I mean, is this true? “western” liberal society is pretty cynical and brutal towards children, but I don’t think its fair to say this is a common feature across all humanity.

Oh I’m already a couple years deep in burnout already

I appreciate all the kind words and encouragement, I do think I have been neglecting self-care to address some life stuff that can wait a bit so that I am ready to address them without worsening my burnout. I’m moving in the right direction now though! Thanks again and to everyone else as well

They’ve done an awesome job with the cast and paying homage to all the different games, I just find the actual gameplay very unsatisfying

I do not find the smash games after melee all that fun, Melee was something else and Sakurai watering down the gameplay for the sake of the casual gamer (despite the fact that Melee was mega popular with casual gamers already) makes me unreasonably upset.

I totally agree. Even the more privileged folks in my sphere are avoiding going out, a complete failure of the bourgeoisie to uphold the social contract of what they call “the middle class.” It’ll be interesting how that continues to evolve

I guess the question is how long can they keep pulling levers until it finally collapses?

Is the economy just a Weekend at Bernie’s situation now?

Well-to-do Americans are already experts in ignoring the material reality of like 70-80% of Americans, including their elderly parents when they become inconvenient, what’s another 2% lol

“AI” has got to be the most transparent grift I can remember

Thanks so much

I appreciate all the recommendations! I’ve been stuck in a stressful period so I haven’t really been stimming as much lately which is also contributing. Im still learning a lot about my stimming behaviors so I will try out your advice. Ive already incorporated a lot of yours and others suggestions (weighted blanket, eye mask, noise cancelling headphones, blackout curtains, oscillating fan) which I guess just underscores how much work I need to put in on just general sleep hygiene but I think finding better sensory inputs and engaging in more stimming behavior can go a long way to regulate myself better.

As a certified Cs hater I’d like to think the Nuggets could take them down lol but yeah you’re probably right

Everytime I look up mods I still look for Emuparadise by default

A few years ago my body decided to start processing caffeine as if I were a corpse in need of revitalization lol also had to learn the hard way how my body was handling it and that it could keep me up late if I wasn’t careful

Can’t reply to all the comments so I’ll just respond here. I truly appreciate the advice everyone is giving me!

I guess I was hoping there was some secret easy fix or something but I guess the truth is I’m gonna have to put some hard intentional work into addressing the issue. I think I’m still in the midst of a 3+ year long burnout that I need to address as well to figure out my sleep issues. I will try slowly weaning off weed instead of quitting cold turkey so that I can still get sleep and don’t dysregulate myself even more. I’ll start introducing some better sleep hygiene, turning off screens, going to bed at a consistent time etc. and trying some melatonin. I definitely need to be better about my diet and physical shape as well. Unfortunately the extended daylight hours during the summer do not help so I will also try to find ways to simulate night time earlier to help as well.

Thanks for giving me a space to talk about this stuff and get suggestions. I’ve been so heavily masking for so long that I think I’m genuinely learning for the first time what it means to take care of myself.

I’m grasping at straws tbh, everybody thought the Heatles would be unstoppable but in reality the Mavs were also elite that year even if people thought they were outmatched. I think in this series the gap between them and Boston is probably quite large but I would much rather see them win than the Celtics so I’m trying to be optimistic

Dirk and the Mavs were a big underdog to the heat at the time… Although they had a pretty complete squad even if they lacked star power. I am comfortable saying Luka > Dirk already solely in terms of peak ability tho (probably pretty controversial for now I know) so who knows hes good enough that it’s possible

I think the Nuggets or TWolves would’ve been a lot closer even though the Mavs beat the latter, hard to see Luka carrying an otherwise okay squad over a deep Celtics team. I think the Celtics being able to coast through the East is also a huge benefit in the meat grinder that is the NBA playoffs

Oh god other people go through this too? I guess I am glad I am not alone… but shit sucks

To scour that much video and run an algorithm every single time trying to match someone’s face sounds impossible