Where at? I’m also in southern ab, but the trees around me seem to be fine.

I know two. One in my native tongue, and one in english.

Aha! Lucky me, since I am tall I don’t need the person next to me to wake me up, the attendants can simply bang the cart into my leg! (it hurts like a BITCH especially when you’re asleep.)

A couple of my favourites :

• Days Gone
• Metro Exodus (I would recommend you play the 2 previous games before to understand the story. They are linear, so if you do not like that, simply watch a playthrough of both of them. BUT. I highly recommend you play and experience the atmosphere of the first 2 games, just my opinion)
• Older Assassin’s creeds (BF, Unity, Creed, Brotherhood, etc)
• Witcher 3
• FFXV
• No Man’s Sky
• Need for Speed Unbound/Heat (which ever one is cheaper, I prefer unbound, but they are pretty similar.)

And, if you have a good computer that can emulate switch games, I would highly recommend BOTW and TOTK as you’ve mentioned in the post. The best open world games there are.

Guess I am missing out. Lemmy needs to add a spoiler feature lol.

You can edit titles on Lemmy.

“Hippopotomonstroses-quippedaliophobia” hahahaha. props to whoever made that.

This is horrible imo. I personally turned off NSFW since I don’t really care about missing out on gore or the likes.

I’m pretty similar to you. Not much interest in technology, I already do it so often during my day-to-day that any more turns me over my breaking point. The main communities I am subscribed to are either picture-related or food-related, hope you can find what you enjoy!

Switch emulation is actually pretty good now, so we have hope.

Free with ads. Removal of ads is a OTP of $20

I do go back to Reddit once in a while to use the communities that either aren’t here or are dead here. But yeah, way lower Reddit usage is a win in my books

Snatching this for the future 😘

If only lemmy.world would invest into something like stormwall, ddos-guard or nexuspipe. Cloudflare is complete dogshit against most modern ddos attacks (unfortunately).

I don’t watch it though, it’s simply recommended, as I mentioned in my comment.

Hey man, I’m not a professional at all, but maybe you should stay off social media for a bit (1-2 weeks) and just enjoy life without worrying about the climate, politics, news, etc. They heavily impacted my mental health, but once I took a good long break, started working out more, went on hikes on occasion, went outside and read in the nature, etc. You can also go and hang out with friends / partner more often (if you do not already live with them)

Social media itself is a constant negative loop (for better or for worse) and you need breaks sometimes. Hope you can get out of this hell hole, my friend.

Not really, it’s just becoming way more popular. I’ve seen (been recommended) 25+ videos all on the steam deck this month alone. There’s a shit ton more compatibility with games, custom OSs, etc, which also adds to the numbers. It’s literally the Nintendo switch, but 100x better + it can play switch games too.

It’s 100% fair of you to be suspicious of these crazy increases, but you have to keep in mind it’s literally the only good and affordable option in this type of gaming. Sure, you have Nintendo switch, but it has ass performance on a lot of 1st party games (TOTK 20fps in some areas…). The steam deck is also easily fixable (diy repairs such as a battery replacement) and easy to maintain. The switch, on the other hand, is almost like apple with their “right to repair” stuff, and you cannot upgrade the inner components (like ssd, battery, etc) - only by adding a micro SD card can the storage increase… To each their own.

2 things (one of which you mentioned)

• Lobbying
• Makes money for the government (taxes)

Lobbying in the tabacco industry is crazy strong, they have so much money that, much alike to the oil industry, they will keep selling their products no matter the risks.

There’s also the fact that the government makes money off the sales and imports of tobacco products. The revenue is strong enough to counter the money spent on healthcare, etc.

Yeah I kind of went crazy with it, but it solved my issues so - it is what it is lol. Josh’s youtube channel has a TON of meal prep recipes and snack recipes that I’m sure you’ll enjoy. Hope this helps.

I used to have this issue, but I solved it with meditation (sort of). This does sound extreme, but it worked for me - even though I was going to the gym every single weekday, I still felt like shit most of the time because of the junk food eating habit I had on the weekends (like you) and I decided enough was enough. Whenever I felt the urge to eat junkfood, I simply meditated. The first few weekends it was really fucking weird… in my mind I was thinking “I’m hungry, why am the fuck am I meditating…”, but after a while my desire to eat junkfood really just plummeted, aswell as an overall increase in energy allowing me to cook something better.

This was honestly really extreme and I do not know how I actually pulled it off without ‘relapsing’. It is not necessary, and I only recommend it if it’s a serious issue for you, which it was for me (and judging by your explanation, it is not a big issue).

Another method I used is what TMPM calls snack city (youtube video) where it’s healthy junkfood. So muffin bites, fries, chicken, etc, all pre-cooked on a single day, then stored in a freezer with easy heatups via a microwave, oven or airfryer, with low-calorie and high-protein focus.

tl;dr I meditated like crazy and stalled my junk food addiction. Easy way to replace junkfood is with ‘healthy’ junkfood -> video - easy and fast meal prep that will last you more than a day. Well worth it.