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Same! Sometimes I type the email in Notepad/Wordpad first.

My modded original Xbox was magical. Rent a game from Hollywood Video, rip it straight to the Xbox hard drive, return it.

I love these. Corridor Crew on YouTube dives into this stuff and has some great content.

Holy shit, that’s a painting. It legitimately took me a minute. That’s amazing.

Unless the changes in anatomy require more kidney activity. Consider how horses pee.

But rock beats scissors and scissors are metal.

Nice explanation. I could still get behind that. I know there are woo-ey versions of it, but I find the fundamental idea of “visualization” to be pretty solid, regardless of whether the mechanism is internal, external, or purely imagined.

I think there’s a semi-reasonable way to engage with the idea. If you have some specific goal and you continually think about it/focus on it, of COURSE that will make it more likely/make you better at it. At that level, it’s sort of just tricking yourself into actually getting shit done. Like faking it until you make it–act confident and soon you’re actually confident, etc.

But I understand that most people take it further than that. I just think it’s harmless at its most basic, even as I also think it’s Oprahesque bullshit.

In fact, the odds are you will never hear the song you’d like best.

This is a/the part of the Bible (Genesis 2) people reference to support that belief:

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel*: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

*Ostensibly Tigris

I just think it’s a very idealistic and unrealistic view of the likely outcomes. To use an extreme example: imagine applying the situation to a North Korea or Russia. Or the U.S., certainly. My point is that it would be the ultimate tool for stifling opposition and consolidating power, among many other things.

This would be a dystopia almost by definition unless every single government is replaced in the interim.

I sincerely wish all of my messages were delivered to me by an owl holding a scroll.

Fruit trees sound like so much more work than I realized.

Are there other boxes of chocolates?

I’ve always seen literal maps showing what’s what. Sounds like maybe none of the Gumps could read. But even so, wouldn’t you learn to tell the shapes apart? It shouldn’t keep surprising you over and over.

Be careful with girls who try to go all the way to kissing in the first few months.

This makes me want to try LibreOffice again. Is it really close-enough to on-par? I tried OpenOffice and LibreOffice a few times through the years and always found weird hiccups, like filetype issues, files looking different between programs, weird UI choices, etc…

Really nailed the sky.

I haven’t played that one much, but it’s a lot like ProWrestling Sim. It’s a management sim, so a lot of menus and text. You recruit wrestlers, setup the various faces/heels/tag teams/stables, you schedule the storylines, rivalries and matches, etc… It’s very deep and addictive, if you like the genre/subject matter.