No game for me. Leave it for the gamers who need it more than I do.

That being said, this is cool as hell! Merry Christmas, awesome Internet person

You’re probably right. I just prefer to err on the side of over explaining that I never have a problem with what any adult is doing with any other consenting adult.

About 15 years ago there was a company I did some work for (I was at an MSP at the time) who wanted to virtualize certain systems. Great. No problem. Except those systems needed to read floppies. Ok, I can pass it through. Except they wanted to get away from floppies. Great, let’s get you a newer system from a different vendor because this one went out of business when NT4 was still the big dog. Nope, too much money and the process would change.

So I had to reregister every DLL by hand because the installation didn’t work on Server 2008 r2. And every few months it would have to be done again because one of the guys thought himself a genius and kept messing up the janky ass workflow we put together to download info from thumb drives to a virtual floppy.

So plug in the drive, janky ass script creates a virtual floppy in drive A of the server, and manually (eventually I just wrote a script because I didn’t want to get that call on a Saturday) register each DLL every so often. And they’d rather pay the company I worked for several hundred dollars a month than pay a couple of grand one time that would have paid for itself in less than a year.

Yep. I had a friend who, when she would get the “up” she’d engage in very risky sex with whoever was around. Then when she’d come down she’d hate herself for it and have to deal with the fallout.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sex positive. Do what you want with who you want. I just see how much it hurt her to constantly be getting std tests and spending all that money on plan b and fucking up her cycle.

Entirely unrelated, but the only thing I could think of

That didn’t seem to wipe you off the face of Earth

So I’ll try again with something that’s just a little worse

You claim you’re gradually_adjusting, but let’s be fucking blunt

You’re just a pedestrian-hunting, sharp-edged, shallow little…god dammit there are a few words even I won’t say.

I’ve been gradually_adjusting to the piece of shit you are

Ever since you ran over orphans in your ugly fucking car

You said "All I want for Christmas is a cyber truck in Green,

And for people to know I’m the true orphan crushing machine!"

To add to your point, Xiaohongshu has plenty of people on it who aren’t Chinese as well. Loads. It’s not like they’re in cultural blackout.

Mongo is appalled.

I’m already a cowboy skeleton, just with a few extra layers.

Plaid is great in all seasons. I have many pearl snap plaid shirts ranging from thick and warm flannel to super thin beach flannel to just the cotton shirts.

I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.

I’m a hair older than him.

I hurt pretty often. I get tired more easily. I have hangovers now. If I jump out of the bed of a pickup my knees make noises. I could go on for days about it.

And it’s great. I don’t worry about what people think and I have adventures. I do what I want outside of work. And I have stories and hobbies and old friends.

Off to Frobozz I go, I guess

Or we can all just assume that since Steam hasn’t released the price these guys are just misleading people for views and put them on our permanently do not watch list. Couple that with someone being smarmy about the content rather than talking to people and it seems like something I wouldn’t personally enjoy.

I didn’t like what they did at the end of season 1. That was a last second rewrite due to covid restrictions and because they were missing an actor. I understand what happened and why but it created two huge problems, one with the way magic worked and the other was a character issue. It didn’t kill it for me personally, but I can see why it would turn people off.

But man, I agree. In Eye of the World Elaida pulled up Rand’s sleeve to see how white he was without road dust and the kind of sun exposure that comes from farming. She saw how light skinned he was. Which tells me that the two rivers folks were darker than him. And the EF5 had never seen anyone else with his color eyes. Super weird complaint.

Even if that didn’t happen, it’s a fantasy book. The only real rule was that it’s been an isolated village for a while. Not enough time for evolution to entirely homogenize skin color, but quite a large chunk of time. So we’re looking for folks that look like they belong in the same country and an outlander who could fit in if he had enough time in the sun.

I also didn’t understand why people wanted to make sure that if they didn’t enjoy it no one could. I’ll never get that. It didn’t retroactively change the books. It hurts no one by just existing. And I doubt we’re getting another adaptation anytime within the next several decades whether this was finished or not.

And no matter what anyone thinks about anything, Rosamund Pike was fucking amazing. I stand by that no matter what anyone thinks about any of it.

A dry man ain’t worth knowing.

They had brown people for the Emond’s Field folks. A group didn’t like that. The women were competent in the show (and more competent than the dudes) than in the books (aes sedai notwithstanding). A group didn’t like that. Twice a woman did something seemingly impossible based on the rules set forth in the books. I actually agree that one of them was problematic, but not because it was a woman. My issue with it was that it was just a senseless and unnecessary change. But I didn’t run to the Internet to talk about how it ruined the show, the world, my faith in humanity, and how it’s the worst thing that ever happened to anyone ever.

So there was a split between people who read the books. People who enjoyed it overall (me), people who didn’t enjoy it because it changed too much from the source material (a valid stance and I see why they felt that way), and a persistent and loud group who were mad about brown people and women (shitbags).

I’ve read them multiple times and agree with your gf. They’re two different things with the same characters. I liked the show less than the books but I still liked the show and I’m sad it’s gone.

I think part of the problem is that they deviated way too far from the source material so fan favorites never really got their time on screen. Add to that some things they had to do due to covid and losing a great actor (at least my favorite of the EF5) before season 1 episode 8 and having to scramble to fix that mess and they lost a lot of people who would have been their biggest cheerleaders.

These are not complaints of mine, just some observations outside the racist and sexist bullshit rhetoric that surrounded parts of the show fandom.

Well, teenagers scare the living shit out of me.