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Clip of the death: https://kick.com/odablock/clips/clip_01JCHNYPTBAWE20CFYHM9VPTMG?t

The person who killed him had been ragging him for 3 days, using an exploit that lets you freeze your opponent in Bounty Hunter, and using a cheat client that lets you 1-tick spec from non-spec bar weapons. Allah yerhamak big 0

Today is my 8th year anniversary dating my girlfriend Ena, so I wanted to write about a random memory.

Many years ago, Ena and I played a game called Realm of the Mad God. It's an old multiplayer bullet-hell game where you spend hours getting upgrades and fighting monsters, with one twist: When you die, you lose all your levels and gear on you.

"oh no what happened..." - Ena after losing hours of progress in 1.3 seconds

We picked up the game again recently, and after every death Ena would pick the same class: Sorcerer. I would change my class around, and while Ena would occasionally ask for a rundown of different classes, she would always pick Sorcerer.

Finally, one day, after restarting from scratch on a Sorcerer one too many times, she was determined to change her class. She read the description of Rogue,

Cloak ability: Turn invisible for a few seconds

"Oh so like you don't take damage?", Ena asked.

"No no, you take damage, but like enemies won't shoot at you, so I guess you don't take damage?"

"Ok, I'll try it out".

Ena goes to the market to trade some of her stored items for rogue pieces, and starts talking about the item abilities.

"Ohhh, this one makes me invincible for 3 seconds", Ena said.

"What? Damn, that's pretty good. There's a few items that make you temporarily invincible, but very few for more than a second."

"Yea this one is invincible for 4 seconds"

"??? Let me see... ..No, it's invisible. Not invincible.". I was a bit confused, but whatever, Ena understood.

We start playing the game, doing dungeons, and Ena is getting demolished. Never hitting anything, always getting hit.

"Rogue sucks!!", I remember Ena saying. She said it a lot actually. She wasn't a fan of it. "Even when I go invincible, I feel like the enemies are shooting at me".

"No, Ena, you're not invincible. You're invisible. You still have to dodge the bullets that are on the screen, but the enemy won't target you. Stand like, away from me, because even if you're invisible they'll be shooting at..."

"Wait I'm not invincible?", Ena asked.

"No ?? It says invisible. Invincible is something else". I felt like I was taking the crazy pills.

"Rogue sucks!! Invisible is useless..."

After dying (or suiciding) shortly after, Ena went back to playing Sorcerer. Some things never change, I suppose.

Since my blogs are usually serious, I'll end on a serious note. This is why it's hard for couples to break up; a better candidate can't simply "show up"- they have to surmount all the past experiences you've had with your partner together. Everything you cherished together needs to be surmounted. That grows less and less likely, day by day. Keep your relationship healthy and reinforced, and the stability will carry it forwards ever on.

Imagine this: Your sister starts dating someone you don't like. Or there's someone on your team at work who made your life harder.

It's natural to retaliate: Put them down, get them removed, and surround yourself with people more like you. But this is a losing game.

Imagine everyone has a reputation bar - You start at 100%, and at 0%, you're kicked out (of the relationship, or the job). You're capable of bringing down other people's reputation bars, but at the cost of your own - You might be able to get your sister to break up with her boyfriend, but your reputation will drop to 80%. You might be able to get your coworker fired, but your reputation will drop to 50%. Besides, it's a lot of work.

Driving people out doesn't scale.

Imagine this - Your sister's ex-boyfriend ends up as a retailer, and you're looking for a house. Your ex-coworker is now working at a better company, and is referring your other colleagues. You want to take advantage of these relationships, but you can't.

For a moment, ignore all concepts of what's "fair"- Whether this is about your ex wife or a boss who screwed you over. Think only about yourself. How do you maximize the best outcome for yourself?

By helping them.

Ignore how this helps them. It might eat you up inside at first. You'll probably help them more than they help you, but it doesn't matter; because this is an investment that grows.

If that coworker you hated, but helped, helps you get a better job down the line, does it really matter if you helped 10 other coworkers you hate? If helping your ex-husband means your relationship was better, causing your kid to get into college, does it really matter if your help made him get another girlfriend too?

If there's someone you don't like, it's highly likely you're going to be around them for a while. Helping them makes them a better person - someone who you might even end up liking more. The effort to bring people down isn't worth it. Spend that effort bringing people up; it only has to pay off once in a while.

Stop calling it that.

• In 1989, the US home ownership rate was 64%. Now, it's 63%.
• There is an estimated 15 million vacant homes in the US (compared to only 600k unhoused people).
• The number of houses in the US has gone from 78 million in 1975 to 145 million in 2023 (an 85% increase) while the population has gone from 211 million to 340 million (a 61% increase) in the same time.

"But dginovker", you might say. The median house price in 1980 was 64k, in 2015 it was 275k. How is that not a housing crisis?

Because it's a wealth inequality crisis.

This data checks out with statistica and cadtm

If we had an actual housing crisis, the issue could be resolved in 5 years by building a couple apartments (and yes, that is good even if you don't want to live in apartments, since other people moving into apartments makes detached homes cheaper). But we don't have a housing crisis. We have a crisis where inflation made your job pay 50% less. We have a crisis where the government is going broke to the billionaires. The housing crisis is a symptom of this issue.

We don't have a housing crisis. Stop calling it that.

Anyways, time for dinner 🎩🍴

This is really interesting stuff, found it on Hacker News. It's like WINE, but for Android <-> Linux: https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/