Find a bank that doesn't charge overdraft fees. If you so happen to live in Colorado or Arizona, FirstBank is a good choice.
Not only are there no fees for anything, they even give you the option to block your card from charging more than your available balance. Card machines will literally only do a partial payment, using whatever is left in your account, allowing you to pay the remaining balance with another form of payment. It works everywhere and is really neat. Find a bank that offers this.
So basically they're trying to do what Trip Hawkins did with the 3DO in 1993. In order for that to work, you're going to have to convince people to pay PC hardware prices first. Two issues:
Third party manufacturers aren't going to sell at a loss,
Sony will continue to sell their consoles at a loss, which means everyone will just buy their consoles instead.
Well too fucking bad, cause Halo is the only thing they're good at. They should have sucked it up and kept iterating on Halo 3. That game was peak Xbox.
Know how you feel. I'm almost 40, and even though my dad has been dead for 5 years now, the feeling still won't go away. The PTSD is so bad that loud voices startle me, and I can't use a computer if someone is looking over my shoulder.
My dad taught me how to lie and obsess over privacy so I wouldn't feel his wrath. I should be in therapy.
You don't know trauma unless you've been raised by a bipolar narcissist with anxiety and anger issues. My dad was a master at sucking all the energy out of a room and ruining the vibe with his selfish, fear-mongering bullshit.
Who the hell sticks a bumper sticker on the side of their car? Hell, who the hell sticks a bumper sticker anywhere but the windows? Good luck removing them without destroying your paint once you get sick of them.
Find a bank that doesn't charge overdraft fees. If you so happen to live in Colorado or Arizona, FirstBank is a good choice.
Not only are there no fees for anything, they even give you the option to block your card from charging more than your available balance. Card machines will literally only do a partial payment, using whatever is left in your account, allowing you to pay the remaining balance with another form of payment. It works everywhere and is really neat. Find a bank that offers this.