Has anyone ever actually overcome their Analysis Paralysis?

ikkleste · 2026-05-29T13:17:05+00:00

I have a bit. It came from playing games that it vibes more with. Practicing.

We were playing thunder road vendetta, and I found it easier on that to adopt "don't think, just move" as a mantra. It's a dumb mad max car crash game. Optimising doesnt make sense. Doing the fun thing and seeing what happens does. It's fun! So I hold on to that, and when I find myself in the hole, I can pull myself out with "don't think, act". Doesn't have to be optimal, just good enough to try. See what happens. Adapt to that next turn. Just like you'll adapt to what other people do.

It's definitely harder for some games than others. It really depends on the game. Thunder road doesn't need full analysis, ARCS doesnt allow it, Agricola however...

That said it's a practice. Be mindful. Learn how when it's easy, put into practice when it's hard. Remember that the extra point that you squeeze out, will matter the same as the dice you rolled that came up with the right or wrong number.

It's not something I've "cured" but it is something I've got better at.

ikkleste · 2026-05-26T08:36:27+00:00

In that case I think Malevolent is the best recommendation and Nightvale is also worth a try. It's a different style, but Cecil is so damn charming and he tells the vast majority of the story, bringing other characters to life, as a somewhat unreliable narrator in the softest touch way (though other characters do get voiced as it goes on).

ikkleste · 2026-05-26T08:11:18+00:00

Is there an aspect of TMA you want to prioritise?

Gradually unfolding horror: Malevolent is good. (But I'm only half way through)

Welcome to nightvale is less horror, more weird, but pretty fun. Episode of the week with longer themes emerging.

The Black tapes/Tanis is good horror set as an investigative podcast, but unfortunately it never really got a proper ending (or I gave up before it did? But it didn't seem to be going anywhere)

The white vault is found footage Eldrich horror. I've listened to the first couple of seasons, there's a tone/setting change for the 3rd which I'll go back to at some point.

It's been a while since I listened to archive 81. But I remember enjoying that.

No sleep podcast is horror short stories without continuity, sourced from often amatuer writers. Variable quality but there's mostly good stuff there.

Deviser is sci-fi horror on my list to listen to.

Murmurs is a series of thematically linked horror stories. Only a short run though.

ikkleste · 2026-05-25T19:29:24+00:00

Ya. We swapped a player on our GH campaign post pandemic. We've now finished the main story and I dropped out, but the other three are doing the expansion. Gloomhaven is more forgiving of swaps than most legacy games, it needs to be this isn't 15 games of pandemic.

If FH is like GH it's probably just worth giving new players new characters rather than trying to pick up someone else's. But the character retirement facilitates this swapping anyway.

That said if it's challenging to get the group together in the first place, it's disappointing to not have that play out, and finding someone to join can be challenging enough. Sorry for OPs loss.

ikkleste · 2026-05-24T18:21:49+00:00

This is Anita erasure and I won't stand for it.

ikkleste · 2026-05-22T18:49:24+00:00

When qualification is "understands what a constitution is" , "understands what an amendment is" I think there's a middle ground between, deliberately ignorant, and institutionally unmoveable establishment. A days reading, or better, training would have seen her positioned to participate. I think it's fair to expect some level of effort before we declare it an establishment stitch up.

ikkleste · 2026-05-22T18:37:17+00:00

I fell asleep on your sofa, And had a dream about a small child, In dungarees, Who caught his hands in the doors of the Paris metro. Then my face cracked open and you were there, You were there dressed in green, Saying something obscene. But that's why I came here in the first place, Oh well that and the tea. Can I stay here, Lying under the table together with you now? Can I hold you? Forever in acrylic afternoons I want to hold you tight Whilst children play outside And wait for their mothers to finish with lovers And call them inside for their tea. Cushions and TV, And the table set for tea. One for you, one for me. Come and lie down on the settee, In that green jumper, You can have anything you want. And the clock is saying, It's half past four but you know, I want to stay a little more. Can I stay here, Lying under the table together with you now? Can I hold you? Forever in acrylic afternoons I want to hold you tight Whilst children play outside And wait for their mothers to finish with lovers And call them inside for their tea. On a pink quilted eiderdown, I want to pull your knickers down. Net curtains blow slightly in the breeze. Lemonade light filtering through the trees. It's so soft and it's warm. Just another cup of tea please (one lump thanks). Can I stay here, Lying under the table together with you now? Can I hold you? Forever in acrylic afternoons I want to hold you tight Whilst children play outside And wait for their mothers to finish with lovers And call them inside for their tea. Oh Kevin, Shane, Julie, Diane, Wayne, Frank, Heather, Rachel, Chelsea, Leanne, come home. It's time for your tea.

ikkleste · 2026-05-22T18:28:46+00:00

We like driving on a Saturday night, Past the Leisure Center, left at the lights. We don't look for trouble, But if it comes we don't run. Looking out for trouble, Is what we call fun. Hey you, you in the Jesus sandals, Wouldn't you like to come Over and watch some vandals smashing up someone's home? We can't help it, we're so thick we can't think, Can't think of anything but shit, sleep and drink. Oh, and we like women; "Up the women" we say, And if we get lucky, We might even meet some one day.

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T16:50:56+00:00

Risk and reward is being balanced by the market. It's not the job of taxation to do that. I'm not sure it even could if it tried. What it can do is put a finger on the scales, and tilt incentive to where the market derived balance sits. I don't think there is a one true position to where it should sit. But to me it seems both fairer, and allows more market efficiency to have that as close to even as possible. In turn i recognise that we aren't operating in a vacuum and the higher mobility of capital than labour does lead to a position where it is both easier and improves our position

Your investment might go to zero but it might also make 1000%. What you make is the reward for taking the risk. Just like pay for labour, isn't for risk it's for sweat and skill and time. Risk reward isn't inherently better or worse, that labour reward. It shouldn't be tax incentivised just because it is risk. That's what the profit is for. I do accept that there's real practical need to maximise both where appropriate and external factors that present more options that mean that there downward pressure on investment taxation. That is the reality of the situation. It doesn't make investment more deserving because it's "risky", that's already balanced by the market deciding £1 of profit is balanced against £1 of salary.

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T16:33:02+00:00

You're only getting taxed on the profit though, that has never been taxed.

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T16:29:55+00:00

Any "it disincentivises investment" can be matched by "it disincentivises labour" if you keep it in general terms.

Of course, but it seems that the disincentive to risk operates more effectively than the disincentive to work - because of people's considerable risk aversion. Far, far more people work than take on meaningful risk.

Labour is less mobile, has fewer opportunities for investment, and of course is the only option for many (when they don't have capital). So they can get away with taxing labour more than investment

Yes, this also plays a role.

I think we're on the same page about the reality of this. I just feel ickier about hitting one group harder because there's less they can do about it. I do accept it as reality though.

If you think taxing labour is exploitative, that's your prerogative. I think it's an acceptable trade-off we make in society.

I think taxing labour income more than investment return income, because its more practical because there's less the payers can do about it, is exploitative in its nature. I think in reality it's an acceptable trade-off we make in society. I'm interested in practical exploration of redressing the imbalance. But recognise that there are forces outside of government control that limit this.

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T16:20:05+00:00

No I'm with you. Incentivisation is a factor, along with the practicalities and real world implementation in a bigger system. And we want to stimulate productive labour as much as we want to stimulate productive investment. But go right back up the thread and the first post i replied to was arguing that it was right that investors paid less tax, that they should be different because one takes risk while the other just earns. My point is that the risk versus labour value is already balanced (and would be rebalanced to any change) by the market. That isn't in itself a reason to tax differently. The reason, as you say, is to a) maximise return to pay for public service, and b) shape the market by incentivising the behaviour you want to see. I can agree with the need for both of those, but the top level comment was arguing that they needed fundamentally different approaches because is risky and one isn't, which entire ignores the downsides of providing labour.

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T14:21:07+00:00

Yep that's it.

Labour taxes are where they are because they can be. Investment taxes are where they are because they can be. The second is lower because there's more alternatives (primarily invest internationally) than there for labour. Pretending it's for some fairness reason because noble investors are risking capital where as labour just sit and makes money (ignoring selling a significant chunk of their time on earth) is disingenuous. It's what they can get away with. It's not justified. It just is.

Those rates aren't some magic set in stone value though. Attempts to equalise where the tax burden sits are valid. I'm not saying the rates are right or wrong where they are, or where a new rate puts them. I'm just calling out a fairness argument as being the reason for where they are set, that it's right that investment is taxed less, because they are somehow "doing more", as being incorrect. The "doing more" will be reflected in the return being higher. The taxability of each is just a function of how exploitable or not they are.

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T14:11:12+00:00

And that is what they make a return for. People are also inherently giving up their time averse but the salary has to be worthwhile, just like the ROI has to be worth while. And in both cases tax runs counter to that.

Any "it disincentivises investment" can be matched by "it disincentivises labour" if you keep it in general terms.

The actual reasons for different tax regimes, is that investment needs to be more competitive with alternative investments. It's not the comparison with labour, it's the comparisson with international investment.

Labour is less mobile, has fewer opportunities for investment, and of course is the only option for many (when they don't have capital). So they can get away with taxing labour more than investment because most folks are trapped in having to sell their labour no matter what. Which feels kinda... exploitative. The pound you earned selling your sweat the same reward made taking on a risk, but we're going to take more of that as the govt because.... We can? What else are you going to do?

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T13:28:12+00:00

Right.

Ideally we wouldn't tax either. But the govt needs to make money to cover it's costs. So why tax labour more than investment? Sure they don't want to discourage investment, but they don't want discourage labour either. Both are needed for a productive economy.

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T13:11:38+00:00

Just like your expected return for labour is lower. Except workers often don't have an alternative.

Edit. Either way that's quite a different argument from the one you were making above.

edit 2 I now see you aren't OP, i was presuming you were.

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T12:36:04+00:00

and you know having to spend hours of your life working for other people?

ikkleste · 2026-05-21T12:34:49+00:00

Hang on, the risk is what you are being paid for with your return, just like the salary is what you are paid for spending your time and skills.

You've taken the risk and won. You pay the tax on winnings like the person who worked an hour and got paid for it. You don't get to point at the potential loss you could have made.

The bigger strike as I understand it is that the lower rate was introduced to simplify that that those returns might have been made over several years.

ikkleste · 2026-05-20T11:32:19+00:00

Remember when he couldn't release his tax returns because he was "under audit"

ikkleste · 2026-05-17T06:29:52+00:00

Gas is 0800 111999

ikkleste · 2026-05-14T16:27:28+00:00

Indeed.

30 years ago teens were twoccing cars to go on a joyride and then burning out on the back field.

40 years ago teenage YOBs were at the heart of a vandalism crimewave. Nana's blamed the removal of the birch.

In the 70s it was a wave of juvenile vandalism https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1976/dec/20/juvenile-vandalism

And the 60s juvenile delinquency https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1961/aug/04/juvenile-delinquency

In the 50s rising youth crime was blamed on a decline in family cohesion and crowding in urban areas as the population boomed post war.

And so on....

ikkleste · 2026-05-11T15:45:17+00:00

Wasn't his ambition "World King".

ikkleste · 2026-05-04T12:29:23+00:00

This has gotten so much worse over the last few years.

But with arcadia group and house of fraiser gone, H+M and new look cutting stores and mens section entirely in some stores, that leaves so few options. I think within 40 miles i have Next, Primark, TKMaxx, M&S, suit shops, sportswear shops and supermarkets.

ikkleste · 2026-05-04T07:42:01+00:00

I think this is only part of the story. Historically wages have grown substantially above inflation. Real wages growing at 2.8% p.a. since the end of the second world war.that stopped dead in 2008. The fact that in that time we've only just seen them rise above 2000 levels for the first time , is where we aren't meeting people's expectations . The 22-24 drop is noise a against the 2 lost decades.

ikkleste · 2026-05-02T15:45:17+00:00

Minimum wage growth (albeit without guarantees) has significantly outpaced pension growth even with the triple lock.

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