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Addicted to laziness, mebbe. It does take a while for it to start hitting critical mass. Usually four or five fanfic hunts, plus misc other browsing. So a month, maybe two. Don't turn off the computer and only close a tab when you can't use it for anything else and things... start to add up. Just a titch. Wee bit.

Laptop (last computer) did... sorta'. It still turns on, just turns itself back off about the time it hits the desktop. Pretty massive annoyance, and obviously impossible to get anything done like that. Thing's six or seven years old though, iirc, and secondhand to boot. About time for a keel over, bleh.

Re: ye olden times... long story short, you probably would have been even more miserable, assuming you lived this long. Or survived childbirth. And in any case, your future would be toil and more misery followed by an early death, more likely than not. Your small pleasures would be (maybe) sex and (almost certainly) alcohol, but both would be small highs leading to greater spikes of misery (child raising, liver disease).

You probably would have been more active, but likely not in anything approaching wholesome or rewarding. Menial labor in a hope to scrabble by and fuck enough for the next generation to get out and maybe not have it as poorly. Just how bad it got would depend on how far back you go, but as a general rule... we're a lot better off these days, in many, many ways. You'd have to go way back (pre-agriculture) before you hit what we think was pretty decent, and even then you'd be lucky to survive 'till thirty or so, and likely to die of something horrible at a fairly young age.

My sad usually comes from thinking off all that and how bad off we still are. Thanks, thought-tangent Still, better somewhat more down than starting to slide toward glorifying the shitty, shitty past.

And Hans, sympathy. Wish I could offer advice, but other than trying to find the root environmental causes (which you might not be materially or legally able to fix at the moment) not sure what you can do. Try to find and treat causes, though, not symptoms. Alcohol et al just covers up the latter, for a short period of time. Doesn't actually help, just pushes the symptoms away for a little while.

Though actually being able to do something about it's always a problem. Gods fucking know I wish I knew a reliable way to get out of this hellhole of a town and get a little existential security (somewhat better guarantee of not starving to death in a ditch, homeless) without shoving half my waking life up some corporation's rotting asshole and without having to resort to something that'd leave my spine a twisted mess before I'm forty, but... still working on that. Buggery hell, I really do hate this country. Most of the modern world, really. Problem being most everything else is (has been) even worse off. Gods damn this species, bleh.

They're not all that good, though

Not terrible, but not impressive. Kinda' mediocre.

The cheaper alternative is this. Which I eat pretty regularly 'cause they end up less than a buck to a box fairly often and taste alright.

Tentative squee. I'm not much of a city builder person, really, but the rest of it, well...

Steamband was one of the few *band variants I could stand. Steampunk seems to be able to make most things more interesting. Adding some cthulhunoid wigglymolestation into it just seals things.

They've got the hook, now to wait until they're done and out with at least a demo or something to see if they can reel something in.

... that really is the cutest living bug I've seen in a long time. I wonder if petting it causes it to stop being able to fly and consequently die. If not... time to start breeding them as pets.

Quote from: Graknorke on August 27, 2012, 06:22:39 am

Quote from: Frumple on August 27, 2012, 12:40:34 am

Nothing like showing off nothing but worst case scenarios and wrapping it in a viciously sexist package

How exactly was that a "viciously sexist package"? Just because it was a woman who was wrong and a man who was right? I would think that closely going over what sex someone is so much is more sexist than just ignoring it where it isn't relevant.

The "ditzy religious woman, enlightened atheist man" situation is a pretty stereotypical one in online atheist culture. The attitudes surrounding it tend to be pretty bad. See: Reddit.

Other bit of it being that all the figures in power were male and the female was very unflatteringly presented. That, and gender was involved at all, really. Was there really any need for that?

Mostly just an offensive image. I'd prefer it if the folks ostensibly on my side of the argument would show a little more dignity than resorting to stuff like that, so it pisses me off (in a sense... more minor annoyance or distaste than actually becoming incensed, but still.) a bit on multiple points. The fairly blatant sexist undertone just made it worse

It's... actually been nerfed a few times sequentially, in the wake of the zero-g change making the thing absolute hell for a lot of classes. If the last time you played was before zero-g was implemented, though, it's definitely harder compared to then.

My guess is that you weren't paying attention to the zero-g effect. Moving normally in that place is a risky, risky business; zero-g hacks your movement speed down to something pitiable (50% reduction? More?). With a melee class you'll primarily want to find a corner that limits approach vectors (and more importantly, lines of fire... turn back the clock hurts) and let them come to you. Ideally, if you move, it's either through rush (possibly double rush, via boots) or a directed teleport of some sort (ghoulish leap, ferex). At the very least via movement infusion. Moving normally is a good way to just get torn straight to bitsies.

They are kinda' painful, but they're usually not too terrible as long as you make darn good and sure to not get ganged up on; find that cubbyhole and make sure no more than two at the most are coming down on you.