. Some of the later puzzles are insanely difficult. It’s so satisfying to take one down.

Little King’s Story presents as a cutesy Pikmin-like on Wii and Steam (I played it on Wii. Not sure about the port.) but it’s got deep, challenging gameplay and the story absolutely pushes boundaries of video game narrative. I only played it the once years-and-years ago, but it really worked its way into my psyche. It deserves a place in the conversation about video-games-as-art alongside standouts like Shadow of the Colossus and Journey.

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. - Freewill by Rush.

Yeah, I probably don’t need 32gb either, but RAM was so cheap at the time, and it gave me the chance to put my old 16gb into my work PC which was down to 8 since a stick died on me.

Well, ‘casual’ in that I never did get into the nitty-gritty too much. I had to learn to sling a few terminal commands for this-and-that, but otherwise I almost never touch it. It browses the web, edits documents, prints pdfs, plays audio files, and does a little video editing in Blender just fine.

If there were Linux competitions, I’d definitely be out in the early rounds.

Long term casual? I’ve been using it in some form since the early 00s when I installed Ubuntu 6 on an aging laptop. Currently I’ve got an HP Stream 13 that only functions thanks to Lubuntu, and Mint is on my work PC. Unfortunately thanks to a music hobby and a bunch of shitty VST vendors who refuse to support Linux I run Windows at home.

I rarely open a terminal.

Also using 2019 hardware! I dread the day something dies, though. Luckily I upgraded to 32gb of RAM the last time it was super cheap. I’m hoping this machine has another ten years in it.