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What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.

The absolute peak of gaming for me was the first time I got stoned out of my mind and played Minecraft. Probably like... circa 2012. I've never been able to get back to that place ever since lmao the colors were so vibrant, each pixel was absolutely perfectly placed. The light grey ui elements in your inventory... everything just tied together so perfect. It was like seeing a new color for the first time, but then every time after that is just, eh...

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New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule

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I wasn't alluding to anything crazy or even very interesting I guess, but through my 20s I had quite a few factory jobs. Even at some of the better ones, it's pretty normal to work seven days a week for months at a time, the pay sucks, and almost everyone's on meth or opiates just to get by. The office workers always get exactly 40 hour weeks and no mandatory overtime ever while the factory people pretty much live there. I'm sure bigger companies like Intel, etc have much better conditions than metal stamping plants or commercial print shops, but it was the worst point in my life. Maybe it's just where I live, but I don't know anyone who has worked at a factory here and isn't either a long term high functioning addict or just miserable in general. I was one of the top producers at a label printing plant for a few years and I was so trashed all the time I don't know how I never got fired or lost a finger lmao I ran a lot of bad product at times and no one ever said anything as long as I had perfect attendance and showed up 20 minutes early every day.