You’ve somehow created a new phobia and solved it in the same paragraph. Good job!

I was having it a bit towards the end of win 10, Linux has it a bit worse but that might have been me running with my CPU graphics enabled, it was really fucking with things.

You know I miss Vista a bit. It wasn’t perfect, but it was pretty decent, was a slightly undercooked version of 7. I’d happily take it’s ux over 11 any day.

I was hyperbolising for the most part. It’s mainly still the hyperfocus that predated the medication, but it’s a lot easier to not be limited by concentration ‘reserves’ if that makes sense.

30mg. I sometimes have worse anxiety when it occurs, but my memory now works and I can engage in tasks for 12 hours in a row.

I would say it depends on your ability to live your life in a way that makes you happy. It’s a kind of nothing answer, but human experience largely boils down to ability to self determine internally and externally.

Yes, and you can make a door by driving a car through a wall. The outcome may be less than optimal though.

How dare you shit talk Pangea like that

Sort of, I’d argue it’s better accomplished. I don’t hate venom, he’s basically the same character. In mgs2 people signed up for more solid snake, which was even blatantly communicated as what you were getting in the demo of the game and all marketing materials. It’s a question of expectation. Even aside from the character, the tanker chapter is leagues in quality above the rest of the game.

It’s not the I hate mgs2, I think it’s actually really neat and interesting, but when you’re doing a rug pull off that nature it’s easy for people to be disappointed.

Cool. We did this in Australia, 75% of kids circumvented it. It’s a waste of time.

Unless you’re doing it for the facial data, which you probably are.

This probably has been said but I want to chip in regardless.

People like this do not usually have a concrete goal, rather they are the ones who are acting in a shitty way just enough so the system rewards it, not enough to punish it. They have a fuzzy compulsion to seek more at any cost, when the current existence becomes slightly mundane they go for the next taboo thrill, the next bribe. They don’t have a stable existence and must consume forever, like a cancer.

Before we had the recent shift towards purposeful retraining of our own behaviours in popular culture, a lot of our parents were just working exclusively with what they were given, it’s how they were trained to behave.

It’s tragic really. My own dad was mildly absent because his dad left when he was maybe 3. My mum beat my sister and I because that’s what her parents did to her.

It doesn’t make it better, it doesn’t excuse it. For my part, it makes me realise how this stuff happens, and why it’s so important to examine your learned behaviours, and try your very hardest not to be those awful things that were forced on you.

Sleep is my favourite function to complain about, it breaks shit at random on windows and Linux, nobody seems to know why or how. The fact that sleep works as well as it does on consoles and steam deck is a miracle to me.

It’s a tricky thing, because shareholder value is entirely vibes based. Microsoft is demonstrably losing market share, approval from users, and functionality of the OS. While it’s understandable to want to chase new trends, long term OS stability and compatibility for the average user was their golden goose, and they’re killing it. We’re seeing people move away from windows, which 5 years ago would have been an impossibility.

It’s slow to act, but the more market share something like Linux gets, the more it tends to snowball in terms of public opinion. That definitely has the possibility of eating a significant chunk of MS revenue.

This and the porn thing have been massively invasive in terms of privacy. It’s so transparently just building a database of facial data. It doesn’t even make an attempt to comprehensively block everything on the internet, or realistically enforce compliance.

God it’s funny when your brain not working right accidentally prevents certain issues. I’m immune to getting addicted to MMOs, my brain can’t handle the slow dopamine distribution.