Glide

Honestly, it's because I'm well into my 30s that I appreciate them. They give me perspective that I won't find elsewhere in my life, and make me feel like my job is having a real impact. There are lives out there that are a little better for having me in them, and that feeds back into me, too. And being around them helps me from becoming some jaded old dude. These aren't things people worry about in their 20s.

Obviously some of them annoy the shit out of me, and even the best of them has more energy than I can find over the course of the day. But I only have them until ~3 and then they go back to their parents and I get to relax. I think it's easy find the good in every type of kid when you know that your time with them is fleeting.

And when I think about getting paid a salary to do this as opposed to anything else in the world? I mean, yeah, it feels like a genuine treat. I don't have to come home tired and covered in sterilized grease the way I did in college, when I cooked my way through my degree, and I don't need to come home physically worn and covered in motor oil the way my father did. Saying "I get to hang out with kids all day" is definitely downplaying the real work a bit, of which there is a ton, but at the end of the day, I really do genuinely feel lucky to have this way of living available to me.

So, I'm a teacher, and I love my career. The fact that I get paid good money to hang out with teenagers and make a difference in so many lives is almost mind-boggling to me. But it's still work. The job is exhausting, prep work and grading both suck, and I'm never happy to wake up at 7am. I'd never do it for free, and I'm always excited to have a day off.

The days off make me appreciate my job, and the shitty, boring parts of the job make me appreciate my time off. There's a gap between "I love my job" and "my job isn't even work," and many people struggle to grasp that.

As an aside, the anti-work sentiment around here is less a rejection of engaging with a task that betters society, and more about the current system of work and pay, where our labour disproportionately benefits others. Most "anti-work" people want to have a task that adds value to the world, and despise aimless, soulless corporate tasks that benefit CEOs and share holders.

Let's be straight: as amazing as Baldur's Gate 3 is today, Act 3 launched half baked and half broken. My first playthrough experience was horrible, largely thanks to broken flags and missing content from the Upper City, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have comparable experiences with early versions of Original Sin 2. Hell, they rewrote basically the entire final act of that game with the definitive edition, and I'm under the impression Original Sin 1 had a similiar situation, though I didn't play it enough between the original and the definitive edition to experience it.

Now, part of all this is because Larian opts to make decisions to cut content and reduce scope rather than abuse their staff or delay a project. In Baldur's Gate specificslly, I won't say I am perfectly happy with the outcome, but they are a good studio that practices reasonable employee ethics, and ultimately puts in the work to get there with the product as well. I'd have no issue buying Divinity day one or even pre-ordering, but I do not expect a perfectly complete and polished experience on release.

Well-honed reflex.

Narcissists aren't very good at self-awareness.

Making fun of minorities, the disabled, and "locker room talk" about sexually abusing women? Totally fine.

How dare Trump openly mock a successful straight white man.

Fuck the Republican party.

You can't just expect people to actively interpret media. We have entire school systems designed to avoid educating them with those skills.

I imagine it was by using their sirens.

Bless you for reading.

Turns out most people are so used to intentionally misleading headlines that they'll actively defend them based on the "well technically" truths.

Okay, what is happening to him is a humanitarian crisis, but they arrested him for driving without a license, not because he missed a turn signal.

What ICE is doing is abhorrent. We don't need to exaggerating and/or lie to make horrifying headlines marginally worse.

Edit - Jesus christ, you all have some real issues with connotation, huh? Yes, he was pulled over for a turn signal, which set off the chain of events, but the intention of the headline is to connect the mostly innoculous act of forgetting to signal to the resulting deportation, when that is blatantly not the case. All the "UMMM, ACKSHUALLY, THIS REALLY DID HAPPEN" completely misses the point here.

Fuck me for refusing to just let it slide when media uses intentionally misleading titles to invoke extreme reactions for engagement, I guess.

Of course it was. Of course Christianity took a line intended to protect children from abuse and "mistranslated" it to be homophobic.

Oh god, the replacement of he iron workers in the skyscraper with the ruling elite class who literally contribute a tiny fraction of what they take from society is perhaps the most tone deaf take I have ever seen. Just absolutely disgusting, gutwrenching comparison, yet strangely poignant, as their goal is to make the working class disappear.

Boys, my little rhythm gamer heart has quite possibly never been as blessed as it is this week. Rhythm Doctor, unbeatable, now Bits and Bops?

We just need Tango Gameworks to officially announce that their studio is up and running working on Hi-Fi Rush 2, and my cup will have completely run over.