Reading this just unlocked an ancient memory. There was some DOS game that was included in a big pack of cds in sleeves that came for free with the pc my mom bought in 1993 (I think). I could never play it because none of those cds came with manuals and the game required the last word of manual page 5 or something to actually open.
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....I literally had a colonoscopy yesterday because the "self-dislodging" stent placed in my pancreas months ago got itself lodged in the exit.
Just weird stumbling on this now of all times.
I'm going to start dating again sometime soon, so this is something I've been thinking about a lot.
I hate that if I go on an app and make a contact, the ostensible purpose will be to date. When that's the purpose, at some point an evaluation will have to be made. Either that purpose is met or it isn't. You could have a conversation about being friends or considering your options, but I'm sure starting that conversation feels awkward and hurtful. It would feel like downgrading them from the original intent behind meeting.
Not starting that conversation could be delaying the dreams of two people though, so there would be a time crunch to make a decision before I might be ready. It feels like this will inevitably end up with throwing aside people who could be great to have as friends.
A connection shouldn't be a decision, it should be something that happens. I'd rather just hang out with someone with the expectation that we're hoping to be friends, and if there is a connection we'll see it in each other sooner or later. Unfortunately for me, striking up conversations with single women to be friends with while having the thought of going further in the back of my mind might as well be the definition of creeper behavior.
I'm just pirating, but from I saw a lot of people have the opinion that the original is a better experience. If I remember correctly it's an option to just go with original graphics and audio in +, but I figured I'd test out to see if how well the modded DSi works for me.
I've started Cave Story for the first time and it seems really cute. I recently modded my old DSi, so I'm playing that version.
When I lived alone I was great about cleaning up any messes made in memory, but dust bunnies had eternal lifespans.
I think the person who drew this comic was born into the wrong generation. (They're a boomer at heart.)
Often when I upset strangers online I feel bad and log out for a few months.
Any impact protest voters might have had could be outweighed a thousandfold by nonvoters. Why call out protest voters unprompted as a cause of an election swing when their impact is a drop in an ocean?
Half the country didn't vote. If 1% of them leaned Biden they would still have had more impact than protest voters, and I feel like the percentage leaning Biden might have been slightly higher than 1%.
I feel like I see protest voters called out 300x as much as nonvoters and I can never understand why it's so disproportionate.
Like 10-15 years ago I took a screenshot from my pokemon game. I named my ditto "children" and then put it in the daycare center, so that when I went to pick him up the daycare lady says "If you want your children back, it will be $5000".
As someone who had never watched the movie "Taken", it was kind of unsettling to login to reddit the next day to find like five messages in my inbox saying some form of "I don't know who you are but I will find you and I will kill you".
Probably doesn't fit the intent but thankfully those are the only examples I have.
Yeah I opened the door to the wrong car once before and almost got in. I can picture myself getting as far as sitting down, but I can't picture myself realizing and then thinking "hey there's no rush so I should pull out my phone to take a photo of this dog before leaving".
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Had to check online to be 100% sure the superPAC that mailed it was Trump-linked. I've never heard of Elissa Slotkin before, but apparently she's a US rep for another district in Michigan. Our rep is Rashida Tlaib, who is Palestinian descent, so I'm guessing the PAC's thought process in designing this was they don't want to link Harris to our actual representative so just pick some other random rep nearby.
As someone who does not want Trump to be re-elected, it's at least relieving to know how easy it will be for the democrats to counter these dirty tricks. All they need to do is have their candidate make clear public statements to clarify that she doesn't want this linked to her campaign. Of course, she'll have to clearly point out which specific parts are offensive, so people don't just think she fine with antisemitism. Explaining that being anti-apartheid is not the same as being antisemitic is pretty straightforward though, so this should be no big deal.
I need some relationship advice. I suggested 125% but my wife won't budge from 10%. Is this normal? How did it go when you had this conversation with your romantic partner?
Roto-Borola usually likes to hang out with me when I'm working at my desk. Earlier today my wife snapped this photo of him chilling by me. Every so often he sits like this, but I think this is the first time we've seen him nap in this position. I laughed a little and it woke him up, he looked at me and did a loud meow and then got up.
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The reason I'm inclined to turn to online dating is because the real me is someone whose dream life would be spending most of his days sitting around with a good friend playing with cats. It's not like I have no solo interests at all, they're just not ones that can invite a connection by doing them in public. Sometimes I read math, I have papers on the arXiv on category theory and categorical homotopy theory, but I'm out of academia right now so that's not a way to connect with real people.
I absolutely love talking to people and forming connections, but just with one other person at a time, otherwise I get behind the conversation and go into deep introversion. I like getting to listen to someone tell their stories and talk about themselves. One of my favorite activities is reading books out loud with a friend. I don't know how to go out into the real world and just do that with one other person. Online I can, and have made some wonderful connections. It's just that dating apps specifically look like a nightmare.
If I were really into hiking or whatever I would be all about living that out. Unfortunately, the person I am is someone who would be doing activities as a means to socialize, rather than the other way around. Doing those things would very much not be the real me. It's not easy to live a solitary life for an extended period and not dream about more, and those dreams start to feel like an ulterior motive if I'm seeking out new connections.
I don't think at all about what "top" should mean in a dating pool, it hadn't even crossed my mind, so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up. I don't care about whether I find someone in a top percentile of anything, I just want to find someone who is empathetic and who I connect with.