Rule 1 is: The gun is ALWAYS loaded, even when you “know” it isn’t.
otacon239
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I second Horizon. There are moments where I’m convinced the graphics are pre-rendered when cranked to the max.
Not sure if this applies, but “You can never love someone else until you love yourself” was a lesson my dad taught me from a very young age.
If you don’t like yourself, you’ll almost inevitably end up with someone who is taking advantage because you won’t be able to stand up for yourself and you won’t speak up when they hurt you.
There are the very rare exceptions, but they are the ones who help you help yourself. Someone who truly helps you will not shower you with gifts or compliments, but rather will help you recognize and change what you don’t like about yourself. In other words, “Only a true friend would be that truly honest.”
Yeah. Maybe one about Noah’s Ark or something. No way that could fail.
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
For DVDs, I’ve never had an issue. They just amplified the BS on BluRays tenfold.
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
I went the route of a physical collection, but man do they make it difficult unless you get a commercial player that is likely to have ads and doesn’t integrate well into a home theater setup.
I’ve taken to doing everything I can to play things through my computer, but they do everything in their power to make them unplayable. This includes things like adding hundreds of bogus playlists so you don’t know which one to play, adding extra layers of encryption that cause image corruption a few chapters into the movies, and more.
If they just allowed you to easily watch and rip the movies that I pay actual money for, I think a lot more people would be open to a physical collections of their favorites. As it stands, I can’t really recommend it.
I really really tried to like it, but I would constantly run into issues with files not deleting properly and would get database errors regularly. If the intent was to separate management of the underlying database, all it did was cause headaches.
Not to mention, not being able to easily just go under the hood to the file system and remove something drove me up a wall. Just let me delete my files, dammit!
I ended up just using a big-standard file share on TrueNAS.
1, 6, 7, 8, and 10 are all saying the same thing.
2 and 4 are also pretty similar.
And none of these suggest that an external factor could be changed to improve things. I’ve often felt significantly better after finding a different job. And the day to day situation was often drastically different by the time I left these positions.
Your own mentality and approach are not always to blame if your job isn’t going well.
Side note: don’t tell me what I haven’t tried.
I think something important about this is that I sometimes phrase something poorly on a first attempt. With a robot, you can tell it to ignore the original massage and rephrase it until you make your point accurately.
With people, once you say something, they will attach that context no matter what even if you need to retry again a couple times to get the right point across.
I didn’t have this realization until the Edit option in modern chat AIs.
To add to this, the opposite of love is not hate, but ignore.
Giving your energy and attention to hating something typically means that they occupy enough mental real estate in your day to day life that you feel the need to broadcast it on a regular basis.
The liberals I know tend to spend the majority of their free time focusing on improving themselves and the world around them rather than simply target blame somewhere else.
If this is true, please let there be a story sequel, too. I want more BT, dammit!