Chile Pequin (Capsicum annuum)
It's native where I live. You can find them growing in people's yards. Super spicy, birds love em.
https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=caan4

Pepper plants are resilient af. I had a 10 yo pepper plant in a pot that i COULD HAVE SWORN i killed because... I was dating a guy.. and was over at his place a lot .. and didn't water it enough... Anyway this thing was dead, but i was heartbroken I had lost sight of my true love (lol) and watered a dead plant for at least a month and it amazingly survived. It took a year off from pepper production, but this year it's in full bloom. Here's a picture of this 13 year old beast of a plant:

I also love this game. It's just fun to play.

I am definitely going to share this story with the team. It really touched my heart and I'm sure it will theirs.

I remember when the title went on steam, it was a really big deal.

As for the light saber, lemme look. The box is currently in storage, in it's original box, neatly packed. I cherish those years.

I indeed did. I started working on it as QA and left the project as a software engineer. It was a really fun experience.

edit: I have a lightsaber replica to show for it. Lol

I worked in Star Wars: The Old Republic for ten years. It's still running and the story is really nice. EA sold it to Broadsword.

I checked MAM, it's not listed. They have a 2022 book by the same name, different author.

Omg same. I have been burnt so many times on "lifetime" scams, im done. I want to invest in your product, but part of that agreement is you doing what you say. I've had it!

I don't think they realized anything. I worked for them for 13 years. I think they are likely looking at a strategy to bring archived games with low hardware requirements to new platforms that can run them.

For example, I worked on NBA and Madden Mobile. These were ps3 games that were ported.

It's a good strategy. Why start from scratch when you can just port existing titles that had good sales.

I can see Reno being pretty popular during late August for Burning Man.

In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue...

It's nice because you're getting whole leaf tea, rather than tea dust in a tea bag. You can also buy as little or as much as you want and not get stuck with something you hate.

If you're that dumb, it's natural selection at that point.

Oh 100%. You can try kagi out on a free trial, which is what I'm on. It's nice because you get different search results that aren't constrained to the Google algorithm.

What I mean by this, I search for recipes a lot, on Google all the recipes are identical. When I use Kagi, they differ with the main search team I want.

I plan on using Kagi and subbing when I have the money.

It's better to pay for a product than be the product imho.

edit: for the recipes I mean on Google it's the same promoted main steam food network bs, etc every. Single. Time. With Kagi I feel like it's smaller people with recipes with more relevancy to the terms I type in.

You should check out loose leaf teas. I find them to be less expensive and better quality. I like a mail order catalog called Upton tea imports. You can get 100g of earl grey for 7 bucks which is 18 cents a cup. They also have a cool quarterly magazine.

There are lots of other places to get loose leaf teas, like the grocery store in the bulk goods section. You can get little paper filters or get a strainer. I don't like the little clampy ball one, but it's cheap. I prefer the pour over basket.

I think it's designed to confuse you so you can't get out.

It's a quilting sewing machine. I saw one once at an art exhibit.

I thought the same thing when I read it.

That must be why there's a hearse in the garage.

Just imagine the electricity bill.

Heeeyyy .. I'm sure that's only a coincidence!

Also where'd you get that map? It's interesting.

My dad did. He would always pronounce it "Real-la-tor". My mom, who was a Realtor would always correct him. lol it's "Real-tor".

"The possibilities are unlimited!"

That's what the room upstairs with black walls and red furniture is for.

Wow. Missed that. Why get wet. It's a convenience.

Complete with Party City plastic table cloths.

edit: there's actually one pic that has those awful white chairs in it. Next to the conference table.

Oh God. I couldn't get past the 24 office chairs. It's like one of those things, the longer you look the worse it gets.

You don't have to, did you see one of the last pictures? It's completely unfinished and you can see the wiring. Romex running everywhere. x. x

I counted 24 office chairs. TWENTY FOUR. Why in the conference hell. lol

Whoa, there must have been a blow out sell on office chairs. Who needs normal chairs when you can have an office chair?!

Also, no central heat and air, window units... In that massively hot tin box.

Also I forgot to mention the floor to wall carpeting.

Man this place has it all! What a steal! lol

edit: I totally missed it, but did anyone clock the gigantic quilt sewing machine in slide 34?

Sounds like that's the way I'll have to go. Unfortunate, I hate increased layers of complexity, but I think that's the move.

Looks delicious.

edit: love the negative prompt "head tattoos" lol

edit2: wait how many legs does that thing have?

Yeah when I worked at BioWare we would do things gradually, then I moved to EA Mobile and staging and testing was like a foreign concept. It was wild. Fortunately that changed, but having a staging instance is really really important, as I'm sure many people now realize. Sometimes lessons are hard. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Ooo a pihole! That's on the list.

For that, you actually will need realistic goals and more competent managers. Lol

When I started working at EA 14 years ago (I got laid off last year) they literally told us we might have to sleep under our desks. I promptly told them if that was the case, I would quit. Instead they made us work 7 days a week 9-9 for months. Fun job.

What you don't want to go to "X"? I can't imagine why. lol /s same though. Also I refuse to call it x. It's fucking Twitter. It's like that line in mean girls, "Gretchen, quit trying to make fetch happen, it's not going to happen!" Lol

Woohoo!! This awesome! As a game dev, I can speak to how awful the industry can be. That's really great news that they unionized. 🙌

It sounds exactly like a Microsoft fix.

Just imagine if it's a build farm with hundreds of machines. Jesus. That's a hell I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy.