Literally illegal. As long as you can get a few other people to raise a stink with you, they can’t do shit.

It can be fun to test just how mandatory these sorts of things are too. Playing dumb/forgetful can be fun and surprisingly effective. “Oh, I had to run out for lunch, I’m sorry. Oh god, it’s been two weeks? I’ve been meaning to pack but I just can’t find the time in the morning. Well, I’ll take care of it now then!” (during paid time)

Wouldn’t that just be frog mode though?

Right?

Beyond that, I honestly associate feeling like you’re going to throw up a little with relief. Most of the time once you do, you’re good. Manually trigger your gag reflex and move on with shit. Even if it’s a serious “evacuate your entire stomach contents” level of multi-throwup, your stomach isn’t infinite.

In college I always named my router Skynet.

How am I supposed to find a cop to fuck on such short notice?

I don’t know what to tell you beyond what I’ve already said.

I’m not denying that it’s a serious goddamn problem. I have acknowledged that in every single comment I’ve made about this. Please stop insisting that I’m saying otherwise.

Once again, I am only saying that despite the high numbers, it is not just some ever present part of life over here to the degree that every American, or even a majority, has experienced gun violence. Everyone from the outside seems to think that’s true, but it’s insanely, laughably not. The quite overwhelming majority of Americans have not experienced gun violence, and won’t within their lifetime.

Our population number is roughly equivalent to 3/4 of the entire European Union’s combined population. Any of our numbers relating to people are going to look high unless you bear that in mind.

Really everyone? Veracrypt encrypted psuedo-drive container, password protected, saved in a game’s install folder (to mask the size) with a filename that blends in. %appdata% could work too, but more likely to get purged by some overzealous cleanup script. Mount and unmount the vercrypt volume as needed. Won’t cause the risk of something showing up in the file browser search or recent files lists (or at least they won’t actually be able to open them from recent), and won’t immediately stand out if someone uses some sort of storage analyzer like WinDirStat. Just another big data file for some game. Could go sneakier and do a hidden volume in the container, or just encrypt an entire USB drive, but that’s probably overkill.

Then when you get your own computer/don’t live with your folks? Who gives a fuck. Clearly labeled folder. Media/Internet/Porn/

At that point anyone who snoops does so at their own peril.

That’s… some pretty blantant disordered thinking.

A huge chunk of life is things outside of your control. You only have control over how you react to those things.

Beyond that, if you got yourself into a mess, you can get yourself out. Any time where you’re only fighting against yourself is a time where the odds are better in your favor than usual.

It’s will draining work to fight yourself into a better state, can be soul crushing, and it sure as hell isn’t fucking easy, but it is possible.

Self-care isn’t always giving yourself grace to fail, but it’s also not just beating yourself up for past failures. Survival is a perfectly ok goal. Then attempt for comfort and vague happiness. Then maybe you should consider trying to “make something of yourself”.

Very few of our names will live on past the people immediately surrounding us. That can be freeing if you can frame it the right way. Very few “make it”. Most just “get by”, and that’s fine.

While that’s not the nicest way to say it, I think accepting that is a huge part of growing up, IMO.

I am intelligent, and I am skilled in some things that are incredibly difficult to others such that those things are almost effortless to me. But I’m not the best. I’m definitely not the most intelligent by any fucking metric. There’s tons of people more skilled than me in what I’m good at. There’s countless more skilled than me in general (not just in my skillset), and even more than that skilled at what I’m not skilled at.

And that’s ok. I’m good enough.

The world is complicated, and the story that the most skilled always rise to the top, that so many gifted children hold onto through their youth, isn’t universally true. That can be depressing, but what I find important is this: There are countless people less skilled than you who were and are able to find a place to fit and a way to make it, and you never know when you’re going to find someone better than you that forces you to re-evaluate just how good you actually are at something. Take those as opportunities to learn.

Just be you. You can find a way to make it.

You don’t have to be the best. Not being the best doesn’t mean you aren’t applying yourself or working hard enough. The world isn’t separated into the categories of only first place and losers.

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Smaller games collection this year, but better quality.

I think they still have something like at least 3 more major builds/feature goals currently planned. One is actual human NPCs, which the animal AI is a beginning step towards. They also want to do a lot more psuedo-random storytelling with houses and NPCs. They already have some, but they want to expand it quite a lot.

They’ve said that the “official release” will only be when they’ve added everything they want out of the game, so don’t wait to buy it as it is absolutely a complete game as is. Could be another decade before they’re done, lol. They just want to add so much more that they aren’t comfortable calling it done yet.

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But thanks for saving me a few keystrokes with that link!

Yeah, hence why I didn’t say anything to counter anything else, or that it was a good place to visit anytime soon.

Got any other mindblowing facts for us?

Perfectly valid, and thanks for not just jumping on the US bad dogpile and instead citing some stuff.

I’m just speaking up because I’ve seen a lot of people online from outside the US running with this idea that gun violence is like, a daily occurence that every US citizen deals with regularly, when that’s so fucking far from the reality.

Yeah, things are a powder keg over here lately and the accessibility of firearms doesn’t help, but I’ve met only one person in my almost 35 years of life who’s ever been held at gunpoint and they’re the only person I know who has ever been through any form of gun violence.

There’s plenty of reasons to avoid this place for a good long while unfortunately, but I feel like the gun danger has been overblown.

I have and do, likely more than you. Thanks for patronizing!

That doesn’t change my point, that the danger of gun violence is a problem, but is considerably made out to be worse than the reality by the media.

Like, we have states larger than some European countries. If you took the reporting on all the bad shit happening over the equivalent space/population amount in Europe it would be pretty fucking harrowing as well.

I’ve known multiple people fall into a life of constant anxiety due to overexposing themselves to the media. Convinced that every city was a fucking gun violence warzone. That horrible things were happening all the time. They didn’t know anyone who knew anyone who had experienced the things they were convinced were regular horrible occurences. And they knew more than one person (mutual friends) that worked and lived in the US city with the highest homicide rate at the time. None of those people had been even in the vicinity of gun violence.

I’ve been around for nearly 35 years, and I enjoy talking with people. I’ve met only one single person who had been a victim of gun violence, in that they were robbed at gunpoint while working nights at a gas station in a rough area.

There are fucking studies about this shit that are over 15 years old that show that exposure to news media back then caused people to ridiculously overestimate the frequency of crime (and especially violent crime). News has only become more emotionally charged since.

I’m not saying America is some amazing place. I’m just saying that the news would have you believe that almost everyone here has had a gun violence experience, or that visitng the US is unsafe because of gun violence, when that’s not the case.

How… how much gun violence do you think actually happens here?

There’s a lot by number, and that’s a serious fucking issue, but the US is also massive. It’s not a regular or frequent danger of normal life here.

Even those numbers are pumped up by the fact that suicide by gun is counted in the exact same “gun violence” statistics as gang violence, and the “school shootings” statistics include all from the “gun violence” stats that occur within a certain radius around, regardless of when it happened (summer break, middle of the night, etc) or if it was any danger to students.

News overfocuses on shit like that because it pulls eyes and clicks, and therefore ad revenue.

Again, it is a serious fucking problem, but it’s not the kind of thing you’re going to experience in daily life or as a tourist.

Depends on the officer you’re dealing with. There’s multiple stories, from before Trump ever took office, of people being detained for up to a day for saying this or refusing to grant access to their phone. I can only imagine it’s worse now.

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It’s a shitposty protest against how this sub/community has been getting flooded with news and US politics.