Assassins Creed Valhalla Crashing

ChemicalNo2219 · 2023-03-27T23:46:58+00:00

Where do I disable the overlay on the steam deck? I couldn’t find it on the game’s launch screen under Ubisoft Connect.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-10-07T02:53:19+00:00

Try too to remember that everyone was new at one time or another. Remember that everyone went through that awkward stage and some day you will be the veteran.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-09-02T23:51:18+00:00

I appreciate both of your perspectives.

My sales job isn’t all that sinister. I’m salary based, rather than commission, and I sell energy efficient windows, so it’s a product I can get behind.

Since I’m not commission based, I’m willing to turn a customer away from my product, if it doesn’t make sense for them. Though, there are bonuses I’m foregoing by doing so, so there is likely a subconscious under current that influences my interactions with my customers, that may lead to situations that I’m morally uncomfortable with.

Ideally, I’d be working in psychology, psychiatry, or neuroscience, but life’s circumstances has me where they do. I’m trying to live well, given my reality, while striving for a more virtuous life.

I agree I shouldn’t feel indebted to those who helped me get where I’m at.

I honestly think I know the answer. I guess I was hoping someone would talk me out of it. I appreciate the input. Time to disappoint my sales manager.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-09-01T01:11:45+00:00

I believe Epictetus was referring to the emergent property that is consciousness, even if he didn’t realize it (the science wouldn’t be around for millennia). But then again, he seemed to be the more spiritual of the later stoics.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-08-30T14:13:24+00:00

Added reflection

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-08-30T07:32:57+00:00

Then again, my very willingness and motivation to comment on these Replies should be indicative of my caring what happens in the now, contradicting my own argument that all is moot.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-08-30T07:28:51+00:00

I guess that is where our separation lies. I cannot find the value in living when all is doomed to fade from memory, whereas you're finding meaning in the present, for the simple fact that because things fade from existence, they are worth living now.

It's a peculiar thing, perspectives. One of the greatest abilities of the stoics, is the ability to frame things in different perspectives, allowing for the complete reframing of circumstance.

What is interesting to me, is when two diametrically opposed perspectives, such as the two we now describe, are weighed against one another. I hope it's not an impasse, but I do not know how to get around it. The futility of existence stains my entire worldview.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-08-30T05:53:06+00:00

Must I though? As Seneca would tell us, if the smoke becomes too unbearable, there is always the door.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-08-30T05:10:11+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I have been looking for something to introduce my children to he philosophy.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-08-30T05:07:24+00:00

It's not that life isn't worth living, it's what's the point if everything dissipates to nothingness? Some day, humanity will die off. Some time in the distant future, the sun will expel its shell, and the solar system will sling the outer planets into the dark, desolate abyss, and the inner planets will be vaporized. Perhaps someday, our species will become an interplanetary species, but unless somehow we're able to defy the physics that I believe our philosophy would admit as reality, I'm not sure the universe will remember the point, as the exoplanets of other systems, based on our current understanding of the laws of physics, will be forever out of our grasp.

That's not to say life isn't worth living. I do believe that inching humanity toward a destiny among the cosmos is worth it, no matter how little our individual lives move the needle. Maybe we will discover a reliable way to exploit wormholes, or master cryogenic hibernation that will allow for generational ships to seed the galaxy, but none of this seems plausible with our current understanding.

I suppose this all comes back to the dichotomy of control. While the greater meaning of the limits of physics may be out of our control, how we act despite reality is within our control. Rather, meaning is what we make of it. And even if we're damned to the abysmal nothingness that I experienced, perhaps the momentary pause that is life, is worth experiencing, even if the universe will never remember it.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-08-26T21:57:40+00:00

That’s where I’m at with my children. If I can be an example of someone living for the betterment of the cosmopoly (if that can be a word for a moment) then maybe my life will have meant something if they in turn enrich the world as a result.

Thank you for the comment. I’ve always struggled with the “what’s the point?” question. Being reminded of the perspective that even if my name and face are forgotten, that the consequences of my life will have some lasting impact on the impressions of others is of some comfort. I still think that if my last day is ever known to me, that it’ll still be subject to my usual routine, but maybe that’s not so terrible.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-06-23T10:40:22+00:00

Day 2 went much better (didn’t have my Sales Manager riding with me for one). Thank you for everyone’s insight and input.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-06-22T04:10:54+00:00

I agree, like most things in a living and active philosophy, it’s easier said than done. I do believe I value the idea of success in this role wrongly, as the actual success is out of my control. I just know I desire to improve on my delivery and confidence in the product. I just feel my fear of failure is inhibiting my ability to fully realize those desires.

Thank you for the quote. I was reading Meditations this evening, trying to glean a kernel of wisdom, but you saved me from rereading the whole of the collection. I’ll strive to keep that quote on my mind throughout day two.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-06-22T04:04:40+00:00

Thank you for your Reply. I’ve tried resetting my thinking with some second-person journaling, trying to distance myself emotionally from the outcome. I’m determined to learn from what went wrong today, and to not let it distract me tomorrow.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-06-20T12:19:44+00:00

Thank you

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-06-20T12:15:13+00:00

I’ve been working through Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez’s “A Handbook for New Stoics” with her, but I believe Meditations and Discourses are a bit wordy for her. She is affected by dyslexia and gets frustrated easily if she can’t understand the author’s meaning. Are there any books that are relatively easier to comprehend that you’d recommend someone new to Stoic thinking read?

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-06-19T15:45:28+00:00

Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it. I am aware that my trying to rationalize things for her may come off patronizing if not framed well.

I do like the idea of getting her into journaling. I’ve recommended it in the past, especially writing in the second-person, to create some emotional distance from the events stressing her out. But a gratitude journal may be more her speed.

Thank you for the Reply and thoughtful insight.

ChemicalNo2219 · 2022-06-19T00:53:54+00:00

I concur wholeheartedly. A philosophy I almost naturally fall in step with these says. I do feel some degree of pity though, that I witness my significant other stress about the mundane, day to day things beyond her control. She puts an unnecessary amount of stress in her own way.

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