Streptember

I don’t want to die.

What if I die in my sleep.

What if the house catches fire and I can’t escape in time because I was asleep.

There are so many other things I could be doing.

I don’t have enough life left.

What if I miss something important or cool.

What if there’s a burglar when I’m asleep and it goes south and they murder me.

What if I have an aneurysm in my sleep.

What if I have a stroke in my sleep.

What if I have a heart attack in my sleep.

What if there’s a gas leak and the house explodes while I’m asleep.

What if there’s a CO leak and I just asphyxiate.

What if I just never wake up for no discernible reason.

I wanna play more video games.

I wanna browse the internet more.

I don’t want to have the bad thoughts come back like they always do when I try to sleep.

Christian in what sense?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PUIhDUFZo

Very relevant.

Basically, it’s a combination of new foods and exposure to new bacteria.

It doesn’t, but that doesn’t mean people can’t believe that it does.

Beliefs and personal convictions muck that up a bit though.

There’s a sadly significant portion of people who truly believe that being gay is hurting other people.

Whether they believe it only because they were told to or for some personal reason, they believe it nonetheless.

What’s out so far is good.

It’s split up so that the releases after launch continue the main story of the expansion and are included in the price, so no more buying an expansion then having to be playing at a specific time or pay for the follow-up story.

The next part releases tomorrow, so we’ll see how that stacks up.

GW2 for the past 11 years, except for a stretch where I played ESO for a few months.

Community’s mostly great. Cooperation between players is strongly fostered by the game’s design (no kill or resource stealing, no competing for drops, etc), so players tend to get along in almost every PvE situation.

Lore is good, but not nearly as expanded upon as Warcraft’s.

Gameplay is what makes it IMO. Skill effects and some gear skins can be a bit obnoxious, especially when you’re in large groups for open world and World vs World, but it’s still enjoyable. Don’t play normal PvP, so can’t comment on that.

*bad new overwatch

Highway 145, mile marker 78.

Ultimately, the ideal (but incredibly unrealistic) solution would be a global, coordinated effort to immediately remove from power everyone who abuses their power along with a dedication to continuing to do so whenever another pops up, regardless of the personal cost. Bringing them down with us is only slightly less unrealistic.

I ultimately have no desire to see them suffer, I simply want them out of power, and I think that for the sake of the future, it’s worth any cost that they might pay.

As John Brown said: “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” And he was right about that. If we cannot achieve a better future with little bloodshed, then we owe it to the future to achieve it with any amount of bloodshed necessary.

No amount of suffering that those in power experience could ever match the amount of suffering that forever failing to remedy the problem will cause to the quadrillions of humans that could exist in the future or even just the billions that exist now. If we humans unable to band together to eliminate threats, even those from within, then we will suffer like this forever. It’s better to try and fail than to passively allow it to continue for the rest of history.

If all there is is suffering for us, then why not ensure that those in power are along for the ride with us?

It is.

Lack of sleep and leisure time will do more damage in the long run than the short term benefits of 16+ hours of learning a day will ever do good.

“The devil you know” and all that.

Yeah, when you start off with “Everything we say is always right”, then any change of stance or admission of error immediately brings everything else into question.

Cool, don’t care.

It’s better than the alternative.

Scammers could make normal looking posts until they make a popular one, then edit it to a spammy link.

You’re 10k years off the Pleistocene.

Yeah, not a big stretch to add a poo sock.

I remember when Steam the software was the worst piece of software on my computer. And it stayed that way for long enough that it became a meme.

My point is that owning games was never any good because there was always some severe limitation on your legal rights since the game itself is a piece of software and there’s no universal way to guarantee your ownership of a piece of software.

The disk could always break. If there was any online component, they could always take down the servers. Or if the game was broken from the start or became broken at any point, they could always just never provide the necessary update to make it playable.

I’ve never really been one to sell my games because I’m always wanting to go back and play them later, so I can’t really offer any input on that fact.

I just prefer the system that gives me at least a paper thin guarantee over the one that’s less convenient and has absolutely no guarantee.