Saints Row 2-3-4 are great for this. 2 is the GOAT, but 3 and 4 are arguably better at providing the “screwing around” experience.

Sleeping Dogs is underrated and regularly goes on sale for like $5. There is not as much sandbox-ey stuff to do compared to GTA/Just Cause/Saints Row, but I loved jacking a nice car and cruising the freeway at night, or going on a murder spree and playing survival against waves of cops.

Elder Scrolls isn’t necessarily as wacky of an experience out of the box, but between mods and the sheer amount of freedom you have in the game, there is plenty of dumb random stuff you can get up to.

If you have Elden Ring on PS4/5 and know your way around the game, invasions have a ton of potential for shenanigans. Probably not what you’re after, and I imagine multiplayer activity is down since Nightreign came out, but it’s worth mentioning as such a unique experience.

Honourable indie mention: Mars First Logistics is a game where you build vehicles and use them to transport objects from point A to point B. The challenges are largely physics-based, with the objects often having unusual shapes or odd properties, and your vehicle needs to be able to self-load them in addition to bearing them across varying distances and terrains. It’s not really what you’re asking for, but I feel like it scratched the same sort of itch for me in terms of open-ended low-stakes gameplay.

I have both a Miele canister similar to your pic and a cordless Shark Rocket. The Rocket:

• is easier to move around the house
• has a reusable dust collector that is easy to empty
• has reusable filters that just need to be cleaned once a month or so
• doesn’t get jammed by hair
• was somewhere around 1/3 to 1/2 the price of the Miele

Whereas the bulkier and more expensive Miele unit has disposable bags and filters, and the brush head (that I had to buy separately for close to the price of the whole ass Shark vacuum) is constantly jammed and needs to be completely disassembled to clear it.

I have no C# experience and both styles look fine to me. /shrug

The place I am storing the crimper is the place where I thought I had stored the connectors. 💔

Luckily, the cables are already run throughout the house. They are cat5e but currently terminated with RJ11, which isn’t terribly useful to me these days.

I’ll be installing ports at one end. The connectors are going in the (unfinished) basement where I intend to move the modem/router/server PC. :)

Oh no

Valve has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time right now

I’ve seen some devices call it “night mode” as well

WTAF. I was sceptical, but I’ve been using this all week and haven’t once had the issue in the OP. Whereas previously I had to log in 2-3 times back to back every morning.

Any idea why this works?

You might be in trouble, though. Luckily for you, I’m selling an app that protects you from scams!

So how’s your brain coming along?

How do I make this my career path

men don’t universally conform to a stereotype

therefore they must all confirm to a different stereotype

also women bad

This looks pretty slick. I need to find a way to have it slide down from the top of the screen guake-style

So it’s all your fault!

Trainpotting

Write about a character in a new, strange situation!

ShindoL:

What a great tune to start my day to. Thanks for sharing!

I would word it as: I should not have to allow strangers to execute arbitrary code on my PC just so I can view some text and/or images.