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Okay, Zenless Zone Zero might actually be cool. My problem with gacha wasn’t random draw, it was fucking stamina systems. Only being able to play a little each day creates a perverse effect where you feel like missing a day is losing progress, so you have to structure your whole damn life around the stamina recharge. I can live with a game that lets you play the new update as long as you want and then chill and wait for more updates.

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Smooth-sharking is like microdosing Kiwifarms.

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I’m not Deaf, I’ve just read some of your posts. Would you say hearing is like a college education? You don’t actually need it, but a lot of doors are closed for you without it, often arbitrarily. Obnoxious people assume you have it, then when you don’t understand what they’re talking about, they assume you’re stupid. It can be way harder to get access to if you’re poor.

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Today I tried to help my mother set up an electrical cord. I assumed the device the cord plugged into couldn't be moved, so I said the cord was too short. Turned out it was easy to move if I'd tried.

My mother got sick of how a "grown man" keeps failing to accomplish basic tasks, so she told me to put a security device on the wall without any assistance from her. I drilled the holes, then tried to put in the screws over and over and over, swearing all the while, long past the point where I would normally have given up. Then I realized I needed to make the holes bigger.

I think most observers would say my mother was in the right here. I worked past my "learned incompetence" and solved a problem I didn't initially know how to handle. But I don't think this knowledge generalizes. Sure, I know to make holes bigger when they're too small, but what about the next time I face a problem "anyone" would know how to solve? I think lateral thinking is just a weakness of mine, and I'm never going to come up with the answers as quickly as "anyone" can.

(I screwed in the device in the wrong location.)