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You’re saying that nobody else in the family matters even though they’ve already decided to keep the child.

Relatively is carrying a lot of weight there.

Their 28-year-old son may not have much to do with the fact that they are having another kid, but that fully grown adult man is still a part of the family and should count for something.

There’s no need to just completely and totally toss him out of the equation.

Especially when you consider that there is a possibility, depending on the age of the girlfriend, that both of them could die before this child reaches the age of majority, in which case, he would likely need to step in to finish the job.

Early on in their first game, my players suffered a T.P.K.

A squadron of horrible die rolls killed all three party members in their first battle.

I’m talking skeletons rolling nat 20s against level 3 characters who kept rolling twos and threes for the entire battle.

But they didn’t die.

Instead, they awoke to find themselves in front of the BBEG who enslaved them with a cursed crest and then sent them out to scour the world for a specific list of objects where they were contractually bound to be released once they delivered them all.

This effectively let me railroad the campaign just enough to get the party started.

(This is what I would be saying if I had realized that I could do this immediately instead of staring slackjawed in disbelief as 30 minutes into a well-planned campaign, every single party member died and then accused me of being too hard of a GM and… yeah.)

One trick that helped me is that psychopaths tend to frame things in an either or, where the either is, you do what they want you to do, and the or is, you are a horrible person.

When you find that yourself in that situation, always pick the horrible person option.

What they think of you doesn’t fucking matter.

Once they realize that they can’t manipulate you, they’ll get bored and move on.

generally temperate, A little hot, a little cold, a little wet, a little dry.

On average I would say it’s somewhere between below boiling and above freezing, depending on the season.

If it runs “fast enough” on a completely clean system that would cost the average user $1500, then companies assume that that means that it is a good product.

If you want better software, you have to give developers worse hardware to develop on, and more time to develop.

I was in second grade when they changed the way that Wednesday is spelled.

It used to be Wendsday, at least that’s how it was spelled in the universe I came from.

Nothing has really made sense since.

I was at the thrift store the other day and I found a box for $5 for sale that had a piece of the Berlin Wall in it.

I don’t even know why, but I had to snap it up, and now it’s sitting on my little curio shelf.

I am not a follower of Islam, but I have read some of the materials, and they said that in heaven everyone will be 30 years old.

That seems like a pretty decent age. Like you’re old enough to be an adult at 30, but you’re still young enough to be able to enjoy life if you didn’t have soul-crushing work to do.

Whatever it is, it’s going to be the subject of several YouTube documentaries.

Depends on how you calculate the average.

If you remove the top and bottom 1% to get a more average median, then most of us most likely do not.

Theres a few types of changes that can happen to people.

1: Change hammered in by the vicissitudes of time.

This is stuff like getting used to your dead end job because it’s comfy.

2: Change foisted upon you by happenstance.

This is stuff like becoming a parent or suffering a life changing medical emergency.

3: Reactive change caused by inner turmoil.

This is the kind of change that happens during a midlife crises or by an sudden inspiration that must be acted upon immediately or it loses its potency.

4: Intentional change by measured reason.

This is the kind of change people typically think of when they say people can’t change. It’s the hard kind of change and is rarely done in one’s life and even when it is done it’s the kind of windmill you can waste your whole life tilting at without ever slaying a single giant.

Anyone can change the shape of their soul if they recognize its current shape and start making changes to it.

Changing for the better is the real task.

I thought about it for a second, and my mental idea of what a normal person is is like some black and white nuclear family, white dad with slick back hair and a sweater and a pipe in his mouth, and wife wearing a gingham dress, cooking food and cleaning with her hair in an updo.

If that is what normal is, there’s only ever been one family that was actually normal, and they are all dead now.

I use readable names.

I’m using one system for testing purposes, so it’s called testingPC.

Any containers are named for the container purposes, like my pihole is named pihole.

My system is so boring that any person were to pick it up after I got hit by a bus would be able to figure out everything.

I think I lucked out because I live in the suburbs, but it’s a very walkable suburb. There are sidewalks, there is public transportation, and I can walk to the grocery store and back in under a mile.

There are parks nearby within walking distance, with sidewalks between my house and the park for kids to play in, and all of the main streets have bike lanes.

I live in America, this is not like European normal standard.

Oregon and Washington and most of California have a lot going for it as far as human amenities in suburban spaces.

Pretty much all of them.

Most tech issues can be easily reduced to rote actions as long as you have a little bit of knowledge about the environment in which they are being executed.

Sure, it’s fun rolling out youth systems and dealing with integration issues and things like that, but after the high watermark fun things, there are large gaps of where you’re just doing maintenance, and maintenance is no fun.

I do tech work for law firms, hospitals, and schools. I make about $150k/yr, but I’m bored out of my skull. I’d like more of a challenge but I’d have to give up my cush to get it.

Yeah, I would buy an aftermarket toner instead. Having been doused in toner in the past, I do not recommend it

I think he started using ok cupid.

One of my best friends has Asperger’s and Schizophrenia, and has agoraphobia so he’s essentially a shut-in, and is a recovering drug addict and he still met and married someone.

If he can pull it off, you can too.