I’m picturing a guy sighing with his hands on his head, staring at most of a car with the front wheel stuck in the router. Like, he can figure this out, just give him a minute. Maybe he needs a walk to clear his head. The pieces are there.

The least believable part of this is a person like that just voluntarily hanging out in public around people.

Why is it so swirly?

Can anyone do the maths

Y’all are bumming me out

This is the Internet. We’re all self-diagnosed autistics here.

The kind of picture I took for my Myspace profile with Linkin Park’s Numb playing in the background

Like I said. Judging, and projecting your problems onto everyone else.

If they drank the whole damn thing that night, then agreed, that’s a red flag. OP didn’t say that though. Maybe they can clarify.

Yes, millions of people for thousands of years have done something like this. It’s called liquid courage for a reason. I used to give myself exact small doses of alcohol to loosen up my introversion before social situations. If your job depends on it, it’s basically a performance enhancer.

Not promoting alcoholism here, despite what I’m sure lots of comments will say. Personally, I barely drink at all anymore because it’s gotten really hard on my body. Just giving a different viewpoint. There’s so much addict pearl-clutching in here. Plenty of people can and do use drugs and alcohol responsibly. If you “don’t need” them, great. If responsible doses help you live better, great.

I downvoted you because I think you’re judging just a little. Not everyone is an addict.

And here I am, having not eaten McDonald’s in years because it tastes like shit.

And a girlfriend and a mistress, don’t forget those.

I started to understand how screwed up Reddit was when I saw a front page post with like 70k upvotes on a video for a “fishing knot” that requires using both free ends of the line. Either 70k people didn’t think about that for more than one second, or it’s all bots. Tens of thousands of them.

A critical part of being a consultant is personally knowing rich people who will pay you millions of dollars for your advice, regardless of what it is. “Giving good advice” is barely relevant.

DotAge. It’s a rogue-like turn-based strategy game where you try to build a village on cursed land, where you have visions of upcoming doom events and the eventual apocalypse. You have to balance stacking resources for growth and basic survival against efforts that will improve your chances of surviving doom events.

The board obviously is different every time. The factors you have to weigh and plan for are just complex enough, and just enough of the future is beyond your sight and control. The gameplay mechanics also change just a bit every time, due to a new mix of buildings and resource gathering methods, as well as new random events that can sometimes have a huge effect on your strategy. You’re not just accounting for randomness in your strategy–you have to adjust how you play the game all the time.

Just when you think the game is getting easy, the next chapter drops, you start doing the math, and realize you have overlooked something that may doom your village, depending on whether the RNG punishes you sufficiently. There’s definitely a big luck factor, as there is in real life. But you can make your own luck if you see far enough into the future and play well.

It’s a very well-made game that can run on a potato, and I’m a little obsessed with it.

Now do trees and shrubs! A blooming maple gets buzzing

He wants out though 😭

Hmm, interesting. Is there perhaps one weird trick to using it?

I never liked gyms. I get great workouts at home with a little open floor space and a stationary bike.