Mattress, about five years. Towels, every decade or so.

Just keep the ones you have clean with regular washing, and they don’t wear out that fast.

The best one I’ve found (though I’ll check out HPF, thanks!) is Bullet Journal. Not any of the fancy add-ons, just the original, Carrol-method rapid logging. The idea of migration, mindfully and manually taking all undone tasks and deciding if they really need done or can be discarded, is one of the best features, and one that’s so often missing from digital tools.

I also appreciate that it’s more-or-less time-agnostic, and that note-taking is just as much a part of rapid logging as tasks organization is. The only frill I use is the Final Version Perfect system of priority discovery, which seamlessly fits into the basic bujo methodology.

I just took a trip and the estimated arrival time assumed I would drive 15mph over the limit without stopping the whole way.

Smiling, winking, and other ways to show mirth are still on the table.

ZZT

Best? Hard to say. But favorite?

Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick. It’s quite short, like many of his books, and you could absolutely knock it out in a day.

Never laugh again. There are plenty of other ways to convey humour, but no orgasms would destroy my marriage.

I DO have my own website, and I’ve never had to block anyone.

40, not planning on it

Cut off both ends, slice in half, eat skin-on.

Today One (aka Tarn Adams) who is making Dwarf Fortress and formerly worked on Liberal Crime Squad is way up there.

Redigit (of Super Mario Brothers X and Terraria) is another from the current era.

But if we can go oldschool, Sid Meier is a legend. Civilization and Pirates! are two absolute favorites, especially the remake of Pirates and Civs 2 & 4.

But the real OG, the man who showed me I wanted to make videogames, is Tim Sweeney. Sure, now he’s rich and famous, but back in the day, even before UnReal, he ran Epic Megagames out of his parents’ basement and sold floppies by mail. His first game, ZZT, came with the tools included to not just edit levels, but to make a whole new game of your own using the ZZT engine. By the time I discovered it there were already hundreds of user-made games being traded on BBS.

I fell in love. I joined the IRC channels and bulletin boards, I made the games I wanted, I shared them with my friends and over the Internet. It sparked a love in me that still burns today. Sweeney moved on, I moved on, but I will always owe him my regard for releasing ZZT into the world. It changed my life.

I heard more and more about it in the time between reddit announcing their API changes and the actual last day RIF was usable unmodded. Then RIF suggested lemmy.world, but so many people were signing up that the page wouldn’t load right, and I went in search of another instance. I signed up with both slrpnk.net and midwest.social and have been here ever since.

It’s not exactly hard. I wait tables and I don’t deal with any of those groups.

It taught me meditation and self-control. It made exercise desirable as an activity.

But for self-defense, many martial arts do teach techniques for disarming opponents. The range within a gun loses effectiveness against a trained, unarmed opponent is actually larger than you think. Not to mention that muggers tend to avoid “harder” marks like those in good shape or who move like fighters.

“Forget President! I want Biden as constitutional monarch!” Tom said jokingly.

[email protected]

Ah yes, King of the Un-Tied States.

Somebody has to and no one else will.

I don’t. I don’t block anyone.

No, it only detracts from her perfection.

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What can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say?