Yes. The addiction isn’t usually the problem itself but rather an unhealthy coping mechanism for some deeper issue that the body/mind is trying to get relief from.

It can become an issue itself, as “addiction”, by definition, is a chemical dependency on an outside substance that ends up replacing natural bodily functions, which is why true addictions come with withdrawal symptoms.

So, the problem isn’t how much water but how much time?

Become lich, be immortal, problem solved.

Now it’s a race between you and the heat death of the universe or pissing off some God of the Sea for fucking up their backyard.

Take the cop approach

“We have investigated ourselves and have found no evidence of wrongdoing”

No but that’s the point.

Love what you do, enjoy it as you would a weekend, but, like the weekend, when you stop enjoying what you’re doing you stop and go do something else.

It’s all just time. Work and free time are just moments. We should be the ones in charge of how we spend them.

Obviously, there are caveats and nuances, such as mutual agreements about certain obligations to ensure necessary services are always available, but that gets into nitty gritty about work place authority structures and ownership over means of production and yada yada.

I completely forgot that doing all the bullshit for Reptile was just to fight him and get a 10 million score bonus for defeating him, not to actually play as him.

Back in my day, we unlocked characters by meeting a specific list of obscure criteria, which are only possible at random times, during gameplay that are only ever hinted at through a cryptic set of clues hidden throughout the game.

AoO requires a reaction. So only one is going to eat it but, meh, that’s why I have 13 of em.

5e rules – you don’t end your turn when attacking and can move through allied squares. Iirc it counts as “difficult terrain” for movement distance or that could have just been a homebrew things

So step into square, attack, step out and end turn.

Just finished Infernax

Amazing dark, medieval-fantasy, retro, action-platformer with some Metroidvania elements, very reminiscent of OG Castlevania, and some player choice elements that allow for multiple endings, of which there are 5: 2 basic good/evil, 2 completionist good/bad, and a “redemption” route. Even has old school secrets like special characters if you input the right name and cheat codes you can find. Putting in the Konami code at the title screen even has something special.

Default experience is a classic mode that is very unforgiving, must save at in-game stations (one at each town and every dungeon entrance) lose everything if you run out of lives and try again from the top or try to [exit the dungeon/make it back to town] to save your progress, no fast travel until you find the spell for it, all that jazz. Plus a casual mode that gives some leeway like pitfalls not being instant kills and a checkpoint in the dungeons you can save at.

Gameplay is just good old school gaming. You hit, you jump, you duck and hit low, you can find some utility spells, you talk to NPCs that have cryptic sometimes-useful-sometimes-not dialogue to figure out what to do next, all the bells and whistles.

Warning: it is very gore heavy and even though the artwork is more retro styled, it is still things like guts spilling out, faces getting crushed, limbs being ripped off, etc… So not for the squeamish.

I never said science can’t be bad, Again, your myopic take is so fucking simplistic and surface level. You even admit to intentionally ignoring systemic reality as if it is inconsequential, which is fucking stupidity at its finest. Like, congratulations for stating the obvious: you need people to perform labor for something to happen. No fucking shit, Sherlock. Now that we have the obvious out of the way, maybe ask yourself why they are performing that labor and what are the system forces that drive thar labor to he performed in the first place?

It isn’t about could the park be built, but would it have been built. The answer to that is no, it wouldn’t have been built in the first place if not for the driving forces of capitalism (represented by Hammond, the capitalist owner who had controlling authority over the park’s production) dictating the actions of those who actually labored in the production of the park. The park also couldn’t have been built without the engineers who constructed the subpar infrastructure or an IT tech to create and install the park’s faulty security system.

Those engineers built the park the way they did because Hammond didn’t want to pay extra for fail-safes as noted in the book (i.e. the capitalist owner was driven by the profit incentive to neglect material conditions of the park) And the IT systems failed because Hammond decided to neglect staff pay, specifically Nedry, in favor of chasing the capitalist profit incentive. This same logic applies to the scientists who only conducted the research they were conducting because they were hired by Hammond to specifically do so.

Again, please fucking learn to look beyond the surface and critically examine things. I know it’s difficult but you can do it if you actually try.

And yes, bad science is being spouted from the white house. Did you never stop to think why RFK Jr was put in that position of authority to spout his bullshit from? Did it never occur that some people would be set to benefit from the spreading of misinformation? It’s explicitly so they can manipulate people into being okay with dismantling government functions so the oligarchy can pocket the savings from not having to spend government money on welfare.

It is 100% capitalism’s fault. Those scientists are doing a job because we live in a society that necessitates having one to meet our basic needs.

We don’t know their individual lives or circumstances that could be forcing them to take on that position, but we do know that those circumstances only exist due to the overarching system, i.e. the capitalist economy, they live under.

Your take is grade-school level simplistic that just assumes they simply have to be bad people instead of understanding the complexities of systemic forces that dictate our society.

Please, for the love of God, learn to look beyond the surface of something and learn why things are the way they are instead of just assuming nonsense.

I am honestly shocked to see a reference in the wild to Ken Ashcorp.

None of it was because the scientists thought that dinosaurs were amphibians. In the lore of the books, DNA from reptiles, avians, and amphibians were used to fill in gaps in the dino DNA.

The book explains that the DNA used to fill those gap was chosen specifically for certain traits that would make for more attractive or durable creatures for the theme park, highlighting how what was being done “in the name of science” actually had nothing to do with any real scientific progress or discovery.

Sam Neill, the actor who did the scene, has been asked about the scene before and confirmed it is 100% unintentionally foreshadowing.

It was just supposed to confirm that Grant is in fact a Luddite who struggles with tech of all sorts.

It is bad science because there’s no reason to be doing the science at all

This just rounds itself back to capitalism being the problem because the science was being done for a reason: to generate profit for Hammond.

Bad science is usually always conducted to suit the ends of someone trying to use the results for manipulative/exploitative purposes.

Majority of people rarely engage with any media beyond the surface to actually analyze it and come to those conclusions about the deeper themes. Most just think “well, that’s just people being people” and fail to see the social commentary.