“But that still doesn’t mean you’ll get to play it”

Well then it doesn’t exist.

And until I actually am staring at the introduction screens, it’s vaporware.

Have we gone on long enough to see the endless wheel of “HALF LIFE 3???” once again spin back around? I remember seeing a handful of these a year, every time valve did anything.

Expect nothing, and you can’t be disappointed.

It didn’t help ME with chronic pain, but it does help my wife with her fibromyalgia.

I’d wager if you are up in weight, and chronic pain is in any of your weight supporting areas (hips, knees, ankles, lower back, etc) then chances are your pain could be weight related.

My parents are 100% weight related issues, and when I was trying to lose weight in 2013-2015 I tried to get them to do light stuff with me. Walk around the trees behind the house a few times. A couple light calisthenics. Ride some shitty cheap bikes around the park.

Since then their knees, hips, and ankles are their biggest complaints.

Gotta be unpredictable, the nozzles can smell intent.

My dude I appreciate you, but I spent years doing all kinds of exercise from yoga to iron man segments and not one has been enjoyable.

Man, seeing a ton of people all experiencing great returns on their hard work just makes me feel even worse for never experiencing any of it beyond the weight loss itself. For literal years. No good feelings, no endorphins, even some of my joints felt worse simply because they were being used more.

And now the exact same thing two days in a row!

Its great. I’m fine. This is fine. I’m not jealous or spiteful at all. Have fun working out for me I guess.

Just once I would like a movie to visit Vietnam without playing any of the 5 songs every movie has to use.

We know it’s Vietnam because you’ve told us. We have also seen that same exact valley from 127,000 different angles and honestly I’m starting to recognize specific groups of trees.

Ever seen the same set or costume used in two movies? It’s a little jarring and takes you out of the movie, if only briefly.

Now imagine you’re trying to watch a serious scene and then you go “Oh hey, those trees were in the background of the intro scene to tropic thunder!” and now all you can think of is Ben Stiller’s stub hands.

I went on a 40,000ly journey just meandering to whatever area looked cool. I also went hunting for earth-likes so I could get my username attached to something in the game.

Once I got back… I just didn’t feel like playing anymore.

Easily 2k hours in the game. Clearly I was okay with the grind for quite awhile… But nothing stays entertaining forever.

Okay you and Nuke can have a small one, as a treat.

Go play out back, have fun.

So my understanding of it is that one person who has a lot of followers made a video using the word in an arguably improper manner, a bunch of other people making more videos more or less using it ironically to make fun of it, and then a bunch MORE people just started using it completely wrong because it’s been a game of Shitty Telephone from the people who used it correctly (first persons teacher, or a book somewhere) and the end result makes absolutely no sense.

Or, if you will excuse the slanted metaphor, “Ai learning from Ai”

Well… The species will probably survive, as will a plethora of other species on the planet.

The things that definitely won’t survive are modern society and it’s status quo.

Nobody wants a nuclear war. I think we can all agree that it would be bad for an uncountable number of reasons.

I’ve had the cops called on me for taking my niece and nephew to the park a few blocks away from their house.

Nobody came to ask why I was there or which ones were mine.

Just two cops sneaking up behind me, grabbing my shoulders, hands on their guns demanding to know if I’m there with kids or I just like to fuck them.

My niece ended up calling her mother on their emergency phone and she sprinted down.

Never got an apology from anyone except my sister, who had nothing to apologize for.

I’ve had more amicable, but still very much confrontational encounters with people assuming I’m there for nefarious purposes.

I tend to avoid parks unless I’m with someone because of that.

I’m going out with a girl after work and we’re gonna play in the park.

(It’s my wife and I’ll be riding my bike while she tries to get used to inline skates again. We’re in our 30s.)

But for real I miss being able to just… Enjoy a playground. Go throw rocks at the creek with friends. Have sword battles with sticks we found while walking by the trees.

But if I do that, people call the cops because some old guy is clearly confused and wandering around…

Someone who has the ability to do something about things: “See, so 1.5 is totally fine! Full speed ahead!”

Infinite growth machine go brrrrrrr

My old work ordered everything from uline, and I started bringing in my own TP specifically because of how awful it is to use that tissue paper.

Legitimately feels like tissue paper that people stuff gift bags with.

But at the same time, almost slippery.

And you WILL know if you creased the paper the wrong way, because it WILL stab at you with the force of ten thousand teeny tiny needles.

Nono, you don’t understand.

It IS a ceasefire. As in Hamas (“anyone we decide to call hamas whether it’s an actual rebel/terrorist/whatever or someone defending themselves from IDF thugs trying to kill/SA them or a random kid we saw walking down the street and someone’s finger got itchy”) has to ceasefire.

Why on earth should the IDF, paragon of virtue and goodness, an organization that has never in its history been accused or caught red-handed doing war crimes or Geneva convention violations, be forced to stop murdering innocents “defending themselves” just because the entire world wants them to stop, and because it’s the right thing to do…

Next you’ll be insisting they treat Palestinians like people! And helping rebuild the countryside they’ve devastated constructively disassembled and revitalizing the people they have brutalized liberated.

SMH my head

If I need the /s with that much sarcasm dripping off every letter then the world has truly gone to shit.

“is a lengthy time consuming process”

No, it REALLY isn’t, and any pig that tells you otherwise is trying to get you to drop the issue so they don’t have more paperwork.

They don’t give a shit about your stolen items, and 9/10 times it’s a complete waste to even contact them over “petty theft”, regardless of how valuable the item/s are to you.

A lot of these comments reek of boot polish…

Lol I once got banned for the mere suggestion of using one of these.

Still haven’t heard a more reasonable suggestion though. Asking and yelling haven’t been working.

One day at work, I found out a work friend actually believed the whole “crystal energy” thing.

Since she was the first person I had ever met who actually admitted to that, I wanted to know more about what her specific beliefs about them were.

At first she was super bubbly about it, on par with her personality. But then as I asked a couple common sense questions about why science doesnt find anything measurable, and first she got hostile and mad that I would dare question another person’s beliefs, but when I explained I was genuinely curious and had no interest in changing her beliefs she just kind of broke down because nobody ever takes her seriously or believes her about her “personal healing journey”

The way I see it, it’s for adults who like pretty rocks, but can’t come to terms with the fact that they like something “childish” (because for some reason a lot of adults call a rock collection cringe or childish or dumb, but clearly they’ve never met a geologist) so instead of having a pretty rock and mineral collection, they have “healing crystals”, and eventually it just becomes kind of like part of their identity the way a religion is.

I will however, 100% giggle at their expense with my wife, later. Because anyone who buys $50 polished selenite drink coaster “charging plate”, and a $200 brass pyramid to “recharge” their $50 “healing quartz wand” while refusing to listen to real science deserves to be giggled at.