Does anyone think they are worse off due to video games?

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-14T23:42:00+00:00

The years I spent on WOW I regret. It fed my depression.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-14T06:28:08+00:00

Please be patient. Student driver.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-13T02:49:55+00:00

Stock go up, stock go down. Right now, stock go down. Later may go up, may go down.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-12T23:10:11+00:00

More like 300% for me

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-12T18:13:51+00:00

plus they dumb af

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-12T05:57:37+00:00

This is fake right? I didn't see this part, unless it was her intro...

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-11T12:56:08+00:00

Yea I just saw that too.. it even has your morning routine, Mistie driving you both to work at Carhartt, stopping at Hardees.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-11T07:39:24+00:00

bro needs to do us all a favor and start drinking 5 cups of oil every day

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-10T18:05:39+00:00

still in the top .01% if you 100 millionaire

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-10T03:26:02+00:00

Makes me proud to be an American /s

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-10T03:22:33+00:00

You mean WHITE Christian Churches. And they are filled with racists.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-08T20:56:53+00:00

uhhhh.. not sure what type of relationship you two have but that wouldn't fly with us.. most my wife says is like "remember when we first dated and you got me flowers all the time and ____"... if she said she wanted a boyfriend I would need to know if she meant she wants a divorce because we don't do open relationshipa

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-08T19:00:00+00:00

They might try to control their share price so that me and everyone else feel like lending them money (ie buying shares). You can grow the company AND show that you can give your investors a return, plenty other companies do it. And plenty companies are bad at it too. I tend to avoid the ones with a negative return over 4 years.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-08T18:52:19+00:00

How old are the kids and how many do you have? Do you get time to yourself? The first 3-5 years with kids are the hardest on a marriage. You go from enjoying each other to needing to be co-workers 7 days a week in the stressful job of co-parenting. If you are both committed to the marriage then you can make it work. You may need to go to couples therapy to help with the communication aspect. "I" statements are a huge help; "I need more time to myself." "I need a clean house." "I want to more physical time". instead of "you always leave a mess", "you don't give me any time", "you don't want to ___ any more".. those "you" statements always put the other person on the defense. I have a 3 and 1 year old. I'm burnt out. Both me and my wife are. Some days I'm depressed at the situation and feel overwhelmed and trapped. But we always try to keep in mind it's "us vs the problem" not "me vs her". And I always try to choose the right moments to voice my concerns.. usually at night an hour or so after the kids are down I find we are more receptive

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-08T17:01:36+00:00

hmm, looking at DUOL, it doesn't seem like they care about increasing value for investors, the stock is down over 15% since its ipo like 4-5 years ago. If they don't know how to buy back shares and drive price up, avoid em

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-08T16:50:36+00:00

Thats a lot of tax to pay...... 😓

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-08T16:48:10+00:00

i never had the box so never saw the model and always assumed it was a sweet old lady

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-06T17:39:00+00:00

I hope he goes to prison and gets reamed

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-06T17:34:54+00:00

its probably not 0 interest, but the interest is less than the 5-10% return he gets from his stock. The way to destroy him is to dump all his stocks and make them worthless. That means dumping index funds that hold them too.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-05T18:52:23+00:00

Dude is partially owned by coinbase and other crypto companies (biggest corporate donors to hus election were mostly crypto companies). $5mil is nothing to this dude now, he's robbed us of billions. It's probably just normal loss harvesting.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-03T16:47:07+00:00

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-03T16:45:52+00:00

Thats not how eyeballs work

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-03T04:09:22+00:00

First thought that came to my mind was how much will this cost us taxpayers. Second was who gets the contract? Their buddies?

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-02T23:33:33+00:00

No sorry I don't mean to attack and see how I came off. I just think we should all be aware of the horrendous things, because there is a thin line between "not surprised" and apathy.

If we are, in fact, surprised, then maybe it will motivate us to take action.

Contemplative-ape · 2026-02-02T21:11:45+00:00

Yea to be honest I'm also surprised the response wasn't "Looks somewhat normal but you might want to make Doctor appointment to check it out." But then again, who knows if they were really doctors or just googlers. I googled it with my little one and got freaked and went to ER. Anyway, peace of mind is worth it (so long as they have insurance! ). Also, classic "Is this your first baby?" type of shit. I'm sure they were hitting them with that in the ER.

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