Just wanna point out that I chuckled a lot when I figured out you weren’t actually helping your friend clean his rugs.

If I’m very smart, I could just use my intelligence to make money and then get beauty surgery.

True, but that isn’t really very unique to the US

Ah I see!

So you’re essentially saying that instead of asking women to smile, I should also ask them to get their tits out for me to gawp at!

Thank you :)

To be serious, the sentiment behind Brexit is the exact kind of sentiment you see in US people/politics as well: right-wing propaganda, xenophobia, resistance against any kind of authority, nationalism.

UK is literally the parent of the US. Puritan culture flows through both. A national superiority complex (which you seem to be a slight victim to). Surveillance capitalism. Deregulation.

Yes, the issues in the UK aren’t as severe as in the US, they are more aligned with EU/socialist values, but that’s why I said it’s the “light” version of the US, didn’t say they are the same. But out of all European countries, the UK is definitely the most similar to the US by a large margin.

Edit: also, Brexit is basically the same as the thoughts of some Republican states like Texas seceding from the US.

For me, I came to terms with this by learning more about human nature and behavior and realizing that, in essence, we’re incredibly flawed beings with only a minimum of accidental rationality. That it’s absolutely not natural for us to “make sense” in a logical way, that truth doesn’t matter to us, that we are all incredibly selfish.

And that working against this nature to a “better” (in quotation marks on purpose, who really knows what’s better) state of mind and behavior requires massive amounts of dedication, conviction and constant effort, which most people simply don’t understand or can’t be bothered to do.

That humans/I have a natural desire within them/me to band together for survival purposes. This includes loyalty to family and feeling bad about being estranged to them.

That our emotions are just motivators making us do things that were/are useful for survival.

That we also have a great capacity for adaptation, which also helped us to survive.

And finally, to put it all together, that I can use my skills of adaptation to change my feelings about things after understanding them and deeming them not beneficial to me. So in other words, I use mindfulness techniques, my natural propensity for rationalizations, training/practice through repetition, my selfishness, etc, etc, to change my behavior/thoughts/feelings to a state I’d like to be in.

This is imo only possible with serious study of all these interactions and years of reprogramming yourself, which you have to decide how worth it is for you. In my opinion, it’s ultimately worth it for everyone, because I went from a state of deep unhappiness to a state of deep happiness/content, which is a massive quality of life improvement.

However, I also realize that because of all of this, I myself could just be talking bullshit and be just as or even more flawed than anyone else, so you can probably safely disregard any advice I give or things I say :D

Edit: oh yeah, and to give a superficial answer: fuck family/people, stupid people are not worth having around and making your life worse just because of some arbitrary tradition/feeling of loyalty/peer pressure. My dad is nowhere as bad as yours and I still don’t really care about interacting with him, and I like it that way.

post-brexit

True, doesn’t sound to me like anything the US would do xD

The main reason US can and could ever delude itself into being great is for having a ridiculous people-to-land/resources ratio. There is nothing inherently great about how the US does things, it just seems that way because you can do whatever you want if you have essentially infinite resources compared to everyone else.

The UK is just the “light” version of the US

What is it, othered or isolated? Can’t really be both, if you are othered, you’re inside society and interacting with it, if you’re isolated, you can’t be othered because you’re isolated and there’s no one there to “other” you.

That’s because it’s easier.

Most games do not even have official modding support, Minecraft included. Most are only moddable because they use some interpreted programming language somewhere in their game, which people found ways to read and inject with their own code.

If you wanted to adjust mods in-game you’d need to restart the game for changes to take effect

This completely depends on the game. There’s nothing inherently about mods that requires this.

Just to add semi-related, don’t worry about communities having little to no recent activity. I once posted in a community where the last post was 6 months ago and got relevant comments from 5 people anyway, giving me exactly what I wanted.