From my (rather grim) self-defense background: sometimes you don't consent, you just decide to survive.

Our rough collie had brain damage as a result of medical issues. Dumbest dog I have ever met, but the sweetest-tempered. She'd forget you as soon as she turned her head away but she was happy to see you every time regardless.

"Live off the rain and the dirt" is one I'm hanging onto, thanks.

1999 was a hell of a year at the theater.

Right. Of course. Janelle Monáe can time travel. Incorporating that into my worldview.

Latex isn't my thing but damn.

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I had a cat who would dart between legs to get on the patio and graze on the huge potted rosemary. No idea why. She was a weird cat - she also loved chlorine bleach.

Right there with you! (Except Zepbound for Long Covid.) I have _extremely_ complicated feelings about it but it is definitely better than not being on it, and there's no alternative that works.

I hear that! I've been dealing with it for a couple years at least and have gotten unhelpful solutions from more than one doc (including a probably completely unnecessary tonsillectomy!)

Best of luck with it! I'm due for my endoscopy immediately after my birthday in May so they can scope both ends at once, as I'll be 45 and due for my first colonoscopy. I really, _really_ hope they get some useful info from it because I am sick of the taste of bile.

I miss my old bars in Austin, particularly the one with a circular bar and a bartender I got to be pretty good friends with. Great place to meet pleasantly weird people on a weeknight; failing that, Sarah Beth and I would watch Real Housewives.

North, reliably.

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yeah, that's why I wonder if it wasn't Disney that looked at the copyright thing and bailed, and without that money - and with that precedent - openai didn't have a way to justify the product.

My guess was that it was that AI can't be copyrighted supreme court decision.

It looks like they watched the Stray trailer and decided to make that but skip the part where the cat was cute.

I was gonna ask which mods you'd recommend but I guess I should come back later :p

Going Medieval is coming out of Early Access tomorrow with a patch I am _super excited_ about. I really enjoyed the EA version but this looks _fantastic_.

It's doing a lot more work, I think. It's not a _pleasant_ read, of course.

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Ah, middle age, where "mostly" is what you can hope for. Happy birthday!

0.0029 on my newer monitor, which is amusing.

It's so interesting! the pinks were hard for me but greens and blues much easier.

I love these games because I'm pretty good at them :P

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I called our Prius The World's Littlest Farm Truck and I miss it badly. (It... got eaten by mice. Did you know Toyota uses a soy-based insulation on the wires? I do now.)

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I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Years ago my gym buddy started taking T and I was so. mad. about it.

Slay the Spire 2 may be the first game I've bought the day it hit Early Access since something I worked on.