Tarquinn2049

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

A large part of growing up with social media is learning how to effectively use your emotions in a way that assists you rather than hindering you. Passion and anger are way too close together, it can be really hard to separate them. Passion is very helpful when motivating yourself to write in a compelling way. Unfortunately, it's something that can best be learned through practice. The good news is the first step is recognizing that it is a problem, so you have started. The bad news is, you won't be good at it for a while still, but keep trying anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Considering it's how his followers already use their Bible, we can assume they have the same level of "reverence" for the constitution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I didn't even get to try to enjoy it, one of the missions pretty early on had a 100% chance to crash at a certain point on my computer and after a year of checking to see if each game patch or video driver update fixed it, I just gave up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Starlink roughly compares to mobile internet. And not particularly favorably on average. It's good if you live in a place where even cell service doesn't reach or is super old. But it doesn't compare to even a cheap/bad wired connection for bandwidth, but especially for latency.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure it happened specifically because no one expected it to happen, so they never even thought to check.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it sucks to be on the side where people will pick apart your words to see if they can intentionally misconstrue anything. So you have to very carefully craft all sentences to reduce the chance that any of them can be misinterpreted. Instead of the side where you can just say whatever you want and if it doesn't play well, you were retroactively actually joking.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And to play two copies of the same game at the same time, any 2 members of the family could own it. So my brother and I can each buy a game, and then my mom and sister could play it while we are at work. My sister can't work, so she has a lot of time to fill but can't afford to buy games. We do have 5 copies of Stardew Valley, though, as that is a game for the whole family.

There was already a bunch of games my brother and I both owned before steam family was an option. But now games I'm only tangentially interested in after he played them or vice versa are much more of an option to quickly play through to see if I like it too. Before, it just wouldn't have been worth buying it to find out. And it's a bonus for the devs too if I do end up liking it, because then I am more likely to buy their next game so I can play it at the same time as my brother.

Gaming is inherently social. Even when we play single-player games, I'm sure most of us have a friend or sibling we talk to about them as we play.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Do they have them when they are little too? Or maybe it worked out that it was less likely predators would yoink their babies because it seemed like they were always watching. Can't sneak up on someone with eyes on the back of their heads, that never close, even while sleeping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Action Role Playing Game

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hehe yeah, we played it once as a family and of course died right away. Almost everyone was done there and accepted that as the end of it... so me and my sister just went and played the rest ourselves.

I get their mentality, choose your own adventure, see where your choices lead and that's the ending you get... makes sense with alot of content like this. But in the case of that specific adventure and the ending they got, it was pretty clear you are supposed to try again, not accept that ending. Ah wells. Consequently they thought it was stupid. And me and my sister loved it.

But this sort of stuff is doomed to fail no matter how good it can be, cuz there is way more of them than there is of us. So it doesn't make enough to justify it's cost. And that is of course the other problem, "money" is the most important thing to too many people right now... good art can't exist when its financial cost needs to be justified.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Careful with alarm fatigue. It's unfortunately something your brain does without your permission. If you ever find setting lots of alarms stops being helpful, that is likely what happened. Basically, since you will end up brushing off a decent portion of those alarms as you are either still on task or don't need to be on task yet "this time", your brain will slowly think of those alarms as less important, no matter how important you want them to still be.

It can help to set as many different alarm sounds as possible. Sometimes, that can make it feel like each alarm is different, and they won't all be lumped into the same category in your subconscious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are just always on-edge and terrified for their life no matter what the situation is. What does their training do to them... there was absolutely no reason to see this as some sort of well-disguised trap intended to kill the police officer, so why did his mind go there?

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