Cynical and bitter mutualist & consequentialist. I hate accelerationists and their apologists as much as I hate fascists.
I don’t have access to this account during weekends.
When I was a little kid and I ran into cheaters in Halo: Custom Edition I still hated them and would never do it. I don’t think being a bored little kid is an excuse.
That said if you don’t do it anymore that’s a little more excusable at least you stopped.
I’ll be able to afford it. I’ll just be saving less money once I move because its higher rent. I just have been wanting a solid buffer in my bank account first before making the move as a result so I’ve been needing to save up that buffer. I’m about halfway there. Need another 2-3 months of saving first I think.
But yeah I agree that old people can make fantastic roommates but they’re more rare in urban areas as roommate options in my experience.
I’m on my brother’s premium. I told myself if my brother stopped wanting to pay for it I’d pay for it myself because I hate ads that much.
On the other hand, if Youtube itself takes it away from me I’m going to just stop watching Youtube.
I don’t mind the word. Its more specific. People can still get things done, but they may be things that give them a dopamine hit like completing a personal project or finishing off the final boss in game. It doesn’t get things done that deal with adult responsibilities. Further many of us suffer from mild mental health challenges such as ADHD and various locations on the spectrum so there are very real challenges beyond just “one’s attitude towards work”.
I have Autism, and I’ve lived with people with ADHD. Its been a mixed bag in terms of roommates for me between NT’s and ADHD, but I’ve literally had 3 different roommates who used the world “Adulting” and every time they’ve ended up just letting something go, waiting for other people to clean up after them literally or figuratively until they hit a breaking point.
The three roommates I’ve had who all used this god damned word:
One college roommate who was fond of the word constantly just let things fall apart. My anxiety over things domino-ing into my life consistently had me trying to hold things together that really wasn’t my responsibility but his. And he took advantage of that. Maybe not always consciously, but even if he wasn’t doing it on purpose he certainly did not seem to feel any remorse for stressing me the fuck out and guilt tripping me when he constantly asked for my help for basically everything.
Filling out financial, government, and school forms, cleaning his own goddamned room so it did not produce a horrid stench in the rest of the house, calling to have his car towed so it could be fixed because he neglected it’s basic care and then expecting me to drive him to work. He did have ADHD but I’ve met other people with ADHD and when they fucked up they tried to make up for it. He did not give a fuck. Everytime I asked for rent was a dice roll as to whether he’d whine a little and then pay or yell at me and tell me I was a greedy asshole and that I had plenty of money and he was poor so I should dip into my savings to help him out.
One was a drug user and alcoholic and at some point stopped paying rent entirely and may have been secretly trying to sell drugs online using our fucking address. When another roommate agreed to pay for a bus ticket back to their home state to their Aunt’s place he threw a hissy fit. We both had to help him pack. He said I was “selfish” for kicking him out and that I wasn’t willing to help him more.
Another that used that word, moved in and then insisted that I had the best room and that I was “privileged” for not letting them have the room because she was “going through a rough time and needed their privacy and space”. My room was in a far corner away from other rooms and was indeed the largest and honestly I was ambivalent about the room itself, but I had already been living in the room and had no time to just stop what I was doing and move it all for them like she seemed to think was my duty. I told them I was planning on moving out soon and they could have it when I left, that’s when they called in in the middle of my work shift and started trying to actively lecture me about my privilege for not doing it immediately and I hung up on them. They also threw a hissy fit and started telling the other roommates random lies about me trying to get them on her side. The remaining 4 months I lived there she paid her rent portion late every month.
Oh, and when she found out my room got terrible AC and heating because of bad ventilation she stopped wanting the room. Their privacy and space suddenly stopped mattering.
They all lamented having to do “adulting”. Maybe its a coincidence but man I’m not getting fooled a forth fucking time.
Now, when I was younger, when I fell into my obsessive autistic spirals I too became irresponsible about everything I wasn’t obsessed with. The difference was I actively prevented others from taking on my mess because I have a sense of shame and responsibility. I’m talking about people who essentially just repeatedly let me take care of their problems once they discovered I would. And usually the reason I’d help them was because I needed them to not fall into a rut because I lived with them and split rent with them.
Its okay to use the word “adulting” to recognize efforts that need to be undertaken to take care of your adult responsibilities. This doesn’t mean that someone can be allowed to simply delegate their own adult responsibilities on others using this word.
Its “OK” to use the word, but red flags are raised for me when I hear it because of my experiences. And often the “delegation” comes in the form of shaming others for daring to have their shit together and not helping them in their sorry state. Its rarely direct, it is usually subtle and insidious.
Having your own living space is wonderful! Its also a good test to know if you have all the life skills you need. I am hopeful you can get this soon.
I am looking forward to it. I’m pretty old for it to be my first time. To be honest though I do worry that I’ll become even more lonely. Roommates aren’t all bad, it is nice to have someone to socialize with after work right at home. And unfortunately I wont be bringing my pets with me due to various complications, they’re going to live with my mom nearby.
I do worry I might miss socializing with people living right at home, though I intend to just leave my apartment frequently and invite people over. We’ll see, maybe I end up hating it and try and roll the dice with roommates again.
I know it against the spirit of the post but I have to go on a rant here.
“adulting”
I hate that word, its so stupid. It implies self infantilization, when in reality its use is just indicative of one’s attitude towards work or getting anything done. And wanting everyone else around them to take care of things.
Every roommate I’ve had who used that fucking word did not do fucking shit around the house. They were always the victim when some disagreement happened. They sometimes got mad when I asked for their portion of rent. Just absolutely manipulative narcissistic perpetual victims that expected me or other’s to do everything for them.
As soon as I save up and move I will be so happy to finally live alone for the first time in my life. Rent will be more expensive and I’ll save way less but at least there will be fewer human variables like that to deal with.
Yeah we’re going into flu season soon. And covid vaccines actually should be updated even more often than flu.
Just got my second HPV vax and my understanding is I have to wait at least a month before I can have a different vaccine.
That said, I intend to get the Covid and Flu vax once its been a full month. They’ve never told me I can’t do both of those at the same time.
And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.
Unshackle your mind. Reject the puritanism bonk and embrace the horniness tentacles.
I know that this is all just theater to just destroy any semblance of free speech and privacy on the internet but if I’m completely honest I also don’t even understand people who freak out about kids looking at porn. Like, I get protecting children obviously from predators (fucking Roblox), but also I saw hardcore porn on the internet super early when I was like 8 and the only trauma I ever felt was the fear of being caught looking at it by my parents, who were otherwise pretty chill about me seeing really violent media.
And before me and the internet, kids were looking at their grampa’s/dad’s porn magazines or finding it in the woods or getting some 18 year old to buy it for them. It was harder but I’m telling you they found it.
I feel like a bigger concern for kids right now is microplastics, lead poisoning, and climate change and you don’t see nearly the same hysteria about that shit in mainstream politics.
OK, you’re right BussyGyatt, you deserve only the the most productive and serious of posts.
I am going to risk getting alcohol poisoning in celebration when he finally dies.
“guarantee that Trump won”
Words mean things. It was not guaranteed that Trump was going to win when he endorsed Harris.
I did not look that deep. Its not been important enough since again I mostly have been using my Deck more than my Desktop anyway.
Performance is still noticeably worse. Based on some cursory research, the 4070 Super gets like ~20% less FPS on Bazzite compared to Windows on a 4070 Super and I tend to play high fidelity shooters on my desktop so frames per second matters.
Them insisting on having match making for the main modes was my red line. While this nonsense is not a deal breaker for me, as I almost always tryhard a single multiplayer game at a time anyway if I’m playing multiplayer at all. This sounds like I’m dodging another future headache whenever the next game insists on kernel level anti-cheat though.
IDK I liked 7 pretty much as much as I like XP. For me it was 10 that was just alright.
My brother convinced me to switch to 11 when I built my most recent gaming desktop and I somewhat regret listening to him but I know dual booting is a waste of time for me and I’m not quite ready to make the full jump to Linux because my desktop has a 4070 Super. It’ll ahve to wait until my next PC. Fortunately, I don’t have the version of 11 with Recall pre-installed at least.
I use my Steam Deck more than my gaming desktop these days anyway.
The real opportunity for equal-tasting, cheaper, better for the environment “meat” is development of and efficiencies gained by scaling the lines of plant-based imitations like what Impossible and it’s competitors are doing.
I’ve had impossible burger and while they’re OK tasting they’re not equal tasting. Further, after eating one I felt very strange, like my body had some sort of reaction to it.
I wish I had something meaningful to say about this.
I get the motivation to try and stay around and make things better but I’m well past that. I’ve been trying to change minds for a while, I can only assume I’m just bad at it.
I also don’t really owe this place my time and energy. If people in this state want to wallow in shit that’s their prerogative but I’m not getting pulled into that shit if I can avoid it. Though it looks like economically I wont be able to avoid it. Moving is expensive and if I move I’ll need a new job and the job market is terrible right now.
Now that I think about it… I wonder if his stroke was partially a result of his meeting with Putin…