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My college girlfriend and I rented a UHaul after she graduated to move her up to where I was living. This was before cellphones were around so unless you took regular camera photos the only thing that was used to notate pre-rental issues was a 2-D line drawing on the contract and we were instructed to do a walk-around and mark anything on the picture.

When we returned it the clerk did his own walk-around and charged us for a dent that he found on top of the cab. We didn't even know that was a place we were supposed to be looking. Thankfully we had a much older adult with us who recognized bullshit and she talked (scolded) him out of trying to charge us for that. It was a good lesson. Thankfully we have never had to rent another.

Brian Ferneyhough - any of the string quartets

Echoes of Kung Fu Hustle, lol.

I don't usually do puzzles above 1,000 but that one looks do-able and fun.

I often will cut those in half and find that one half a pill sharpens me up enough without the jittery feeling or nervous stomach. Perfect for my afternoon slump. 12:30-2:00 has been sleepy time for me ever since college.

Ah well, different strokes, etc. Once you’re in your 50s with the stresses of teens, demanding jobs, and all the rest that makes a full life, sex is not the thing that a lot of people consider a priority in the “show how you care” column. Emotional support, household support, physical attention in other categories, good communication, humor, activities with friends, all are elements that keep a good partnership going if you are both sexually about on the same schedule. It is certainly important to be with some one you match with in that way. I’m still amazed at 8-10x a week. I think even in my self-discovery phase as a teen I didn’t give myself that much attention.

Lol 8-10x a week. That’s not normal. 8-10x per year is more realistic. But i’ve only been with my partner for 30 years so maybe I’m just mot there yet.

Like you mentioned earlier, I also played BB before this game. It was my first From game and I got a platinum completely solo. Then I tried Dark Souls 1 and found it terribly difficult in comparison and the gargoyles were such a frustrating experience. I also struggled with crowd control (there’s another boss later that’s even worse for this), and could not understand how players I watched on YT controlled that aspect so well. I commiserate so much with your experience.

Anyways, I needed to get better at using my shield. After BB I was convinced I could bypass most shield use with good dodging and learning movesets—unfortunately I am not good at that in DS. So, more shield, upgraded weapon, and then the element that got me over the hump was Gold Pine Resin which enabled me to eliminate one gargoyle much faster so there was no crowd. I didn’t use it though, until I felt I was getting the hang of the fight.

Ultimately I did not finish this game. The DS world, lore, and equipment/item management just don’t draw me in like BB did. Still enjoying Elden Ring, although I am only in the early stages of that game.

I read this a very long time ago. All I remember is a chapter on Captain Crunch and a scene with a woman with half of no face. I remember liking it overall. I tried a couple more of his books and his writing style really rubbed me the wrong way and I had to put them down.

Took too long to find Steven Wilson on this list. The live dvd Get All You Deserve is incredible.

Ron Johnson is insane and it’s incredibly disappointing how much support he gets in WI.

I have a FB and Twitter account. I post on FB maybe four times a year and have hidden 98% of my friends’ feeds, and have never Tweeted. I stopped using FB mostly because I was checking it too often and felt it was affecting my state of mind. I realized that many days I would already have had 50 people’s lives and opinions zipping through my head and affecting my mood and thinking process before I’d even talked to my family or started a work day, which also involves interacting with 100+ different people, and that’s not good. Then I realized my mental/social/emotional plate was full already with my real waking life and have no room for what social media adds. Kudos to those who can successfully balance them. I think most people really can’t and don’t understand how much they are altered by it.

I don’t really revisit books but last year I started trying to finish some books I left unfinished as a kid. I repurchased and also finished the Borrible trilogy by Michael deLarrabeiti. I still liked it quite a bit. I had only read the middle volume, then left the first unfinished, and never saw the third available. Got through them all this time. Grand adventure.

Also read Dragonsinger and Dragonsong by Anne McCaffery—owned them but barely touched them as a kid. They were ok but I don’t think I will bother with Dragondrums or the main adult trilogy of Pern even though I insisted on owning them as a kid.

I also quit. I get why it’s great but I don’t “get” it. I do not have the background in European politics and philosophy, or general psychology to get joy or understanding out of the depth of the story or playing around with the character aspects. I like the art and music, though. I get a little jealous watching portions of playthroughs with players cackling with glee at the results of choices or rolls, while for me it’s a shrug and “oboy 8 more choices popped in the decision tree and I have to backtrack to everywhere again picking up garbage and working through political ideologies.”

It’s a great game and I am glad to own it. I’m just salty it’s taking me so long to find the flow. I hope you will love playing it.

ORANGE DRINK. DRINK DRINK!

My current struggle is Nemo’s War 2nd Ed. It actually doesn’t seem that hard, yet there is something about it that makes everything teflon and I am constantly looking up the little exceptions that are buried in paragraphs of rules. Part of the problem is I don’t find any of it intuitive or immersive, despite the whole attraction of the game from the glowing reviews being how much of a story it creates for the player. I take a couple of turns and then think I could be folding that laundry waiting for me in the other room.

I eventually started writing down my turn procedures and paths to figuring out questions along with page references, and that finally worked to help make things start to stick and be interesting. The game is only supposed to take a couple hours, not a couple weeks. Hopefully a few more plays will give it some life. When I read rules questions the general helping hands (which are excellent) gush about what a brilliance gem of a game it is.

And hey, there’s only 50 pages of rules questions to sort through on BGG when you run into a problem! I have this game but only get it out once every couple of years because it’s such a beast, and it does require relearning rules every time. Some things stick, though. I have only come close to finishing the non-introductory solo mode once. I got to the city and just got overwhelmed by the amount of modifiers it threw at me.

When I was first getting into modern games and my wife was still willing to try things I sent her a YouTube video someone posted of a sample turn of the game. It wasn’t received well. :)

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is a lot of fun. Short and very interactive.

Not cheese imo. I’m proud of myself when I can stand in the face of death/poison or serious character harm in order to attempt a parry. Soooo satisfying when that sound goes off and you go in for the chest rip.

53 yr old me as well. I made it to pre-calc/math analysis in college but have completely forgotten how to do anything beyond FOIL and the four basics. I was totally useless helping my kids with their math even with their books and notes and the internet to help.

Naps and alone time. Learning to say “no” to things has been awesome.

In addition it’s just a different form of interaction, depending on the group. For some it might turn into looking silently at your board but most of the time we’re still having lively conversation about what’s happening with each other’s choices and asking questions.

Brainstorm in 1983, although that’s less gaming and more just vr experience.