Oh hey I was just about to comment that the one time I got morphine in the hospital it absolutely did not make me feel like this. It didn’t feel like anything except “thank god the pain stopped, now I can rest.” But it didn’t make me feel good above my baseline and I was about to wonder if something was wrong with me? Now I just feel lucky.
Fantastic write up. Reminds me of a post on Hobby Drama.
Wait, Will Wright worked on Spore?? Wow TIL
There’s a really good discovering website I like called Favoree!
Doing absolutely nothing about lootboxes though.
I was looking for a good source for that (I have heard the same thing) but found this instead which is still helpful.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666956022000290
My to do list app had a wrapped and I was deeply displeased to see it.
Yep. I lost a tooth to dropping a cell phone on my face while laying on the couch. The edge hit my lower teeth.
I have a gemstone (I forget what kind, it’s a dark purple though) worry stone. It’s just the right shape to rest in my hand and let me rub my thumb over it. I don’t really use it for that often, but on occasion it’s nice to just hold a cool stone, literally and figuratively.
Oh that’s interesting, I hadn’t considered that. What do you mean by realign though?
A powerful statement in therapy that still hits me when I think about it. “You don’t stop being someone’s child.” (I’ll leave it without context, the context would be too painful and personal, so read that however you want.)
Had a tamer but similar hill near my home growing up. Loved speeding down. It ended in a lot filled with gravel. Fortunately the day I spun out on the gravel lot was coming from a different, slower direction. Developed an extremely bad case of road rash all over one leg. When I realized what might have happened if I’d been taking the hill instead, that I probably would have broken my legs or worse, I stopped going down that hill. Realization of mortality can be like a bucket of ice water sometimes.
I got all the way to the last level once… but never beat it. The lava level man.
Omelettes. So versatile. So good. Of all the combos I love bacon and mushrooms in my american cheese omelettes best of all.
Pancakes are a close second.
Extremely sorry for your loss. What a treasured loved one you got to have. I’m sure he loved you immensely.
I’m with you on the confusion because it’s like… I don’t feel the need to act this way, why do other people? What drives them that, in a void, they resort to these thoughts and behaviors? Is this who they really are, or is it an act, like doing an evil playthrough in a game. “I want to because I can here, and I can’t anywhere else?”
First one is a screencap from Overly Sarcastic Productions. I sadly don’t remember where the second one came from.
I agree.
Absolutely–especially if it helps to offset server costs. I’ve donated before for that.
Curious what you’d think of a sort of roped off, “free to enter” entry community/instance that would be akin to a shallow pool. Just enough so you understand how it works and see what it would be like, but everything else would have that pay-for barrier. You’re right that there’s a good benefit to putting a wall up but at the same time we’re still small enough that actively discouraging people from joining might not* be wise. I absolutely have turned my nose up to websites and servers that have some kind of pretty splash page and then a “Okay pay to get in!” message. I don’t even know what I’m paying for.