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In his credit; he did criticise the other members for not spending enough on defence and that turned out to be a valid criticism and now everyone has increased that spending.

In my case it's definitely DayZ. It's an open-world zombie-survival multiplayer game.

I'm not a huge gamer myself but that one has always stood out to me above all the others. Once you've spent hours into a character you seriously don't want to get killed. The map is massive and there's only 60 other people at best so you often don't even run into anyone - only hear the occasional gunshot in the distance. Wearing headphones lets you hear 360-degree sounds and the proximity voice chat I think is pretty cool feature too. It's often jokingly called hiking simulator since you, for the most part, just run in a forests.

It's also the only game where I've genuinely felt bad about shooting another player. Self-defence is a different case but just cold blood murder only because I can has multiple times left me feeling kinda shitty, so nowdays I just try and talk to people and then usually I get shot instead. I've also often felt absolutely terrified, hiding in a corner of a room in a house hiding from another player who I've just realized is close to me. I haven't felt anything like that with any other game and have felt that DayZ is quite unique in that sense.

I must add, thought, that those flight simulator cockpits that people have built for themselves seem kind of intriguing too.

I down- and upvoted this comment.

It's the "I like/don't like the sound of that button"

No, but intentions matter. Autistic people are often socially awkward, blunt or clunky as well, but you wouldn’t call them a dipshit because of it, would you?

If what I’m saying even remotely resembles something your caricature of the "other" might say, then the only logical conclusion, of course, is that I must be exactly like them.

So you know he had good intentions yet you're still calling him a dipshit.

It's not that different from the people who are angry all day every day about what Trump, Elon or whoever is doing. Reading articles about them and writing mean comments might feel like activism but the reality is that it's them and only them whose being harmed by it. Anger is such an exhausting and unpleasant feeling that personally I try and avoid it for as much as possible. It also clouds one's judgement and makes them less effective about what ever it is that they wish to achieve.

I don't disagree with the advice to trust your gut, so I can't blame you for doing the same thing.

Listen to that uneasy feeling and act on it.

Unless it's about some other group of people than men.

Wokeism and identity politics.

..or you can keep harping about racism and misogyny and enjoy 4 years of J.D. Vance next.

There are people on the far left who also hate jews just as passionately as the nazies do. The fact that you can't even aknowledge this shows that you're not a rational thinker and thus I don't need to waste my time with you.

No, I’m saying you’ll find antisemites on both the far left and the far right - not that everyone on the far left hates Jews. Not everyone on the far right does either.

If you’re going to argue that there are no antisemites on the far left whatsoever, then there’s nothing to discuss here.

I feel like I'm the only one who shares things I've been up to recently and usually the responses I get back are passive at best. Then when I intentionally stop messaging them and waiting for someone else to say something first the group chat dies down for a week. I feel like it's time to move on and leave these "friends" behind.

move to Finland first

It's dark, wet and cold in here.

To me "rich" means someone whose passive income exceeds their spending.

So if I was rich I'd stop working and instead pursue my personal interests. Ideally I'd buy a property somewhere remote and close to water with a lot of land and start building a homestead of some sort.

I haven't said a world about Israel.

I'm talking about the hatred of jews.

How does this relate to what I said?

One doesn't need to be a billionaire to belong to the 1%