Slightly? It will ruin everything if it isn’t exactly as I imagined it the first time I read it.

I’m not sure if I’m joking or not.

Yes, the two after (In the Sprawl Trilogy) felt disconnected from the original, but its been a minute since I’ve read all three.

Yes, that is where the username was derived from.

Erm, the Borg would like to remind you that cubes have been a thing for a bit.

An adult secret I love to teach kids is that none of us really know what the fuck we’re doing either, we’ve just gotten better at winging it over the years.

Upon reading the title I thought, this person has never been severely dehydrated before.

I don’t recommend it, I must say.

NES Adams Family game.

My cousins had it, so I couldn’t try later.

The freezer level.

I suck at platformers, always have, but the slippery change to traction fucked me over hard and I could not adapt.

Then their dog got out and that crisis took over.

Don’t work in a Children’s Hospital.

Why is there a table full of people in mostly scrubs having breakfast burritos and margaritas at 8am just down the street? Night shift is out, and it was not a good night.

If the IUD thing is shocking, you really, really don’t want to know how low humanity can sink.

7-Eleven, Inc.[2] is an American convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven-Eleven Japan, which in turn is owned by the retail holdings company Seven & I Holdings.

–Wikipedia.

In an electronics tool kit.

Mostly because the only time recall using that specific tool was when I got my Pixel 8, and that was shortly after release, so its been a minute.

Old-school clockwork is very interesting, I get that.

I just have no personal desire to try to build something like that, lol. Then again, due to a neurological issue, I have slight tremor.

Working on laptops can be difficult some days. Clockwork gears? Eesh.

Here I am missing my meds and really wishing I could get my brain chemistry back to “normal” but I can’t afford it.

I moved across the country and had more difficulty than expected finding work, so my savings are tapped and my health insurance has not kicked in yet.

I’m not saying anyone should be forced to take meds that could alter their autonomy in any way, that being said, I know I do better and feel better when I have my meds. In life, at work, in personal relationships. I want to take them.

It doesn’t seem fair… hooray for capitalism, huh?

Black.

To those that will argue that black is the absence of color, or ALL the colors, fine. Then blue.

Because the word Kiwi refers to other things.

A fruit, people from New Zealand, etc.

I played the first PS. Loved it. If memory serves, I usually cloaked up, used a knife, and tried to capture stuff.

PS2, well… I played the beta, I didn’t care for the stealth changes. Then, it released and I played a little… just couldn’t maintain my interest, plus the unlock system was kinda punishing and made it seem too P2W for me.

I miss the original GW classes.

I could never “click” with any of the classes in GW2. I wanted to enjoy it, and did to an extent, but it never kept me coming back.

That being said, I have a friend who is still VERY active in GW2 all these years later, so I guess its just me, lol.

No.

No sisters, and my mom didn’t wear them.

I would have though.

Pffft. I write everything as a one liner in notepad and just copy and paste into a compiler.

Note: Sarcasm. I’m not a dev, I just script shit for my own convenience at work. I’m the guy the idiots talk to first. After 12 years I’m pretty good at filtering out the bullshit and giving a concise ticket to escalate in the event I don’t have permissions to fix something.

I have fixed code before, but its been very rare, and was most certainly a case of the actual dev not seeing the forest due to the trees. It just happened I had the cube next to him and he wanted any other set of eyes, lol. I just happened to have some education in various languages that I opted not to pursue further.

Eh, task ChatGPT with it.

I mean, I can think of a few ways to turn a person off…

Turning back on, well… I heard about one guy. Took about three days. That being said, the author(s) aren’t very reliable.

I rocked long hair from grade school to my mid 20s.

Then, a lady friend (platonic) sat me down and had a talk with me.

The thinning, now seemingly always greasy, strands of hair was not a good look. Like, don’t visit a playground or I would be arrested on site lol.

So, being a metal head there are two main options, or at least were at the time. Long hair. Or take bare clippers to it.

So, I did.

That first winter fucking suuuucked. Still to this day, I tend to rock a hoody in cold weather, and toss my hood up to cover my head for warmth when outdoors.

Sometimes I let it grow out for about a month before taking clippers to it again, out of sheer laziness. A month of growth, from shaved, isn’t much in the way of hair, but temperature wise it is very noticeable.