Everything being said on both sides in those screenshots doesn’t really mean much to me without data to show it’s actually the case.

My personal feeling is that I don’t care to own most games in the first place and would be happy getting them all from the library the same way I do with books. Without Gamepass I wouldn’t have played things like Payday 3 or Grounded in the first place because I won’t purchase them. The alternative for me is piracy.

That’s ableist.

It’s fine if people come in to learn about it though, right? I think a lot of people like myself can’t get diagnosed for various reasons, or maybe they just have a loved one who has ADHD. I think it’s better to say that if you’re going to be ableist about it, you can keep your mouth shut.

Pretty much every mental diagnosis that exists is a case of something completely normal which presents in too extreme (or too muted) a fashion in the given individual. The criteria for diagnosis isn’t just whether you experience X, but whether X has a significant negative impact on your life.

It wouldn’t work that way. Individual Pokemon are made up of many stat values that make them much more unique than gacha characters and skins. My Espeon from Gale of Darkness can’t be replaced with another Espeon.

I like the treadmill or walking outside.

I obviously can’t be sure about you, but in my case my tastes have crystallized pretty dramatically, and I’m now much harder to please than when I was younger.

One thing that has changed though, is that games in general tend to have much more detailed stories and dialog in a way that just wasn’t in the budget or storage space previously. Nothing annoys me more than having to watch a movie when I want to play a game or to jump through hoops just to get to the next chapter of a book. These are very different activities which require very different moods to enjoy.

I’m just lucky enough to have one at my apartment building, and very wasteful neighbors.

I’m in an apartment building, so I just browse the one here whenever I take the trash out. I don’t think anyone has noticed, or they’ve elected to mind their own business if they have.

There’s so much stuff that could still be used that it honestly isn’t funny, and that’s just in my own bin. How much more is being wasted across the country? But at least it’s in the recycling and not the trash, so that’s something, I guess.

No, but I did get an Xbox that only needed a power cable.

Digging through e-waste bins is one of my hobbies.

I don’t love the disregard for plant life just because they lack the central nervous system of animals, but this isn’t an argument in favor of eating animals. If you want to argue it’s better for us to die than to live via harm, that’s one thing, but if you accept we have the right to live at the expense of other life forms then the goal of many becomes to minimize suffering.

While plants do have sensory experiences which elicit behaviors, they don’t experience the world in a personal way; they’re like a robot or generative AI. When a dog suffers, it has a concept of self and an understanding of what is happening to it, and it will carry memories of the experience which negatively influence its quality of life.

I’m almost positive this is my problem, but my local health system won’t let me see a psychiatrist.

There’s a YouTube video of a guy who I guess he and his wife did life blogs or something (I didn’t watch their content, so I don’t really know). He’s got his recording going about the start of his day, talking about how she’s sleeping in again, and then he goes to wake her, but she’s fucking dead. It’s like the most human thing I’ve ever seen on film, and I really appreciate that he posted it, even though I don’t fully understand why I feel that way. It just feels important to me.

I think the vast majority of people already have this value system. The problem is the minority who hoard gold and the governmental systems which enable them.

It gets frustrating when the thing you don’t like is a very common feature though, and it’s valid to complain.

I really prefer dodging to parrying or blocking, so I don’t like it when a game is set up so that parrying is necessary or overly rewarded in a way that makes the fights much longer or more difficult if you choose to not play that way.

Even if you can afford a doctor, I’m not sure I’d risk a US diagnosis these days, what with all the talk of being sent off to a pleasant farm where nothing bad will happen to you.

That is useful, but I see it’s a third-party feature. I was able to find a “send to Kindle” page on Amazon that would allow the sending of a page as a PDF file.

What did tap to turn do?