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Destiny 3. Titanfall 3. Battlefront 3. Half-Life 3. Portal 3. Left for Dead 3. Knights of the Old Republic 3….

@BeEarnestRepent @MoundLore Nope!

@Horizon_Brock @MoundLore I thought it was the serpent mound..

Ohio LiDAR

Probably the most destiny felt like a living world to me was when they added exotic farming in lost sectors and every entrance became a littered parking lot for sparrows

This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one. A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty. But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding. The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted. The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.

Boomers needed 306 hours of minimum wage work to pay for college. Millennials needed 4,459. Gen Z needs 6,200. The game is rigged.

my transmission died uncle told me: “just buy a reliable used car like we used to.” then i showed him the market. a decent 2015 honda with over 140k miles was like $14k cash. he said: “back in my day i paid $4,000.” i adjusted it for inflation and it was STILL cheaper than cars today then he hit me with “you just need to negotiate better.” now people are out here paying hundreds monthly for 8-9 years on used cars they didn’t even want. “just buy used” stopped making sense when used cars started costing what new cars used to.

And all of a sudden, a Decade doesn’t feel long enough.

Honestly, this is one of the darkest things in Naruto once you stop looking at it through “shonen protagonist logic” and start looking at it like an actual child’s life. Naruto wasn’t just an orphan. He was the son of the Fourth Hokage. The man who literally died saving the village. He was Kushina’s child....one of the last Uzumaki. And on top of that, he became the jinchūriki carrying the Nine Tails for Konoha’s protection. By all logic, Naruto should’ve been one of the most protected children in the entire village. Instead? He grew up alone in a tiny apartment. No real parental figure. No emotional support system. No clan. No family friends raising him. No proper explanation about his parents. No protection from public hatred. Just isolation, dirty looks, whispers, and years of emotional neglect. And this is where Hiruzen deserves way more criticism than the fandom usually gives him. Yes, Hiruzen cared about Naruto in his own way. Yes, he made sure Naruto had basic living expenses. But feeding a child financially is not the same thing as raising them emotionally. This was Minato’s son. The same Minato who sacrificed everything for the village. The same Minato Hiruzen personally mentored and watched grow up. And somehow, after Minato dies, his child ends up eating instant ramen alone, wandering the streets desperate for acknowledgment, vandalizing monuments just to force people to notice him. That’s heartbreaking. What makes it worse is that Konoha absolutely knew Naruto was vulnerable. The village feared him because of Kurama. The adults isolated him. The children copied their parents. Even other parents warned their kids to stay away from him. So the leadership understood the situation… and still allowed a traumatized child to grow up emotionally abandoned. People always say: “Hiruzen protected Naruto by hiding his identity.” And to an extent, that’s true. Making Naruto publicly known as Minato’s son could’ve attracted enemies. But protecting his identity should not have required abandoning his childhood. Those are two completely different things. Naruto didn’t need luxury. He didn’t need special treatment. He just needed human connection. Someone consistently present. Someone to hug him. Someone to tell him: “Your parents loved you.” “None of this is your fault.” “You matter.” Instead, Naruto spent years begging for acknowledgment from the same village his parents died protecting. And honestly, that’s part of what makes Naruto such an emotionally powerful character. Most people in his position would’ve become bitter. Some would’ve hated the village. Some would’ve become exactly what the villagers feared. But Naruto still chose empathy. He became the emotional warmth he never received.

O CEO da Bolt demitiu todo o departamento de RH da empresa, dizendo que eles criavam problemas que não existiam. Depois, disse que os problemas desapareceram quando essa galera foi embora. Ele substituiu o RH por uma equipe pequena de “People Ops” focada apenas em operações básicas (contratos, folha de pagamento etc.). Essa galera woke é tão burra que cavou a própria cova enchendo o saco de todo mundo.

I'll never forget how scary it was first seeing the Beast Titan, we all thought it was the final boss 😭

Last Drop!

New Drop!

My childhood ❤️

If Destiny 2 can’t survive with 170k daily players any “live service” game coming from PlayStation is going to have a bad time.

Matthew Stafford boasts one of the most impressive accomplishments amongst active players today: he’s a Georgia football alum who has never been arrested for moving violations.

First major defeat to Ai in job sector.

Someone said ‘Ghost revived us thousands of times but we cannot save him this one time’ …bro

Just realized Marathon is to Destiny players what Apex is to Titanfall players