100% agreement with all of the complaints - they mirror my experience precisely. I have not had a single positive interaction with Steam.
I'm not sure about hoping warezers break the security, but I sure as hell don't want this bullshit to continue.
The sudden "unavalability" of the forums at the moment the updates disabled a huge number of games was really quite stunning. If you're going to fuck up a large portion of your customers, at least stand up and take the beating you've earned.
This is a day late, so it will probably never get modded up enough to be read, but wtf, it's worth posting.
Tea.
Base case: Depending on the severity of your addiction, drink a number of cups of black tea in place of coffee. Let the teabag steep for 3-5 minutes, depending on the amount of caffeine you need.
Inductive step: every day, reduce by 15 seconds the amount of time you steep the tea until it's so weak that it tastes like crap (under 2 minutes). Then you stop. Pop some tylenol that night and the next morning. Don't drink anymore caffeine for a while so you break the habitual/non-addictive portion of the behavior.
I now regularly have 1 cup of tea in the morning. Once every week or two I have an additional caffeinated beverage at some point, where it's an actual treat that I can enjoy.
If you must have something caffeinated, try a lightly-steeped cup of green tea, a single-shot espresso drink (less caffeine than drip coffee), or a very dark-roasted brew (more flavor, less caffeine than light roasts).
Cook - keep trying different med combos
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Hang in there, and work with a psychiatrist who's willing to try different combinations and dosages until you find what's right for you. I tried easily a dozen different permutations, and eventually settled (ironically enough) on the common Ritalin/Wellbutrin combo. Keep working at it. I know -exactly- what you mean about the well-meaning lists, creativity, sense of humor, and productivity tradeoffs.
Also - in combination with less-stifling meds, get into exercise and nutrition. Just about every person I've spoken to who's had a successful treatment, nutrition and exercise were crucial.
There's still far too much blaming of the victims going on in these replies. Tacitly implied in that stance is that underdeveloped or late-blooming social skills are justification for severe physical and mental abuse. That's crap.
Sure, maybe these days too many of us try to say that we were picked in because we were smart. Part of what the column said was that (and I paraphrase) people who spent their time studying, did not spent the necessary time learning the social skills required for the Secondary School Court. This doesn't mean that those who did this were necessarily smarter, just that they chose to study. The worst part is that at the time, it wasn't apparent that there was a choice.
Certainly there are some shining stars, some exceptional kids who were smart enough to master the academics, AND physically endowed and developed enough to master sports, and play the popularity game. It doesn't change the fact that late-bloomers, bookworms, and the unfamiliar are generally ostracized and persecuted in the name of popularity.
A counter-point that I can draw on in my own high-school (9-12) experience is the college-bound clique. This was a smart, studious group that was also very socially adept. I gained a lot of social training from this group, even though I was only a fringe member. Interestingly enough, their social status was based on the more adult values of education and erudition. Their social standing within the clique wouldn't have benefitted from the abuse of someone of lower station. I can't however provide any such experience from the abject hell-hole that was junior-high (7-9).
Aside from the generalization that geeks are necessarily smarter then the other groups, even on average, what he said was spot-on.
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100% agreement with all of the complaints - they mirror my experience precisely. I have not had a single positive interaction with Steam.
I'm not sure about hoping warezers break the security, but I sure as hell don't want this bullshit to continue.
The sudden "unavalability" of the forums at the moment the updates disabled a huge number of games was really quite stunning. If you're going to fuck up a large portion of your customers, at least stand up and take the beating you've earned.
This is a day late, so it will probably never get modded up enough to be read, but wtf, it's worth posting.
Tea.
Base case: Depending on the severity of your addiction, drink a number of cups of black tea in place of coffee. Let the teabag steep for 3-5 minutes, depending on the amount of caffeine you need.
Inductive step: every day, reduce by 15 seconds the amount of time you steep the tea until it's so weak that it tastes like crap (under 2 minutes). Then you stop. Pop some tylenol that night and the next morning. Don't drink anymore caffeine for a while so you break the habitual/non-addictive portion of the behavior.
I now regularly have 1 cup of tea in the morning. Once every week or two I have an additional caffeinated beverage at some point, where it's an actual treat that I can enjoy.
If you must have something caffeinated, try a lightly-steeped cup of green tea, a single-shot espresso drink (less caffeine than drip coffee), or a very dark-roasted brew (more flavor, less caffeine than light roasts).
Hang in there, and work with a psychiatrist who's willing to try different combinations and dosages until you find what's right for you. I tried easily a dozen different permutations, and eventually settled (ironically enough) on the common Ritalin/Wellbutrin combo. Keep working at it. I know -exactly- what you mean about the well-meaning lists, creativity, sense of humor, and productivity tradeoffs.
Also - in combination with less-stifling meds, get into exercise and nutrition. Just about every person I've spoken to who's had a successful treatment, nutrition and exercise were crucial.
Good luck!
There's still far too much blaming of the victims going on in these replies. Tacitly implied in that stance is that underdeveloped or late-blooming social skills are justification for severe physical and mental abuse. That's crap.
Sure, maybe these days too many of us try to say that we were picked in because we were smart. Part of what the column said was that (and I paraphrase) people who spent their time studying, did not spent the necessary time learning the social skills required for the Secondary School Court. This doesn't mean that those who did this were necessarily smarter, just that they chose to study. The worst part is that at the time, it wasn't apparent that there was a choice.
Certainly there are some shining stars, some exceptional kids who were smart enough to master the academics, AND physically endowed and developed enough to master sports, and play the popularity game. It doesn't change the fact that late-bloomers, bookworms, and the unfamiliar are generally ostracized and persecuted in the name of popularity.
A counter-point that I can draw on in my own high-school (9-12) experience is the college-bound clique. This was a smart, studious group that was also very socially adept. I gained a lot of social training from this group, even though I was only a fringe member. Interestingly enough, their social status was based on the more adult values of education and erudition. Their social standing within the clique wouldn't have benefitted from the abuse of someone of lower station. I can't however provide any such experience from the abject hell-hole that was junior-high (7-9).
Aside from the generalization that geeks are necessarily smarter then the other groups, even on average, what he said was spot-on.
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