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I re-read the letter that Lindsay wrote for her brother. It is not always kind.

I wish things could have been different. If we had different parents, maybe our relationship would have had a chance. I know you had an unquenchable desire to have a cohesive family to have everyone come together and let sleeping dogs lie. Our family was so broken (the four of us - not your current family), there was no way we could be mended. The times I tried to talk to you about the damage that had been done, you became angry, argumentative, dismissive, and unsupportive. There was no moving on from this point. I wish you could have seen our relationship as more important than the other things. I always felt like an after-thought. At any major point, if I was allowed, I was there for you. I never even met your son. I cant tell you how much that hurt me. If I didnt do exactly as you wanted, I couldnt see them anymore. I know you came to me a few times hoping to move past things by sweeping things under the rug, but that wouldnt be honest. The family always ragged on me for not being healthy or not having the energy to do anything that was out of my hands. Yet, my worth was concretely linked to that notion. Lindsay doesnt have the energy to do something? She obviously doesnt care. No one considered the fact that I wasnt well enough to do what was asked of me. Everyone wanted me to bend over backwards to make everyone else happy, but no one cared about my happiness. There was no compromise.

There are nice things in there too and some medical background incase his kids end up having anything similar to what she did... but this letter does not hold back.

Looks awesome!!!

Any G suggestions?

The story behind the creation of this song is probably more impressive than the song itself. I really enjoy it, but it isn't a Top 10 of their catalog for obvious reasons.

The story behind it? That is amazing.

Zikten posted...

I did wonder about her family but I didn't want to ask. Do they know where you live?

No, we moved and didn't tell them where we moved to. My nephew lives where we used to live and her brother did show up once asking about her, but thankfully my nephew is a smart young man and we told him something like that might happen so he just said, "Oh no sorry, they moved away and I'm renting here now" and he has not returned.

I've been putting off something kinda important since my wife passed away, but it needs some backstory.

My wife was estranged from her family. She was sexually abused by her father and thus she ran away from home at 13 or so. In all that happening, her brother didn't believe her about the sexual abuse and her mother eventually fled the marriage as well, but went through a phase of blaming my wife for all that happening. She went out of that eventually, but it caused obviously a lot of hurt feelings.

My mother-in-law is a nurse and also we thought she was maybe bi-polar. About a year into Lindsay and I being together, she started doing things like one week giving us some money to buy a portable Air conditioner for our place, then the next week berating us for "using her for her money". She would have weeks where she treated us really well and was supportive, and then weeks where we would basically be moochers and terrible people. All the while, she did not believe the medical problems that Lindsay was having. Again, as a nurse, she thought primarily that my wife was having mental health problems, not physical health. The curse of invisible illness/disability. Eventually one day after she called and made my wife just break down I asked her outright if she felt this relationship with her mom was something that she wanted to continue and we agreed that we would distance ourselves from her.

She loved her brother dearly but he would never allow us to just have a relationship with HIM. He would ask Lindsay to come visit him, but "dad" would be there too. He would ask us to visit him on the farm and when we explained that due to my wife's allergies that would be really uncomfortable and not possible, he would claim that we were just finding excuses to avoid him. Then the final kicker, when he had a child and told Lindsay that "dad" would be babysitting and helping to take care of baby, my wife and I tried to sit down with him and again just tell him our concerns, for our niece's sake basically. He called her a liar, said he felt that it was "mom" who filled her head with lies, and that he couldn't believe she would ever say such horrible things about family.

So again, we decided that distancing ourselves from him would be for the best. He's a good man but just has his own lived experience and anything that would make him question that he would protest it and fight and whatnot. Combined with trying to force the "family" to be together and try to force my wife to hang around with her abuser growing up? No, we don't need that. We basically had no contact with her family for probably close to 5 years before she passed?

When the decision was made to go for MAID, I asked her about her side of the family. There is a part of me that feels there is maybe a basic responsibility to inform her family that she died. My wife at first was dead set against that, did not want them to ever know anything about her again, they had no right to mourn her death, that sort of thing. I respected that and left it there. Eventually my wife decided that, upon her death, I could send a letter she wrote to her brother and another to her god-mother (she is a gem, very wonderful woman) just so you know... they know she has passed away.

I haven't done that yet. I won't lie, part of that is the fact I don't want the "smoke" that may come from it. I don't want her brother to come looking for me, looking for a fight. I don't want her mom to try to contact me, contact my parents, that sort of thing. At the same point should they just discover this information through the grapevine, it will probably happen anyways, so I'm just delaying the inevitable. I just haven't had it in me to send those letters and enter another potential phase of this whole experience. We have an iron-clad will so they can't come and try to grab anything that was "hers" so to speak... everything is left to me.

I have made some prints of the photo I took of Lindsay 5 minutes before she passed. My hope is that seeing that picture and her joy at the fact she could lay down her burdens will provide some peace to her family. I might write my own letter to accompany the one she wrote, just to let them know the last moments Lindsay lived were full of joy and love and peace. I just haven't done it yet... but I started to finally think about it, plan it, and might actually do it this weekend.

It's been a lot of no mixed with tremendous regret for most who did play it. XD

https://youtu.be/OJ3ni1lgGHg?si=v6ZeZd-Gr9bUEfuz

Completed Games 2023

Jan 31st - Tactics Ogre Reborn (7.5/10)
Feb 26 - Hogwart's Legacy (8/10)
March 26 - Marvel's Midnight Suns (8/10)
April 15 - Chained Echoes (10/10)
April 27 - Tunic (9/10)
May 10 - Jedi Survivor (8.5/10)
June 24 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps (8.5/10)
July 27 - Final Fantasy 16 (8.5/10)
October 16 - Sea of Stars (9/10)
November 1 - Spider-Man 2 (9/10)

Significant Time Spent, but either did not complete/no completion criteria

EA PGA Tour (7.5/10)
MLB The Show 23 (9/10)
Baldur's Gate 3 (10/10)

Cheesecake, then ice cream, and then.... hmmmm.... chips?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e4c416f6.jpg

That's a lot of no so far.

DeathVelvien posted...

Well, that's that. Congrats on the title, Rangers, you kicked the shit out of us here.

D-backs, go lock up Gallen and Moreno, and get some actual starting pitching. Probably replace Walker and Longoria as well.

As a Jays fan, I'm annoyed we gave up Moreno to you. Varsho I think can be way better than he was this season, but.... argh.

Congrats to the World Series Champion Texas Rangers!!!

The former Jay ending this game with a 2-run bomb

Ooooof

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Just because I love Tony Gwynn facts.

Foppe posted...

Tried it, switched to another game.

Seems fair.

CRON posted...

Dreamcast, easily. The Genesis has a great library but most multiplats were inferior and most games sounded like tinnitus mixed with fart noises.

Genesis was amazing sound-wise, you just needed to make it with the sound capabilities in mind. If you did SNES first in mind, hard to make it work for the Genesis board.

I mean.... Dreamcast.

Aressar posted...

Yes, and I remember it being ridiculously hard, but using even any one cheat would make it ridiculously easy. There was no middle ground. That combined with the relatively poor graphics and sound quality made it just a slog to play through.

In 1991 those graphics and sound were awesome honestly. Not SNES levels of awesome but awesome none-the-less

Bump

TomClark posted...

Nope. I didn't even realise they'd done a game of it tbh.

I remember seeing the game now and then but I never played it before.

Like, is he in the same ballpark as people like Iron Man, Reed Richards, and Doctor Doom? A tad bit below those people?

Just curious in general in the comics how his intelligence has been treated in comparison to those that are considered "genius" level.

Oh wow

Just got home and turned on the game.

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Werewolf... ugh. I had two Cosmo's up and still didn't stop it. I dislike that Werewolf gets the benefit even if the on reveal doesn't go off.

Slayer_22 posted...

The Mobius nerf makes him borderline useless ngl. Unless you predict a wave or get dream dimension...what's the point? Doesn't work as a tech card anymore.

Play him turn 5 to counter Sera decks and big Loki plays on turn 6, basically

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My wife loved the spooky season and Nightmare Before Christmas because of course she did. ^_^

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Big old patch today!

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I saw the accident for the first time. It was just an awful accident and a bad play for the player to make and just so much blood.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/0/AAABltAAE_W6.jpg

It's good enough for a Halloween costume this year.

I'm a supervisor for group homes for Hard to serve teens and young adults and we are hosting a Halloween party.

Toss on the gloves and some black pants and I am gonna be alright overall.

Hidden Agenda

A question for everyone.

I'm currently sick. I've got a head/chest cold thing going on. LOTS of post-nasal drip and just all around feeling a little rough.

When you're sick, do you just put on the brakes for your workouts and whatnot? Do you maybe try to do something a little lighter? Or do you just kinda grind through it so long as you aren't gonna like, puke your guts out or get so tired/light headed you might end up fall over?

FNAF did 78 mil this weekend domestically. Mario did like 145 mil.

Any F games?

I haven't seen the video but you can definitely have a lot of weird falls and off-balance slips in hockey in general.

I would need to see the video to determine if it was purposeful, but I kinda doubt that it was.

Gonna start up Frieren.

Bumpies

Still 308 even though I has myself a large Blizzard yesterday. Woooo

https://youtu.be/xtw3f43gsYI?si=dzT_e5S2Svsj19mk

DirkDiggles posted...

There was on that happened here in the states a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ295luzhtQ

That dude happened to die because the refs were too occupied with the fight at the net,

Malarchuk lived. Only because the trainer was also like a war doctor who knew how to handle that. He literally put his fingers into the dude's open wound in his throat to pinch the artery.

I would bet TC literally 5 grand that FNAF doesn't end up beating out Mario in total box office.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/24559512/nottingham-panthers-ice-hockey-abandoned-adam-johnson/

Very reminiscent to the goalie on the NHL back in the late 80's who also had his throat cut open by a skate. =/

Chunky posted...

Do you quit a job you don't like when you don't have another one lined up?

You need a job to live. You don't need a relationship. Your comparison is bad.

I mean, if you're not happy just break up.

Ohhh man, that is awful.