is a week-long meth binge with walter day, formerly of twin galaxies.

walter day invites you to some basement in idaho, where he has set up a supergun with same! same! same!. the control panel is rough, unfinished plywood with a happ stick in 4-way and 100g-force leaf spring buttons, there is no autofire circuit.

he has the referee cosplay going the whole time. after he reclaims his meth pipe from you, he backs away slowly and goes "you can play the game now". every couple of hours he returns with a solo jazz cup of room temperature tap water. walter day doesn't make it apparent, but he is thoroughly expecting you to not just clear the first loop, but approach a counter-stop, all on the 4 way happ stick and 100g leaf spring buttons without autofire.

every 12 hours, walter day comes down with a bowl of beans and rice, and what walter day keeps calling "the ultimate gamer fuel". your wrists are in excruciating pain, due to the excessive forces required to operate the heavy controls. at least walter day is kind enough to give you a break between credits. these breaks, you mostly spend picking splinters out of your wrists, all while declining offers to smoke some of walter day's ultimate gamer fuel.

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I don't mean to brag but my executive function is POPPING OFF today. I'm getting so much done, and I'm going to ride this wave as long as I can.

is that you often come away with a habitual cringe at the word "skepticism" and other related terms. And that's so frustrating, because skepticism is so good and useful. We SHOULD all be skeptical of things our leaders and governments tell us. We should question their intents, their methods, their data. But as humans we have to remember that we use antagonistic skepticism not because we believe the opposite, and wish to prove it wrong, but because it's the process that let's us uncover truth removed from what we want it to be. You defend a thesis against the questioning of learned scholars not because they believe you to be wrong, but to prove that what you have done is not inadequate to evidence your conclusions.

And then you have to remember that people shouting pseudoscience and misinformation are not truly being skeptical, no matter what they say. They are not questioning things to find truth. They are reinforcing their own beliefs through the rhetorical language of science and truth. When they say skepticism, they mean rejection of things that make them uncomfortable.

And the only way to fight it is to remain truly skeptical. Seek truth, and remember that we cannot always know the whole truth. Taking actions that hedge against the possibility that we don't know as much as we thought IS the skeptical course of action. To do anything other than question what we believe is to fall into the same unscientific pitfalls. Science is not a collection of facts, but a process of attempting to understand.