It’s hard for me to imagine anyone else in any of the roles. They are all such perfect fits.

I don’t remember where I picked it up, but it wouldn’t have been here. I guess this joke already made the rounds in a few forms.

PicardIsSexy - 0 times (!The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world you’re safe. ;)

That was a close one!

Argh, sorry!

My gaming/hobby time is typically after getting the kids down too. As long as I don’t sit down and get distracted, I can manage to get some good time in, but my brain is tired by then.

Also a good point. You can only raise taxes or cut programs so much.

If every country dealing with this wasn’t beholden to business interests requiring “line go up”, this sort of thing could be considered natural and self correcting rather than a crisis.

Population decline would mean more housing supply on the market, more competition to hire employees (better salaries and benefits), lower tuition costs to attract more students to your local university, etc. All the things that would make it easier for young couples who want kids to get established and stable earlier in life.

Not to be too preachy, but it’s the same mindset that makes us good at capitalism that hurts us in these moments. It’s really hard to compartmentalize this.

Great game btw

I don’t seek him out, but when I see screenshots of stuff he’s said, it’s usually some vacuous nonsense like this.

I had a similar genius idea involving a bunk bed when I was 5.

This is the way. People respond better to non-directive information like this anyway.

A professor once gave me similar advice when I was trying to get into grad school. I repeated a bunch of advice I had heard from other students who were struggling with the same thing, and he said “Why are you listening to them? Go ask the grad students here who have already gotten into grad school.”

It was such obvious advice in retrospect, but it was eye-opening for me at the time, and I’ve applied it to many other parts of life.

We call it tAInt

I think it’s just a human reaction to work sometimes. Like, it’s clearly your job and why you’re employed, but part of you is also like:

My first couple of re-runs, I was annoyed with him and would kill him on sight.

After a while (and in other games), I began to embrace the betrayal. Like, “Sure thing, bud. I’ll go stand right over there by the cliff… Oh, you rascal, you.” I realized it’s more fun to go along for the ride.

Now this is classy.