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When we got married, we turned both of our personal accounts into two joint accounts. So each account is still in our names and that's where our paycheck goes, but we both have access to both of them.

To manage our budget, we use YNAB. It essentially pulls our money into specific budget categories where we can allocate funds into specific areas, from immediate obligations like mortgage and phone bill, to savings categories like travel and new technology fund, to quality of life allowances like dining out, entertainment, and our own personal funds similar to the fun money mentioned above. For every expenditure save for our own "fun money" is discussed prior to every purchase. We stick to a strict categorized budget, so we won't go over a certain amount eating out per month, or spend more than we budgeted for clothes, or hair cuts, or window shopping. If we expect to make a bigger purchase, like plane tickets for vacation, we simply input money into the "travel" category every month in small increments, until it builds enough for the price of the plane tickets.

We do this because we both have a lot of student loan debt and we're trying to pay it off while still giving us some flexible spending money through the process.

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That sucks. I've been eagerly awaiting for them to put Season 3 on Disney Plus since I finished Season 2. I hope Season 3 doesn't end on a cliffhanger like the other seasons did.

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I wonder if our belief in religious systems are just our caretakers who keep us as pets, but just as dog's don't realize we "own" them and think we are just their loving caretakers who feed them, we see them as our creators and protectors.

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Glad to help!

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I developed my own three-step process for doing papers of varying lengths (though this obviously works better with longer papers). Feel free to use or adjust as you see fit. From reading your OP, it seems similar to how you do it, mine is just structured so it works with any paper.

1. The Sources Summary- I look for sources that may fit a topic. If it doesn't fit, I discard and go to the next one. If I find something useful, I enter the source (in APA/MLA/Chicago format) into a blank word document, then add a bullet point list of paraphrased sentences from the source that would likely fit into my paper. Rinse and repeat until you hit the minimum number of sources required (though I usually add 1 or 2 more just in case one of them doesn't work out). Save and finish.
2. The Outline- Now I create the skeleton of the paper. On a separate blank document, I create all the headings (in the required style format), including Headings 1, 2, and if necessary, 3 and 4. Really think about how your paper is supposed to flow based on the sources in your sources summary. What story are you trying to tell? Organize it so that you do not have to come back and restructure your paper later. Create the headings in a way that all you have to do is fill them in later. It should essentially look like a table of contents without page numbers. Save and finish.
3. The Body- Resave your outline as a new document, then start adding the body of the text. If you completed steps 1 and 2 thoroughly, the paper should pretty much write itself. Go to each heading, and reference your sources summary to see what sentence may fit. My strategy is that I bold every bullet point in the sources summary, then un-bold each sentence that I use, so that I know to skip passed it when skimming the document. Just keep writing your paper, and include that sentence and citation as you go through. Make sure to add the citation to your references page. By the end of your paper, all of your bullet points in your sources summary document should be unbolded by now. If you have any bolds left, figure out where they belong in your paper that you forgot to include them. If it no longer fits, just delete it. Give your paper a proofread, and you should be good to go.

It's not perfect, but I've used this strategy through three college degrees and it hasn't failed me yet. Makes the process feel more formulaic, which helps to keep that writer's block away that often comes up at the start of a paper. It also allows me to break the paper into three manageable segments that can be done on different days if necessary.

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I'm curious what this will mean for Umbrella Chronicles Season 3. Specifically, because the character was established to be one of only two sisters. So either Elliot continues to play a girl in the show to stay consistent with the character, or they introduce a trans plotline.

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I have a thing for powerful women. VPs/CEOs, doctors, class valedictorians, etc are examples of women I have found attractive on multiple occasions. Being able to woo a strong woman like that and get them into bed feels like an achievement and is quite the turn-on.

In my experience, strong women like to be more submissive in bed as a release from their regular day-to-day lifestyle.


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I really don't have time to invest in long games. Even if I find a free afternoon, I would rather spend time with my wife. So I will play a game for about 30 minute increments then do something else. So shorter games are better, otherwise it would take me forever to finish one.

The only exception to this is games with local co-op campaigns. If you can beat the game with a partner, it allows me to do something with the wife, so we can spend hours in it. So if I do spend time on longer games, it's ones like Borderlands, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, and Luigi's Mansion 3.

Though half the time we just play Minecraft and work on our village.

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So far, other than the YouTuber's mentioned in the OP (that have not yet been named), this topic has been nothing but praise from people who have actually watched it.

I watched the whole season and I loved it. I agree that the lack of side characters were a weak point. But the episodes ranged from good to great and some of the jokes were very top tier.

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I'm hispanic, so our Thanksgiving every year growing up was turkey with lots of rice. That's it. Maybe some beets on the side.

Since I married a white girl, though, my Thanksgivings have been more traditional. So much food.

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The dialogue is just awful. Every line said is either cliche or just pure cringe. Samus says "the baby" like over 50 times. The plot is also disorganized and falls apart halfway through. They literally drop a crucial plot point halfway through with no reference to it the rest of the game, only to switch to a generic anime trope plot.

And everything else mentioned in this topic.

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In Mystery Incorporated, it was "Traps".

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Try Education Connection!
https://youtu.be/3SRdNjBPnzQ

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He used the word defenestrate in S1E10 of the reboot. Guess what he'll be doing tomorrow night.

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I hate how... real he looks... Like he is just a regular dog with red dye, and bigger. I guess that's cheaper to do but it would have worked better with a more cartoony look.

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MC_BatCommander posted...

I'd imagine the food isn't particularly good enough to waste your time waiting.

It really depends where the food comes from on a given day. Sometimes they'll get a donation of steaks past the sell-by date at a supermarket (but not the actual expiration date), so patrons can get a steak dinner. More often, though, it is the basics. Rice and beans, or some type of soup/stew, and maybe a fruit cup or pudding. There is almost always a protein, ranging from beef and chicken, to spam and vienna sausages.

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In many places it's an honor code system. If you feel the need to go get free food, then it's not their job to tell you that you don't need it. I have worked in different soup kitchens and you would be surprised how many middle class Americans in dockers and button ups are eating there with their kids. They have a nice house, but it is undervalued so they are drowning in mortgage payments and don't have enough for food. They have to choose between food or shelter for their kids. They would rather be foodless than homeless, so they come to the soup kitchen.

Though I have seen some soup kitchens that require proof of need, like a layoff notice or even a tax return showing low income.

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Interesting that pay is not #1 for many people here. Also surprised to see easiness of work the top choice.

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Son Of Spam posted...

I actually put easiness of job and commute time above pay. Once my house is paid off I could live comfortably working at McDonalds.

Fair enough!

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This is the supportive side of CE I like seeing.

On-topic, I kinda get what some people are saying. Sometimes I was just curious to try different things than what we are used to wearing/doing.

In college, theatre helped a lot with that. I did improv, full plays, and musicals where I got to play dozens of different characters, including crossdressing as women for some. It was a great release to just be someone else for a while. Some of my best life memories involve my theatre days and it helped to scratch that itch.

I may join our local community theatre one of these days now that I am done with my grad degree. It's super easy to get a role as a guy in community theatre because so few guys do it.

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I recently took a pay cut for a new job. I had to move due to wife's job relocation. This had me thinking about the non-salary benefits the job brought.

I decided to make a list of the top 3 things I want in a job. For me, they were:
1. Pay
2. Short commute time to work
3. Good job title

So since the job was a pay cut, it needed to have my #2 and #3, which it did, so I took it.

How about you? If you had to pick your most important non-pay job benefit, what would it be? You are welcome to share your top 2 or 3 on your post.

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Balrog0 posted...

Untitled goose game is multiplayer? I think I might do that

Yep, co-op mode added in September

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Conflict posted...

Snipperclips

This x 100

Also,
Captain Toad
Untitled Goose Game
Minecraft

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SaltyWet posted...

I have an operations management degree. Ask her if it will suffice.

It should. I think there is enough overlap there with supply chain to make you competitive. Look up health information systems for more info on the job type.

Even that ranges from super technical with heavy programming required to more front-end interfaces with minimal programming. Although my wife's programming experience made her competitive, her job has virtually no programming, mostly database and excel management.

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My wife does information systems at a hospital. It's like a blend of IT and supply chain management, with just a tad bit of business analytics thrown in. Pays really well and no patient interaction at all.

Great for people with engineering, computer science, or supply chain management degrees. Business degrees work too depending on specialization.

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smoke_break posted...

I must... watch this scene... immediately.

*boots up Hulu*

It's funny cause I started watching Superstore before Shameless, so when she first appeared on Shameless I was like "Oh hey, it's Cheyenne wearing glasses! I didn't know she was in thi- Oh God she's taking her top off!". Made the scene hotter knowing who she was, lol.

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Her costumes each Halloween episode are great.


Also, she caught me by surprise when I was watching Shameless and she randomly showed up with a nude scene. I think that was before she joined superstore.

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Technically, in most 2D Mario games, the bosses don't have weak spots. Their whole body is equally vulnerable if you manage to hit them with a fireball or something they threw at your first.

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Yeah I fought that all the time in school. At some point I just got sick of it and started working on my papers in pieces. I found a three-part division of labor that worked well for me through the creation of three documents:

1. Source Descriptions Document: Basically an annotated bibliography. I went through and found sources that might fit my topic and created a document with all the sources and a quick, bullet-point list of statements or phrases that likely would fit what I would write about
2. Paper Outline Document: On a different day, I would simply create the outline of my paper, complete with APA style-headings. The resulting paper would be about 2 pages of headings, but it would take a while to do as it required me to look at the source descriptions document and create a general flow for how I would present the information.
3. Actual Paper: With the sources in hand, and a paper outline ready with headings, all I had to do was fill the headings in with text. I would basically start writing my paper, inserting the statements/phrases I wrote in the other document as they applied to the section I was writing, then crossing them out with track changes once I applied them. Once I crossed out every statement in the first document, I was done with my paper

The method worked pretty well, as each step can be done on a different day, so I didn't feel like I had to do it all at once. Depending on the length and complexity of the paper, step 1 and step 3 may be further divided into two days of work, but that wasn't very common.

Procrastination sucks, but once you find a methodical way to avoid it once, it gets easier going forward. I also give myself a hard deadline that is days earlier than the school deadline. Usually lets me breathe when I'm done.

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The Ducktales Reboot is amazing. First two seasons are on there and the third season should hit soon as it's almost done airing on TV. Great serialized story and a growing cast of characters from other Disney afternoon shows.

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

I started it during quarantine and am current now. It's a solid sitcom in a world where so few exist. I shamefully am very attracted Dina and her big cans.

Dina is an amazing character and consistently brings the most laughs per episodes. You don't really see characters like her on sitcoms, at least not with her level of depth.

Also I love her running gag of wearing the same slutty cop Halloween costume every Halloween episode.

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Xerun posted...

I dropped it after (season 6 spoilers) the way they handled Amy leaving. It felt like the worst possible way to have her and Jonah break up and came out of absolutely nowhere.

I agree. I feel like it really soured what should have been a touching episode. I also think it left a bad mark on her character.

Plus, they have really been piling it on Jonah this season. So much so they even had Cheyenne make an observation about it in the most recent episode.

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Yeah, I love it.

I kinda like the Covid plot. The show's premise fits it so well. Now some of the other shows I watch, would be nice if they moved away from it. Like Blackish. It was fine foe the first episode, but they are pretty much ignoring it now anyways, with only the occasional mention here and there. That's just weird.

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I find the sauce or marinade typically drowns out rhe flavors of other spices and seasonings, so usually it's an either/or situation. I either coat the meat in spices only, or put sauce only, but not both.

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Make sure it's not a scam trying to sell you an empty box or something like that.

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Ehh, the show was alright. It was your typical generic show about a kid trying to survive in school. Think Braceface but with an uglier hairstyle.

I do remember this show taught me that you were supposed to wear green on St. Patrick's Day, as one episode dealt with Angela forgetting to wear green and the kids were threatening to pinch her after school. Then she realizes her sweater is reversible and is green on the inside. So she changes it and Ninette runs over to pinch her not realizing she was now wearing green, and apparently the rules are if you pinch someone getting green you get pinched. So the whole school pinched Ninette.

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cuh posted...

Is that actually true

how much do you run per day

This is only marginally true if you are a teenager or in your early 20s and make it a habit to run both short and long distance sessions. Otherwise you still need to watch what you eat if you want to stay fit.

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I started running October 1st to prepare for a Halloween 5k on the 31st. I ran about 4 times a week for a month and the results have been amazing. I cut about 3 minutes from my initial 5k time, lost about 7 pounds, and have more energy than I ever had.

I don't think my metabolism will ever get to a point where I could eat whatever I want, but it only required minimal changes to my diet to get these results.

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*Points to sig*

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DoubleOSnake posted...

zanz, you do believe in a heaven? but how much doubt about it do you have though?

I do, actually. It makes sense to me and I've had a spiritually journey throughout my life that has made me a believer. I wouldn't say I guarantee it exists, but I am relatively confident that it exists in some form. I'm just not sure what it would look like. I don't think my mind can comprehend what an existence inside a heaven could mean; certainly nothing like we see in the media.

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This song always reminds me of that Full House episode.

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Yeah, it comes and goes for me. It hits me less often now than, say, 10 years ago. Typically I drown it out by being busy, so I always have something going on, even on my off days. It's those random days where I have absolutely nothing to do when my mind wanders into existential dread territory.

I don't even know why. Logically it shouldn't matter. I didn't exist before I was born, so why should it be any different after I die? For me I guess it's just I like to know things, and the thought of not knowing, or comprehending something as abstract as not existing really messes with my mind.

The craziest thing is that I am a religious person that believes in heaven, and the thought of spending an eternity in heaven also freaks me out. An eternity in anything, good or bad, just feels like torture at some point.

So I'm stuck between having to accept a reality where I don't exist or where I exist forever. Neither option sounds appealing.

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I'm married and we are actively trying to conceive. So I've been all natural for years. Feels good, man.

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spikethedevil posted...

King Bomb-omb is the final boss? @CrimsonWaffle

That would be hilarious.

*Mario defeats Bowser*
Voice from shadows: "You fool! Bowser was but a puppet. Now you will witness true power!"
*King Bob-omb lands in arena, doing his usual gimmick of slowly marching towards you*

That would garner so many wtfs.

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MegaCamerupt posted...

Pokemon RBY/FRLG and USUM

Came in to say this.

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Illuminoius posted...

when is this ever done outside of that one really shitty meme

Very often on social media. Overly expressive girls do this often on their facebooks statuses. Like they'll say "Been a great day (pic of sun)! Now heading home (pic of house) to drink (pic of wine glass) and sleep (pic of z's)."

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It gets annoying when people type whole paragraphs where an emoji accompanies every noun, as if you need a picture to reinforce the word you just read. It feels like I'm playing through a modern 2D/3D Mario story.

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