I know ya’ll are gay, so some of this may not apply depending on who he is due to how society and culture composes him, but applies to men in general.

Two options, you may need to alternate between them.

1: Give him space to self-isolate, which is fine for a short period. Don’t go zero contact and wait for him to make contact. Touch base at least once a day and don’t take it personally if he doesn’t respond, sometimes even a short sterile response is too much to handle even thought he feels that he is letting you down and being a bad boyfriend in doing what he must in his state.

2: Keep spending time with him and being physically close to him if he can handle it. If you can handle him falling part in your arms, then get him to talk about what may be bothering him, but accept that depression doesn’t always stem from a definable cause and not having a root cause makes depression harder to deal with. He will likely resist you being with him, just keep trying as much as he can tolerate. You should try to hold him and comfort him, bring him food he likes, and if all you are doing is holding him in a dark room, that can mean a lot.

If he can dump problems that are contributing to his state, try to see how you may be able to help him manage his problems. Sometimes being overwhelmed with problems can inspire depression due to feeling helpless and weak. Even just breaking things down into what something can be done about and what nothing can be done about, and then working together on making a plan of simple steps to manage the workable problems can help. Don’t focus on the things that nothing can be done about, focus on the solvable issues.

When men are depressed, there is a feeling of weakness or being pathetic, because men are not allowed to have the weakness of depression. Struggling to “be a man” about issues feels like a personal failure and is emasculating and shameful. When you feel that way, it is normal for a guy to want to self-isolate to hide the shame, guilt, and weakness they feel. Pushing too much can cause lashing out because the pain and frustration is easier to convert to anger than to grapple with.

Make sure he knows that you are there for him if he needs you.

Therapy might be a sound suggestion because you are unequipped to help him long-term.

Sometimes it may be wise to take a break from the relationship so he can sort himself out, but that is a bit of a gamble because his feelings may get compounded by feeling abandonment and a greater loneliness, so if it gets to that, make sure he knows he can reach out at anytime and maybe reach out to him once a week to check in.

Realistically, you could experience all the game content in like 200 hours. Even faster if you know higher level players that can help you, which a lot of higher level players will help you. That is a lot of content without the limitations that purposefully slow progression down like you see in MMOs. Keep in mind that you don’t need the game subscription to play the game and don’t need to spend any money in the game to play and get the endgame content.

It isn’t until you are trying to grind out getting certain things that your playtime skyrockets, but that is true with a real MMO.

On the subject of the community and players helping players, the community is pretty great. I have dragged lower level players through the hardest part of the game and taken them from level 20(you can start the game at level 1 or 20) to over level 100(there is no max level) in an afternoon with no detriment to my enjoyment. I have given newer players thousands of scrap, hundreds of legendary mods, and hundreds of thousands of caps worth of item plans that you can on get with RNG grinds.

I am not exceptional, I am pretty typical for the high level players. Since we have “nothing left” to do in the game and understand the meta, pretty much everything has lost value. We will buy overpriced stuff for sale in player vendors just because we want to get rid of caps and it takes us minutes to go from 1k caps to the 40k cap limit due to the value of the “crap” we have in our stash. Some players can’t hit the cap limit in hundreds of hours of play. It could take you hours to get enough material to make 2k of ammo(that you can burn through in an hour) and we will give you 10k of that ammo or enough materials to make 10k and not even notice the loss because we know how to net gain ammo.

Compared to gacha games and actual MMOs, FO76 is far better in terms of cost in terms of time and money, also the community is very helpful to new players.

That makes zero business sense. Bethesda would never make money on throwing away thousands or tens of thousands of man-hours on that. They would spend more on a remaster, but they would make money in the end.

The Oblivion remaster sold more in two weeks than Oblivion made in a year. It sold more copies in April alone than the original did in 15 months.

Inflation isn’t caused by corpos increasing prices. Increasing prices are the result of inflation, in a sane economy.

Inflation is a result of federal monetary policy and fractional reserve currency, and to a degree due to economic conditions outside of control plus government intervention. An example is certain subsidies taking up demand shortfalls and the supply not adjusting to market conditions fast enough.

COL increases without inflationary factors are price gouging corpos, like the idiosyncratic rise in rent and house prices.

If you want to see some wild inflation, magic wand away illegal immigrants and the economy crashes hard as prices go through the roof and sectors of the economy fail, plus side is housing prices also crash… So that’s nice?

An aggressive progressive tax on high income “earners” and corporate profits without inane tax avoidance schemes would lower inflation, but you have to balance and phase it in so inflation isn’t negative for too long or bad stuff happens with loans and bonds.

Those graphics are ass compared to what could be done today. Just look in the leap from Oblivion to the remaster. Morrowind making a jump in graphics would be monumental.

Your points are correct, but inflation is the main cause and S&D is a small contributing factor.

Price of beef in 1950 for ground was $0.35-0.50 Price of ground beef today is $5.60-7.69

Inflation: $1 in 1950 is around $13.68 today.

$1 got you 2-2.85lbs of ground beef in 1950, $13.68 gets you 1.77-2.44lbs of ground beef today. The .23-.56lbs($1.288-4.03) difference comes from the supply issues you raised along with foreign exports that only tariffs or trade embargos would curb. As per 2022 figures, the US exports 1.29 million tonne of beef, imports 1.86 million tonne and consumes around 12 million tonne. That 0.57m tonne E/I difference is where the S ain’t meeting the D.

If you wanted to nitpick honestly, you would say what is actually going on and the data it is trained on is from the internet and they were discouraging it from being offensive. The internet is a pretty offensive place when people don’t have to censor themselves and speak without inhibitions, like on 4chan or Twitter comments.

Grok losing the guardrails means it will be distilled internet speech deprived of decency and empathy.

DeepSeek, now that is a filtered LLM.

Scout Master Kevin and Uncle Dave.

The missing minute has been leaked. (Satire)

I honestly find it hard to believe that there is a meaningful difference in lifestyle if you make over $10m a year vs over $100m. So you can afford a bigger boat faster? Save and seethe on your new money dingy.

I fully support a unavoidable progressive tax that taxes every dollar above $10m in a year at 100% and nobody that hits that will suffer or be less motivated in the slightest.

Morrowind remake should have come before Oblivion. I deeply wish to experience Morrowind again with updated graphics.

I suspect that it is considerably harder to do because of the engine and requires nearly a full remake.

With the release of the TV show, the daily player logins are around 400k with 30k-50k concurrent across all platforms. I suspect a decent number of those are logging in for a half hour or less just to do daily or weekly challenges.

I have put about 2,700 hours into FO76, a decent amount was AFK to farm events. I have all the best gear and all of the items available in the game that you don’t buy from the shop with an abstraction of real money. I have fully beaten the game until the brahmin was pulp and has become one with the wasteland again, and then I began to dig a deep hole.

Last paragraph is the TL;DR.

It is now a Fallout game with a weak story and other people that may or may not be annoying, and the optional PvP is basically first attacker wins unless you are specifically built for PvP. You don’t need to interact with other players and can still put a few hundred hours into the game just playing story stuff. On release, it was a glitchy shit show filled with griefers and no NPCs.

It has bugs and glitches that aren’t a problem most of the time unless you really want to grind one activity. Sometimes random glitches, crashes, etc. happen more frequently than is understandable, especially after a content release. I swear they don’t actually play test updates and depend on the players to report things.

The building is kneecapped by a budget constraint that keeps you from taking advantage of the build area. In personal cells called “vaults”, the budget may be exceeded without the budget bar being filled. Most of the build items are in the store shop or are only obtainable during limited time events that you need to RNG grind to get or buy from another player that likely doesn’t know the fair market value. Items available in the store shop cycle randomly, so you may not see an item you want for a year or more. Holiday themed items often show up in the store after the holiday has passed.

More on the subject of arbitrary budgets, you only have storage for 1200 units of weight off your character. That is, unless you have a FO76 subscription which gives you 2 unlimited storage boxes for scrap materials and ammo, soon another one will be added for chems and healing stuff. That isn’t a problem if you don’t collect weapons, plans, and armor. It is a problem if you do because you won’t be able to keep tons of ammo or stims in storage. I traded uncommon and rare plans for caps because that is the fastest and easiest way to get caps, I had around 700 weight units of plans between two characters(each plan has a weight of 0.25). If you want to keep legendary weapon effects just to have or for selling, they each weight 1 unit. The player joke is that FO76 is an inventory management game with an open world action RPG mini-game, which is true for experienced players.

Some of it is a tedious grind to get some of the best armor, like hundreds of runs of a 5 minute activity to get enough of a specific currency or dozens to hundreds of runs of a Raid that requires you have a team of 4 and good gear+build that takes about a half hour but can take over an hour(or be impossible to complete) with inexperienced players at lower levels.

There are 8 different in-game currencies that you can’t buy, not including the game store currency. There is no way to exchange currencies except for 3 that are one-way and one of those currencies can only be used to buy another currency. Treasury Notes > Gold Bullion, Caps > Gold Bullion.

One of the currencies is only for seasonal content(4 seasons a year) that requires you to do daily and weekly challenges, that currency does not roll over into the next season and some seasonal rewards require a FO76 subscription. The seasonal currency you can technically buy through buying season ranks, a full season cost about $120 if you don’t want to bother with challenges. The daily challenges take a experienced player 10-15 mins to complete, the weeklies take 30-45 mins. The FO76 subscription is really nice for QOL, but I put around 500 hours into the game without one.

The events are mostly under 5 minutes long and aren’t fun after like the 6th time.

The big content updates are once a year with smaller content additions between. For instance, they just added fishing and before that they added the ability to become a ghoul. The last big update was in December when they added a 5 stage Raid and the next big one is at the end of the year which is going to be a big map expansion.

If you are a Fallout fan, Fallout 76 is a Fallout game that is fun enough to play for the quests(60% of Fallout humor compared to FO4) and free content, but it is not a Fallout live service game that will be enjoyable for most Fallout fans for as many hours that you can put into the singleplayer games and you will “miss out” on a lot of items if you aren’t down for the grind or have cash to burn.

I’d say leave him because he doesn’t know what he wants and it seems you are just convenient to keep around.

If you was a nail in the coffin, after he says he loves you ask him why? If he questions it, just tell him that you want him to put it in words why he loves you. No answer or a weak superficial answer means he is just saying words when he says he loves you. If he can articulate and give you all sorts of reasons that are specific to you, then he does have A love of you but may not actually be in love with you.

Usually on paper, a few times in sand, and more than a few times in the snow.

I think the distortion field sort of addresses that.

The machine would be hidden within the field and invisible and intangible. That of course presents the problem of ending up in a wall and also would likely mean that you would end up in the air if the ground erodes or in the ground if sediment is deposited.

The alternative is either there is a mysterious bubble that becomes a scientific curiosity or there is the machine with someone frozen inside it that is destroyed by people being people. Both have their own fun little narratives to explore.

That is all based on the assumption that the machine travels forward in time through localized dilation instead of folding spacetime, which would mean it has two methods to travel depending on it going forwards or backwards in time.

I have no idea why Tesla thought that the Cybertruck would sell well enough to justify the production numbers.

They should have did the Roadster first instead and then the Cybertruck, both run in 5k lots to meet orders. Making such niche vehicles like it was going to be bought up like an F150 or a Civic is just dumb.

Luigi used a Glock pattern gun and Winchester had a supposedly haunted house.

There is a premise there.

Also Glock sells horse cum. Not sure if that can be tied in, I just want more people to know that they sell guns and horse cum.

I don’t even know if America has passenger trains with car carrying. I believe that is a thing in Europe and maybe Asia.

You will see stuff in a car, especially out west. Seeing things doesn’t really have relevance unless we are talking hundreds of miles per hour. A bike is slower than a car.

As convenience goes, we are talking about using a bike, not going on a train.

As far as comfort goes, a car is more comfortable than a bike. If you disagree, you only know economy cars.

Your income is taxed in payroll taxes, income taxes(federal and sometimes state), and then you are taxed for buying things. That is bullshit.

Personal income shouldn’t be taxed unless you make substantially more than the cost of living. Anything over $10m should be taxed at 100% including capital gains and stock awards. If you need more motivation to succeed than $10m a year, you are a lazy parasite.

Where they need to actually tax is businesses. Tax the businesses based on profit and remove the loopholes that allow for tax avoidance abuse schemes that result in a state single digit tax percentage of profits. I would even go so far as to say that the federal taxes on businesses should only apply in interstate and international businesses and only states should be allowed to tax businesses that operate exclusively within the state’s borders.

The effects of that tax plan have obvious consequences and they are all beneficial to the people.