Don’t let them dictate the convo. You can assert control as well, don’t let them lead uncontested.

It’s a clever method of trolling. But if you come prepared and/or are willing to put some effort in, you actually can wreck them with evidence and sound arguments that shuts them completely up.

This is very satisfying.

This author writes like an insufferable teenage cryptobro that got a little older and got a degree, but never actually grew up. I guess he’s after a very specific audience though.

Still though, slogging through that prose is slightly more annoying than a feisty chihuahua. Which itself is irritating, because I kinda want to know his actual opinions without having to dig them out of something full of endless paragraphs of his pointless bullshit fluff.

Ugh. Kids, if you write like that, you’re literally what Shakespeare was making fun of like, a bunch of centuries ago, with that whole “brevity is the soul of wit” char. He was viciously mocking you, a dozen-plus generations ago. Just get your point out.

To add to what someone else said, try to get some exercise. It can be free, and your brain needs some endorphins in there to help counteract all that pain. It won’t be a solution or anything, but it can help a little with the symptoms. Jogging, a pushup/situp regimen, whatever works for you. Can kinda give you a physical outlet for some of the pain sometimes.

Good luck.

Pokemon. It’s just a franchise of watered-down jrpgs imo.

… only so long as they can keep their transportation infrastructure up…

No, not necessarily. I don’t think a dev usually would, or even should. It depends entirely on why they’re working on whatever the project is. To put it in more mathematical terms, I’m essentially saying that the amount of feedback any particular dev receives on their project is going to be a function of only really two major variables: How many total users they have, and how convenient they make it to deliver the feedback to them.

Those two variables are most, but not all, of what governs what happens. They can do with that information whatever they wish. If they want a lot of feedback, they should make it easy. If they do not wish a lot, they should not make it easy. That’s all, really. It’s not particularly high level thinking or anything.

People suffer from limited attention. Trying to take a purely principled approach and investing the energy to give back to every project you may want to can become impractical. Especially if one had a busy family and professional life too, it may just not be worth it, however much someone may wish to help.

It’s just the organization of priorities, and simply put, sometimes a few minutes really is too much to ask in certain circumstances.

Thus, removing as many hurdles as possible is probably a worthy investment of a devs time if they want large amounts of feedback. Pragmatic, not based on any ideas of what might be right or wrong, but simply what is probably going to happen most of the time, with no consideration to why that might be or what might be better. Pragmatism is frequently unethical.

Side thought: If someone just puts an email address for receiving feedback somewhere where I’ll see it, I’ll use that too. A UI button isn’t really necessary, just so long as I can send the feedback without having to do my own research in order to do so.

I can write an email though.

In principle I agree with you. But people sitting behind their keyboards will also be fairly pragmatic about it, pretty often.

If you give me an extremely easy way to submit feedback, then I will. Don’t expect me to go way out of my way, though, researching how to get into contact with you and such. I don’t actually care that much, you know how many products exist out there, right?

But, just by way of example, an early access game I started playing recently has a very convenient button in the main HUD for submitting bug reports/suggestions, and I’ve been considering different ideas to submit with it. Any I cannot throw out as impractical or counter-productive will get submitted eventually. I’ll also report bugs I encounter, of course.

I will not look up your team’s forums just to talk to you though.

… the two dots just aren’t fair, man. That’s worse than when someone puts a fleck into a photo to make you try to wipe it off your screen.

I need more angles of this.

I think I gained 10 lbs just looking at these pics…

New to me too. I want to eat one.

I’m imagining kiwi-stawberry, but frankly that’s just my animal brain drawing stupidly simple connections.

Not necessarily. Equality of opportunity already being achieved is a common right wing talking point. You cannot look at the handicapped and actually say they all get the exact same chances as we do though, that’s frankly pants-on-head silly.

There’s a whole lot they can’t do.

Yeah. Equality of opportunity is an aspiration to be fought for. Not yet a pre-existing reality, though.

It’s a gap because there’s no infrastructure crossing it. Not because people can’t walk through it. To prevent that, it would probably need to be a waterway, which would force people to use boats or swim. It would still be passable though.

There frankly aren’t many places humans can’t traverse with our own bodies. We’re an extremely versatile, mobile species, even to the point of being capably semi-aquatic sometimes.

I mean, yeah, but that’s just because most countries don’t invest heavily into anti-ship missiles. That’s more of a superpower thing usually–they’re hella expensive, and you’re generally only using them if you’re at war with a naval power of some sort. Then, when you want to actually sink a (non-Russian) combat ship with them, you need to fire a shitload to oversaturate the missile defense and get a good chance of a hit.

So, you want a lot of them too.

Expensive, need a lot of them, and having limited utility? Yes, a very niche capability. Especially when submarines also exist, are also good at sinking ships, and are re-useable.

Personally, I would rest it on some sawed-off pieces of a 2x4, but that’s just me. It’d probably be a little ugly.

Something like a few red bricks would probably look a little nicer.

Just so long as you approach it with a sense of balance. Imo, weed is better as an end-of-the-day unwinding kinda thing, and works well as a reward for a day of putting up with life.

If you go overboard though, its short-term memory effects can bite you in the ass a little bit. It ends up inhibiting learning, which is one of the modern world’s most critical skills. It’s not a severely dangerous thing, but does make certain important things harder than they otherwise would’ve been. Also notable that modern strains are much more effective, at both positive effects and unintended consequences.