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F.E.A.R. has such good enemy AI. It's an amazing shooter.

Still, I've only ever played it once, because I'm a big wuss and scary is not my thing, I just can't do it again. Alma is fucking creepy and the entire atmosphere gives me nightmares.

But yeah, for anyone who enjoys shooters, F.E.A.R. is a great one.

Lubeegi!

There are plenty of people, myself included, who prefer to be corrected, because otherwise how will we learn? If nobody corrects us, we'll keep making the same stupid mistakes.

If someone doesn't want to be corrected, they are free to ignore it and to continue doing it wrong.

Disco Elysium is, without a doubt, the best written game I've ever played. That game had me experience the entire rainbow of emotions.

So now there's supposedly a second festival, of the same name, and am I getting this right, organized by the same dude who was already convicted? And Mexico is saying they have no knowledge of any such event?

I guess they bet on people being idiots - falling for it a second time - and it seems they were right.

Ah I guess that's another one for my to-watch-list!

I honestly had to look up what Fyre festvial is. Never heard of it, but

Fyre Festival was a fraudulent luxury music festival organized by American businessman Billy McFarland and American rapper Ja Rule. It was originally created to promote the company's Fyre app for booking music talent.

Sounds like a real loss, that.

All other idiocy aside, this number is just so fucking offensive. 10k, really? That's it?

Yup, I've had my Kobo for quite a while now and I still love it. The push buttons are great, as pointed out by another poster, but also.. I've just never had any issues with it. None whatsoever. I'm hoping this one will just never brick.

About a month after I got mine, I bought the exact same one for my husband and he says his is still working like a charm as well! Now to be fair, I had never owned any other e-readers so I can't really compare it to anything, but quality-wise I'd say they're really good.

To be fair, I'd be very happy if they were to waste all their time, money and effort on just renaming shit. I mean, go crazy, the sky is the limit, make up some ridiculous names for things.

At least then they wouldn't have time to actually do fucked-up shit.

This is such a weird mentality to me. You don't get compensated for waiting in line either. Would you really rather stand in line than do self-checkout? Even if it were faster? Doesn't everyone always say "time is money?" Then you'd be robbing yourself if you don't pick the fastest option.

Edit: I always pick the fastest option. The less time spent shopping, the better. But then, I've never really had bad experiences with self-checkout, so I'm sure I'm a bit biased.

That's funny. I've only ever known 2 of them personally and they have all of it. The whole damn package. Yeah, that wasn't fun.

Data show that, unlike normative, healthy self-esteem, which is associated with positive outcomes (5–7), narcissistic self-esteem is fragile, because it is highly contingent on achievement-related successes and feedback from the social environment (13–15). Narcissistic self-esteem is thus conceptualized as precariously elevated. When an individual with NPD is faced with an ego threat (e.g., real or imagined criticism, failure, or reduced social regard), unrealistically high self-expectations crumple into perceived inferiority (16, 17). Individuals with NPD are, therefore, hypersensitive to ego threats, and when threatened, they respond with efforts to reduce concomitant distress and upregulate self-esteem (17–19). These regulation strategies include some of NPD’s most recognizable and maladaptive behaviors. Classic “grandiose” responses include being aggressive or devaluing toward others (20, 21), fixating on grandiose fantasies (22), or engaging in self-serving bias (23). Classic “vulnerable” responses include alienating and isolating themselves (24) by avoiding situations that may threaten self-esteem (25), relentlessly criticizing themselves (26–28), or engaging in suicidal behaviors and fantasies (29, 30). This vacillation between overly inflated and deflated self-appraisals, alongside efforts to regulate this unstable sense of self through grandiosity, flawlessness, and/or avoidance, are described in both early psychoanalytic theories of narcissism (31), the contemporary Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders (8), and the personality disorder section of the ICD-11 (32–34). It is important to note that research is continually adding nuance to scientific perspectives on self-esteem in NPD (35). Various frameworks differently emphasize shifts between distinct states of grandiosity (i.e., elevated self-esteem, arrogance, and entitlement) and vulnerability (i.e., shame, insecurity, and neuroticism). Scholars are working to clarify whether and how grandiosity may function to conceal ever-present vulnerability and whether fragile self-esteem is a driving force or an outcome of this process (17, 18, 26, 36).

Source.

So. I guess it's not actually clear yet which one of us is right (whether it's ever-present or not).

All I can say is that in my (limited) experience they have extreme reactions to any sort of criticism, they take almost everything personal, and this just doesn't happen with people who are actually really self-confident. I know plenty of confident people and they can handle criticism just fine without throwing huge fucking temper tantrums. It came to a point where I was walking on eggshells trying to never say anything that could be interpreted as criticism, because their fragile ego couldn't handle it and they'd turn it around on me. Like.. trying to make themselves feel better by putting me down. Anyway, I'll stop dragging my personal issues in here, and just say: perhaps some day we'll have a definitive answer.

Edit: typo.