Preacher wrote: »

I'm just not social, and I just don't care. When people try and act like they care about me I am immediately suspicious and want to know what they think they'll get from hearing about me.

I did a meet up once and went to the bathroom and people asked my wife while I was in the restroom to find out embarrassing things about me. So I have trust issues.

I used to have this thing and then I made better friends and fell in love and realized that what I thought was well-earned cynicism was actually quite a bit of self-loathing. I got a lot happier generally when I started assuming better of people and tried to meet them halfway. It felt like I was faking it at first, because I kinda was, and then slowly it became more genuine as I realized all the people I thought were faking were actually kind and interesting and had lives different enough from mine that I enjoyed hearing about them.

It also turns out that being reflexively pleasant is way way way easier than stewing in my own resentment juices all day, like I have more energy at the end of the day when I don't spend the whole day in my head assuming everyone around me is an idiot/liar whose every second in my presence is a drain.

Preacher wrote: »

I'm 41, I have had several times in my life people lie to my face and screw me over. I don't hate myself. Like I'm glad that worked for you, but what you're saying here is basically the equivalent of telling a woman to smile more. I'd appreciate if you didn't with me thank you.

Is it though

Shirley Temple is definitely someone who I know of

But I don't know if I could tell you a single movie she was in, I know her just because I know her

Very funny to explain fighting game assists as if it's a new concept

'Accelerating' is technically doing something

My Girlfriends Brother In Law came over and did some work for us since he's an electrician and did some work on our house. Got a fan installed for free in the living room, new light installed in the bathroom (a job he's been supposed to do for a year for babysitting their kids), and a cover fell off an outdoor outlet that he replaced. He also filled in a hole in the wall that our dog made by knocking over the gate that tried to hold her in place before we got her a crate.

Considering we just got a new bed frame and the installation was over $100 for a 30 minute job, we really made out like bandits on that work getting done for free, although it did eat into a lot of my free time on my Saturday off.

We've got a bunch of other stuff we want to change in the house, and we're lucky that her family is largely people in those kinds of trades and my dad has those skills as well so we just have to pay for the materials and some beer. I lucked out in that my GF's brother in law had messed up and was in trouble with his wife so I didn't have to part with any of my beer to pay him off this time.

...am I having a stroke?

DJ Eebs wrote: »

livvy rizzed up baby gronk, he might be the new drip king

are you having a stroke

You guys ever think about how good a game Pentiment is?

(author of the thread is an old friend of mine who got their doctorate specifically in medieval art and does a lot of poking at the intersections with videogames, i.e. the person that Pentiment was essentially made for

also that attached hashtag is a bunch of medievalists talking about intersections with games, so uhh, if you're into that sort of thing there are some fun threads in there)