I was speaking out of concern for his safety, not his access. I was mostly alluding to the fact that “he probably won’t get HepB” math changes where you are. US infection rates are very low (1/100,000) and global is much higher (3.5/100).

You already know you aren’t even playing the favorable odds in the US.…

I think the hardest part ethically about that stance is that unlike not wearing a seatbelt it does affect others. It’d be no problem if we made sure 100% of the rest of the world got the HepB vaccine and your son sat that one out. He’d be incredibly safe. Shit, it’s safer *not* to get it at that point, that 1/4mil (or…

“Don’t ‘cancel’ me for being a non-conformist!”
...shouts the filthy man eating rats raw during the bubonic plague.

“What are we putting into our bodies!?”
A vaccine...for a deadly disease?

> In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and…

There’s a pretty big market right now for these, not just print-your-own versions but also nicer “deluxe” etsy stores doing things like metal or vinyls with decent (car-quality) paints, lighting, soundboards, etc.

I used to go to conventions a lot and they started to become a huge thing to sell there in 2019 (some…

And just think, just after you hit 37 and reach 10mil XP lifetime total you’ll be 50% of the way to 40...which needs 20mil total!

Hooray!

I remember when I picked the game back up when Johto finally dropped as I’d mostly stopped playing. I remember griping on FB that some of the features were locked behind level caps.

I recall a friend saying, “Lol 40 isn’t that high of a level, you just need to play more!!” and I was grumpy but hey, it was fair. I…

Yep. Many months ago they basically did a bunch of covid balance changes, such as:

Pokemon are much more likely to spawn around you
Stops/gyms can be accessed from a much larger radius
Rockets will show up in balloons to battle for quests/rewards
Research quests appear daily rather than having to spin for them
Shop now…

Idk what to tell you then, coronavirus has mostly put an end to easy flights or tastings. You’re from CA so you know $6 isn’t crazy, but at this point it’s sort of the price-of-admission at this point in the absence of cheaper tasting options.

I think you were still being a little hyperbolic about calling the pricing…

I think you may either be blessed by living in a cheaper area, or cursed to live in an area without beers worth spending $6+ on.

What I liked most about it was that it was a “premium” version of a very standard thing.

Idk what the value is in defining a roadmap to “fix” a game that will be forgotten in a matter of weeks? I’ll bet the money for development ends before they can even patch everything they want so they’ll just stop and by then nobody will care.

The most interesting thing about XIII was the visual style, if it had looked…

You’re right but idk how you’re going to convince most people of this when restaurants are open.

My area just started to allow indoor dining again a few weeks ago; it’s really hard to convince people to take precautions for one very important meal that they aren’t even being asked to do for normal stuff.

We’re how many…

Yeah same thing, at 31 I was over 1x, then I got a job that made almost 2.5x that salary. So I was at less than half the goal (I was moving from a very low cost-of-living area to a very high one).

So I’m behind but only if I intend to retire in Silicon Valley which I’d never even consider (not just financially, I also…

I assumed I misread or misunderstood so I went and checked. Yep, only two ports...that’s crazy to me. So every user will have a power cable plus a dock/dongle/adapter pretty much guaranteed just to do basic shit.

> reasonably priced mid-tower PC that’s actually designed for home users
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My guess: the always-on helmet thing will have been a reaction to the breakdown of mandalorian culture and the diaspora.

Similar to how certain ethnic groups when separated from their origin will “double-down” on things they think unite them as a group, even if those are more modern inventions. So the helmet thing is a…

I did this pre-pandemic and extolled the virtues of it for months to my unenthused coworkers. I live in the bay area so used furniture was crazy plentiful down here, so many places open and close and most of the new startups buy new furniture (they just got funding, go nuts, woo!).

Downside is that while the used…

I got lucky, I moved into a new place in November and set up a nice home office for my side work. Even got a great office chair (perfect match for my one at work!) for 70% off buying it from a used office supply company.

New desk from ikea, gotta fit two monitors! All shit that was easy or “extravagant” in Dec/Jan and…

I get this. We had to “hide” consoles so much from my dad we literally weren’t allowed to own them. “You’ll break my TV!”

So all the times I used a console (N64) at home were rentals from Blockbuster Video when dad was out of town. It had to be back at Blockbuster by the time dad got home, didn’t matter if we still had…