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@saturna

Great suggestions, especially Made in Abyss. It's such a weird, wonderful show.

@greenflashlight said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Jesus fuck, my groin.*

*this sentence contains one of the most important commas I have ever used

@greenflashlight

Nonsense. This is exactly how adults survive.

I mean, it ain't thriving, but when is it ever.

@derp said in Bad TV:

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.

And that's a totally valid take! I just couldn't vibe on it the same way I did the first game.

@testament

I, too, am riding the meme currency train. I treated it not as an investment, but more like gambling. I am in it with the mentality that I expect to lose the entire initial buy, but it's fun to dream.

@cobalt

SEEMINGLY.

@derp

Citation? My dieting butt is genuinely curious to read this.

@greenflashlight

@ominous said in Good TV:

@betternow

Oh, is that when you let your rank fall or start a new account so you get matched with weaker opponents and curbstomp them?

That's usually referred to as smurfing! But this is more gaming conversation than I intended to spark with my joke. Arcane really is pretty amazingly animated. There's a lot to appreciate there, even from someone like me who got run out of League after two matches.

@greenflashlight said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

You ever buy all the stuff to make jambalaya, go to the fridge to pull it all out, discover the thought of cooking is too exhausting to deal with, so you just start eating the sausage cold straight from the package while wondering if this is a sign you might be getting depressed?

I mean, not Jambalaya, but definitely.

@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@greenflashlight

Not me.

Two things that help me through depression: (1) work; and (2) cooking.

My partner knows I'm in deep when I'm cooking all the time.

I won't say I'm envious of your depression, because that's shitty and not the case, but I will say I am impressed by the output of your depression. What a productive coping strategy!

I just want to feel safe enough to enter a movie theater to see it.

Whiiiiich I don't. Dang it.

@solstice said in The Work Thread:

It took a massive case surge in our organization (which I hopefully? dodged), but I'm back to fully remote.

I'm ecstatic about this.

So that lasted all of a week. Our department head got furious at the notion that we wouldn't have butts in seats to, I don't know, plug in USB cords or something. So, back to the Covid farm, despite my company having a 20% positivity rate over the last 21 days.

Feel like I'm gonna cry. This is so nonsensical.

@23quarius said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@solstice YouTube serves widely disliked videos because it counts dislikes as engagement and finds somebody else to show it to.

Agggh. I dislike this.

Just found out that I am making 56% less than the person who was hired a week before me, is ten years my junior, and who has demonstrably fewer responsibilities (and to be petty, who barely understands the job.)

Guess I inadvertently low-balled myself when I took the job.

Yay, capitalism.

@crawfish

So happy for you! Just make sure the stretch rewards don't eat too much into your bottom line!