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We are taking the same approach and every word you said landed with me, matched my experience.

I’ll add that this is a VERY different strategy from the approaches taken by both my partner’s and my parents.

It’s not easy, but I think we’re raising better humans than ourselves. On days when it’s exhausting and you’re burned out and you feel like you can’t do it, cling to that.

You’re doing great. It’s worth it. Keep it up! 💚

If you like reading the text of the shitpost more than admiring the number of upvotes they received then you really like content more than shitposting for karma

Nature is healing

This is awesome, thanks!!!

I really love, and really miss, healing in wow raids circa WOTLK through Cata, specifically using healnot and custom keybinds to keep people alive. I don’t have time or budget for an MMO in my late 30s, nor do I see that easing up anytime soon.

I think a game where you had to do raid mechanics/puzzles while keeping NPCs alive through healing could be really fun, even without a loot grind. Or a game that dropped you into a multiplayer raid encounter without the crap around it. Either could be great.

Oh damn yeah! The remap folks are FANTASTIC!

I mostly just follow the nextlander crew and Jeff Gerstmann. They aren’t much more than podcasts, there’s little to no written work produced, and they don’t really consider themselves gaming journalists, but that’s pretty much what we’re left with.

“Influencers” and corporate cash have largely killed games journalism.

“Also what’s the ethical structure behind literally enslaving a species of creatures and forcing them to cook our meals and keep our homes?”

“Well Harry you see, they’re lesser than us and also they like it that way”

“…”

(Harry Potter? Not a great book series, from a not-great philosophical mind.)

If you assume that each person takes at least 10 seconds to make the decision, it would take something like 2500 years for everyone currently alive to cycle through one time, at which point we’ll have plenty of new people to pass the decision along to.

As long as we don’t increase the human lifespan past 2500 years or fully stop reproducing, we should be okay!