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the seig family snubbed rn

although it seems like from wants to make patches happen

just keep doin stuff. u talk to some coworkers?

and i disagree that "real adulthood" means not having the kind of friendships that you want. that seems like a cope for people who are justifying letting themselves go. i party (and when i say party that includes just hanging out and doing normal things) with people in their 20s and i party with people in their 60s :)

it's just that people are individuals, and their preferences change- it's irrational to demand everything you need in your life from the same set

I'm fairly confident metal dk is a gimmick/theme/alt account

I like steam's "2 hours of gameplay" refund policy, which essentially amounts to all games having a demo

However, I do recognize it probably screws over some crummy walking simulators

This isn't a perfect compromise, but it's probably the best that consoles are going to get

civilization as we know it could collapse, but humans are going to be around for a long, long time

Xeybozn posted...

He doesn't actually have the cash to buy Twitter. He'll borrow the money to pay for it. Loans don't count as income and thus can't be taxed. And that's how billionaires spend all their money without technically ever earning it.

ultimately he'll have to liquidate something to pay off the loan and get taxed on it eventually, right?

i don't think payment of loans counts as a deductible or anything

red13n posted...

I have plenty of 3, having stuff to do to kill time isn't a problem. But 1 has dwindled and 2 has become almost nonexistent.

yeah, so you're mostly looking for solid individual friendships and are feeling antsy going through your old routines because of it. it's your body's natural way of reminding you to change how you socialize

that's pretty normal- i think we've all been there. i know married couples who feel that way and blame each other for it. in my opinion it's just part of the human condition- just like getting tired, hungry or thirsty

i recommend re-evaluating how you perceive your coworkers and various real-life acquaintances. they might be better friend material than you initially thought. see if you can waste some time with them without real objectives or neediness. do whatever they seem to like, assuming there's any venn diagram overlap whatsoever. i started fostering more friendships when i slowed down and listened more

our brains get tickled by new experiences. i do recommend trying to just waste some time with people and doing some new things outside the house, even if they seem like a waste of time or money

observe what puts you into your patterns. do you find yourself getting bored or anxious hanging out with people, like you want to go home and do something else? what is that thing, and is it actually important? armed with that thought, it makes "wasting" time with people not feel so wasteful

online is all right. i buoyed my psyche in 2021 with a discord group (friends of a friend) and that was only ok. i didn't think i was missing anything, but i didn't start feeling better until i reached out to a real life acquaintance. they liked attending dj performances, and even though i normally preferred listening to music by myself at home i decided to start going with them. it opened up my social life and i mysteriously started feeling better, realizing what other actions could make me feel better, and so on

i've heard our personalities are molded a combination of the top 10 people we spend time with- try and find some that are both kind and interesting

for me, i'm usually stressing out because i'm lacking in one of three categories

1) i want a community
2) i want a regular connection with someone who will understand what i'm thinking/going through via regular contact
3) i want to have more fun

each of those those requires slightly different strategies

if i catch myself feeling generically needy, i try to pin down which of those three i'm most looking for

i appreciate you sharing this

the whole process gets easier if you can figure out exactly what you're looking for in friendship, or what you need in your social life. after that, it's straightforward to pinpoint the actions you can take to start feeling better

it's a more difficult challenge than it sounds, especially if you're stuck in a depressive "i feel bad, i'm not sure exactly why, and just want to feel better ASAP" mood

these are surprisingly good. not too interested in Karrablast or Yanma, but the rest get the thumbs up.

i have a soft spot for paras- it was (and still is?) my sister's favorite

it's too bad that it's soooooo weeeak. i think they were afraid of spore (100% accuracy sleep) being imbalanced

I'm surprised, I thought you normally weren't allowed to bring in statements from other trials

But I guess the lawyers agreed that the 2019 whatever was relevant

Snc is fun!

I'm really hoping we're not about to enter an era of 4 color goodstuff standard

There were some completely forgettable episodes in s2/3

I think we skipped one by accident and didn't realize until much later

It's just hard to pick one in particular

Lol, these are great.

Little finicky gotchas like that don't play well with juries, I think

common example is when victims/witnesses describe the wrong color of pants worn by the defendant

The rivalry is cool because mongoose hunt snakes

Zangoose just looks like a guy in a fur suit

Aecioo posted...

honestly, if you end up on a jury you're probably an idiot

or you're someone like biscuit who is fascinated by this stuff

but probably 99% are idiots who aren't smart enough to get out of jury duty

myself? i was being paid a monthly salary with unlimited PTO and incredibly bored with my job, so i probably qualified under both categories! don't think i'll be doing it again, though. can probably just list this experience to get myself kicked off any jury

they interviewed at least 150 jurors and i was towards the back of the line, so maybe the court was getting desperate

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Oh that is just weird. My understanding is most courts will at least give you the definition of the law in your jury instructions. This is just strange. But every court is very, very different, a lot of times in stupid ways.

yeah, it was odd. it felt like everything was more oriented around granting the appearance of legitimacy rather than actual legitimacy, to what was ultimately an arbitrary decision by a bunch of random unqualified humans in a room.

made me feel like the ultimate purpose of the justice system was simply to dissuade vigilante justice, as well as protect juries, lawyers and judges from revenge violence

redrocket posted...

This is the point where you just default to not guilty and call it a day I guess.

some people for sure had that attitude. others had the exact opposite and felt very strongly about it. we deliberated for a day and a half, and only came to a final decision because 3 people on the minority didn't want to have to come back on monday and ultimately browbeat the final 2

the fact that it was a self defense murder trial made it more interesting, i guess. i do think we ultimately came to a correct decision via the letter of the law in the end

I can understand where the idea originates. I didn't want to use public restrooms when I was in high school

If a classmate heard you pooping loudly or smelled your fart, that could theoretically be what they'd forever taunt you about

As an adult I have a different perspective

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Really? That's very strange! What court was it at?

This was in Brooklyn! Don't remember the specific court, but it was a criminal trial

I was a bit young at the time, so didn't have the forcefulness to get them to cave, which in retrospect they would have

They were being really weird about other stuff, too. They didnt want to give us a printed or written definition of the law under question (metrics for self defense, duty to retreat, etc) to bring into the jury room, so we had to go out and get it repeated. such a waste of time

I could rant. I lost some respect for our justice system through the overall process of experiencing that trial!

i was on a jury once, and they didn't let me take notes at all!

are you at all aware of what children's television was like in the 90s?

their primary competition was scooby doo and power rangers

Yeah I've been kinda annoyed with the controller situation since the PS4

Console only has two charging slots, the controllers don't even come with charging cables, and you gotta find wacky workarounds

It's like they hate couch play, which is the main benefit they're supposed to have over a pc

yeah, i was being melodramatic- it's just weird having an internet connection faster than my disk!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/0/AAUE4-AADJ1W.jpg

KamikazePotato posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVdlBxdqv8s&t=60s

Thank u very much

can you link an example of the sound?

possibly! i might have been exaggerating the specific amounts.

it's not the time, it's just the amount of packing that needs to be done that's impressing me. payday 2 was the first game i noticed doing this

it did- i should have clarified earlier!

this was for the steam version of elden ring, but this has been happening a lot with steam games in general. it'll take a few minutes to download something and half an hour plus to go through and modify every single file

i wonder if it's some kind of security feature to detect cheats or mods

does anyone know why more and more steam games are like this now?

Yeah, that would suck big time.

I was keeping my fingers crossed that they'd settle for bluepoint after they smashed it out of the park with the demon souls remaster

I want starfield to be good, but fear i might have grown past the genre. I tried outer worlds as part of a one month Microsoft subscription and I could not get invested

Ended up voting tes6 for nostalgia reasons. Those games are always so peaceful

Yeah, anything to make life feel a little less like being in jail

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Yeah considering what post Deathly Hollows HP ended up actually being you should probably regret those words.

Please forgive me in advance, but where do I go to learn about post DH HP?

I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope your new medication(s) significantly improve your life experience. It sounds like the doctors still have ideas, which is positive. I know you'll hold in there- it's your style. Do what the doctors say and beyond that do what common sense entails

Don't know if you want to talk about death, or talk about thinking about death, or just talk about how much being sick sucks.

I used to think about death a lot and be extremely unhappy about it. Nowadays, I just try to keep my life as satisfactory as possible while I'm alive

Weirdly, existentialism isn't as frustrating when my body is feeling better. It's kind if crazy how much our bodies' background sensations- even stuff like sleep and hunger- can affect our metaphysical crises. hopefully your specialists can handle the worst of what is being thrown at you right now

My parents had an electric mower at some point after I moved out and it was complete garbage

Didn't cut very effectively and ran out of juice quickly

There probably exist better models and better batteries now, but that was their experience

Crying Suns (PC)

A less cute ftl with more interesting worldbuilding. The story did a good job of keeping me invested

I don't generally have time for roguelikes, especially tactical ones, so I ended up hacking to speed things along. i'm glad i did

not sure i agree with the writer's philosophy or message, but it was still cool

Wyrdeer/Basculegion/Overqwil > Kleavor/Ursaluna > Sneasler/Enamorus

marion

i know people in real life that love this series. my own brain has never been able to wrap itself around it!

why would i want to re-experience working at a fast food place or restaurant and fulfilling orders under time pressure? that's work, not fun!

i'd love to see a developer's explanation of the zip glitch

i wonder if they'll patch it out

Hopscotch was a garbage game, but it being garbage served a worthy purpose in the show

Still voted marbles

Fastbreak posted...

Team America meets Elden Ring

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/u11uei/marika_fck_yeah/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

I tacitly assumed there was some intentional symbolism there!

sekiro has the most challenging gameplay, even if you're using a guide

dark souls 1 gets an honorable mention for keeping the core mechanics so obscure

however- i will say that every sekiro boss fight feels like it has a clear avenue to victory, and you're guaranteed to have the tools. a boss fight in elden ring or a souls game where you have the wrong build, the wrong items, or are just too low level can be more miserable than any sekiro boss because there isn't any visible way to win

i love the mars trilogy. they're all great but i love books 1 & 3 especially. his collection of short stories in the setting is interesting, too

unfortunately, i don't think i can help you. i was thinking "he's describing satisfactory" and then you said "not satisfactory"!

yes i lock it, if i were rushing to take a dump i wouldn't want to be surprised by a peeing guy in what i thought was an available private stall

TomNook posted...

Do people lock the door when it's one if those single room bathrooms that has a toilet in the open, along with 1 urinal, if they are only using the urinal?

I used to think it was obvious, but I've come across it many times where it's not locked.

it depends on the environment

family restaurant? lock that door

music or other drunken venue that might have long bathroom lines? potentially not only unlock, but prop the door open so people know there's someone in there and a toilet is available

your current school will screw you over. don't take option A (but you already knew that)

accept the community college job offer, and do what you can to rush your college into fast-tracking you. if they actually want to hire you, they will. hard rules like "oh, we can't do it that fast" magically evaporate when the people in charge want something

the specifics of how to "play the game"- how you approach your boss to get them to convince the people in charge to get their shit together and hire you within 1 month- is a whole other subject matter

they say it'll take more than a month because it's hard to get the various faculty and administration ducks in a row, but they can do it if they're motivated and you are beloved

i wouldn't put up with the interview process if it felt like they were dragging their feet

I grew up thinking my home state was boring and terrible

It's still those things, but I've come to learn that nearly every other state is worse!

Just give everybody $40k

Giving only college graduates free money is just ???

swordz9 posted...

I feel like too much attention is being given to this dumb situation when theres way bigger stuff like children and babies being blown up happening

that's how i feel, too, but maybe light melodrama is therapeautic for some people