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eating brown sugar and maple oatmeal, while figuring out if I should stream Old Blood.

Talas posted...

I was creeped out when I found out the 18 year old at work had a crush on me, I'm old enough to be her dad. How do older guys actually make out/have sex with girls that young? You have literally nothing in common with them, she's mentally still a child.. how do you not find that kinda creepy or predatorial?

I've had that. Literally had a coworker came up to me and said "you know I'm 18 right, winks". I just looked at her and said "you know that i'm not interested right?" I don't mind having a conversation with an 18 year old, but I sure as shit aint taking the chance. That said, there are 18/19 year olds that are mentally more intelligent than some 27 year olds.

speaking as someone who has rented from 3 different locations, landlords for me are a bit useless. The ones I dealt with were never around when I needed them to be around, like if the ceiling fan suddenly stopped working, or I was having trouble with the dryer. Then there's the case of my little sister whose hot water wouldn't shut off in the tub, so they couldn't even shower in their own apartment without getting burned, very troublesome with a small child.

What's worse is that most of the time little fixes that you should be able to do yourself your literally not allowed to do because of an agreement with the landlord.

I now own my own semi-detached bungalow, which I love btw. If something breaks, I can fix it, or get someone to come in and fix it.

But as for alternate solutions and I've been preaching this for the past few years ever since I discovered the Big Living in a Tiny House YouTube channel are Tiny Homes. Perfect for people just out of college who haven't quite settled down with a family, or those that just want a little independence free from landlords. There are some downsides, not all of them are hardwired into the city infrastructure and a lot of places still don't allow them, but if you have the option by all means, go right ahead.

I honestly think my next place is going to be a tiny home, if I don't get married and have kids that is.

God_Of_Entirety posted...

simple only the biggest nerds play them

Anyone can play any of them. From your typical pocket protector nerd to guys like Joe Manganiello, or lest I remind people what he turned his wine cellar into... and yes, that's the big show.
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Eat More Beef posted...

See, if you're hovering around 35, you have much different cultural touchstones than someone who is 18.

And let's not forget, the TC is only in this to get laid, so it's kinda fucked up that he's targeting younger women cause they won't be able to see through his horseshit.

and what does cultural touchstones have to do with making out or getting laid? I don't think I'd stop in the middle of a make out session because I really wanted to know her thoughts on the growing prices of housing and taxes in my area; or the crisis in the middle east. And if I'm actually trying to date someone, being physical is something that happens after I get to know them better.

Cultural touchstones only matter if your trying to form some kind of relationship with the person. If your just looking to knock boots, it doesn't matter if she is a democrat, republican, or believes in a giant statue of Chuck Norris. Long as she's clean and legal that's all that really matters in that particular context.

Now, would I go after an 18 year old? hell no. Too many incidents near my area with people getting arrested. 24 is bare minimum.

CanuckCowboy posted...

Seems like it.

No newfie water dog either and they literally jump into the ocean out of helicopters and save drowning people.

Oddly enough, even though Newfoundland is known for the Newfoundland dog, barely anyone who lives here actually owns one. Most of us own either a lab, husky, maltese or a shih' tzu. Occasionally you'll see other breeds.

As for the question, I point to the last dog I listed. I love shih'tzus. Never had a problem with them, they are playful when they want to be, lazy every other time. Super easy to deal with, and mine happens to be a lap dog.

like none of you would go for a chick if she was 100 percent 18/19 while you are in your mid 30s? It's not like he's marrying the chick. It might be weird, but if its just sexual then I see nothing wrong with it.

One of the longest relationships a friend of mine had was with a chick who was 19 when he met her, and he was 26. They dated for 4 years before she moved to Toronto.

I was slightly above average at 5'4 about 160 lbs. By the time high school ended I was 5'8 1/2 190 lbs and stayed that way until I was 24ish, then I started putting on weight. I'm now at a very thin, very trim... 298 lbs at 35 years old LOL. Working on getting the weight down, but I got injured a little over a month ago where I fractured my right tibia while out for a walk. I don't expect to lose any weight until August.

For me personally, its the very first Shadow Hearts. I love the dark gritty storyline and atmosphere of the first game. I love the judgement ring.

a-c-a-b posted...

Yeah, because before this video grown men being obsessed with Pokemon was totally normal and not embarrassing.

pfft. As my college roommate once put it: "All those kids that grew up with Pokemon are now adults. It's only natural that they still like the games. The people who don't like them because they are "kids games" are the ones that aren't normal."

Tyranthraxus posted...

Artists get paid shit for purchases as well unless you purchase directly from them like from an official band website.

yeah... its laughable how little they get paid. I read an article a few years ago that said that bands like Metallica during the peak of their popularity only got paid 10 grand from album sales. It sounds like a lot, but when you take into consideration they were selling 30+ million records/cds, that's less than .001 of a cent.

In fact, interesting story, and this is something that everyone should watch, is the documentary on Backstreet Boys and N'Sync vs their former manager. Everyone knows how popular BSB and N'Sync were during the 90s, believe it or not, most of them were broke by the time their popularity started fading, all because their manager was pillaging all the profit. Hence why you have guys like Joey Fatone working Family Feud as an announcer.

bigtiggie23 posted...

Thing is though I live in a right-to-work state, meaning you can be fired at any time for no reason at all. So you really don't complain if you want your job, and owners just lie about what happened. That's how it went down when I did get let go a few years later.

document everything good sir/woman. Literally saved my ass multiple times. Get a hard copy of you paying them, which then you can have legal council view and determine if it is illegal or not. Assuming you can afford it.

shhh gear oooh
me ya mow tow

The movie made 2.8 billion dollars, but there was no way he would have known that going in. While it is James Cameron, he hadn't directed anything noteworthy since 97 with Titanic. After that he switched to documentaries, so it was a toss up if his return to cinema would be a win or a loss. Obviously it was a massive success, partly because the movie was good, but also because they were massively pushing the changeover from dvd to blu-ray players and Avatar was going to be that "one movie you needed to see on blu-ray, to appreciate how good blu-ray was". That and a couple nature documentaries.

He made the smart choice at the time. Lets not forget that while he would have gotten 280 million dollars from Avatar, it would have blocked up his schedule for every other movie he was filming. He did release about 10 films in a 3 year period. Might not be close to 280 million dollars, but with a net worth of 170 million dollars, it's not like he's suffering for money.

WW2 has Simo Hayha. Arguably the most bad ass sniper that has ever existed.

too many times. I'll admit I was at fault for a couple of them, but there were other times that were just fucking stupid. Like being slow during the middle of a fucking blizzard bringing in carts. Another time a manager wrote me up... because I took my break 4 minutes before I was supposed to, despite both me and the other guy in my department agreeing that I should go on break now while it wasn't busy.

The guy literally walked out to my car, knocked on my car window and started flipping out at me... during my break.

The last time I got written up was because I posted a comment on a local forum letting people know of the safety changes at work because of covid, and that if they wanted to get stuff without being in the crowds to shop early in the morning, as we took off the limits to the amount of people allowed into work. Someone screenshotted it and sent it into a manager at work. Not even my manager, another manager wrote me up. Saying things like "I was working against the company, and making the company look bad, and that we had a limit and it was 800 people". 800.... in the middle of a fucking pandemic where most stores were only letting 70 people in at a time.

I should have quit then and there, but it was only a couple weeks until I was going back to college so I shut my mouth and did nothing.

This was the same stupid female manager that got pissed off at my coworker... for sitting down to tie his shoes, and for me for not stopping another coworker from going home when his scheduled shift was over, because the company decided to change the hours of his shift that day without telling him. I looked at her and said "not my problem". They tried to pull the same bullshit on me the day after and I told them I was going home, that I had been there for 8 hours already and I'm not staying for an extra 4 because you guys screwed the pooch.

I hated working at that store. At any of the retail jobs I had. Between idiot bosses yelling at me for mundane things out of my control, to others getting promoted a week into their hire instead of me who worked there for 5 years.

when you have to refer to good music as "dope" it probably isn't as good as you think it is. There are good songs being produced these days, but I still prefer stuff from the 80s and early 90s.

Rune: Viking Warlord

He isn't the head of the table. There are only 3 Samoans at the head of the table and those are, in order:

Haku
The Rock
Jacob Fatu

Since Haku and Rock are both technically retired from wrestling (though Haku does appear now and then), that leaves Jacob Fatu, who is currently the MLW heavyweight champion.

I'd need context. There are times when I as a Rein will go into the enemy team if there are 4 there and we have 6, and I expect my healers to heal me. It's the only way I can get proper ult charge. Fire Strike is alright now and then, but a rein big swinging into an enemy team can get full ult in just a couple swings, which can easily turn a fight. Same with a Zarya at full power. She can melt people if healed properly.

Obviously not going full in on 6 people, but 4 shouldn't be a problem. On the other side of the tank spectrum, I have switched to Roadhog or Ball just to get healing because my healers were too busy with dpsing or not being in voice chat to hear me say lets go left or focus heals; or they will focus on the person who only lost 10 % health.

Not always, there are some great healers out there, but think about it from the other side of things. My goal as a tank is to press the enemy line either for the point or the payload. I'm not doing my job if I just stand there with my shield up as a Reinhardt, hence the type of plays that Flats uses.

If I'm dying as a Reinhardt to 3 people with no Zen or Anna to prevent me from getting healing, and both my healers are up, then there's an issue that needs to be addressed.

On the other hand, its all communication. You don't push as a tank when you only have 2 and they have 4.

goats don't necessarily run away at least in the real world. Goats are kind of assholes and charge people just because they can. If you want to have a unique encounter do something along the lines of:

You hear a distant loud sound. As you try to process what could have made that sound, the earth beneath your feet starts to shake. Suddenly, the trees from a nearby forest start to part, and with one loud bang a multitude of them come crashing down towards your party. Eyes as black as night pierce your gaze and you realize what has just happened. A herd of gigantic goats come charging over the fallen trees towards your party. A nearby farmer screams and shouts "run for your lives". Engage combat.

Then you could use the old "the chemicals that we use to increase the size of our crops must have leaked into the nearby river, causing animals who drink it to grow larger than normal."

It really depends on where its from. I'm not a massive fan of Mcds chicken sandwiches, and BK for some awful reason puts way too much mayo on theirs. On the other hand... Wendys spicy chicken is amazing.

Side note, can't stand Wendys beef burgers. At least where I live the cook is off and the seasoning really sucks. Luckily, we just got a 5 guys so I never have to worry about that. Mind you, 5 guys is stupid expensive, so its only a treat for now and then.

Neither. I choose the 3rd option: Sour. I love sour candy. I love sour candy way way too much. I'm the kind of person that could literally bite into a lemon and eat it like an orange.

TrollTrace posted...

I do not think its my sleep though. How are you able to sleep with that machine over your face? You would have to only sleep facing upwards, thats tough. It must be really relaxing.

I can sleep on my side. I can't sleep face down, not that I would anyways. The mask forms a seal when you turn the machine on. It sounds a lot harder than it actually is.

One of my problems is that I have dry mouth when I sleep, to the point where I will wake up if it gets like that. Luckily the machine has a humidifier which helps.

DespondentDeity posted...

Idk, low sleep quality, insufficient sleep duration, inability to fall asleep, inability to stay asleep.

Sleeping way too much was one of my problems. Though it wasn't a true sleep as they put it. Of an 8 hour sleep I might be truly asleep for 40-50 minutes. But I'd always be taking naps, like 3-4 naps a day.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

how do you know if you need a cpap machine?

For me it was because I had a constant cold that wasn't going away for a good 2 years. I might disappear for a couple weeks but it would be back without fail.

That said, my cpap specialist has told me that if you just tell your doctor how you have been feeling the past few years and would like to get a sleep study done to see if it could possibly be your sleep, he will refer you to a sleep study location. That said, they aren't cheap. 2 grand bare minimum. I was lucky... and kind of unlucky at the same time. I was deemed severe at 42 interruptions an hour when the regular is 5. What that means is that during the night, I was not breathing 42 times an hour, be that snoring, coughing or just not breathing.

My insurance covered the cost of the cpap, and while it is a pain in the ass to keep clean, literally have to clean it once a week or I'll get pnemonia.

You know if you've gotten to that point if over the course of a period of time you've had a complete change in mood and thought process. Like thoughts of dread and nothing is working for you, and you literally can't process things as well as you used to.

DespondentDeity posted...

you gotta go try to sleep in a room with a bunch of people watching you with a bunch of sensors and shit hooked up to you

Not true anymore. Mine was a take home monitor. No sensors. A tube you put into your nose which wasn't bad, but the real pain in the ass was the finger monitor, as your hands get clammy while wearing it.

Gonna be real with you, see your doctor about your sleep. I know that I felt heavy depression for a couple years and it turns out it was completely on me not sleeping properly. Now that I have a cpap machine, I sleep amazingly, my mood has shot through the roof to the point where I'm actually sociable, and best of all, I actually do shit now. I'm half tempted to get back into streaming during the nights, which is something I gave up 3 years ago.

It's not the best. The best is one that is sadly no longer on YouTube anymore, which was Too Cool and Cryme Time, called Cool Tyme. Too bad too, as they managed to merge the 2 songs perfectly.

I can't say I'm surprised. My cousin is a power lifter and pulls a decent amount and at most weighs 230. Not as much as that, but his personal best was 580/590ish?
Edit: I stand corrected... 610 deadlift, 468 bench, and 562 squat. He came first in his provincial tournament.

If I took the time to actually build up my strength, I could probably pull more than him, only because of genetics giving me a little boost, but I don't think I'd ever be able to pull 700.

went to a kfc and they ran out of chicken. Also, when I was working retail as a cashier, someone had 5 items and the person in front of them let them go ahead. They laid down all 5 items and then said "I'll be right back I forgot something". 5 minutes later they came back with a handful of stuff. The guy who let them go ahead of him flipped out at her. Said something along the lines of "had he known she was going to take her sweet f'n time he would have told her to go to the back of the line.

ShyOx posted...

If he's that tall at 16 it's probably a pituitary abnormality based on family history...

Genetic traits can skip a generation or two. They aren't always based on the parents.

has the same body build as my cousin. He just turned 15 and he's 6'3ish? Interestingly enough, he was 5'3 a year before. I wish I grew that much when I was still in my teens. Would kill to be 6'2.

What_ posted...

Dont jump to conclusions

Tom Smykowski is my spirit animal. Fun fact, did you know he also voiced Aangs son Bumi in Avatar: Legend of Korra?

chicks at the same time... And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
not all chicks
The kind of chicks that would double on a dude like would.

Love me some office space, literally my top 2 comedies of all time, along with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Getting there. I've been on the platform since 2001, forgot the password to my 2001 account lol.

Remember this as well... electric beard trimmers should never be used if you have more than a little stubble. Lest your going to feel pain.

I'd be even more embarrassed... he lost to a guy who had pot in his system....

Hopefully they will stop freezing their foods. Nothing worse than eating there and half the stuff is semi-frozen.

Payzmaykr posted...

The guy from 15. He was basically just like, oh, Im the bad guy!

There was a lot more story than I'm just the bad guy. Go watch Kingsglaive, which explains his whole motivation for being the bad guy. That said, it should have been put into the game.

KeeperOfShadows posted...

Technically, 15 did give Ardyn's reasons for being the villain. They just added more to it later, with it ultimately becoming another case of "but there was someone else pulling the strings all along!".

Probably the biggest shortcoming of the series' (and Kingdom Hearts) writing imo is the overuse of the "man behind the man" plot twist. It almost always ends up tossing aside a good villain for a new one who gets zero character.

The whole game was a mess. Don't get me started on Iedolas. Dear lord I wanted to punch Tabata for what he did with that character.

Hell no. 12 and 15 are proof of that. I don't totally blame it on them being terrible villains, but also because the writing was so piss poor for both of them from changes in staff midway through production.

Vayne was just absent most of 12, and prior to Ardyns storyline dlc in 15, you wouldn't know any of his reasonings unless you bothered to watch Kingsglaive.. which was far better than the 15 itself.

welcome to my world :(. Before I got my cpap machine, tasks that would take maybe 20 minutes to finish would end up being undone for weeks. One of the few things they don't tell you is that proper sleep doesn't just affect your ability to function during the day, but also your ability to actually give a shit about things that need to get done.

2 days after I got my cpap machine, I fully cleaned my kitchen from top to bottom, folded the majority of my clothes and cleaned the entire house. Mind you... its gone back to the way it was, as my sleep the past week has been all sorts of messed up thanks to a new machine, but I'm getting back to fixing that.

I will say this.... I wish the open world city had continued on from NMH1 to NMH2. My biggest issue with NMH1 is that while I loved the look of the city, it was extremely dead. I wish NMH2 had a more robust city instead of just a menu.

are we just going to ignore that this looks an alternate version of Scorpion from Mortal Kombat?

GallisOTK posted...

This. Sw/Sh aren't bad games, they're just a step down from the great games we had back in gen 4-6.

sadly its only been getting worse. I remember playing Sun and as soon as I finished it I sold it. I normally keep my Pokemon games but that was just a bad experience through and through. Great Pokemon added to the game, but between the blockades at every corner preventing you from exploring and the removal of gym leaders... just wasn't for me.

And then Sw/Sh come out. Again, great Pokemon added to the game, and they added some really nice features like the Dynamax system, but there were parts of the game I was just like "Really?". Case in point, when gyms suddenly are more important than the story going on. The dark gym really set me off a little. Something happens prior to entering the dark gym, but we are told... focus on your gym battles, and not this". Like... I wanted to actually see what was going on. The gym will still be there.

20 dollars. But on a side note, women pay a LOT more than that just for their hair. I know my mother pays at least 40-50 depending on what she gets done. Could easily hit the 100 mark with dyeing her hair to keep it looking younger. She's in her late 60s so she really doesn't want it to be gray/white.

If you were to play one of the newer ones, I'd probably suggest either Black or even one of the remakes. Sword/Shield aren't horrible games but they are way too easy. The only downside is that a lot of the newer games are stupidly expensive.