You’re defaulting to your “comfort setting” which is a normal human thing.

Playing new games takes mental and emotional energy. There are also a lot more unknowns, which is a significant mental load. Our brains are naturally a bit aversive to this, especially if you’re feeling low-energy.

When you play the same old games you’ve enjoyed for over a decade, it’s a way for your brain to “veg out” as it were. The amount of thinking is minimal, and there’s no emotional suspense–you know exactly what’s coming.

So the answer has more to do with your mental and emotional energy levels. If your life is otherwise taxing in those areas, it’s perfectly fine to unwind with some comfort games at the end of a long day. If you find yourself feeling like this all the time, you might be dealing with depression or chronic exhaustion. And those are too complex to answer without more info.

Hope that helps!

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As long as you don’t use a DE on it, a pi3 is great for experimenting with server software. I still use my 3b for plenty of things.

My general policy is to buy stuff from GoG that I will likely want to replay in the future and prioritize Steam for anything that I primarily play with friends (as that’s the main advantage of Steam for me). If it’s neither, I’ll default to GoG.

That doesn’t sound like it would work. Ben would continue to treat Beth poorly, and your relationship with him wouldn’t improve in any way. Don’t ditch your principles for the sake of revenge.

Either distance yourself from Ben, or try to have a serious talk with him. Be the adult in the room.

It’s nice when people get the support they need

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The name is largely self explanatory.

My parents got married at the same age (20 and 18). They had 5 kids and are still together over 50 years later.

They’ve also had a lot of things to work through. These days they coach younger couples–not because they have training, but because they can say, “well, what did we do when that happened to us?” Because they’ve had every fight. My parents are the outliers.

It’s not impossible, but it’s not easy either. If you are both emotionally mature and have strong communication skills, you have as good of a chance as anyone. Marriage is hard anyway.

If you want to get married and you have good support networks in place, go for it. But give yourself the best fighting chance you can–read up on how to make marriage work, do some premarital counseling, and most importantly, agree to wait to start having kids for at least 3 years (5 is better). Having kids pushes you to your physical limits and greatly reduces your ability to communicate effectively (did you know that 25% of new parents experience hallucinations at some point due to sleep deprivation?).

So… just the P?

Thanks for posting this! I’ve been looking to switch away from Swiftkey since MS bought it, and I love the easily accessible symbols on this (I do a bit of terminalling on mobile).

That’s a worse punishment than what they’d otherwise get.

My wife calls them her emotional support tabs.

Also during the time Lemmy was most excited about beans. One of the golden ages, to be sure.