Basman

There's an ocean of difference between playing an instrument and gaming as a hobby in terms of attractiveness. Certain hobbies makes you less attractive if nothing else. If you thing about it, the hobbies that women find attractive almost always bring some kind of value to them while unattractive hobbies do the inverse. It's a very self-biased perspective. "It's cringe to be into things that aren't useful to me specifically."

I have painted for miniatures for over a decade, but relatively recently started to build gunpla. The difference in cost and hobby gear needed is like entering a non-abusive relationship for the first time.

How do you end up with that as a hobby? Because it's medical or because it's gore?

No, they just hate children

It takes time to get into the weeds of stuff, especially on a podcast format where half the time is spent on tangents, jokes and one's personal twitter drama. You just got to shoot more poddies with the same people to really let a complex topic unfold. You'll get there eventually if the retention is there.

Despite only making about 13% of a zoo population, zebras commit the majority of attacks on guests and staff.

@UnbornTao You can be very stubborn on certain topics. Just an observation.

He dresses like an oil spill.

Trump's tariff scheme recently got shut down by congress. Imagine if such checks on power didn't exists and Trump was politically unshackled? Politicians being corrupt is one thing, but being a tyrant is another. Russia is a country where the leader's whims dictates the entire country's fate. For someone like Putin, policy that is bad for the economy doesn't matter because he's "writing history" in a mythical sense. He's not accountable to the state and starts pointless wars. That's unchecked power. Politicians tend to act more in alignment with national interests, and by extension humanity, when what's best for the country aligns with what is best for their careers. We need better incentives for politicians to be good politicians. Politicians are arguably underpaid relative to the amount of responsibility they carry and how much they are hated, though that's unpopular to say, let alone act on.

I think your specifically thinking of technocratic centrism. Regulations on power is absolutely necessary for a healthy society, or you get regimes like that of Russia who's main priority is regime security as opposed to national interest. Regulations on power is in my opinion the de facto selling point of democracy.

Elon is the kind of guy to walk on his toes all day when at home.

He downloaded a new personality.

It's fine to have some entertainment/play that isn't meaningfully progressing your life. You need it to relax and unwind occasionally. Games are that. I find gaming the most fulfilling at the end of the day as a kind of reward. I can only game for 1-2 hours at most though before it starts feeling unfulfilling unless it is particularly engrossing, which is rare.

Strategy games are particularly bad at sucking you in and being time sinks.

Armored Core For Answer is peak ADHD gaming