For me, it’s just math. The odds of things getting better if I try may be low, but the odds if I don’t are even lower. I’ll take the higher odds every time.

For you, have you considered spite? Live the best life you can to prove wrong everyone who tried to stop you, and do as much good in the world as you can so those trying to do evil have to try just that little bit harder. It only takes one good hit to ruin a superior opponent’s perfect game, and you can only get that hit if you keep playing.

I don’t have trust issues, and I think that might actually be worse. Like, if that happened now, I’d only shirk at going in twice, but I’d still go in once.

It’s apparently a reference to fattening a pig before the slaughter. Basically, they trick you into feeding their crypto-pig before running off with all the pork.

When I was playing that game as a youngling, someone asked me to help get some wine from a cult temple. I did, which made the door slam shut and every cultist in the room attack me. I just barely made it out of there alive.

Then they told me to go get a second one. Yeah, they didn’t need wine, they wanted me to die to a trap so they could take my stuff without killing me.

I’m embarrassed to say I actually went to get that second wine.

I feel like it’s accurate to say Texas is completely Texas.

I would actually recommend !anime@ani.social instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.

One of the most popular mods for Dragon Age: Origins is a mod that lets you skip the fade section of the game. So that’s a pretty good indication of how people feel about it.

That’s not an opinion, that’s an incorrect statement.

Good. Someone, please make this. And make it first person for the full effect.

Other ideas for people to pinch:

• You can only use each snippet of small talk once before collecting it again, because you’re afraid of repeating yourself.
• The game is filled with collectibles, but they’re all located on the floor, so you’re more likely to find them if you’re in character and looking at the floor the entire time.
• To pause the game, you have to look at your phone while standing in a quiet area.
• Your ex-partner has a lengthy list of grievances you can hear when they’re hunting you. This includes “you always run away from me at parties”.

Social Anxiety Survival Horror. You’re a guy at a friend’s party trying to avoid conversations while putting in an appearance with your friend so they know you were here. You can deflect conversations with small talk you pick up by eavesdropping, but it won’t work on drunk people, so you also need to run and hide. Your ex-partner eventually shows up and is hunting you down to have a frank conversation about your relationship, which is instant game over.

A great name if you want your son to go into the business of forks and marbles.

Oh, you want your interpretation where they have your exact same desires? Granted. That alternative version made the exact same wish you did. It’s selfish all the way down, so there is no version where someone made a more concrete wish and you still get nothing.

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t have someone who is incredibly different but also exactly the same. It’s a contradiction.

Oh, and your curse isn’t what would happen. It’s just a bad fanfic plot device.

Sure, that works. Curse me harder, daddy. Because of you, I like it.

Granted. You get nothing. The alternate version of you was kind enough to wish for someone else’s health and happiness, and wanted nothing for themself. Also, your curse is to know with certainty that not only are you not this superior version of yourself, but you’ve proven by your inherently selfish wish that you will never be that person.

I wish the genie is so bad at curses that everyone always enjoys being cursed by them.

Actually, he held the door closed so people couldn’t get in. Very rude.

When I get drunk, I constantly evaluate how drunk I am and accounce it to everyone around me. You’ll see me stand up to do something, sway a little too much and then declare “okay, I’m at, like, a four.” If I notice I’m getting a little too smashed, I’ll try and slow down or eat some bread or just generally try to take care of myself. Still having fun, though.

Tax goes to a single government spending fund, but I want this to be separate so it can’t be channelled into buying guns or whatever. It’s only welfare, and nothing else.

While donations are typically voluntary, there’s nothing stopping it from being enforced. Someone can put a gun to your head and force you to donate to charity, and that’s still a donation.

The vainglorious rich jerks might be less hesitant to part with their cash if they can boast about how much they donated, even if it was required of them. Only a little less, but that’s still good.

I have thought about it, and I am sticking with “donate” as the term.

It’s hilarious you think the people with the highest yearly earnings get that by working hard. Do you think Jeff Bezos has been working harder than you have this entire year in the time since you posted your comment alone?

You’re not wrong, but I’d want it separate from tax so it goes directly to welfare and not just government funds. It also sounds nicer to donate than pay taxes, and you never get a donation rebate.