This is super, super crummy behavior by your roommate. Swapping furniture without asking shouldn't be seen as doing someone a favor - if it was doing you a favor, they'd have asked first and gotten your consent. Ugh, sorry for that whole situation.

My favorite part about this is that I just saw you telling someone else to get off your lawn in this thread. It's a wide lawn, Old Man Whovian, and we'll step on it all we want, ahahaha. ;-)

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Uh-oh, I hope not. I owed Federal but was owed State, and I'm planning to use the state refund to pay the federal bill. Hopefully I get that refund before the federal bill is due…

I use Turbo for federal and file my State using the State's own iFile system, since it's free. Unfortunately, TurboTax actually cost me money this year to itemize deductions, which sucked. Weirdly, the price dropped $20 between the day I began my return and the day I filed my return, so you might get a better deal by…

WTF? Not paying back a deposit?! Do you have a contract with her? I know bringing the law into things isn't always an ideal route, but that's supremely shady, whatever the circumstances.

As a Catholic, I've gotten into some very, very challenging conversations with my co-religionists who somehow fail to understand why the refugee ban is untenable by our most basic moral code. A lot about the current political climate is troubling, but nothing struck me as hard as that. Happily, at least the higher…

I read that yesterday. Heck, at least you won the top comment spot on the Day Thread, eh?

This one is always my go-to.

You can pick it up on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Rock…. Meant to post the link before. Best dollar you'll ever spend, haha.

No way! I met a librarian/archivist for the R&R HoF a few years back - she was an alumni of my alma mater, and we were both invited back by the school to speak on our careers in the 'history' field. She certainly liked her job quite a bit, as do I.

I've got my fingers crossed. Do you know if there is any specific action people can take to encourage investigations?

Yup. Owning your house is the ultimate double-edged sword.

You ever hear Dylan and the Band doing Crash on the Levee/Down in the Flood on The Band's Rock of Ages album? If not, I strongly recommend it. Definitive rendition from a New Year's Eve show in 1971; thoroughly boozy and featuring a trumpet or something.

Hahaha, I've never seen "alla clams". That's hilarious, and bizarre. Anytime you mix languages, you end up with some pretty delightful word soup, eh?

Eh, sure. I don't think it's especially well established, and leaves a fair amount up to interpretation, but your approach has been mine as well. I mean, it's not a Catholic Purgatory, strictly speaking, but the outlines are effectively similar - it has something of a distinctly Japanese spin, though, in that the…

Thank goodness. It always must be a challenging internal conversation when developing a game how to make a crafting system that rewards interested players without discouraging uninterested players. Glad to hear that Nioh pulls it off.

Afraid not. I heard it was primarily focused on PVP.

This could be my motto for so many modern WRPGs.

I've actually always appreciated the way that Dark Souls blends the melancholy, or the horrifying, with the humorously absurd. It's almost David Lynch-esque in that way. For every terrifying swamp beast or malnourished wolf god there's a gigantic skinny mimic with a treasure chest for a head, or a partner dropping…