Major or minor, doesn’t matter. Just something you’ve been hoping for to happen for years and years, despite many promises and declarations made of that thing happening. Only for it to never happen at all.
Two things come of mind to me.
For America, we will never ever see an Independent take hold of the presidency. It hasn’t happened for over 170+ years and that’s a long damn time since the last time a person representing an independent party has ever held office. The only successes an independent party ever sees is smaller governments or some seats somewhere in the house or senate, that’s about it.
But every election cycle, people are hamming up about how it’s going to be the year for independents, until the primaries come and go and we’re back to falling on two parties. I’ve stopped getting my hopes up and I stopped hoping the moment Bernie Sanders, who originally did run as an independent for the presidential election in 2016, had to turn to running as a democrat because even he realized that was the only way he was going to get votes at all.
One other thing and it’s gaming related is that, there are still Nintendo fans out there hoping for a Mother 3 english release. It’s a game that was released in 2006 and it never left Japan since. Despite all of the re-releases of Mother and Earthbound, Mother 3 has not gotten a localization. It’s been released as a fan translation and I feel that’s the best we’re ever going to get.
It’s been 18 years since it’s original release and I think there’s no point in hoping now for Nintendo to release it. They’re too busy suing people.
That we’re gonna do something real about the whole climate change thing. We’re doing a bunch of window dressing, but there are too many entrenched interests fighting it.
My current hope is that my kids (and their kids) can make the best of whatever a +2C or +4C world looks like. And we manage to survive despite any ecosystem collapses.
Being young and the possibility that comes with it, I suppose. I’m not unhappy or anything, but there are times where I see the rest of my life laid out in front of me, and I’d be stupid to change it. And that’s fine, but I do miss the possibility space that came with not having your shit together.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. The crowning touch, the one thing that really puts true world-class badmotherfuckerdom totally out of reach, of course, is the hydrogen bomb. If it wasn’t for the hydrogen bomb, a man could still aspire. Maybe find Raven’s Achilles’ heel. Sneak up, get a drop, slip a mickey, pull a fast one. But Raven’s nuclear umbrella kind of puts the world title out of reach. Which is okay. Sometimes it’s all right just to be a little bad. To know your limitations. Make do with what you’ve got.
-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Nothing really. There are things I don’t have much faith for, and some of those are ones I used to be more hopeful of before but I haven’t exactly given up on anything.
Prior to the 2016 election, I was hopeful that the freedom caucus and the rest of the far right was getting too crazy for the general public, and that its support would collapse leading to a bit of a normalization of politics.
Wishful thinking, in retrospect.
gestures broadly at all things
Humanity in general. People are jerks. Maybe Agent Smith was right all along.
Other than that… Half-Life 3 ever being made.
Alyx is HL3, wdym
Most people are nice.
I’m glad you feel that way. Keep it up as long as you can.
The more I aged, the more “hopes and dreams” I gave up on. I guess that’s the normal human experience. You might want to be a pro in sports or a dancer or a famous doctor…but then you grow out of the age where reaching those is possible (dancing goes first…).
Other than that, I’ve given up on so many hopes, only to then later get back to them. Like the hope of connecting to people, or to make art, to teach,…those and more are things I gave up on and later readopted.
So give up hope, but it might just come back :)
The year of Linux on desktop
Next year!!!
Linux has been on my desktop since the 1990s.
Same here😁 but somehow the rest of the world doesn’t quite get it.
The days of having a good user interface for electronics or programs is long gone and is never coming back. To many people don’t even know how to look at a user interface and know if it’s good or bad. They just buy bad ones and claim it’s good out good enough.
That the US will never have net neutrality as a whole. A few states might implement it but no where near enough.
Me being independent and making a woman having an intimate relationship with me. I’m too weird, poor and incapable for that to happen.
Just to inject a little hope, plenty of weird, poor people have girlfriends. I don’t know anybody weirder than me, and my wife doesn’t mind.
You can’t ‘make’ someone have a relationship with you though. That’s illegal and reprehensible, but I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way
Who you attract depends on who you are. If you’re broken and weird, you’re going to attract broken and weird people.
And ideally, that’s not usually what someone wants if they want to be with someone.
You don’t have to be broken to be weird, it feels problematic to conflate the two.
But to take your point, I agree that you attract people based on the vibe that you’re putting out. If you don’t like who you’re attracting, then you can work on yourself and your vibe will improve too.
I don’t attract ANYTHING
I assume you’re a guy somewhere in their twenties.
Start going to the gym and lifting weights. I know it’s a cliché, but it’s the single most impactful thing you can do - not only for how others see you, but also for how you see yourself. It’s something everyone should be doing anyway, but it especially applies to people like you. Don’t do it for them, do it for yourself. I know how you feel, believe me - I used to be in your shoes.
It is cliché. Did that in my 20s for a while, serves to nothing. Also I’ve seen fatasses happily married and I’m not fat. I have less than 0 motivation at this point of my life, especially since I’m broke. I have other problems as well. A gym is another problem.
I don’t believe in those things.
Well then you have my sympathies. That must be an exhausting way to live.
Sometimes I just don’t wanna live anymore
That’s a big mood. I honestly mean that. I don’t want to presume to know your situation, but from one human being to another I can tell you I’ve been there too. I low-key hope to get hit by a bus so I don’t have to put up with life anymore.
It’s a feeling that seems to come and go, and it can ratchet itself up to a feverish intensity. But every time I’ve been pushed to the brink so far, I’ve chosen life. When you stare death in the eye, you suddenly want to see one more sunrise.
If you’re having these thoughts with any kind of intensity or regularity, or you’ve started to put a plan together to end your life, then you owe it to yourself to attempt an intervention. Most people point to therapy, and if it’s available to you it’s worth a shot. And if therapy is unavailable or untenable, reading about psychology and non-pharmaceutical treatments for depression did wonders for my outlook.
The world is better with you in it. I’m rooting for you.
Especially with that attitude! It’s really unattractive.
The attitude isn’t a symptom. Is an ending.
And that mindset is what keeps you from being successful.
