I used to be able to count it down to the millisecond exactly when a strange chav would ask me for a cigarette.
"In 3...2...1..." "oi mate you got a spare fag I can borrow"
Yermaw
joined 2 weeks ago
A huge amount of incredible seeds on various Roguelikes must be wasted on people who are new or bad at the game
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I would guess we as outsiders think it's worse than it is, hearing only the bad stuff. We're not hearing about great new sales at bed bath and beyond or whatever, we're only hearing about the heavy handed deportations and human rights violations. Which is obviously bad but its easy to confuse "probably not as bad as it sounds" with "probably not actually that bad".
I don't think I'm communicating the point i was trying to make very well but whatever
What irks me the most about that kind of attitude is the idea that stuff has to make money to be worthwhile. It's perverse. Nobody is allowed personal growth or passions any more, absolutely everything needs to be grinded out as a side hustle.
Tell someone what you do or create in your free time and half the time they'll start asking what your channels for monetisation on that are. Do you sell it on etsy? You making videos on that? Why not try contacting local business and selling that skill? Did you know you could sign up for this signal-boosting ad-share service to maximise engagement so you can easily compare your ROI?
And inside you're dying because "dude, no, i just wanted to try my hand at making a spice rack"
I'm going to check out if slay the spire let's me go back far enough to see my first ever run. I won that easily and then lost like 50 times in a row. I want to see just how busted it was.