Maybe there is a lesson to be learned here about getting over-invested in online fan theories to the point where one can’t enjoy a show for what it is.

It only took once for me to make it so any time I sail somewhere of any real distance, the first thing I do is build a base able to support a bed, and then set my spawn point, and I don’t make landfall anywhere that isn’t meadow or black forest.

The first sentence of my post literally ends with “... unless you’re sitting around in your base”.

Eating in Valheim is incredibly important unless you’re just sitting around in your base. Not outright dying from not eating is nice, but in my opinion Valheim adds a layer of extra grind that isn’t necessarily present in other survival games. Not only do you have to eat, you have to eat three different types of foods…

I had forgotten about the subscription aspect - I was still in the olden days of viewer count.  Explains why most streamers I watch don’t bother to run ads.

Yeah, when you get legitimately big, you’re looking at forming an LLC, having a manager, etc. I know CohhCarnage gives all chat donations/tips to his moderation team, and I believe hosts them at his home (pre-COVID, of course) for a retreat of sorts, but I have to assume that’s a rare exception and not the norm.

Yeah, Twitch has a huge divide. From what I gather, if you are running at around 2000 viewers consistently, you can make a pretty comfortable living, especially if you’re able/willing to work the bounty board. The three biggest streamers I follow are hitting 10-15k viewers on the regular, and from context, make…

Sure, but I think it’s a little different. Being “on” for TV/radio is a little different from being “on” for Twitch.

We’ve surely always been this stupid. We just know more about the depths of human stupidity because our collective capacity to experience shame and embarrassment seems to be eroding faster than our shorelines.

I follow a handful of streamers, and the majority of them stream for right around 8 hours a day, if I had to guess. The 8 hour average certainly seems high, but it didn’t strike me as high enough to question.

Personally, I’m already about as far from an urban area as I want to be. Moving to a rural area in a blue state is not attractive to me, because the divide isn’t blue state vs. red state anymore, it’s urban vs. rural. 20 miles outside of an urban area in any state might as well be the same Trumpland hellhole as it is…

Just speaking anecdotally, I know people who live/have lived in CO, MI, and WA... and they are decidedly not inexpensive. Sure, you could probably move to the rural areas of those states and be “fine”, but you’re essentially trading state-level government for no real change in real quality of life, or potentially less.

To paraphrase Michael Bolton, why should I have to move? They are the ones who suck.

The whole idea of Red State/Blue State is largely outdated and lazy. Go 20 miles outside of a major urban area in any state that has one, and you might as well be in Trumpland. It’s largely urban vs. rural now.

Our realtor was very adamant about it. She acknowledged it sounded crazy, but said it worked. More of a superstition thing for her.

This one simple trick could have made you thousands, but now you’ll never know!

6.) Put bowls of lemons everywhere.

Yeah, I was trying to find a “soft” way to word this, but physics exist and the men of the NBA, NFL, and NHL are genetic freaks. The women involved in various pro and semi-pro sports are surely the best athletic specimens in their fields as well, but it’s not even a close comparison.

Professional sports would end up being self-segregating anyway, assuming you go strictly with performance and not a forced-inclusion thing like a lot of co-ed sports leagues have.

I’m not big on fries, so I rarely get combos except for a couple exceptions. I can generally do without the soda as well.