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Have your fun with a couple greens and then marry a blue

Ah yeah it's crazy TF2 has been around for so long, it has quite the cult following. It seems like there's been a big thing going on called #SaveTF2 since about a month ago. I literally just found it while searching so I don't know much about it. But maybe you can jump on this as a veteran player and share how important the game is to you to Valve. It might be that little bit that makes them actually start improving and updating it again. Maybe you could create your own private server. Set up a league of people who play together without worrying about bots, and have a weekly tournament or something to show what the game is capable of. You could make a TF2 Youtube channel and see what happens. I haven't watched any of the videos, but just from the numbers, this guy has enough subscribers / views to be making a living from TF2 content exclusively: https://www.youtube.com/c/elmaxoTF2/videos I didn't enjoy Overwatch either when I tried it. But with Overwatch 2 coming out in October it might be worth trying again just to see. Personally I found Valorant to be much more enjoyable and closer to TF2, if you haven't tried it. Most difficult option would be to try and create your own video game inspired by TF2, taking everything you love about it and even building on it.

If you're passionate enough, you can bring a game back from the dead. A couple really passionate players can make a huge impact. I don't think Starcraft 2 would've had nearly the success it did without a few key people like Day9, Tasteless, Artosis. I've personally created a speedrunning community around a game that didn't previously had one. It led to discovering and the devs fixing some bugs that probably wouldn't have been noticed otherwise. And possibly contributed to some DLC coming out. If the game has P2P multi-player through Steam then it's fairly easy. If it relies on central game servers that have been shut down its a lot harder but not impossible. Could also switch to a similar game in the genre thats more popular now. Got a lot more to say but don't have time now so I'll try to come back and add to this later. Curious what game it was, I can probably brainstorm some ways to make it a life purpose depending on what it was.

In your head, you can most efficiently absorb the information. It's going in at exactly the right pace for you, in the way you understand. When you read aloud you have to almost take the words in and translate them back out for other people. You have slow the pace down to your speaking voice, which is probably less words per minute than you can read, which creates a weird lag/buffer effect and makes you read at a non-optimal speed for your brain. You also can't mumble and take shortcuts that you'd normally take in your head, you have to increase the clarity or people won't be able to understand. It takes at least 2x the mental bandwidth to have information going both in and out of you at once. Think of download vs upload speed on a modem. Part of that extra bandwidth gets pulled from the part of your brain that would normally be comprehending and storing what you read. When you read aloud you act more like a conduit and the words pass through you without getting absorbed.

Have you deeply explored and confirmed this for yourself, or do you just take it as a given from society? I'd go as far as to say that only a very slim majority do. You have to never have gone to a church to think Christians are all some racist bigots. They're some of the most accepting and least judgemental people I've met, to a fault. To the point that I don't think they even follow biblical teachings any more by openly accepting LGBT members into their congregations or even to become pastors. Presbyterians, Anglicans, Episcopalians, even Lutherans are all like this. Race has not been an issue for decades and most churches accept everyone by warping Jesus' "love your brother" type doctrine. Lots of churches are sponsoring Muslim refugees. Most Christians hardly even stand for traditional values like not having sex before marriage any more. Only in the Orthodox church and to a lesser extent Catholics are they still Christian in the traditional sense that you guys are thinking of. It's only Catholics at pro-life rallies for the most part, not protestants. I don't know about Evangelicals as that's a pretty uniquely American thing.

That's one heck of a slippery slope argument Please provide a link to any reputable source showing that an elected Republican politician has pushed for racial segregation in the past week. What I HAVE seen is liberals calling Clarence Thomas the N-word on Twitter.

This seems cursed af

He's got a whole Youtube channel, I've watched most of his vids. Here's a few of my favs: The overall takeaway I get from all his videos -- Most of us would be happier if we lived more simple and self-reliant lives. Growing our own food, making our own shelter. Going back to the old ways of doing things. Primitive doesn't have to be pejorative. I especially like the story from toward the end of the first video. Jon made an honest living from working 15 minutes per day. His cousin does all this work growing 10 acres of chilis but then he has to pay for workers, machinery, gets a lower price selling to wholesalers in the city, and in the end doesn't really get any further ahead than living a more simple and carefree life. Sometimes doing things in the "modern" way and at larger scales actually makes them a less efficient and profitable use of your time. If you can just do enough to get by without getting greedy, it's effortless - Life is easy.

That feel when Dems don't get their way and reveal themselves to be no better than Jan 6ers Horseshoe theory at its finest

If you're an extrovert, I don't know if you can ever fully overcome it. To me as an introvert it seems crazy that people get lonely so easily. I've known people who will literally go out to dinner and activities with friends, then go home and somehow get lonely between then and bedtime. They can't handle even like 4 hours alone with themselves. I've come to find that I'm in the slim majority of people who could legitimately go out to the wilderness and live for years alone without getting lonely, maybe I'd want a dog with me at most. Even most introverts are lying when they say they'd really be fine being alone for extended periods. If you put them in solitary confinement with all the comforts they needed, they'd hate it after a couple days. Humans are social and tribal creatures. It's probably best to try to fill that void with meaningful interaction with other people, instead of trying to learn to cope without it. It's not healthy for most people to be alone. You can try to join a bunch of Discord servers and things like that where you can voice chat with people, and see if that's enough connection, if you're having trouble finding and meeting people in person. Worst case, volunteer as a crossing guard or get a 2nd job as a Walmart greeter or something just to get yourself into situations to talk to people.

This: Go back and watch Leo's original videos on spiritual enlightenment, it's all been covered already. Pretty 101 stuff, even Sam Harris agrees this far I think.

First realize that you're assuming you need to keep a smartphone at all This guy has several videos about it, this is the most recent one after 18 months but you can go back and watch the others about how his memory improved and other benefits after going back to a flip phone aka "dumb phone". Before you make some excuse about why you can't live without one... he runs a business and YouTube channel without one. And everyone in existence managed without one up until about 20 years ago. Why don't you turn your phone off entirely and lock it in a drawer for a day and see what happens?

From the title I expected your budget to be $500 hahaha. For $20k there are more businesses you could start than not. I could list hundreds. Here's 55 under $5k to start: https://news.yahoo.com/news/55-businesses-you-can-start-for-less-than--5-000-060013074.html Atm I'm looking into growing and selling microgreens/sprouts/wheatgrass/gourmet mushrooms. The startup cost would be under $3,000. I would expect to make about $50k in the first year from about 20 hours a week of work. For $20k you could buy and operate a freaking food truck. If you want ease of starting and scalability plus lots of exercise without much red tape or paperwork, I'd do lawn mowing / landscaping / window washing or something like that. What are you actually interested in?

10 minutes of meditation and you can see for yourself that they're arising from nowhere and outside of your control. Go for the simplest answer that you can actually observe. Don't invent demonic mental rube goldberg machines where none exist.

If you remember a specific user and they've ever been @mentioned, you can also just type their username in the search bar to easily find them and click through to their profile without doing the manual URL workaround.

I don't normally watch it live. Might check out the VODS for Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Celeste, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World, Super Meat Boy. All fun games that I've speedrun myself. Maybe Advance Wars since it seems like they aren't releasing the reboot any time soon. PS: Go check out the Steam Summer Sale GAMERS

Good, better, best. Do what you feel capable of. It's better to do something to mitigate the risk than nothing at all. You know yourself better than anybody. If realistically you're not going to cut out nicotine completely, then vaping is still 10x better than smoking. Don't cheap out, try to buy from reputable brands. Try to find something with a 100% organic oil base. No VQ, MCT oil, PG, or alcohol and you'll greatly reduce your risk of developing popcorn lung or other complications.

Relax, this'll blow over in a couple days. Won't even get as bad as the George Floyd riots. Marches in all the major cities by people in pussyhats this weekend and then done.

Don't go and hang out at bars unless you want to be friends with the average person who goes to bars. The most important thing is you have to take initiative. YOU have to be the one to go up and approach people. YOU need to be the one that "seals the deal" and asks someone to exchange phone numbers, add each other on Facebook, or whatever. If you wait for other people to do it, it'll take 100x as long unless you find basically your friend-soulmate that you 100% click with. Because for the most part, everybody else is just as self-conscious and scared as you are. At the moment I'm going to a play group with my 1 year old once a week. This is just as good a place to meet people as bars, sports, etc. But here is the main difference between being active or passive: I can be passive and it's extremely low-risk. I just show up and it's easy to make small-talk with the other moms and dads. Maybe you get to know each other's first names but that's as far as it goes, even if you keep coming back for multiple weeks and seeing each other. Or I can be active at seeking out people I want to stay in touch with. This requires BEING GENUINE ABOUT WHAT YOU REALLY WANT and risking coming off creepy or weird if you do it wrong. That's a risk you have to take. I have to be the weirdo every week that says "Hey, I really enjoy talking to you and think we really get along and have the same philosophy about raising our kids. Do you mind if I add you on social media so we can keep in touch, and maybe our kids can play together outside the group sometime while we have coffee?" Guess what, like 90% of the time people are thrilled and waiting for people to make that first move, because most of them are after the same thing but afraid to be the one to reach out. In my case it's even harder as a guy, especially if I want to ask a mom for contact details and my wife isn't with me. First I have to disarm them first talking about my wife, wear a wedding ring, and a bunch of stuff to let them know I'm not just hitting on them romantically, that you don't have to worry about if you're just making a same-sex friend with a stranger. You can do it. Risk being a creep. Especially if you're in a low-risk situation like a bar or bus stop where you'll likely never see the person again otherwise.

#1 seems to make way more sense. In video game terms, it's like render distance. All the assets too far from your player character (or even outside your vision) are culled to improve performance. Then when needed again they pop back into existence. God seems incredibly efficient and streamlined, always aiming for the simplest solution. It'd be pretty weird to just have closets full of infinite giraffes laying around to pull from, when it can just make them on the fly. The 2nd view makes God into the ultimate hoarder.

Honestly I don't know if I even want to awaken any more. Sometimes I think I do, but as I start to approach it, it gets terrifying. I want the truth, but I'm also scared of it. Things have been pretty okay for a few decades and it seems risky to try and mess that up. If I'm honest, my desire to awaken mostly comes from a place of scarcity. Fear of death, wanting to figure it out and know the answer before I'm in my last moments and don't have a choice. Wanting to escape some reincarnation cycle if such a thing exists, with the knowledge and experienced I've gained in this lifetime in tact, instead of having the slate wiped clean again. Ego death from the outside seems to me kinda like how teleportation would work in sci-fi. When you go in a teleporter, you don't actually get fully transported somewhere. It KILLS you here and now, the current you dies. Then a new version of you gets re-assembled atom by atom somewhere else, like a clone of yourself. Except even your memories are in tact so it feels like you really went somewhere. I don't know if I want to egoically kill myself to go somewhere else. Even if by all accounts it's better than what I have now. I'd rather cling on to my current self, even if it's just an illusion.

Just an idea, maybe create a journal in the self-actualization journals section and then whoever can jump in and keep you accountable. That way all the communication is 100% public, no sketchy DMs. You can even link your bf to it. Especially since it's writing-related I would help push you, you'd make lots of progress but also absolutely hate me after a couple weeks ? hah This is 100% something you'll need to work on and overcome to avoid disaster in the future. Your life is going to be full of temptation. Like you said, you can't just realistically close the door to half the population. Especially when you get put in situations like work where you're stuck with them.

Yes absolutely, if it's the will of the people. If they hold a referendum and that's what the majority of Texans want, go for it. I'm in favor of Quebec and Alberta separating from the rest of Canada if that's what they want. I was in favor of Brexit. I'm in favor of the eastern areas of Ukraine peacefully deciding to join Russia instead of getting bombed to hell and ending up with the same result anyway. Ideally set a higher bar than 50%... maybe it needs a 75% vote to pass. That way having states leave and re-join the union isn't something that's happening regularly. But if people are that unhappy being part of the US, let them leave. Why hold them hostage? Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence under the constitution. They should be allowed to take their toys and go home whenever they want. Texas would be the 39th largest country in the world if they decided to split off, they have the size and infrastructure to make it on their own. You can let them leave peacefully through reform and law, or you can let it become such a big problem that it eventually causes a civil war. I support the US leaving the United Nations based on similar reasoning and with the same requirements - put it to the people. Let people know what the UN contributes to their country vs what it costs to be a part of it, and then put it to a vote. I don't care if people are too stupid to do what's best for them, we still gave them the right to make those bad decisions, so let them use it. If 75% of people arbitrarily decide they want to literally set fire to their state and destroy it, who am I to try and interfere? That'd be authoritarian. Just don't let them come begging for FEMA after they do it.

You guys are so hyperbolic. You're in for a real surprise if a real nazi party ever starts gaining traction. Compare Trump's platform to a platform like this: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/platform/ It can get a lot worse, and it won't be the Republicans.

You're probably better than you think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome Big words no make good writing Sit down and spend a solid hour or two making a document with lists of ideas to write about. Then when you sit down to write, you don't have to spend 20 minutes brainstorming. You just pick an idea and start writing about it.