Less Pokémon here than I thought there would be, though it does make a showing. I do gen 2 and 3 now and again. Gen 1, I think I’ve wrung out completely, and gen 4+ (DS and onward) just doesn’t emulate as cleanly in my experience.

And I guess I’m approaching my 2nd decade of still playing certain MUDs: Achaea/Aetolia, Discworld, Lost Souls.

I don’t really game much these days, though; certainly not like I used to.

Hope.

An undying classic

Increase agility? Get out there and grind the courses with the rest of us!

Billy Corgan!

Somewhat depressingly they bought my alma mater and gutted a lot of its humanities programs…luckily (for me) I was well graduated by then.

One other person mentioned it but I’ll put Tom Goes to the Mayor out there too.

I feel like if you didn’t grow up in the rust belt or some other dead part of the USA without anything but public access TV, a lot of the humor is lost on you.

But for those few who did…it was nice to feel seen.

Tripping The Rift 💀

Now that I haven’t heard in ages.

That one was perfection. Rowntree is a really good artist in any medium.

Oh, I remember that one! I think I still have it…

There’s MUDs like Carrion Fields and Lost Souls.

!MUD@lemmy.ca

Am I doing it right?

Change my name to Horatio.

The world would collectively chuckle at my/our stupid reference.

It’s great for the first few weeks , maybe a month or two.

I graduated in September, job searched through December, finally signed a contract, but I don’t start until April. I am counting down the fucking days, my dude.

Having finished graduate school in September, I will be starting my new job soon, and pitching in (voluntarily) at the workplace until then is a refreshing change. It’s nice having something to do.

Except for the names he spelled wrong. Some unrelated people will die.

Graduate school. Well, my first round of it.

During the course of my first graduate degree, I was surrounded by support, great professors, a cohort of other students who were driven, passionate, and colorful, even though we disagreed on several things (and one of them was an actual shitheel), and most importantly of all, a sense that I was learning, growing, and progressing along some kind of meaningful continuum of personal development… As well as being equipped to make some kind of difference in the world, as much of one as I made for myself (went from an uneducated, bigoted farm kid, someone who was already neck deep in neo Nazi stuff and bought into it into, well, pretty much the opposite).

I took that master’s degree and went professional for a few years, but found myself missing graduate school and so I went back for a second Masters. That just wrapped up last September, but the experience wasn’t the same at all.

I felt like I was just being pushed through machinery, going down a checklist, ticking boxes and moving on to the next. I kept thinking that eventually as I went through the motions I would find that an experience similar to the first round of graduate school would develop organically, but it never did. Once I finished the degree, that was kind of it. Have to put up my hands and say that this could well be just because I was really going through a hard time in my life concurrent to that second master’s degree, and that very likely colored my experience quite a bit, but it did just wrap up last year, so I will need some time and distance to be able to reflect on it more objectively and untangle the raw emotional impression from the objective fact.

I’m still wanting to go and get a PhD as an ultimate feather in my cap, but that will not be for a few years. For now, I need some time to work professionally to both save up money and meet some other personal life goals of mine, which I won’t get into too much detail about here.

Monster orange Khaos (the 30% juice type), and the yellow Ripper flavor also. Miss me with that Papillon and Pipeline Punch.

As a kid I beat the vampires in Illusion of Gaia as Will. Didn’t realize you could change.

Someone tell the carnists!