solarvector
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- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 6 days ago:
Some great clinical advice here. As others have mentioned, staying calm is important as part of the process. A few things might help with that:
Focus on the problem and symptoms, not what might be. E.g., not “oh god are they dying???”, but instead their chest hurts when they breathe in, they sound a little out of breath, they do/don’t have a fever. Then work the problem in front of you. Practice bringing your mind back to what is observable.
Part of you, maybe unconsciously, may think that they’ll be safer if you’re worried about them. That if your brain is constantly on alert, gaming out problems, or otherwise figuring out what might happen that your family and friends will be safer. This is anxiety speaking, not love or reason. You do not need to be in a state of worry to love someone, or to take care of them. Working towards an understanding of that can help with your default state and help keep yourself and them more safe on a crisis.
- Comment on Where have you been? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t know how to just share an image, or they’re using a shitty app that limits that ability.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 3 weeks ago:
I just found my solution to bringing water to a concert without using a shitty plastic bottle.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 4 weeks ago:
Alright, that’s fair.
For me I think it’s more that nothing about the official story makes sense. It seems much more likely he was being a shithead and got punched while shopping. What he was shopping for should be largely irrelevant.
It’s similar to other conservative hypocrisies.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 4 weeks ago:
Eh, he victimized millions of people already, lied repeatedly about his story, the cops lied to support him. He isn’t the victim, he’s the asshole.
- Comment on Especially the Ø... 1 month ago:
Shortcut for writing System of a Down lyrics
- Comment on Christ the Redeemer vs. Christ the Knock Off Brand 2 months ago:
This was the context I never knew I needed, thank you.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 months ago:
Funny meme but also inflation is bad
- Comment on Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry. 2 months ago:
I feel like I just need to watch someone use it… and then will still wonder what the point is and why an interior platform has so much more traffic.
- Comment on Protip: 2 months ago:
I’d say dog pee is the least concerning thing on the list.
Also, parasites 😬
- Comment on FROM DOWNTOWNNNNN! 🎃 2 months ago:
You better be built bigger than LeBron if you can shoot a pumpkin from downtown
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 3 months ago:
None of them are geniuses, it’s just really hard to lose at capitalism when you have capital.
- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 3 months ago:
Depending on the company this is exactly the argument I’m favor of lying about a degree: the hiring manager doesn’t care, and HR is checking a box.
Whether or not it’s a “good” idea in terms of efficacy is probably based on too many unknowns. It’s all a crapshoot anyway in terms of the random shit that a resume can be filtered for.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 3 months ago:
Then tell them a holy parable about finding cheese.
- Comment on i broke 3 months ago:
I think the point of therapy is to help you effect changes in your behavior (mental and physical). Sounds like you were able to make some changes that help.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 months ago:
Were the replies on Reddit from AI bots?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 months ago:
Privacy, UI/UX, admin controls, ads, pop ups or notifications, nagging about online services, AI, forced account creation, not working with older hardware.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 months ago:
Might be worth testing Linux with a separate drive. I know people still have trouble with Nvidia, but there are a lot of people (myself included) that just had to install the drivers and have had zero issues thereafter. Mine is a slightly older gaming laptop.
I have a desktop with an AMD card that I tried to put Linux on and couldn’t get the drivers to work. I’m going to try again in the summer and hope they’ve caught up.
- Comment on Short attention span 5 months ago:
In similar vein to what others have posted:
I think you’re describing a combination of stress and preoccupation. I suggest looking into mindfulness as a way to start helping with both.
If it’s more than that and you have healthcare, both a Dr visit and psychiatry visit to discuss with a professional could be helpful.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 5 months ago:
Whoa there. This was a hard one not to down vote, well done.
- Comment on This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them 6 months ago:
- not what the courts will do
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 6 months ago:
My favorite apple auto correct: changing the word before the one you just finished. You mentally verify that it’s correct, type the next word, auto correct fucks up the next word and then retroactively fucks up the word you already moved on from. Absolutely brilliant interface.
- Comment on Anon fixes Super Mario Bros 7 months ago:
My favorite part of playing tennis is the commute back to the court after every time my opponent scores. I really get to savor and look forward to the next time I’ll get to swing my racket. It also makes victory that much more meaningful knowing that not only am I an expert at swinging the racket, reading my opponents moves, and responding, I’ve also memorized every crack, crevice, and nuance of conversation along the route to the court. That meaningless repetition of unrelated action is what makes games fun!
- Comment on Steam REAL TIME STRATEGY FEST is here!!!! 7 months ago:
Nope, sorry, didn’t think about that for an RTS. Is definitely designed for keyboard and mouse.
- Comment on Steam REAL TIME STRATEGY FEST is here!!!! 7 months ago:
I think any fan of the genre should check out
store.steampowered.com/app/334920/ZeroK/
Active development, amazing and customizable controls (seriously, is you’ve ever been frustrated fighting controls in an RTS, they’ve thought of solutions), and an extensive campaign that serves as a unit tutorial (not the most engaging story is my only regret).
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 8 months ago:
They have quite a few posts that are primarily about design philosophy. It’s clear they put a lot of time and effort into it. One of my favorites that has driven a lot of innovation in you can interact with the game is
zero-k.info/…/3_-_Fight_your_opponent,_not_the_UI
One that I find myself coming to a sort of grudging agreement with is (veterancy for units isn’t good):
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 8 months ago:
Thank you, zero k interface is amazing, and their “cold takes” show a design philosophy I constantly find myself wishing I’d find pretty much everywhere else.
- Comment on He makes his plans for revenge 8 months ago:
Just requires one more comma after “destroy”
Although I guess while I’m being pedantic they should be ellipses.
- Comment on He makes his plans for revenge 8 months ago:
With the extra commas he’s destroying their balls with his balls, just like they already destroyed their balls with his balls.
- Comment on flouride 9 months ago:
Yikes 😬