Pray to Saint Luigi for help

The laws exist because people wrote them. They can change. But some people would rather die than live in a more equitable world.

guild wars 2 is the only MMO I’ve ever considered worth playing

• feels like a real video game. You can dodge and move out of the way of attacks.
• you don’t have to make formal groups for most of the content. You walk outside, see zombies attacking and you go fight. You get credit. So does anyone else there.
• the story is pretty okay and you can play it yourself
• there’s no real gear grind. You swap gear out during the initial level up process, but once you hit the cap you’re done. There’s cheap good-enough gear (and dirt cheap mediocre gear), and slightly expensive next tier, and “fancy free reskin and stat swap super expensive”, and that’s it. My characters have had the same gear for years and it’s fine. Sometimes they release new combinations of stats, but it’s never just a power bump
• the mounts are fun
• the big “convergence” events are fun. ~50 random players shuffle into an instance and fight monsters together. You don’t really need to talk, but it’s fun to win (or lose sometimes) as a group
• all 9 classes play differently, and their subclasses are also pretty distinct
• there’s good free QoL. Deposit materials anywhere. Teleport to merchants/banks for free and back (if you weren’t in an instance). Only cost is waiting for the loading screens.
• no subscription fee. Buy once and you’re good. Base game is free, but the expansions add a lot

Well let me share with you the wisdom of age: often you can just ask someone what’s up.

This also works on dates: you can just ask someone out. You don’t have to go all in your head about it. If only someone had told me when I was a teen, alas.

How old are you?

Have you considered asking what’s up?

Things that aren’t Nazis might be a good stopping point

I (a guy) think I still have a small plastic off-brand Lego in my desk. I spent a weekend with my high school crush and we found a bunch of them and had goofy fun with them.

Last I heard she’d moved away, married a woman, and had a successful career in science. I doubt she thinks of me, but I’m glad she did well.

I don’t accept the premise that it’s “humiliating” for a partner to leave.

I don’t accept the premise that them leaving is predicated on sexual performance.

I don’t accept that f+f sex is inferior to m+f

I’m not even going to go on. Your world view is rigid and not healthy. Maybe spend some time with other people, if they’ll have you. Get out of whatever manosphere hole you’ve fallen into.

It comes up in software development sometimes, which is my day to day. It also is useful for any “fast but inaccurate approach” scenario, which comes up sometimes.

I wouldn’t say I’m proud of using it. It was already in my lexicon. (So was “lexicon”)

Here’s an article about them https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-heuristic-2795235

Why do you ask?

What about a dead billionaire?

If someone shot musk or zuckerberg dead I’d be like “That’s good. That’s an improvement.”

Do people still think the courts matter? I feel like the supreme court is a farce and the lesser courts have a lot of far-right judges ready to rule from their feelings.

I guess it’s important to still try, but I think real solutions lie elsewhere.

Fucking Hell NY Times can you please just not be a myopic piece of shit and actually call a nazi a nazi. All of this enabling hang-wringing pearl-clutching nonsense is part of how we got in this problem.

The other day I had a galaxy brain thought: Imagine if people cared. Just cared a little more. Things could be so much better.

Like, litter. Imagine if people just cared a little more and didn’t litter. Whole problem just goes away.

If people cared a little more and just canceled their netflix when the price went up (or they did other nonsense), maybe things would change.

But I’m told I have impossible standards and people cannot meet my expectations.

Did anyone want this? MMOs are kind of passé. There’s a couple big ones still kicking around (WoW, Guild Wars 2, final fantasy) but there’s a huge graveyard and hospice for all the others.

We could do a lot for climate change, world hunger, homelessness, disease prevention and eradication, and so on with that much money.

All of these people are doing mass murder via opportunity cost, and I hope they pay for it.

If americans were on average smarter and better informed, then we wouldn’t be in this situation. I don’t think the majority of people will understand what’s happening. They’ll blame the jewish space lasers or gay frogs or whatever instead.

I’ve been buying stuff from Bandcamp. They sold recently so their future is uncertain, but as it stands right now it seems like a pretty good deal. Artists get a good cut, and you get streaming + drm free copies of the music to download.

I don’t really like subscriptions for music. It’s like renting. I’d rather pay $10/mo buying an album and have a big library after ten years than have nothing.

Emotions aren’t good (or bad). They’re often like a heuristic. Fast but inaccurate. This is great when it’s like “a bear wandered into the house” and emotions say “RUN” and cold logic would be like “what? Why? How?” until you get mauled. It’s not good when it’s like “climate change makes me feel bad so I don’t believe in it”

It’s fine. Could be better. Could be a lot worse.

I mean if you want to keep running bleed against a boss immune to bleed go ahead, but I’ll probably switch to an occult infusion.

And yet when someone’s like “the GOP is an existential threat and we should treat them accordingly” it’s all “you’re being alarmist” and “murder is a crime”

I hope every member of the GOP chokes to death alone and removed from everything they ever loved.