Ms. ArmoredThirteen @ ArmoredThirteen @lemmy.ml

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I used to live in a farming area with some roads that were basically semi truck conveyors. You could see the dirt next to those roads was caked in oil and rubber dust

Now this I would actually consider irl

The whole tech industry especially games has needed to unionize for ages now

Next time someone asks me what's in my pants I'm sending this

That sounds amazing I need to add it to my list of things to acquire. What is the system like mechanically?

I still like playing but I think the last time I bought anything other than singles from my lgs was almost 20 years ago. I never understood the appeal of gambling just to have a bunch of trash in my collection, now I feel the same plus fuck giving WotC money

I'm rather proud of it. Resolution isn't great but here we go:

Main roleplaying shelf:

Board games and box sets:

I've also got all 3 books for Monsters of Murka, limited covers, signed by several of the people who worked on it. I think my copies of Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Mork Borg are on other shelves. Finally, an unopened box set for Boat Wars which I'll be opening sometime soon so I can pretend I lived in the 80s and just came home with a box from the lgs.

Nah don't worry about our arteries. With any luck capitalism will crush our souls enough that stress will kill us faster than eating a pint of queso a day could

Did I hear a rock and stone?

So because insurance and hospitals are a mess I have to be in a self pay agreement. The theory goes I cough up about $45k, do surgery, they bill insurance, insurance refunds the hospital, then the hospital refunds me. What might happen is insurance gives the hospital the middle finger and I'm out a down payment on a house worth of money then I get to sue everybody and see what happens. In hindsight I probably should have just done medical tourism but I didn't have the capacity to figure that out at the time and now it's a risk to my life if I go much longer without surgery

The other costs are flying out of state for large volume hair removal because I can locally only get like 1-2 hours a month since everyone is booked out. Also needing constant therapy because everyone needs increasingly specific therapists letters for me to get anywhere. Finally because I'm getting surgery out of state I need housing for a month so that'll be like $2-5k depending where I can find

It's all madness

I love chilli baked potatoes and when I'm at Wendy's I tend to get one. That said it takes me less time to nuke a spud than to find my shoes. Brown some burger in a pot, can of chilli, microwave that tater, you've got a Wendy's experience in 15 minutes and only dirty a pot, a bowl, and a spoon

Alternatively, during mid-morning and late-afternoon lulls, the price could dip below $5.99 by as much as $1

Yeah I totally believe that 🙄

Hell I'm in Seattle and my walkable area (about 2 mile radius for me) would be reduced to this mega corp, Amazon, and a couple Asian marts. I've got two corner stores nearby but their produce is usually not great and mostly they have snacks and microwavables. I suspect smaller towns or less bustling neighborhoods could easily be reduced to just this super chain and nowhere else

Different industry, but my first game industry project was doomed to fail. I put a lot of work into it before that though and so I stole a copy of the project to have in case I needed to prove work I'd done. I don't know how often animations go under before being released but in the game industry it is a very real concern. Sometimes you have to take things for yourself or they'll be gone forever

Mine does not have all that many adjustments. Some good armrest maneuverability, lumbar support height, amount of resistance when leaning back, and of course the actual chair height

Yeah the last real conversation I had with my brother was a couple years ago. It ended after I told him he's a danger to himself and his kids. We've interacted in passing a couple times like when I visit other family but it is bad vibes all around

My vote as well. I got a series 2 around 3 years ago now and it's the best chair I've had. I work from home and spend most my free time on a machine so I'm sitting like 10+ hours a day in this and it's still going strong. My back hurts less, my hips hurt less, just a good sturdy chair

Edit to add: My spouse actually does not like these chairs because they're super uncomfortable to sit in with bad posture. That's part of why I like mine because I'm basically forced to use good posture. So if you need a chair that lets you sit like a gremlin a series 2 might not work well

Assuming my life doesn't collapse again like it did last year, I have surgery in June. I'm lucky to have the job and the insurance that I do. Even with really good insurance I'm dropping thousands of dollars regularly and I haven't even gotten to the surgery part it's madness x.x

Oblivion suffers from middle child syndrome. It is the transition from the weird and fantastic of Morrowind to the mass appeal of Skyrim and it doesn't really do either of those things well. I liked a lot of aspects of it. Like the changes they made with vampirism were interesting, dimension hopping was a blast, the addition of skills providing special bonuses like running on water helped liven up the skills. There was a lot of garbage though like how the level design was a clunky mix of simplified vs. capturing what Morrowind did, UI switch to prioritize consoles but didn't even work well for console, the overall distancing of mechanics and the world. I remember it feeling like they put a lot of work into streamlining while keeping things unique which I appreciate but they didn't hit the mark and ended up with a lot of hollow concepts.

Skyrim never even attempted to be weird so I think it's a lot more cohesive comparatively. Like there's no pretending anywhere in that game about what it is and in that way they did a reasonably good job. Probably the biggest differences though is Morrowind is clearly a game made with incredible amounts of passion. Oblivion also has passion in it but there are a lot of areas you could see that were rushed or they kept the devs leashed. Skyrim's rare flicker of care makes me feel sad mostly knowing the devs had the capacity to go hog wild with it but didn't for probably a variety of reasons.

It's been a good while since I played oblivion though I'd probably have to run through it again to give you a proper answer (and might change what I've said here as I reevaluate it fresh). What's your belated revelation on Oblivion?

This article has more specific information:

https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/us-government-sets-a-path-to-breach-the-four-lower-snake-river-dams

But yeah sounds like investing in new clean energy for multiple reasons, eventual removal of the dams is one of them