A lot of people have trouble feeling like this, and is a big part of the sunk cost fallacy I think. “I know I’ll like it more later” then eventually becomes “well I’ve made it this far”.

You like what you like, you don’t like what you don’t like. You can’t really change that. It’s okay to put something down if you aren’t engaging with it.

Anecdote ahead:

I keep telling my wife if she doesn’t like one of my books, I won’t be offended if she stops reading.

But she feels like it’s just her “being dumb” and that she’ll like it more next chapter.

I took her to half price books the other day so we could get a bunch of books she likes, and the only reason she decided to buy as many as she did was because “we can sell them back to the store” even though I fully intend in giving away any books she won’t read.

The $2 I’ll get back for it isn’t worth the 45 minute trip there. And someone will probably get more than $2 worth of entertainment from it.

I created a nerd, send bookshelves…

This is why I occasionally watch Bing bong theorem.

It’s garbage, it’s offensive to several groups of people (some more than others), and it has a laugh track.

By all my standards, it’s garbage, with garbage characters played by( a couple) garbage people actors, and half the time it’s not funny at all, not just “not as funny as it thinks it is”

But… I still like to watch an episode here or there.

Don’t get me started on all the people who tell me I should love it because I’m a nerd and I “like space”. Usually these people don’t understand why the “smart” jokes aren’t actually smart and usually they’re giving just enough of a “you need basic education to understand this” so that when the average viewer understands it, they can feel good about themselves for being oh so smart and understanding all that nerd stuff.

And of course you can’t bring any of that up without sounding like a pretentious douche who wants people to think they’re smarter than they are.

So uh… Hi, I guess I’m a pretentious douche. IM SMRT

Like what you like, fuck the h8rz.

Weird how there was no end to "states rights* stuff for the last four years, but the four years before that was strangely quiet. And I distinctly remember about 8 years before that where it was all they would talk about… And tan suits for some reason… Just a weird coincidence…

Suuuuuuper weird.

maximally profitable game

See, it really is just an algorithm that can be nailed down perfectly, and I’ve got an entire floor of statisticians and market analysts that agree it’ll make me berjillions!!!1!!

Lpt: they’re also telling me more statisticians and market analysts will help boost my numbers too! Jackpot!

-an executive, somewhere, in nearly every corporate office

Based on my experience, having never used TT myself, but married to someone who does and friends with people who do…

You DON’T really get different perspectives. In ANY of those platform styles.

It’s literally designed to show you whatever you engage most with, and usually that’s “things that get you angry” regardless of who you are. For my wife, it’s “here’s how my family is shitty/aita” for some of my friends it’s “here’s how I was being misgendered/deadnamed/not accepted” and for some people I know, it’s “here’s a person who is not cis/white/christian/male existing in my general area”

I guess you get the different perspectives if you know a wide variety of people who use it and don’t actually use it yourself?

But one day they might be the one on top! And it will be because they worked hard and deserve it!

My favorite thing is seeing attempted memes of “this is the future the left wants with socialism/communism/anticapitalism” and… It’s literally just a picture of regular old capitalism making sure certain people get the worst of it. Usually houseless camping hotspots, and slums that supply larger wealthier areas with their luxuries and labor.

They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.

Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”

A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.

So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”

Shhhhhhhhhhh

If I don’t know my master plan, then THEY certainly don’t either!

Also I do intentionally leave some things a bit more vague, with ideas of what I want to do, but I’m hoping the players will start theorizing amongst themselves so I can incorporate their stuff into the game.

It gives them a nice sense of accomplishment to have “predicted” something, and I think they feel more engaged in the campaign.

Or maybe I’m just a bad DM…

I knew of two other people on lemmy who lived in my state, and then following the tradition of so many astronauts before us, one of them left due to governmental persecution and fled to another country.

Shout out to all the people stuck in these states without enough funds to leave for a better life.

rotated map of under-ice Antarctica

Okay, who’s gonna tell them…

I remember seeing so many comments awhile back about how there wasn’t a chance in hell that EON would ever allow someone else to have creative control.

I want to know how much they’re being paid for it, and how much the next highest offer has been, because it has to be a shitload of money.

I will happily shake hands with a pineapple-on-pizza-er, if it means we can make sure this evil never hurts anyone ever again.

I’ll wash my hands afterward, but it’s the gesture that counts, right?

(pls wash your hands anyway, sanitation rulez)

They had an app store?

I am aware of the massive setup costs, and exactly 0 of what you said invalidates anything I said.

This is something that’s always boggles my mind as an American.

Why would any other country rely on us for military equipment instead of working on their own? Yeah it costs money to setup, but even in highschool I knew enough to know the US has, to put it lightly, done shady shit to its allies. Hell, it’s own people.

Why would anyone trust that they’ll always be an ally? Especially when Republicans are in charge and make international cooperation even more of a joke than usual.

I want the EU to be self sufficient not because I think they suck and should be paying out the ass, like the magats do, but because when the US government decides they don’t want to play with the other kids anymore, they can’t take the proverbial ball home with them.

Yeah, but to be fair, those were smallish nukes, and we only saw those go up against large bugs.

Not a net or trident in sight.

Not a fair comparison.

I genuinely think the author just put those two together because they knew everyone was expecting Harr-mione to happen. Tried to subvert expectations.

don’t lick the platters

No joke, as a teenager I temporarily considered using one as a pizza cutter but ultimately decided to use a pair of scissors just because I didn’t want the shiny platter to be greasy.

I really want a thin metal disc to spin now… Maybe see if I can get it to spin with my arduino…

Smort.

I would absolutely be consulting a lawyer before actually putting that out, just to, at the very least, have someone who’s a little familiar with the situation beforehand. That way if I DO get arrested, I already know a lawyer who’s looked into this and already had some things ready to go.

Yeah, I had been holding on to one last one after selling the rest (I made a whopping $13 yaaaaaaaaay)

Selling that shit the moment I can get to my laptop.