Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro

Go read The Freeze Frame Revolution!

Don’t tell them about baby powder!

“Nationalists of all nations: unite!”

The A12 protest is very willing to coordinate emergency routes, in any case they allow for emergency service passage (this regularly happens), and their location is easily routed around. Overall their impact is less than run of the mill roadworks and not comparable in the slightest to a major event.

I hope they don’t organise marathons or street fairs where you’re at, or worse, resurface a road.

It was surreal to read about talk of extremism, social disruption and the calls for corporal punishment (by police), long jail sentences and more, all for a 5-10 minute delay caused by the A12 blockade, when the day after I was helping out at the Egmond Half Marathon there was real disruption, where people really couldn’t go places with their cars… not to mention events like the Dam tot Damloop or Amsterdam Marathon that effectively put parts of our capital city on lockdown. No calls for water cannons there.

People might say “Those are not the same!” and that’s true - sport events are not a constitutional right.

It’s the year of Luigi!

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe and I’m loving it. People might have been tired of the presentation but Nintendo fans ought tot look beyond that - it has great level design, difficulty, secrets and a super tough challenge mode that’ll keep me busy for a while.

Super Mario Odyssey, wrapping up the moons 4 years after finishing. Not sure if that’s for me, but giving it a chance.

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Took on a bit too much recently and this week it peaks with an event/lecture I helped organise, wrapping up a fundraising drive for an NGO, and then there’s piano lesson, German class and sports.

Like I said it’s too much so it’s time to take a break from volunteer work for a bit and I’ve cancelled my piano classes - playing is fun but having to practice consistently is not.

Yes… although I think it still stores the play time, just not show it.

I regularly play the 3DS still and it’s much better there! Play time of every game I ever played, average session time, etc.

I think it shows “first played …” for the first 10 days (iirc) as a privacy measure. Haven’t found a way around it. After 10 days it shows the number of hours played.

Caught a virus or something. Working from home so not a big deal but uncomfortable.

Hopefully the workday won’t be like yesterday, a flurry of “fix it now” situations pre-empting each other 😣

It’s silly and sad that Diablo even requires a Battle.net connection 😞

You’re probably aware but just in case, Not Just Bikes has a Lemmy community! /c/notjustbikes@lemmy.ml - not quite lively though.

New York Pizza’s vegan shoarma pizza, absolutely love that one! It doesn’t help that there’s a location a 5 min walk from my home. (I’m in the Netherlands btw, don’t know if they carry that one elsewhere.)

It doesn’t for me (from lemmy.sdf.org). Odd thing going on here.

In general with Lemmy I don’t understand why links to communities can’t open in your local webapp. The little dance of navigating through search seems like it shouldn’t be necessary technically.

Big no from me. I almost exclusively play single player games and tend go back to old games a lot. The always-online requirement is not just annoying in the now but a big problem for the longevity of games.

In the case of Diablo IV I’m also not sure if it was really meant to serve my interests rather than Blizzard’s. The MMO-lite aspects feel like the excuse rather than the reason.