Yeah anxiety sucks ass. Speaking from personal and recent experience my suggestion is ACT (or CBT) therapy if that’s an option for you.

Remembering back when my extended family hired karaoke for a reunion sometime in the early 2000’s. I think i heard that song at least 30 times that night. I swear it had to be breaking the Geneva convention…

The taboo is starring/oggling or catcalling a stranger. If you look people in the eyes/face and don’t linger then no one is going to care except people who would have been a bother in any case.

Seems you have a plan. Good luck!

Ooh that doesn’t sound nice, you shouldn’t be hurting yourself.

I’m suggesting you learn [train yourself] to be in the presence of women comfortably without even having to worry about getting an erection. It makes it a lot easier to get to know women.

But if you want a men’s only gym there’s plenty of hole-in-the-wall places called “Iron Pounders” or something like that. At-home weights are also widely available.

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Just like any other emotion arousal is a response to a thought. It’s a wave of experience that’s washing over you. That part you can control but it’s less important here. The important part is the thought triggering the arousal. When you are in a situation where you think you can experience sexual outcomes (even if just fantasy) you’re likely to trigger your arousal response and pop a boner. These thoughts can also be tied to set and setting. You probably trained yourself not to have erections around family or in places with social stigma around it like most public places. So you have to recognize that you’re having a thought of sexualization, then you can reframe the setting as an inappropriate one for sexual arousal.

In the moment you can respond with deep breathing meditation if that helps. Focus on your breathing and think about the thought and (paradoxically) feel the feelings the thought brings. You’re doing two things. 1. You’re changing your learned response by doing something other than sexualizing a random stranger or sand (which ironically, being silica, is technically rock hard). 2. You’re learning how to recognize the thought, emotion and mechanics of it’s development to better manipulate it.

It’s not like it’s quick and easy, it can take a while and some effort, but not being a pest nor feeling guilty about contributing to women’s daily difficulty is imo worth it. Not only does this make you a better more approachable person in public but learning about your own arousal can make you last longer (if that’s an issue) and have better, more intense and rewarding sex/pleasure. Win win imo!

You can learn self-control.

Porn was by all measures irrelevant at worst to any problems I’ve had in my romantic life. I can point to specific sexual content which was genuinely beneficial.

I don’t know why my early education on sex/pleasure for me and future partners had to be from an old lady on a porn site. I’m glad i had that so early on because no one else was teaching it.

I agree on the mechanics.

Game wikis and meta knowledge result from experimentation and lead to communities. Any game with a following organically develops this community and it’s part of the creativity that makes a game worthwhile for long-term players.

AI would simultaneously rely on that community’s knowledge base while precluding the players interactions with that community. These communities are already strained and AI adoption spells death to a games development because of this increased isolation. Veteran players and the communities are simply the best way to generate market interest in a game without a giant budget.

If a developer produces version 1.0 and this cycles through, the Dev has a hard choice about any patches that impact meta. Will the players get frustrated because it giant play the way there told it should? How will the AI understand the new stuff?

These thoughts aren’t fully fleshed out but it seems to me that AI game assistant would hurt small developers, hurt gaming communities, and concentrate the market even more on those with the biggest marketing budgets.

So it’s in the debate/statements phase but not yet voted on.

Cheers!

With the motion now adopted, the Dutch government must formally respond and decide whether to implement the request.

Is this a formality or is the adoption more of a “pwease listen to mwee” type of action?

Just like we made up prisons.

Cops find the stupidest ways to misattribute the mundane as criminal.

3-6 months, just self cut for the first time. Longer hair, don’t know what to call the style. Like a bob with the back 80% heavily layered and the front hair being the longest (a bit past my chin).

This thread feels like i just sat down for some coffee and a cigarette at a corner cafe on a cool April morning in Paris, 1871…

Which is really fun because in creating the authoritarian state you’ve undermined communism in ideology and remain as such in name only.

That’s a great midrange/budget rig!

Looking at OP’s link it’s still twice the cost though, and given their gaming requirements it may be overkill.

I would agree if space, portability, and modularity aren’t factors then your build is a very good suggestion.

Edit: I’m looking at a different Amazon than you probably, i didn’t think of that when i commented.

Windows 10 will still be usable after support ends. Security is the only concern, and not that big of one if you regularly back up. It may be a good idea dual boot with Linux on a separate drive while you hammer out the issues with whatever distro.

I personally think anything with plasma 6 will fit for interface coming from windows. Some sort of distro like Ubuntu or Debian that commonly has pre-packages in the wild would make sense.

But it peaked the same year Doom came out. Obviously Doom was the cause of the peak!

I should add, that as less people played Doom, violent crime reduced.