Notices by atomicpoet (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org), page 7

Just spoke with this male model who is absolutely shredded.

I asked him how much he lifts. His max is 120lbs while bench pressing.

Meanwhile, I’m lifting 2x his max weight and I still have a gut.

So Yooka-Laylee is getting a re-master.

As always, “gamers” are complaining, saying it doesn’t “deserve” a re-master.

Well, I like Yooka-Laylee. I actually like it more than Banjoa-Kazooie. Shocking, I know.

And I’m happy to see whatever enhancements the devs deliver.

What I specifically want to see is a video game adaptation of the film Nosferatu.

A.I. could probably assist with making such an adaptation period accurate.

To be honest with you all, I stopped thinking about the Fediverse as a community and more as a space for me to run my servers.

People who talk to me regularly and engage with me as a human? You’re all right.

People who just show up randomly in my threads, wag their fingers, and tell me I’m doing things wrong? I can’t stand them.

Should I?

I’m so tired of people trying to talk me into piracy that I’m just going to block people who do that.

You do whatever you want but leave me out of it.

Some day I’m going to grow wings and take flight.

What’s just as annoying as the “I only buy physical games I own it and it’s real” folks are the “I pirate all my games for moral reasons and if you pay for them, you’re a fool.”

Well, I’m not just buying games for the games. I’m buying legal protection.

I don’t have time to waste in courts.

Today, 52 games were released on Steam. These are the ones I found interesting:

City Legends: The Witness in the Rye Collector’s Edition

• a hidden object adventure game with a creepy autumn theme
• demo download availalable
• price: C$17.99

Fireside

• a 2D adventure game with survival and crafting elements, featuring hand-drawn graphics
• gamepad supported
• demo download availalable
• price: C$19.49, but currently has a -10% discount selling at C$17.54

BossCrafter

• a 2D crafting game wherre you build a video game boss, featuring pixel art graphics
• gamepad supported
• price: C$2.59, but currently has a -10% discount selling at C$2.33

Don’t Forget

• a 3D psychological horror, with exploration elements, about a dementia patient trying to recall their memories
• Mac and Linux ports available
• price: FREE

Starstream

• a 3D third person shooter where you play a young girl trying to reclaim her castle
• gamepad supported
• price: FREE

Hamstörm

• a turn-based puzzle game where you play a dwarf hamster who must warn his people of an imminent invastion
• price: FREE

Field of Glory: Kingdoms

• a turn-based tactical game set in 1054, just after the Great Schism, encompassing two centuries of European, African, and Middle Eastern history
• online and LAN PvP
• price: C$51.99

Hotel Business Simulator

• a hotel simulator, with RPG elements, where you upgrade rooms, cater to guests, set rates, and maintain spotless standards
• price: C$16.99, but currently has a -25% discount selling at C$12.74

Aidan in Danger

• a 2D platformer in which you play the guarian of the last dragon, featurring pixel art graphics
• gamepad supported
• price: C$6.49, but currently has a -15% discount selling at C$5.51

Mr. Mueller’s Grand Experiment

• an interactive novel about George Mueller, a man who ran an orphanage in 1930s England
• Mac and Linux ports available
• price: C$16.99, but currently has a -15% discount selling at C$14.44

Rolling Hills: Make Sushi, Make Friends

• a cooking simulator where you play rrobot chef running a sushi restaurant
• gamepad supported
• playable on Steam Deck
• price: $18.99

Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game

• a survival horror, based on the 80s cult classic movie, where you plan an alient invasion and harvest humans
• gamepad supported
• online PvP and co-op
• lots of DLC available
• price: C$51.99

Spice Trade

• a 2D point-and-click adventure game about a young Arab man who enters the spice trade to thwart the European monopoly
• price: FREE!

Splodey

• a 2D platformer without a jump button where you use a potion to propel yourself
• gamepad supported
• price: C$16.99, but currently has a -25% discount selling at C$12.74

Let me emphasize this: if an old Windows game doesn’t work well on modern Windows, try Linux with Proton instead.

It is much quicker and easier to just use Linux than try to deal with legacy driver issues with Windows.

10 years ago, I bought this FiiO X1 because someone busted into my car and stole my iPod Classic.

That iPod Classic had a lot of sentimental value to me. For an anniversary gift, my wife etched our names into it. I would have had it replaced with another iPod but the iPod Classic got discontinued.

Therefore I got this FiiO X1 because it looked like an iPod Classic but also could output lossless audio. Plus, I liked the silver look.

I still have my old memory card on there with my old playlists. It’s a snapshot of my life back then.

I guess Facebook has become MySpace but with AI.

https://youtu.be/IXDjbqiThuk

I say this as a Jew: I hope Netanyahu gets prosecuted for war crimes.

My kid is watching Jurassic Park: The Lost World on VHS with a CRT.

She saw the original Jurassic Park and loved it, so she is pumped to see the sequel.

There’s a commercial real estate crisis happening right now. And it’s affecting the bond market big time.

$700 billion of non-agency CMBS is outstanding and another $3 trillion of commercial mortgages on bank balance sheets. Even AAA-rated bonds are affected.

The last time we saw a real estate crisis like this was during 2008. Most analysts say this won’t be as big as the Great Recession, but I don’t know. Interest rates being what they are, and so many office buildings being empty, it’s only a matter of time that the domino effect gets in full swing.

Where the bond market goes, the stock market tends to follow.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/losses-pile-top-rated-bonds-110000825.html

Nearly 20% of office buildings are vacant.

Which means many of those buildings are not collecting on rent. No rent means mortgages aren’t being paid. And mortgages not being paid means real estate companies are defaulting on their loans.

When AAA-rated bonds are affected—and they are—it’s trouble.

https://www.benzinga.com/real-estate/24/05/38989690/commercial-real-estate-tells-a-tale-of-resilience-and-adaptation-as-it-thrives-despite-challenges

BBC is being more optimistic than I am about the commercial real estate crisis. The question is: how many commercial real estate companies are going to declare bankruptcy? How many banks will have to eat those losses?

Will the financial system be able to deal with the fallout?

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240509-corporate-real-estate-on-cliff-edge-to-rethink-communal-spaces

Next year’s forecast is that defaults of commercial real estate is going to double next year to 4.9%.

Smaller banks that are heavily tied to CMBS are likely to fail. There could be contagion.

Remember, we have the highest interest rates since the early 2000s—the highest in a generation.

https://www.investmentexecutive.com/news/research-and-markets/commercial-real-estate-a-growing-risk-fitch/

Certain people are speculating that “return to office” policies are an attempt to stave off the commercial real estate crisis. However, the horse has already bolted from the barn.

20% of all office real estate is already vacant.

The Federal Reserve has signalled there will be no interest rate cuts this year.

Defaults are already rising.

What is already done cannot be undone.

@goatsarah @upmultimedia @imabuddha For this reason, I use gold CD-Rs and DVD-Rs for all my burning. It’s more expensive but hasn’t let me down.

Funny enough, I use these for burning games that I bought on GOG.com.