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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while, meta progression felt like a clever way to keep games fresh. You’d unlock new gear, perks, or passive bonuses between runs, and that sense of forward motion made failure feel productive.

  Sounds like regular progression?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simple⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In which country are you making the comparison?

  Because that matters to chocolate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon looks back⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the things that stops people making changes and choices of their own accord is fear.

  Fear of the unknown, the uncertainty. Anon had a choice to make, they made it.

  If they’d made a different choice, their life would have been different. Maybe better maybe not, certainly different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The man who drove his car into 100 people should be able to drive again, Judge rules.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like we’ve buried the lead.

  Would denying him a license stop him using a car to murder?

  I’m sure he wouldn’t want to break the traffic laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost a quarter of UK GPs are seeing obese children aged four and under⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we take collective responsibility for our society without taking any collective blame?

  Need to split it out. Take out the blame and punishment, and see it from a grown up point of view.

  Coz I hear you, I’m not taking the blame for stuff I had no control over. That makes no sense. I owe nobody anything for that stuff.

  I am over okay with taxes, or other measures, which address society’s needs even if they aversely affect me. Ws we have a shared responsibility to make society a better place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to study nature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *We sit together.

  The mountain and I

  Until only the mountain remains.*

  Li Po.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POSTAL: Classic and Uncut is free on gog.com⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What other game lets you…

  Stun Gun till they wet themselves.

  Pour petrol on them while they’re down

  Flick a match on them when they get up

  Piss on the corpse when they fall down

  Wonder if there’s something my subconscious is telling me?

  😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RSPB 'shuts down' X account in 'foreseeable future' update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many fake tits on there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for me.

  I get paid for 8 hours per week, at a rate thats roughly equivalent to the national average wage, to be available for eight hours on three different days.

  I almost never actually do eight hours of actual work, so I feel like I’m okay with this deal. I turn off the phone evenings and weekends, I’m not the only one who can help with stuff most of the time.

  I do get that a lot of stuff about being on call is abusive and exploitive, but most of the world is not the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially when you’re “on call”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe dude works from home.

  I gotta check my phone pretty Sharp during working times, even if I’m not working, in case I’m needed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DLC is sometimes Downright Ludicrous Commercialism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my infrastructure can achieve this. 😏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DLC is sometimes Downright Ludicrous Commercialism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Might check that out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DLC is sometimes Downright Ludicrous Commercialism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely agree.

  Something like Surviving Mars released a decent complete game.

  New DLC added more features than Genuinly felt like additions, not fixes for an incomplete game.

• DLC is sometimes Downright Ludicrous Commercialism
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone should make an Amazon for used gear, with the same fast shipping and return policy. BC you are right and the new stuff is often such low quality.

  That’s eBay, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m asking myself whether the humans in Australia became extra dangerous in order to acclimate 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most enjoyment for me since Voyager.

  Best of the new stuff but I feel mean to lower decks for saying that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was confused by your metaphor so was genuinely trying to clarify!

  I couldn’t work out if you thought they’re wasting resources on Linux or should be investing in Linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally?

  I doubt the government, military or intelligence agencies are going to be asking for my input.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you clarify, are they focused on Linux or ignoring it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not read the comics but I imagine hr has, a few times?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know its hard to digest.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Meteors and meteorites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Barbarian’ Joining the Criterion Collection After Three Years Without Physical Media Release — World of Reel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How ironic that the only way to own is to not pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Days after Christmas are confusing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, cheese on the noodles?

  I like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can either read all the news and talk about all the things that should be happening.

  Or read just enough to get on with doing something useful in the world and avoid getting yourself stuck or depleted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SIMPLE CHALLANGE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SIMPLE CHALLANGE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Toast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Messiah!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And on the fourth day he rocked a Samurai concert

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love what you do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, isn’t that the question of the ages.

  Each generation wants to know why the next is getting it so wrong!

  Its mostly good news on that front, from a psychology point of view. Perhaps the best lens is to use developmental models to answer your question, though I will say the assumptions in your question are only partially true. Your own experience might be giving you the impression it’s “most”

  If we consider developmental needs, child take a long journey from being totally dependant at birth to being totally independent, usually by their early twenties on average.

  Individual stories vary but one part of that process of individualization is pushing back and creating friction between the existing power structures and themselves.

  It’s why teenagers are so famously, and seemingly, unnecessarily hostile especially to parents and authority.

  Its a short answer to a complex question, does that give you something to go on?

  Its a part of growing up, happens in every generation, even if it looks a bit different each time