Don’t think too hard about how much further you have left to go; road hypnosis is your friend. I’ll often finish up several hours of a long drive without even really noticing it, so long as I’m not constantly checking the ETA. If you’re not driving in the middle of the day, getting tired can be an issue - I like to make sure I get a lot of sleep before a long drive, and sometimes even change my sleep schedule for a couple days beforehand if I’m going to be driving while I’d usually be asleep. If I’m really worried, I might buy an energy drink or two, but I usually only do that for 10+ hour drives.

I got a bench and all the weights and bars I could ever need for a couple hundred bucks on Craigslist after looking for deals for about a week. They even came with little bars so I can use the smaller plates as dumbbells. Obviously it’d be harder for someone in a more rural area, but exercise equipment is usually pretty easy to find relatively cheap second-hand. Way better than a gym membership so long as you’ve got a bit of space in your home for a bench. Paired with basic body-weight maneuvers and some running shoes, you can get all the exercise you need without all the fancy stuff at a gym.

Those aren’t mutually exclusive, though. Even if 99.9% of a species fits in perfectly with the environment, if that last little sliver destroys everything, and the rest of the species is unable and/or unwilling to stop them, then we destroy everything anyway. Sure, it may not be ALL humans, but it’s still humans.

Whether or not people care enough to do something is the first and most important factor in determining whether it works or not.

I only have 176 open now because I accidentally closed them all a few months ago and couldn’t get them back.

Did the slugs just use the sides of the door frame to skip over the edges of the maze?

Huh? I bought my first house in 2020. It was $200,000 for a run-down house in a bad part of Minneapolis. It was my first home, so I could use the first-time home buyer benefit to only need $10,000 for the down payment, which I had built up over a few years of saving. While in the house, fixing my garage door when it broke was $250, and repairing my AC and Furnace each time they broke was $300-500. Stuff that was bigger than that was covered by insurance. I fixed everything else myself, however poorly. The money I got for selling the house in 2023 for $230,000 was enough to afford the down payment on the next place after paying back my first mortgage and the realtor fees.

My dad is adamant that fish don’t feel pain. He just heard it from someone when he was young, and accepted it as fact because it made him feel better as a fishing enthusiast.

If a person drinks 3 liters of water a day for their whole life, that’ll be about 100k liters total. Assuming it takes about a minute of actual drinking time to finish a liter, that’s only 100k minutes, or 1,667 hours of drinking time, so it’s no wonder we’re not experts.

If your first house is anything like mine was, it’ll be a lot of “What’s that sound!? God dammit…” followed by either a day’s worth of work fixing something, or a bill for several hundred dollars. It took a few major problems before my wife and I started getting confident that we knew what we were doing. You get used to it, and eventually problems that arise are no longer a “will we get through this?” and instead become an “ugh, I can’t wait until we’re through this.” After a few years I was able to sell it to someone else as their starter home, and use the equity I built to buy a much nicer house with far fewer problems, though you’ll never be totally free from the occasional sudden panic of a major issue.

Anyone who thought that their definition of “tyranny” wasn’t just “someone wants to do something nice for someone I don’t like” was just fooling themselves.

From a team like this that actually cares more about the quality of their game than potential profits, “no ideas” doesn’t mean that they can’t think of anything at all, it means they can’t think of anything that would actually improve their game without feeling like it was tacked on, which was the point of my post; for a game that already feels complete, any ideas for more content would feel tacked on, including the ones in your meme. They might be good for future titles, but this book is already closed.

The reason BG3 was good was because instead of making a game with a large chunks withheld from the base game for the sake of future paid DLC, they instead just put everything in the game from the beginning. It’s a full-fledged experience already - tacking on more content when the story and gameplay are already complete would feel like a cash grab. The fact that so many people expect it just shows how cash grabs have become the norm to the point where people forgot that games used to be a full experience by default. A good game has enough content for it all to feel interesting without weighing itself down with more than it needs, and has enough characters to tell a complete story without feeling like things got padded out. What you want is a new game with as much care put in as BG3, not DLC that would just bloat the original with unnecessary content.

I always thought I was too ugly for people to be attracted to me. Eventually I cleaned myself up a bit, got on a dating app, and found the woman who is now my wife. I was proud of myself for becoming someone who could be attractive. Since then, 2 girls I knew in school have told me they had a crush on me… Like, why didn’t you say anything!? It was obvious I had no idea!! I now think everyone must have at least one person who’s yummed by their yuk.

We’re not? One of our parties may be significantly less sadistic, but they both exist to lock the American people into a life of servitude for the rich. Our votes won’t get us out of fascism, they’ll only let us choose 4 years of “good cop” or “bad cop.” We’ll have to actually be okay with making our overlords mad at us in order to escape, and that includes the media; if the news is on your side, you can be sure the rich people who own it aren’t sufficiently concerned.

It is. But do you see any other cops moving to arrest the shooter? This is why people say ACAB. Sure, some of them probably really do want to make positive change, but they don’t actually take the actions against other officers required to allow for that change. They instead fall in line, which makes them just another part of the problem. Law enforcement finds it more important to show a united front, even if that front is squarely against the people, and even the law itself.

More like “On my way to completely ignore 100% of the voters after I won the election with 46.09% of the vote.”

Yeah, I remember when I was 7 I’d explore everywhere around my house for at least a few miles. There was a convenience store 2 miles out where I’d buy candy any time I’d scrounged up a few dollars of change.

What happened was terrible, but it was an accident nevertheless. Nobody should have to serve time, especially not the grieving parents.

I find that the tired part is easier to swallow if you instead think of it an a happy opportunity to put on some music and rest your eyes.

Yup, my plan was to just buy one and let it sit until something was found. It was just too expensive, though; I can’t warrant that price.