Maybe expend some of that mental energy on thoughtful introspection instead, before contemplating the depths of others.

Mocktails are just a way to lie to yourself and/or others about your ability to exhibit will power and dedication. It utterly defeats the vastly impactful social and personal meaning such an endeavor could encompass. And from your stories, it was utterly shameful how easily you folded.

Give it up. You can’t even convince yourself you’re actually accomplishing anything.

It’s not just the aroma. Most bitters are 80-90+ proof.

Maybe pick up smoking?

Also, while they are at it, they could remove the “mental health” part, since this is almost entirely about smoking cessation.

...inexcusably sloppy...

However, a side effect of the tidal wave of sexual assault and harassment reporting since October is that, having been long confined to explicitly feminist outlets, reporting about sexual impropriety is, all of a sudden, considered general-interest prestige reporting.

I’ve had fiances leave me, which elicited less of an emotional response from myself.

This is like a weird meta-orange calling and orange orange, orange...

Get fucked, everyone.

This seemed relatively less frenetic than what I am used to having watched some EVO coverage of previous GG incarnations. There just didn’t seem to be the variety of options and depth of strategy I am used to from watching a lot of SFIV or V.

Well, it is The Daigo Channel, so what would you expect?

Short Answer: He was/is something like a top-10 ranked player of this character in this game, despite not being part of a pro team, and despite spending half his time trolling and getting banned.

Because clicks.

The entire purpose of any journalistic outlet is to report on events, persons, and speech that may be relevant to the audience of that outlet. In Kotaku’s case, their mandate is to cover games, gamers, and gamer culture. The nature of both this set of incidents and the suicide video have links back to “gamer…

Actually, it’s more like Netflix, in that the Prime Video selection of more popular stuff rotates monthly. The only difference is, unlike Netflix, if it isn’t on Prime Video at that particular time, odds are you can still stream it via non-Prime for a few bucks. Or you can just wait for it to roll through Prime…

Are you the next Dr. Disrespect? Are you the best Rocket League player you know? Is your incessant couch commentary so entertaining to your gaming friends that they’ve asked you to never, ever stop?

Along the same lines as the idea of building actual empathy; I was always dumbfounded, even as a child, when I was told I had to apologize after altercations.

This actually happened in my case, and it was the cause of schism, not a unifying experience.