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The U.S. is no longer one of the 20 happiest countries. If you're young, you probably know why. (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm confused. The stock market is at an all time high and unemployment is low, how is anything bad?

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    • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I blame Skill Based Matchmaking.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Bring back 3rd party dedicated servers

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I want to host my own server.

    People love Minecraft for this.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    By the people for the people.

    There's still old games from 20+ years ago that have niche communities alive because of dedicated servers.

    Meanwhile some live game these days might be dead forever after a few years.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I grew up playing unreal tournament 2004 and afaik there are still servers up 20 years later

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    There was a dude I worked with a few years back who's from south Korea talking about playing Unreal in internet cafes when he was a teen and there's a pretty decent chance he absolutely destroyed me a couple times 20 years before we met.

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    • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    it's because not enough young people know about Hexbear.

    I was unhappy, then I came to hexbear and now I have a permanent smile. matt-jokerfiedjoker-dancing

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    tequila-sunset

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    • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    More surprised it was there to begin with. Guess plundering USSR was a greater boon than I thought

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Nah, it's just that the myth of the American dream/exceptionalism has well and truly collapsed. People aren't dramatically worse off, they just can't rationalize their misery as being temporary or for a good cause anymore.

    And don't get me wrong, they ARE worse off, but I think being unable to deny that fact is a greater psychic hit than the conditions themselves.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The government could kick the can down the road like thirty more years if they bought out Blackrock's real estate ventures and sold all of their properties at rock bottom prices to people who don't already own a home. Having a house cushions you from so much pain and grants access to financial instruments that can get you through a crisis, our economy basically depends on a majority of people doing it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    The government could kick the can down the road like thirty more years if they bought out Blackrock's real estate ventures and sold all of their properties at rock bottom prices to people who don't already own a home.

    yep, but they're not even interested in doing that. so total collapse of society it will be.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If the government was willing to express power in a form like that, we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place. But here we stand, government hollowed.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The USA is still a very young country (in the sense that settlers have only been reaping the land for ~150 years in the entire western half). Each little sliver of opportunity hadn't been snatched up until pretty recently.

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    • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s because the drugs are shit now

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like happiness is very hard to quantify and am very skeptic of the value of studies that measure it.

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