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I mean, main reason I got mine was to play the games I couldn’t stomach at switch 1 performance. Until duskbloods comes out, anyway.

Also, since I had a first gen switch 1, I was finally able to hack it without worrying about losing online functionality, so now it’s a nice emulation handheld.

It’s worth exploring different medications to see if there are less side effects, it took my friend a few tries to find one that was effective without intolerable side effects.

Whoops, I knew that, but I typed this just after waking up. I’ll edit that.

There are multiple types of bipolar disorder with various features, so take any advice from strangers with a grain of salt, as they probably don’t know the specifics. I have a couple of personal experiences with bipolar disorder in general.

First, a close friend of mine - his manic episodes would usually involve him staying awake for days at a time, and his depressive episodes were pretty bad. Before being diagnosed with bipolar disorder he had some pretty bad experiences with therapy from a “therapist” that clearly didn’t know anything about depression or bipolar disorder, since being diagnosed and settling on a medication he has been much, much more stable. I used to lie awake unable to sleep from the stress of worrying about him, I don’t anymore. He still has depressive and manic periods but they are much, much less severe.

Secondly, an aunt. She had one of the more severe types, but we didn’t know it. She always had bad depressive episodes (and there was apparently an early bad episode of mania that was written off as a one-off mental episode from stress or something) but it wasn’t until she suddenly left my uncle and their children to run off with a married man she barely knew that it became more apparent something else was wrong. I suggested - stressing that I am not an expert in the matter - that it kind of sounded a lot like some of the self-destructive manic episodes I had heard about, not from my friend but from Stephen Fry. I had heard him talk about his bipolar disorder at one of his shows in Sydney, and his past involved a lot more trouble than you’d expect. He has a couple of documentaries about it, but I can’t speak on how helpful they would be. Anyway, I turned out to be right, and so far she seems to be doing better, but it’s still early days.

The main takeaway is there is hope. One thing I took away from Stephen Fry’s talks in particular was that it is vital to keep taking the medication and not to decide, after a period of stability, that you don’t need it anymore, that’s a recipe for disaster.

The bobiverse series (about a guy who is hit by a car right after signing up for a cryogenics thing and then wakes in the future to find out he’s basically been legislated to have no rights and is stuck into a self-replicating drone for space exploration, it’s pretty good) kind of starts off setting the backstory like it. The christofascism just started a bit later.

Obviously it’s not one to one but given Trump’s performative Christianity it was all I could think about around the failed coup on Jan 6.

I also like that they let me turn off the AI results and I never have to see them again on any of my devices.

Cool! I’ve been looking at kagi for a long while but hadn’t bit the bullet due to the cost. They did a month free trial thing recently and I’ve been using it since and it’s been really nice. Think I’ll stick with it.

I really like the ability to make custom lenses (like predefined groups of sites to search) and a built in way to block sites or change their priority in listings. Can do that to Google with extensions like ublacklist, but this way I don’t need to export my settings to other devices.

Game freak still has no clue about doing 3D.

Besides BotW, compare the xenoblade games to 3d pokemon. Game freak just cannot make optimal use of the hardware that’s there.

I still need to resume running a campaign on hold from pre-COVID… But two of the players had a baby. So that’s probably not happening.

Even if you have more than 3 friends, when you’re an adult and you or your friends have different schedules, may be parents, etc, it can just be a nightmare to get all 4 together at the same time.

Good turkish delight is heavenly. Bad turkish delight is abysmal.

Every time I look at the hive guards after killing them, I think how delicious they look.

I want to eat the hive guards. For democracy.

Having read a few “retired hero” things recently, home ownership and retirement would be nice.

I didn’t think I would like it because I like colony sims and city builders where I’m just playing the same map for extended periods, but I gave it a try on game pass and ended up playing hundreds of hours. It’s something special.

Well, in homeopathy, like cures like, so probably more shit.

Yeah, always gotta check price history. Especially on Aliexpress.

Was looking at buying a particular retro game emulator handheld. Black friday pricing was the same as non-black-friday pricing, but it was “discounted” from $300, which it has never actually been sold at. Still bit the bullet and bought it because it did end up decently cheaper using one of their “spend $x and get $y off” coupons.

Is a cooking method from the 70s really… futuristic?

Not saying it isn’t worth it, though.

Nice to see news from Thailand that isn’t about their shitty royals.

Is a funny joke, but Yoda speaks in a consistent OSV as opposed to SVO used in English. 🤓

That’s because, considering the bosses you have to fight, every character is weighted down by their enormous balls.