Dread is fantastic but they really focused on the action elements of Metroid. This is fine since there are other games that focus on exploration but the stuff it does really well are things like boss fights. The last boss in particular is phenomenal.

SMT4 on the 3DS. JRPG perfection imo. I love the SMT combination of monster collecting and Fallout type post apocalypse.

I’m the same age as DOOM

Point Break would be my pick too despite the fact the early 90s had many sensibilities that look more like the 1980s to us now.

You can take solace in that fact you got a medieval King’s disease though!

Inflamed sacroilliac joints causing stabbing pains in my legs while on a city break where we were walking everywhere. Thought it was sciatica at the time but multiple MRIs later was confirmed to be something similar but different…

Never broken a bone so don’t have much to share in terms of the painful experiences.

I listen to a lot of the BBC Sounds podcasts… possibly because I’m boring and British.

My favourites are:

• In Our Time: 3 academics and a host discuss an academic topic in deep detail. Science, humanities, arts, etc. Some episodes are more interesting than others but depends on your personal interests. I like the philosophy ones because I studied it at university.
• The Today Podcast: UK news and current affairs.
• Screenshot: Film critics Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode discuss the history of cinema by picking a theme or motif to explore per episode, i.e. “Mermaids” was a recent one.
• The Digital Human: explores technology trends and how they affect individuals and society.

Different strokes for different folks I guess

As an aside I found it surprisingly readable and I’m not a huge LotR fan. Maybe I just like short story anthologies.

I suppose so. Baseline level of happiness has always been low and I tend to have a pessmistic outlook. When I was a kid I remember getting random intense pangs of guilt in my stomach for no reason even though nothing was happening to cause it. Laterally I realised that was a symptom of depression.

At the same time my life is pretty great. I’ve been very fortunate to enjoy my career and to have a partner that I’ve got a good relationship with. All of my immediate family members are still alive and thriving to varying degrees but thriving for sure.

Strong suspicion that I could be close to mentally “normal” if I were to incorporate working out at the gym into my regular routine.

I think people romanticise (fetishise?) relationships in university/college. People are only marginally more mature than they were in high school. I’m sure dating as an adult sucks but a relationship is a relationship regardless of how you meet each other.

idk man I’ve seen some pretty bad tattoos

I’ve heard a ‘crush’ being described as an absence of knowledge about the actual person you are fixated on. It reminds me of the story Robert Pattinson told where he took his stalker out to lunch, bitched about his life for an hour, and then never saw her again!

Yeah unfortunately it’s not primarily astroturfing… these people do it for free

When I was a young teen I did this a few times because my friends were doing it but those memories are shameful now.

During the start of my career I searched out tech firms based in my city and made a list of the ones I was interested. Then I followed the vacancies pages on their website and sent speculative emails. Companies seemed to appreciate my more proactive approach and the few times I used recruiters I had bad experiences (they tried to blag me into roles I was not qualified for).

Now I’m more open to linkedin recruiters but it depends on what the company is. I’ll often try to work out what/where the vacancy is from their description so I can circumvent them.

Germany still has a problem with sex trafficking however they have a much better system than 99.9% of other countries in the world.

mastodon, hackernews and a small handful of boards on 4chan

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

• Elanor Roosevelt

I think people have a tendency to use evolutionary psychology as a crutch in explaining human behaviour. Like they suggest it can explain everything when it’s only one factor of many.

However in this specific case your theory makes a lot of sense to me.