It’s too early in the morning for me to come up with a good RPG/ Dungeon synth joke, but

https://youtu.be/moosgt3Bclc?si=YfhGQ5Awt7THWfgf

Rural Oregon is very red. There’s a behind the bastards episode on just how many racists there are in Oregon.

I think you can just be grateful to have or experience something. Like you can’t be grateful to anyone for a full moon, but you can be grateful that you saw it.

Yeah at first I was like “yeah those kids are so young” then I realized I was born in 96

Comfort can be about how you look. I have some clothes that are super comfortable, but if I wore them out in public I would be arrested because I look like a drug dealer. Find something comfy in the way that it reflects how you want to be seen

I use Plex and jellyfin, honestly, plex only stays around because of plexamp. It’s just too good. I don’t like using streaming apps like Spotify or whatever because they’re not as good

I mean, looking like you know what you’re doing, looking confident doesn’t mean you have to dress plain.

Also I am sure gym bros will complement you on your body. Kind of like how as a straight man I only get compliments on my facial hair from other men. Look for validation from your friends not randos

You’re probably in a better place than most severely depressed people because you think that you can get better! Probably the best thing to do is keep a growth mindset and try to learn as much as you can about depression. Getting over depression is a journey.

Lots of other people have said running & friends, those things help me. But recently/now I am depressed and running 40 miles a week and seeing my friends regularly.

What’s a really cheap solution? Pirate some bibliotherapy books! Feeling good by David D. Burns is older, but I’m reading it right now and it seems like a really solid CBT book. I would also recommend “Adult children of emotionally immature parents”. It helped me understand why I am the way I am

The hardest part for me is noticing when my thoughts are turning situations from good or neutral into bad situations. Paying attention to your thoughts in an objective way is hard! But some sort of mindfulness practice can help.

Journaling can be useful! You can train your brain to look for good things by writing out 3 good things that happened or you did every night.

That only makes it cooler

Not a fan of indie games are you?

Baba is you, is a pretty original puzzle game. I’m not really into factorio, but it made tower defense cool again. There’s lots more that are weird and interesting like brigadore, airships conquer the skies, cruelty squad, superliminal.

As far as I remember, portal was a mod or indie game that valve picked up because they thought the idea was really good. It was really good.

Sounds like a good idea, I don’t see why not. Now if only I had health insurance…

Yellow and the subsequent games are pretty interesting puzzle games

I don’t make a living off of my calligraphy or anything like that. But I think that the value is in me being able to create more unique pieces.

Sure you can make a copy, but it’ll never be the same as having a hand made original. Then Again I’m not very good or successful.

I watched a video a little while ago , I think the only value winamp has is nostalgic and historical. If it was really open source maybe we could get a really good fork and that’s about it, I think. Maybe I’m missing the point, let me know I’m not very smart at this stuff.

In my experience people have a hard time running through a checklist in their head. That’s why just imagining the action is so helpful, since you don’t have to think as much. Or in my experience, the less you think about it the more natural the movement becomes. Like you can practice the action a bit but you need to eventually just do the action.

Yep pretty much what I got

I’ve noticed that after getting older, suffering several concussions, a short spat with drinking, and COVID that my ability to picture things in my mind has degraded a lot since childhood.

Does your ability to imagine things naturally decline? I remember as a lad I could vividly imagine the feeling of things. My imagination was also much more colorful. But I could never see things in 3D like some people can (I’ve worked with some really talented tradesmen/machinists who can like assemble or fold or machine a piece in their mind, I don’t know maybe that’s just practice)

So as someone who coaches sometimes I have to ask. Can you imagine and feel body movements? Sometimes I’ll ask someone to visualize themselves performing an action before they do it.

I genuinely care about these people. I’m playing with game theory here tho. I vote for trump, the bombing will continue. I vote Dem, the bombing may slow down. I vote third party, isn’t necessarily a vote for trump, but it makes him winning more likely.

I also have to care about more than just the people overseas. A vote for trump affects more than just our foreign policy. My many female friends and their human rights. My coworkers and their workers rights. I don’t know what Trump’s plans for welfare are, but I’m sure there shit.

If you’re assuming that I’m not thinking about all the facets of life that this election touches, then you’re seriously out of touch. I want the world to be a better place, I genuinely do. I think most of the people here do. But I’m not a single issue voter. There’s a lot that this election means to a lot of people. I don’t have the answers, I’m just a cog. I’ll do the best I can, any more than that and you’re barking up the wrong tree

How can you say, “I wish you die.” And expect the person you’re talking to to take you seriously. Who exactly are you trying to persuade here?