frickineh

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[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not big on violence, and I don't enjoy hitting people, but I've done it a couple of times and I'm always willing to throw down with nazis. If we're not willing to defend ourselves and others, we might as well just hand them the keys and let them do whatever they want. That's gonna be a hard no for me.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My coworker spent 30 minutes trying to find another way to contact a vendor after I told her the easiest way to order the thing she needed was just to call and it would take 2 minutes. I hate calling too, but that's just dumb. Or maybe I just like efficiency more than I hate the phone.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's exactly what he was put there to do. Well, that and just generally disrupt the postal service enough to push people to their more expensive competitors. It's dramatic but I always joke that he's my nemesis. I'm just grateful that we have ballot drop boxes all over in CO where I live so that people don't have to depend on the mail.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah this one. Plus, wear a hat. My hairstylist found skin cancer on my scalp a year or two ago and now I have a bald spot where they removed it because scalp skin doesn't have a whole lot of excess to close a wound. So cute. Thankfully, I can hide it, but it pretty much requires me to wear my hair up every day.

Eta: I feel like it should go without saying, but maybe doesn't, that I was incredibly lucky that it was basal cell, not melanoma. A big scar is one of the best outcomes I could've had.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's a vegan sushi/ramen place near me that makes something between musubi and onigiri with vegan spam and they're crazy good. So that's one use for it.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They'd have to care that there are crises to bother trying to fix them. Trump only cares about his personal problems and I'm pretty sure Vance is some kind of robot with bad AI who will just stop charging himself if things get too bad.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I tried a piece of kibble when I was a kid, mostly because it bothered my mom and I thought it was funny. It wasn't good, but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever eaten. Most of my dogs have eaten pretty much whatever you offer them, except (of course) my chihuahua. She'd eat buffalo sauce but not a carrot. When she lost all her teeth, she'd eat a flavor of wet food happily for like, a week, and then refuse to touch it ever again, so I don't think it was the food being gross as much as it was her being a picky little shit.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I enjoyed it. It's definitely a different feel than previous AC games, so if you go in hoping for that, you might be disappointed. I think it's definitely worth checking out, especially if you can get it on sale.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 84 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Christ he's insufferable. Casting abusers and assholes isn't edgy or interesting, it's just obnoxious. Then again, everything I've heard about this movie seems like Coppola was too busy sniffing his own farts to make something people might actually want to watch.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Eh, it was already a victory getting my mom to agree to this at all. She wouldn't be able to handle the "chaos" of it happening gradually. She's extremely anxious about anything she perceives as messy (and that would definitely meet her criteria), and we have a non-profit here that removes lawns pretty inexpensively, so I'm taking my wins where I can get them and doing it in a way that won't stress her out more.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

We've already done our whole front yard in native plants, but we still have grass in the back, which is struggling because we live in CO and Kentucky bluegrass was never meant to grow in a desert with clay soil. My mom finally said I can have most/all of it removed and plant a native grass mix with clover next year. I'm so happy.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I was talking to my mom about that last night. She's never played the games, but I showed her a couple of pictures of Roland and Lilith and then told her who they cast and even she said, "what the fuck?" Kevin Hart is terrible in pretty much everything, but casting him as Roland made it immediately clear that no one involved in this movie cared at all about the games. And I love Cate Blanchett but she's also about 20 years too old to play Lilith.

I just can't figure out why they thought anyone who didn't love the games would care about the movie, but that seemed to be the audience they tried to attract.

 

I don't do much handheld gaming, but I'm going to have some overseas flights and long-ish train rides later this year, and may also be having surgery that will keep me fairly bedbound for about a month. I'm just not sure how much money it's worth spending on a deck that I likely won't use much outside of those specific cases - I bought a switch when I got covid in 2020 and used it a ton at the time but I've only used it a few times since, though I miiight use a deck a bit more just because I already have a pretty extensive steam library.

Is it better to stick to the cheapest model or is there enough of a difference that it might be worth spending a little more for a nicer one?

 

Yeah, definitely don't put any of those profits toward a living wage though. Make your employees trauma dump for the chance at a few extra bucks! Probably comes as an Amazon gift card, too.

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