Sorry, I’m not into S&M play.

Tried to follow Anakin into the dark side of the force.

Misguided pride or PTSD perhaps?

Maybe, maybe not. My thought for the comment was “tried to help, didn’t work, off you go and experience as is”.

Because not everyone learns the same way, so we can’t apply a fix-all universal method. Some kids, adults even, don’t get it until they experience it themselves.

What that “it” is changes from person to person and every time we think “why don’t they just understand”, maybe it’s that they can’t understand and need a different way of learning “it”. Which sometimes is painful.

Perseverance against what if not pain?

I sort of disagree. Some pain and suffering is what helps some people become better versions of themselves. Doesn’t work for everyone though, so it shouldn’t be the default experience, but rather a last resort.

Land is very valuable. If you think you can’t make use of that value, then selling it to someone who can is an option. Just don’t regret it after if they increase that value beyond your own means.

Yes. Companies seem to spend more money on marketing than they do on development.

Old enough to see a flick where someone smoked with their ass.

That, but in Dragon’s Dogma.

Have you visited hobby communities? They can be quite pleasant.

Fair point. It might be an emergency PR fail, but it does feel quite embarrassing to close the topic blaming the users.

It might still be. The article does mention that the numbers might be caused by its popularity and that the issue isn’t exclusive to it.

And here i was hoping any fascination is a woman cheesing it.

So you’re saying there’s a chance anyone fascinated with a piece of cheese might be a woman?

I know I’m an idiot and I know everyone else is as well, in their own way. So when I call people idiots, I do it as a fellow idiot gently reminding them they are in fact idiots.

They generally disagree.

A going theory is that you’re overstimulated and your body is starved of rest. You’d need to chill with the social media and electronics, go through withdrawal and then relax for a month or two on an isolated retreat in order to “reset” yourself.

So they grasped the inevitable and dove right into it.

Don’t. You’ll die… of happiness.