They also grasp mental health better than people might think. Such as Martok and Worf watching Garak face his claustrophobia in order to save them:

Martok: There is no greater enemy than one’s own fears.
Worf: It takes a brave man to face them.

And this admiration is coming from people who consider the Cardassians to be bitter enemies, which is even more astounding given how devious and dishonourable Garak can be.

Exactly. I sometimes grapple with an urge to slightly exaggerate my issues to make sure I get a fair assessment.

I love it when the DWP Aktion T4 question if I’m still autistic or not. Believe me, I wish I could stop being autistic and not have anxiety over very normal things and sudden changes. Even the initial application for PIP or DLA was a nightmare as an uncaring system was not convinced I was autistic despite all of the evidence provided by my GP. They very nearly ran me out of money when I got sanctioned without realising it, followed by a year of further paperwork battles as the DWP Aktion T4 continued to deliberately misinterpret everything.

Then there’s a lot of anti-welfare crap swirling around the internet, so I sometimes feel guilty about claiming anything even though I know it’s legitimate. People are salivating at the idea of the DWP having enforcement powers, checking where you go on holiday (even though a flight can cost less than a train ticket) and other intrusive measures.

Currently I’m at risk of losing my ESA since they decided to question my autism again and want to do a phone interview, which is exactly what I struggle with, so thank god there’s people who can support me with that call. Honestly, if I had to fight the DWP alone, I probably would have lost all of my benefits and offed myself by now. It’s tough enough even with my really good support network.

If it happened in any other country, it would have been called a coup or insurrection by the media, for sure.

Enjoy! Let me know how it turns out!

‘Or?’ Why not both?

That game was such a wild ride from start to end! The final mission made my heart thump and I appreciated the fact that nobody is truly safe, more-so with a few mods that make it less predictable.

I’m glad I accidentally got the neutral ending first, thus making the best ending even better.

It’s hard to pick just one:

• Deus Ex. It’s timelessly topical despite being released in 2000. It predicted the War on Terror and a massive pandemic to name a couple.

• Spiritfarer, for maximum onion chopping. Saying goodbye to Gwen really messed me up since I became very attached to her, and I can’t finish the last stretch of the game because it’s too emotionally taxing.

• Undertale and wholesome fan-games like Act to Flirt.

• Half-Life 2, circa 2004 when it was a leap ahead of everything else. I was unsettled by the teaser screenshots due to how real it all seemed to be during its heyday. (I did re-capture part of that feeling with M Mod and its great yet faithful modernisation effects. Plus there’s some blursed mods you can combine with it such as replacing Alyx with Krystal, voiced by the original actress.)

• Duke Nukem 3D: Alien Armageddon. It blew me away how much custom content and passion has been invested, so good that it almost felt like I was playing Duke Nukem for the first time all over again.

• There’s many more worth mentioning such as Unreal, Morrowind, Oblivion, Company of Heroes 1 and the forgotten gem that is Ground Control.

Man, I was born just at the right time to experience a stunning variety of titles and enjoy the mods that improve them.

This makes me want to re-watch the based as fuck Deep Space Nine episode (Bar Association) where Quark’s bar staff go on strike.

Don’t forget what’s in store for Ireland in 2024.

Garak really wants to share his isolinear datarod with him.

DS9: The Visitor

“Computer, remove onions.”

“Beep-beep There are no onions in your room.”

“Dammit.”

Berlin, when the wall fell.

It balances against the harsh darkness of the main storyline, and in a 26 episode series you can’t just bash out war after war after war episode - everyone needs a break.

The almost entirely relentless grimness of Picard season 1 is exactly why I detested it. Except Riker’s pizza episode, the rest was just characters acting unconvincingly traumatised and chugging alcohol.

Well, that explains a lot of things.

“It’s remarkable how many people who’ve never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who’s run Tesla and SpaceX,”

Running a company doesn’t necessarily indicate you are good at it. I don’t need to be a pilot to understand that diving into the ground is a fatal idea.