In the last couple of years, seeing my toddler do new things. Any new things. Jumping, saying “cake”, eating a new food, today it was making toys talk to each other.

Overall, coding things. I’m incredibly newbie but wannabe game dev. Learning to code as I go copying tutorials and trying to tweak things and mash different ones together until it does what I want. I would spend an entire evening getting frustrated and not understanding error codes and pulling my hair out because invalid syntax and shit. Then finally it would do what I wanted it to do and I could physically feel my brain light up with buzzy happy-chemicals, big grins and jumping round the room like a kid on Xmas.

Then I’d start on the next minijob and break the whole fucking thing…

I wouldn’t say games. I’d say carefully calculated reward dopamine triggers with tendrils snaking directly to the entirety of my liquid assets disguised as games.

I think it’s always been this way, but social media has for sure exacerbated it. People really want to believe there’s some big order, some grand control, somebody in charge that all makes sense somewhere somehow.

“They” don’t want you to know because its all about power and control is weirdly a lot more palatable than “shit just happens”.

The upbeat music that plays once you hit out with some evidence that puts you on the attack. I’ve never felt so emotionally hyped and invested from a text-reading game.

No. If something is too expensive I simply move on. I get anxious simply conducting commerce in a regular environment, like my desire to buy this thing is an intrusion on the shopkeepers day.

I also refuse to buy from places, usually burger vans, where the prices are so small as to be hidden until you get to the front of the queue. If you’re going to say “what do you want” at the exact moment I’m weighing up the price/object ratio, I’m out.

I know the one you’re talking about and to me that’s the least egregious of them all. It’s contextual and thematic, even if it is just shit.

I’ve been looking over my daughters shoulder as she watches YouTube shorts, and a regular clip of brain rot will announc its using the greenscreen effect. Hidden behind all the username/soundtrack/description will be a teeny tiny brown man’s head muttering punjab almost imperceptibly quietly.

Not sure if they’re better or worse than the dickheads splitting the screen in two and passively pointing up towards the video that is also showing.

I’m disappointed with it, but that’s my problem. I can’t put my finger on why, I think my expectations have changed. Somehow I was expecting it to blow me away like the first time I played it and obviously it just can’t do that.

Still gonna sink a fair few hours into it though.

Gonna go ahead and show my ignorance here, but why is this such a bad thing?

I’m sure they’ll be labelled inside too.

They’re waiting for you, OP, in the test. Chamberrrr.

Nothing will ever beat the windows XP menu formats. They’re ugly and dated now, but I can’t imagine anything more efficient.

Edit : that said my favourite is grid for media. I’m having difficulty remembering names these days, and I can more easily spot what I’m looking for by remembering the rough colour/shape of the game icon. It’s basically lost forever when they update it and the image changes.

I’m pretty out of the loop on that sort of thing, but the games come with inbuilt game editors to make your own mods really easily right?

I used to be able to count it down to the millisecond exactly when a strange chav would ask me for a cigarette.

“In 3…2…1…” “oi mate you got a spare fag I can borrow”

Disagreeing with my wife when she’s about to do some dumb shit

Are Japan that far in the future that they’re using CD the same way we use vinyl?

I’m with you there. It’s going to be cool and I really want it, but I’ve already completed it a bunch. I’m never going to be able to get properly excited like I would for ES6

What irks me the most about that kind of attitude is the idea that stuff has to make money to be worthwhile. It’s perverse. Nobody is allowed personal growth or passions any more, absolutely everything needs to be grinded out as a side hustle.

Tell someone what you do or create in your free time and half the time they’ll start asking what your channels for monetisation on that are. Do you sell it on etsy? You making videos on that? Why not try contacting local business and selling that skill? Did you know you could sign up for this signal-boosting ad-share service to maximise engagement so you can easily compare your ROI?

And inside you’re dying because “dude, no, i just wanted to try my hand at making a spice rack”

He tried but

They’re right on the money. We’re getting double the oblivion!

I’d say you’re a pretty good person. Taking responsibility and accountability for your past actions and learning from them is a good thing.

You did shitty things. We’ve all done wrong at some point in our lives. As long as you’re actively trying to be better today than you were yesterday, you’re alright.