earthdweller11

For what it’s worth, I recently watched Free Solo and I think you’d find it very interesting. It’s a documentary about a guy who loves climbing huge rock cliffs with no safety equipment. It’s a very dangerous sport.

During the movie he gets his brain scanned by some interested scientists and they find his amygdala is incredibly small. So basically, the conclusion is he has a really really hard time feeling fear, but the flip side is that means he also has a really hard time feeling the rush of excitement and thrill that comes with fear. Therefore, for him to feel any thrills in life he must do something very extreme and dangerous while the rest of us can get those thrills doing much safer activities, or we can often even get those thrills just watching others do things like in tv shows or movies.

It sounds like you are now very similar to him in the not feeling fear department.

Civ iv was my favourite game ever and first time I played civ. I clicked in to this AMA because I recognised sorens name. V was good too and less minutiae but somehow I started to get bored and stopped playing. I even bought vi but only played it a few times. I’m sad but I guess my interest in civ has passed. I’ll still try again with vii if it ever comes.

Did you pretend to be stupider to get on the show? I have a theory that wheel of fortune specifically tries to find mostly dumb but happy people to be on the show, and that every once in awhile those people who do really good on the show got on by pretending to be dumb during auditions.

I know it’s not as much fun if you’ve done solo, but you could still do tandem sky diving so someone will be there in case you do seizure in the air.

I thought the hex was a nice idea. It would've been interesting to see how hex worked in more of a civ iv style.