I really didn’t expect this comment section to make me actually want to try it…

That sounds familiar. I knew lots of folks whose motivation was highest at the start of college and then the grind started wearing on them by the end.

My lopsided experience was mostly due to undiagnosed ADHD. “Gifted” when young, distracted by girls and unknown ADHD as a teen, then finally diagnosed at 20 and my grades came back around.

Unfortunately as long as there’s a profit to be made, some corpos will always buy your favorite IP out and wear it like a skin suit.

Absolutely. My grades definitely dipped in high school but then were appropriately geeky again by college and through grad school.

The meme usually ends with them looking at you, the reader, then concluding “it must be 1 in 4” because you’re clearly not ugly.

Amazing. Some of my favorite experiences in the new ones have also been creative problem-solving, like rocketing open a hole in a wall to allow my snipers to see through, or trying to carry my injured/dead soldiers with the good loot to extraction when I have to cut my losses and run.

Sounds like I should just go ahead and play the old ones too. I started one up earlier this year, but it wasn’t clear what all the buttons did, and I didn’t have the focus to figure it out. I need to look up the manual or watch a video or something.

…I sadly didn’t know about the series until the new ones in 2012. I’ve played the hell out of them and do want to go back and play the DOS ones sometime.

It makes you go blind.

XCOM

Haha, I did. I still posted a few, but I was out of town with family for days and was barely on my phone.

Many campuses are like small, sprawling towns, with various buildings dedicated to different departments, dormitories, or common areas like libraries/cafes/etc. It’s like a self-contained ecosystem where you can just live there as a student and have everything you need.

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Dating too. You’ll never have a group of so many single people the same age as you again, and college selects for people with similar life experiences and goals.

If there was one piece of advice I could give to young adults in school, it would be to not be afraid to start thinking long-term. There are lots of adults who graduate and get stuck in the work/home/sleep cycle for years, then wish they had prioritized this before it got more difficult.

I don’t know if there’s data, but I’ve been posting to Lemmy enough to get a sort of feel for it. Weekdays are more active than weekends, and mornings (US time) are probably the peak of activity.

Don’t worry, you’ll forget about it soon.

This has to be the best case outcome, lol

Haha, I don’t think I believe that black could win!

I wonder what stockfish would say about this position

And I thought I had come up with a unique handle when I signed up for Lemmy… But I guess I shouldn’t underestimate Star Trek fans. They’re everywhere.

Also, damn! That Picard has been playing on chess.com since 2012! I only got into chess in the post-pandemic boom. I wish I had when I was a kid, but I didn’t appreciate the game like I do now.