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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • The Britannica was one of those essential things for every home. It was like having a home computer. It contained as complete a collection of human knowledge that was possible without a full-blown library.

    I remember in the 90s looking through them trying to answer a random question I had and then later on going to the library to check out more research material if the Brittanica didn’t satisfy my curiosity.

    As great as the internet is, I miss running a finger across the tomes to learn something new about the world.






  • You can’t just sign up to be ICE. They want you to be a LEO with 2 years experience before you apply to ICE. So you have like 4-6 months of training plus 2 years as a cop, plus 13 weeks for ICE training before you can do what you feel you must. They will prefer experienced LEO, so 5+ years of experience.

    Just getting into LEO in most places requires you to have former military experience plus a college degree that is preferably related to law enforcement. If you have no Military experience and no degree, you are at a huge disadvantage in the hiring process regardless of your exam and interview results. Like out of 800 applicants for 5 spots, you wouldn’t be in the top 200.

    Not to mention you could be tried and convicted with prejudice for leaks and you would have to carry out enforcement actions all the same.

    You are better off voting for what you want. Flipping congress blue in the mid-terms would do more to further your beliefs than spending 3 years of your life to just be thrown in prison for longer than this administration is in office.




  • One of my favorite stories is the diary or letter that a German made after the US invaded. They captured a position and found a fresh chocolate cake. At that point the German army was raiding villages for food because the German supply chain was fairly disrupted. So that dude wrote about how fucked the war was going for them and the Americans had fresh chocolate cake in a warzone on the other side of the planet while the Germans were in the next country over from home.

    That must have been absolutely demoralizing coming to understand the American logistical prowess.

    Now we send semi-trailers with Burger King and McDonald’s across the globe to feed the troops. 'Murica




  • A constantly changing schedule would be detrimental to me cooking, that might be the case for you as well. I need the oppressive clock to say it is time to cook dinner and if the time when I need to cook dinner keeps changing, I will forget to cook dinner and end up doing a quick meal of BS just so I can sleep.

    You can also try meal prep, that is just to give you a meal that is as convenient as ramen during the week with a low daily time commitment. The idea of it may be kind of daunting, but it is just a bunch of smaller steps that you can AD4K off between without much issue.






  • I know ya’ll are gay, so some of this may not apply depending on who he is due to how society and culture composes him, but applies to men in general.

    Two options, you may need to alternate between them.

    1: Give him space to self-isolate, which is fine for a short period. Don’t go zero contact and wait for him to make contact. Touch base at least once a day and don’t take it personally if he doesn’t respond, sometimes even a short sterile response is too much to handle even thought he feels that he is letting you down and being a bad boyfriend in doing what he must in his state.

    2: Keep spending time with him and being physically close to him if he can handle it. If you can handle him falling part in your arms, then get him to talk about what may be bothering him, but accept that depression doesn’t always stem from a definable cause and not having a root cause makes depression harder to deal with. He will likely resist you being with him, just keep trying as much as he can tolerate. You should try to hold him and comfort him, bring him food he likes, and if all you are doing is holding him in a dark room, that can mean a lot.

    If he can dump problems that are contributing to his state, try to see how you may be able to help him manage his problems. Sometimes being overwhelmed with problems can inspire depression due to feeling helpless and weak. Even just breaking things down into what something can be done about and what nothing can be done about, and then working together on making a plan of simple steps to manage the workable problems can help. Don’t focus on the things that nothing can be done about, focus on the solvable issues.

    When men are depressed, there is a feeling of weakness or being pathetic, because men are not allowed to have the weakness of depression. Struggling to “be a man” about issues feels like a personal failure and is emasculating and shameful. When you feel that way, it is normal for a guy to want to self-isolate to hide the shame, guilt, and weakness they feel. Pushing too much can cause lashing out because the pain and frustration is easier to convert to anger than to grapple with.

    Make sure he knows that you are there for him if he needs you.

    Therapy might be a sound suggestion because you are unequipped to help him long-term.

    Sometimes it may be wise to take a break from the relationship so he can sort himself out, but that is a bit of a gamble because his feelings may get compounded by feeling abandonment and a greater loneliness, so if it gets to that, make sure he knows he can reach out at anytime and maybe reach out to him once a week to check in.


  • Realistically, you could experience all the game content in like 200 hours. Even faster if you know higher level players that can help you, which a lot of higher level players will help you. That is a lot of content without the limitations that purposefully slow progression down like you see in MMOs. Keep in mind that you don’t need the game subscription to play the game and don’t need to spend any money in the game to play and get the endgame content.

    It isn’t until you are trying to grind out getting certain things that your playtime skyrockets, but that is true with a real MMO.

    On the subject of the community and players helping players, the community is pretty great. I have dragged lower level players through the hardest part of the game and taken them from level 20(you can start the game at level 1 or 20) to over level 100(there is no max level) in an afternoon with no detriment to my enjoyment. I have given newer players thousands of scrap, hundreds of legendary mods, and hundreds of thousands of caps worth of item plans that you can on get with RNG grinds.

    I am not exceptional, I am pretty typical for the high level players. Since we have “nothing left” to do in the game and understand the meta, pretty much everything has lost value. We will buy overpriced stuff for sale in player vendors just because we want to get rid of caps and it takes us minutes to go from 1k caps to the 40k cap limit due to the value of the “crap” we have in our stash. Some players can’t hit the cap limit in hundreds of hours of play. It could take you hours to get enough material to make 2k of ammo(that you can burn through in an hour) and we will give you 10k of that ammo or enough materials to make 10k and not even notice the loss because we know how to net gain ammo.

    Compared to gacha games and actual MMOs, FO76 is far better in terms of cost in terms of time and money, also the community is very helpful to new players.