I wished that I could have every single video game ever made

With emulation it is possible to do that.

But you fall out of the video game hobby and you don’t find enjoyment out of playing.

I used to work for a large corporation. I was on a team of 10 people. My whole job was to run three queries and copy and paste it to excel and send it off on tuesdays. I would do it on Tuesday mornings and it took me about an hour.

My teammates had similar tasks. They were in charge of one report or handout and they would automate so much it would take them about an hour to do.

One day our manager tells us we are getting a new team member because our work load is going to increase substantially.

The new person got their own report. And they messaged me once, “I am done with my report what do I do next?”

I responded, “wait until next week and do the same report”

I was at the company for ten years.

We had the same thing happen in Kansas City.

Missouri State Government passed a bill which would allow bars in Kansas City, MO to stay open 23 hours a day.

But Mayor Lucas passed a city ordinance which “vetoes” the state law, prohibiting bars within the city from opening for 23 hours.

There was a bar, Blueline Hockey Bar, who went to social media blasting the mayor.

Finally, the mayor walked back his steps and passed a motion allowing bars to stay open for 23 hours.

This ordinance only allows Kansas City bars to stay open 23 hours a day throughout the World Cup games.

GameStop has a certain percentage of eBay stock. Essentially they “own” a relative large percentage of eBay already. They also have a substantial amount of third party funding.

No I have never heard him talk. He just puts questions in chat and other attendees answer them.

Our 1:1 is via chat.

Yes I’m fully remote. Never met anybody face to face

Have you tried multi color prints? Those are fun especially when you think of all the different filament that’s out there.

Video games, 3D printing, and movies/television.

Modern video games are nothing more than a linear hand holding experience with hours of pre-rendered cut scenes. If I am interested in a game, I watch a streamer play it long enough for me to be bored then I read the plot on Wikipedia.

I used to have multiple 3d printers going. But after one broke down, I didn’t have the motivation to fix it.

Movies and television shows are the same slop with tired tropes. I watched Con Air with my son the other day and he was amazed with the difference between the acting and presentation in the 1990s compared to today.

I married her. That’s pretty crazy to dedicate your entire life to one person. But I knew I found my soulmate for life. Been married for over 20 years now.

Stone cold vs the rock. In the middle of the attitude era.

That’s a Geo Tracker and it was close to 40 mpg as you were going to get in the late 90s. That and the geo metro.

They show a target employee getting arrested but the target managers and their loss prevention people keep on high fiving and getting excited to fire this person. Cops were excited too. It just seems a little weird to see all these people getting excited about ruining this persons life.

Yes. And people just eat it up. I get it. I got caught up in the “hustle and grind” of life. I tried multiple income sources and I was proudly working 80 hours/week while missing my children grow up. But a life altering event caused me to pause and reassess my life. I started working less and spending more time with my family. I worked on myself from being low tempered to be more “go with the flow”

What is your best illegal lifehack?

I know they are paywalled but they give so much information.

I had a contractor that took my money and ran. I used one of those reverse lookup sites with just his name and phone number and I got his address as well as his relatives.

He did not like the fact I had a deputy serve him his court appearance or the time when I called his mother to confirm his data before the court date.

Long story short, I won the case. He claimed no assets so I will never get paid back.

He would be remembered as a martyr. Someone who gave up his life for all of us.

I interviewed a drug dealer that has been in the field for over 25 years. He looks just a regular guy. Nice house. Two kids. A wife who works. You would have no idea this neighbor was a dealer.

He and I wrote a book together.

I had $0.14 in my checking and $0.07 in my savings and my mortgage was three months behind and I didn’t have a job and I didn’t have anybody I could turn to for money. I realized how much I had and how I wasted it all. And knowing that climb to get back was going to be hard.

Walmart loss prevention are terrible. They are willing to die so Walmart doesn’t lose $35 worth of food.

I saw a police cam video of a woman who accidentally didn’t scan a $10 item. No big deal. I have been guilty of that myself. You get reminded to scan the item.

These L&P people called the cops and then the cops called for back up. They stopped the woman before she left and had her arrested.

No prior offenses. She had a baby with her (less than a year old). Just someone who made a simple mistake and would easily be fixed with simple conversation.

But Walmart L&P was not having it. Telling the cops to charge her to the furthest extent

Even the cops were like “Hey she didn’t do this maliciously. She has not left the store. She can still pay for the item. “

Walmart L&P told the cops to “teach her a lesson”

The cops were “nice enough” to wait until the baby’s father arrived to take the baby but the woman got arrested for not ringing up a $10 item

The L&P had these smug looks as if they took down some Batman villain. Giving each other high fives when this woman was put in cuffs.

I had a small plumbing leak that cost me $700 to fix. There was some water damage but insurance will cover it.

The cost to remove the water - $10k The cost to rebuild after the water leak - $60k

The way our floor was laid makes it impossible to fix just the affected area. They need to tear up the entire kitchen, living room, and hallways.

Six weeks of construction and while they are tearing up the kitchen we have no fridge.