Almost all permaban are technically very long temporary ban.

People are products of their times.

You hear this a lot, but then you and look at “the times” and find arguments in favor of cultural integration dating back thousand of years.

It is true that people are the products of their time, but those times are not as radically distant moral wise as it is usually assumed.

they helped me develop a “nose” for strengths and shortcomings in someone’s skillset

In an actual human being? What kind of game are you thinking about here?

My teenage years were spent in Warcraft III. I sucked at it, I’m terrible at multitasking.

It could very well be that you were already good at that and that translated both into enjoying strategy game and succeeding as a Project Manager.

Yea, no. It surely has some positive, just like pretty much anything. But if you look at it as something you do instead of something else, you start accumulating a lot of negatives.

There’s no way any fine motor skill is somehow more developed than, say, playing almost any sport, that involves more than just two hands, and a similar thing can be said as far as teamwork and resilence goes.

On the fantasy side you have to compete with reading or, more broadly, studying.

It probably wins against binge watching b-rated tv series or idlessly watching TV, but if you get the wrong tytle you won’t bring home that much value. (Say you are stuck playing COD on a loop).

I think an healthy varied diet of activities and stimuli is still the way for getting the best out of life.

I know I guy that put Overwatch among his experiences. It was for an IT position and he contextualyzed it as some kind of acquired soft skill.

Is it depressing if you had fun?

I love my time on earth and I think it’s wild that we can experience the intricacies of a realtime mind-battle with hundred of thousands of fellow humans around the world. #noregrets

Now, World of Warcraft… 🤮

You mention money in your arguments but you never provide pricing of those components. It doesn’t help in the current wild pricing environment.

I’d also like to mention https://www.logicalincrements.com/ that basically does what you are doing on a wider scale.

I quit League some half a year ago after 10 years of playing. I can see now how impossible it seems to play that consistently when you just consume different games rather than having a single title.

It’s a completely different experience.

As a side note, what’s up with all the people saying “I played a game”, just say what game it is, we are all nerds in here.

Tor inside a VPN is fine. Some argue it will make you stand out in comparison with other users of your VPN but that’s only a problem if they retain data, and if they do you really wish you’d have used tor…

I’ve been yelling it for the past 20 minutes, I would never bring to the conversation something untested.

Here’s proof:

You can say “caaaare”, you can say “carrrrre” and you can say “careeeee”.

You would sound like a much bigger freak in both the latter istances.

One could argue and one would be wrong.

I know it’s beyond the realm of rules, but wouldn’t it be… “caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare”?

It can be valid, it surely doesn’t apply to Gaza.

We are “all” guilty because we knowingly pollute, for example, and that kills people. And we buy products and that finance Israel bombs. And we fight for survival and strangle our jailer that just landed that job to feed his family and never got quality education to choose a different career.

I am more of the idea that there are no truly guilty in a strict sense. We as a society share the responsibility to handle the now extended knowledge we have and we are basically not even trying.

You missed a word in there.

I don’t think it’s lack of empaty, or rather, it’s not just lack of empaty, I think it’s more an active lumping together of people and ancestry.

So much so Zionist, and Nazi, are into their own a-priori “positive” quality, coherently, absurdly so, Palestinian children have a-priori negative qualities.

I feel sick just typing this because I would think this is very very very clearly idiotic. But it seems to take hold of plenty of people’s worldview.

No one dreams about the guy they have to apologize for after you met them

Have you ever been on planet earth? That’s sadly false in many instances.

1 - they are dog people. They probably married just because the dogs liked each others.

2 - it’s a cartoon.

3 - it’s just a fucking depiction of two people randomly meeting, it’s implied that they hit it off stellarly and, yes, people do MAD CRAZY things such as… marrying a person they are in love with.

4 - bestiality.

I’m not on board (heh) with Intel yet, also second hand is more sustainable, last but not least, it would be overkill with my CPU (and the PSU and indirectly the motherboard).

I mean, sure? I’m kinda in Europe I’m not sure if that would make things awkward.

My 1060 6Gb is starting to crash on me.

I found myself seriously considering buying… A working second hand 1060 6Gb.