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Note: if she is wearing headphones, do not engage. She wants to be left alone.

This should be common-sense, obviously not a good time to chat a stranger up, like being on the phone... I wear headphones myself while shopping as a guy and it's not to keep people away, but I'd definitely get annoyed if someone just started making small talk when I'm enjoying my music. I'm in my own world right now, go away.

What in the fuck?

Don't they also have to have some sort of guesswork like game dev netcode that assumes what the other client will do? Because the speed of light is definitely going to be a major factor at even the microsecond level. Light travels one foot per nanosecond. Picosecond? That must be an exaggeration, or hardware level computation, not networking. Because networking just won't happen in a picosecond. Two computers can't transmit data that fast to each other.

Any tips for other motorcyclists with less experience, such as staying safe and what you think the most dangerous things to watch out for are, things that might not be too obvious and talked about?

Are there any weather/road conditions you refuse to ride in? Do you ride in the rain, or would you hunker down and let it pass?

I guess I've been riding regularly for 2 years now but I'm still fighting anxiety of the freeway after a crash a year ago. I didn't notice some mud, took a spill, broke a bone but it got me more psychological than physically. Kinda fucks with me just thinking that there's one little thing I won't notice and I'll eat it on the freeway, but I love riding so I go often just not on the freeway much. Just every time I get on the freeway and feel wind whipping at me I just start thinking about how easy it would be to crash and start getting anxious and it just stresses me out. Really hoping to get over it soon because I want to go on road trips.

Even if it doesn't go well (I hope it does but still), don't let that be an excuse to never leave.

You don't need this success to make that huge change to your life. Getting back into the world is a success all on its own. Of course it would be great to have this to look back on as your successful thing to bring back out to the world, something to be proud of, but getting back into the world is a whole separate thing that you should treat as its own success and reward, independent of this. It's a different kind of struggle, and potentially a much bigger reward than a game with a high rating on steam and some financial reward.

It's great to have goals like this, but don't put artificial obstacles in front of your goal to leave. Whether you do well with this game or not, you can still leave. Whether the game does well or not, it's still a huge feat and something to be proud of. This is all an achievement still, no matter how many digital copies you sell. And even if you abandoned the game completely, you could still leave your place and rejoin society, and that'd still be something to be hugely proud of.

Life isn't easy, and there's no shame in having rough patches. Even people who seem like they've only had success stories probably are hiding a lot of really rough patches, times where they could have done a lot better, jobs they've screwed up, shitty choices they've made. We don't have to let that past define who we are today though, and we don't have to have an excuse for that stuff either. You don't need this game to give meaning to the past 10 years of your life, because you don't need an excuse for it. You don't have to make up for those 10 years either - they can just be what they are, and you lead a new life tomorrow.

Life is way too short to get hung up on our fuck ups. We can't dwell on our mistakes, only learn from them. I've fucked up a lot, years of being stupid. But I started from scratch, made an entire new group of friends from nobody, got a job where I'm respected, lost 100 pounds. People look at me like I'm a huge success, but except for my closest friends, they have no idea how fucked up I was in the past. To new people, we're a clean slate. You don't need to have 10 years in the past define the rest of your life.

Our economy is collapsing and people are going to lose homes, businesses, EVERYTHING.

I feel like there's been two levels of ignorance with this whole thing. The first are the people who refuse to believe this is worse than a mild strain of the flu and just go out and about and laugh about it. The others are the people that don't think this is going to be a big deal beyond people staying in for a couple more weeks, that don't realize the social and economic implications this is going to have, how many businesses will close, how many livelihoods that'll hurt, just how much humanity is going to feel this even after the virus is contained.

I'm very fortunate in that I have a job where I've been able to work from home and my livelihood is relatively stable (for now, we'll see), but what pisses me off are the others that are in the same boat and act like this isn't going to be a big deal because their own lives haven't been impacted much beyond suddenly working from home. It's definitely the minority, most people I know are extremely concerned, our meetings have turned into a coronavirus gloom chat now, but a few others I know have acted like the world is business as usual, just "working from home" now, and in a month or two it'll be like nothing happened... It won't be. But shit, at least those people are taking it seriously and staying inside.