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jaycifer

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  • What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

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  • 2-5 times a year I get really into Enlisted. It’s a really grindy free to play game, it feels like 90% of my teammates fail to work toward the objective, and every other round there’s an enemy player that paid for overpowered equipment wiping us out.

    But man, it is a thrill to charge through whizzing bullets to get into the midst of the other team before firing round after round from a lee enfield bolt action. And if I am playing with friends there is constant strategic and tactical chatter that makes it so engaging.

  • What are you watching and what do you recommend this week?

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  • I watched the first episode of Pluribus last night and I thought it was awesome. It felt like a mystery that was well-telegraphed enough that by the end when all is revealed I already knew everything down to the numbers. I only hope the rest of the show is as good. I highly recommend going in blind.

  • If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save?

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  • It is 3am, and after ~60 hours over the last two weeks I have launched my first rocket and gotten the game complete screen. I smile and slowly blink dry, crusty, tired eyes. Finally, I can rest. I have to be to the airport in four hours.

  • I met a sleepwalking nun.

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  • Yeah, I get that. My confusion steams from the use of “sleepwalking” as opposed to another word choice like “traveling.” In my mind it creates an expectation that being asleep will be a component of the pun-chline that I’m not seeing. This makes the joke feel half-finished to me. Am I missing something, or am I just overthinking it?

  • Governments are like parents who say, "Do as I say, not as I do"

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  • What’s the difference between $10 billion in printed money sitting in the federal reserve for such a fund and printing $10 billion dollars on the spot? Neither is affecting the economy until it leaves the federal reserve.

  • I met a sleepwalking nun.

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  • I get the roamin’/Roman pun for the walking of sleepwalking. But, much like astronomy class, the rest is going right over my head. What else am I missing here? How does Catholic tie into sleeping?

  • Steam Frame (VR with Linux)

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  • On the PC Gamer hands-on I read they got about an hour running intense games standalone. There’s a port to plug an external battery into to extend that, but it seems the focus is on streaming from a desktop, which will use much less resources and extend the battery life quite a bit.

  • What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?

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  • So am I to assume there was more to the story that didn’t click with you than the optional narrative sub-branch that you chose not to engage with?

  • What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?

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  • Out of curiosity, who did you romance, and why?

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Is that EU picture supposed to look more aesthetically appealing than the US one? Because I flip a switch on the US panel and feel super serious, like Kurt Russell about to flip the switch on all power on Earth. I look at the EU picture and think of the electrical outlets behind the teacher’s desk in the 80 year old school building I attended.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • If you go back far enough, there’s a lot of Scandinavian heritage in Minnesota settlers, especially Sweden and Norway. Historically, Scandinavian foods lacked spice because there weren’t a lot of spices that grew there. The settlers brought the palette that comes with that with them.

  • What is the most attractive quality in a person that instantly makes them desirable?

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  • Instantly? It’s a somewhat vague term, but magnanimity, having “loftiness of spirit.” To me, it means that when they enter a room they carry a subtle gravity. Their eyes are focused on what and who is around them, taking in each in turn with a clear understanding of what they see but a respect for what they don’t. A trim smile that welcomes greetings and promises warm words in return. They breathe with the calm ease of someone healthy and comfortable in their own skin, and with each step they appear to not just approach their physical destination, but their own personal fulfillment.

  • What is your least favourite song by your favourite band/artist?

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  • I liked Stacy’s Mom when I first heard it, but after listening to more and Fountains of Wayne over the years, it just makes me angry because it’s the only song of theirs anybody knows! I like that most of their music is about everyday moments and emotions, but the only everyday moment people know is the milf one.

    And then I start thinking about Bowling for Soup’s cover of Stacy’s Mom, which is by far the worst cover I have ever heard, not because it’s bad in its own right, but because there are no creative decisions taken, nothing to make it their own, they just do nothing with it and on Spotify it has an entire half of the number of plays as the original. The first time I heard the cover, I didn’t realize until the singing started and I thought the voice sounded a little different. And there are people who don’t even realize Bowling for Soup’s “version” is a cover!

  • Is anyone just like... very terrified of losing your memories?

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  • You, me, and everyone else are the amalgamations and culminations of our individual life experiences. You don’t have to remember the details for those details to have happened and influenced you at the time.

    I understand your concerns after having my first concussion almost two years ago now and unvaccinated covid three years before that. Both affected my cognitive state and speed of thinking/remembering, and I’ve wondered/worried how much weaker my mind may be than it could have been. But ultimately what I tell myself is that I can’t change those things, they’re just another thing that led me to now. All I can do is the best with what I have and trust that it will be enough.

    But that’s just living with the doom and gloom. I think you may be surprised at what you do remember but can’t recall unprompted. One time I lost the game (I lost the game, sorry) around a friend of a friend who paused for a moment then exclaimed that it had been 15 or 20 years since he last thought about the game. So for all that time one could think he had forgotten, but as soon as something triggered his memory, it was there. Based on that, I advise that you trust that if you have a relevant memory, it will surface at the time it is relevant. Some level of self-reflection is good, but don’t let the reinforcement of old brain connections in memory stand in the way of forming new ones.

  • 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames

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  • I feel like doing research shouldn’t be an issue for people playing Paradox games, where it takes hours of research in the tooltips just to understand the mechanics.

    That said, my research for new Paradox DLC usually consists of hovering over it in the store, ignoring anything with reviews less than mixed, taking interest in those with positive, and reading the first dozen reviews of the mixed ones, and that works well enough.

  • How do y'all feel joy without alcohol or weed?

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  • Honestly pretty relatable. I had a bit of a “you’ll shoot your eye out” moment this summer. I got some flower for the first time in a while (it’s mostly a thc drink culture around me) and was smoking daily. For the next couple weeks the thought kept crossing my mind that maybe I should only smoke every other day to keep my tolerance creep slow and prevent what I call “zombie mode.”

    I got to meet one of my favorite youtubers whose first video I had watched was this one “On Weed:” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pcavwJitC4

    We talked a little and I asked if he still smokes. His answer? “Yeah, but only every other day.” To hear him echo the exact thing I had been considering internally really got me. I’ve been a lot better about keeping a day or more between getting high, and I have found that it has helped me enjoy being sober more as I have found things to do while sober, and also increased my enjoyment of getting high as I have more time to look forward to it and a lower tolerance that makes it easier to get to the right level.

    I highly recommend it.

  • If you are planning your life around putting money into assets tied to the imperial core e.g. housing and retirement how do you feel abt the entire financial system being a giant bubble

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  • Okay, after processing everything over the past few days, I think I understand how to shift my understanding of supply and demand. Previously I had thought of supply as “there is this much stuff to sell.” It would be better to view as “it costs X per unit to produce Y units at market.” So increased productivity can means producing more Y for the same X, or in the case of reducing labor like you said producing the same Y for a lower X. Demand can be thought of as “N units can be sold for Z currency each.”

    Unless you are in a monopoly, Y will always be a fraction of the N units actually sold, so as long as the Z of the total market is higher than your X to produce a profit is made. This is complicated by scenarios where company A sells their product at a different Z than company B, but this model allows for the changes to the supply side that don’t actually affect the total market Y.

    Does that make sense to you?

  • Lemmings who made it out of incel-dom, what advice would you have to your previous self?

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  • Well, I guess I’ll just disagree. It very much reads to me as someone looking back and realizing they got everything they had been trying to get “by mistake” when they stopped trying to get it.

  • The Cycle™

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  • I wouldn’t praise you for praising it, I probably would have said nothing and moved on because neither comment would be very good/productive. I also would have said nothing if you had said nothing. But in my time on the internet I have seen protests against “just do it arguments” many times, often with good reason but also at times as a defeatist reason to not try. Without knowing you personally your original comment looks like the latter, and I do have a problem with comments that propagate negative thinking like that.

    I will admit that I was semi-purposefully scolding at the end of my comment. One part out of my own frustration with that defeatist mindset beyond your personal comment, but also because because if you or someone reading was in that dark place reading something accusatory and a little inflammatory may incite emotions of anger or frustration, which are emotions that tend to lead to more action than emotions of self-pity.

    I read enough of your later comment to determine it was about therapy specifically, which I agree with you on for all the reasons you stated. But I wasn’t discussing therapy, I was discussing emotional regulation, and I think there are enough resources online discussing the self-reflective tools for developing that that therapy is not necessary. I could have said more to that effect in my first response.

    My point here is that, while yes it was not very informative or directly actionable, if someone read the comment you originally responded to having never considered how emotions could play into procrastination, it could have prompted research into what that means or looks like. If they read your comment they may have instead dismissed that entire line of thinking, and that would be a shame. So in my mind their comment was at worst not negative, while yours was at best not positive.