aimeeandbeatles
watermelon
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I miss digging through bargain bins.
Dang you’re old, and yet you’ve forgotten the rapidly shrinking PC shelf space in favour of being console game pawn shops. Steam was not inevitable, it just looks it on account of how hard the competition was scoring repeated own goals.
Steam was not inevitable, it was just marketed really well using a program built on deceit aimed in every direction. Publishers were fed a line about piracy costing them bazillions of dollars, gamers were sold a line about Steam, which Valve originally acknowledged was their solution to "the piracy that would otherwise prevent us from making more games" not really being DRM after all...and throw in that Valve then went so fully into the DRM business that...hey, guess what, almost twenty years and no Half-Life 3 anyway.
The entire thing was a scam, from soup to nuts, and the way gamers kiss Valve's puckered ass for it turns my stomach.
One of my friends just got on steam for the first time this year. His internet is **** because he doesn't live in a nicely heeled town. Acquiring games is a three day process if they aren't small. We're at like Albion Online sort of level. I'm freshly irritated at it again, and I don't particularly hate steam. It's just somewhat less ****** than it will inevitably become. Like Blizzack, biding its whorish time.
No, given the quality of the cookies in his house, he definitely steps backwards the farther north he gets and closer to Chicago and the national coast-to-coast news.
I mean, they're Baptist and Baptists are weird, but he's chill enough to think the snake handlers and dumb but hurting themselves. The wear-a-seatbelt-or-we'll-wreck-you crowd is way the **** ****tier people in totality.
Any good at cooking them?
Not offended, btw. Just more than happy to respond to "better internet speeds? The shift from physical media to steam while losing the cookies? Probably not worth it."
Hehehe. Yeah, the worst part of the squirrelicide that was clearing some of the invasive grey ones out of my soffit was that I kept getting one a day and nobody wanted to clean them, I had the flu and didn't want to learn. Those things are good. Just nobody likes cleaning one at a time unless they're go getting.
The ones in town are nothing like the ones that aren't acclimated to humans. If you walk through a forested area not often traveled, they fall silent way waaaaaay faster than you do unless stalking for purpose. I mean, we had a shaved one that still ate from people in school. It was almost boggling, lol.
I probably would have found the whole thing a lot less traumatizing if I hadn't had to give up and trap them, then cull them, in order to be legal. Shooting something wild in a cage is just sort of destructive. I realize it isn't cleaner, but it feels cleaner to make them backstroke out of the blue. They coyote litter out back did well though, if the den holes are evidence. Sorta wish it had been foxes tho.
I am very confused on how this conversation turned into one about ground squirrels.