It is inevitable that an opposition would form against you. You either let the movement continue to gain traction and risk unseating you or you use your power in a corrupt manner to silence them.

Personally, no. You’re barely an adult at that point. If you have the privilege of a disposable income at thirty, splurge and enjoy yourself. Treat yourself to new experiences.

You will read this first

And you will read this last

And then you will read this

Then this one

Did I do it right?

Just scrub them out with a pipe cleaner from time to time you’ll be fine

We’re investigating private companies for bias now? Are Truth Social and Fox News next??

First, people need to accept that we exist within a culture of overconsumption that directly contributes to climate change. Sacrifices to common conveniences will need to be made before we can make any meaningful change.

I’m not saying this is all on the individual. Corporations contribute tremendous waste. But they do so in service to society’s demand for convenience and instant gratification. We all need to learn to live with less.

Notice your default behaviors and take a moment to consider whether they serve you. They might, they might not. You may want to change them, you may not. Just be intentional about how you conduct yourself.

• Sword and Sworcery
• Starbound
• Outer Wilds
• Mirror’s Edge

Third one in a little over two years. They say it’s to keep up with inflation as if they’re a retail store operating on razor thin margins and people accept that. Meanwhile, they’re donating to fascist political parties and shafting artists by leveraging loopholes to pay out fewer royalties.

Or the basketball-sized spiders

Great! I can think of nothing better to be spending our resources on than an international game of chicken where a likely result is that everybody dies.

So many. To list some that aren’t in the top comments:

Foxhole - This one gets to a point where it becomes an obligation. It feels like work that I’m not getting paid for. And still I’ll easily get sucked into defending a town or advancing a front for days on end between periods of burnout, checking statuses at work and staying up way past my bedtime, decimating my sleep schedule and productivity in the process.

Don’t Starve Together - My partner and I took a week off and were supposed to go camping but we ended up playing this too late the night before we were supposed to leave. We woke up really early to pack the car and it took about five minutes for us to go, “nope, this ain’t happening”. So instead we spent the entire week locked in our apartment playing DST from the moment we woke up to the early hours of the morning and living off of our camping provisions.

League of Legends - I played a lot of LoL back in its early days. My dorm had awful internet so when I came home for the summer it was pretty much all I would do all day every day. It brought out a bad side of me. Losing felt awful and winning was never satisfying enough. I’ve been clean from LoL for over 10 years now. Sometimes I still think about downloading it but I’ve so far kept the strength.

I just drove through Wyoming and it’s a prime spot for wind turbines. Too bad it’s also prime for coal mining…

Meh, I actually know how to code without the help of AI and my knowledge in computer science is minimal. A lot of people assume you need to be good at math and whatnot to be a software developer but in reality it’s like the difference between being a construction worker and having an engineering degree.

Edit: I’m a senior software engineer for a big tech company. Y’all down voting me are either over-inflating what software engineers do on a day-to-day or undervaluing what construction workers do.

The country voted for it on November 5th, 2024. It’s not like Trump was being subtle about his intention to impose tariffs broadly. Being woefully uneducated about the effects of Trump’s tariffs is no excuse, the majority of Americans American voters wanted this.

When I think of somebody as a parent I tend to subconsciously assign them the traits of a loving, caring and well-meaning adult even if their actions are less than perfect. But in reality, any psychopath with functional sex organs can be a parent.

I stopped using Spotify long ago because of their shitty business practices. Producing a product they killed support for within just a couple years without reimbursing customers and producing huge amounts of e-waste. Jacking their subscription prices twice in one year. Apparently, they also donated to Trump despite not being an American company?? That’s to say nothing of their shitty recommendation algorithm, which just plays your most played tracks over and over. Good riddance.

For those interested, I use Tidal now. I’m satisfied with, their recommendation algo is fine and the higher quality streaming is really nice but nothing I’ve used has ever been as good as Google Play Music, I found so much good music though that service and could upload whatever I was missing. Once Tidal inevitably pisses me off, I’m going to move on to self hosting.

I have a core memory of chipping away at the brick of what had previously been powdered Gatorade that had since formed into a single solid mass after sitting in the pantry for several months.