Oh great! Just like East Palestine, Ohio. Just a little boo boo, no big deal!

No worries! I used the wrong “your” the other day, all good

I think the word you’re looking for is ruminate. The word comes from ruminant animals like cows, who partially digest fibrous plants, regurgitate them, and “chew cud”. Which is what we do when we regurgitate negative memories.

My tool, which works for me but i am not a mental health expert, is this:

When i find that I’ve entered a ruminant thought cycle, I’ll start asking these questions and working through it logically

• Does this memory have something beneficial to teach me in this moment?
• Can I learn any more from this memory?
• The moment is in the past, and I’m alive here and now
• I am the only one who still remembers
• This memory is no longer useful, I will think about something else
• I’ll think about something now, because I’m alive now

I’m sorry your psychologist was ineffective. A good one can be hard to find

I genuinely lol’d. Thank you

As with the lowest posts in this thread, this will not be popular, but I’ll say it anyway.

I’m not concerned. Not because I think everything is fine. It’s because it’s not been fine for a long long time. Now the curtain is being pulled back and everyone can see the reality that’s always been there. Privilege just means private law, and the president is the most privileged person in the US. As time moves forward the window dressing is removed and we can see reality for what it really is. It reminds me of This Vicious Cabaret:

But the backdrop’s peel and the sets give way and the cast gets eaten by the play / There’s a murderer at the Matinee, there are dead men in the aisles / And the patrons and actors too are uncertain if the show is through / And with side-long looks await their cue but the frozen mask just smiles.

Put me in the screenshot

Excuse me, but it’s pronounced GIF

So the throttle control is mapped correctly, and i didn’t have any other throttle related controls mapped to the joystick.

Granted it’s a cheap Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, but it works fine in Squadrons. When I check the mapping in the controller configuration it shows a nice gradual 0-100% throttle increase with no sudden changes as the throttle is increased. In-game the throttle jumps all over the place and arbitrarily lands on (usually) 0 or 100% throttle, seemingly at random.

In the words of Danny Glover

So i decided, since work finished early today, to see if an update fixes the controller.

First i get an Xbox games login requirement using my email, so i do that and get an error, and have to force the program closed via steam.

I try again and am greeted with the (expected) required update message

I’m now waiting for the fifteen GB update to download.

I’ll report back to let you know if my joystick works after this

E: yeah that took 20 minutes to download and another ten to install. Joystick throttle still doesn’t function correctly in flight, even though it maps correctly

I’ll check out Xplane. As i commented elsewhere, i just want to be able to sit down and fly for a bit. MSFS is amazing when it works, and is vexing the rest of the time

Dude I’m happy for you. I don’t play often, and when i do there’s always some giant update to slog through. As is typical for Microsoft, the updates are forced and at the most inconvenient time. My free time is rare and precious.

The last time i tried to play my joystick was borked in MSFS, but worked fine in Squadrons. I haven’t tried to play since

Yes the updates have a point, but the forced nature and size of them isn’t convenient and feels arbitrary. Likely others feel the same way I do

What I want is a game I can sit down and play on the rare occasions where I have a couple free hours. MSFS isn’t that game. I wish it was, because when i can play it, it’s amazing

Oh wow, I can’t wait to spend a shitload of money on it, only to wait two hours for it to update every time I want to play it. The best part is when one of those pointless updates breaks my joystick and makes the have game (goddammit gboard) unplayable.

I love that

I’ve found Grayjay helps me hate YouTube less

Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown Lemmy

I’ll take both

Why are we getting weird and territorial about cheese and pasta?

That could be Mama. Nests are not the safest place for fledglings, so mom or dad will push them out of the nest, but they are not abandoned. (Predators can find a nest easier than an able-bodied fledgling).

I once rescued a baby chickadee from a neighborhood cat that was stalking it. The parents were going nuts in the tree above, so i set the little bugger in a yew bush and took the cat away and gave it treats. Everyone was happy that day

I’m Sam Reich and I’ve been here the whole time!

Right. Good ma-, er, dwarf

Cheery! Stop playing with your lipstick and go down to Cable Street. Igor’s potatoes have escaped again and Washpot can’t find Fred and Nobby.