My parents, in their 70s, started receiving a guaranteed income supplement (they’re Canadian). They’re still poor, but finally they can afford the basics of survival without having to work full time.

It’s such a huge change.

I was going to say git butler, which wraps git, but actually looks like that’s gone open source

Curse you, I came in here so excited to make this comment

Reminds me of my poor N64 controller after renting Mario Party.

Haha as always, you do what you can

Bunch of ragged trousered philanthropists

How do you like it? I tried it a few years ago, but my vim muscular memory made it feel as uncomfortable as learning vim for the first time.

Just get used to

• using movement (hjkl),
• going between insert and normal modes (i and esc),
• undoing (u from normal mode),
• and saving (:w and :wq).

Don’t try to do it all at first, just get comfortable with the essentials. You can even just stay in insert mode (the only mode in most editors) at first.

Keep a vim basics cheat sheet handy for a couple weeks as you’re building in muscle memory, then slowly work in more advanced techniques and combinations.

It doesn’t take long before you start having a lot of fun just manipulating text.

PS here’s a decently basic cheat sheet I found:

Urghhh

Sounds like you’ve got a good handle on it. I would like to grow more stuff, but I can barely raise an anemic looking bushel of oregano. All brown thumbs, I’m afraid.

But does it got that cronch

I think this might be something you can reprogram. It wasn’t my intention, but I’ve been hitting the weekly market a lot more and as a result my tastes have veered naturally to fresh and vegan stuff.

I’ll still accept food with animal products on em if that’s all there is, but I recently discovered that I find meat and cheese kind of… gross? I used to eat like that every week, but now I look forward to my daily apple and like 3 o’clock chia seed pudding. It’s fucked.

I don’t know if I somehow caused this or if it’s just age, but I have been feeling pretty good.

E: sorry I just reread my comment in the context of yours and I apologise for being shitty. I think the point I was trying to make was that it’s like quitting smoking or something - at first feels like something real is missing, then later feels like a no brainer

Or after the “but” and before the “and”

Have any real people played it yet?

Oh that is a great and altogether unique suggestion, thanks!

Might be challenging to scare myself before going to the morning market, but maybe for evening hangouts

Is very likely both

Me

Has anyone managed to break out of this habit? I want to be more social, communal, but it seems to go against my natural proclivities

An excellent philosophical question, that we all ask ourselves at some point - why do we play?

I’ll answer your question with one of my own: what is productive labour for after all? To allow for more productive labour?

I could cite some evolutionary hypotheses about how we came to enjoy play and beauty for their own sake, but that doesn’t tell you what we ought to value.

For my own part I think thoughtfully maximising life’s pleasures is a good goal (though I would rank diminishing pain as higher priority).

We’d have fewer problems if they didn’t

I go back and forth. I like getting cozy and warm, but when it’s cold my skin feels uncomfortable, like it’s crawling or shrinking on me, like I put it on wrong. And my hands feel gross and cold and I rue having to touch myself with them in the bathroom.

But when I get warm enough it’s nice.