I have been known for the occasional psychotic break 🤔

There’s no place like home?

What’s neutral+neutral evil+chaotic good?

So they got better at doing what they set out for!?

Titanic: A Success Story

Did you do this from memory? I want you to have done this from memory. You will be as a god!

I’m gonna echo this poster’s comment. Though I don’t agree with some of what you said (and do recognize that you were just needing a bit of validation/vent), overall, I love SJW and the work you do. We know it’s a thankless task, but just know that you provided a solid landing ground for the Reddit exodus and ppl are thankful for what you do 😊

I appreciated your comment, but chuckled at the idea of Canadians as a peaceful species. We have our fair share of ruthlessness, from indigenous mistreatment 🤫 to shutting down our capital during the pandemic to our behaviour during WWI being a cause for some of the Geneva conventions 😅 we’re generally a peace loving group, but we don’t eff around if pushed haha

For the record I feel the need to point out I do NOT endorse our country’s indigenous mistreatment, it is in fact one of the saddest parts of being Canadian.

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And letting us down - not an option!

This has been exactly my feeling for the past decade or so. I love open world, when you have a good concept and a solid story. But corridor is the best way to convey that story and keep the player engaged.

For me, Assassin’s Creed is the ultimate brilliance to rags example: corridor gameplay that became an open world as you progressed in the early games. Which evolved into the meandering, mindless stories of the more recent games. I genuinely have no idea what Valhalla was supposed to be about lol. I finished it, but it was 120 hours I’d rather have back. A corridor style for the late 2010/20s games would have made all of them far more interesting, as they were phenomenal concepts imo.

All this to say, I don’t mind some impactful world decisions that affect story arcs, but bring back the dang corridor and stop hiding behind massive content dumps… Damn it!

My favorite advice to avoid this: stick to the outside aisles - the grains (though problematic), fruits/veggies, meats, and dairies. Only delve into the aisles for what you know you need/want. Not foolproof, but less temptation than walking every aisle, esp. when hungry

Interestingly, this is a reflection of a natural human phenomen. Evolution taught us to be wary of negative events (being dead is a bad look), and to remember them so they’re less likely to get us. As a result, we bias towards negative information because it keeps us alive.

Positive events don’t convey much more value than our base drives can figure out (e.g., this food good, can be eaten). So they aren’t remembered without effort, and ppl prefer to share info on things that will keep us alive as opposed to things that make life a little more pleasant. It’s a shitty system for modern life, but it worked to get us here lol

I don’t have sources, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that the OGs aged out or got caught, and the new gen that replaced them weren’t as ideologically driven or competent or something. I think they still technically exist but aren’t nearly as influential as they once were

The ultimate incidental origin story

Dude!

Haha yup, can confirm! It’s a commute, I used to ride a bike (half the time), but then the lady moved in and we switched to walking for no real reason. It’s about 3km each way but makes for a nice bookend to the workday :)

Haha there are a great many North Americans that live 10+ minutes minimum by car from the nearest grocery store.

I’m a walker (depressingly rare in North America) and my closest shop is about 6 minutes away. I’m considered insane for being willing to walk 40 mins to work

I also fully support this boundary!

In the wordle world, this is almost a big enough deal to make an x, formerly known as twitter, burner account and post on the NYT page. Just a little jab in the stomach that other ppl will see

Firmly agree. It sounds both a) fun, and b) wildly reliable. The two things I needed back when I was a Lemmy newb

Shitty company tries to justify its existence