I’m already in a place that is less susceptible to climatological ruin. I’ve resigned myself to the inevitability that billions will die. Regardless, my preparatory steps shall continue to be “make room”. I’m going to personally see to it that IF by some miracle I actually manage to survive, I bring as many people with me as possible; failing that, I hope to find a way to enable more people to survive EVEN IF it kills me.

When your insurance drops your coverage, that’s your cue to GET THE FUCK OUT BEFORE YOU HAVE YET LOST EVERYTHING.

Those actuarial tables are designed from the ground up and refined over literally decades (up to around a century in some cases) to predict risk and while they’re not always perfectly accurate they are clearly ENOUGH so that they have made it possible for insurers to remain profitable.

IF THEY KNOW ANYTHING THAT YOU DON’T, THEY ARE DEFINITELY ACTING ON IT.

I know you can’t literally just drop everything, or fit absolutely everything that matters to you in your car in a pinch, but you WILL be better off if you’ve packed up and prepped for transport as many as possible of the things that would hurt you and/or inconvenience you the most to leave behind.

So for those of you who haven’t already experienced total loss, learn from this. Prepare yourselves. The people displaced by this will strain many other extant failure points in our society. Shit is about to get MUCH, MUCH WORSE.

ADHD makes it EXCEPTIONALLY HARD for me to switch tasks, actually x_x the only time I can get ANYTHING done is when I can hyperfocus into ONE thing

Park like that and it’ll get impounded. Believe me when I say the impound bill will be higher than the worth of the vehicle. Even surrendering the title to the towing company may only take fifty dollars off it for sparing them some paperwork. You’ll still be in debt or sent to collections. Don’t risk it.

You’ve heard of the Dead Internet Theory, now get ready for the UNDEAD Internet Theory!

I probably already have.

Well, I’m sure YOU didn’t appreciate him being a fucking liar either so i guess it’s even XD

Actually, on that point, I love it when a game becomes a platform for continuous content. Minecraft is a bit trite as an example but it fits: You buy it once, and you can beat it in a couple hours if you really want to, but you can extract as much enjoyment out of it as your imagination will allow, and the developers are constantly adding more stuff to do (although not all of what’s added feels great all the time…)

That’s the fun part: you don’t! :D

That is to say, they tried. And now there are basically no fucking games on whatever they’re calling the latest X-turd, and barely anything worth note on the PS5.

All the best games I’ve played recently are deliberately low poly models, low res textures, and 100% focused on JUST satisfying gamefeel and fun gameplay mechanics.

Fuck graphical fidelity and fuck “AAA” studios for wasting our time and money on it.

I WANT SHORTER GAMES WITH WORSE GRAPHICS MADE BY PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID MORE TO WORK LESS AND I’M NOT KIDDING

The Claims Adjuster Abides.

there is nothing in there but two arms.

one of them is the United States government

the other one is the Samsung corporation.

if not for the arms inside it, the puppet would be a limp hollow tube of colorful cloth.

i mean, it sucks and it should stop, absolutely the United States should fuck off, but I’m saying that if/when it ever does, it won’t be pretty.

jeez dude we already knew he was in the ethically superior position, you don’t need to make him sound even MORE righteous.

I’m glad to hear you’re alright, then.

Yeah he’s just asking for advice.

i used to struggle with this too, op.

the only reason i don’t struggle with it anymore is because i ran out of sufficient energy to struggle.

however, that was not what resolved it–not directly.

no longer agonizing over my conversations had other effects.

i decided that if all i can be is background noise, then i shall be background noise. and that … loosened my hesitation. i physically lost the ability to attach any kind of ulterior motive or emotional baggage to what i wanted to say, and so, my messaging became more open and honest as a result, in a way i never had the choice to implement at will. it took breaking down to no longer proverbially have a wall there.

and then, at another point after this had metaphorically cleaned my slate, i decided to start over by embodying what i felt was missing. i would be the warmth that no one was showing. i would greet, and encourage, and ask nonbinary question–but i don’t think this would have worked if i had not first shattered my own guard and begun engaging my social interactions with totally exposed vulnerability.

Should we tell him, guys?..

this is not an appropriate time to make a cruel joke.

this person came here harmlessly asking for help.

punching down at someone’s insecurities right when they’re trying to address them is not ok.

But the problem is, the mainstream and government are calling him a “terrorist” and “terrorists” don’t have rights; under the USAPATRIOT Act, they are “enemy combatants” and the only thing they get is extrajudicial imprisonment and daily torture"simulated drowning".

Aliens are not attacking.

The drones have hurt no one.

They are merely paying more attention now.

Perhaps if society kills more CEOs, they will finally consider us sapient and establish contact.

someone should endeavor to make The Most Political Game In The World by simply having no white male characters in it at all.