To get serious for a second though: this is real and legit. You can find real happiness in the community that comes with a niche fandom.
It’s covered in this podcast if you’re interested: The Happiness Lab with Dr Laurie Santos - Nerd Out! The Happiness of being a Fan.
Starvation and homelessness are quite powerful motivators.
I don’t bother communicating. I just play silently and usually mute the chat if it is toxic. Even games like overwatch worked out ok playing without communicating.
The only time I had a decent experience playing with strangers was when I found specific gaming subs or Discord communities (e.g. casual gaming, gaming dads, etc) and played in a Discord voice channel. This was actually a really good experience in games like Street fighter or Apex legends. I could do dumb shit in game and they’d be completely chill and say “it happens” and carry on to the next game. Haven’t done this for the last couple of years though.
It’s expensive and blood can only be stored for so long. Easiest to stick with compatible blood types.
There are also loads of other antigens in blood that can cause a reaction. These are just the commonly known ones. So blood should still be cross matched anyway if it isn’t an emergency.
I’m not religious at all. But in responding to your question OP: we don’t have to understand why people believe. Religion just isn’t for us, and that’s fine. Other people find it has value, and that’s fine too. The fact that religion has lasted this long with this many people is proof in itself that there’s some value people get out of it. We don’t have to get it to understand that.
All the comments here that explain religion solely as dumb or irrational are just as closed minded as the people they’re criticising.
The fact that there are so many well functioning options for a DE that this can be an argument, is such a great thing.
I have no idea what I’ve missed… Till I go to someone’s house and watch raw YouTube and it’s unbearable.
I haf a gaming laptop for over 2 years. Sold it this year to replace with a PC and I’m convinced I’m never going back to a laptop.
Laptops run noisy and hot. The hardware is tuned down for poorer performance compared to PCs. Using one is not ergonomic at all. It’s a pain working around power management (I.e. forcing it to stay on to use as a server, etc), features like wake on LAN are hit or miss. They’re overpriced compared to similar PC parts. They’re hardly repairable or upgradeable at all.
I’ve made a much faster PC for almost the same cost I sold a 3 year old laptop for. The laptop was always used with a monitor, KB, mouse anyway. If the portability is required then the Steam Deck makes for a much better portable gaming machine and an old secondhand workstation laptop will be dirt cheap and fast enough for all your office needs.
I haven’t read the book. But the movie is indeed really terrible.
I cringe just remembering that movie.
Why did porn subs start dying?
Someone who plays StarCraft? Now that is something I have not seen in a long time.
This is something commonly misunderstood as:
Logic = correct = good
Emotion = irrational = bad
In truth your emotions are trying to tell you something. You certainly shouldn’t be acting completely on emotion. But you do need to learn to interpret what your emotions are telling you and what that means, because there is critical information there that you would ignore at your peril.
I agree with the principle, but not in the same way.
It feels good to portray another person as an “idiot” or obviously wrong. Feels superior and legitimate.
The lesson for me has been: people are allowed to have their own thoughts and opinions, no matter how ill-informed I think they are. It is going to be just as difficult to force them to believe my opinion, as it would be for me to believe their position. So shouting “facts” and “logic” doesn’t work at all. If you can get over branding someone an idiot you might be able to listen to why they actually believe such misguided information, but this would take non-judgemental questioning.
So I agree: stop arguing with people.
You cannot make people change their minds in a single sitting. You should aim to be less closed minded than they are. Stop thinking of others as “idiots” to begin with.
If you’re really interested in diving into this, here’s the first of a 3 part series talking about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have better debates about contentious issues, and how to ethically and scientifically persuade one another about things that matter – in short, this is a three-part series about How Minds Change.
(I’m not affiliated with the podcast or this guy’s books…I just listen to a lot of cognitive science podcasts)
I can calculate 0% of anything in my head quite quickly. Try me.
Does the creative commons licence at the end of every comment really do anything? Are you going to do anything about it if someone doesn’t respect the permissions you’ve laid out?
I wish to unsee this please.
My main concern was it doesn’t provide enough sun cover. I wanted more. I had her buy me this instead: https://cdn.ezcosplay.com/media/catalog/product/p/o/power_rangers_white_ninjetti_ranger_cosplay_costume_1_2.jpg
My mother wanted to get me a wide brim sun hat with a neck flap: https://imgs.search.brave.com/fVuBnMVVBRH1g28fcDzOX0uUoC4Si8j5_V0yd65cJL4/rs:fit:860:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLm1l/ZGlhLWFtYXpvbi5j/b20vaW1hZ2VzL0kv/NzEzZDRjWUhZNUwu/anBn
She thought it would be good to save me from the sun while mowing the lawn. I asked her to return it. There was no way I was going to wear that.
I remember the damn shit removed blip of '75.