simulacrum, you say?

Is it combat if I sit down and let you get a good shot?

…while drinking your last cup of coffee

Worse they seen describe you to the others so multiple will know them.

Some cases are short term, situational depression - say, as a reaction to something happening or that occurred. Others are indeed chronic and unyielding. There are ways to manage it, or to adjust to it but I agree there is absolutely not a known cure.

Socializing is difficult when one’s instinct is to isolate. I learned that in non-human animals that exhibit depression it is often because they believe they are going to die and do not want to become liability to the rest of the group, when applicable.

Basically the same for humans where there’s a chance that if that situational depression is activated (for the lack of a better term) it might never shut off. Overactive hind-brain also makes one prone to fight/flight/fawn which is colloquially anxiety disorders.

That’s such an understatement but we’re taught it’s normal

I enjoy Warframe because even the 2% rolls happen because I’m able to retry as much as I please. 2% doesn’t translate to a single attempt very well, so padding the odds would be warranted.

Scripted drops and stories like new Vegas where everything does something and you don’t often walk away feeling unpaid? Absolutely top shelf games. Or if it’s one more linear like Tales of ___ games where I grind for exp and resources but the thing is where it is you just have to go get it. Some skill or building up elsewhere and you become king.

I call it saving my progress in a game to play the way I want to. I have a broken playthrough where I reload when I don’t get the thing, and a natural progression save where the game unfolds ‘as intended by RNGsus’

Sounds like a good deal to me, on my way.

ATBGE lives on.

Blue is a girl.

If someone isn’t upset you already know.

One of the most carcinogenic and uncomfortable waste-plastic lumps to come into the world?

Same tune, the llama song was a parody. I didn’t think about that song for nigh two decades and you’re the second to mention it in a month.

All is corn, corn is all.

The Man in the Wall is always watching.

Basically yeah. It can travel on the air and will root into your lungs until you get new lungs, basically.

We knew about this. I’ve been rambling about it to people that tolerate me and for the last ten+ years we’ve known this was coming. It’s part of climate change and will make Covid look trivial if we don’t figure something out. Back then we could still have slowed it but with global warming being at the pace it is it’s been inevitable. There’s several kinds iirc so buckle up I guess.

If I’m wrong on any of this I’m more than open to correction, I actually love being wrong.

Until it’s just thrown into the memory pit and buried with pfas money like the electric car or solar panels and other ‘healing’ technological progression over the last 100 years

I cast cast-iron iron.