Just began the process of divorcing my wife of 4 years for having a sexual relationship with someone I've been friends with for over 20 years. With the marriage goes my sense of financial security, a cohesive circle of close friends, a stable place to live, an adorable pup, and pretty much the entirety of my life plans for the next five years. I'm living paycheck to paycheck, and only barely so.
But I've learned to rely on myself and my resolve a lot more, and the relationship I've begun to forge with my inner-self is something I wouldn't trade away for anything. And I've become a lot closer with the friends I've retained, or it feels like I have.
I've seen spots here and there that hint at where DLCs might be targeted. Someone in the Key had a line of dialog that hints at future quests. There's also a few "closed" businesses that make me think one of the DLCs will involve you opening up a mercantile of some sort.
I can't think of anything for which I would dislike an expansion.
I feel guilty that you never heard back. 😕
And I think you and I are probably thinking on the same wavelength. I'm feeling better than I ever remember feeling, and I want to help others get out of it, too.
I climbed that mountain a couple of years ago. Absolutely destroyed me. The scenery made it worth it.
Autumn Leaves by Eva Cassidy has an almost spiritual importance to me, and I come back to it every year.
Eva had such a perfect voice.
You're just not smart enough to buy your footwear from the gardening department.
Any chance this is still available? I would love to have it for my wife.
With the understanding that I don't have the knowledge to say that you're anything but absolutely right, I do think that the damage assessment would be tricky when taking mental health and social wellbeing into account.
Just thought it fitting to tell you that this comment of yours that I keep coming back to hit me harder than you might have anticipated. Thank you for sharing.
I take it further in my belief that it was entirely accidental.
I cannot overstate how helpful this little breakdown was for me. I knew every individual thing you said, but you helped me by putting it into words that I think others can understand.
Everything I'm seeing here has been really weirdly relevant to my character arc this season.
Because most of them aren't going to be left holding those houses. They'll get to ride out the end of their life in comfort and safety before passing quietly surrounded by their worthless progeny. Their shit kids and the kids of their shit kids will be left to suffer from both ends (with due justice), with nothing to show for it but empty rooms and a selfish legacy of destruction.
The time you took to explain your position paid off. I totally get your perspective, and appreciate you persisting.
I don't think we disagree on anything. Except I don't joke about beating oil barons to death. The prospect is the only motivation I need to get up in the morning. So that, but unironically.
(Oh, and my deleted comment was a duplicate of the previous comment)
Barring things like a mass-exodus or populist uprising, a population is at the mercy of the infrastructure around it. I am not responsible for the waste caused by my day-to-day activities if there is no other way possible through the means at my disposal.
People need to be careful. The "personal responsibility" re: climate change bullshit is toxic and plays straight into the capitalist narrative. The real numbers speak for themselves, and the primary force behind rampant pollution couldn't be clearer.
Barring things like a mass-exodus or populist uprising, a population is at the mercy of the infrastructure around it. I am not responsible for the waste caused by my day-to-day activities if there is no other way possible through the means at my disposal.
People need to be careful. The "personal responsibility" re: climate change bullshit is toxic and plays straight into the capitalist narrative. The real numbers speak for themselves, and the primary force behind rampant pollution couldn't be clearer.
Don't feed into the narrative that it's an "all of us" thing. Your actions in society are decided by what that society makes available, and what it doesn't.
As a fellow Westerner, our only flaw was that we didn't use every available means to get the corporations and governments who actually bear the blame to own the issue and fix it with their own ill-gotten gains.