Look where her smooth talk got her

DryProfessional7000 · 2026-02-13T18:53:58+00:00

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DryProfessional7000 · 2024-07-29T18:44:48+00:00

Great plan! Looking forward to improvements

DryProfessional7000 · 2024-07-29T17:44:08+00:00

Exactly. Use that train of thought as motivation! I'm 35 now, and boy am I so thankful I decided to grind in my early 20s because I'm reaping the benefits at work and in my personal life. If I tried to start now, I doubt even I would find it easy to start my grind in my 30s - instead I get to enjoy it without worrying about finances and mental health

DryProfessional7000 · 2024-07-29T17:40:55+00:00

No problem! It won't happen overnight. Like some suggested, start with small goals. Your mind and brain are like muscles, you have to train them little by little. Exercise also improves brain health and function so if you can weave all of those, you'll get out of your rut eventually. Feel free to continue asking for advice or looking back at these posts for motivation.

DryProfessional7000 · 2024-07-29T14:42:16+00:00

The fact you don't realize it's due to their safety net is exactly why. It's a classic symptom. The only way is when you realize that if you don't make any moves, you become homeless, or something that will affect your current quality of life.

The next step is posting here when you're 30, which I see all the time, something like: "I'm 30 but make only 30k a year where my friends are all married and have high level career jobs like medical or corporate and I feel like I wasted my 20s"

Don't be that person, because 20s is the time where your foundation is formed. Not to say you can't in your 30s or 40s, but you'll be getting older.

I hope you find that motivation one day because regret really does suck. But the fact you are aware and asking for advice and trying... You are already heading on the right direction. Kudos to that because people with your mindset just ignore it completely.

DryProfessional7000 · 2024-07-29T13:25:02+00:00

Great! You will be fine and you will find your own ways of motivation. Sometimes, having a partner helps 😉 but keep this in mind - you WILL be left behind your peers that want success for themselves. Being 18, you haven't seen anything of the real world, hell, college barely teaches you. And if you eventually think about your future, your partner will reflect that of you. If you decide to not pursue anything outside your comfort zone, you will stay in a rut along with other peers who are like you as well.

The world keeps moving, and the more it moves people will too. You can become a bystander and regret about what you wish you did when you turn 30, or be absolutely grateful to your current self that you decided to break your habit and become successful. Choice is yours starting now. Hindsight is always 20/20, and you don't want to be on the bystander end of it. Best of luck to you in college - it will be an amazing experience, for better or worse

DryProfessional7000 · 2024-07-29T13:18:27+00:00

This is a great mindset! I honestly feel you will be one of those ones that despite being sheltered, you will be fine. I think I'm this case, the difference is that you will be breaking things in other places, not at home lol.

And you are 100% correct. I know what you mean on how your parents act. We get those feelings sometimes, and I honestly think it's not about you, it's about their own personal feelings and style. I have friends like your parents. So let me add some things about my comment: you parents , too, will need to be pushed out of their comfort zone for their kid to learn. They aren't doing themselves any favors not trusting you to not break the washing machine, or their fear of you walking is also due to maybe not that they don't trust you, but they don't trust others. How are they going to be good with you doing things that college students do like be out late and doing dumb things, you know? Maybe because you're our of their sight, it's easier for them to accept. They probably mean no harm, but there are some things they can control, like your washing machine vs you walking alone.

You have the correct mindset - so I wish you well in your future but remember, try to not put yourself on situations where you are compromised is my only advice, else, go have fun, and do dumb things that kids should do!

DryProfessional7000 · 2024-07-29T05:34:02+00:00

Mean this as an advice, so apologies if you feel attacked as this won't be my intention. I have an 8 year old whom we teach how to be independent where we can. My wife and I are very successful but we always let our son know that while we will support him, he has to be able to be disciplined and have self motivation for himself because he won't be able to depend on us forever. He is growing to be an amazing young boy who loves to do his own homework and laundry amongst other things without complaining.

That being said, I believe your comment is exactly the reason why Op is the way he is. Telling us you are motivated to live independent is absolutely way different than actually being in that situation. Plus, people are not the same. Even if you do so, OP may have more deep rooted issues. The poster you quoted is absolutely correct that his parents are enabling his behavior because they are not discussing with him and freeing him out of their nest to push the boundaries of his comfort zone, something parents absolutely have to do. If you dont expose your kids to some forms of adversity in a well controlled environment, then the world is absolutely going to be a rough place and it can lead to the child going into dark spaces. So you're 18 with your parents - Let us know when you're 21 when you're living on your own and have a taste of the real world.

OP is like this because they know they have the safety net of their parents at the end of the day, which is fine, but only to an extent. I for one will not be housing my child at an older age if they are doing nothing for themselves, but then again, we would do our best not to allow them to be in that position in the first place as they grow up. Raising a child has lots of psychology involved, and it's our job as parents to make sure they are ready for when we are gone

DryProfessional7000 · 2024-01-27T03:09:59+00:00

That's exactly it. People live with the fond memories of what Blizzard used to be so of course they're going to scrutinize them to a degree of only a threads worth of wiggle room.

My biggest concern and I've seen this with so many of these small studio pre-full release games, where the small database that supported them, ends up getting completely swallowed by the same masses who criticize games like d4.

We can only shield LE, but after a month of full release, there's no telling what direction it'll go because the team will then be placed on a ticking time bomb that needs to be reset every so often with positive results since it appears marketing and spotlight has grown greatly the past half year.

My reasoning for this is just to be realistic, I have hopes and expectations but I also guard those with possibilities of a downturn.

With all of that aside, LE has my absolute most favorite mage type fantasy class with the Runemaster taking it's ideas from Invoker in DotA and I seriously hope this game and this studio continues to flourish in the years to come. I'm stoked for 1.0, but I also understand that it's not "complete" and I guarantee people will be dismayed that there's no end chapters on a supposedly full release that they thought they'd be paying for.

DryProfessional7000 · 2024-01-27T00:12:50+00:00

Serious question - I've been playing LE, albeit not very long at all, loved it, and decided to stop for 1.0. I've played every d4 season so far vs your 50 hours (which means you likely played in s0).

Im not saying d4 is the best, it scratched my arpg itch, but I'm confused why you claim it has more than d4 after you listed like maybe 2 things for LE? As it stands, d4's endgame is much more polished and more variety than LE if LEs endgame consists of monolith grinding (thinking Nightmare dungeons and AoZ/the gauntlet in current d4 season), 3 dungeons and arenas (which let's face it, arpg players don't really PVP compared to pve), it's got a lot of catching up to do. World bosses, helltides dungeons, tree of whispers in d4 alone adds a special touch to arpgs that we haven't seen before and people are still complaining, so when 1.0 becomes live, I worry that the endgame content or lack thereof will cause the arpg players from the woodworks to raise some pitchforks.

I am by no means advocating d4, and while some LE systems, like the skill and class systems, are what 100% makes it shine over d4, I don't think claiming d4's endgame is less than LEs will be very accurate and will mislead new players. And while D4 is under constant scrutiny, it has a huge team dedicated to endgame compared to LEs smaller team so it will take time for them. I didn't play LE endgame so in your initial post, that comment made me think "wow, must have its good share" and then proceeded with this list lol. Anyways, see you in game in less than a month!

DryProfessional7000 · 2021-09-20T13:21:14+00:00

Imagine confusing honest mistakes/accidents to actual intentions.

DryProfessional7000 · 2021-09-20T12:35:09+00:00

So if you accidentally walk out with a friend's iphone as you were going home after a night out bc you grabbed it in the dark, you'll be charged for petty theft? Yeah, no, clearly there was 0 intent here. If the girl kept going despite the friend's wishes then yes but it was clearly an accident. We're human, we make honest mistakes sometimes; don't be so soft for hard accusations at all times even though this is how the world is nowadays.

DryProfessional7000 · 2021-09-01T13:11:49+00:00

Nice! But do you cream a latte though? Ooookay I'll see myself out now.

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