Your Pokémon comparison reminds me of something I’ve noticed with gaming. Sometimes the game just has to hit me at the right time, regardless of nostalgia. I’ve had games that I bounced off of multiple times, then years later I decide to give it a go and get sucked in. I’m fairly sure this sometimes happens due to other factors in my life at the time (situations I’m currently experiencing, things I haven’t experienced, etc.).

For me, personally, these games are the closest thing on a computer to a nearly endless sandbox tabletop rpg experience. I don’t like having to do some grand “save the world” narrative that RPGs push you into, and in Skyrim I can avoid it after the intro or mod it out. Then I create characters like a tabletop RPG (I develop a backstory and where I choose to go and what I choose to do is based on the character’s personality in my mind) and essentially play it like it is a solo tabletop game where the engine takes care of a lot of the work.

I haven’t played in years, though, because I can’t get the same level of immersion as I did when playing for 5 hours straight before having kids.

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Some just want money.

I think this article: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17043978/uk-porn-age-verification-law-mindgeek

Is about pornhub’s parent company trying to lobby in favor of this because it thought it could make money by selling age verification. I read an article saying something to that effect quite some time ago, and I think this is the article, but can’t be sure because it’s requiring a login and the archive site isn’t loading for me at the moment.

Mine died during Covid lockdown while I was in another country on lockdown. I don’t do well with those sorts of interactions either. We didn’t have the relationship you seem to have had with yours, but I do wish I had been able to be present for just a little time, if nothing else. It takes me a long time to process things anyway and I think it’s probably taken me until this year to feel like I understand him better. I suspect he had the same issue with interactions as me and would’ve wanted me there, but wouldn’t have been able to say it (doubly so, since he had lost the ability to speak by the time I knew he was going to die).

Doc told me it was related to acid reflux in my case and put me on some prescription meds.

My family does it non-sarcastically and sometimes it goes on long enough and I get mad enough to tell them to fuck off, which is apparently not a nice thing to say to an almost 70 year old woman.

If they work anything like the far right in the U.S., they’ll raise hell about it til they get elected then implement it themselves.

“The destruction of capital—temples, palaces, manors, monuments, bathhouses, and wealthy properties—all disproportionately hurt the rich.” Though calamities such as disease and famine tend to bring greater harm to the poor, those who manage to survive the wipeout event, Kemp suggests, are left with “more bargaining power with bosses and landlords” because there are fewer people with whom to compete.

Ominous, given the current push for AI among the rich and powerful.

Barracuda would probably be in Water.

Scrolling to the right is also slow as hell with this. It used to scroll across several videos at once but now it scrolls one per swipe.

I stopped using the main page and started using the subscriptions page, which still has the smaller icons. I’m using YouTube a lot less, though.

Everything he does has always seemed like it’s the wish list republicans have been promising their base for decades. Pinning it all on him is a mistake that lets them scamper back into the walls like cockroaches once he’s gone.

The more data they have, the more accurate the picture. You may be underestimating how much we all change over the years. At 24 you know what your parents taught you and maybe have a degree. You probably aren’t married. You probably don’t have kids. You probably don’t have any diseases (that you know of).

At 30, maybe you’re married and they’re collecting information about that. At 35 you’ve changed careers and gained or lost a religion. Maybe you have children (now they’re adding info on your children). Maybe you’ve found out that you are diabetic or bipolar. Maybe you’ve had two car accidents. At 40 you’ve cast off a lot of the demands of your parents. Maybe you get divorced. Maybe you realize you’re gay or trans. Maybe you become invested in a different type of politics. Maybe you change careers again. Maybe the bipolar diagnosis gets removed as a misdiagnosis. Maybe now you’ve had cancer.

Imagine how much less they’d have on you (and your children) at 45 if you had cut them off at 24.

Shingles can get in your eyes and cause you to go blind, too.

One of my most vivid memories of waking up at night, I looked down towards my feet and there was a dark, spider-shaped shadow about the size of a dachshund. I looked at it for a second, then there was a flurry of movement from its legs as it rushed up towards my face. I jumped out of bed and threw the covers at it, then hit the lights. Nothing was there.

The messed up thing about this is that the original image was talking about some random project being maintained by one person in their spare time. This is about a $69 billion company

I keep seeing this a lot lately. I also saw one that had the style from the image (accept all or refuse maybe), but if you hit refuse, a second one popped up that said:

[pay to read]

Or

[read for free]

I opened it in private mode and read for free just let me into the article. I’m guessing it accepts all.

I made a habit of getting drunk before trying new foods. I’m not sure I’m healthier as a result. I eat a larger variety of healthier foods now (mostly vegetables), but I’m still anxious about eating with people I don’t know really well because I don’t like a lot of common foods that aren’t particularly healthy.

The other upside is that trying different things gave me ideas for how to cook and season vegetables that I didn’t like in ways that I would like them, which opened up that whole arena a lot more. My mom usually served canned vegetables with pepper and it gave me a bad idea of what vegetables could be. Then again, maybe having those bad experiences early on made it easier for the good ones to take later.

Another article I saw said that the rider adds such a strict requirement for THC content that 95% of the CBD sold in the U.S. would be made illegal.

More than nothing. They caused a lot of people distress and anxiety. Maybe put some people into debt.

They also gained a heavy blue turnout in the last election then immediately capitulate as planned.

Fucking assholes.