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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The first sentence doesn’t seem to have to do with the second sentence. And imo the first one is wrong too.

    The amount of stupid it takes to even get the needle leaning to the right just by .00001% is pretty profound. It does exist everywhere, but that doesn’t lessen the sheer amount of it. Conservatives kinda define themselves by their stupidity. It’s their brand. They don’t call it that, of course.








  • Lmao I wish. I still usually try it, sometimes the timing can imply what I mean. But she always asks.

    Probably has to do with her liking using extra words. I say the following without a trace of exaggeration.

    If she’s in a room with any person she’s familiar with, she seems to have a complete inability to stop talking, other than if the other person is replying.

    There can’t be silence at all. Lately she’s slowed down a little because she’s gotten hooked on her Facebook feed, so she gets distracted. But even this just slows it down. She really just likes talking and hearing voices.

    Whereas I only really engage in topics of interest or points of contention. She will literally try to repeat past conversations ad nauseum if she runs out of ideas.

    I really can’t tell if she likes talking or being talked to more. But given that growing up, none of us (her children) share this trait, she usually is the one to fill the gaps. I feel like she thinks her mouth and ears are the bus in the movie Speed. If the words being spoken per minute drops below some imaginary quantity, she’ll explode.

    So, answering with a should-be-sufficient-but-is-now-vague answer, she’ll use that as a launching point to another subject too.

    It’s rough in the streets lol


  • I run into this when texting my mother.

    She’ll ask the same thing from 2 different perspectives (probably a better word but I can’t think of it atm). Both are technically the same question, but I can’t just say “yes” it “no”, because it answers the question from just one or the other, but indicates the opposite from the other question’s pov. Or sometimes needing to know between 2 possibilities she asks about one and then follows it up asking about the other.

    For example, if we’ve recently met up to see my baby niblings (not even sure if this is a common use word, but I mean my nieces/nephews, aka her grandchildren), she could ask “Could you send me the photos you got in a text?” And then she would follow up with something like “Or did you already send them to my email?”

    Now, I can’t say “yes” or “no”, I have to spell out what I did.

    Other times it will be a question that she knows I picked one of the 2 options, but instead of just "did you do option A? Which would allow a quick answer “yes” which conveys that I did A, or I could say “no”, which would indicate I did option B. One word, clear defined message. But she’ll (sometimes during the process of replying- oof that’s frustrating), she’ll add “or did you do option B?” meaning I now have to spell out what I did.

    I like efficient communication, and hate wasting a lot of words. And I’m any other circumstance, a 1 word answer works so well to convey the entire thing. But she almost always throws in a wrench by adding another question that conflicts with the ability to do that.




  • This process is either broken or incomplete. After following those directions, adding the steam launch pretty l prefix prevents the game from launching.

    Leaving it out does bring up a “connecting to origin…” prompt when launching, but it doesn’t progress beyond that.

    I tried under the 2 most recent versions of Proton, 2 most recent GE releases, Hotfix, and Experimental. None of them launch at all with and without that prefix.

    None of them launch at all with the prefix, and none get past the Origin connection without it.


  • I’ve only tried 2 so far, it was kind of a last minute thing last night. Tried the default first, kinda by accident, and I don’t think the game would even launch. Experimental at least gets me to the menu.

    I don’t know much about wine itself, didn’t have a ton of luck with it on desktop.