It's just a matter of connotation so maybe not everyone feels the same way, but I feel like if someone introduces their sambo I think they live together right now, but maybe not forever and always, whereas if they introduce their partner I'm going to read it as life partner or non-binary spouse.

It's important to vent about these things, and I'm happy to help you with that. Just saying stuff and having someone listen feels way better than keeping it in.

There are unfortunately a ton of terrible therapists out there. It sucks to have to keep trying new ones because each failure feels like a personal flaw.

It sounds more like toxic positivity, yeah. CBT is about recognizing what feelings you have, why you're having them, and what you should do to take care of yourself both immediately and as a future plan to reduce distress.

Do you think video game piracy involves knocking off a GameStop?

This apparently varies by country. In countries where it's not the case, the library system is not killing book sales or authorship.

I think it's weird that English doesn't have a word for sambo. Partner sort of works, but it's taken on a connotation of permanent dedication, and is often synonymous with spouse. Cohabitant sounds even more emotionally distant than roommate.

Oh, he must be the CEO of Dragonbreath.

Isn't this a screenshot of Tumblr?

I've also heard it posed that we're actually all the same person being reborn into every human that has ever or will ever exist, without regard for chronology. So like the people who are most cruel are our earliest selves and the people who are more empathetic are later versions of us who have learned to be more compassionate.

I don't believe that, but I like to think about it because it makes me more thoughtful of others.

I dream of being a variety of people all the time, sometimes more than one of them at once, maybe simultaneously as a bodiless observer. I'm often aware that I'm playing a role, but I can't recall ever retaining the idea of my waking self. It's like I accept who I am right now, but I sense the experience is transient.

You have to elaborate on how it's a bad argument. The existence of games at libraries doesn't contradict what I'm saying at all.

People argue it's immoral to pirate games because the artists must be compensated, but no one says that about buying used media or loaning from the library even though the artist still receives nothing.

Both loaning and used sales are shown to increase new book sales, so why wouldn't the same be true for games?

You said that piracy is a moral imperative under these circumstances, and I'm going further to say it was never immoral in the first place.

Also of note is that libraries can't loan out games for which there is no physical copy, which means big publishers are actively killing library availability as well.