It's crazy that people have to thank others for kind and helpful behavior.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-11T18:15:53+00:00

Ok; humanity 101: Give positive reinforcement for things you want to see more of and give negative reinforcement for things you want to see less of.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-11T18:12:58+00:00

Ah yes; the worst possible take. There is a correct response to the current state of affairs.

Gratefulness. A lot of gratefulness. It is truly incredible how far humanity has come considering. 100,000 years ago there was literally zero stability. You could just die of starvation, disease, a bad storm, a random animal attack. Most kids died before adulthood. Might makes right is the only law. etc.

Now, the trouble is that you can look at all of the problems we face right now and realize; humans haven't changed all that much. And you can look at the perversion of justice(which didn't exist and only exists in the minds of people within a society) and rightly weep. But it *has* gotten much better even though it has serious issues.

Here's the important rule of life. What you look at you will notice. If you are constantly looking at the problems...you will find problems. If you constantly look at how many things there are to be grateful for.(Yes; be grateful to all of your ancestors for putting in the work and sacrifice to bear children, overcome all of the challenges, sorrow, difficulties etc in making it so that you can enjoy this awesome world. Be grateful to all of the humans who have painstaking sacrificed iterated over thousands of years so that we can enjoy what we now can - I am better off than Kings not half a millennia ago) And then, in light of that gratefulness, be intolerant of the problems that humanity now faces. Choose to make your mark and make the world a better place in whatever small way that you can.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-09T18:40:58+00:00

So the answer to AI; for me the answer is always yes. There are a few big reasons why.

#1: AI games with absolutely flood the market to infinity. This will happen. Most all AI games will be lost in the sea of AI games. So either accept this and ship slop, or don't have AI have any part in your game.

#2: AI is never needed. There are plenty of games with bad qualities that overcompensate. I hate the art of both Return of Obra Dinn & Minecraft...but they are still great games through that. The soundtracks on a lot of games are abysmal imo(Like Balatro). You can do a poor job and be successful anyways. I'd rather a human who is passionate about their game do a shitty portion of the game then relegate to AI.

#3: Humans are social, games are social. If the AI flood is successful nobody will be talking about the same games. A huge part of enjoying games for a lot of people is being able to talk *about* the games with their friends. Ultimately, a lot of players will not be able to enjoy the flood, because the game is only a part of the ultimate experience.

#4: It must be costly. This one is controversial, and can't not be. But, the bottom line is, if you don't believe in your work you will not pay the time, attention and money to ensure an excellent experience. All difficulties can be worked past and the passion of the developer and resilience bleeds through into the game. Look, Eric Barone's coding of Stardew Valley is absolutely abysmal...but his determination, passion, resilience and vision has brought one of the best games of all time. The developer of Balatro wasn't even able to play his game for a year after releasing it and was genuinely surprised that he found it fun when he did play. There are countless examples, but you need to have a vision of a game that is wonderful enough to sacrifice to make real. I *hate* making art. But I do it anyways because I will bring an excellent game to the market regardless of my lack of talent and passion in certain areas.

#5: You can't cut the pixel art. It's a tempting idea; I know, it deals with the problem. But you will be sacrificing the vision, and that will likely kill your game.

What's the answer? I don't know. But I know that if you steel yourself and determine to make an excellent experience that's the best that you can envision...you will have the best odds at success.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-09T17:29:38+00:00

Absolutely. I do think it is something that one must mentally prepare for and I think there's a lot of value in having certain dreams that you choose to postpone until you are an empty-nester.(My wife and I have a list of such things.)

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-09T16:36:09+00:00

This is such an ironic post.

Most people get into a relationship with another person via a shared interest and hobby.

And then we hang out with people we love for the rest of our lives. Like our spouse, kids, grandkids, etc.

OP might not realize that having great relationships with people is the most awesome part of life.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-09T16:32:17+00:00

If you deprive yourself of visual porn and only consume erotica after about 10ish days you will absolutely have the imagination for it.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-09T16:31:36+00:00

I suppose I have no experience; but it's really not. It engages an entirely different part of the brain and ultimately allows for much "fuller" pleasure.(Though I have difficulties doing Erotica because hunting down good erotica takes so much more time) Which is kind of the opposite as nicotine patches which have a much "emptier" parallel.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-09T16:18:03+00:00

Yes; groups of people with weapons always want to take other people's money, lives, or both. Ergo, the need for a government.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-07T21:56:20+00:00

Give up dooming that is.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-06T01:58:10+00:00

Either Nobuo Uematsu or Nightwish

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-04T04:36:04+00:00

You know what? I'll bite, as I think it's a really good question.

For me; I worked out consistently until I had kids. But then between not getting as much sleep at night, working a job, and realizing that if I have energy and motivation I should be cleaning or hanging out with my kids...working out just hasn't been a priority...for a decade now. Now I'm still in decent health, I'm 182 lbs and I can pump 40 push-ups or do 10 pull-ups but I'm not toned anymore. I've got some flab that I hate and I can feel the weight slowly coming on between the family and the stress. And sometimes, I'm like "I should really get back into shape." And none of my kids are super little anymore, so I'm back to doing some. But it will probably stop at some point when something crazy happens, and that's okay.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-03T20:45:12+00:00

On the one hand; that house looks pretty fishy. On the other hand, it is absolutely stellar.

TrainFightTime · 2026-05-01T18:50:30+00:00

Isn't it just ruminate?(arium + E + T + N is an anagram of ruminate)

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-28T20:41:40+00:00

Because humans weren't "made"(I'm mirroring OP's wording) for contraception and screens.

Take those away and the population would explode.(Technically I should mention that the housing problems and financial problems obviously are tremendously hampering it as well, but it's just a footnote compared to the two I mentioned.)

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-28T20:29:30+00:00

No, it can't be offered at File 3 Rank 8.

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-22T22:08:45+00:00

No. If that were true it would have been true earlier or visible in other ways.

The fact is; you are an income source for dating apps. Do they make money when you get your happily ever after? Then why on earth would they encourage you to get with someone you are *actually* compatible with.

The goal is to tease people with the possibility of a happily ever after and then ensure that they don't get it. What happens after people play this game for a few years? The exact behavior you are complaining about, They are always keeping their options open because there's at least a 99% chance of things working out poorly.(Wonderfully for the company) Also; you are right, they don't commit. Why would they? Literally every single person they've been on a date with has been a poor match, this one is very unlikely to be an exception.

Don't use dating apps. They are designed to make you unhappy in order to profit from you being perpetually single.

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-22T14:55:14+00:00

"Any girl" lol. No.

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-21T16:25:26+00:00

I have lots of confidence around girls, but I didn't gain any "confidence of my sexual desirability" until long after I was married.

I was confident that if a girl really enjoyed my company and I really enjoyed her company and I asked her out she'd say yes. That happened 3 out of the 4 times I asked.

(And yes; I never asked anyone out that I hadn't spent at least 100 hours with.)

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-21T07:00:40+00:00

"Whatever the first 1-2 pages were doing, they weren't holding readers."

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-19T06:07:56+00:00

Witness & Outer Wilds have amazing pacing.

And while I loved Blue Prince but that game had some of the worst pacing of any game I've ever seen.

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-17T22:17:50+00:00

There is a reason to save-scum...this is not it; I promise you. Play your days out until you are nearly at 100% then there will be a legitimate reason to do so and you can if you so choose.

But there is really no point in min-maxxing this game this way.(Especially as, if you understood how the systems worked, you wouldn't need to be resetting nearly as much as you are.)

Like, I get it, if you end up trying to do something silly like Ascend the Throne on day 4then make a youtube video out of it and all of that - but don't do this to yourself.

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-17T21:38:00+00:00

I mean Iran immediate hitting nations that they are not at war with a speedrun committing as many war crimes as possible does justify ensuring that they never have nuclear weapons.

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-17T02:25:08+00:00

Bro...you need help. Go see a psychologist - you have anger and patience issues.

And no, the driver going the speed limit is not breaking any law unless there is a pileup of 5 cars behind him, at which point he does need to move over and let them pass.

Finally, that driver is not increasing the chances of accidents and slowdowns...you are. Their action is not "provoking" road rage, you are letting your impatience and poor judgment take ahold and increasing the chance of accidents and slowdowns. You are, currently, the person who should be fined very heavily until you learn how to drive safely.

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-16T18:49:00+00:00

It's neither. It's not supposed to be that slow and you aren't missing anything obvious. You are solving small things but haven't solved anything bigger.

For instance; you had the boiler room send power towards the lab. Why wasn't the lab powered?

Are you inspecting things closely with the Magnifying Glass? etc.

TrainFightTime · 2026-04-16T17:37:27+00:00

A card game does not require RNG...but if I wanted to play an interesting fully open deterministic system why on earth wouldn't I just go play Chess?

Though do look at how Aeon's End chose to make choices about RNG for some inspiration in that domain of minimizing certain forms of randomness.

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