For uplifting, I like chill games where people are nice to each other.

Hades has you piece back together your family and has a lot of great dialog.

Carto is a cute puzzle game involving rearranging maps where you help people on your way back home.

Haven is a young couple trying to make it on an alien planet.

Children of Morta is a family fighting together against an apocalypse.

Dreamscaper is a rogue lite where you get mechanically stronger through self care as you work your way through trauma by hitting it in your dreams.

Ni no Kuni 1 and 2 are longer jrpgs in a Studio Ghibli style world.

Grandia is another jrpg that does a good job at capturing an adventurous spirit.

Lack of fedoras.

How else are you going to open your files in nano to do the programming on the prod server?

“Add to your library” is my guess.

Plus it has markers for variable types just like Esperanto has suffixes for parts of speech. Wall was a linguist, after all.

Esperanto always struck me as more perl-like with each part of speech having its own suffix like perl has $ for scalars, @ for arrays, and % for hashes. Though perl is probably more like a bunch of pidgins…

Production errors.

LGTM (lunatic gunner targeting me)

My conversations here must not count, nor have they improved my opinion.

Ok.

Damn, dude, not every hunter is a deer population manager.

Hunters do hunting, surgeons try and heal people. In one the killing is the point and in the other the cutting in incidental.

Avoiding factory farmed animals but still eating animals is something a lot of people say to pat themselves on the back, but I don’t buy it.

Anyway, I can see this is a really personal thing to you and you’re really upset by it. Don’t think too much about why you get defensive about it, though, or why you have to carve out exceptions to try and make it less creepy.

Lol, come into a community about unpopular opinions, see people adverse to those opinions, get surprised and upset?

Since you mentioned eating

No, I specifically tried to avoid it, but go ahead and ignore that 🤦

Hiking is a thing you can do in nature alone or is groups that doesn’t involve killing, so I don’t understand your point about that making hunting less creepy. And even if most of the hobby isn’t the actual killing, the rest of it is planning, setting up for, fantasizing about, talking about, etc., the killing, so that’s not very convincing either. Like I get that if you have, say, cooking as a hobby that you look up recipes, buy ingredients, and eat, but nobody that has cooking as a hobby buys ingredients to not cook (raw vegans excepted 🥁🥁🛎️).

And telling me about how different flesh tastes depending on how you kill them sounds pretty creepy.

Thanks for not bringing up eating! I really appreciate it.

Yes, population management is a real thing. Not denying that, and I probably should have mentioned it.

I still find the people that want to participate in it for fun very creepy.

Rooki deescalated

If that’s your definition of deescalating, you’re either disingenuous or an idiot. Enter way, you’re not worth further attention. I would suggest you actually look up deescalation so it’s not so obvious next time in either case p

Your bedroom and your code sound dirty. No dessert until there are no more dirty clothes on the floor and all your merge conflicts are resolved.

The mods acted disrespectfully? The admins admitted they were in the wrong; it was the mods on the receiving end of this. People in positions of authority should be able to deescalate things. That’s not what happened. People in positions of authority should not be able to use “They disrespected me” as a reason to escalate. If you think that sentence applies to mods but not admins, you’ve got a really dissonant way of looking at things.

Sticking a hook into something to drag it around and then temporarily suffocate it, yeah, that doesn’t seem pleasant.

Yeah, comparatively. I guess in human terms it would be the difference between manslaughter vs premeditated murder. I find the whoops it’s dead less creepy than the let’s plan and carry out a killing.

• you kill insects so you’re just as bad
• But I eat it so it’s ethical and respectful (nothing to do with the opinion I expressed)
• Cats are different than game
• Population control (nothing to do with the opinion I expressed)

I’m pushing away the arguments because they don’t actually address my point. They’re bad rhetoric. THEY are not giving valid reasons, it’s the same stuff I’ve heard before and it’s still bad rhetoric, that’s why I’m pushing them away. Pick one and we can go through it if you want.