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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Easily could be charged as an adult if he shot someone else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It’s specifically the US that calls main courses entrees. No clue why.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Red chile sauce with poached eggs for me, then later a bottle of Vinho Verde. Pretty decent so far.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

He’s portrayed as a loser due to being self-unaware and generally clueless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ole to Lena: “I was thinking on my feet today.”
Lena asks, “Why, were you too lazy to sit down?”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The first things I recall learning to make for myself were marmalade sandwiches and this concoction of pinto beans, sausage and cheese. I'd heat it in the microwave, which in classic American tradition was made by an offshoot of a defense contractor, Litton. The first thing I learned to cook on the stove, when I was 7, was scrambled eggs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

What I don't get is that a dick the size or shape of an eggplant would just not work, for anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There’s a point for some people where you live with your parents because they can’t really take care of themselves, you don’t have kids and are free to move… uh, speaking from personal experience. My dad is losing it and my mom is close to that, and I just ended a relationship recently so it makes sense I’d live with them and help them in the interim. It’s not exactly a new relationship magnet though.

As far as your situation, you’ll know when the time is right to move out imo. The standards of “move out and have your own house at 18” is outdated due to realistic modern economics. It would be when you meet someone and want to move in with them and taking them to your parents would seems absurd. You’re educated, you have a job, you’re expressive, you’re doing fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mainly I was pining for turn-based Phantasy Star. I'd accept DnD. I was out of the gaming world from 2005-2020. I could have looked harder, it's true, and that's why I'm asking questions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Is that how those work? I've been thinking about BG3. I suppose the first RPG I ever played was a Gold Box SSI game set in the Forgotten Realms so I'd probably like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (8 children)

One of my favorite series, Phantasy Star, moved from a turn-based RPG in the 80s to an action RPG since 20 years ago (PSO, PSO2). What if I don't want to play an action game? I don't get what happened to the old style of RPG.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes they get tens of thousands, like if they convince the person to invest in a fraudulent investment scheme. Also, it's not fulltime work with one person... maybe an hour or a few a day per victim, and they do several at once. Reply to one person, reply to another one while waiting to hear back, reply to another... and sometimes the people doing the 'work' are merely employees working for a wage or percentage! If they're in a country with a different scale of currency like China, Brazil or Moldova, 10,000 USD would go a lot farther than in the US.

Anyway, it's not theoretical. Check out this Wired article for instance, or one on ProPublica. They're basically the same as the "I'm a lonely doctor in the military in Africa" romance scams that have been going around social media for years, somewhat descendants of the famous Nigerian Prince scams.

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