how'd you manage that?

I imagine it must be a lot more difficult to just have friends when you're a mega famous popstar. starfuckers and all that jazz.

free publicity though. easy press and free money / backscratching all around. I mean… we clicked on this article, so the system works?

and about as reasonably affordable

buddy went to put on the album the other day, as I'd never listened to it.

how do billionaires even lose money? I mean, they have billions. don't they just have to invest in some shit and make wild returns, unlike us plebs?

that bit hinged a lot on context, from what I remember. it sorta tacitly pointed out how a lot of these things are embedded in the culture and systematic, and in that sense, super hurtful and awful things almost twist into something even more amorphous. and maybe that's worse?

some people love to bicker. I don't know WHY, but some people get off on that shit.

his batting average is terrible though, and when you're way off the mark more of the time than not… that makes him much more part of the problem than anything else.

Anachronox seems like the kind of game I would've loved at the time. I tried to play it some time in the last few years, and while it has a lot of quirky atmosphere (and that signature blocky polygon look of the Quake II engine), the combat did not hold up… I don't have patience for stuff like that.

Season Two was the one with the hilariously over the top ending where the big bad got mowed down by the van, right? super cheeseball.

I really don't want to think about how large of a pension that asshole receives.

all I know of Neurosis is that Through Silver in Blood is fantastic. maybe start there :3

I'd say it's more the sweet spot when the mechanics of a game are finely tuned and everything just clicks together perfectly.

mine are fairly vanilla too, and I think it's mostly just a piqued curiosity thing. shrug.

given that I think we have a similar mindset (read: overanalysis of minute details, to the point of neurosis?), well… it's difficult to get a handle on those latent fears simmering just beneath conscious thought. I think it's more or less akin to learned helplessness? /shrug

I wish that barbed comment didn't strike so close to home… but maybe there's hope for me yet :/

I'm gonna go with desensitization? some folks watch a LOT of porn, as there's practically infinite content readily accessible.

I second this! I really need to work on expressing reluctant / anxious things when I'm actually in a relationship, but when things are rocky (whether at the tail end or after), I make a point of not lashing out. even if I'm really upset and perhaps especially when actively provoked, which I find to be worst of all,…

oh sweet Jesus. I cringed so hard my stomach twisted into knots :/