I would crush that.

Good luck! Great pics. I love a good brown.

I’ve come to non credible comments for a sanity check. I think it’s a sign I should start stockpiling food or something.

Yea, it would be more about starting a habit that would result in future security. In a perfect world, it starts here with $75 and a tenner every month, then they start putting in $20, then they ramp it up as they’re able.

Problems are like compound interest. You’re going to deal with them sooner or later but if you do it later, it costs more. Deal with them sooner.

The absolute best use is opening a Vanguard account, putting $75 in VOO, and forgetting you did it for about 20 or 30 years. Even better, put a $10 in there every month as well.

For a gift for myself when I’m not strapped for cash, I use gift cards and cash for something I would never buy myself. It just feels like it makes a bigger impact that way. I remember it.

If going the charity route, go to your nearest unhoused shelter and ask what they need. I volunteer at one that is hanging on by a thread (no real funding other than a small grant from the county, it’s just volunteers). Sometimes donations aren’t hitting everything we need and something has run out. Hot chocolate packets and cup of noodles are so valuable (easily transportable, usable, stable, and withstand outdoor weather) that we were giving out handfuls yesterday instead of our typical limit of 1 per person per day. It’s wild how important those little things are.

We played Rock Band (yarc) for hours at our Xmas Eve party last night. 20 or so people and just about everyone cycled thru to play. That game will never die.

It’s even worse than that. The student gave an interview and said they wanted to go see a play so they slapped the paper together in a half hour and dint read the material the paper was supposed to be based on.

Absolute cowardice by Oklahoma.

Got them the cosplay they wanted for Xmas. That’s their big gift.

And in this moment, I realized my kid fits some theater kid cosplay archetype that I didn’t know existed.

Gamebillet has been killing it lately

I just refused to have texting back then. I worked for a phone company around that time and the bullshit they would charge for drove me crazy.

did I just get psyllium husk pilled

Boy you called that shot. That’s exactly what I’ve got.

That’s a great question. I’m not sure. I played Blue Prince and really liked it, but my family went and found Seance because they thought it was like Roottrees and Immortality.

Alright, this must actually be a thing because that’s what my kid said about Date Everything, too. The kid is way into voice acting.

• Shape of Dreams: Need to scratch that hack n slash itch. D4 is boring and PoE 2 ran horrible on my machine. New game but under $15.
• Cuphead: One of my kids has wanted to play this for years. Xmas present for him.
• Date Everything: The other kid wants this one. Xmas present. I dunno, man.
• The Seance of Blake Manor: Our family loves these kinds of games and it’s one of the only ways to get us all in a room. New game but under $15.
• Split Fiction: I hate the price still but my wife loved It Takes Two. Fiiiiiiine.
• Duck Detective The Secret Salami: Another family game.
• Echoes of the Plum Grove: I like this kinda stuff
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2: Man I love Power Stone.
• Astro Bot: Reviews are good enough to catch it on black friday deals.
• Spiderman 2: Loved 1 and Miles Morales.

Me too, but people I know into each of those genres usually just play the shit out of those genres. Racing peeps and sports sims peeps usually have a billion hours in them and like 3 playing some else.

One of the most difficult things to do politically is hold a coalition together. Self interest is just too strong. Leaders who could force a coalition to vote together were legendary characters. Tom Delay’s nickname was The Hammer because of his well known ability to smash a member into voting his way.

The Republican level of lockstep politics is a rather new development. People are right to say it’s cultish behavior but even then, once the shine went off Trump (which is happening now) I expected the rats to start abandoning ship. But they’re just not. Sure, you’ve got MTG bailing and a couple of very concerned Senators, but otherwise the coalition is remarkable for its durability in holding together.

And they’re all gonna get smoked in the midterms. It’s like a suicide pact.

I know, but it was my white whale and I wanted to play it on the original hardware.