pokari

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I will point out that also some among engineers often don't buy the fancy car and associated luxuries, and in often exchange retire before they get lots of white hair.

For obvious reasons, you won't meet those ones at work. Selection bias and all that.

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...I'm sorry, I'm still cackling that your company is enough of a mess that their server is running out of your garage. XD

Aw, man, what a valley we live in

We should all get some sort of prize every Monday as compensation for it being Monday again.

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Natural consequence of unplanned cities in an automobile-driven society. A lot of the roads was big enough when they built them. They were big enough when people bought the land adjacent to them. They are not big enough now.

And the problem of all the traffic that needs to go through not-enough streets would be even worse if we didn't have Apple and Google's spyware doing load-balancing now!

Fact (possibly outdated by like a decade): The fun, sporty cars with the happiest customers are not the six-figure supercars but rather some budget stuff from Mazda (like the Miyata).

Expensive cars are pretty much unilaterally a waste of money.

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That doesn't mean I don't think a certain era of, say, garish Lamborghinis, don't look really cool.

Personally I'm hoping that, if the next vehicle I get is four-wheeled, it'll finally make sense to get all-electric. But I suppose that almost by definition, by the time I'll get them, they won't be "fancy".

>w< Penrose...! *flying tackle hug*

Of course you got a return offer, you smart puppy you. <3

(Though more soberly I do hope it's actually somewhere worth returning. Not, say, some place that chews people out and spits them back out. That would be bad.)

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*Extra huggles* :>

Just hi~

Personally, I'm glad that the media cycle seems to be slowing down a bit. I hope this trend continues and we can start talking about boring stuff again by, say, autumn. Maybe even late spring if we're terrifically lucky.

Also trying to fix my sleep schedule, which basically means inverting it now because I'd slid so far forward as to reach the grim point where basically all my sleeping was during daylight hours. Great mood for playing Cyberpunk, to be sure, but...

On that note, actually, good night XD

][>,/

My brain is trying desperately to string together a face from this and coming up with nothing.

Well, nothing reasonable anyway. If I interpret the square brackets as a headband or beard and the angle-brackets as a scrunched forhead or a pouty face respectively, I do get interesting results.

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Hey guys. I read some manga again after a long time:

https://mangadex.org/title/46011/boku-no-tsuma-wa-kanjou-ga-nai
https://mangadex.org/title/25229/hokuou-kizoku-to-moukinzuma-no-yukiguni-karigurashi

good to see everyone is still active, I have online class 6 days a week nowadays and lots of other things happened

That second one has been on my to-read list for a while >w<

I am sorry you have online classes from hell, although that does seem to be the going thing :/

Anyway hi, hi, hi~! *tackle-hugs* >w<

8 omg pens alive! he's alive!
ahem.
 
We the guardians of the vatoto forum certify that you have completed the quest of dragon slaying and has returned with the dragon crystal. You may now enter the sacred chamber to proceed with your ascension to kingship in accordance with the ancient rites.

I second the above-signed. But add that one should be careful because no one's sure what it's kingship of. We hope it's something fluffy and heartwarming.

Bumblebee

<3

I am doing relatively okay. This year has been an oddly okay time to be unemployed while trying to sort out sleep problems groggily at home. Which is going half-okay, though the whole CPAP machine thing remains a mixed bag even after I've been trying to make it work for half a year.

But I still live with my family (actually my eldest sister even came home during the pandemic so it's the entire family of five now), and we've all been locked up snugly in the pandemic like only a family of snuggly introverts can. Which isn't to say we haven't been going a little stir-crazy from time to time.

And I've been reading lots of manga and playing lots of games. As one does with lots of free time indoors.

Penrose has been seen around periodically, though current rate is like once every few months so crossing paths might be difficult. ~.~ But I'm still expecting to see him again, broadly speaking.

Are you doing okay? I fervently hope you are doing well. >~< It has been such a long year for just about everyone, of course, but all the more reason one hopes one's friends are doing well.

And it is quite nice to have you visit.

<3

Much love, and if you're not sticking around, take care of yourself, okay? (Actually please take care of yourself regardless. o.o)

Me, a pedant:
I mean, I see no theoretical reason that some day something even greater might emerge, optimistically—indeed that would be wonderful—though I agree that there's nothing like that in the foreseeable future.

But yeah, I miss it. :/

Also "Greatest Of All Time" is a totally unfamiliar acronym to me for some reason and all I could think was "Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test" (à la Fallout 3).

Start again, guys. Sorry-not-sorry~

^^ Nice of you to drop by~ :'D

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Whereas I've been going to sleep super late just on account of pandemic-induced cabin fever and existential angst. oxo; (I saw dawn the other day from the wrong side which is very rare for me).

A lot of my time lately has been spent in Fallout 4 making settlements to my architectural and artistic tastes. A good amount of the time is spent fighting the build system to get it to let me do what I want or trying to find pieces to make things fit together without looking terrible which in its own weird way is actually rather zen. An open-ended puzzle of sorts.

It's never snowy here so complain all you want. u.u

I'm sorry about the course, though.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about the batteries. Lithium ion batteries last pretty long now if they're not garbage. Conversely, the one time I tried to store an extra battery at exactly 40% long term (after looking it up) it was dead a couple years later when I next tried it (and the battery I'd been using all in the meantime was still okay). It's almost definitely not worth the effort of keeping it "optimal", especially since a lot of the electronic manufacturers are usually already doing some of that for you (e.g. 100% on a phone is usually not actually 100% of what it could charge to, for exactly this reason).

Prime rib

...go big and with bone?

D: D:

Hang in there, Penrowo!

*super hugs* >~<