I had a problem with pump noise, and the pump died, and the AIO leaked on and ruined my graphics card… so yeah, never again for me.

I find self censorship offensive

I’m sure they can find one more hiding in there somewhere

I think people underestimate the mental health benefits of never thinking about whether number you can’t control or predict go up or down.

I’ve always loved the Middle Ages as a preferred setting and I found this game to be incredibly awesome. I installed the save game mod pretty quickly and got very far in the game. I found the combat a bit frustrating and mostly just cheesed it by spamming thrust, which worked ok until some big battles toward the end where I got stuck and gave up.

I would like to revisit and finish it before buying #2 when it goes on sale but I’ve tried a dozen times and can’t get past that battle. Any tips besides loading an earlier save and getting stronger? I might just watch a let’s play from that point but I would like to finish the game myself.

My mother has a partially shame based operating system. She uses self shame as a motivational tool that increases her executive function, e.g. she manages to diet by responding to the part of her that tells her to eat chocolate with shame for wanting chocolate. She avoids the chocolate and goes on with her life.

She tried to install that same operating system in me. Due to my shame sensitivity it paralyzed me and left me unable to function. Instead I would spiral in shame and self hatred for my inability to do what she wanted me to do, even though I wanted to do it too.

My system actually works pretty well with love as motivation instead of shame. It just took me 15 years of intensive commitment to inner work to unravel the shame.

Install Buddhist emptiness dependency for dynamic typing.

That negativity bias is real! We can learn to counteract that bias, a good book on the subject is Rick Hanson’s Hardwiring Happiness.

You grow up with people telling you you’re bad and you believe it. Later people tell you you’re good but it feels wrong because you believe you’re bad.

Thanks! Updating self-schema… beautiful.

TL;DR: lonely people often have maladaptive self-schemas which feel incongruent with compliments.

Ditto. I just farted to look into this yesterday and found the trash guides. It was pretty incomprehensible and I gave up. I hope to come back to this thread later and see that someone has explained how to set this up simply.

They’re actually all Hufflepuff

When I was in highschool my mother left a pot of stock simmering and went to work, except instead of leaving it on low she left it on high. I came home to a smoke filled apartment, and the pot was full of chicken bone shaped black carbon. As I grabbed the handle and brought it toward the sink molten metal poured out of the heavy base into the sink. It was scary and I’m grateful I wasn’t severely burned and that our place didn’t burn down!

Overeating, drug addiction, even workaholism and endless accumulation of wealth are all maladaptive coping mechanisms due to unintegrated trauma.

Yes, and the intergenerational trauma goes back to time immemorial. Healing my own trauma has made me recognize how absolutely ubiquitous it is. I feel called to do what I can to help shift things for others, seems to me to be the thing this world needs most.

I’ve been wanting a cosy rpg or action rpg that’s easy to pick up and play in shorter steam deck bursts. This looks perfect! I’m open to any other suggestions people may have.

Who knew Salad Fingers is a member of a spacefaring civilization

I absolutely adore reading about ancient humans migrating around the planet and dreaming into what their existence may have been like. Thanks for sharing.