I also had a long period of time where I thought it was about casting metal. I think the phrase works either way, although the intended meaning probably makes more sense.

Sure seems like she can't move on from it.

Jesse "guy who sabotaged his future wife's car so she would be reliant on him for transport" Watters?

Managed to get cities skylines 2 to stop turning my computer into the elephant's foot by throttling the cpu to 95%. It also only usually crashes after a while except when it does right away now.

I've got pretty nice little city now, with what I think is a pretty natural and pleasing density gradient - mostly midrises. Spent a while to retrofit an elevated highway and interchange along one of the city's axes and it works pretty nicely now. Not even a monstrosity except for a pretty suspect bridge and a truly terrifying merge scheme that has merges immediately before and in-line with exits.

The tools for drawing roads etc. definitely work and can achieve nice results with a little forethought, but they remain cumbersome and fiddly (especially if you have OCD). Moveit is basically indispensible as a tool to scooch things around if you want things to look a particular way.

I prefer my toes natty

willingly working an overseas contract job for pay. Sounds like slavery.

Be very careful about employing this kind of rhetoric. For instance, South Asians also willingly take contracts to work overseas in Saudi Arabia or the UAE, but we wouldn't write off their abuse and bondage by reframing it as their responsibility.

Who's on that inaugural committee? Sounds like a nice gig.

I am reading the Pevear and Volokhonsky!

It's a challenging text but well worth it. If you can get through the somewhat longwinded passages, the drama of the characters is incredible.

I am still in the back-half of Brothers Karamazov. I only rarely read it, but it remains an outstanding novel that hits my feels like a fucking boxer every time I do. Dostoevsky just fucking understands something about people. Every scene in this book is a life-changing one for the characters, which I guess could feel exhausting, but there's something about the atmosphere of the story that makes sense why they're all like this. Now I do have my gripes with it. Chief of which is that sometimes he will write a paragraph that spans three pages. I need a break Ted! But it also kind of works with how you and the characters are suddenly swept up from contemplation into a momentously important exchange. Good book. My friend says that he was trying to create a distinctly Russian style of literature and I think he did achieve that.

Yeah I can totally help guide you in making a build and general strategy. I would recommend LucidTactics and his discord as a start point for learning. The game is super huge and there's so much detail to learn, but that's kind of what's fun about it, but it's also not terribly difficult to just slap a decent bless on your pretender and start playing.

It's not trivial, but lots of people do it. There are substitutes if you really miss like cheese, but there's also a whole fucking world of delicious vegan cuisine. Indian is a good place to start. It can seem scary to give up a bedrock sort of comfort like a kind of food you eat, but it can actually be kind of freeing to realize that you don't actually need it. I'm not vegan, but I started to not eat meat during Lent a couple years ago and it was a pretty revealing experience. I recommend it to people.

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Got in the gym for the first time in a little while and it was real nice. I hurt my back the previous time I'd gone and then the snow started, so I basically stopped working out for a month. My muscles were definitely getting smaller, but I didn't lose as much strength as I was scared of. Also it was wicked fucking good for my mood. I know there are a lot of factors contributing to me feeling like dogshit recently, but not exercising is definitely one of them - and one that is tractable.

I think I'll have to try making some. Did you do the dough yourself?

What's a pide? Nice colors for the plating. Also great chiffonade on the cabbage; it looks so yummy to me right now. Cilantro on top? With the olives too, what an interesting bunch of flavors, sounds really good.

Someone was talking about Civ Beyond Earth recently and Potato Mcwhiskey was playing it so I gave it a shot - however, I pirated it and forgot to download the expansion pack at first, so I think I have had the unusual experience of playing the release version of the game and then the fully updated and expanded game back to back as my first impression. I have to say it's crazy how much better it is. I may have gotten a particularly boring seed the first time around where I was on my own island - and the second game I'm playing on hard, but the game feels much more alive and interesting and I've had to actually think about the AI and what I'm trying to accomplish. I don't know if it's got legs and I haven't hit endgame in the second run (it will still probably be a slog), but it's been a pretty enjoyable civ-type experience with ayylmao characteristics. Watching my little guys shoot giant bugs in the fungal forests is definitely

What I've been hearing about civ 7 has gotten me a lot more optimistic about the big design changes, ages in particular. It sounds like they took a really hard look at civ's lategame sucking because of snowballing and relative impact of decisions compared to how many you have to make and the ages system is intended to alleviate that. I imagine having fewer cities with like subordinate settlements and no workers/builders will also reduce the micro - oh! and you don't have to manually do logistics for reinforcements anymore. remains to be seen if planes will be pleasant to use.

Mutli-struggle drifting!?

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