Keep your head up. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. And don’t forget to forgive yourself. Things will get better.

Reach out if you need someone to talk to. I have ADD, which is significantly less intense than adhd, but my wife has adhd pretty bad so I do get it from an outside perspective.

Then I jump ship to a new job, and the cycle restarts

I won’t pretend to know your situation, but the way you talk about the cracks forming sounds a bit like you also have an anxiety problem. You jumped ship, you didn’t get fired. I get the feeling that you quit because you felt like you disappointed them.

My friend, you got a degree. You made it through the gauntlet, regardless of how you did it or whether or not you feel like you deserve it. You did it. You are worthy.

The best thing about starting new is that you now have the experience to know what made you fail last time, without the pressure of the people who saw it happen.

It’s not going to be easy, but you can do it. You’re no more an imposter than the rest of us. There are many more people than you think who just wing it. The most important thing is that you get back up and try again.

They’re pretty much the only company on the planet that can push the “because your friends have one” aspect in their marketing and succeed. Apple users think they’re all part of this exclusive club and really don’t care that they’re straight up being robbed by the cost.

This is a symptom of a larger problem, which is that the bar for journalism for conservatives is literally just the big red R next to their names. Anyone who labels themselves republican can suddenly tell no lies and do no harm. That’s exactly what right wing media wants, but it has destroyed the very integrity journalism has been built on for 100+ years, and the kicker is that conservatives in this country don’t even have a clue about it.

How did civilization get this way?

Well, it started when Nixon posited that conservatives needed a republican news outlet to frame political problems in a way that always casted republicans in a good light, that way a media-landslide like Watergate wouldn’t happen again. Fox News was born, and has slowly been pushing our society into what it is now.

So, to answer your question, the snowball started rolling about 50 years ago.

In the scenario in your comment, that very same news network told a bunch of gullable, trained idiots that we are being invaded, in order to make republican policy look good.

Based on experience dealing with people outside the US for my job, I’d say this person is implying whatsapp as the alternative.

I personally don’t see the point from within the states, given that whatsapp forces you to connect your number to it anyway.

This… Might not be as dumb as it sounds.

Goddammit you son of a bitch I’m gonna try it

On the topic of generating traffic: I use a little app off of github called geddit. It essentially uses the RSS feed reddit has and skins it into an app. It’s pretty bare on features since you can’t log in, but you can have a personalized front page. And no ads as well. And nsfw posts/subs aren’t blocked.

That’s my compromise for accessing niche communities without giving reddit traffic.

Edit: It’s an android app. Not really an option if you have an iPhone I guess

After several years of having 4+ cats, I can confidently say that cats care about the location of a piece of furniture more than the furniture itself.

If you’re worried about your cat using a cat tree, for example, maybe try putting it next to a window or in a vantage point for their favorite room.

Every time I’ve moved my cat tree a different combination of cats would sleep on it. Right now it’s behind a door and the only one who likes it is my 8 year old torti, who hasn’t spent a day in her life on it until now. We put it there temporarily to clean the space it was previously in but we left it because she suddenly started using it.

I would add 5 layer burrito to that mix, to really capture diarrhea you get from the unholy combination of ground meat, nacho cheese, and sour cream.

The problem with that logic is that when awards and scholarships exclusively go to white people or men, it’s because “they have the correct merit and deserve those things” and the fact that they all happen to be white and/or men gets overlooked because it’s socially accepted that white men tend to be more intelligent than other demographics.

If that fact can go without scrutiny, particularly investigation about the underlying cause of why that is, then calling out race or gender based action that seeks to correct it is hypocrisy.

If we are going to say “It’s not fair for black women to have an exclusive way to empower other black women” then we must also say “It’s not fair for white men to perpetuate the tendency of also empowering only other white men”, because that may actually be intentional by racist white men in power. But that aspect is never even looked at in the same context as something like this.

The way we acknowledge this is either by being conscious of the ratio of white men being handed awards and money or by being conscious of the fact that generational poverty exists and is causing black people, particularly black women to fall behind, and allowing groups like this to exist.

If you can’t do either, then you’re asserting that it’s ok for white men to go without even asking if what they’re doing is racist, but not black women. Which is inherently racist and sexist.

I don’t disagree with you. All I was really saying was that Overwatch specifically wasn’t making money with its model

You’re right. It is a matter of perspective though. For the actual players, absolutely. It’s always better to have self hosted matches and control the content yourself. But even in my example above, Overwatch could not sustain itself as a studio on the buy-once model, even with loot boxes. I still think they’re doing it wrong and it fucking sucks, but the buy-once model lead to a developmentally dead game for a few years.

From game dev perspective, having a model that makes money over time allows the game to continue being updated without investment from outside sources.

Nobody ever accused Republicans of being smart

Well yeah. Games that are inherently multi-player and not split screen and feature an aspect of matchmaking are obviously fine to be always online games as a service.

Although personally the games-as-a-service model is something I avoid even in those. Overwatch was made objectively worse when it went from the buy-once model to the pay-once-a-season-or-you-dont-get-the-new-hero model. Mauga is completely busted right now and every new introduction of a hero since 2 launched has felt exactly like this-- busted while paid-only players have access and then fixed after the free players get a chance.

It’s the model. Squeezing money out of players is slowly killing even multi-player games like Overwatch.

It’s completely and utterly unacceptable for single player games.

Dominions (Dominions 6 just came out, but it’s an iterative game so try 4 or 5 first)

So it’s like civilization and battle simulator had a baby, where armies are managed by the unit and there are simulated battles of thousands.

But all the civs are loosely based on different existing mythologies and there’s a crazy complex magic system

Oh, and you get to create a god that you can totally battle with.

If you like civ-like games, it’s a really unique and satisfying twist on the genre with an incredible amount of sheer depth.

Oh this is a neat game I’ll just build this little gun turret and oh my god 14 hours have passed

You might be experiencing anhedonia. Talk to a doctor, bro

The other guy linked the answer, but I’m going to explain it anyway:

In the US, companies have the freedom to bribe lobby our congress members by giving them money that’s totally unrelated to their vote you guys. The reasoning behind that being ok is that the congress official in question is still technically free to vote however they choose despite the money given to them. The reason lobbying works is the threat that the congress person might not get that money next time if they vote against that company’s interests.

Just so you all know, because our congress members make a government salary of about 150k-250k/year, it’s surprisingly cheap (from a rich company perspective) to lobby them, with lots of payments being in the low thousands. So for obscenely wealthy companies (like intuit), it’s much cheaper to pay just enough guys off to kill a movement than for them to suffer the actual consequences of that movement.

In this case, intuit’s entire business model depends on American taxes seeming like this mysterious and unapproachable thing that Americans have to pay a third party for in order to not get thrown in jail by the IRS. And given that intuit (and companies like H&R block) rake in billions each year, it’s comparatively pennies to pay off congress officials to keep it that way.

-> 'Merica

That’s because woke really just means “when I don’t like societal pressure to be a better person because it validates other people I hate for no reason”