Hey, so, I know those words sound really satisfying in that combination, but “objectively and factually” there’s no single system of morality nor metric of quality for fatherhood that anyone could judge by, so “objectively and factually”, your thesis is an opinion statement and by its very nature cannot be a fact or objective truth.

He was a sorcerer who was well spoken so he came across as wizard-y.

Yeah, the player got kicked out for a drug problem, I heard.

And here I thought that all living things are averse to death merely due to natural selection, more so than any specifically human psychological phenomena.

It looks like you already have lots of ideas for hobbies to explore. Rock wall climbing/bouldering is a great one if you want a physical activity with a strong analytical component. I don’t think you need recommendations, though. I think you need a strategy, so that’s what I’m sharing below.

The first thing I would do in your situation would be to switch from a smartphone to a dumb phone, or, failing that, uninstall all of your social media apps so that you need to use the web browser and consciously navigate to the websites to go on there.

Adding just one extra step gives your conscious mind time to stop your subconscious from returning to the loops you’ve been addicted to.

It’s also extremely useful to turn off notifications for all apps that aren’t notifications of DMs from people you actually want to talk to.

Another thing to do is to reduce the intensity of colors on your screens, either by lowering saturation or forcing them into a black and white mode.

All of this stuff seems stupid by itself, but it adds up to your subconscious deciding that these activities are boring more easily and the addiction falling by the wayside through natural processes. This is far easier to pull off than cold turkey. By growing bored with what you have been doing, you will naturally find the time to explore new things to get excited about again. Thus you don’t end up with such an intense rebound effect.

Well yeah, they exist at the extremes of society and push almost exclusively for their own further empowerment.

I suspect you could get the price on something like this down to maybe $100-$150. Basically a small low-power Intel box with an SSD and at least 8G of RAM could handle all of these services.

The hard part would be pre-configuring each of them and building/adapting software to make this kind of stuff easy for end users.

Meh, Great Cleave combined with improved critical and some other stuff could lead to some crazy slot machine combo turns

Yes, but also Fighters are just way cooler in either edition of Pathfinder

And at the same time, the third-party clients Void and Fladder both just had initial testing releases for Android TV. Hooray for FLOSS ecosystems!

Girls On Film is the theme song still if you swap the DVD version to the Japanese audio for the intro

Have you tried any of the alternative desktop Linux clients?

Fladder seems kind of nice, for instance. They release both AppImage and Flatpak versions on their github releases.

Pretty sure even pirated copies can make a Larian account and add friends thru that.

Yeah, that’s fair. Psycho Pass Season 1 was a complete banger.

Psycho Pass season 1 was phenomenal, but it kinda fell off after season 1.

I feel like Ghost In The Shell Standalone Complex holds up better, overall.

Probably Berserk. Or maybe Ghost In The Shell + Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex seasons 1 and 2.

Both are truly mature in terms of writing as well as subject matter.

Ghost In The Shell gets really deep into the political ramifications of potential future technologies through the lense of a sci-fi action crime drama. 18+ for some extreme violence and naked/often scantily clad cyborgs with no nipples.

Berserk is mostly about found family and overcoming trauma through the lense of a guy with a huge sword in a medieval low-fantasy setting. 18+ for extreme violence, sex, sexual violence, torture, child abuse, I mean just most bad things people do are in there at some point or another. It’s considered horror anime by some.

I don’t care about the document. If anything I’d say it’s fatally flawed in a couple key ways. Not as bad the OG articles of confederation, but pretty bad.

What I care about is making a government that actually serves the majority of the people and represents their interests against the disproportionately powerful

Have you noticed how we don’t have many (almost any) new laws passing? The filibuster is why. The house passes all kinds of vile bills and the senate promptly lets the bills die

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I’m not convinced that the US constitution/government will outlive me, at this point.

It wouldn’t be the US government (at least not the as we know it) holding people accountable in my imaginary scenario.

It will happen. The question is whether it’ll happen in time to hold anyone meaningfully accountable