Millennial here, I've noticed a lot of Stephanies, Sams, Alexes, Chloes, and Michelles. Matthew seemed like a particularly popular one - at one point we had 3 Matthews in the same class (about 25 students), and I had 2 Matthews in my immediate friend group in college.

Edit: Rachel/Rachael was another common one, had a couple of those in my friend group at one point too

When I was in high school and college, I enjoyed games that had a slower burn, like MMOs and JRPGs. I didn't mind grinding as long as I had friends to talk to or something interesting on in the background. I also didn't have much money to spend on games, so I was mostly F2P or using roms and emulators.

Now, I'm working full time and have a lot more responsibilities in my home life. These days I prefer games that I can jump right into and get a lot of fun/excitement out of with minimal setup or grinding, big bonus points if I can just pause or stop the game at the drop of a hat when my family needs me. I'm budgeting in an allowance for games now too, so I have access to a much wider range of games than I used to.

I don't think it's a rip-off either, but the Dune franchise does actually involve some princesses and robots

I also use Calmer! I have both Calmer and the more intense Calmer Nights, and they are both absolutely fantastic. I can still hear what I need to hear, they just.... take the edge off. I love how discreet they are too.

None. We had Netflix for 8 years, but we cancelled it a couple of months ago.

Edit: scrolling through the comments made me remember that music is also a streaming service, so one - Spotify

I recently moved from mastodon to firefish because of the "better" features, but I've been pretty disappointed so far. I don't know how much of this is just the instance I'm on, but its actually missing some of the features I like the most about mastodon.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't seem to mute/block instances, just users. I also can't keep personal notes on a user's profile (I loved this feature on my mastodon instance, I think every platform should have it). It's nice being able to mute users for specific lengths of time, but less nice that I can't choose to mute them on my timeline without muting them in my notifications. I also seem to have less control over my filters - on mastodon I could make a filter, provide a list of key words and hastags for it, and then have separate settings on which parts they applied to - whether it should also filter out replies to posts, or hide people's profiles that mention them. iirc the only option I have on firefish is to make the filtered posts disappear completely or hide them behind a warning. These are the ones that affect me the most but I've also seen people mention that they can't follow hashtags. I never did this but it seems like the people that did really appreciated it, so a bit of a bummer there too.

I don't really want to migrate again, but if I did I would move back to mastodon rather than another firefish instance. It doesn't "have better features", they're just a different set of features. If those are valuable to you, then great! Unfortunately I don't care anywhere near as much about the features firefish added compared to the ones I lost.

The noise really bothered me on our old model, but it broke recently and we replaced it with a different brand. I cannot believe how quiet the new one is. I think it's less powerful but it's worth it just for the noise. It's not just the suction that's quieter either, it also runs into walls/obstacles much less aggressively.

Might be something to look into when/if you decide to replace yours! There's probably a model out there that won't bug your wife as much.

We exclusively run ours when someone is home. It often gets stuck in certain areas and near specific furniture. We try to prevent it as much as we can but we just don't trust it enough to let it run without a little supervision.

That last panel is absolutely killing me, help

looks like !gamedeals@lemmy.world is starting up!

I think they're called communities here but I LOVE your "lemmings" idea!

Oh man I LOVE sbubby, I'm crossing all my fingers and toes that we get an equivalent here!

I think I saw a headphones community when I was browsing earlier. I'll have another look for it when I'm back at my pc

edit: !headphones@lemmy.film - looks like it's just started up, maybe you can help it along?