Does Halloween count?
I’ve done Johnny Depps character from fear and loathing in las Vegas for something
Nerdy from Jurassic Park.
Jack from The Titanic when I went to a haunted maze at the Queen Mary one year.
I cosplay as someone with their shit together most days.
Based.
It’s fucking annoying and adds literally nothing to the conversation.
It’s got a hell of a datacenter.
From LA to Vegas. Took the servers down end of business one night, drove it all night, installed it and got it back online before start of business the next day.
In the middle of something 200tb for my Plex server going from a 12 bay system to a 36 LFF system. But I’ve also literally driven servers across the desert because it was faster than trying to move data from one datacenter to another.
I’m pretty sure that’s my first memory of gaming. Having to boot up the system by floppy disks to play the game.
It was tough. But had so much character for a game about shuffle puck.
Maybe Shufflepuck Cafe on Amiga.
Or Power Pete on an old Mac.
Hell, it could have been some of those edutainment games like Gizmos and Gadgets. Or Kid Pix.
I used to love Widget Workshop
Vera. Technically given by a coworker.
She’s a WRX with lots of parts from Cobb.
Vera was Janes favorite after all.
I just moved back to the Chicago land area after being away for 20 years. These places sound like my exact vibe and the sort of places I’ve been searching for.
Do you have any other recommendations?
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is that so many places don’t adjust the volume properly to the amount of people in the place. If I go to a sports bar near me for happy hour, they have the music the same volume as when a big game is on and the place is packed.
I need to check it out. Turns out they have one in the suburbs just under 4 miles from me.
Oh, and in elementary school when they were at the height of their popularity I had one of my holographic Charizards stolen. Dunno who took it, someone had a come up.
I stole some beers at a party once. A friend and I weren’t feeling the vibe, took a few bottles and went somewhere else. I feel bad about it, he was a good dude and didn’t deserve that.
I got trashed at my 23rd birthday party a friend threw at her house. It was mostly people she knew, but as I was passed out someone stole my wallet.
My brother stole quite a bit from me during the height of his addiction. He’s been clean for several years now though. I’m glad I’ve got him back.
Going to a rave, taking ecstacy, and seeing above and beyond performing a Group Therapy set.
I was depressed and had suicidal ideation. That night made me feel more connected to the people around me than anything else I’ve experienced. It was maybe a decade ago and I still think it started my journey of healing.
Arbitrary surcharges and fees. Like “5% to offset the rising minimum wage” bullshit restaurants are doing.
From my industry: Perhaps the purchase of chemicals for the manufacture of fireworks. It’s surprisingly easy to order pounds and pounds of different oxidizers and fuels.
Forced arbitration clauses.
The last line was the least surprising after hearing all that.
What industry are you in. This could be compliance for different reasons. Retention is a very specific thing that should be documented in policies.
I know financial institutions that specifically do not want data just hanging around. This limits liability and exposure if there is a breach, and makes any litigation much easier if the data doesn’t exist by policy.
Should they be more choosy on what gets deleted, yea probably. But I understand why it’s there.
I still remember what my mother said to me when I got a girlfriend. “Use a condom.” That was it. No pretending it wasn’t going to happen.
As for drugs, my family never liked them. They never told us kids, but my father had an issue with opiates that’s cost him his job and medical license. My older brother also had an issue with opiates.
I used to do a lot of research on erowid on drugs. Between my brother and I it was a lot of don’t be stupid, do your research on what’s safe and what interacts with each other, and stay away from opiates.
For the most part, it wasn’t talked about much in my family, other than my older brother my younger brother and I didn’t gravitate to them too much or hang with people who did. I ended up getting really into weed for a short time, because that’s where my ADHD hyper focus hobby was for a few months. Then I realized I didn’t like not being sober that much.