At their core, many video games are just a simulation of acquiring a skill, improving it, and getting meaningfully rewarded for improving at it

Our brains crave validation and the feeling of rewarded growth

Something in windows was causing it to be impossible to run docker containers with ease without needing to mess with some virtualization setting in some deep hidden windows settings paanel

Allowing jail time for movie piracy but none for institutional bank fraud or corporate tax dodging shows what a societies priorities are

Girls judge you harsher if they see that green bubble

Blue bubble discrimination is real

I wanted to have an easier time when talking to girls and honestly I think it helped a bit