Breathe. Answer texts. Drink water/beer. Tell my wife it’s delicious. Tell my stepson to please turn the volume down on whatever device he brought to the table.
It’s how I buy everything. I rarely carry cash. You steal my cash I’m out my money. You steal my credit card, I cancel the card and get a new one.
Small purchases like a couple cookies ( about $1.50 to $2.00) then I will probably pay cash because the store probably loses money if I use a card. The absolute vast majority of purchases I use the card. If I don’t have the money in the bank then I don’t buy the item.
The older I get the more I know what kinda games I’m into. So everything else I try to play just feels boring very quickly. I get bored very quickly in general if I don’t keep a game fresh for myself by, for example, mixing main and side quests instead of doing just one for hours.
I’ve also had times when I didn’t play any video games at all and just watched YouTube all day. And sometimes I felt like I played games just because I didn’t have anything better to do.
At the moment, I basically just play Cyberpunk and Battlebit, because both of those offer various ways of approaching encounters.
I feel like a lot of games these days make it difficult to get into, ironically by trying too hard to make it easy to get into, with excessive tutorialization. Part of it might also be the types of games that you like. For example, I want to play a game to have fun and challenge myself, not to sit around watching a story play out for a half hour while I walk around doing nothing. So the majority of popular games that people are always talking about are the kind of games that I would absolutely hate. I want to just jump in and play. The new Super Mario Wonder game is a pretty good example of something that just gets out of your way and lets you play the game, so I have been enjoying it quite a bit for the past few days. The recent F-zero 99 is also an enjoyable racing game for me, for the same reasons. I have also been getting into fighting games more in the past few years, so I’ve been playing Street Fighter 6 a lot.
So the most important thing I have learned, is that I can no longer just look at which games are considered “good”, because in many cases I’m going to hate them. When I was younger, I would love just about any of the popular games. But now, I know what I like, and that’s what I gravitate to.
I agree with InfiniteGlitch, this conflict has been going on for centuries, arguably millennia. IMO, at its core, it’s land rights with religion piled on top. Depending on who you talk to, both sides have plenty of reason to hate each other (doesn’t make it lead to any good) because of what their forefathers have done up to present day atrocities. Ultimately, it has come down to reactionary hate over land rights, freedom, fear and safety. I find it helpful to read the facts of what is happening from a distance and take the emotion out of it. When you do that, I’m not sure how this conflict will end. There is so much retaliation. The prisoner thing has me understanding why they’re going overboard. The backlash from Israel makes sense if you think you’re justified in keeping everyone in an open air prison. I hope they all find peace, but I don’t see how that can happen when everyone is raised in that environment of hate & vengeance. Basically, read everything you can on it and take the facts from each. Everyone will spin it to their opinion.
This seemingly simple comment already tells me you are pro-palestinian. Also, for someone that is interested enough in this matter to take part in this discussion, you show impressive ignorance.
So just to to troll you a bit, let me answer this way: Thinking that this crisis started when seven Arab armies attacked Israel with the proclaimed goal of “sweeping the Jews into the sea and pillaging the millions they invested in the country” is extremely short sighted.
Technically, Northern Ireland and Ireland share a border, just saying. Also, Ireland is more apt since they share the same religion, one came after the other, they both think they’re right and it’s a total, lengthy, shitshow.
That area, because of so many religions centered on it and/or the power it holds, has been fought over since Solomon’s Temple.
Nope! Solomon's temple was built 1000-600 BCE. From then till christianity took over it's mostly been a backwater, or buffer zone.
It only seems important because we have writing from people who lived there (the Torah, etc.) saying how important it was (to them), then that writing got the official stamp of truth when the Roman empire took over Christianity.
To the extent it was fought over, it was mostly because it was between much more important areas - the Egyptians and other powers like the Hittites, Babylonians or Assyrians.
Even then the neo-babylonians for example seem to have left the region largely depopulated - it's not like they actually wanted it for any reason
The neo-babylonians sacked Jerusalem, among many other cities and temples. Temples are where much of the wealth and power was kept, sacking the first temple had little to do with the potency of their specific religion. At that time the religion was just the normal Canaanite pantheon.
Judaism as we think of it, with the covenant between the special people and a single all powerful god - that only begins after the first temple is destroyed and Judah is largely depopulated, around the 500-200BCE time period.
What happened to the 2nd (actually 3rd) temple
The Romans destroyed it 70CE. ~600 years between major sacks of your city shows it's not that important.
Don’t forget, Crusades anyone?
Yes, during the medieval period Jerusalem finally starts to become an important goal of religious conflict - 2-2.5 thousand years later than the building of the temple of Solomon
So, you agree, since the destruction of the first temple, there has been some issues that have cropped up. Should I say 2nd temple then? I feel like you’re an archaeology student/pro that is getting lost in the weeds. It’s still millennia. (Or maybe 50 years short, if you’re going to be technical. I bet you’re going to be).
Also, stop editing everything, it’s a pain in the ass. That area has been in conflict over one of the religions since at least 70 CE.
The Romans destroyed it 70CE. ~600 years between major sacks of your city shows it’s not that important.
Right, not important enough to build an arc de triumph, oh wait…
Last comment, you still haven’t talked about the Waq, I wonder why.
“It’s the imperialist culture that drew the borders”, says person who apparently is completely unaware of the history of the middle east in the past few hundred years, nor in the geo-political forces behind the conflict in the past 75 years.
Home Rennovision on YT always seems to have good videos. I’m dumb with home stuff, but Jeff seems to dumb ot down enough and sct professional enough that, I believe his methods and practices are good and valid.
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