I don’t have a game right now. I spent the weekend searching Gamepass and testing out some games I wouldn’t have bought blindly, trying to find my next obsession.

None have grabbed me yet. DOOM Middle Ages was starting to get fun but it kept crashing on me. Sorry developer’s, if your game doesn’t get my attention in the first ten minutes, you never deserved my money, but if I find the game on Gamepass and enjoy it, I tend to let others know.

Calling is how you get someone to make sure there’s no cables down there.

Not until you say I can!

If you’re going to make people ask, don’t be a dick when they do.

Semen does.

Haven’t tried the others.

Well, not with THAT attitude.

She

Yeah. I’m with you on all of that, but in many places that’s not the situation.

Fucking deductibles. I just hit my $3500 on June 30th.

Our year reset on July 1st.

People are self centered, and don’t bother to take a deeper look at what is happening.

They get their paycheck and see that the gubment took 24% of their money and feel like they’ve been robbed.

At no point do they consider the years they spent in public school, or the roads they use to drive to work, or the ever present emergency services that will be available when they are needed.

You aren’t stealing it. You aren’t charging fees that you know are unfair.

They are appreciating your work, and want you to have some of the joy that you have brought them. You deserve every penny of that money, and deserve the joy that is intended to come with it.

This is what happens when the stupid try to manage the smart.

Wait… Are you telling me they WEREN’T born with those balls under the tailgate?

Right? I feel bad that it’s beautiful outside and we’re all inside playing games and streaming TV, but every time we leave the house as a family, it ends up costing me at least $100.

Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn’t have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?

I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he’d make. So, his only choice is to budget around permanent poverty or die.

They do.

I think those people are just less surprised when something happens. I don’t think they are unlearning how to gasp, but it takes a bit more to trigger it in someone who’s already seen worse than the rest of us want to imagine.

This is just me pulling an answer out of my ass, but since it happens when we’re surprised, it’s probably the body reflexively taking in air so it’s prepared to deal with the surprise. Which could involve fighting, running, yelling, or holding your breath for a while.

Before what?

No, it’s pretty much an everyone thing. Sure, you’ll find some people sympathetic to your case, but for the most part, it’s an “unforgivable sin”.

No matter what they say, all you can do is either prove them all wrong, or prove them all right.

Edit: I forgot I was replying to a comment, so the tone is directed towards OP.

That’s not a norm. That’s an ideal you intend to live up to.