Major or minor, doesn’t matter. Just something you’ve been hoping for to happen for years and years, despite many promises and declarations made of that thing happening. Only for it to never happen at all.
Two things come of mind to me.
For America, we will never ever see an Independent take hold of the presidency. It hasn’t happened for over 170+ years and that’s a long damn time since the last time a person representing an independent party has ever held office. The only successes an independent party ever sees is smaller governments or some seats somewhere in the house or senate, that’s about it.
But every election cycle, people are hamming up about how it’s going to be the year for independents, until the primaries come and go and we’re back to falling on two parties. I’ve stopped getting my hopes up and I stopped hoping the moment Bernie Sanders, who originally did run as an independent for the presidential election in 2016, had to turn to running as a democrat because even he realized that was the only way he was going to get votes at all.
One other thing and it’s gaming related is that, there are still Nintendo fans out there hoping for a Mother 3 english release. It’s a game that was released in 2006 and it never left Japan since. Despite all of the re-releases of Mother and Earthbound, Mother 3 has not gotten a localization. It’s been released as a fan translation and I feel that’s the best we’re ever going to get.
It’s been 18 years since it’s original release and I think there’s no point in hoping now for Nintendo to release it. They’re too busy suing people.
That as human beings, we’ll never come together for a common cause. A large proportion of us are just selfish, delusional beings.
Al of them, katie
That my well being would one day become important to my siblings. They don’t hate me but are unwilling to care about me.
All.
Elder Scrolls 6 being released in my lifetime
The final book of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Stopping Climate Change.
Immortality. The tech is going to be too far away. Maybe my grandchildren.
I had the same hope when I was younger. Later on I imagined the last star dying and the utter dread the immortals would have to face.
I think they meant the immortality where you can live as long as you want to, not the kind where you can’t die. I don’t think anyone wants that…
Metroid Prime 4
Getting the job that I want in the field I dream of.
Enjoying a “career”. It seems once my financial survival is tied to something in it becomes an obligation instead of a novelty.
If you want to see an independent win the presidency, vote for the only candidate in this election who has a reasonable chance of defeating the orange fascist, then put all your energy into campaigning for an end to FPTP
That said, I’ve given up hope on this country every treating fascists and white supremacists how they should be treated
That we’re gonna do something real about the whole climate change thing. We’re doing a bunch of window dressing, but there are too many entrenched interests fighting it.
My current hope is that my kids (and their kids) can make the best of whatever a +2C or +4C world looks like. And we manage to survive despite any ecosystem collapses.
It’s worse than that, and better at the same time.
I can’t help noticing that Americans seem to see “climate change” and “the environment” as basically the same thing. That is: if you can just fix the first, you fix the second too.
But that’s just not right. Climate change is only one of the problems we’re facing. We could hit net zero tomorrow, or even net-minus-10% (i.e. draw down carbon), and it would do nothing at all to solve the myriad other semi-unrelated challenges. For example: deforestation, topsoil loss, freshwater depletion, overfishing, microplastic pollution, nitrogen and pesticide pollution, and of course the overarching issues of habitat loss and collapsing biodiversity.
Climate is almost a red herring. The real issue is our entire model of civilization, based on massive disruption of all kinds of natural processes.
The good news, ironically, is that the climate problem is at least somewhat fixable: just stop burning stuff (and then try to reverse the process). And despite the pessimism, we are actually making progress on this! Emissions are peaking earlier than predicted, the future temperature forecasts are better than they were a decade ago. Few people seem to know this good news. BTW: it’s thanks mostly to China, without the Chinese green-tech revolution we would be in deep trouble.
The less good news is that solving climate will not solve the other problems. There are many of them and they are serious.
Oh just watch in 20-30yr for when coffee is no longer affordable to us commoners. Gonna get rough for a while. Actually why my goal ia to live at least another 35 years. Want to see that hell and the fallout.
It feels pretty pointless to write a first book now - everyone will assume I had an LLM do it for me.
I mean if you only enter wanted to write because it would get you writers clout then sure. You can still write to engage in the creative process and make something actually meaningful
True enough.
I’ve lost hope that things will ever get better. This is it, this is all life has to offer. If you don’t like it, well, suck it up.
Prior to the 2016 election, I was hopeful that the freedom caucus and the rest of the far right was getting too crazy for the general public, and that its support would collapse leading to a bit of a normalization of politics.
Wishful thinking, in retrospect.
Who’d have thought the Tea Party would look relatively sane at this point?
Its the same people. Teabaggers became magats
Some of us had that hope going into the 2004 election, but Bush got re-elected.
And we had an idea then that no matter how shitty you are as a person, run Republican and you’ll somehow have a chance.
Society unfucking itself.
It seems like if things get bad enough, we’d adjust, but the air became poison and still is poison from covid, something that actively affects literally everybody right now in the present regardless of grouping, and we don’t just fail to address it, we sprint as hard as possible back towards trying to make things the way they were, which isn’t possible with poison air, so we get…this.
It’s not that covid was, it’s that covid still is our dry run for climate change, and we see what people are going to do: keep shooting you and themselves in the foot, and when you point out what’s going on, stab you in the face and go right back to working overtime to continue ruining things, and trying very hard to imply that they’re being reasonable.
