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Well, honestly, I think the wall you're encountering might be the one that guards the powers vested in those who enjoy authority.

So, to express awareness as a peer tampers with someone's will to power. Would that you place yourself at eye level with royalty, still choose to do so, knowing it be treason that criminals are broken upon the wheel for toying with?

This is an abyss with no bottom, you must almost half-realize. I mean, somewhere in all this, the true cost behind any doctor's bill (above and beyond funding their mortgage and BMW) is malpractice. Someone catches bell's palsy after a chiropractic procedure, and before it resolves itself, BMW doc's former college roommate gets professionally ruined by an ambulance chaser. Nevermind he was a chiropractor, not even a real doctor, and flunked out because organic chem.

This horror story fuels every bill for every surgery, and every insurance company is really just an endless phalanx of lawyers suing institutions as busy work, looking to extract every spare penny that didn't get blown on lost keys fobs for luxury sedans, as if it were spare time spent folding clothes at The Gap outlet.

If your herbal tea cured your rickets, how can anyone replace your knees with titanium hinges? You didn't even take the MCAT.

  anecdotal story with absolutely zero proof

If you lack real control over your device, "absolutely zero proof" is the new normal, and everything that gets zeroed out of RAM is rendered anecdotal thusly.

Well, the unfortunate aspect of HN's ranking system, is that downvotes aren't actually an expression of hate, or even reproach.

The reality is, that the motive for any given vote is that of a sort algorithm.

Which, you may recognize as:

  Object.sort(function(a, b){
    return (a - b);
  });

So, what people are really doing is moving things around, strictly with respect to the contents of the thread, as applicable to the conversation at hand.

So, even if you are on topic, within some threshold, if you are not the most relevant response, but you're pinned to the top by default, people with the option to move you downward will do so. This is purely a function of rearrangement, in the minds of the downvoters, not unlike moving icons around on the desktop.

But of course, for you, the icon in question, to be brushed aside like this, is most certainly an emotional event.

Alas.

Was this submission inspired by yesterday's comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972163

It sure feels like it. :)

I quit a six figure job, and that was a tough decision, but paycheck or no, I look back on what would have been, and this month of unemployment is miles, and miles, and miles happier than the same amount of time that would have been spent in service to a machine of cognitive dissonance, cowering at the feet of scrum master goons, boot-licking their rituals like a servile worm.

I spent a few weeks kicking myself, because I have to loot various sources of static savings accounts, to make ends meet, until they run dry, and I have no idea what happens after that.

But I dug up some old email chains, and they had some videos of the recorded planning sessions, retrospectives, dailies, and conference calls, and it all came flooding back. With every fiber of my being, I know for sure that quitting was the right thing to do. No matter what kind of hell I catch for it.

Die on your feet. Never serve on your knees.

Yup, I had to dig to find it. The "party" link didn't seem like the option I was looking for, until I saw the "private" option.

Also, I created a private party link, and figured out how to add an AI bot, after learning the controls.

The AI bot was still too strong, and beat me every time, so I need dumber bots, to have more fun up front. I sent the link to myself, and opened it up in multiple private windows, to learn the rules, against dummy sessions I created by invite.

But either way, maybe add a default practice button, that puts people in a private game, against a really weak AI, and you have your trainer option for new users.

I think a big, obvious training button sounds like a good idea. Especially for users that get killed in a competitive game with other people.

Update, I figured out the beach ball problem: Firefox on a Mac.

I switched over to Chrome, and even Safari, and it was better, so it seems like Webkit/Blink/V8 is the best browser scoped runtime, for some reason.

Can I please NOT have to play against other people?

Why does my super cool laser ball marble madness character move like a beach ball in a bath tub?

I can't even figure out what to do, or why I should care about laser balls and triangle ghosts, and they're just killing me before I figure out how cool my lasers are.