Because I'm concerned about Skynet. Also miserable weather is raining down on the Man U hype. You win some you lose some.
Hi, if you felt like there's someone out there for you but they just haven't searched hard enough to find you yet, then I would like to say ... I'm trying man. It's hard out there on the dating apps. Feels like a savanna, I'm the zebra carcass after a lioness had her way with me and left me to slowly die in the boiling London heat. Global warming is definitely kicking in. Also yes I just got out of a relationship that I thought was going to last but sadly it didn't. So here I am, trying.
Yeah, about me, I'm 32 from South London, brown eyes, used to have curly black hair but cut it off for a change. South asian representing, sometimes I do sound like a roadman but I swear down man's chill. Recently started a career change so I am working on myself to be an upgraded, polished me. I'm not sure if I'm classed as short, I'm 5 ft 8 and can kiss the forehead of most average women. I don't mind slightly taller woman, just that average is comforting.
I do the usual stuff like films, shows, anime, enjoying pain. Branching off to audiobooks, just started Silmarillion which is narrated by Andy Serkis. Apparently some bloke named Melkor is throwing a hissy fit. When I'm not relaxing, I'm stressing, about how to make Python to work. Huge fan of Pokemon btw, favourite being Gengar. Just finished Solo Leveling and Shogun. Also last night I finally got around to watching Scream 5, really enjoyed it. You might have sensed a pattern, I'm not much of a social creature. Not that I can't hold a convo but I'm more ears than mouth. This is the way.
Happy to chat over reddit if you find me interesting. Prefer if you are around London or atleast in the UK. Down to hang if we vibe. Mostly looking to start off casual then move towards something serious. Don't be afraid to talk about anything you want to talk about, like I said I do enjoy listening/reading what others have to say. If I don't respond it's because I finally went out to face the rain and getting my daily steps in.

I had to go out in the afternoon for some work, and realized how scalding hot the outdoors are. On one side I'm thankful that my white collar work allows me to sit in AC, OTOH, I felt like I was contributing to it.

1. For every 100MJ of cooling done inside, ~130-150MJ (or more for inefficient ACs) of heating is done to the outside. Now if people in offices raised the temperatures of the AC thermostat, they'd be able to reduce this impact substantially.
   
2. In large companies, the thermostat is often set really low, perhaps because the people in power wear suits, (when the ambient temperature in places like Delhi/Gurgaon is over 40 deg C), and then they set the temperatures to like under 20C.
   
3. This is in addition to the fact that glass walled buildings in a weather like ours are a horrible idea, which further increases cooling costs. The glass they use is supposedly UV reflective, but it doesn't feel like the insides are any cooler (anecdotal, a neighbouring building is under construction, and doesn't have working AC, and the temperatures there are scalding as well, much higher than if they'd be made of cement).
   

Clearly office architecture / air conditioning contributes towards local warming (slightly towards global warming as well). We should at least try to pluck the low hanging fruit here.
Solutions?
Now I'm not sure if there are easy ways to change building architecture, but at least increasing the indoor thermostat temperatures should be incentivized. A key idea to do the same would be to relax clothing norms, or at least look down upon companies that push top executives into wearing suits in such weather as well.
Today we are insulated from this weather, but we may not be tomorrow, and in either case, we can try to do our little bit to help others.
What do you folks think? Any other ideas?
PS: wouldn't this huge electricity consumption add towards our power cuts, which have been rampant in the NCR lately. (It wasn't a problem in Mumbai last year.)

So, recently i watched a video where a guy would talk about some stuff on reddit, like some stories on how some creepy things were said on here.
Though one story struck me to my core since i felt related to that post.
The post was about a man wanting to understand psychological effects on the human thought process or whatever it was. And i think he linked something to where you could talk about your experience.
It's not really the post itself that i related to but one of the answers. So i will try to talk about what i felt related to and i want answers on what it might be.
So, to start, i'm 16 years old, i haven't really been in top shape but i was "healthy" from the beginning to now. I have had multiple depression episodes in my pre-teen/teen era that made me over eat and do nothing of my life, which is why i'm a little chubby. Other than that, i have nothing in my body that signals that i might die of a tumor or cancer.
Mentally though, i have some history. Like i said previously, i've had depression episodes and during those i got diagnosed with depression and anxiety. 2-ish years ago i was diagnosed with autism and months ago my psychiatrist told me i had borderline personality traits. In my family (my dad's side) i have an uncle that is paranoid schizophrenic and there's a huge amount of cases of anxiety in my mother's side.
So, with those informations, let's start with how i feel sh'all we.
I never truly felt "alive". I never felt like anything mattered or that anything was real. I know it's a rough start but that was the first thing that made me realize that maybe i wasn't as normal as i thought i was.
My mind is never silent, but not in the way that you think. I always feel like my own brain is screaming in my mind non-stop and it only stops when i take medication (that i was prescribed) to sleep. I have sometimes episodes of where i see or hear things like shadows looking at me through my window or people saying my name while there's no one in the room with me.
I forget alot of stuff, like if for example you would ask me what i ate for dinner yesterday, i would barely remember it. Or if you asked me what happened last year that in my eyes was important, i would not be able to answer you. It was always like that, even when i was a child. I would never remember what my parents looks like, it's still the case today. I live with my mom and i couldn't even tell you what facial features she has that would make me say "yep, that's my mom.". And ofcourse birthdays, don't get me started on how much my family and friends were offended when i couldn't remember their birthdays. I personally think that i forget those stuff because it doesn't truly matter to me, especially since i think that no one is alive, not even me.
I always was smart and a fast thinker and i have a great memory don't get me wrong. I never felt "love" or felt like where i am is "home", if you would ask me how those 2 feels like i wouldn't be able to tell you. Ofcoure i do love alot of things, but i only felt it atleast once or twice and it was a deep feeling of comfort and just attachment.
I do feel, i'm not emotionless, hell i'm even the most emotional person in my family or even my circle of friends.
Due to my autism i feel things twice as hard which is why i can tell if i can love or not. Sometimes i don't have empathy at all while i'm extremely empathetic. Like for example, a year ago my sister's ex died. All of my family hated him and never wanted him to be around but as soon as he died everyone was sad. But i couldn't help but think that they were all hypocritical because dying is apart of the human life's cycle and that you can't just love back someone just because that they died. They're the ones that left him as his lowest point and now it's too late so just accept it.
And not only that but recently i had a pet that died, i loved him from the start until the end. And my family DARED to say that it wasn't the same as a human dying. As if they loved the guy more than i loved that pet. To me all humans aren't truly real, and it angers me to see everyone acting like as if riding cars and dressing up is a normal natural thing.
Ofcourse i grieved at my cat's death, but i was really just shutting down those emotions because like i said, it's part of life. What happened, happened and it was only a matter of time even if he didn't die of a natural cause.
I'm just really ranting but it's just to show you guys that i'm not emotionless, it's just that i truly can't wrap my head around how all of this is normal, like cars, buildings and more. I do enjoy life and i am grateful that my life is not that difficult physically. But i just truly feel like we all don't matter.
A part of me thinks that we all don't exist and we're all just apart of a simulation made to keep us sane and a part of me wants to live life and do whatever i want.
Sometimes i get used for my body, i got used by people from 11-30+. I know it's bad but i can't help but feel nothing about it. I don't care at all because like i said i feel like i'm no one. No one important. Just a pile of useless cells. When that happens i can't help but get angry at myself and reflect it on the person that used me. I always either victim blame myself or victimize myself incase i get called a horrible human being to letting my body get used while i'm with someone else. I always do everything to make people believe i'm a normal girl with normal thoughts and i cry at any inconvenience but it's never the case really.
I don't feel alive, i don't feel normal, i don't feel important, and i feel this way towards everything else. I always am mean when i have an existential crisis, i'm mean not because i want to but because i truly feel that way. Once i told my friends that i don't love them and never did and the only reason why i was hanging out with them is because i tolerate them. Which is true but i never really say those things because i know it has a lot of impact on friendships.
I always get angry towards anyone trying to make me believe that we do have a purpose. I get angry to seeing people criticizing other's looks while none of us matters. Our opinions wont change anything in this world and there's nothing we can do about it. Mo one will listen to us and no one will care.
So why bother? We bother because our brain tell us to. We are only made to survive in an already safe world for most and that the only danger to human beings are humans themselves. Which is why i feel like we're not alive. If we were alive we would all understand those things. We will all do anything to make this world a safe place like how we intended to from the beginning. But instead there's wars, global warming, and so so many problems caused by human beings. We were intended to make this place safe, NOT to make it easier to live in with all the technologies. Now it's too late and all we should do is die since we were the start of these aweful problems and it will never be the end because as long as we survive, us humans as horrible as we are will never stop until we've had enough, but it's never. Enough. And it will never be even when this place will be covered in chaos. I hate myself and every person that claims to be apart of the human kind. I just want it all to stop.. no matter what i do i can hear my brain screaming non stop, i just feel so overwhelmed and i know it'll start all over again until i find a way to shut down my own brain. I don't want to help myself. I don't matter. No one does.

Lot of existing games deal with aspects of collapse:
Refugee/barbarian mass migrations: Tetrarchia (barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/183315/tetrarchia
Mass plagues and pandemics: Pandemic https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic
Global warming: Terraforming Mars (though this new game would want to avoid warming while adopting this games mechanics) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/167791/terraforming-mars
Biodiversity extinction: Endangered https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220133/endangered
Saving ourselves with renewables: Solarpunk https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3279609/solarpunk-theme
Famine: Feast or famine https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/82223/feast-and-famine
And so on...
To keep things simple, limit the major collapse factors to a total of five major threats, with mechanics for interaction between them.
Thoughts or ideas?

Okay so I'm from Washington (state) and I doordash as my full time job. Rent here is crazy, I hate the city, I'm tired of global warming, and I want to go up to Alaska lol. But with doordash, I never really know if it's going to be sustainable in other places. I know it is here, cause I do it, but I've also been doing it here for almost three years. I've never even been to Alaska, let alone worked there. For all the Alaska doordashers, what's the business like up there? Is it good, bad? Do people usually tip well? Does doordash pay decent? Is it busy all throughout the day or are there only really orders during rush hours? Any info would be amazing lol.

This may be possibly uneducated take, so feel free to point out any BS that I said.
I am kinda tired of people on the internet and people IRL talking about how global warming is the end of the humanity and how we are destroying our earth (somehow?)
But we don't even realize how lucky we are that we have global warming instead of global cooling.
Throughout history, when the winter took a little longer than it should, entire civilizations fell. Crops don't grow, people freeze to death, people die from numerous diseases.
There is pretty much nothing good about cold for humanity. The fact that we get longer and warmer summers is not optimal, but it's faaaar from the end of our world.
*If we got global cooling instead, well... That would be the actual end of us. *
Also there aren't really that many cons to global warming, I may be uneducated so feel free to tell me about some cons of global warming but if the pros outweigh the cons, then we really don't have anything to worry about.

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As the world stabilises, and the effects of global warming are reversed, nature recovers from human occupation. Some people seeing this, consider that humans ruling all of Earth isn't a good idea. They say that repopulation efforts should be slowed down or stopped, and that the Northern Hemisphere should merely be used as outposts for materials. There are also health hazards with exploring the dead world, as thousands of corpses litter every city and town. Religiously, the death of the North could be seen as punishment for humanity's hubris, just like the biblical floods. I don't know what to call this political faction or ideology yet.

I can't progress. I got to turn 810, and the game refuses to proceed. I've gotten 3 autosaves corrupted from the crashes.
Is the PlayStation version of the game unplayable on Large/Huge Marathon maps?
I was playing Victoria Age of Steam for Science victory; I am 100 turns from completion, maybe it's cause I am the Suzerain of nearly 18 city states and have 20+ wonders built. Nearly maximum global warming. I had the game modes: corporations, barbarian clans, and secret societies enabled. Gathering Storm ruleset.