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Pray to Saint Luigi for help

The laws exist because people wrote them. They can change. But some people would rather die than live in a more equitable world.

guild wars 2 is the only MMO I’ve ever considered worth playing

• feels like a real video game. You can dodge and move out of the way of attacks.
• you don’t have to make formal groups for most of the content. You walk outside, see zombies attacking and you go fight. You get credit. So does anyone else there.
• the story is pretty okay and you can play it yourself
• there’s no real gear grind. You swap gear out during the initial level up process, but once you hit the cap you’re done. There’s cheap good-enough gear (and dirt cheap mediocre gear), and slightly expensive next tier, and “fancy free reskin and stat swap super expensive”, and that’s it. My characters have had the same gear for years and it’s fine. Sometimes they release new combinations of stats, but it’s never just a power bump
• the mounts are fun
• the big “convergence” events are fun. ~50 random players shuffle into an instance and fight monsters together. You don’t really need to talk, but it’s fun to win (or lose sometimes) as a group
• all 9 classes play differently, and their subclasses are also pretty distinct
• there’s good free QoL. Deposit materials anywhere. Teleport to merchants/banks for free and back (if you weren’t in an instance). Only cost is waiting for the loading screens.
• no subscription fee. Buy once and you’re good. Base game is free, but the expansions add a lot

Well let me share with you the wisdom of age: often you can just ask someone what’s up.

This also works on dates: you can just ask someone out. You don’t have to go all in your head about it. If only someone had told me when I was a teen, alas.

How old are you?

Have you considered asking what’s up?

Things that aren’t Nazis might be a good stopping point

I (a guy) think I still have a small plastic off-brand Lego in my desk. I spent a weekend with my high school crush and we found a bunch of them and had goofy fun with them.

Last I heard she’d moved away, married a woman, and had a successful career in science. I doubt she thinks of me, but I’m glad she did well.

I don’t accept the premise that it’s “humiliating” for a partner to leave.

I don’t accept the premise that them leaving is predicated on sexual performance.

I don’t accept that f+f sex is inferior to m+f

I’m not even going to go on. Your world view is rigid and not healthy. Maybe spend some time with other people, if they’ll have you. Get out of whatever manosphere hole you’ve fallen into.

It comes up in software development sometimes, which is my day to day. It also is useful for any “fast but inaccurate approach” scenario, which comes up sometimes.

I wouldn’t say I’m proud of using it. It was already in my lexicon. (So was “lexicon”)

Here’s an article about them https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-heuristic-2795235

Why do you ask?

What about a dead billionaire?

If someone shot musk or zuckerberg dead I’d be like “That’s good. That’s an improvement.”

Do people still think the courts matter? I feel like the supreme court is a farce and the lesser courts have a lot of far-right judges ready to rule from their feelings.

I guess it’s important to still try, but I think real solutions lie elsewhere.