My dad did it back when he was a hippy.
He still talks very fondly of the time he spent out in the Arizona desert all those decades ago.
A piece of me would like to drop out of society and live in solitude.
While I lean towards being a loner, I realized that I am probably mostly a hybrid.
I enjoy some human interaction, but also love being alone to do whatever the fuck I want.
To me a commune would be too intimate and I think would end up being like a small town type of scenario which doesn’t appeal to me.
Oh yeah.. for sure video game developers are getting fucked from ALL angles.
I have throughly instilled in my kids that if they want to get into programming, the gaming industry is NOT where they should look to.
It really saddens me as a lifetime gamer, but it seems like the industry is one of if not the most toxic out there.
Yeah I really called it wrong on my initial comment.
I took a look at my pwned history and it looks like we share a lot of sites.
Quite concerning and now I am at least using a password manager.
I am still on LastPass but am considering others.
It simply “works” in my case though, and I’m not sure how easy it would be to change to a new one so with them I stay.
It sucks that they made it into a “pay to play” if you want full cross platform access, but I use my gaming PC for so few sites that it isn’t a huge deal to just lock my LasPass to iOS.
I’ve been to Red Rocks and wold have loved to see this concert.
The transformation of the conductor as the song went on was fabulous!
They zoomed in at great points where it was made really clear that he is a NOFX fan.
Yeah, warfarin was what I was referring to.
I expect to need a new aortic valve at some point, and I’ll likely need blood thinners.
So, rat poison it is!
Can you please go into the specifics of why you don't let your kids play Roblox?
I had been avoiding it until a well intentioned relative got my son a Roblox gift card.
It was immediately made clear that I was against the game which created an awkward situation for my relative.
I decided to soften my stance, and use it as a teaching moment.
I explained how the game works and how my son was to use his Robux.
He was to play the game(s) for a certain length of time and then make an informed decision about where to spend his money at.
Of course he spent it on some stupid powerup on a game that he ended up stopping playing some days later.
We used it as a teaching moment for both of my kids and what a waste of money the game is.
I also explained to them how P2W games are predatory in nature, and that I would never personally allow them to pay a single cent into Roblox or any other game.
My son is constantly proud of how he is F2P and always beating all of the P2W noobs.
I actually don’t seek them out.
The first rule of figh… err, prepping is don’t talk about prepping!
Seriously though, if it were to come up in conversation I’d entertain exchanging info / plans.
It isn’t something that lends itself to most standard conversations though.
I should say that I have as much as possible weeded out all conservatives from my daily interactions, as I just can’t look past their goals of making our world a more hateful and miserable place.
So, my prepping talks are typically kept online, and anonymous.
Yeah medication is a pretty big Achilles heel.
I am fortunate that I do not YET have the need for maintenance medication.
At some point in my life however I very likely will.
When that day comes, I can only hope that things are more settled down than they are now.
Otherwise, I’ll have to really stock up on rat poison!
I am an admitted prepper.
I am very sufficiently protected from a disruption to food supplies.
I am of the mind that bugging in is better than bugging out.
I would probably keep working until things ground to a halt (I can work fully remote) and monitor the state of things as far as sending my kids to school.
Honestly though?
I don’t see civil war as a real threat where I am at.
Sure there are flare ups of violent events from time to time, but there is no real concerted effort by either side to bring things to a more constant and real level.
The fact is, life is still much too easy and the problems we face much too far removed from basic necessities that I could really see any one group pushing us into a civil war.
I hope I am right…
I would guess there to be more left leaning preppers than you might imagine.
At least from what I saw on Reddit, there was a decent representation of left leaning preppers.
I count myself among them… well, not a Reddit user anymore, but my prepping is pretty decent.
I will continue to play the good F2P games (without paying a cent myself) and the great AAA games that I will gladly pay full price for.
I figure if the F2P are going to be funded by others anyway, I might as well benefit from it.
I’ll also signal to the devs that make great full featured games that this is what I want.
With the current wave very quickly picking up steam, chances are we will be through the worst of it by the time vaccines are available / taken by those still willing to go through with it.
I think I am 4-5 shots deep at this point, and have had a natural infection once.
It was horrible where I fully lose my taste for a number of weeks.
Then as taste / smell began to return some things were “wrong.”
It took months for coffee to return to normal.
If I had to live like that… well, let’s say those months had very unwelcome new dark thoughts that took me by surprise.
My dad did it back when he was a hippy.
He still talks very fondly of the time he spent out in the Arizona desert all those decades ago.
A piece of me would like to drop out of society and live in solitude.
While I lean towards being a loner, I realized that I am probably mostly a hybrid.
I enjoy some human interaction, but also love being alone to do whatever the fuck I want.
To me a commune would be too intimate and I think would end up being like a small town type of scenario which doesn’t appeal to me.