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I posted this on Reddit as well and apparently it hit the top 25 on the r/all feed and I got invited into a private group for "top posters". Interesting times

I feel bad that the poor little guy clearly starved to death

I leave a one star review for any business still playing Fox News.

I am the author of this game. Thank you very much for posting about it on the forum! I have played both Eye of the beholder, Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back in the 80's. My dream have allways been to create one of these games on my own. Thanks to Unity3D I have fulfilled mn dream. The game is a bit simpler than DM but great fun to play. Unfortunately it's not party based, just one character but it has a lot of puzzles and challenges just like Dungeon Master. The game consists of 11 levels with approximately 6-7 hours of playtime. Thanx again!

The proliferation of "easy" ways to gamble (ESPECIALLY when it comes to sports betting) continues to do incalculable societal damage.

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Saw this last night and it is everything it says on the tin. It's a cheeky, funny, meta, action packed romp. It knows its cues and nails them. The comedy hits, the romantic chemistry is excellent, the stunts are impressive. It never transcends its genre, but it's a very enjoyable celebration of stunts and movie making in a highly entertaining package. Overall just a fun time in the theater. They also get a couple good jabs in at the Academy for not awarding stunt guys, which I appreciated.

hell yeah Trump 2024

Im a loyal PS5 Helldiver who has been spreading Democracy and defending freedom all along. I firmly believe that when all these Hippy Draft Dodging Cry Baby Traitors return any Medals distributed during their absence should be withheld and Super Citizen Status revoked. For Super Earth!!!

Took me a moment on which AOC this was.

I guess he's a Sith since he has a red saber.

This definitely harkens back to 2020 when someone put Trump’s face on Thanos and had him “snap away” the Dems in an edited video. Also, look how small his lightsaber is 🤣

This is one of the harder aspects of addiction - unless you are/were an addict, your ability to understand an addict's thought processes is going to be extremely limited, at best. Which isn't meant to be disparaging at all; I've experienced it on a number of occasions when trying to explain what I was thinking/feeling while in action, and I'd be lying if I said that a part of me wasn't grateful that my family and friends are incapable of understanding the full scope of what addiction is, and what it can lead us to do. The best articulation I've heard has been from Dr. Kevin McCauley who has lectured extensively on the Disease Model of Addiction; it can offer some solid insights on the neuro-physiological mechanisms associated with addiction. From a more practical perspective, the regression of someone into a compulsive gambler can take numerous forms and paths - from teens/20-somethings getting roped in after a winning Sunday on DraftKings (easiest money ever!) in a social group setting where everyone is doing it, to people struggling with other issues whose coping mechanisms lead them to isolation and escape (and for whom the allure of a casino provides easy and consistent dopamine stimuli while the presence of others fosters an illusory perception of not being alone), to wealthier individuals whose gambling might start with stock market/crypto speculation but gradually extends to other forms of action...the road to rock bottom starts from many different places, following different routes. To your question about the wealthy - it can often be as simple as finding a novel thrill in a life in which there aren't any existential uncertainties that need to be considered. But to answer one question as well as I can - the high comes from that moment of uncertainty when you've put your cards/bet/race form/dice/roulette chips into play, and are waiting to see if you win or lose. The actual result is (or can be) inconsequentual and anti-climactic - it's the juice that comes with taking that risk and putting things into play. And the progressive nature invariably compels us to increasing the stakes - when a single $5 parlay doesn't do it anymore, multiple $20 bets are needed, which turns into $50 bets on every game at a particular time, which turns into....it's a horrific spiral of craving during which rational thought becomes impossible, where the "need" is engaged by the portion of the brain linked to survival instincts. The lying, cheating, and stealing that addicts often turn to thus is less a breakdown of morals, than a short-circuiting of the pathways responsible for moral consideration, driven by a survival-based need to do whatever it takes to get that next fix. It isn't the least bit rational, and studies/literature on compulsive gambling have yielded some results that are absolutely confounding to those with no experience with addiction - in one study, researchers observed periodic feelings of irritation when someone WON while playing slots, because the win disrupted the flow of (losing) action they had been going through. Absolutely bonkers. But I can get it. Addiction can be hard to understand in the context of gambling, where we aren't talking about a particular susbstance being drunk/snorted/injected, but rather a behavior and series of "choices". But despite that, many of the byproducts are virtually identical to those whose addiction is linked to alcohol, opioids, narcotics, etc. All forms of addiction cause diregulation in the body's dopamine/serotonin/oxytocin secretion, leading to (at times) mania, depression, anhedonia, etc.

At least the thread title has come full circle now.

Let Trump talk enough and he’ll confess to everything.

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I don’t usually respond that much to blatant fan service, but the hacking mini game making an appearance had me like

MS going third party would not be healthy for the competitive market. Maybe they should just fire management and stop sucking.

Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors ARSTECHNICA.COM Prosecutors are combing subpoenaed materials for evidence Tesla knowingly misled.

An exchange I had with his campaign in November of last year. So...

Whatever they're paying this sketch artist, it's not enough (Trump being shown memes of him in an orange jumpsuit posted on social media in court)

Amazing. Simply amazing. Donald 'Von ShitzInPantz' has now formally been entered into the public record at Trump's hush money trial WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM At his hush money trial on Thursday, Trump had to sit silent at the defense table as his lawyer read aloud from Michael Cohen's greatest Twitter hits.

The single largest demographic seeking help for compulsive gambling, by a HUGE margin, over the past 18 months, has been young men between the ages of 21 and 30. And while the stats are somewhat questionable, our best current estimates are that 1 in 900 compulsive gamblers seeks help from GA, and while there are certainly other programs available for treatment, few have the (admittedly limited) success rate of a 12-step program. One of, if not the greatest dangers, of the mass proliferation of legalized gambling, is the lingering perception that problem gambling is limited to 50+ year old guys at the track or OTB. It's hard to forecast how devastating this growth and expansion of gambling will ultimately prove to be, but I'm pretty confident that the answer is that it will be far, far worse than we are imagining now. I'm on the board of trustees for NYIG (basically the governing body for Gamblers Anonymous in NY), and we're now dealing with questions like - if a 16 year old calls the GA hotline or shows up at a meeting alone after getting information from the website, do we have an ethical obligation to disclose this to their family? There isn't any legal obligation, but ethically - it's a challenging question, and a terrible one to have to deliberate on. And it's a question that is coming up with increased frequency, because it's started happening.

The craziest thing is that it was such a round number, 50,000 bees? What are the odds of that.

It doesn’t matter if Trump wins this election. Eventually, we’re going to get a republican authoritarian president and that will be the end of the current era of American politics (and possibly America itself). Best to just prepare and accept it at this point.

Something I've wondered about for the longest time, and it's not an exclusive idea to this board so I'm not picking on Ghost. I don't game on PC minus my Starcraft, but consoles are getting a lot of what comes there anyway. Isn't that a good thing? Since decades ago were times when many games were strictly PC, older Playstation consoles either missed out on a lot of PC games or had weird ports. IIRC, only something like the original Xbox could handle Morrowind or Knights of the Old Republic. Nobody asks if it's the worst time to be a PC gamer because so many games are on consoles too, or that it was better to game on PC when something like Half-Life released and no console could handle it until the PS2 port three years later or stuff like Gabriel Knight or Grim Fandango or Baldur's Gate were only found on PC. I feel as if my PC friends just game and have fun, but for consoles, we think of it differently and ask how many games can be found on PC, when nobody looks at it the other way. Right now, consoles have backwards compatibility so the PS4/XBO releases are essentially PS5/XBS releases as well, you can play even older games on Xbox and you can play PS1 games on PS5 -- freebies if you already bought the PS1 versions on PS3, same with if you bought PS2 games online in previous gens. Consoles have SSDs and instant loading, and they have a tremendous number of games that release. Even something like XBox, which has a much weaker first party lineup imo than the other two, still gets much of the third party releases, so I feel it'd be hard to find NOTHING on it, whether or not you have Game Pass or PS+ for Playstation. I just spent two months playing ONE game in FF7 ReBirth, plus Apollo Justice Trilogy which, again, is PS4 "only" which is irrelevant if you have a PS5 (same for Xbox). It's hard to say things are worse.

Why does this matter? If you buy a console you can play those games. The notion that the console would be better if developers artificially didn't release the game on PC is super weird.

360 era is easily my favorite. Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Halo 3, Gears 1-3, CoD4, MW2, and more. That shit was my life in Highschool. We'd all get home at the same time, get into a party chat and play games.

That's pretty consistent with a lot of what we understand about human psychology and behavioral economics. It's one reason why many books focusing on self-improvement speak to setting process-based goals, as opposed to outcome-based. A process-based goal can be sustainable in the long-term; an outcome-based goal, once achieved, can leave one feeling disheartened and lost. And from a broader perspective, the types of goals that we set can be strong indicators of how our individual value systems are arranged. People with outcome-based goals can often unknowingly cultivate such perspectives as a result of some formative event in their life: poor home environment leaving someone feeling unheard/unrecognized/unloved can induce them to seek validation from external sources, leading to a toxic cycle of defining themselves based upon how they perceive others to see them. That's a bit off-topic, although it's a subject I've studied rather closely in working on better understanding my own emotional baggage and disentangling myself from said baggage. I'd spent a long time (far too long, in all honesty) seeking validation from the approval of others because of a deeply flawed sense of self-worth; reprogramming myself with more positive values has been a bit of a challenge at times.

We just came off of one of the all time great gamning years in 2023... how in GOD'S NAME is this the worse generation since before the NES? Clickity Clickty Bait Bait.

A couple replies in and I already need to remind people that grass exists and can be touched. Gen's been fantastic, and we just came off of one of the GOAT years. True thread title should be "Is this the worst Toms Guide article?" because it's just an excuse to make a list.

I really haven't seen anything on the PS5 that couldn't easily have existed in a downgraded form for the PS4 without that much of a significant drop in overall quality.

Wasn't there literally a meme a year or two ago like: Media: "Trump accidentally pooped his pants" MAGA People "He would never do something like that!" Trump: "I shit my pants on purpose!" Life beginning to imitate art.

How soon until we get Trump and his supporters just straight up shitting themselves in public?

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And bonus, even in beta I’m not seeing new bugs and crashes! @Commissar SFLUFAN, you were right!

I’d fucking quit if I had to kiss his stupid ass as part of my job

It is time for the feds to treat gambling like cigarettes and ban nearly all advertising of it. It should be legal to participate in, but the constant stream of marketing is truly gross stuff.

Beauty sleep helps

I hate the way gambling has permeated everything. Keep degenerates underground where they belong.

I don't think I need to read this. Who he is has been clear forever. No need to wallow in it.

I used to always stop and watch this movie when I was younger when flipping through channels. It’s an all time great.

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