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throwaway378037 commented on Bethesda’s Redfall needs to be online for single-player mode arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/evo_9
Burned too many times by this publisher in the last decade. They didn't make anything GREAT since New Vegas.
And they didn’t even make that!
+1 box breathing
It has helped me a lot at times too, even helping a little with long covid/post-viral symptoms, sample size of 1 but it really doesn’t hurt to try
throwaway378037 commented on London’s historic Smithfield Market meets a new chapter bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/zeristor
The article touches on the Elizabeth line, but this area is a prime location Farringdon station is on both the Elizabeth line and Thameslink.
I’d sort of grimly expect that there’d be a rush to build tall office blocks all around the station, the sour taste of sweet progress.
Also it is just awkward to get to Smithfield from Farringdon, the station exit is a fair walk around a block, I had thought they could have opened station access directly to Smithfield.
Farringdon to Smithfield is about a 3-4 mins walk up Cowcross Street, pretty convenient
throwaway378037 commented on London’s historic Smithfield Market meets a new chapter bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/zeristor
I know it's probably not worth fighting market forces, but this seems like a real shame.
I lived right near the market on Turnmill Street when I had my first job in London, and used to walk to work in the city past the market in the mornings. The traders would usually be packing up by the time I went past, but it gave a real feeling of the diversity that the London economy has. It being so close to the one of the financial centres of the world really added to that feeling. The smell, the noise, the sights of men running around with large animal parts... it really was something special and interesting.
Now it's going to be yet another set of offices, eateries... So dull compared to what it was.
I lived in Clerkenwell and the Barbican from teenage through mid 20s and I loved walking through the market. Sometimes if up early or pulling an all nighter to study I’d go walk there at 4am to see all the traders in action. This is truly a damn shame.
I don't invite people over anymore because their fussiness scales negatively - where if you want to mix 5 people who each have a rule about what they cannot abide, the common denominator is rarely special enough to leave the house for. Between the discretionary lifestyle demands of vegetarians, vegans, non-glutens, non-porks, non-drinkers, anti-smokers, non-problematics, non-outdoorsies, hover-parents, maskers, and the increasingly insane milenial need to make all their experiences on-brand and instagrammable, the closed path through those obstacles is a Hard problem.
It recently occurred to me how important my fraternal org is in my life after taking some time away from it. Showing up to see 30 or so guys who aren't family, and who were happy enough to see me, say hello, have a pint, dinner and small talk is maybe a once a year experience for most guys over 40, but for me it's about 10x/year, just with that group. There's a natural filter, where you don't have to re-negotiate all these anxieties every time you try to get people together.
One reason parties disappeared is because we have encouraged widespread neuroticism and anxiety about maintaining purity in different and various forms, and that intolerance has effectively eroded the social fabric. Surely we can hav e new kinds parties, ones that are lame, and that nobody enjoys, but we can have the satisfaction that at least those other people aren't here...
fuckin’ hell man
throwaway378037 commented on Knots to Narnia – Bill Thurston (1992) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=IKSrB... · Posted by u/robinhouston
Is this anything to do with the CS Lewis books? I’m re-reading them now
throwaway378037 commented on Why is Amazon selling fake 16TB portable SSD drives? reviewgeek.com/142496/why... · Posted by u/blowski
Don’t buy from Amazon, simples
The high rates of mental health struggles and suicides in the general US population (including but not limited to people struggling with gender issues) are used as a tool for arguing that gender care somehow leads to people's deaths instead of as a tool to argue for comprehensive, no-cost mental health care for people of all races, genders and identities.
We're just handed the latest most fashionable bogeyman - drag queens doing book readings at the library, gender-questioning kids going to gender clinics, etc - and told that if only we Put A Stop To this, maybe things will be alright again. When in reality millions and millions of people are experiencing untold suffering right now, and we could make fundamental fixes to our medical system to help all of them instead of fixating specifically on a small subset of the population and helping extremist lawmakers ban entire categories of care, whether it be gender care or abortions or birth control.