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☕️🥞 I doodle sometimes! • BG3, P5, Hades, Arcane 25 Slightly less nightmarish than in the series proper but their skulls are noticeably shrink-wrapped and they look rather malnourished

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

We started losing these moments long ago I know. If I was a kid now, I can't fathom asking my low income immigrant parents to spend their wage on something that doesn't even give them with the sight of their kid grinning and holding that gift like treasure. That was their whole point for doing it

My parents were low income so I often just browsed game shops as a kid. Sometimes mum let me get a game. It'd cost her whole day's wage and a chunk of our rent. Dad once told me to check under the car seat and Pokemon Red was there in a bag. Ownership isn't the only thing we lose with physical media