For the first time in more than a decade, all of my credit cards are carrying a $0 balance. I paid off the last one yesterday with my state tax refund. It felt great to get them all paid off, but it's kinda scary too when I think about the combined limits of the cards >.<
Now I need to find out how I can get rid of some of them without adversely affecting my credit score.
@Auspice While I was in Lowes yesterday buying mulch, a guy tried to push his way past the the line to get in, claiming that "he was tired of waiting". One of the guys he cut in front of took exception and pulled him back out of the store. I thought for a minute that a fight was going to break out but the assistant manager showed up and then, a moment later, a deputy. They served the guy with a notice not to trespass and ordered him off of the premises. Everyone in the line cheered 
If I thought people might actually play on it, I would dust off the code for my unfinished original sci-fi Evennia based game and start work on it again. Maybe restart it with a Star Wars theme since original sci-fi settings seem to be the kiss of death for MU*s.
I'm curious, though. Are homeless people not allowed to have a $50 smartphone with a monthly activation card? (aka, cheap ass burner phone). Are they not allowed to have had a bank account they keep a few bucks in to keep it open?
Homeless people don't spring into existence in a homeless state. They presumably worked at some point and are as entitled as anyone else to have nice things.
I used to call myself bisexual, but that wasn't entirely accurate because I generally was more attracted to women than to men. Since we've had all these new ways of describing our sexuality, I've taken to calling myself hetero-flexible, but that might not be accurate either since I've been, for the first time in my life, in a serious, monogamous relationship with another man that has lasted quite a while (over a year now, yay).
I'm honestly as confused about it now as I was when I was 14 and first had feelings for another guy. I thought we were supposed to have life figured out by the time we were my age 
I am happy because for the first time in 42 years, I have been able to make it all the way to Christmas without hearing 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' even once.
I started with an inventory system, which I promptly scrapped because it was a bad idea to mess with stuff in aresmush/engine/aresmush/models. I've since re-implemented it as a standalone plugin. After that I did a space system for a Firefly game that I am still working on and off. Next was a domain system for a L&L style game which I am also still actively working on.
I had no experience with Ruby before this but I've been working with Evennia for close to 2.5 years now and that experience made it super easy to pick up Ruby.
Dammit. I upvoted @Ghost twice in the same thread. This is a dangerous precedent
I came home from work today tired and aggravated, only to discover that my hates-to-cook boyfriend (seriously, he's cooked maybe twice in the past year) had made dinner, and it was great!
So much for my bad mood!
If you need help, I might be interested in donating some time.
@macha Here where I live, the vacancy rate for rentals (this includes single family homes as well, not just apartments) is 31%. Rather than lower rents, they just raise the cost for existing tenants. It makes no sense whatsoever.
@rusalka said in So I read a thing... [Yet Another City of Hope Hate Post]:
@rucket Hmm, this is good to know. I'll have to look into it more.
I haven't tried creating a fully realized Chargen in Ares yet, but surely, custom plugins act as mixins, meaning that you can over-load pretty much any part of the base game without running into problems with updates later?
I've created a space system, inventory system and a few other things that did not affect my ability to update because the code was all isolated to my own plugins.
@packrat said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
So regarding shopping carts, does the USA not have the thing where the carts have a chain and lock to each other, meaning you can only remove one from the stack by putting in a coin, that is then released when the cart is returned and chained back up again?
Here leaving a cart (or shopping trolley to use local parlance) rolling around the car park means you are leaving a £1 coin in it and so people rarely do such things.
Aldi is the only place I know of that does this. It costs much less though-- 25 cents, which works out to about 18p-- probably because most Americans hate the $1 coins and refuse to use them.
At least it's only 25 cents for the cart here in the US.
These days they have people cleaning and disinfecting the carts after each use so they don't bother locking them up anymore. Which is nice for people like me, who can never remember to bring a quarter for the cart.
Wal-Mart Pharmacy is the cheapest place that I have found for prescriptions, especially for people without insurance.
@auspice said in RL things I love:
I hate snow. I hate it so much. 26F in Austin is just wrong.
That said.
I love adaptive all wheel drive.
And seeing kids making snowmen and throwing snowballs was p damn heartwarming.
Meanwhile it's 57 and sunny here in Southern Maryland. It's as if our weather is reversed.
Woo. Stimulus checks are out. Just got mine today!
Atlantis. It's old but probably still better than all the others.
Dammit.
Just got the first bill for my 2021 health insurance plan and discovered that it went up by $197/month. That brings it up to almost $500/month and it isn't even a good plan