BougieBirdie

I think bringing the cart to the corral is the bare minimum, and generally people will try to get away with the minimum for most tasks and social obligations. If you don’t at least bring it to the corral you’re deranged, but beyond that I’d rather a job is done half-assed than not at all.

If I get to the corral and there’s two or three loose carts I’ll stack them with mine. If there’s six or seven I won’t fix them all but I’ll still be as neat as I can.

If the store has different sized carts, this is always a bigger problem. People generally are uncoordinated at figuring that out.

My grocer has one of those schemes where the carts are unlocked by putting a coin in them, and you get the coin back when you return the cart. It works pretty well for keeping things tidy.

For the people who militantly insist it’s got to be one or the other, you can always serve 420 enhance your calm

Bring back THAC0 Thursdays!

Temporarily out of stock

Rest in piss, racist trash

I used to like Dilbert

I took a self defense class once that covered attackers with a knife. Most of the class was around defending against attacks on the belly, the instructor said it was the most obvious target. That makes sense too, it’s high lethality, hurts like a bastard, isn’t protected by bones, and it’s in easy reach for most people.

In the context of fencing, I’d have to guess there’s two things at play. First, if you’re much shorter than your opponent, I’d guess the belly is roughly the same height as where you’ve been practicing striking people anyway. Second, if your opponent is especially tall, then strikes against the belly are further away from his perspective (his eyes are up here), and that might put them at a disadvantage.

I don’t know much about fencing, so correct me where I’m wrong, but I imagine the belly is the physically lowest legal target to score a point? I’d think that technically anybody would be disadvantaged to defend the lowest point, but their height makes it more pronounced. If you’re 5’2" your belly is something like two feet below your eyes, but if you’re 6’3" it’s like three feet. That’s a pretty significant difference.

“Inadvertently” does a lot of heavy lifting here. I believe the intentions behind people’s actions usually matter more than the outcome. This probably doesn’t scale well to large organizations or government, but on the individual level it goes pretty far.

Now that said, the feeling of betrayal from a loved one probably hurts more than from an enemy: from an enemy it’s expected. Although I suppose your enemy is motivated to hurt you more grievously than your loved ones are

It was recommended by my psychiatrist, and I’m glad I read it, but I hated Feeling Good.

It’s got good advice, and the the techniques are sound, or supposedly clinically backed or whatever. But Burns’ style of presenting a patient and then solving all their problems with one quirky treatment really rubbed me the wrong way.

Legally, I’m sure each patient in his book is probably a composite of patients with similar problems. And I’m sure that it’s probably more narratively pleasing to show each trial as a success. But I don’t know, it just felt so dismissive of the actual struggles of my life and I worry that it gives unrealistic expectations to people who need help.

I felt like I had to try a dozen techniques before I found one that seemed to help. And when I did, it wasn’t the overnight cure to my anxiety that he presented, it’s been a slow, gradual thing. It was hopeful to find something that helped, but overall I think the book was discouraging because it made me feel like there must be something wrong with me that I’m not having the immediate success that Burns seemed so confident of.

So I don’t know. Overall I think it’s a useful book, I just wish it was presented differently. I also worry that if it was required reading, you’d get this influx of well-meaning but dismissive people who think that any problem can be solved by whatever the thing their teacher vibed most with. For a lot of people, until they go through their own struggle with mental health it’s like it doesn’t exist for them. Perhaps doubly true for teenagers with an undeveloped sense of empathy.

Aside, I liked Dr Faith Harper’s Unfuck Your Life series. It’s got the same bones as Feeling Good, but it’s more modern, her style is more grounded, and I think it’s important that she sets expectations by telling the reader that not everything in psychiatry is a magic bullet solution.

I also think the Unfuck series is neat because each book is smaller but tailored to a specific focus. Unfuck your Anxiety has different exercises than Unfuck your Depression. I think that makes it more accessible for people who are going through it, although perhaps it does lessen the depth that a required reading list would need from a single book. Not that they’d ever teach Unfuck your Life in school because swear words are bad even though teenagers literally wouldn’t care.

Anyway, long story long, I think they absolutely should teach this stuff in school but gosh I hate that specific book

Life imitates art

I respect that it’s a populat format, but as soon as a game has both PvE and PvP the game is just PvP in my opinion.

I don’t like most PvP games, so seeing both tags scares me off of most titles.

Sometimes you’ll see a game like that where you can disable PvP, or host a private lobby, or some other compromise. Most of the time doing so reveals just how shallow the PvE content really is

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

You take a four panel comic, have one line stand up, two panels with two lines standing up, and one panel with two lines perpendicular to each other. Congratulations! It’s a joke about miscarriage

You know me, Marge. I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals FA-LAMING!

When you wrestle with a pig, you both get muddy and the pig likes it

At some point in your life, you also required training to make sure you didn’t destroy the furniture or shit on the floor

Cleaning is part of the care. I guess that’s just what the deal is though

Some people think animals shouldn’t live indoors. It’s worth reminding those people that humans are animals

That does sound pretty weird, so I had a look:

Turns out that Ranch Farm & Store Sim and Coastal Kitchen Sim were both previously in Early Access. When a game leaves Early Access, the release date gets updated to the current date.

So it looks like they took their other games out of Early Access the day they released this one into Early Access. That’s less weird than listing all three on the same day - I suppose a small studio wouldn’t be able to support so many games under development at once.

Showing her you’re interested isn’t about making you more attractive to her. It’s more about signalling that you’re receptive if she’s also attracted to you.

If she’s attracted and knows you’re attracted, the relationship can proceed.

If she’s attracted and doesn’t know you’re attracted, she’ll either be in the same position you’re in now, conclude that you only want to be friends, or move on to someone who’s attracted to her.

If she’s unattracted and knows you’re attracted, everyone can get in front of their feelings before you feel like you’re wasting your time or she feels like she’d be losing a friendship by not being romantically interested in you. The longer you withhold your feelings from her, the more difficult you can be making things for both of you.

All that said, I think it’s totally reasonable to hang out with her a few times to see if you like hanging out with each other first.

If writing is an option, then keeping pen and paper handy can facilitate communication.

An abundance of patience is useful. You can never really be sure what’s going on in someone else’s head, and that’s doubly true for someone who can’t tell you if they wanted to. People tend to mirror other people’s energies though, so if you remain calm and relaxed that can keep things smooth.

Something to consider: if you can’t speak, then body language becomes your primary method of communication. I wouldn’t be surprised if expressions and emotions become exaggerated because it helps get your point across. Mild annoyance could be perceived as anger if you’re sensitive to it.

Something else to consider: being able to lower the price is one of the easiest tools for pleasing a customer, but if you start at the lowest possible price then you’ve got nowhere to go lower if your customer already had reason to be irate. Plus if haggling is expected then your customer might not really know that you’ve started at the lowest price and might think that you’re refusing to haggle with them. It can be a tough nut to crack - I’d also want to give them the best price. If you have additional discounts, coupons, or gifts you can add to the transaction then that might be an option.

To be honest, muteness is a pretty rare condition here. I’ve worked retail for many years and can probably count on one hand how many mute customers I’ve had. But I have had a couple of regulars and we seem to get along. Treating other human beings how you’d like to be treated is usually the best way forward.

Comedy is all about timing

I’ve seen enough Christmas specials to know that richness from spending times with your loved ones, cultivating relationships with your community, and enjoying what you have.

If you somehow don’t feel rich with your fabulously wealthy lifestyle, then I’m afraid you never will. In fact, you probably have too much stuff to feel rich, because richness doesn’t come from the pursuit of things.

Don’t despair friend, I have a solution. Send me the deeds to your houses and factory and I’ll make sure someone who can appreciate them will enjoy them. Working through an agent like me will be far less scary than being visited by three ghosts tonight.

Well, the severity of the threat depends on context. The school bully is more likely to beat you up, but if it’s a gang or prison situation your life is in serious danger

But I guess in the context of the comic it doesn’t really matter, only that the kid isn’t getting stitches because he ain’t no snitch