Every now and then I’m minding my own business and I remember the strangest drink I’ve ever served someone. They wanted a caramel apple spice… with two shots of espresso. That’s steamed apple juice. With cinnamon dolce syrup. Whipped cream. And espresso. And she acted like it was perfectly normal. I wonder how she’s doing, is she okay? Did her spaceship ever come pick her up??
i was about to joke about how my political stance is “end lawnmower culture” but then it occurred to me that i actually Am against lawns as suburban status symbols and wastes of land that Could be used to sustain native flora & fauna and grow food for people, but no, instead they are these huge useless swaths of land that need Constant maintenance, the process of which is not only destructive, but Incredibly Loud
You know that actually is the purpose of a lawn? They started as a trend of the French monarchy - the ones revolutionaries beheaded for being self indulgent assholes.
It exists purely as a status symbol that says, “I have land but I don’t have to use it for anything productive. I can invest time, money and resources in maintaining an entirely useless crop on land I’m not farming just because it looks pretty.”
Lawns offend me.
Why have that stunted golf course in front of your suburban house if you can’t even water it? Get one of these instead.
Unite Against the Lawn
Pro tiny house, anti grass lawn. Prioritize practicality.
This is actually really interesting because back in the 1950s and 60s in Australia when we started getting large waves of Southern European migrants one thing the Italians and others would often so is buy a little suburban home, then tear out the ornamental flower beds and lawn and useless trees and plant fruits, vegetables, grapes and even olives. It was considered completely scandalous by their Anglo-Saxon neighbours because lawn was considered an aspirational thing and the ideal was to go from not needing a kitchen garden and having an ornamental garden to show how well you were doing.
It’s looped around, somewhat. Having fruit trees, practical plants or at least some form of decent plant life on your lawn is pretty popular.
Australia certainly has the land to spare for it. It’s why Melbourne is covered in trees and such even in the heart of the city - practical use of the land.
My maternal grandparents are Italian immigrants and they have a huge fucking garden at their house. There’s a ton of vegetables (my brother used to pull onions right out of the ground and eat them) as well as grapes, and peaches that they can themselves. There used to be raspberries. With the tomatoes, they make a FUCKTON of sauce. Their basement is full of it. We don’t buy sauce because my grandparents supply it.
I’ve also seen people trying to ban Tiny Houses and going off the grid in any way… Pretty sad when the government is forcing people to be dependent on them.
Spend a weekend setting up an auto-drip system and you cut your work down to almost nothing. Then when you come home from work, you can enjoy your spoils. If you have too much, you can barter, donate to the food bank or gift your food to friends. Fruit trees, grapes, zucchini, tomatoes, ducks and chickens are my best food suppliers so far. I’m seriously considering adding bees next.
While these are really rad and I’m all for them, I also like having a lawn so my massive retriever can run around off-leash pretty freely. There aren’t any public parks in walking distance from my house, so if we were to convert our yard to something like this it wouldn’t go well for him.
Can someone help me with Nuka World a bit? I’m wondering how far I can go with Raider quests before pissing Preston and Minutemen off. I don’t want to go full Raider, but I don’t want to just kill all the Raiders and lose all story content the DLC has.
I just tried this today, as soon as you put a raider flag on a settlement to claim it, you lose Preston as a companion. He won’t talk, trade, etc, he basically just becomes an amgry settler.
You can start a raid, kill the settlers, but as soon as you put the flag down, it’s all over. You’ll get these raider outpost quests after talking to Gage after clearing out Nuka World. So there’s still a lot you can do, but some radiant raider quests will have you collar random folks in places like Goodneighbor, and if you do that it turns the whole city against you. I got my first few collaring quests to collar super mutants though, and lots of generic raider and Gunner killing. Hope this helps!
After months of discussion with Sony, we regret to say that while we have long been ready to offer mod support on PlayStation 4, Sony has informed us they will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want for either Fallout 4 or Skyrim Special Edition.
Like you, we are disappointed by Sony’s decision given the considerable time and effort we have put into this project, and the amount of time our fans have waited for mod support to arrive. We consider this an important initiative and we hope to find other ways user mods can be available for our PlayStation audience. However, until Sony will allow us to offer proper mod support for PS4, that content for Fallout 4 and Skyrim on PlayStation 4 will not be available.
We will provide an update if and when this situation changes.
This is especially sad because of all the discussion about less DLC to focus on mod support. This is also going to hurt PS4 sales of Skyrim Remastered.
Makes me wonder what Sony wasn’t budging on.
