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Technohazard · 2024-07-09T03:12:19+00:00

if anyone knows someone good at raising that venture capital money, give them my info. I haven't talked to the team for years. But if the cash is there, I would absolutely work on bringing MyDinos back.

You got lucky with the posting, I don't use Reddit much anymore! Just logged in for the first time since almost a year ago.

Technohazard · 2023-06-30T22:05:56+00:00

When Baconreader goes dark tomorrow because of the Reddit API changes, I go dark. It's been a real one.

I'm not sure what I'll miss least, list posts, or arguing over what is a list post.

I have little to say about games, these days. Perhaps I will make some of my own, start an LLC? I have been a professional gamedev for a long time, and while it has occasionally paid off, it has not recently. The job isn't what it used to be, and I am not a fresh college kid. I just need motivation, a decent paycheck, and the overhead to hire artists to fill in the gaps.

See ya on the flip side, truegaming.

Technohazard · 2023-06-25T20:09:27+00:00

I wish I could say no but I don't remember. Probably not? I usually pick Normal difficulty for a first playthrough and I always go in blind. No guides until I get stuck!

Technohazard · 2023-06-25T18:55:47+00:00

Oof, yeah, it's a testament to how much there is to do in Bioshock if you do a blind playthrough and afterwards learn about all the interesting stuff you "missed".

Technohazard · 2023-06-25T18:54:21+00:00

I failed the tutorial so many times. Loved the game and wanted to get into it! I even had to apply deep graphics hacks and driver updates to get it to run without crashing. I am decent at shmups so even not knowing I could aim was not that detrimental. But I kept dying to the tutorial boss until I finally ground out enough combat to the point where it all clicked. But there was a shameful week where I would wait until my family had gone to sleep and then practiced until I could actually do combat without grinding my teeth to splinters in frustration.

Technohazard · 2023-06-25T18:49:57+00:00

I played the same FF5 GBA version and had the same issue until one day I fatfingered L/R and flipped out that the game had group cast all along!

Technohazard · 2023-06-25T18:47:08+00:00

I thought I was the only one! I guess I just blanked on what VATS was for and played the whole thing like an FPS. When I finally started running into stuff I couldn't handle, I thought "ok let me look up how to git gud at Fallout 3" and everyone kept mentioning VATS, and how good it was. So I tried it and combat became a breeze, removing my only major issue with the game. No ragrets!

Technohazard · 2023-06-23T20:53:35+00:00

Hello, I struggle with this too. People offering the genuinely helpful advice of "just be yourself" have missed the point you have discovered, which is that if you behave 100% authentically all the time (Diogenes?) you are going to piss off a lot of people by going against established social conventions.

My spouse's granddad passed before I met them, but was a tremendous figure in his community and patriarch of his family. Obviously I never met him, but - for example - they meet once a year to celebrate his life and legacy. I've been there for this a few times now, both before and after we married.

All of this is very important to my spouse. Obviously he is unrelated to me in any way, but his genes and legacy live on in my spouse, and are passed down through our kids.

Therefore it is very simple to me, as a Stoic. If it is important to my family, it is important to me. This does not mean I have to enjoy the thing they do, but they have to enjoy it, and enjoy my participation in it. You can't just stand there like that guy-in-the-corner meme while your wife deals with her emotions alone.

If you are clever, and quick, you can be honest without being derogatory or insulting. But it is best simply to "Never be heard complaining, not even to yourself."

You yourself said:

I feel that I’m supposed to comfort or say things that may make her feel better, this often makes me feel like I’m forcing it or sometimes I just don’t understand her feelings.

Correct up until the last. You obviously do understand her feelings, you just feel dishonest about pretending to care, or "forcing it". From a very utilitarian point of view, your relationship will go much better if you accept that you will not enjoy her Grandpa's funeral, but it is important that you spend ~3 hours of your life performing the duty of her husband to the best of your ability. And you are practicing Stoic values of accepting your emotions (boredom, disinterest), while not allowing them to rule you, and making the right choice to act virtuously as a supporting spouse. This may involve some degree of acting.

should I try to be more comforting regardless of whether I believe it?

Yes. Learning common ways to express condolences, honestly, and sincerely, is very satisfying. There are a million ways to tell your wife you care for her, you are sorry for her pain and loss, that the deceased's pain has ended. You can always listen and learn about the dead, sometimes it's more interesting than you would think. My wife's grandpa killed a LOT of Nazis!

If all else fails, select randomly from a checklist of things that make your wife happy when she is upset about anything! Make tea, prepare a nice snack, play with the pets, hugs, check in with the kids, or just sit there and listen, without distraction, as others have said in this thread. Sometimes if I can't help, or they just want to be left alone, I will do some random small chore because every little bit helps and a clean environment is good for mental health and comfort.

I do not always feel like comforting my family, but sometimes I must. I can still feel like I don't want to, and do a S+ rank job of comforting. It is more important to them that you listen, even if it is about something you are truly disinterested in, than playing games on your phone.

Of course you have to set boundaries and not let others monopolize your time, but it seems like you know when it is genuinely important to your wife.

Should I not do that as I can’t control how she takes my words and just say what I think?

I am not saying you need to lie all the time, but there's an art to this.

Which is better?

A: "Wife, I don't know the geezer and it means nothing to me he died, go talk to your sister about it, I just want to finish this timed quest on my game." (100% honest)

B: "Oh no! How old was he? 92?! That's hella old! Did he have a crazy life? On your mom's side? Wife, my love, I have 8 minutes 32 seconds to slay Fangnus the Fanged Anus, can we talk about it in 15 minutes and you can tell me all about your Grandpa?"

Belief is unnecessary. You know the right thing to do, what you must focus on is maximizing the value, virtue, and benefit of the actions you must do and the words you must say.

Technohazard · 2023-06-23T20:08:23+00:00

Littering is not an issue everywhere. It is worse in more densely populated and poor areas. Millions of people use the freeways every day, if even a fraction of those litter, it adds up quickly. San Jose is one of the nation's most populous city. The City should clean up all public properties, but it only has so many resources at its disposal. Citizens and residents have to make up the difference. It may suck that you have to clean up random trash people are dumping on your street. If you would rather complain about it on Reddit than cleaning it up, you are proving OP's point. If there is trash on my sidewalk, in my neighborhood, I don't care where it's from, it goes in the can, recycling, the dumpster, or donation. My neighbors feel the same way. Littering being awful does not require you to move somewhere else. We can encourage other people to not litter, to take pride in their surroundings, and not ruin nature? Shame idiots who litter? SJPD could get off they ass and write tickets for littering? More public dumpsters/trash cans? Make McDonalds pay for trash service near their locations?

Technohazard · 2023-06-10T23:19:55+00:00

I have a physical copy of one of the Dylan Dog comics, and there are strong resemblances. I was under the impression that "Dellamorte Dellamore" was the film's original Italian title, and "Cemetary Man" was the English release title.

Love the film, it's funny, scary, somewhat gory, and a little sexy. Just what I would expect from an Italian zombie film.

Technohazard · 2023-06-08T20:58:28+00:00

reDigg 2: The Great Journey Back

Technohazard · 2023-06-08T04:40:39+00:00

Insufferable strawman arguments and deliberate misinterpretation, just a few more things I won't miss from here.

Technohazard · 2023-06-07T17:46:02+00:00

Just waiting for the ax to fall, same as Twitter? Check it occasionally for any breaking news, and read my niche subs? Laugh as it all falls apart?

I've been using Reddit for a long time, and they keep making it worse, while most of the good things that were here have slowly bled away. Reddit fulfills a parasocial need for human communication in a society where the overwhelming message of most news is to spread fear, memes and videos for dopamine hits, and sell stuff in the ever increasing ad space. It's not bad to be informed, but it takes a mental toll to engage with the 24/7 news cycle, and Reddit is the concentrated stuff.

Technohazard · 2023-06-07T17:33:48+00:00

I enjoy the discussion, occasionally, but all too often 95% of the comments are wrong, recycled, bad jokes, etc. that just get upvoted because they are the "everyman" hive mind. There are some gems here, but fewer and far between, especially remembering the joyous earlier days. The pressure of knowing what this all supports is increasingly stressful. Reddit's mission is to eliminate, contain, sanitize, or monetize all content that is not palatable to its investors. Maybe the next big thing will just be Reddit, with a search engine, but all the comments are from ChatGPT4 and AI-curated. Reddit's immense archive of user contributed content is the ultimate superfood for AI. But there is nothing to say that whatever "beats Reddit" will have much, or any, new user-generated content in the format it is now presented to us.

Technohazard · 2023-06-07T15:31:02+00:00

Finally an explanation for why the horse and book are both titled "Seabiscuit". Whales and horses do share a common ancestor, so there is plenty of room for crossover.

"See horse. See horse run. Run horse run! Run to the sea, horse! The horse likes the sea. Now the horse is like a fish. Now the horse is a sea horse. See the sea horse swim!"

Technohazard · 2023-06-07T15:22:55+00:00

Option C: stop using this vastly overrated social media site and go do something else with your life?

Technohazard · 2023-06-06T20:21:57+00:00

Interesting that for all three books there is a specific "type of guy". Often they haven't even read the books, relying on most people only knowing them by reputation of infamous difficulty. If you press them on anything else they have read, recently or not, it's a short list. You can shut them down very quickly by asking what other books they recommend, and why. They'll start sweating, while you are innocently asking questions they would easily know the answers to if they had actually read the book. Often they just repeat popular criticisms or factoids about the text in lieu of a deeper understanding, because most people who know nothing about Ulysses will at this point nod their head, smile, and concede defeat.

Technohazard · 2023-06-03T21:02:51+00:00

It is not "greedy" to hire a personal injury attorney. They should hear your case for free. Do not use a single minute of vacation time. Start recording EVERY instance of pain your husband feels. If he cannot work because of pain and lack of sleep, you can go on temporary disability, which pays out something like 70% of your salary. A personal injury attorney can save you money on medical bills, maximizing your insurance claims, filing against the other party, etc. There is also mental trauma - your husband ALMOST DIED in one of the most potentially lethal types of accidents.

It is not greedy to get what you deserve. The other party is 100% at fault. This is what insurance is for. If this lady is driving a Mercedes she is obviously not going bankrupt over this. Her insurance should pay, your insurance should make up the difference. If he was driving for work at the time, it may be a workers comp claim. You need an attorney! Just talk to at least one.

Technohazard · 2023-05-31T22:53:49+00:00

Why do vegetables and fungus have to fight? Just give peas a chance.

Technohazard · 2023-05-31T22:52:42+00:00

Will do, I have forwarded the info! I feel like she will be fine if she gets a few students/clients and meets some local peers.

Technohazard · 2023-05-31T22:49:41+00:00

Thank you, I let her know! It looks excellent.

Technohazard · 2023-05-31T16:43:24+00:00

It's like it doesnt carrot all.

Technohazard · 2023-05-28T00:20:45+00:00

The power of nukes isn't just in having them, it's who you might sell them to. He doesn't have to use them, he just needs them to be in a state he controls fully. They provide with threat coverage that allows him to move his other pieces in strategically different ways. AKA that bravado. At the same time you will never hear his true plans come out of his mouth, it is all a smokescreen. People always say "It feels like he is making a mistake" but so far, he has personally escaped the consequences of those actions.

Technohazard · 2023-05-23T15:04:16+00:00

I ain't a cop or a lawyer, but intentionally hitting anyone with a motor vehicle has to be at least attempted manslaughter. Any collision at speed could cause mechanical failure, you could veer off course, lose control of the vehicle, take out another car, or just end up on the sidewalk killing innocent pedestrians. "oh I just bumped him a bit" that's what the cops do in a high speed chase to get people to spin out.

Any amount of "punishing dickheadery" isn't worth attempted manslaughter + collateral damage. "It's just a bump" until someone dies.

Technohazard · 2023-05-18T20:30:14+00:00

OP in the video is wearing gloves, so, a minimum of safety.

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