the corrosion of two personalty that reshape each other until they’re incompatible, I guess. but also a lot of dysfunction. I got so good at being a grey rock in the face of their exciting need to be excited by constantly fighting that they got bored of trying to get a reaction out of me and I got tired of the panic attacks and suicidal thoughts. Anyway, separation has been nice, but having kids means you’re locked into a kind of relationship that necessitates mutual good faith cooperation so it’s a nightmare. REALLY don’t have kids with people you haven’t lived with first for several years. 6mo whirlwind relationships are a bad place to invest the next 20+ years of your life, also, you can’t out run, out think, or recognize your truama, you are you, and you can’t not you. therapy early and often.

married 17 years, can confirm.

325 are 3D out of 350,000 guns found in CA in connection to a crime in 2024, according to random assholes on reddit.

This is a pretty dumb thing to pass legislation on considering it’s still VERY easy to buy a gun even in CA, another method of getting a gun isn’t making it easier in any real sense.

yeah what are you gonna do about it? Just do things yourself!?! I don’t think so!!

I’ve gotten it to work once or twice, it’s very broken though. they clearly ment for it to be a heavily scripted set of events like you’d see in a vault not too different from the vault you get Curie from, but it’s totally convoluted and no one explains what’s happening and the directions the game gives you are vague and unhelpful, but you basically have to go into specific buildings at specific times and hide in specific places in the right order to trigger all the events and then it sort of makes sense, but if you go from step A to step K the game just skips you to that point in the scripted events without telling you it skipped crucial story info and you’ll have no idea your need to go clear out a cave system near the town. so it’s not broken if you happen to accidently trigger all the events in the right order, but you need a detailed guide to do that. your usually just going to mess to the order then need to do stuff without being told you need to do it.

I still play it once in a few years for nostalgia, and it’s a fun trip down memory lane, but anything beyond fan patches don’t really interest me.

I played it on release, absolutely insane game, the graphical details, the open world was HUGE! and the amount of things you could do. I used to just go live in Vivic. hang out at book stores. follow npc’s around watch their routine. crazy. Anyway. yeah, the combat was allowed broken, the original shipped game didn’t even have a hud with your heath bar. nearly every spell in the game could one shot you, and you just had to guess if you were hitting stuff with melee weapons, no real feedback to figure it out. and nothing hit a target unless you actual got the level up to like 80-100 in it’s weapon class skill. so. yeah. and levitation and other crazy jumping and flying stat boosts were janky as fuck, and the best pro tip for the game on how to get through most caves or dungeons was to just turn off clipping, levitate, and walk through the void to get to whatever was needed for the quest. and a lot of the game was pretty much empty rooms with a jar or box with nothing in it. and there’s almost no voice acting, it’s a lot of reading, and the game is like ‘go to Abrrivabrigarvigggara in SW Corvigabaaagrivaagaa’ and you’re like… directions? and the npc’s would give you the wrong directions to get there. the mage quest was basically locked behind randomly finding a cave with a mage who didn’t want to pay dues and no way to find it in game but luck. technically the game came with a physical map they actually expected you to use, but luckily unless you had an overclocked computer that wasn’t commercially sold until a few years after the game came out, the map was never going to load for you anyway. I didn’t see a loaded map until like 5 plus years after the game came out.

so yeah I love the game with all my heart, but I don’t recommend anyone under the age of 35 try it. your just going to be sad about how badly the game parts of the game are. well what we still consider game parts. now a days no one is impressed a game could have an actual library with 100s of actual books you can pick up and actually read and they are all unique and at least 10 pages long.

teal really proved living well is the best revenge.

May the inside of your ear always itch. Just past the bend.

I never could have seen the day coming when a number could out sell 69…

That’s not the problem. the problem is having a “lets turn Chris’ mental illness that’s harmed no one so far, into everyone’s violent problem!” machine.

that’s a bad machine.

You’ll never be a billionaire if you keep foolishly indulging in the luxury of eating and drinking. You’ll also wasting time eating and expelling waste, you could have two or three other micro hustles to get ahead, you’re only two or three centuries away from success!

Didn’t you hear? That’s the problem! The prices must always go up. For the quarterly growth!

What could possibly go wrong?

very hard to convince someone of something when their paycheck requires they don’t understand it. seroiusly “hay I’m one of the people who has been demanding my company finish AI and roll it out and stuff it into everything we sell to look like massive growth so my stocks will start going up even though the language models aren’t even designed to do what were claiming, and they don’t even work well as language models, and we have no real use for them and they’re horrifyingly costly to run, but no, I don’t think it’s a bubble.”

The call buttons at my local Walmart aren’t even corrected to anything. It’s a soothing only button.

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correct. this is a man that admitted openly to lying about immigrants eating pets to foment hatred to fire up his voter base that already hates immigrants.

Indeed. But ‘starvation’ wages aren’t typical in migrant farm work.

Yes capitalism is a harsh load of ass everywhere, but the farm jobs I’VE WORKED, aren’t lower pay than other jobs available in capitalism. They tend to be better than average, and farms tend to raise the offer year to year as they are straining for more labor.