Growing up, everyone felt pity for them, as they grew up sheltered and not very well educated. In modern times, I feel like this has been magnified significantly.

I’d only do it if your kid was getting the absolute shit kicked out of them at school(s). Social media makes it extremely easy to get chain-bullied at multiple schools even with a transfer or two.

It’s always a safer move to wear protection. If you’re monogamous and your partner hasn’t had any illness recently, it’s probably safe to do raw if they do a good clean out first.

4.15, PNW, today. Typical range is 3.80 - 5.30

We’re a car-light household, so it doesn’t affect us too much. I still want better mass transit options, though.

Grey

Ah, fair!

It really depends. Can they see my flings and hookups and everything in real time over the course of my life? If so, I’ll need 30+ post-death years to get over the embarrassment.

Do you think they were made domestically and just had dogshit logistics, or overseas and also had terrible logistics?

You and me both. It’s especially fun when you work in multiple timezones and some also have standard or daylight time on top of that. Really adds a layer to that shit sandwich of 12 hour time with 12am/pm confusion too

Install some solar panels!

Fwiw, you can’t see the sunrise from a windowless cubicle anyways. You now get a bit more daylight after work!

Nice! And yes.

Definitely a tough situation. I hope things work out well for all of you. I’m also extremely curious about what animal John has for his fursona.

FWIW, I’m not too worried about John’s dating life. The furry community is pretty strong and cross-functional, and there’s a ton of hobby overlap with furries and other hobbies and sports. Especially if he’s bi, there will be others that he will meet, and he’s young. Hopefully his depression gets better.

I concur with most things; the anticipation is better than the actual thing itself. Except really great bidets with dryers and heated seats. That gift pays dividends all year round. Hell, it gets better with time.

I think the Valve era was pretty incredible.

Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Half Life + HL2, and Portal + 2 all pushed the genres forward or were utterly unique for their time.

I can’t think of any other dev ATM that was doing what valve was doing in the 00s and early 10s.

Definitely fine. I fill up my car like…once a month, if that.

Mine failed that way, yeah. Though I think it was user error after trying to repair a mouse that wasn’t designed to be serviced officially. All the rubber wore off the wing, so I had to disassemble and replace it with a generic part. The left and right clicks are a bit spongy now, and middle click only intermittently works now, but the mouse is grippy again. I wish more mice were actually repairable.

It’s annoying to have mice that break down and need to be repurchased instead of a few replacement parts. 90% of the mouse was fine.

Rise of Nations: Gold Edition (2003).

The controls are ancient, but the gameplay and music still holds up.

Just a heads up, you can also freeze fresh spinach in the freezer for smoothies! It keeps pretty well because it freezes into individual “chips” that don’t stick together unless it thaws. It’s excellent if you’d usually be throwing away spinach that was going to go bad. I recommend buying and freezing a large portion immediately in a freezer bag, just so it doesn’t get mushy in your fridge.

I absolutely love this strip so much.

If you carve out a tunnel into the floor and have the entrance down a foot or two, the wind can’t blow directly in, and the cold air will sink to fill the tunnel/entrance with your sleeping platform being quite warm.