I had a very similar experience.

Comparing my TV habits to my partner’s I came to the conclusion that following sports is actually very similar to following a soap opera or reality show: you as the viewer are trying to predict the dynamics between the characters and what the outcome will be from a limited selection of possible outcomes. I think it’s the combination of it being unpredictable - you don’t know who will win - but also bounded in terms of possibilities (someone is going to win). That combination lets you kind of switch off your brain while watching it whilst at the same time being pure drama.

Not sure if that makes sense but thanks for reading my wacky theory!

Since hitting my 30s I’ve started getting really invested in middle aged man shit like sports and history podcasts. It’s a cliche and basic in its own way but I’m genuinely surprised by the amount of joy these relatively simple things are bringing me. Especially when I could not have been less interested in sports as a youngster.

If you can get professionals involved that would probably be safer than doing anything DIY. Even just one appointment to discuss it with someone.

Some choices people need to make for themselves. In particular choices involving substances seem to really have to be motivated from within to get them to stick with it.

Nah they are bona fide classics, the UFO was quite an obscure system though. I had to get it imported alongside my PC-98.

Someone called Keef D wrote an autobiography where he confessed to it and claimed Diddy offered him $1 million to kill Tupac via a middle man. He is currently in police custody awaiting trial for his role in the hit.

lol yeah my entire childhood is in this collection. so many hours in front of the CRT with these bad boys.

I think it’s a miracle that we found a way to get humans to cooperate whatsoever. It’s fragile but by assuming everyone is fundamentally self-interested then it just about works.

Other systems assume a higher degree of altruism than humans actually have. Paradoxically this leads to more corruption in those systems, like endemic corruption in communist countries once some people start to play the system.

Capitalism facilitates cooperation but with an underlying game theory assumption of self interest holding it all together.

It depends if you can get your Going Into Games Machine working again

I look like a movie star I’m tall

Superb game so far. Seems like a steal for £18 in the UK given how much content there is. I love retro games so this is right up my street.

Sounds like a healthy use of your time

There’s a dumb Italian Horror movie called Del Amore d’ella Muerte (Cemetary Man in English speaking territories) that I absolutely love. It was made in the 90s and stars Rupert Everrit as a graveyard keeper who fights a zombie invasion with his mute assistant.

Hard to explain but the universe they create is very comfy where he’s drinking red wine and shooting zombies.

Yeah there are some absolute gems like Astral Chain which got positive reviews like 8/10 but in reality are close to 10/10 for me personally. One of the best games on the system.

Then there are a few infamous examples like Godhand and Deadly Premonition which were completely slated by many reviewers but I found to be very strong titles. 8/10 personally.

I use DDG but caveat emptor it’s using Bing as a backend. I find it is very good at certain things google censors like finding streams of obscure films though.

I still enjoy them on linux.

Not really. I tell them it’s like a Black Mirror episode and they give me a sympathetic grimace. Then we talk about something else.

Bright lights make your pupils shrink

Astonishing listening to the news coverage of that story where the anchors were reading some terminally online nonsense from the teleprompter about Discord “Thug Shakers”

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