Yeah hopefully so, or whenever I sell it I won't have the value of a beaten down shithole. There's not many rent houses where I live and of course I get one right by me that gets neglected. It was never even a bad house, but whoever owns it does the absolute bare minimum to maintain it. It had a decent size tree branch fall near my fence. A tree service comes out to fix it, only does the bare minimum. They could have paid the service who was already an extra $100-200 and pruned the entire obviously neglected tree. They didn't and a big branch fell on their roof and damaged it, which is still not fixed. No way is that cheaper than just fixing it the first time. It's so dumb.

saving 50% of their income

I've tried to tell people this about myself. It seems I have the perception among many of being rich. Having real estate, or a sports car, or whatever will do that to your perception. The thing is, I'm not. I've only got regular job income on par with a lot of what these same people who think I'm rich have. My actual living expenses are just so low, but a lot of it is from leveraging responsibility and mindset. I guess similar to what you'd call avoiding private welfare. I do that down to a tiny level though, when it comes to recurring expenses I'll save $2 a month if I can. This mindset goes back to when I was barely an independent adult. Simple things like if there is something recurring I want to pay for, say it's $10/mo or $100/yr. I'm going to pay for the year, because that's $20 in my pocket. I may also think about if I really want whatever that recurring cost buys me. In a lot of cases the answer is really no. I'll hear people that buy a car and add on the wheel damage plan or whatever because it just made their payment go up a little bit. That little bit might be $500 in the end. Whoever is selling that plan is not doing it as charity. Why pay them to make money I could be saving?

Don't get me wrong, I don't really save 50% of my income in the most classical sense of the word. Maybe 30%. I don't know, I'd have to argue what counts as savings to really give a number.

I have rental property--really don't understand the slumlord mentality. I guess it's like you say make a quick buck now or whatever. In my opinion it's a very short term mindset. I have a property manager to deal with tenants, but our arrangement is to not skimp on maintenance. Earlier this year I told them to totally replace the HVAC unit, because honestly that old one was a lemon and I was sick of throwing parts at it. Yeah, it wasn't cheap, but in the long run it's way cheaper than repairing it every 3 months.

If I had to guess, a lot of these people actually can't afford to upkeep their property though. They stretched way too thin to buy it thinking it would be passive income and if you have a nasty mortgage on the property there's not necessarily a ton to be made. I own mine outright, but if I still had the mortgage that was originally on it (at much better terms than you'd possibly get today), looking forward to next year I'm probably only breaking even. Costs have gone up. I'm considering raising rent and may discuss with property manager to see their thoughts, very well may leave it alone though for another year. Cheaper to keep a tenant who pays on time every month than risk it for $50 or $100 more they might not want to pay. It will have to go up eventually though.

Thought about buying another next year, but it would be on a mortgage and with the atrocious terms of those right now, I'll probably look for some land I can build on in the future that I can buy with cash instead.

The real Covid jab scandal is finally emerging

Finally emerging? We've been saying this from day one. The amount of people I could never get to understand the risk far outweighed the reward. Especially being that effective may be the bigger lie of the "safe and effective" shot.

Bungie tried to boot O'Donnell, not pay him around $100k owed and steal all his company shares going all the way back to the beginning of the company too (likely worth millions). He had to sue them over it. They will give some excuse about disagreements over the music, but it seems like a weak argument. I could totally see all the trannies being mad at a conservative in the office.

John Carmack left id around then too after a few years as part of one of the big conglomerates. Right around the same time. If I remember right he's done quite a few things to piss off the lefties too.

She couldn't go the whole night without her social media fix is what it was.

I totally understand the satellite phone if she was alone, but to still be afraid with that is just perpetuating the ridiculous idea women should always be afraid.

Prophet Mohammad Kindergarten would probably sting the most.

Correct, they make you not a woman.

They wouldn't last in any hills, would not be able to survive without their cell service and internet and constant validation.

That is the type they send to the front too, the youth and the idiots. The ones that can't do anything useful. Most of my ancestors in the WW2 age group either avoided the draft entirely because of the nature of their jobs, or were given mechanical jobs in the war. They were full grown adults with mechanical skills and experience valuable in other ways. The ones jumping off the D-day boats were the kids.

I probably tried to shoot the dog the bush and even the sky itself. Didn't have a NES though, so it was at friend's houses.

Seriously. Why listen to random online mouthbreathing drivel at all. I mute in every game, random strangers on online games have not earned the right for me to listen to their trash talk.

I don't want to hear some "communication iz important" either. With random people it's nothing but nothing-knowing know-it-alls barking out orders and screaming.

Do kids actually want most of this crap? I'm guessing not really. I can't think of any of my nephews or cousin's kids that would have wanted any of that stuff at any point in their lives, excluding the little infant age stuff but eh they probably don't like most of that either. Action figures anymore are sold to people who put them in the box on a shelf next to their funko things.

When I play with my cousin who I'd guess is your son's age he never wants to use mic either. Perfectly fine with me and way better without an annoying headset. I never liked voice chat anyway. Probably because I'm really not any good, but I spent my time on other things most of my life and it's hard to make up for having 5% of the hours played in a competitive game. Who wants to hear some idiots bad music, obnoxious voice, and ridiculously loud background noise anyway.

Love has never been equivalent with unconditional acceptance. Can a parent of a serial killer love their child and be disgusted by their actions?

I appreciate when they offer options to turn those things off for sure. I'm probably a bad example in Hitman as I like to complete the challenges, you know drown the victim, make them shock themselves, etc. so I don't really turn HUDs off, but I don't like to look up solutions either so there's that.

I never would have finished Witcher 3 without a lot of the HUD off. I got bored quick of follow the GPS line to hear some dialog to follow a fast cloud to follow another GPS line. Navigating with my eyes and the map changed the game for me.

Astros fan for 20+ years here. Albeit way less so than I used to be honestly. I was souring on the experience after 2017 before all the scandalous stuff that's so overblown anyway. It was way more fun being a fan of a team that's shit where no one cared, instead everyone fucking hates your guts now. Random people would say stuff because I had a shirt on.

I've gotten more and more away from sports fandom anyway. It kinda sucks, because baseball brought me and my dad something to be into together when we had nothing, so I'll probably never totally quit it. It's lost it's fun though.

I used to tell people how fun Quake was, never could get them to play it. Which I guess is good for you. The thing I'd say about Quake that modern games don't have is it's simplicity. Like you mention skill, and of course there is some, but it's a bit of an easy to learn but difficult to master game. I hate how modern games seem to be the opposite, they are so incredibly caught up in complex mechanics. Even like the most mainstream things like Fortnite, I have to go around pick up all kinds of shit, manage an inventory, build at hyperspeed, etc. Quake? I keep up with a weapon and jump around shooting shit.

I never really related to this type talk until I thought of it, as I really don't consider gaming a hobby. It's something to kill time. I'm not really in to it. Even when I collected games I wasn't attached to any of it. I think most of the hobbies I had from a kid until now were inherently gatekept by needing one or both of money or mechanical skill. Like today, I'd way more call cars a hobby than games for myself. When I was a kid/teenager I was into RC car racing, again money or mechanical skill. That seems to run off the trannies and crazies, because they have neither.

Still, niche is always more fun than mainstream things really. I've never felt the need to follow along, so I've never cared if others did what I did.

Black birds travel in packs, perch where they aren't wanted, make a ton of noise, and shit on everything. Why were they named black birds again?

I’m not a “stand with Israel” at all, it taking away from the IRS works for me. The money Biden wants for Ukraine I’d rather burn for heat though. They can have $0

I thought about that after I saw something recently here about being excited some character wore glasses or something. I don't remember the exact reference except it being about glasses.

I've worn glasses since I was four. I really can't at any point in my life felt like I ever would have noticed or cared in any entertainment if someone wore glasses or not.

That's not to say certain characters aren't more relatable to me in fiction, that's always been the case, but it's never because of appearance. Nor are they ever exactly like me.

I thought at first what I saw about that game was a parody. Then it keeps rolling in. So we have the actual wokest game ever?

Seriously. It was probably just some boys talking among themselves that need to learn to not put things on record in texts. As with nearly any boast among boys that age, it's all talk and almost none of it ever actually happened. How about calling out whoever is leaking private conversation instead?

Girls are 100x worse with their gossip than boys are anyway.

I don't know, it's what looks like 81 minutes prior to the game. It's some generic trivia they put up there to give people that were going to sit there for a ln hour something to to do. Not like it's something they put up during a timeout in the middle of the game.

this is not representative of our institutional values

Educating about the birthplace of an important figure in history? Yeah I guess that couldn't be further from the values of an indoctrination institution.