Yeah, when I started playing, many hundreds of hours ago, I thought oxygen was going to be the focus of the game. Then I started to lose bases to the creeping heat death… Then material shortages… Now it’s basically a materials science sandbox, where I transfer heat around to do useful things. It’s a really unique game.

I’ve been playing Victoria 3 and a bit of Oxygen Not Included. I mostly play strategy and city builders these days. But I still have Zelda in my backlog (I’m about half done), as well as Assassin’s Creed: Mirage.

I guess my most recently completed game would be Dave the Diver, as most of what I play are infinite time sinks. It’s a fun game, and I loved the cast of characters. It was about the right length I think, and the game ended right when I was starting to get a little bored of it. I might pick it up again when the DLC is released though.

Unless you’re blonde or going grey. I really wish I’d gotten started earlier in life, but I’d already started going grey when I did laser. The laser got most of it, but I had to finish with electro. Much more costly, painful, and time consuming, but effective on all hair.

This is what I wanted to say. Googling is a skill. I work professionally as a programmer, and have for decades. A good chunk of my job even now is searching docs or the internet for the answers to my troubles. If a CS student can’t do that, they’re going to have a bad time.

Always the same map.

Also, just want to say that apparently I’m rubbing some people the wrong way here (maybe you even), but it’s nice to be able to have a civil conversation anyway, and just take a few downvotes instead of getting raked over the coals every time I post and eventually banned. =)

Peace be with you. I’m tired, a bit depressed, and I spent 6 hours writing posts for my comm today. I just want to go have a few drinks and go to bed, so I’m going to abandon this conversation. Sorry if I offended anyone with my lack of understanding.

I can relate to that NOW, but I lived over 30 years in a body I hated. It definitely shaped some thought patterns for me. I still don’t think I would feel right about walking into a big pit surrounded by men with guns.

yeah, that’s about all I could come up with. I was just wondering if anyone had further insight, but it doesn’t look like it. I suppose I just spent too much of my life wishing for death to really understand it. (am trans)

Going into the pit and being executed doesn’t sound that much better to me, tbh.

Welcome back comrade!

EDIT: LOL! I just tried to set my bio to use the hexbear pronoun tags per this post and I just found out that I’m banned too. Irritating, but not the end of the world. I still love my comrades here, and many on hexbear. Just some power drunk anarchist mods with no dialectical analysis.

Wow, 8 whole years? Sadly, I’m sure that people actually will forget in that amount of time.

I’m legit not trying to victim shame. But whenever I see these sorts of pictures, I always ask myself why someone would willingly walk into that pit.

I know it’s hopeless either way, and they are trying to prolong their life a little bit. And hey, they might not be standing on a future mass grave, right? But if I ever saw that pit, I would rather die in a futile escape attempt than enter it. At least then the bastards would have to carry my body themselves.

Showmanship.

Thankfully it’s not a lifesaving drug. But yes.

Good.

I’m on a drug that costs even more than that. The whole process is bizarre, and appears to be scams all the way down.

What happens for me is that my insurance covers a big chunk of it, which still leaves me with a bill for thousands of dollars. But the drug manufacturer provides me with a card that covers that amount. So the whole thing costs me $5 out of pocket.

The aim seems to be inflating the drug prices to an insane degree to extract more money from the insurance companies. Who then fleece my employer for more money. Who then pay me less, as the insurance is such a huge benefit. And I can’t afford to lose that insurance, so they have a captive employee. And I’m supposed to marvel at all the money I saved.

I don’t know why you think that the two are mutually exclusive. Hitler himself was a fan. There was a UN declaration that Zionism is a form of racism. It was repealed (and remains the only UN declaration to be repealed) when Israel refused to stop bombing Palestine unless it was repealed.

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I recognise your name, so you aren’t that unknown. Especially because I’ve been fairly quiet here as well though recently, aside from my comm. Life’s just busy and hard, and it takes me about an hour every day to write my post. Instead of spending all my free time online trying to fix the world’s problems, I can have a bit of me-time now. It’s honestly done wonders for my mental health. I hope it’s the same for you.

But I also wanted to mention that I’ve had my own run-ins with hexbear as well, so I very much empathise. I don’t know what you did, but it’s so easy to run afoul there for absurd reasons and have a million people insulting you. It’s hard to disengage when you see them as comrades.

I’m sorry comrade. That’s rough.