Major or minor, doesn’t matter. Just something you’ve been hoping for to happen for years and years, despite many promises and declarations made of that thing happening. Only for it to never happen at all.
Two things come of mind to me.
For America, we will never ever see an Independent take hold of the presidency. It hasn’t happened for over 170+ years and that’s a long damn time since the last time a person representing an independent party has ever held office. The only successes an independent party ever sees is smaller governments or some seats somewhere in the house or senate, that’s about it.
But every election cycle, people are hamming up about how it’s going to be the year for independents, until the primaries come and go and we’re back to falling on two parties. I’ve stopped getting my hopes up and I stopped hoping the moment Bernie Sanders, who originally did run as an independent for the presidential election in 2016, had to turn to running as a democrat because even he realized that was the only way he was going to get votes at all.
One other thing and it’s gaming related is that, there are still Nintendo fans out there hoping for a Mother 3 english release. It’s a game that was released in 2006 and it never left Japan since. Despite all of the re-releases of Mother and Earthbound, Mother 3 has not gotten a localization. It’s been released as a fan translation and I feel that’s the best we’re ever going to get.
It’s been 18 years since it’s original release and I think there’s no point in hoping now for Nintendo to release it. They’re too busy suing people.
I’ve lost hope that things will ever get better. This is it, this is all life has to offer. If you don’t like it, well, suck it up.
Immortality. The tech is going to be too far away. Maybe my grandchildren.
I had the same hope when I was younger. Later on I imagined the last star dying and the utter dread the immortals would have to face.
I think they meant the immortality where you can live as long as you want to, not the kind where you can’t die. I don’t think anyone wants that…
Me being independent and making a woman having an intimate relationship with me. I’m too weird, poor and incapable for that to happen.
Just to inject a little hope, plenty of weird, poor people have girlfriends. I don’t know anybody weirder than me, and my wife doesn’t mind.
You can’t ‘make’ someone have a relationship with you though. That’s illegal and reprehensible, but I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way
Who you attract depends on who you are. If you’re broken and weird, you’re going to attract broken and weird people.
And ideally, that’s not usually what someone wants if they want to be with someone.
You don’t have to be broken to be weird, it feels problematic to conflate the two.
But to take your point, I agree that you attract people based on the vibe that you’re putting out. If you don’t like who you’re attracting, then you can work on yourself and your vibe will improve too.
I don’t attract ANYTHING
I assume you’re a guy somewhere in their twenties.
Start going to the gym and lifting weights. I know it’s a cliché, but it’s the single most impactful thing you can do - not only for how others see you, but also for how you see yourself. It’s something everyone should be doing anyway, but it especially applies to people like you. Don’t do it for them, do it for yourself. I know how you feel, believe me - I used to be in your shoes.
It is cliché. Did that in my 20s for a while, serves to nothing. Also I’ve seen fatasses happily married and I’m not fat. I have less than 0 motivation at this point of my life, especially since I’m broke. I have other problems as well. A gym is another problem.
Sorry for your troubles. It seems like having an intimate relationship with a partner should probably be lower on your list. Hope you’re able to work towards a positive direction with your life in general…
It won’t happen.
I don’t believe in those things.
Well then you have my sympathies. That must be an exhausting way to live.
Sometimes I just don’t wanna live anymore
That’s a big mood. I honestly mean that. I don’t want to presume to know your situation, but from one human being to another I can tell you I’ve been there too. I low-key hope to get hit by a bus so I don’t have to put up with life anymore.
It’s a feeling that seems to come and go, and it can ratchet itself up to a feverish intensity. But every time I’ve been pushed to the brink so far, I’ve chosen life. When you stare death in the eye, you suddenly want to see one more sunrise.
If you’re having these thoughts with any kind of intensity or regularity, or you’ve started to put a plan together to end your life, then you owe it to yourself to attempt an intervention. Most people point to therapy, and if it’s available to you it’s worth a shot. And if therapy is unavailable or untenable, reading about psychology and non-pharmaceutical treatments for depression did wonders for my outlook.
The world is better with you in it. I’m rooting for you.
I’m sorry but people nobody will approach me
Especially with that attitude! It’s really unattractive.
The attitude isn’t a symptom. Is an ending.
There’s a modified Chinese proverb I like that goes something like this:
Watch your emotions, for they become your thoughts.
Watch your thoughts, for they become your words.
Watch your words, for they become your actions.
Watch your actions, for they become your habits.
Watch your habits, for they become your destiny.Basically the takeaway is that your emotions/attitude aren’t the end point, they’re the start point. The pattern in your comments keep reading of Self-Loathing. That emotion is forming itself into your thoughts and words. Anger management techniques are critical to controlling this metaphorical “curse” you’re under.
After 35 years on this earth I just CAN’T believe that. Since this is the way I am I bet I’m dying alone. I’m not trying writing that, I don’t believe is fate but just probabilities.
And that mindset is what keeps you from being successful.
Bullshit. Some people just have it worse, don’t try to decipher the life of an unknown
The year of Linux on desktop
Next year!!!
To it’s credit, Linux at least broke the glass ceiling of that 1% and managed to get 2%.
It’s something, took them almost like three some odd decades, but it’s something.
Just in time for the coming irrelevance of desktop computing, you might say.
Maybe, but look at the pinephone (also all linux users should be banned from ever naming anything, ever)
I want one. It has so many features I fucking love.
I’m way too computer stupid to make it work
It was never going to surpass Windows or MacOS, but it has been steadily growing in usage rate. I think now it’s at 5% of the market, largely off the back of Valve’s Steam Decks which may or may not count as desktop by your definition.
It’s just too technical to catch on for mainstream users, and that’s honestly fine. I think everyone would prefer Linux offer freedom instead of simplicity.
Linux has been on my desktop since the 1990s.
The days of having a good user interface for electronics or programs is long gone and is never coming back. To many people don’t even know how to look at a user interface and know if it’s good or bad. They just buy bad ones and claim it’s good out good enough.
That the US will never have net neutrality as a whole. A few states might implement it but no where near enough.
The final book of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Stopping Climate Change.
Elder Scrolls 6 being released in my lifetime
gestures broadly at all things
Humanity in general. People are jerks. Maybe Agent Smith was right all along.
Other than that… Half-Life 3 ever being made.
Alyx is HL3, wdym
Not when it requires VR, it’s not. I know there are patches to remove the requirement, but the game was designed with VR in mind.
Most people are nice.
I’m glad you feel that way. Keep it up as long as you can.
The bullies have won. Biff Tannen is about to get elected again, and there is hardly any empathy left.
Al of them, katie
that my health will improve enough to live anything resembling a normal life. the doctors already gave up a long time ago
Bernie Sanders, who originally did run as an independent for the presidential election in 2016, had to turn to running as a democrat
And then he stepped down to officially endorse Hellary. I often wonder how many family members did they threaten to murder if he didn’t step down and back her.
He endorsed her because there were a bunch of fools thinking “HUH?! A CLINTON RUNNING?! IS SHE…IS SHE GONNA BRING THINGS BACK TO THE 90S?! AND A WUMEN FOR PRESIDENT?! WE NEED TO MAKE HISTORUH!”
And look where that all got them. 4 years of misery. Stupid fucks. I want a woman president as any other but, I want a stronger candidate. Seems like it’ll be Harris and not some corporately-approved candidate that Clinton was.
That giving of yourself and being discerning, you could make sure to find balanced relationships.
People lie, to you and to themselves. Everyone wants to say they’re going to be their best person when times are tough. Reality can be quite different when the pain kicks in or dynamics change.
But at this point after countless emergencies while being the one to stand up in the end to carry the sisyphean boulders, the truth is people are going to stand back in a panic when shit hits the fan and I’m going to be the one to figure things out.
Best compromise I have settled on is surrounding myself with people who will help when I ask. It’s up to me to ask, plan, and keep all our heads above water, which is exausting, but they won’t blow me off.
It’s the best I have been able to find of the available optional combination of traits in people i find attractive. 🙃
There’s a really great video by Filmcow that explains how hope is a poison for the mind. I think we’re living in a pretty hopeless world, and trying to desperately cling to the pretense that things will change without action from ourselves is dangerous and naive. If there’s something about the world that you passionately want to change and you’re not working to correct it, you will only disappoint yourself by hoping someone else will change it for you. Give up hope and embrace action.
I’d like to point out that you have only talked about hope without personal action to support a statement about hope as a whole. A better term for that would be wishful thinking. While I agree that not acting while hoping for change is foolish, I believe acting on hope can drive a person to perform beyond what would normally be achievable.
If the world is truly hopeless, then why would anybody put any effort into saving it? It seems to me that at least some level of hope for a better world or life would be a prerequisite toward making that world or life a reality.
Prior to the 2016 election, I was hopeful that the freedom caucus and the rest of the far right was getting too crazy for the general public, and that its support would collapse leading to a bit of a normalization of politics.
Wishful thinking, in retrospect.
Who’d have thought the Tea Party would look relatively sane at this point?
Getting the job that I want in the field I dream of.
Enjoying a “career”. It seems once my financial survival is tied to something in it becomes an obligation instead of a novelty.
