Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one, not today
Walking, and add a weighted vest or backpack. Start light, like 5lb/2.5kg for a week or two, then increase by that much a week until you get to 40% of your body weight in a few months.
I find that 30lb/15kg is a great place to stop though, much more feels pretty rough.
Then just walk around. You can listen to music, podcasts, nature, bird sounds.
Do that 45 a day and you’ll be significantly healthier in a few months.
I honestly am to the point that I wonder if all our automation is catching up with us and we need to collectively bargain for a 20 hour work week. Now we need twice as many skilled laborers because we’ve automated so many jobs.
Or an automation tax that’s paid back to every citizen as a dividend. If your company uses software or AI then it’s taxed more aggressively.
If we don’t do something in thirty years there just might not be hardly any jobs left.
That is so frustrating. That is outside my wheelhouse unfortunately, so I don’t have anything to give other than sympathy for the legitimate frustration that we have an economy that cannot seem to employ every talented, educated person. I don’t get it, it feels like we’ve reached like a moment where labor (even skilled labor) is lower in demand than ever before. A hundred years ago we could just walk up to a building project and start adding labor on day one, and knowing how to read and write meant an instant job as a clerk. But now we toil for decades to learn skills that just… suddenly aren’t needed? Sure, some folks win big in tech but that’s just as fleeting, I know a dozen out of work senior engineers. It’s a strange and baffling time to try to earn a living. Something has to give.
Ok you got me so hype I decided to do a little BP themed art for inktober
Dunno, I mean even this decorative part looks like it’s getting warped from the sag
You’ve got so much ahead of you! Lucky! I wish I could start over again where you are but wipe my memory.
Definitely keep grinding on the antechamber. You’ll figure it out, if you want some hints
Pay extra close attention to the weight room, secret garden, everything underground and outside, greenhouse, and the great hall.
Also try to find every combination item in the workshop.
Also check out every book you can in the library and pay extra close attention to them. Buy every book in the bookshop.
Lastly, the magnifying glass is by far the best item in the game, try it get it every single chance you can get. It’s extremely useful for learning secrets you need to progress
the game is extremely long, just do loops for the heck of them and you’ll start to put clues together. It’s not a few loops to figure out the antechamber, it’s A Lot.
also you have to write
“spoiler spoiler” after the :: like in the image or it doesn’t work
That building really looks like it’s about to drop a corner. The farthest out corner looks about 2’ lower than the rest of that floor!
oh also, spoilers in Lemmy are
Lol had to make it an image
What blows my mind about Blue Prince is when you’ve been playing for probably 20+ hours trying your hardest to get the objective and you finally beat the game…
and you realize that’s the tutorial
then you get to the main objective! you win!
you thought there couldn’t possibly be more to the game you’ve seen it all of course
… that was just level two…
I’ve never in my life had such a mindfuck realizing how much you can layer into the same game and keep it fresh.
You aren’t wrong though,
(I’m not even done level three yet)
this game so mind alteringly hard and random it makes the Myst series look like 3/10 difficulty.
And not unfair! I never feel cheated or like I ruined anything! There’s mistakes sure, but eh, you’ll get it next time. You never ever lose anything you can’t recover.
Plus the real unlocks are the things you learn. The systems.
It’s a lot like Balatro in that way. You play red or yellow deck and beat Ante 8 boss and yay you won the game! Wow that scaling mult joker really made it happen! Fast forward a few hundred games and you’re trying to beat Gold Stake Black Deck surfing the absolute razor edge of numerical possibilities like a damn mentat human computer. You never lose at Balatro, you just start the next loop and you get better.
… with the dropping of the coin …
shivers
one of the best scenes in any game I’ve played
Makes me think of the first time starting Darkest Dungeons, hearing the narrator with an exhausted and despondent voice on the verge of tears:
“ruin has come to our family”
What’s your graduate degree in?
I am obsessed with Blue Prince, myself and some friends have been playing together and it’s the coolest game I’ve ever played. Truly one of the best games of all time
The cool thing is life isn’t over, you CAN respecc, just ask my cousin who switched from janitor/ gamer to software engineer over a few years of night study at the age of 35
It really is the dream
I live in a tiny NE college town where that happens but for breakfast at a dive coffeeshop. It’s loud, packed, the food and coffee are meh, but every single day I can walk in there and see 5-10 locals eating breakfast and shooting the breeze. There’s cliques who always sit together, and social butterflies who pick a different group every morning. A bottomless mug of coffee is $3, so folks will just come and hang out from like 8-11am. It’s great fun.
There’s a brewery next door that’s often busy at night but generally it’s a quiet town so folks are home chilling after dinner.
This is amazing
We have the same horse!
To be fair a lot of college graduates learn very little.
Khan Academy is also free and amazing. It’s possible with free YouTube and KA to learn nearly any subject you desire.
Yuuup some really low taxes and also a lot of money gets turned into fighter jets and missiles which are of limited use in a structure fire. If they asked me I’d shave off a cheeky 5% of our defense budget and turn it into emergency response but they don’t ask
I can second these and add