Bjorn

I'm very sorry to hear about your dog Spenny, I hope it improves today. As a general piece of advice regarding pet health care (in the US at least), if you are in a city and generally find vets to be expensive, it can be worth checking around in small communities 15-30 minutes outside the city. We changed vets after we moved to the country from town, and our new vet is generally about half the cost of our old vet, despite being only 20 minutes away. I know our family in New York do this as well, as the vets in NYC are crazy expensive, and so for all non-emergency stuff, it's well worth the drive to schedule shots, checkups, etc., a little bit outside of town.

Also, kid was born on Independence Day.

And Brownback continues to be as shitty and intolerant as possible, issuing a wide ranging executive order about protecting religious liberty.

Lisa is on sale again on Steam for anyone who is interested in it. Are you talking about the archer, or did I miss a character? The truck driver thing was kind of weird. Obviously it was a red herring, but the idea that anyone could mistake him for a girl was unbelievable, which means, guys were just paying to rape a guy for the hell of it?

That MBMBAM episode sounds like exactly what I always wanted that show to be. You've talked me into downloading my first episode since March of 2014 (according to my podcast tool).

I just tried that root beer for the first time on Friday! Dangerous stuff.

Congrats on your first shotgunning of a beer!

I'm not that familiar (obviously much less so than Gorm), but is there also fear underlying this move as well as greed? Are people worried that there are additional houses of cards ready to topple that the general public isn't aware of if another financial crisis hit?

I know it's a franchise that owns multiple stores in the area, and I'm not sure that she knows which store it would be at. She's leaving here on Saturday to drive out there, then will be in Seattle for 10 days, will have her in-person interview sometime during then and learn more about the stores, locations, etc. The owner here was ready to offer her a manager position if she stayed, so hopefully the position out there is one that she can move into management relatively quickly.

Badass babies.

Teg, you're awesome and everyone on these boards cares about you and what happens to you.

So the kiddo had a phone interview today at a place, and has an in person interview setup next week when she'll be in town visiting. She's worked at a UPS Store for the last two years, and a UPS franchise out there has an opening right now. The owner of her store called and put in a good word for her, the phone interview went great, and at the end of it the gal who interviewed her said if the in person interview went as well, they'd definitely be open to the possibility of holding the position for her for a few weeks to give her time to get moved and everything. That makes this whole moving halfway across the country thing way more real, and makes it likely that it will happen way faster. I'm...man, I'm more bummed and scared about having her that far away than I expected.

We finished up Obscure this evening, a PS2 era co-op survival horror game, but it is available on Steam as well. It's Resident Evil 2 mechanics except you can walk slowly and shoot. You need to do some very light puzzle solving (mostly finding keys/levers). It's definitely a bit on the janky side, both because of its age and design, but if a co-op RE2 sounds like a game you'd like, I highly recommend it, particularly given that there are so few games like it.

That sounds like Melting, for sure. New update went live, and they're finally working on the new menu system. Yah! I'm still terrible at this game! Boo!

I'm usually genuinely scared the first time I ride a new roller coaster, but once I have a frame of reference of what to expect, it's mostly fun. The one exception are coasters that feature the initial giant plunge. Climbing the incline, and then watching the cars in front of you disappear (assuming we're not in front) pretty much gets me every time. Anticipation is the worst. Related to that, I've done the Ripcord type ride once, and it remains one of the most fun things I've ever done at an amusement park. And I will never do it again. That buildup of anticipation was almost too much, I was practically hyperventilating when we got to the top.

Watched Housebound this weekend, quite a good little horror-comedy flick! Well executed, plays with the core trope of a haunted house well and the family drama/weirdness makes for better background than most family related haunted house families.

I'd honestly been hesitant to post anymore on this topic, but that celebreceipts link has kind of got stuck in the back of my mind. Yes, some of the work Moen has done was shitty, should be criticized and it is perfectly reasonable for anyone to decide that they feel whatever they feel about her based on her published work. But that thing ends up just being the worst kind of tumblery social justice witch hunt. Like, the final two links accuse her of making racist work by linking to an unsourced, incomplete collage of work with no evidence that it actually came from Moen. Which, lets assume it did and the author had done their homework, calling it racist is just unethically painting it in the worst light possible. From the two surviving pieces, it looks like someone trying to explore or explain the racism of the family they grew up in. It might be rough, but it's kinda bullshit to cry racism about someone trying to explain and show the racism their family tried to instill in them. That's not the kind of work that should be being hunted down, criticized and held up as an indictment of someone. Someone trying to examine and pushback against the toxic, bullshit culture they were raised in. It's that thing where once someone decides they need to collate the litany of sins of a public figure, they need to make sure they've checked off all the major boxes, and if they can't find something definitively racist, they'll just look for any material that involved race and call it racist. I don't think anybody needs to forgive her, like her work, or anything else. But for fuck's sake, whoever runs celebreceipts needs to take their foot off the indignation gas pedal for a minute and think a bit more about some of the "evidence" posted.

I don't watch much soccer, but we had a game day yesterday and several folks wanted the match on in the background, and holy hell was that fun to watch.

For people who generally try to be thoughtful and progressive, I don't think they should be immune from criticism, but there has to be room to grow. I came out of a rural, backwards, bigoted town and carried some of that baggage with me for years. If my teens and early 20s had been chronicled online, I can't imagine what kind shit could be used against me today.

Some of the story is not meant to be understood as of now. The dev is currently putting the finishing work into Lisa the Joyful, which will continue the story and wrap up at least parts of it (I wouldn't be surprised if some things are still left ambiguous). I think there's a fair argument to be made that you also spend the journey building your own cult. Brad's a real force of nature, obviously one of the strongest fighters left in that area of the world. Even out of shape and older, he was still once a martial arts master. And that taps into that there's a meta narrative about becoming the thing you hate and how cycles of abuse are perpetuated. Did you ever take Joy? I know the ending is different based on whether you did or not.

I try to play around with different characters, but I have a pretty serious crush on Steroid For every time I play a different character, I play him 2 or 3 times. After playing it regularly for a couple of weeks, I'm actually back to not playing it for awhile. I continue to be frustrated that things like co-op and controller support are still only half finished. I know, it's EA, they'll get finished. But they are enough of an irritant that I think I'm better off waiting until it's feature complete.

My experience with soda is that there is a bunch of it I don't care for now. I still enjoy a grape soda now and again, and might have a Dr. Pepper or root beer with a meal. But almost everything else is just too syrupy and sweet for me now.

I agree it's not entirely credible, but I also do find it with the realm of possibility. There are plenty of stories about how shit like this is found in the weirdest places. And ultimately the system will prove to be real or a hoax, and the origin behind it is less important (the only reason that Olaf would be important would be to try and boost the price as a collector's item, and if it isn't true, that story will fall apart quick enough).