It’s one of the worst games I’ve ever played from beginning to end. Also, the style it’s made in looks horrible and comes across as muddy with poor graphics. The world is incredibly bland, none of the environments feel alive.

It’s hard, but not that hard. The difficulty is not even close to the most enjoyable thing about these games. And again, the difficulty of these games is very overplayed. If anything, most of the fights are actually incredibly fair, and you always know why you died.

I saw two rocks beat a few of the levels and decided I needed something that at least requires a pulse.

I also want to add I first experienced symptoms when I was underweight/ a healthy weight, a daily runner with low blood pressure.

I had it at 4 for 2 or 3 nights. I cranked it up to 8 since, again with a 6 ramp to adjust to the pressure, and I have been much happier. I will climb up to either 8.2 or 8.4 tonight. I’ve had the machine for exactly 1 week tomorrow, my first sleep apnea device ever.

Nice username!

The Paris Review took a nosedive when it fell into the hands of New Yorkers that frequented the same establishments that portly Lena Dunham and that ilk were trying to squeeze themselves into for years.

That Otessa Moshfegh came from that ecosystem (formerly worked there)— sardonic, purposeless, openly and proudly shallow— tells you why it’s in the shape that it’s in.

Yes, frequent nighttime urination is how I discovered I had sleep apnea. When I saw a sleep doctor (after a million blood, urine samples, kidney and liver checks including an MRI, bladder function etc) she was completely unsurprised this was my #1 symptom. Plenty of people awaken from sleep apnea and have disjointed sleep.

I started less than a week ago and I am sleeping better, my dreams are longer.

But I am way more tired. Is this normal at first? I have to go back to sleep in the middle of the day. Some people are saying this is sleep debt.

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Thank you everyone for the responses, I think literally everyone answered in a direct and clear manner. Thank you.

Dr. E. Michael Jones. I don’t care that he’s an old man.

Dr. Taylor Marshall

Let’s get some academics in there!

Yeah. “There’s nothing shameful about jerking off and maintaining eye contact in public” was the plot twist I wasn’t expecting in his post. 🤮

Same. I live in SF now and these answers are downright depressing.

“Great airport for international flights!” “Amazing highway system!” “Great design for cars!” “Free parking and parking lots everywhere!” “Great restaurants!”

All true, but the fact that these are the highlights is awful. So glad I left.

Panglossian is a great word pulled from Voltaire. I use it for a naive optimistic worldview, hope that’s right

I was young, idk if I’d use the “thin” but I was ridiculously fit. gym or running every day, I’ve never drank sodas. I hadn’t slept well in six years and was sick all the time. I’d seen 3 different urologists because I thought I had a kidney infection and none of them could find anything wrong. Thousands in tests. My sleep doctor took one look at my nasal passages and I got a cpap. Everything has been changing.

I am fortunate to never have truly suffered from suicidality, but I have been an atheist and I've been a Catholic, and I've been thoroughly depressed and in thoroughly hopeless situations, and so maybe I can answer your question from my own experience.

When I became a Catholic, I didn't decide based on morality that any despair I felt was wrong. Rather, my relationship with God itself alleviated my despair, and the Christian worldview allowed me to make sense of the world for the first time. I was always interested in science, philosophy, and history, but it everything from my day-to-day to world history seemed to be a nonsensical accident. Every attempt to make sense of it without God or by my own reason and my own will eventually ended in failure, with a few more nuggets of wisdom to keep me from becoming completely unmoored but not enough to ever see even a glimpse of a grand picture.

I can imagine that the Christian worldview itself doesn't (necessarily) need to condemn suicide to render suicide folly, but rather provides a rich, true, and durable worldview to the despairing.

When you let crime fester in one area, it festers in all areas. I've had police tell me in SF personally that they don't want to make an arrest or remove someone because of filming and repercussions of enforcing the law. This trickles all the way down. If you don't arrest for theft, why arrest or ticket for wheelies?

Yeah I'm seeing the whole "This is happening everywhere," thing. The problem is, if you tried to pull this in most cities in the world, the police would just kick the crap out of you. It's a particularly Western and recent problem and even then, only in cities with a Soros DA. I am reading London and Paris too, I'm quite familiar with both of these cities, and, well, I don't doubt it there either, but I don't want to expound on why.

I was just thinking this— the ADL change the definition of “racism” 3 times in 2021 alone to license anti-white hatred. When it backfired by people claiming jews were white, they attacked Whoopi Goldberg and covertly changed the definition back.

If Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL didn’t exist, antisemites would have to have invented him. 99% of the content they share on Twitter is immediately shared by antisemites because it’s so wild, crazy, and deranged.

If you were to act accordingly to the belief that you are too good for God, you would be acting in a way that is predicated on a falsehood. All actions predicated on a falsehood are a lesser good at best and a great evil at worst. Eventually, the truth will come out and everything you’ve constructed on that falsehood will come tumbling down.

I think I’m with you here. In high school I always punched slightly above my weight in reading because the few classics I didn’t struggle with at all (1984, Great Gatsby) really grabbed me and I wanted more.

Now the challenge, whether it’s with philosophy, literature, or theology, is the point.

Black Lives Matter as a movement has nothing to do with black lives mattering. It’s an anti-white cult bent on racial worship.

These are slogans. They disguise either malice or lies with truths, but they’re associated with a movement and not the phrase itself.

There are extremely ideologically odious, malicious, and untruthful claims to most of the things you have listed, some are even a complete inversion of facts (“Science is real” is often used to promote fake science).

If I went to drop my kids off at someone’s house and they had this sign, I’d call the parents and tell them something else came up.

I think capacity matters. I think there’d be something inherently sinful in conducting marketing campaigns intentionally aimed at kids, or trying to downplay or diminish the addictiveness of these products.