“I’m 39 and a single dad to three girls with special needs, but five years ago I quit my job and started pursuing my lifelong dream of being a game developer. This metroidvania styled RPG with roguelite elements is my dream come true. Here’s a short clip of the gameplay.”

Shitty 8-bit sprites jiggle on the screen

Reddit: OMG! I’m literally crying right now as I buy this. It’s so good!

That day you learned a very valuable lesson about permission and forgiveness.

It’s just really refreshing instead some knee jerk, “You don’t know their situation shit for brains!” It’s measured to highlight a flaw in the core logic but civil in acknowledging the truth in the nuance. I hope we keep it! Lol.

This is like the fifteenth time I’ve seen this and it seems unique to Lemmy. You contradict their main point, but concede there is a reasonable undercurrent. I like this a lot. It makes the internet feel a lot less toxic.

Thanks to you and everyone else doing the same!

Wellbutrin nearly killed me so I’m not a fan of that path. I found nicotine pouches were the best way to wean off smoking/vaping. Along with addiction counseling and understanding triggers and halflives of chemicals and how they play with physical versus mental addiction.

The simplest first step is to separate the trigger “I need a smoke.” To the actual action with a timer and gradually increasing the time.

Thanks for doing the research for us lazy folks, donation sent!

Where do they think senior employees come from?

I was arguing about religion on the Internet and spending 80+ hours a week playing MMOs.

Workaholics are toxic. Not having time to meet your life partner means you’re not trying.

Sorry, we can’t. Eggs or some shit.

Nice! It’s always fun to get a good passive setup running

It isn’t hard exactly, you get a feel for synergies and they usually happen organically. Sometimes something triggers that you weren’t even expecting and next thing you know you have 1,000 attack with 200 multi strike.

In that same category, Merge Maestro. Very fun and addictive game where no two runs go the same way.

Edit: Free to try, full game is a single $2 purchase.

I need to restart this game… Started it ages ago, got caught up in life, and now I’m pretty sure I won’t even remember what mission I’m on, lol.

You can stretch the ketchup at the end if you add a bit of water.

To be fair, 100k 40 years from now will have the spending power of about 50k. The real power is in continuing to save as it compounds.

If they’ll outsource the workers overseas, instead of hiring citizens, that would go against their pushes to get everyone to return to the office.

Doesn’t that contradict their requirement to be in the office??

What you may hear is, give me a lot of bacon.

Which was my original point. Nurses especially suffer in states like Florida, where they can get away paying them $30/hr to take on 7 high acuity patients, because if they won’t work for that, the hospitals just bring in H1Bs.