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i’ve played over 12,000 hours of Fallout 4.

I’ll take my PhD now, thx

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EA Bethesda only counts microtransactions when advancing your degree

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Microsoft doesn’t own EA… yet.

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Fallout 4 was released 2,985 days ago.

12,000/2,985 = an average of 4 hours a day, every day, no days off.

Probably the best value purchase you’ll make in your life.

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Can I get that in $/hour ?

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Hmm, what did it cost at launch? Probably $60?

6,000 cents / 12,000 hours = 0.5 cents per hour.

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Probably the best value purchase you’ll make in your life.

that’s why, after around 10k hours, I finally paid for it, lol.

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17 points

Lol jesus

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That’s what I did with Far Cry 3, but couldn’t get the stupid launcher to work on linux, so ended up pirating it again.Great work Ubisoft!

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Lots of Netflix hours on that one, I’d bet.

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Please tell me you accidentally added an extra 0 when you weren’t meant to…

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7 points

well… not as a typo…

covid was rough.

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What is there even to do in Fallout 4 to justify even 1,200 hours, much less 12,000?

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20 points

Here is your theoretical Doctorate of Science.

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Thank you, Professor, I humbly accept.

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Or you could spend 12k hours enjoying your life and not worrying what others consider “productive”

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Entertainment is not 🚫 a thing you want to master. Watching 1000 movies gets you nowhere. Reading 1000 self care and business books will get you higher than binging TV.

Lmao fam really thought they were doing something with this

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No thanks. I enjoy my rest and relaxation.

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I speak 7 languages and have an MfA in Design and Technology from Parsons. I also know several programming languages.

go judge someone else.

edit: I’m happy, and that’s what matters. I’m sorry you’re not.

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1000 self care and business books

Will rot your brain thoroughly. If you had spent that time instead reading 1000 pieces of actually good literature, there’s plenty of stuff you could’ve actually learned, instead of just having people tell you that you can count your golf trips as business expenses, and “stop being depressed it’s all about your growth grindset”, and “please buy the next book in this course it will really tell you how to make a bunch of money” and then it’s just a pyramid scheme.

You could’ve learned some sort shit like the vimes boot theory, which is pretty good, and is a pretty good example of something you could learn from a totally random book. You could’ve learned all about medieval speech and castle architecture. if you were addicted to hardcore pulp sci-fi, you could’ve learned about xenobiology and a bunch of different math and science that those books tend to use as the basis for their outlandish premises. If you’d read a bunch of classic french literature, you could’ve become a pretty good expert in that very particular field, same with watching 1000 random french movies from like the 50’s or 60’s. If you’d spent 10,000 hours skateboarding, instead, you’d probably be able to do a kickflip, and at that point, the world’s your oyster. You’ve won, you might as well quit now, since you can kickflip. 10,000 hours hacky sacking and you can probably juggle almost anything with your feet, and that’s pretty cool, I would think. 10,000 hours playing modded fallout 4, even though I don’t like that game very much and think it sucks, 10,000 hours doing that, and you might know enough just based on the shit you have to do to be able to play the mods, to be able to do some professional tech work. You might even just know how to make your own mod, at that point, if you’re interested enough in it. I know that 10,000 hours of dwarf fortress will basically have gotten you there.

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Siskel and Ebert: And we decided to take that personally.

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Til barbers have required training

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What is an electric sign specialist?

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It seems to be as straightforward as it sounds. It’s a narrowly focused electrician license for working on signs that use electricity.

The Sign Specialist Contractor License allows you to do the following work:

• Installation of all types of electric signs

• Repair and maintenance

https://www.contractorcampus.com/michigan-sign-specialist-contractor-license.html

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It makes sense to have a separate license since those signs ran on stupid high voltage. I had a friend nearly stop his heart messing around with a neon sign transformer (he knew how dangerous it was, he just didn’t care)

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another reason a lot of those are being changed out for low-power LED drivers

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Damn, I’d be like a ranked officer if I’d transfer all my Cities Skylines hours!

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    99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

    When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

    When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

    When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

    Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

    The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

    All this is a path to a police state.

    In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

    Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

    That’s the solution.

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Don’t talk to the police.

Killings by law enforcement in Canada

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Police aren’t primarily about helping you or solving crimes.

Police lie under oath, a lot

Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak

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Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States

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When the police knock on your door

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