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Ａｓ　ｔｏ　ｖｉｄｅｏ　ｇａｍｅ，　　Ｉ　ｄｏｎ＇ｔ　ｆａｖｏｒ　ｖｉｏｌｅｎｔ　ｏｎｅｓ，　ｌｅａｓｔ　ｏｆ　ａｌｌ，　ｌｉｖｅ　ａｃｔｉｏｎ　－　ｔｈｅ　ｏｎｅｓ　ｗｈｅｒｅ　ｔｈｅ　ｐｌａｙｅｒ　ａｓｓｕｍｅｓ　ａ　ｐｅｒｓｏｎｉｆｉｅｄ　ｃｈａｒａｃｔｅｒ．

Ｉ　ｓｔｉｌｌ　ｍｕｌｌ　ｏｖｅｒ　ｇａｍｅｓ　（ｓｏｍｅ　ａｒｅ　２４／７　ｒｏｌｅ－ｐｌａｙｉｎｇ　ｇａｍｅｓ）．

Ｉａｍ　ｓｔｉｌｌ　ｕｎｄｅｃｉｄｅｄ　ａｂｏｕｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｈａｒｍ　ｓｕｃｈ　ｇａｍｅｓ，　　ｃａｕｓｅ．
　　Ｉ　ｂｅｌｉｅｖｅ　ｔｈｅｒｅ　ｉｓ　ａｎ　ｉｎｔｉｍａｔｅ　ｒｅｌａｔｉｏｎｓｈｉｐ　ｂｅｔｗｅｅｎ　ｓｕｃｈ　ｇａｍｅｓ　ａｎｄ　ｍｏｄｅｒｎ　ｗｅａｐｏｎｒｙ　ｓｕｃｈ　ａｓｄｒｏｎｅｓ　．

Ｉ　ｃａｎ＇ｔ　ｈｅｌｐ　ｂｅｌｉｅｖｉｎｇ　ｓｕｃｈ　＂ｇａｍｅ＂　ｖｉｏｌｅｎｃｅ　ｈａｓ　ａ　ｃａｕｓａｌ　ｒｅｌａｔｉｏｎｓｈｉｐ
ａｎｄ　ｒｅｍｏｔｅｓｃｒｅｅｎ　ｗｅａｐｏｎｒｙ　ｗｈｉｃｈ　
ｅｎｃｏｕｒａｇｅｓ　ｌｉｖｅ　＂ｐｌａｙｅｒｓ＂ｔｏ　
ｄｉｓｔａｎｃｅ　ｔｈｅｍｓｅｌｖｅｓ　ｆｒｏｍ　ｒｅａｌ　
Ｗａｒ．

Ｔｈａｔ　ｓｕｃｈ　ｇａｍｅｓ　ｄｅｆｉｎｉｔｅｌｙ　ｅｎｃｏｕｒａｇｅｓ　ｄｅａｄｅｎｉｎｇ　ｏｆ　ｅｍｐａｔｈｙ．

Ａｌｓｏ，ｔｈａｔ　ｓｕｃｈ　
ｇａｍｅｓ　ｅｎｃｏｕｒａｇｅ　ｂｏｔｈ　ｓｅｘｕａｌ　ａｎｄ　
ｃｏｒｐｏｒｅａｌ　ｖｉｏｌｅｎｃｅ．

Ｓｏｒｒｙ　ｋｅｙｂｏａｒｄ　ｓｔｉｌｌ　ｗｏｎｋｙ．

Ｉａｄｍｉｔ　ｔｈａｔ　ｒｅｓｅａｒｃｈ　ｄｏｅｓｎ＇ｔ　＂ｒｏｂｕｓｔｌｙ＂　ｓｕｐｐｏｒｔ　ｓｕｃｈ　ｃａｕｓｅ　ａｎｄ　
ｅｆｆｅｃｔ　　ｒｅｓｕｌｔｓ，　ｂｕｔ　Ｉ　ｓｔｉｌｌ　ｒｅｇａｒｄ　ｓｕｃｈ　＂ｌｉｖｅ＂　ｇａｍｅｓ　ａｓ　ｄａｎｇｅｒｏｕｓ，　ａｌｌ　ｔｈｅ　ｍｏｒｅ　ｗｈｅｎ　ａｍｐｌｉｆｉｅｄ　ｂｙ　ＡＩ．

Just missed this dreadful news, wtg, and am so very sorry to hear of it. Sending deepest concern and care for healing. I'm glad at least it seems that change is in the positive direction.

Wishes for strength and faith for wtg as you weather this major storm of life.

Sending you the powerful MiShebeirach Jewish prayer for healing (it's not just for Jews).

Debbie Friedman, who is singing and accompanying the famous prayer, also wrote it, performs it here while suffering from cancer.

It had already become a classic of Jewish liturgy in all branches of Judaism even though traditionally women are forbidden to sing before men.

Link to video

https://www.dorsheitzedek.org/misheberach-lyrics

Did he HAVE to deliver it on April 1?

I couldn't have listened myself as it was the first night of Passover.

Weird timing....

Well, SOMEBODY's working on the idea of "rigging"...

Wrath

@jon-nyc except for that trifling lung ailment, you have enviable genes - the metabolic gift you just mentioned and (even more desirable IMO) somehow only getting by on about half the average sleep the rest of us poor slobs need.

(And I'm the opposite - need at least ten hours sleep )

Hooray, and hurry!
"They" say you have to keep moving if so, but I don't see how when they are that painful.

Having aspiration and cortisone but I'm still incapacitated.

What's more my foot, and hip are going too - all on the left side. I'm sure much of it is because of complications from my major spinal fusion. Center of gravity has gone kablooey.

As a kid, I used to love candy lipsticks - tasty and a way to feel grown-up (they colored your lips pinkish).

Hooray!
Thank you all who worked on this.

I bought a butternut squash for the first time just to make this recipe and this excerpt from the instructions has me stymied:

"1 large butternut squash (about 3 pounds), halved vertically* and seeds removed"

This baby is not only heavy and solid, but I absolutely can't imagine how the vertical halving is supposed to take place without a machete somehow held in place (large vise?) and halving part of a hand all the same.

Having recently read that many (most?) ER visits are precipitated by trying to halve avocados (I myself had to go to urgent care not long ago thanks to a deepish cut from inept use of a sharp kitchen knife), I do NOT want to repeat the experience - only much more seriously! (Cleaver?)

Someone please tell me the secret is to bake the squash in the oven first! Carving pumpkins is daring enough!

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@jon-nyc
Well, don't forget, just because he goes to that restaurant daily, it doesn't mean he doesn't eat anything else!

Reminds me of something I read about Japan. Elderly people there who live alone, sometimes make arrangements with their neighbors to signal to each other whether they are alive (or just need to be checked on).

They signal others whether they need assistance by whether or not they leave their shades up or down. I forget which meant what, but the arrangement is that they check on each other by the position of their shades.

Apparently, there are a sad number of such solitary elders whose bodies are found post mortem (often by the smell). Needless to say, they don't want that to be their undignified fate so they have made that working arrangement.

There are a great number of people living alone (often in advanced years and perhaps especially in Japan where families are small - frequently childless, and longevity also common). Thus such strategies are an ingenious precaution for self-protection.

For that matter, I read in the NYTimes that it's all too frequent that deceased people are found in the same fashion by the police - sometimes with no clear contact information. (It's a nightmare situation all too easy to imagine with the passage of time. )

It seems to me an elderly celebrity with dementia and Parkinsonism, looked after by his younger wife, was fairly recently found days after he died when his wife herself predeceased him. She had succumbed to some rare disease carried by rodents - her dog having died too. Without her care, her husband himself passed away. (Anyone remember their names?)

One of my neighbors down the street, whose children were supposed to look after her (but didn't), fell, breaking her hip. She wasn't found for days, unable to get up or contact emergency services. It was a terrible experience.

I only heard of it from her when I visited her during a blizzard checking on her and offering to buy her food or other necessities. (I nearly froze to death wading through deep snow to her house, leaving small children at home alone while I trudged to her house!). Not sure how I had even become aware of her situation. I found her bed-bound, bad leg elevated, fridge full of rotten food.

Her story ended happily - as far as such things go - A third daughter living far away took her mother to live with her until her death.

The negligent children, however, had treated her with shocking cruelty for as long as they lived in the same town. I only learned of it during my chance visit.

It was a completely unworkable arrangement the family had worked out for her - to deposit their elderly mother in a house alone in a place where she knew no one (relying on those selfish and uncaring children who treated her abominably. Sad story for as long as it lasted.)

@jon-nyc
Well, don't forget, just because he goes to that restaurant daily, it doesn't mean he doesn't eat anything else!

How could they not know who you are if you have to provide your address for delivery and ID yourself to pay for it via whatever payment you use? (Might they base their charges by zipcode?)