It depends on your insurance iirc.

My insurance has a deductible which means I need to spend $2.5k before they will fully pay for things like meds, or visits. This makes all medication notably expensive. My ADHD meds went from $8.00ish to $210 just because my plan switched. I put aside $2.5k for this purpose though. It fucking sucks and getting a better plan just simply costs 2-3x’s as much.

I’m actually leaving Florida in about 6 months!!

Of course!

For me personally 3-5 were solid Far Cry titles! I haven’t beaten 2 yet though. They are “AAA” titles and the corporate parts show, especially in 5. But I love the sandbox environments and the stories are dumb fun imo. Great “brain off” games (stealth is fun too)

“Done” doesn’t always mean complete, generally that’s where games go that I didn’t finish, never returned, and don’t plan on ever playing again.

But to answer your question

Far Cry: horrible update, AI is broken, don’t care to fix it

Far Cry Primal: Didn’t hate it but I didn’t love it, caused major eye pain too so I couldn’t play long.

Penumbra: Requiem: Abandoned the vibes of the previous two penumbra games which were the precursors to the amnesia games, didn’t enjoy the puzzles either.

Planet Centauri: Development Hell, no interest anymore.

Sniper Elite: weird funky controls just not enjoyable for me got about midway through before tapping out.

We happy few: mostly abandoned by the devs, game suffered due to being rushed.

Out of those I beat 3, the rest I either didn’t make the return window or kept for library collection reasons.

I tried to sort by genre too many times and failed due to how specific some games get. So now they are sorted by completion.

I also have a huge word document that has a very detailed, color-coded checklist of every game I have sorted alphabetically & by franchise, this was made so I could include any games from my other devices.

I must have the opposite of what you have, unless it’s gone very off I have eaten a bit too much bad food but never gotten sick from it.

Moldy bread, fruits in a container with a rotting fruit or two, bad yogurt. Yet my stomach held strong and made nary a sound

I think there’s a difference between telling a therapist “I’m trans” vs “I think I’m trans”

A good therapist imo would lay on the questioning if you used “I think” because at that point it’s too early to encourage hormones or anything beyond that. A good therapist would recommend simple things to try out different forms of gender expression.

“Are you sure?” is the most I’d expect from a therapist if you said you are trans tbh

What happens is some kid gets a gossip app which takes their contact data and then uses it to send this shit.

I used to get it pretty often too when I was in school.

Worse? I don’t get why everyone says it’s getting worse. It only seems worse because your curtain of innocence is torn away as you grow older. We as humans latch onto negative memories, they exist in our mind longer than positive memories because it’s easier to remember the bad. That is why everything seems worse.

Mix that with the Internet, news, and so-on and all of a sudden it’s doomsday every day.

It has always been shitty, but each decade is getting better and better on average. Outside of risks like Nuclear War, and Global Warming, there really isn’t anything else that will “end the world” as we know it.

If you brought someone from ancient Mesopotamia and showed them this current world, they would not recognize it as their own. Nothing would seem familiar and their world as they know it has ended.

I don’t understand why so many people fall victim to this negative pessimistic thought process of “humans suck it’s all going to end for us” instead of just focusing on the positive and improving the lives of those around them. If rude, mean, evil people try to fuck that over, trample them and continue being happy. If you can’t trample them, adapt and work around it. Freedom can be taken but your mind cannot be bound.

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Soon the schizophrenics will become neuro-typical

Because people like pokemon that’s why.

There’s plenty of games with “edgy monsters” and I literally always forget them. But a fucking crab with a traffic cone for a shell? I will NEVER forget.

Besides the last franchise that tried to compete with Pokemon on top of adding the edgy monsters was Digimon and that’s…questionable at best.

It also sucks if all the content is exclusively paywalled. I wouldn’t know what is or isn’t good without potentially wasting my hard earned money. I can’t even afford rent let alone a series of patreon services. I support creators when I can, but I refuse to be a fucking product for simply being poor.

We def get plenty of good games in a year. But everyone wants to give their money to big AAA devs when the good games are made by small teams.

This year we got (in the spotlight):

Baldurs Gate 3, LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom, Resident Evil 4, and Pikmin 4.

And in the background we got: Turbo Overkill, Have a Nice Death, Pizza Tower, just to name a few.

Maybe take a break from gaming if it’s so irritating, or go back and play some older games. Either way, the overconsumption of people who grew up gaming js unsustainable and it leads to mental burnout eventually. Doesn’t help that most profit comes from multiplayer games, which people continue to actively play while complaining about it as if there aren’t other options.

A self image that has been instilled through years and years of highly targeted, and highly researched ad campaigns.

People “want” these because they believe they need it, because the ads told them they need it. Then the other men who own those vehicles proceed to shit on the men with smaller trucks, and those insecure enough to bend over get the big truck as well.

I don’t see this truck culture in Europe. I don’t see people buying stupid vehicles to go offroading full of expensive gadgets and so on. While I’m sure it exists in small pockets it is by no means the level it’s at here. (In Europe it’s probably more for sports cars anywho)

Point being, no one wanted those SUVs until the car companies told them they want those SUVs.

I’ve heard this plenty of times, but are you using that field? Are you using that forest? This road that road? Are you using the parking lot in Seattle when you live in Georgia?

“We have the space for bigger vehicles” does not make sense when we have to drive farther and farther to reach things that are useful for us. (Also sprawling development destroys local ecosystems, and along with that, natural resources.)

While I would’ve agreed with you a few years ago, it’s just not a realistic thought process when most people live their day-to-day lives in an area about the size of Luxembourg.

Big vehicles are a huge waste of valuable resources that could’ve been used on other things, such as infrastructure, public transport, smaller vehicles. Etc.

They are tricked into wanting big vehicles.

Never too late to learn how to read 🤷‍♀️

I honestly hated Aliens. I watched Alien and loved it to death, the sound, environment, tension were all really cool. Crew Members felt like people, Ripley felt real, and I liked how it didn’t focus on Ripley from the beginning and just let the story build itself.

Aliens was just a bunch of headstrong generic idiots along with other stupid action tropes. There was nothing about it I found redeeming beyond the antiquity of practical effects. But that seems to be a minority opinion because people really love Aliens and Alien 3 etc. I just felt annoyed and dissatisfied with the 2nd movie.