as alive as you need me to be
I agree with you, but I regret to inform you that if you have any roommates, decent chance they hate you, lol.
Well, I'm hesitant to be the person that tries to convince somebody to eat something that their body doesn't like to process any amount of.
And, hard cheese and sharp cheese are or at least can be different things, ie, hard romano or parmesan, vs sharp cheddar... and then there's say gouda, that can be hard or sharp, or hard and sharp...
I know this is a different thing, but like... so many people just decide they're gluten intolerant, when they actually aren't... whatever brother/sister, eat or don't eat what you want.
I've met way too many people who just make up reasons to justify some diet they don't understand, as well as people who actually do understand their bodies, their particular differences, and actually have diets that make sense for them... I'm just going with the 'munch and let munch' approach.
EDIT:
And further, all of us who are not lactose intolerant?
We're actually the weird mutants.
Most humans don't come from a lineage of perennial milk drinkers, making food from the milk of other animals, developing a mutation to be able to better metabolize it.
Most people and most mammals in general do not regularly drink milk from another creature.
That's actually weird.
This implies the existence of 'contrast' and 'brightness' as other variable metrics that can describe various cheeses.
But more seriously:
Sharp, Extra Sharp cheese is so fucking good.
I love it so much that I developed a healthy salad eating habit to avoid shitting bricks after eating a quarter of a brick of cheese, so sharp cheese + salads is a win win in my book.
My sincerest condolence s to the lactose intolerant.
Ah, so thats what 'old soul' means, hahah!
I've played New Vegas so much that I can now actually just sing along to half the songs in the game.
I've got a decent baritone voice, I can do Big Iron, Blue Moon, Heartaches by the Number, Jingle Jangle Jingle, whistle the solos, etc.
Butcher Pete from FO3 is also quite fun to sing, haha!
And of course: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire.
And and, I dunno if These Boots Are Made For Walkin' made it into a Fallout game, but it very much seems to fit, and I taught myself to sing a baritone version of it.
Also you'd really think Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel would fit in, but I guess nobody can afford the licensing rights, hah!
But yeah I'm gonna say Mr. New Vegas is my favorite dj from the series... much better voice synthesis than our modern day, newfangled LLMs, Mr. House has some kinda trick up his sleeve, as usual.
We got self-refferential 'chuck norris' jokes:
"You know, I tried to measure my Charisma on a Vit-o-matic Vigor Tester once. The machine burst into flames."
... and a comforting, soft yet commanding voice, telling you:
"It's me again, Mr. New Vegas, reminding you that you're nobody 'til somebody loves you. And that somebody is me. I love you."
<3
Hah, well, given how frequently mine has directly ruined my life, betrayed me, and more recently, attempted to kill me, I guess I'll take that as a compliment.
Yeah, it would be a terrible weakness if I still loved or attempted to have any contact with a bunch of dysfunctional, violent, abusive narcissists.
There's a difference between 'haters' and 'have directly tried to destroy you, multiple times'.
And thats just how fascists ultimately act, the behavior they ultimately enable against their outgroup, or, as in this and every other 'leopards ate my face' type story... themselves, their ingroup, their own family.
But hey I guess if your family is just 'fascist-lite', then I'm sure they'd never do anything to hurt you, right?
Because theae morally bankrupt people, well, they love you, so its fine.
Spoiler: If they're actually fascists, they hate you and they want you to die.
If they got into it as a fad, they're too stupid to be trusted with any complex task, and will be that stupid again.
Yeah, I guess its Josh 'Swole' Hayes these days, lol.
Its incredible how much he's like, the mirror image of Asmongold, his negation.
Ghost her, go no contact, on moral grounds.
Sorry, you support a criminal fascist pedophile warmonger.
Thats bad.
You're bad.
Bye!
... Its really not that complicated.
You can make it complicated and go into ostracization as a means of effectint social change, of cutting someone off being a very costly form of socially signalling how serious you are about this...
But its really not that complicated.
Eh, bounty hunting is an entire industry.
So are all kinds of private security.
Wouldn't be that hard to just create some new class of crime that can legally be dealt with by people or agencies with the proper licensing, then shunt off encampment clearing to basically PMCs.
Then you just tie in existing apps that city governments or police put out, to report encampments, tie that into a conctracting system.
Its the most neoliberal solution to homelessness that can exist, therefore, just give it a couple years.
Works well with the prison industrial complex too!
Trump did say, and has been, settting up massive internment camps for the homeless.
Why not spread some of the money around to some new enterprising startups? Helps make it not look like a no bid contract situation.
Totally random and off topic, but that dude looks like
a yoked up version ofJosh Strife Hayes.Update: Apparently its been a while since I've watched Josh, he may actually be more yoked up than this dude.
Hayes has yoked up so much by seemingly working a fitness routine into his regular gaming habit that apparently a lot of people think he's on steroids???
The Sheriff is a fucking moron then, who hasn't done the most cursory due dilligence, a brief internet search as a sanity check.
Like, I hear you, I get the whole concept of information silos / different segments of the hyperreality...
... But it also just actually is utter incompetence, objectively.
There are at least a 100 videos of people shooting at these cybertrucks with various calibers from various ranges. Thats either the same or better quality research than most police organizations produce, other than pre-Trump FBI.
Sheriff should be fired, its his job to know.
Wait, people didn't know that?
Various guntubers and social media influencers have been shooting up cybertrucks for like, 2 years now.
Yeah, it might stop an average pistol round from a moderate distance.
Close up? Probably not as much.
More serious, higher velocity pistol round? Also not so much.
Hits the glass? Yeah that shit ain't bulletproof at all.
Rifle round? Swiss cheese.
... I'm confused people weren't already widely aware of the cybertruck's near total non-bulletproofness.
Car mechanics are basically going to need to become hackers.
99% of them won't, but yeah, a couple will figure out how to 'unlock' your car, like a smartphone, install a custom OS on it.
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Its alright, it didn't actually trigger the panicked state this time... like I was trying to say, I am getting better, with time and peace and CBT.
I guess its just not something I can... joke about, yet? ... anymore?
And, seeing as the economy is cratering, and a lot more people are about to become homeless... maybe my descriptions can actually help people, in some way.
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Perhaps.
PTSD and hypervigilance is a thing you pick up from 2 years of homelessness...
Because I was in situations, with very violent people, that by all rights should have killed me, multiple times, lost people I met who didn't survive similar situations... beyond the just constant background level of stress from not knowing how you'll eat or not die of heat stroke or freeze to death or what not.
Kinda hard for me to talk about this without being literally deadly serious.
Though, that is an improvement from earlier this year, or back a bit further to when I'd just gotten out of homelessness...
Night terrors. Day dream terrors. Couldn't read or talk about this topic without becoming furious, without having a panic attack, having to do breathing excercises, smoke or vape, do nothing but try to relax for an hour or two.
Kirk's death, for example, the uncensored close up video, sent me into a fucking panicked state of shock... because not too long ago, I'd narrowly avoided being blown away by a drive by; I quite literally was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, didn't know anybody involved... but I saw it, pretty close, pretty messy, pretty horrible.
So yeah, for a good while, even out of homelessness, I was a fucking mess.
I can at least talk about it now.
And this is I guess also an opportunity to just tell people, that this, the stress, the terror, the constant uncertainty... almost no one reading this has any means of even conceptualizing how bad it is.
That's what's gonna end up ultimately being most people's downfall in a societal collapse scenario; going essentially feral/insane from fear and terror, and making stupid, irrational, shortsighted decisions, forgetting very important things, uncontrollably overreacting in some triggering situation.
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Something sharp, fine, and foldable or concealable...
Something bigger, stronger, durable...
... and something like a tomahawk/hatchet thats also a hammer.
That'd roughly be my ideal set up, try to get as much combined multi utility functionality as possible out of probably variations of the last two there.
I used to have an old, fairly chunky, survival knife that had a serrated back, hollow handle with a compass as the knob, fishing line and hook in the handle.
I ended up using the serrated back to saw through some 2x4s in a couple of wonky, unexpected, help somebody out with a quick fix repair job, kind of scenarios... in college.
I didn't expect a survival knife to help me survive dorm life in a college, but somehow, it did!
Oh also:
Always, always, always, bring a can opener.
Always.
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Perhaps more practically you could be useful as a kind of hybrid between a negotiator and entertainer, and/or courier or messenger.
Or... a distraction.
Or a spy.
... you're good at acting, right?
"The play's the thing," right?
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If you can assemble or work a loom, or something like that, repair clothes, make new ones... that's actually a significantly vital skill.
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Ding ding ding.
You really have to know a lot of other skills beyond just how to aim point fire a gun, for it to actually be a net benefit, in a wide array of realistic and unrealistic scenarios.
There are a whole lot of metaphorical ways to unintentionally shoot yourself in foot, with extra steps, beyond just actually literally shooting yourself in the foot.
In all fairness, I have GTA 4 to thank for introducing me to LCD Soundsystem, so, also very very good, just... kinda harder to sing along to, so much of their music is incredible soundscapes.
Different flavors of awesome.
Oh that reminds me!
Don't think this counts as an in game radio station...
But holy shit, PayDay 2's entire cumulative soundtrack at this point.
If you wanna do something high octane, turn that shit on, you will be amped.