Berttheduck @ Berttheduck @lemmy.ml

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I don't feel I've given them a pass. I feel like I've set boundaries where I can tolerate/ enjoy their presence without being subjected to their hateful or stupid beliefs. It was a difficult decision for me and I seriously considered not having a relationship with them at all for a long time. But I'd miss out on time with my baby nephew, my elderly gran and my siblings who all live near my parents (the main culprits) and I decided that the relationships were more important to me than winning an argument.

To continue your addict analogy, you might agree to hang out with your addict friend on the condition they come sober and don't take drugs whilst you're together. Rather than just saying you take drugs so we aren't friends now.

The world is rarely black and white.

Yup this is where I got to with them. Either I compromise my values to continue having a relationship or we eventually stop talking entirely as I continue to argue with their bullshit. The arguing doesn't work, even appeals to emotion didn't make a difference. I struggled for a long time with how these people who I held in such high regard could fall so far. They are just people at the end of the day and fell for the hateful propaganda on social media.

I know where your coming from. My parents feel right down the racist conspiracy theory rabbit hole during Brexit and COVID. I was working in the hospital watching people and colleagues die regularly and my dad was telling me it's just flu and all a hoax to scare people, they convinced my 90 year old grandma to not get the vaccine. We had a lot of fights. Eventually after a lot of reflecting I decided that having a relationship with my family was more important than winning an argument so now we just have a selection of topics I refuse to engage with, just say let's move on and change the topic. I found it really hard to see the people who raised me fall into racist rhetoric and conspiracy theory thinking, these people taught me to be a good person and now have some glaring holes in their compassion for others. I struggled with that for a long time.

We have evidence of trepanning (drilling holes in the skull) going back to the flint tools time period. We still use this today to release pressure after a bleed in the skull.

For me just long press on the word suggestion and a bin appears in the middle of the screen.

Have you tried the ps5 controller? Genuinely my favourite thing about the ps5. The adaptive triggers and the haptics are so good. The battery life feels better too. That was my biggest complaint about the 4s especially compared to the ps3s, those lasted for weeks.

I remember crying videos about people being mean. It was a few years ago I don't really remember any details.

We used to watch a lot of game theory. Really enjoyed the over analysis. Stopped part way down the 5 nights at Freddie's rabbit hole when all the drama started.

There's a really good Kurzgesagt (in a nutshell) about this topic. (Also their videos are excellent in general, highly recommend their YouTube channel).

My thoughts on this are: we may not have free will but it still feels like we make choices so I will continue to choose to do things which matters to me and enjoy my time in the universe.

Wasps usually kill other bugs. So you might end up with more of the biting bugs without them.

Snap I'm really enjoying this season. Hopefully they can stick the ending.

They are really useful if you're in hospital and too unwell to go out for a cigarette.

Yup, several times. The joys of working in healthcare.

Do you have a game of choice? I've just finished running a Dresden files accelerated game which was a lot of fun.

I wanted to love Quantum Break so much but it was just a buggy mess on my pc, I spent hours messing with settings but it just wouldn't run smoothly. I still managed to push through to mission 4 or so. Maybe I'll give it another go.

I'm working my way through forbidden west as well. I'm really enjoying it. It's always good to spend more time in an interesting game world. I really appreciate the more free form climbing system in this one, not quite breath of the wild climbing but way better than grab the yellow ledges only.

I love hiking. I think you've got a decent start with what you've written already. I would advise getting familiar with navigating yourself with a map and compass, a lot of places don't have phone signal so at a minimum download your map and make sure you've got the battery to last the trip and some extra. I definitely agree with your thoughts about carrying more water than you think you'll need, generally water will be the heaviest thing will carry but one of the most important.

I love hearing about DF but it's so dense that I was never able to get into it myself. Plus I struggled with the art, or lack of it on the earlier builds.

Me too, I've binged it twice (takes a good few weeks each time). Haven't been able to get into the sequel nearly as much though.

I can second all of these. Generation zero is the only one I didn't enjoy much but I suspect it's a lot better with friends.

The rest are fab, I'm currently playing Kena it's like Pixar/ Disney meets dark souls. Beautiful game, has these little critters which follow you around called rot who are super cute and you can put hats on them.

Control is just excellent. The combat feels great and for me the whole game was worth playing just for the Ashtray maze sequence.