Yeah. It's FOMO for me. I want to be part of the conversation sometimes and these games just stop being active.
Playing Skyrim, Final Fantasy X-2 and Theatrhythm on Switch.
Reading Slewfoot, about a woman in the 1600s being tormented by puritans and possibly a nature spirit or demon.
I've been sober off edibles for a week now and did some novel reading. I've been trying to comfort and entertain myself without spending money, and I went a whole week without making a purchase.
I got paid today though, so I'm going to try to make it stick. Reading the books and playing the games I already have and facing my issues instead of trying to cope with stress in unhealthy ways.
That's a cool strategy! I never considered microexercises.
I hope you feel better soon, comrade!
Please tell me this was made ironically.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It feels like ads these days are crossing a lot of boundaries that they didn't just a few years ago. It's manufacturing consent but more aggressive. Normalizing the violence.
He just put the couch in the microwave for a little bit to reach human body temperature. It would be weirder if he didn't.
Who could have known the cop would be a bastard?
I think you misunderstand - Education is good, but it is not an equalizer when it is just the default requirement in a given field. Other factors come into play based on your free time. It's hard to do an unpaid internship, make connections with peers, or take on extra skill training when you're forced to work a full time job just to go to school.
And being neurotypical isn't a merit one earns. If I don't inherently understand how to socialize outside of work or build team spirit, that's extra work I have to do outside of actually doing the work I'm paid for.
How is that rewarding merit and not just the circumstances you inherited?
Edit: I don't want to go backwards. I want to go forward to a time where we don't screen for people based on their ability to smile and attend Christmas parties. We can get there by not accepting this as normal or fair.
As someone who's both ND and with a diminished social circle from an isolating family, I hate that people still talk about getting a job as just a matter of applying like there isn't preferential treatment for connected people.
And framing education as the 'great equalizer' hasn't done anything to dispel the myth of meritocracy.
Mommy.
It's just the cope people go through to navigate a worsening economy while lacking class consciousness. If you perpetuate the belief that the responsibility is on the consumer, then you can look at the exploitation and say it's because they weren't smart shoppers who did their homework. The system doesn't need to change, you just need to be smarter.
It's just another permutation of personal responsibility politics used to ignore the systemic problems we're seeing. It's telling customers not to be stupid instead of questioning why videogame companies keep selling low quality garbage with pre-order bonuses to hook people who want to look forward to something.
It's bad to do the pre-orders and get invested like with Starfield, but the people offering warnings like that are more just trying to prove they are being a smarter shopper. That they won't get duped by the hype.