It’s addictive, it’s marketed well, people are uninformed about how awful it is for them, and think prepping healthy meals is a lot harder than it is.

Had a very similar experience, even with game dev. You should honestly just avoid game dev jobs but yeah, right now it’s impossible to pivot out of game dev anyways. I wish I could say it gets better, and it will, but the game Dev job market will never be good. I graduated 4 years ago and still don’t have a job in the field. They want you to be working on personal projects while working 40+ hours a week, probably because they will be working you 60 hours a week, lmao. We picked the worse major, I wish I wasn’t scammed into serfdom at 19.

I apologize to one for just using her for sex, catch up with 3 others, just chat with the one I still talk to on and off… Genuinely sounds like it could be a pleasant evening. Might bust out a board game or something.

A good sandbox MMO that people actually play, and doesn’t have a high barrier of entry.

Frugal is a good character trait…

She just stopped talking to me after, a year. :/ I haven’t really bounced back from it.

As a movement/fandom/website gets bigger the more bad actors there will be within it. There’s also less consequences to ones reputation for being rude to others when a community gets larger because there are more people in the community you haven’t been rude to yet that you can still have positive interactions with.

I don’t think it’s something carried over specifically from reddit or its community but rather just what naturally happens (which also happened on reddit,) as communities get larger. They become more and more reflective of people at large, and right now people aren’t doing so hot.

Deflation discourages spending at all levels, because why spend right now when your cash will be worth more later? This kills any economy.