Streptember

I don’t want to die.

What if I die in my sleep.

What if the house catches fire and I can’t escape in time because I was asleep.

There are so many other things I could be doing.

I don’t have enough life left.

What if I miss something important or cool.

What if there’s a burglar when I’m asleep and it goes south and they murder me.

What if I have an aneurysm in my sleep.

What if I have a stroke in my sleep.

What if I have a heart attack in my sleep.

What if there’s a gas leak and the house explodes while I’m asleep.

What if there’s a CO leak and I just asphyxiate.

What if I just never wake up for no discernible reason.

I wanna play more video games.

I wanna browse the internet more.

I don’t want to have the bad thoughts come back like they always do when I try to sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PUIhDUFZo

Very relevant.

Basically, it’s a combination of new foods and exposure to new bacteria.

It doesn’t, but that doesn’t mean people can’t believe that it does.

Beliefs and personal convictions muck that up a bit though.

There’s a sadly significant portion of people who truly believe that being gay is hurting other people.

Whether they believe it only because they were told to or for some personal reason, they believe it nonetheless.

What’s out so far is good.

It’s split up so that the releases after launch continue the main story of the expansion and are included in the price, so no more buying an expansion then having to be playing at a specific time or pay for the follow-up story.

The next part releases tomorrow, so we’ll see how that stacks up.

GW2 for the past 11 years, except for a stretch where I played ESO for a few months.

Community’s mostly great. Cooperation between players is strongly fostered by the game’s design (no kill or resource stealing, no competing for drops, etc), so players tend to get along in almost every PvE situation.

Lore is good, but not nearly as expanded upon as Warcraft’s.

Gameplay is what makes it IMO. Skill effects and some gear skins can be a bit obnoxious, especially when you’re in large groups for open world and World vs World, but it’s still enjoyable. Don’t play normal PvP, so can’t comment on that.

*bad new overwatch

Highway 145, mile marker 78.

It is.

Lack of sleep and leisure time will do more damage in the long run than the short term benefits of 16+ hours of learning a day will ever do good.

“The devil you know” and all that.

You’re 10k years off the Pleistocene.

I remember when Steam the software was the worst piece of software on my computer. And it stayed that way for long enough that it became a meme.

My point is that owning games was never any good because there was always some severe limitation on your legal rights since the game itself is a piece of software and there’s no universal way to guarantee your ownership of a piece of software.

The disk could always break. If there was any online component, they could always take down the servers. Or if the game was broken from the start or became broken at any point, they could always just never provide the necessary update to make it playable.

I’ve never really been one to sell my games because I’m always wanting to go back and play them later, so I can’t really offer any input on that fact.

I just prefer the system that gives me at least a paper thin guarantee over the one that’s less convenient and has absolutely no guarantee.

At least it’s digital rights control now instead of your rights depending on a fragile piece of plastic and aluminum.

What good is legally owning a game if I lose access to it just because it physically broke? I’d still have to buy it again (or pirate it) if anything happened to the disk, so IMO, it’s a wash.

We give up legal rights in exchange for extra short term safety and convenience. And if Steam or the developer ever takes it away from me, I can always just go pirate it to get it back.

I’m fine with the dongle because all I ever use the headphone jack for is for listening in my car (no bluetooth), so the dongle just stays on the end of the aux cord in my car.

No dongle would obviously be better, but it’s a very minor inconvenience for me,

Ah, the contrarian.

If you let other people ruin something for you, that’s on you, not them. Especially if they “ruin” it by celebrating and enjoying it.

Only thing I can figure is to have more space for that ad.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/LbJwrH,wNrG3C,TXCwrH,sjX2FT/

Yeah, those are the only ones I see that I’d be able to justify with your requirements. (and two of them are ones you mentioned)

For cases with a solid metal or acrylic side panel, you can always just make space for fans on them.