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@misadventure said in RL Sads:

I read something saying that some folks don't have the same sense of decay of the value or intensity of a friendship over time. That's how I feel, whether it's mixed, negative or positive.

I am definitely one of those people.

High school friend that I haven't talked to in twenty years? Doesn't matter. We're still buds and I will act as such.

@eye8urcake

I'm sorry that you're going through that.

We're still here if you ever need us for anything at all.

@ganymede said in Critters!:

@silverfox

This is what all mothers want.

Everyone wants naptime.

@wizz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Well, that is that, my trusty laptop is officially dead. Thought it was maybe the battery, so I replaced it and tried all the fixes I could find when it wouldn't power on, but no luck. Something vital is most likely fried.

I am so frustrated but at the same time so resigned to it that I just sat there for like five minutes after closing everything back up.

Can't afford a new laptop right now, so I just straight up don't have a computer. Thus, can't take the coding courses I was hoping to take, can't study, etc etc etc.

It's just one more shitty thing this year on a pile of them so I can't even work up the energy to be truly upset about it.

So. I've been in this situation before. And it really, truly sucks.

What I can say, though, is that laptops can come extraordinarily cheaply.

I have this little guy that I take with me to work. It's by no means a powerhouse or anything, but I've never experienced any kind of serious performance issue with it unless I have a billion browser tabs open. I can use it to listen to spotify or something while running Atom, which is a memory beast, and modifying Ares stuff with a MU client in the background.

And, best of all, since it's through Walmart.com, you can use teh Paypal option and try to qualify for the Pay-In-4, where they split it up over your next 4 paychecks.

I know that it's not a great option when you're feeling strapped for cash, and it's certainly no gaming notebook or whatever. But just for work and school, I've found that it meets all of my needs and still lets me stream just fine right out of the box.

Might be worth looking into. Sorry that I can't be of more help than that right now, but I know that the gamers in this community, no matter how much we might be at each others' throats all the time, have each other's backs. Maybe you could set up a GoFundMe or something for donations toward something new? Even if just a temporary fix.

ETA: It will run Atom and Discord at the same time while doing those other things, which on my HP notebook will absolutely crash it, but it's a dinosaur.

@faraday

This is why we need to teach peer review way, way before college. All of the Big Leap Forward science stories I remember being taught in school, many of which are complete bullshit anyway, just talk about someone making a discovery like some rogue mad scientist and the world just kind of adjusting to accommodate.

We need to start teaching it as methodology, not divine inspiration, pretty much as soon as we start teaching it.

@silverfox said in Pandemic Era Issues:

@derp

And FUNDING doing the follow-up studies to prove the first one was actually legit, rather than only funding 'novel' research.

Yes.

It has to be testable and repeatable.

@testament said in Pandemic Era Issues:

I'm not even angry about it anymore. I simply don't care. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

These people wanting to spout "muh freedoms" don't seem to understand how vaccines have always been mandatory in some situations.

In school or college you had to be up to date on all your vaccines or you couldn't go to school.

Having be up to date on all your vaccines was a requirement to work in a medical setting or position

Officers in the military tending their resignation over the vaccine forget that on fucking Day 3 of BMT, you're filed down a line of nurses who jab you about four times in each arm and you didn't question it then

So fuck them. Every last one of them. They have nobody but themselves to blame for dying on this stupid hill of ignorance.

Hell of a hill to die on, but at least you're dead.

Preach.

@faraday

While it's certainly true that echo chambers exist, at some point you have to draw a line between 'poor mislead soul' and 'willfully obtuse fool'.

The scam networks can spout whatever they want. We're literally fighting disinformation on this subject at every front. People are surrounded by legitimate, accurate information. It's not like they're not hearing it. At some point, they've simply chosen to ignore the vast amount of legitimate information in favor of the one that supports their biases, which they were going to believe anyway.

At some point, we have to move away from "you poor thing" into "bless your heart" territory.

@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

@ominous said in Bad TV:

@silverfox

I was tired of zombies in 2010. Can we finally, finally move past zombies?

Look, you have the Cycle of the Uncanny Valley.

First, you get zombies.

Then you get demons/fairies/anthro monsters.

Then you get clowns.

Then back to zombies.

We just got done wtih clowns again. Now you get more zombies.

This is the way.

@solstice said in Bad TV:

(No, I'm not one of those Last of Us 2 detractors (Big Yikes, No Thanks), I just found I preferred the conflict and ambiguity offered by the first game's narrative.)

See, I like both of them. I loved 2.

But I'm all about that slow descent into the dark and twisty parts as layer upon layer of horror comes to light as you, the player, just tag along for the ride.

@too-old-for-this said in Good TV:

Frodo is largely a walking husk throughout the movie

Merry and Pippin are the true stars of that series.

I was gonna put this in peeves, but -- I'm angry. Like, really super angry, the more I think about it.

My bank kind of fucked me. Most banks, if you have overnight transactions, will process deposits before debits. Because that tends to be the natural thing to do.

Apparently, not my bank. I scheduled some bills to get paid today. And they did. Four of them. But the bank processed these before they processed my paycheck.

And now, due to the order in which they processed this shit, I have almost two hundred dollars in overdraft fees. Which the bank refuses to cover, even though they are due in their entirety to the order of processing. That the bank decided on.

I can normally eat an overdraft fee. It'll hurt. But I usually have some flexibility there.

But I work for the government in a 'fiscally conservative' red state. Which means that I get paid significantly less than my private-sector counterparts. To the tune of five figures. I can't just absorb $200 in fucking fees like it's nothing, especially after putting stuff off for almost two weeks in an effort to avoid overdraft fees in the first place.

So now, I get to play the fun adult game of 'do I have enough food to last for two weeks if I skip groceries, and can I absorb yet another overdraft fee for the fucking rent that this bank has eaten into the funds for, and can the brake pads I was planning on changing this week make it another two weeks? Do I ask my friends for help when my life is completely unpredictable and I cannot promise I can repay it on a set schedule? Do I reach out to family and hope against all hope that they don't try the same manipulative psychological bullshit that caused me to shut them out in the first place?'

I hate this feeling.

@ganymede

It's very much on my agenda, yes. There are some benefits to this particular bank. Namely that they have ATM's like -- everywhere. Everywhere. Which is occasionally useful. The other banks I have as current options require a bit more forethought and planning to avoid other fees.

But when I talked to the banker lady, she said that I wasn't eligible to have any of the fees covered because I did have to legitimately overdraft at the beginning of the year when I had to move out of my old place in a hurry, which ate all the savings I had and then some, because I didn't feel comfortable in a house with a dude that pulled a gun on me, quelle surprise.

So she's all 'because we only charged you fifty dollars instead of a hundred and fifty dollars back in April you are not eligible to have us fix our own fuckup until the end of November, sorry'.

Finding another bank is definitely on the agenda.

@reimesu said in RL Anger:

Pomplamoose

Look, introducing people to the glory of Pomplamoose is just basic human decency, and don't you let anyone ever tell you otherwise.

Alright. I did the thing.

After doing the math and figuring out how much this is actually setting me back and how incredibly painful this can be for the next few weeks -- I took the plunge and made a GoFundMe, with a realistic amount based on the new fees and expenses that will come from this one.

https://gofund.me/d4b1da0f

Apparently I wrote a novel in the blurb part just -- explaining how this has been a shit year and how much it has sucked trying to get caught up. GFM requires you to click 'Read More' like eight times. So if you want the whole thing all at once, here goes:

***=Long and Stuff***

For those skipping that part -- the TL;DR is that not only do I have to account for the 200, I have to account for the 75 that will get added onto the rent for it, as well as all the other basic adulting charges, and realistically -- I could use some help. Even if I hate that I need help, and hate asking for it more. There's just too much that can go wrong to keep gambling on me being able to catch up before the next majorly expensive thing.

Any help you can offer is appreciated.

@aria

Oh god, now i'm remembering it and tearing up too. It's a good day to cry, sure, why not.

@tinuviel said in RL Anger:

THERE. I PAID YOU MONEY. NOW YOU MUST BE NICE TO ME.

I DO?

...can I return it?

(Kidding. <3. Thank you!)

@reimesu said in RL Anger:

@derp

Thank you for letting us do this. And thank you again for the Pomplamoose. You're almost there!

You guys are just the best! I'm getting all choked up!