That’s the first thing I thought when I read this post and I don’t understand why you are not upvoted more.

OP wants me to take advice from the person who won the lottery and disregard all the others who sunk stupid amounts of money and got nothing to show for it? I’d rather hear them all and make an informed decision.

Absolutely. I find that much more productive than the catchall evil.

It’s not about being nice for me. More about how humanity could grow out of this cycle. Be better prepared when the storm is over.

Do I think this needs to be stopped? Most definitely. Do I think we will learn anything from it? Probably not. Or way too little.

But like I said. This just might not be the time anymore to have the luxury being more nuanced.

I’d buy you one in return.

Yeh I’m with you. We might well be past the point where people can still come together. I also feel quite discouraged that things have escalated to this. But I’m still trying to keep a few of my principles and a bit of my humanity. I don’t believe there’s evil, its a term for scaring children or riling up people against each other in contexts like religion or other groups. It’s just circumstances and humans who are not fit to deal with them in a healthy way.

I‘m sure our opinions don’t differ too much, I’m totally with you on many things.

What I’m trying to get at is that we end up with 2 groups of people who call each other evil. Because that’s what using these labels boils things down to. And whoever is stronger will come out on top and claim they righteously defeated the evil others. There no discourse to be had, there’s no nuance. Only hate. Which as we can see is also very easy to weaponize.

It’s exactly this rhetoric that demonizes and dehumanizes the other that got us here.

Humans can be misguided and become really really shitty people. But labeling anyone evil is just lazy and won’t help make anything better. It just fuels the fire of this downward spiral.

At least that’s my thoughts.

I mean, usually the side effects have qualifiers like „Common: mild headaches“ „Very Rare: become a vessel for satan to roam the earth and sow chaos“. Wouldn’t it indeed be nice to have this for the positive effects too?

Have you tried masochism?

Not sure if there’s a difference but I have a steam deck connected to a 2.1 capable dock and it works even with VRR (although it sporadically forgets that VRR is a thing and I have to reboot the TV)

Now I wonder if you are a coconut incident expert trying to downplay the dangers of coconuts.

Missed opportunity: cornvinced

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Not really. Practice means you’re doing something that isn’t the thing and get closer to doing the thing with every attempt. Say you want to do a handstand but you fall over, you didn’t do a handstand, you did a fallover.

I’d guess it’s just the alcohol in the whiskey and would work as well with any other alcoholic beverage with a similar or higher amount of alcohol. Or is there anything special about whiskey?

And there are even more layers to this. How much do you know and like the people you are interacting with? How comfortable are you in the setting/circumstances? How interesting are the activities/conversations?

I don’t think it necessarily is the reflective properties etc. but it has been shown that doing stuff in nature is beneficial to mental health. And since people likely usually spend less time in nature in winter, doing so would improve mood.

Im glad you replied what I was going to reply… just in a way more positive way :D

Had this experience with Dead Cells. Regretted it and haven’t touched games until they reached 1.0 since then.

A dev made a mistake when the product was still in alpha and fixed it immediately after becoming aware of it. Let’s never use the product ever again!

Ok, I didn’t read the article but I’d guess it’s satire about parents exploiting their (in this case autistic) children for money. So it ridicules exactly what you describe as disgusting, hopefully to point out this injustice. So I don’t understand what you’re saying.