Usually just two games in rotation, the story game and the forever game. The forever game gets slotted in when I have a 30-60 minute time block, or when I know I’ll be interrupted. For story games I block out a weekly “game night” for myself - from 9pm until whenever I get tired, I’ll have my headphones on, door closed, fully immersed in the game. Whenever that game is done, I’ll pick the next one.

I went through the worst depression of my life around 2017, tried to express these feelings to my gf at the time and explain why our romance was failing or why I spent half the day in bed.

Basically got told “poor you”, everyone has struggles, snap out of it and be a man. That definitely helped, and didn’t push me even deeper into feelings of worthlessness…

I’m doing ok now, but it was the first time I felt comfortable enough with someone to express those emotions, I was at my wits end. The response was eye opening, never again.

I doubt that was it, but okay

My job ends up eradicated in this grand shutdown, we could meet up at the forest and foot race the deer?

Yeah, it’s “protection” like the mafia. “It’d be a real shame if something jammed up your company, we should all just cooperate. You can start with $1M big ones into the account. We’ll be best friends.”

Protection racket, just a nice round number to show fealty.

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Little robot crossed against the signal, and couldn’t navigate the curb, big robot cali rolled the right turn and didn’t yield to the pedestrian walk way. What a shit show. Glad it wasn’t someone in a wheel chair.

Damn, I donate $5/m for PBS Passport but had no idea the US general funding was that relatively low. Appreciate the perspective.

I’ve often wondered what can be done about this. It’s accepted that good journalism is expensive- crews need to document, reporters need to travel, interview and investigate, writers have to write and editors need to edit. Nobody works this hard for free.

But now we’re also collectively showing we don’t want to pay for subscriptions, we don’t want to see ads, and we definitely want the fourth column to remain independent from government funding. Effectively there are no revenue streams available that work for these organizations.

Meanwhile AI slop, propagandists and trolls are more than happy to keep publishing because they don’t have the overhead of investment in truth. It seems like the ultimate lose situation and truthful, fact based reporting will eventually die completely.

If you say a prayer without joining your hands, does it not reach god?

Lol, yes the hands act as a transmitter antenna to send the message. Without it you’ll get bad reception.

There’s pictures of the bed, I spy fireworks and race fuel.

Please keep the calendar going, that could be fun

Yeah, basically right. I had a joke written that I’m calling dibs on publishing this survey for the next generation, but the thought depressed me out of posting it.

As a midlife millennial experiencing financial instability, mental health struggles and career uncertainty - can relate and don’t blame these kids in the slightest.

Wish I could say things get better, but I lack supporting evidence. Experience what happiness you can with what you have.

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Mine fluctuate so regularly with temperature, I’d go mad if I let a few psi bug me.

Yeah, the smart mods left during the API exodus. Anyone remaining is either a power tripping idiot that stayed, or an unqualified idiot given the position after the subreddit was forced open by reddit corp.

Good help is hard to find, good free help is even harder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_LTE

I’ll call my parents, that’s about it. Network for me has been good for the last few years.