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I’ll echo what some others said about Portal, but here’s a handful of games that I’ve enjoyed for their comedic value:

What the Golf is pretty funny if you like/hate mini golf.

Many of the LEGO games have some good humor: Star Wars is my favorite, but LEGO City Undercover was fantastic, too.

Borderlands 2 has some great comedy, with The Pre-Sequel as a decent runner up.

The Yakuza games are fantastic; I recommend Yakuza Kiwami for a low-cost entry that allows you to dip your toes in and get the feel for it

Untitled Goose Game is funny because you make it funny.

Bob Jovi, either Wanted Dead or Alive or Livin’ on a Prayer.

I like those but I think I prefer Runaway or It’s My Life myself.

“I voted for him three times”

I strongly recommend Dan Maclelan on YouTube, a Biblical scholar who has put hours and hours into research.

The Bible is a bunch of books written by a bunch of authors who all had their own views of the world, and maliciously or not altered or mistranslated the original text. In some cases, this was to make a thing that they themselves didn’t personally like also something that God also didn’t like.

Even if you don’t like that answer, we add a lot into the Bible from other texts that aren’t even closely related. Most of our ideas of hell come from Dante’s Divine Comedy, a satire piece about political figures of his era. We also have Lilith, Adam’s “first wife”; and Lucifer being the snake in the garden of Eden, when there’s nothing correlating the two.

All that to say; the Bible is a book of stories that are likely heavily mythologized, but when you get down to the basics, the New Testament says to love each other and treat each other with respect. Do your best to be the best possible you. And when you look at that interpretation, loving LGBTQ+ people and accepting that sometimes abortions are a necessary evil, the Bible doesn’t seem to be at odds with that.

For the record, “You shall not take the Lord’s name in vain” does not mean saying “Jesus!” When you stub your toe. It means to not tell people to do thing X or thing Y “because God doesn’t like it”. And the reason for no swearing was to differentiate the “learned man” from the “lowly worker.”

I haven’t beat 3, but I have beat 4 and 5. I think 5 took the good parts of 3 and 4 and put them in one game. If you want her to play all of them, I’d suggest start with 3 and move her way up. If you want her to get hooked right away, I’d probably say 5 Royal.

And don’t forget Metaphor in the list!

I think you’re thinking of the graph that shows how, if wages were tied to worker productivity, the minimum wage would be $80, but if we’re just talking inflation, the minimum wage should be ~$15-18

Reading back, my comment sounds snarky, but I was genuinely trying to be helpful.

Like what pemptago was describing, instead of symlinking your directories to /home/username/username, you could simply update that file and achieve the same effect, but in a more “official” way that may prove more robust.

Are you aware of the ‘xdg-user-dirs-update’ command that allows you to edit the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs config file?

This is pretty common for people on the Autistic spectrum. We don't get the guide on how to properly act around people, so we mask by emulating the people we like and want to relate to.

I'm not a doctor or a therapist, but I wouldn't worry too much about the social chameleon thing unless it's actively causing rifts in your friendships. Instead, it sounds like you need to work on your willingness to look for and respect other people's boundaries so as not to appear clingy. I do want to recognize that doing that will be much harder than just speaking it aloud–it's something I'm working on myself–but it sounds like you've already kind of come to that conclusion yourself already.

With the enshittification of streaming platforms, a Kodi or Jellyfin server would be a great starting point. In my case, I have both, and the Kodi machine gets the files from the Jellyfin machine through NFS.

Or Home Assistant to help keep IOT devices that tend to be more IoS. Or a Nextcloud server to try to degoogle at least a little bit.

Maybe a personal Friendica instance for your LAN so your family can get their Facebook addiction without giving their data to Meta?

I mean, you could probably put a short version of your title like "How Polluted Are Our Waterways", but you should have a tighter title that's not a question like "Our Polluted Waterways and the Threat They Pose".