The Shadow of War games.

The Nemesis system was amazing, but the game wasn’t polished and had issues.

They somehow patented the mechanic and no one else can do it. And I steady of WB making a new game with it, they made fucking Smeagole

You’re gonna have to specify an area, and you’d be better off asking people from that area

“never plug extension cords into extension cords” is probably the most common piece of electrical related advice I’ve ever heard.

Same reason power cables outside are fucking huge and the cord to your TV is tiny.

Electrical loss generates heat, so the longer the cable, the thicker it needs to be before that heat is too much.

Don’t forget a filament in an old school light bulb is just really thin wite. The thinner it is the less energy required to make it glow, which is why there’s like a 200 year old light bulb still going, it’s just a thick filament and very inefficient

So I’d never plug two of those rinky dink indoor extension cords together, it doesn’t take much length before it starts “glowing” like a light bulb filament, which happens at the plug and can burn a house down.

But…

Growing up doing rural construction with heavy gauge extension cords we never thought twice about hooking multiples up as long as it was just something quick for a few minutes at a time. Then never left it plugged into the source when not in use. You’d never do it for like a radio even because eventually it’s gonna heat up back at the aource.

Someone else already mentioned not pulling it right, we’d “doughnut” the connection so that if it did get yanked accidentally it wouldn’t unplug, but obviously it can’t be under constant stress even like that.

Temperature too, heat can bend light.

But what’s more important is atmosphere and just amount of light.

Scaring is healing…

So while I was gonna say “no”, I googled to see if organ scarring was different and it is

Just not in a good news type of way. Apparently the scar will keep spreading, which is healing. But it’s maladaptive like cancer and may have continued to replace healthy tissue with scar tissue in an attempt to heal.

This is definitely something you ask your doctor about

For you, yeah.

For most people even, sure.

But not everyone, there’s an absolute shit ton of natural human variation on top of conditions/diseases that effect that.

Like, some people react to a normal diet by their body drastically cutting energy expenditure to try and maintain fat reserves.

Billions of years of evolution says carrying around as much fat as possible is the optimal choice, and different people have different traits to maintain those energy reserves which used to be the most important part of physical fitness.

Like, of any possible addiction, an addiction to a high calorie diet should make the most sense to people.

The headline and body of this post are two different things…

For a lot of people

What about that phrase made you interpret it as “everyone”?

In fact, I lost weight when I moved out and had very little money

This makes it sound like your young and still had the metabolism of a teenager… Losing that is what makes most people gain weight. While some people can be overweight with it, it’s still literally the easiest time in your life to lose weight.

It would have been much harder if you were fully grown.

their belief that they can’t lose weight.

For a lot of people it’s a poverty and lack of healthcare thing…

Even just annual checkups are a huge help because weight is being tracked and someone gets early and continuous warnings their health is being impacted.

They have as much control as someone trying to lift themselves up by their bootstraps.

If they can’t escape poverty and gain access to healthcare… They’re less likely to maintain a healthy weight.

See?

You have no idea about it because you’d rather be tracked across the net.

If you weren’t so abrasive about it, someone probably would have taken the time to explain why you should care. But when you act like that, why would people try to help you?

Yeah, but captchas are something you see if your privacy minded, not staying signed in, no cookies, that type of stuff.

If you’re doing that, you’re running an ad blocker as well.

So it’s more that you see ads or you see captchas, rarely would someone run into both frequently.

Which likely lines up with what someone finds more annoying, it’s what they see most.

Because it’s moving to the top.

When the fuck hasn’t it?

We used to take it back with taxes, now we don’t…

Have you learned anything about economics outside of a classroom?

More money moving is better for everyone.

*Gestures broadly at “the economy” Biden kept bragging about

Lots of money is moving, it’s not good for the majority of us

That’s not the point of inflation.

Our economy needs inflation to discourage saving and incentive investing.

If there was no inflation and 3% interest on savings, that’s all people would do.

So they make inflation more, and people lose purchasing power in a savings account, and instead invest, which pumps up stock prices for the whales who knows when to cash out.

On a smaller level it incentives people to spend as soon as they get it, because next year a $100 is worth less, so they spend while it’s worth more.

It’s a house of cards and when the wealthy owns the government there’s no one to hit the brakes on profits before the economy crashes and burns.

People buy some ridiculous things as gifts, mostly out of desperation to buy something.

Then be an adult and tell them not to get you anything?

I don’t know what the issue is.

You’re overthinking it.

Modern fabric dyes are a lot better than 40 years ago. Like, don’t wash something dark the first time with a bunch of white stuff, but after the first wash or two it definitely doesn’t matter

and nobody is “telling people” to do anything.

Literally the title of the post:

We should all agree that Christmas gifts are for kids only.

C’mon…

Just this is exhausting, I couldn’t imagine a whole in person holiday

Cool, but that’s not what you’re doing.

You’re complaining people aren’t doing it, be in the change you want to see, but don’t go around telling people they’re doing it wrong.

I mean, just tell your family not to get you anything and spend it on the kids instead.

Lots of families do it that way, you don’t need to convince everyone before you do it, just do it