there are actually lots of groups that attempt to rectify this exact problem.

Pathfinder is a tabletop RPG that has a large following and focuses on the ability to jump in and out of groups and games.

Find your nearest game store and see what hobbies show up there. There might be a Warhammer group, DnD, starwars miniatures, magic, or maybe just random board games.

Oh it’s a classic meme.

Basically it was this one moth that uncharacteristically posed for a photo outside a window, then it kinda morphed into a “transform any meme into one about lamps” and add the moth.

Dunno if you have moths or not where you live, but moths LOVE light. They usually smash up against your window or porch light or fly at your face in a well lit place. Terrible for anyone who hates bugs, which just adds to the humor. Adding a mostly annoying bug to your feed.

It’s the same idea where the saying “like a moth to the flame” came from. The idea being the moth flew into the candle and gets burned. You’re going straight into something bad, but you just can’t help yourself.

Airbags can deploy (erroneously or not) and the car can still drive.

If a car refuses to move because its airbags have been deployed (or think they’ve been deployed) then you could be stranded in the middle of nowhere for no other reason than a single part of your car is unhappy.

Your frunk can be bodged shut with duct tape.

The entire point of your car is to move from point A to point B. Disabling that feature should only happen due to physics, not a minor problem.

See, this is one of the things that drive me batty with so much new hardware.

With an old car, if this happened you’d get warnings. If a door is open your car would warn you and beep occasionally. It was still an entirely functional car.

But now… cars won’t warn you, they stop you. It doesn’t even feel like my car at that point.

I’m currently sitting in a modern car dealership and ever single chair SUCKS. Modern chairs are hard, low backed, have funky angles, and if they are high backed, it’s to give this half assed sense of privacy that just isn’t there.

Man old chairs are so much better. You just sunk and could almost take a nap.

Well a good chunk of it is that older games only had ONE way they were played. ONE framerate, ONE resolution. They optimized for that.

Nowadays they plan for 60, 120, and if you have less too bad. Upgrade for better results.

Went perfect. Although I had a friend who went same weekend. It did NOT. Couldn’t peel the first layer of the eye.

Otherwise I have full 20/20 vision. No side affects.

It was so WEIRD though. I felt like I was on an assembly line. The process was so fast.

I did it because I was blind. Hella blind. -6 and -9. When covid hit I suddenly realized that if supply shortages ever hit hard and I lost my glasses, I was absolutely fucked.

I could not drive, I could not use two monitors, I would be functionally blind… I always joked I would be dead weight in the apocalypse but in the midst of a hurricane, a wildfire, I could be absolutely fucked. With months before a replacement pair could be acquired. And with all the shit that went wrong with covid… I just wanted to hedge my bets.

I can’t imagine the wildfires in the state helped either.

Minnesota still has a thriving con scene, the very first con we had after covid was nearly bursting at the seams. Matter of fact akeome con started up because of covid. It started as an online con and when it ended they decided to do it for real.

Which cons did you go to?

I always find it interesting hearing the stories and events from other states and countries.

Checks out

One other somewhat bizarre option is that I’ve heard there is a large deaf community in VR Chat and they actually have a modified sign language that they use.

I don’t know exactly how “modified” it is, but for learning any language the best way is to find people to talk with. Might work as a good springboard if you have VR.

It’s totally possible. It’s also possible to snore only sometimes depending on head position, food eaten, age, and alcohol taken.

I have positions where I snore, where my wife then has to smack me in the middle of the night, I re-adjust and then I usually stop snoring.

Apparently she also smacks me when she needs cuddles, and apparently I understand the difference in smacks while I am asleep.

Wait Digg is back? I thought that died in the 90s?

Americans tend to describe locations more by density and arrangement rather than population. Kinda similar to how we refer to distances in time rather than distance. In a city you have a LOT within 5 minutes of you at any time. Within a rural town you have… maybe 5 neighbors within that same span of time walking.

Yeah, his targets are usually so vile that nobody questions his methods.

For anybody that wants to be the punisher though… like honestly if the punisher has gotten pulled into a problem he’s less an angel descending from heaven and more of a fire burning through absolutely everything.

Like everything needs to be in a state of fucked for him to get involved. Absolutely fucked. Isn’t it better to avoid that in the first place?

That’s the reason I swapped.

So far it’s been a good switch

Besides the chemical addiction part, it’s also a genuinely social one as well.

Smoking areas are designated places where strangers talk to each other. Asking for a light or offering one is a super simple way to break the ice. My dad quit cold turkey several times but he always fell back into the habit hanging with his friends

Cheating is definitely in the minority of my social circle. I know of 2 amongst 100. At least people who were shameless enough to be admitting it.

That said, I do have maybe 5 open relationships in my friend group? I don’t usually ask, so maybe 10 total. My wife and I are monogamous. If you’re not, whatever, you do you. It isn’t a religious thing, it’s just how we roll.

But good lord at least talk about it, agree on it and stick with it. If you don’t then you’re a dick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4C58lmv1J4&list=RDEMWfLiM0l4i4Y026y85aO0nQ&index=5&ab_channel=MEUTE

Muete comes close? They’ll do a lot of marching band covers of a lot of techno.

professional marching band, not like what you heard in 8th grade.