Downloading RPG maker assets for a total of 28 hours on a 56k modem using Gozilla so i could pause the download each day during peak hours and only download off peak for a penny a minute only to make the first 20 minutes of a terrible and sonewhat unoroginal RPG game, and never use it again, is a core memory for me.

I think my friend showed me how to use switches and variables at his house on his copy and i got very excited i could create a condition to be met to allow a boulder to be move. I just had to try to make something.

I think i ended up just making a game where you load in at max level and speak to someone to start a fight with the strongest monsters just to play the battle and use all the top level spells. And then just mever played again

Take a photo of yourself in the mirror. Where is your god now?

Screenshot on a galaxy fold?

I never liked track 3. I skip straight to track 4 to save Time

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You should know. Money is in 7/4 thats 7 quarter notes in a bar.

1Dum 2dum 2.5da 3dum 4dum 5dum 6dum 7dum

I guess the sad thing is, that given the way things are, i cant blame people for thinking this way. Because be honest. Would you put it past them to not do it?

I can 100% see healthcare and pharmaceutical companies doing this for profits.

What is it that a fartographer would do exactly?

If a cartographer maps out the land, would a fartographer map out the bowels?

And it wears me out…

I really dont mind sucking at capitalism.

That’s like saying “you suck at giving people cancer” or saying “you are terrible at being a complete dildo”

Yeah. I am fine with that.

I dont believe this is inherent. It’s not human nature. Its social conditioning as a result of living in a capitalist society.

In a capitalist society, yes. Absolutely a lot of people would do this. But even then, its not everyone.

I live in capitalism but i would certainly not force someone to pay me to let them out of a trap. Especially if they were suffering. And i would never befriend someone that would.

I would think they were a cunt.

There are apps that can work this out for you

So either i say im going to sleep “now” and it tells me all the times that will align with light sleep and i can choose one to set an alarm for. (It even accounts for the average time it takes people to fall asleep)

Or i can say i want to be up at X time, and it tells me the best times to put my head on the pillow (phone off and eyes closed actually trying to sleep)

Sometimes it works out better for me to get slightly less or more sleep if it means waking during light sleep.

That’s a soup spoon!

Am i the only peraon that doesnt have trouble with these self checkout machines. You need to go a little slower so you dont jump the gun. The machine wants you to scan an item and then put it in the bagging area. If you go too fast it doesnt update to the “put it in the baggong area” bit and thinks you put something there before scanning it. Just take a breath, slow down and remember that the computer powering it is likely crap and the software is bollocks.

My wife gets frustrated with tech and she hates these machines. I dont get frustrated with most tech and i find them extremely convenient.

It’s such a weird place to be.

We are all trying to be respectful. A person has died, and that is a horrible thing. But this guy runs a company that has cause so much suffering to so many people. He may not be directly responsible for pain, suffering, and likely death, but if he had run his company more fairly, none of that would have happened.

When people made jokes about trump nearly getting killed, people kicked off and said it was abhorant to wish death upon him (despite him being a foul human being)

But I really want to just say this guy deserves it and tell people to fuck off trying to make me be respectful of this terrible person.

Somebody validate my anger.

Somebody just tell me i can hate this individual and not be bothered that he died.

I feel that. I didnt mention before but i also smoked weed for many of those years. I kicked that a few years before kicking tobacco

I barely see or even speak to anyone from that circle now. i both miss them and dont miss them. I found a lot of drug friends tend to be fairweather friends. Not all of them. Theres always a core few that stick with you when you cant get a bag but all have nothing to do. But the majority in my experience, you dont miss when they are gone.

Thankyou. I actually really appreciate it. I would say that for at least 8 of those years, i wanted to quit. A lot of people really dont realise how hard it is to stop. You want to stop with every fibre of your being. You want to stop on your way to buy a pack you want to stop as you ask for your brand. You want to stop as you hand over the money. You want to stop as you open the pack . You want to stop as you pull out a cigarette you want to stop as you put it in your mouth. You want to stop as you light it. You want to stop with every Toke. You want to stop as you do it again and again and again.

But i got there. Eventually.

I went the other way, i stopped smoking and started vaping. I used a sub ohm vape with a low dose of nicotine 0.3-0.6 per 10ml bottles of oil.

I vaped loads to begin with, likely due to the low dose. but it was hard to get the time to get outside of the office to vape, and each time i only had a short time to do it. It got less frequent and less time per frequency of going out to the point that one day i went a whole day without realising i hadnt vaped or even thought about it.

I decided thqt day, after 17 years of smoking, and 1 year of vaping, that i didn’t need it anymore. So i didnt take my vape to work the next day. And about 3 to 4 weeks later i threw it in the bin.

Never looked back.

Why, though? You send on paypal as friends and family. You dont get taxed on that kind of transfer and i doubt it is being audited.

There is a level of trust you have to assume between a drug dealer and the customer. You retaining customers is all done on reputation. If you try to cheat your customers, they will all go elsewhere. There is a lot of incentive for dealers to run their “business” well and keep customers happy.

Cash means you need to meet face to face. This is far more risky. When i was younger and smoking weed, it was all face to face, meet someone somewhere and trade there. Or a car pulls up and you have a little chat and swap money for the bag. But this was dodgey. It was risky. It eneded up in arrests more often than you think.

Towards to end of my pot head days, it was all telegram to put orders in, delivered by royal mail via recorded delivery and money tranferred with an app as i mentioned above. This is more private than you think.

Although admittedly i never did this sort of transaction, everyone i know who was/is still smoking/vaping is doing it this way.

Paypal? Venmo? Monzo? Or in other words, with great ease…

I opened lemmy again a few hours later to see their reply saying “its not me, its everyone else” and all i could think was… there is absolutely no point in trying to get through to someone so un self aware. They have shwon they likely cant reflect on their own action or look inwards to find fault. We all act like this from time to time but this person had plenty of time to think before they responded.