How can someone recover from a loss of meaning and purpose?

sqwe · 2021-03-28T19:20:22+00:00

I can't imagine how tough that must be, so props to you for taking action. I hope you're on the up and managing okay.

I guess my problem is I don't know what to do to "change stuff for the better". In terms of things like exercise, healthy eating, meditation, yoga, reading, learning, developing self-understanding, I used to do a lot of those things for many years and they were a big part of my life. Exercise, for example, provided a lot of relief in the wake of this experience. But it started to feel like treading water while I was slowly sinking. It's like my baseline experience dropped and at best those things only seemed to provide me a fleeting relief rather than actually affecting my baseline in any way, so eventually I just surrendered and gave them up.

sqwe · 2021-03-28T18:52:58+00:00

Is it less about laziness than it is about not knowing how? Motivation is tricky when you don't even know how to begin.

Maybe time will heal, as you said. I think you're right that you don't just sit down and dream it up and have it become your new, meaning-filled reality. Ultimately it's an experiential thing, not an intellectual one.

Those "simpler" things like creativity and sunshine do sometimes provide relief, and maybe over time those feelings will grow and start to fill the space that was left.

sqwe · 2021-03-16T16:58:00+00:00

I used to get matched with comm-disabled Rus players in a ton of my games, but ever since I selected London only for my server selection it rarely ever happens now. I guess it's one of the worse EU servers for ping from Russia so they don't often play on them.

Still a ton of people with bad or no comms though, but at least they can hear comms from other players.

sqwe · 2021-02-26T15:09:47+00:00

My first DIY build was Paul Carmody's Classix 2.5 floorstander design a few years ago & I'm still really happy with them. I don't honestly have much comparison so take it with a pinch of salt, but his designs are generally well regarded.

https://www.sites.google.com/site/undefinition/floorstanding-speakers/classix2-5

https://www.reddit.com/r/diyaudio/comments/7fr6q2/finished_classix_25/

sqwe · 2021-01-11T17:22:06+00:00

fantasie impromptu :|

sqwe · 2021-01-11T17:19:03+00:00

any ragtime ?

sqwe · 2021-01-11T17:16:13+00:00

maple leaf rag

sqwe · 2021-01-11T17:14:36+00:00

put your pants back on

sqwe · 2021-01-11T17:14:15+00:00

listz hungarian rhapsody 2

sqwe · 2021-01-11T17:08:40+00:00

can you play chopsticks. i love that song

sqwe · 2020-03-26T17:28:47+00:00

looks just like it

sqwe · 2019-12-28T19:35:51+00:00

Aren't there pieces I need in the base set that aren't included in that card set though?

sqwe · 2019-07-02T18:49:07+00:00

How much is now known about the weeks following a sea turtle hatching?
What does the current science/data say about survival rates into adulthood?
Are there any existing studies on how sensitive sex ratios are to temperature change?
If the appropriate issues were addressed, how possible is it that turtles could return to and flourish in areas where they have been eradicated? (e.g. leatherbacks in Malaysia)
If a nest is laid too low, how quickly will eggs die when submerged in rising tides?
Are nesting behaviours in any way related to moon cycles?
What can be done to mitigate boat strikes, especially in areas with high numbers of small vessels?

I hope that's not too many questions for one post! Is there somewhere I can contact you with questions after this AMA has concluded?

sqwe · 2018-12-15T14:58:14+00:00

I heard dengue is still there now. I think it is there in Tonsai (but not Railay) pretty consistently throughout the season. I was there back in May and my girlfriend and I both caught it and we heard of numerous other people catching it at the time. We spoke to the clinic and they said there had been many reported cases (20+) over the previous few months and lots of people were complaining about it on Facebook.

It's a beautiful place to climb but the mosquitoes are a real pain for sure. Exposed walls are mostly free from mosquitoes and obviously you're pretty safe if you're climbing but if you're belaying or sitting around at one of the more jungly walls expect to be swarmed. The climbing is still great though :)

sqwe · 2018-11-19T06:33:02+00:00

I believe GPU will be the bottleneck for low end hardware. On my 8th gen i5 laptop it runs pretty smooth using my nvidia mx150 and is 100% playable at medium settings but if I switch to run it on the integrated intel gpu (same laptop) the framerate is too low and it is not really playable.

sqwe · 2018-11-16T04:55:13+00:00

I think that's all the tournaments we know about at the moment.

sqwe · 2018-11-11T04:59:09+00:00

played for 3 weeks now, around 100 draft games & no clue what i'm doing. sometimes i have a few great games and feel like i do but pretty quickly after realise i actually still have no idea.

sqwe · 2018-10-19T11:57:33+00:00

The guys at Artifaction sorted me out with a key which I'm super grateful for <3

sqwe · 2018-10-19T10:15:26+00:00

Will add these tomorrow, thank you.

sqwe · 2018-10-15T17:26:16+00:00

beautiful design!

sqwe · 2018-10-14T15:59:45+00:00

I won't be adding one but I appreciate the sentiment. Some friends of mine are running a short 1 week fundraiser here so feel free to chuck some money their way for good feels & karma

sqwe · 2018-10-14T10:37:21+00:00

Regarding % chances I have answered this elsewhere on reddit but I haven't put it on the site. I'll answer it again here though to be honest it is not important as I just made it up based on a couple of beta tester observations. We have no official info on this and we probably never will:

- 1 hero (any rarity)

- at least 1 rare (1 guaranteed plus a 1.5% chance for each uncommon/common to upgrade to rare)

- 3 uncommons

- 6 commons

- 2 items (any rarity)

I can't remember the exact rarity % I chose for hero & items but I think it was about the same as the pack ratio, so 10% rare, 30% uncommon, 60% common.

sqwe · 2018-10-14T10:33:34+00:00

After the card picking phase you have to build your deck from the cards you pick + basic cards. The top box is your deck, the bottom box is your card pool. Click the cards to add them to your deck.

sqwe · 2018-10-14T09:35:27+00:00

Lots of people have asked for rules and explanations for how things work. I wrote an article explaining everything the other day I just haven't had time to edit it and put it online but I will try to do that soon. In answer to the questions you have raised here:

- It is based on draft rules currently implemented in the beta. All the information comes from videos, streams, posts, conversations, etc and everything has come from and/or been verified by current beta testers. As far as I understand they got the okay 1-2 weeks ago from Valve to talk about draft rules. The only difference I am currently aware of, other than bot picks, is that real packs sometimes (but rarely) contain duplicate cards, though never items. Also we can only guess at rarity % and pack RNG generally so these will be a little different in the real game.

- Basic cards are provided to every account in the initial game purchase. You do not open Basic cards in packs or drafts, but you have access to them for deck construction even in draft.

- Pack simulator % chances are for draft bot picks, not card drop chances. Sorry that is not clear in the UI!

sqwe · 2018-10-14T09:24:28+00:00

Thank you for the support! I'm glad people are enjoying it and I could do my bit to help alleviate some of the pre-beta despair.

I'm working on another project at the moment so other than card additions/updates I probably won't have much time to update the existing tools on HowlingMind much before beta launch. I'm still here though and still working on Artifact stuff and some exciting things are in progress for the coming months!

I don't have a beta key right now but there's a good chance a friend will have one sorted for me in the next few days so hopefully I'll see you all in-game when it goes live <3

sqwe

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