The key for me is to immerse myself in the game to separate the focus of my attention away from what set me off in a rotten mood in the first place. So whether its setting up a factory run while ice mining in EVE or slaloming a stolen ambulance down the boardwalk, killing hundreds, in GTA San Andreas, its a clear break in the stream of comsciousness that divorces me from the trigger situation.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.