I've been working 14 hour days since Wednesday. I'm also working as much overtime as is physically and mentally possible for me.

For the next three weeks. I'm allowing myself Mondays off as is required by labor laws(one day a week).

Why might you ask? Because saving up for a wedding sucks. And because Covid numbers have skyrocketed since school started back up and most schools don't know how to fucking file paperwork needed to properly create an order to allow their students samples to be tested at all. Which is a commentary in the education system.

I'm angry, tired, and so very very frustrated. At both the situation and the fact that I force myself to drag myself off my perfectly comfortable bed and dive into it when I have no sane reason to do other than that weekend and OT pay.

Two more weeks to go.

@kk

I got halloween themed surgical masks too, cause Amazon has everything and well...Halloween mask will make another covid halloween better? Or something...

@sahin said in RL things I love:

I would indeed like to wear the blood of my enemies as a warning.

So I will.

I will never forget the time a dude told me I wore too much eye makeup for
-- and I quote -- nice guys like him.

Or the look on his face when my answer was, ".....Yeah, that's the point."

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@kestrel This is my favorite topic. Let's debate it more!

An underlying theme in all of Lord of the Rings - to the point of it being explicitly brought up on multiple occasions by Gandalf and Galadriel - is that the fight between good and evil isn't really determined by mighty warriors but by everyday people stepping up in whatever capacity they have to defend their friends and communities.

It's for that reason that Sauron isn't defeated in some final showdown against Aragorn or Gandalf. In fact in the movies they debated that (and shot the scene, it's on youtube!) but then - correctly - realized it was unthematic. The hobbits are the true heroes; it was these complete nobodies' journey, hardships and sacrifice that brought down the Enemy.

Sam embodies all of this. He was no prophesized figure. He didn't come from a storied lineage. He didn't inherit a Ring of Power. The dude was into landscaping, he dug holes in the dirt for a living in a backwater village his whole life.

Sam, also, by the end of the story carried the fate of Middle Earth solely on his shoulders. He fended off the most corruptive power in existence that brought down Numenorian Kings and was feared by Maia and Noldor Elf Queens for its seductive properties to help his friend. He fought ancient spidery horrors in freakin' Mordor. The dude was hardcore. He was also a fucking gardener.

And at the end of it all he went back to gardening. What a madlad. Like... Grey Havens? Going to Valinor? Living like a goddamn hero in Gondor? Nah, he just planted trees, raised a family and, you know, had a good life until he passed away from old age.

I don't think it's even close who the hero in this tale was.

@testament said in General Video Game Thread:

I KOTOR 2 that wasn't a hot garbage fire in the second half of the game because it wasn't finished and just pushed out the door.

I love Obsidian but goddamn they cannot catch a break when being given time tables.

Also, there's never going to be a Jade Empire 2 or remaster and I will forever hold that against BioWare.

I got a mod on Steam, I think, a few years ago that was a bunch of restored content for KOTOR2 and I reaaaally enjoyed the playthrough. It wasn't perfect, by any means, but def made the game a bit better.

I will never forgive them for no Jade Empire 2, especially as it seemed they WERE working on one and then ditched it. It was probably my favorite Bioware game.

spear and magic helmet

@too-old-for-this said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@ominous said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@too-old-for-this

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karen momma needs her medicine

Completely loved Cruella. This film was serving up looks like it was going out of style. It was also shot in a really engaging way and had great tunes, so considering how heavily fashion features it really delivers. Aesthetically speaking I give it a 10/10.

I liked the story though that probably isn't going to be the selling point for most people; it had a good balance of dark and edgy with fun and campy. The plot is kind of Money Heist meets Gossip Girl? Devil Wears Prada meets Ocean's Eight?

In summary if gawking at cool dresses and fierce femme fatales is your bag, you're going to like this movie.

@sockmonkey today was my friday!

@ganymede These questions reminded me of one of Reddit's most upvoted posts ever.

@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@saosmash Goodwill LOVES me for this exact reason. I bring them stuff with tags still on it, still in boxes, still packaged. Just shrugging because of course I lost the receipt and the item is more than 30 days old because I can never remember to just take it back when I go again and yes I would love a receipt for this donation that I will inevitably lose within 5 minutes of getting home because I put it down SOMEWHERE because there was a smell in the apartment so I changed cat litter and took out the garbage and wiped down everything that might possibly be smelly only to realize two hours later someone across the hall is cooking something Godawful smelling and its affecting my sinuses, so I took some allergy meds just in case that would help and I sat down to handle some messenger and then my son came home from school so we talked about his day and popped some popcorn because he thought it would be fun for us to pile onto the floor and watch Ghostbusters... yeah. By the time the receipt even enters my mind again, I can't even remember actually putting it down anywhere, let alone where. XD

I can't buy clothes without actually going in, trying them on, sizing, moving, and testing them in at least two other ways. Can't do it. I keep detailed notes about which cut, size, and make fits in what way. I have only two times in my life ordered clothing online, and it was solely to get stuff I had already put through my process.

It's like my brain knows how it will go if I don't.

@hedgehog

Rose McDowall - Cut With the Cake Knife

Psychedelic Furs/Brecht/Weill - Mack the Knife

I can't seem to find a music thread, so here's a modern take on Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and it hits me just right.

CW: Mental health issues.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun but it's more relatable

@Jeshin

Hey.

I don't know if this got lost in the shuffle (shuffle, noise, vitriol), but I never minded the idea of anyone saying, "Hey, this thing is awesome and we want to feature it." I think it's a great community-building idea, and I hope you keep doing it. Even if people disagree, they will know what you think is good.

The big explosion over ideas was because of the prerequisites.

That is all.

Recorded CLE seminars would make a great insomnia cure.

@mietze said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

My youngest child came home with a pilgrims and Indians themes project in kindergarten this year school year in WA state. Which was horrifying to me on many levels.

Public school instruction in the US is extremely fractured, not only state by state but district by district and school by school. (My older kids' elementary school would have NEVER done that, and also at the time was the main site for a native american students and families group for the district, and those parents very generously shared resources with the teachers, students, and other families about PacNW history and current culture!!)

There is such a strange deviation in how we teach people on a state-by-state basis. I spent my pre-teen through high school period on Maui, wherein we did explicitly discuss American colonialism and the annexation's effects on the modern day. That said, we absolutely did not discuss anything in lengthy detail that solely affected the mainland. This made it surprisingly frank, like in US history the teacher said "The Civil War was about slavery," and that was that. When I was in early elementary school, I lived in Georgia in which the textbook used was like "here are the reasons why states' rights are important..." so you can imagine how much unlearning happened in middle & high school there.

@too-old-for-this It's great also got into the beta.

Jesus, you two (or you four, I guess). You have had a rough go of it. I'm so sorry.

@Cupcake said in The 100: The Mush:

@Booriley Was this meant for the Apology thread?

The apology thread has a 50% chance of just turning into a shooting gallery for bitter cunts.