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[EuchreJack]

Alright, you've talking me into playing more Monster Breeder.  You monster! Actually, I was probably going to do it anyways...

[None]

Apparently, the forum doesn't adjust to Daylight Savings Time; I had to go and manually set the offset in my profile to align with reality.

[Frumple]

Did you really have to, though? Coulda' just left it!

[MaxTheFox]

Fuck DST all my homies hate DST.

[scriver]

Winter time is normal time. Winter time is aligned with our natural clocks and healthy and good.

Summer time is make believe time. Summer time is unhealthy and causes stress and heart attacks.

Choose accordingly.

[King Zultan]

God I hate daylight savings time, that shit really fucks with my sleep schedule.

[scriver]

And, I forgot the most important thing I'm the above post: summertime is DST (as opposed to winter time's normal time)

[King Zultan]

Doesn't matter which one is the right one I wish they'd just pick one and stick with it.

[scriver]

No, it does matter which on the pick because if we pick the wrong one then the middle of the day won't be in the middle of the day, and we might get stuck with the one that literally kills people because it has "summer" in the name instead of the one that is beneficial to us because that one "winter is so boooring I want sun and warm weather"

[JoshuaFH]

I was suffering from anxiety yesterday, so I was feeling really anxious, but I also had a social situation which I absolutely had to sit through, there was no way around it. Everything turned out alright, but I was still anxious afterwards.

Thinking on it, I realize now the handicap that the anxiety gives me. It's not just that it's making me uncomfortable and stressed, but also that it is locking my emotional state in place for a while. It really does seem to be the case that nothing I do can relieve this anxiety except for time, so I have to endure it for that length of time. During that stretch of time, because my emotional state is locked in place, I can't rely on that portion of my brain for guidance, so I have to outsource everything my emotions would do to the intellectual portion of my brain.

I had talked before about my "Flow chart" where every social situation is dictated logically by the flowchart, which works because the flowchart is made by years of trial and error, and it has a pretty rough idea of how avoid social faux pas and social problems. The flow chart is not actually good at interacting however, just at avoiding social trouble, and when the purpose is to interact meaningfully with people, the flowchart is terrible. Anxiety is forcing me to use the flowchart because I can't trust my emotions, so I have to try to deduce my way through the social encounter, making me much more rigid, stilted, and awkward than I really want to be. I want to tear myself away from that intellectuality, because it just isn't doing me any good, but having random anxiety seems to be the next hurdle to overcome towards becoming a normal person. 

[Great Order]

Sertraline dreams have started up again.

This one was me going on an acid trip or something in my sleep. Just felt comfortable floating in a sea of colours which I knew were other people.

Really nice, really weird and abstract. I also woke up hugging my pillow.

[McTraveller]

Minecraft Java version only gives you a single user license.

Rent-seeking at its finest.  I have already paid for this game a few times (PS3 disc version, to Mojang) and once for the Java edition on the Mac, I'm not going to pay for it again dammit! My 6 year old can't grasp why his 9 year old sister can play on the computer but he can't. Can I send Microsoft a bill for my pain and suffering because kids don't understand licensing models and rent-seeking garbage?


DOJ, are you listening!?

[None]

You could use a different Minecraft launcher like MultiMC and then start the version instance in offline mode once you've run it once and authenticated against it, and if you run a server, you can sidestep mojang authentication when you connect to it by setting online-mode=false in server.properties. No clue what Minecraft does when you do Open to LAN though.

Unless the computer itself is the point of contention, that can't be helped, heh.

[JoshuaFH]

For anyone familiar, how do you guys feel about HealthyGamerGG? Youtube channel link:

https://www.youtube.com/@HealthyGamerGG

I've watched a couple of his videos (Only a couple, because Jesus his library of videos is fucking enormous. He seriously got his money's worth out of that psyche degree I assume he has.) and I'm undecided as to whether he's actually being helpful or not.

He does genuinely seem like a nice, therapisty guy with good intentions, and his videos speak directly to the issues of the current generation. I was wondering what others thought tho.

[heydude6]

I've seen a few of his videos. They cater to people who have deeper problems than I do, but it seems like he's one of the few people who actually understands the problems he's trying to help. The man does not sell platitudes and that already gives me a lot of respect for him.

I can't tell you how much he helps people since I'm not in the target demographic, but I'm surprised by how often I finish a video feeling like I actually learned something.