Over the past year I used less sugar in my coffee until I could just drink it black.

Does home brewing count as a craft?

You can get started with a soup pot and a 5 gallon bucket, but if you enjoy it, there’s no shortage of upgrades to spend money on!

Probably not. Most people would probably prefer having the option of getting a chicken sandwich over worrying about others being able to celebrate.

To me, living at your dorm and crashing at your parent’s house during breaks is pretty much living on your own with training wheels. It counts until you’re out of school.

That’s also a pet peeve of mine. It’s a little different if it’s an officially assigned task, for example if I am the one that takes the trash out, and you mention that the trash is full, thanks for letting me know, I’ll get on that. But if it’s a shared or unassigned task like: “The dog shit on the floor.” Ok, and why didn’t you do something about it when you saw it?

If I’m not willing to fix it myself, I’m not going to point it out to others.

I could have written this myself. I know exactly how you feel!

Oh! I forgot about birthday thunder!

I’m right there with you, in between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

This was a tough year for us financially, so nearly everything for Christmas had to go on a credit card.

All through November and December, I had to choose between adding more to the debt or disappointing the kids. Logically, I know the right answer is “Don’t spend more than you can afford” but I think any decent dad would agree that “Merry Christmas kids! Nobody gets anything they wanted because I’m a failure at providing for my family!” has to be pretty close to the bottom of acceptable options.

My wife always imagines a Norman Rockwell Christmas, and has big plans for what she’ll cook and what games we’ll play and how she’ll decorate. She does a great job every time, but it’s a lot. She stresses over being able to do it all, and any inevitable mishaps are catastrophic.

This year, I’m trying not to be a Scrooge, but it’s a challenge.

It’s all humbug!

There was a wave of bots posting maniacally and then deleting the entire account within a day. (Still might be going on, but it seems less frequent than it was.)

I have no idea what they’re trying to accomplish by doing that, but anyone who joined around that time would probably feel the same way as you.

Wow. I knew he was a comedian and actor, but I didn’t know he literally played the president of Ukraine for 4 seasons!

Too bad we couldn’t have done the same and get Martin Sheen instead of Trump.

Plant a lot of colorful flowers outside your house if you want 2C-Bs.

If nobody’s talking about their gaming, how would you ever know how many people game?

Be brave enough to be open about it, and you might be surprised how many people will join you.

6-7! 🤷🏻‍♂️

La-hoo sa-her!

Not nearly as sad as avoiding something you enjoy just because somebody else might find out.

I won’t argue with any of that, but I will point out that we’ve thought the end of the world was right around the corner hundreds of times in the past few thousand years, and we just keep going, so, I’m not going to make any assumptions about the end of the world, because 100% of those predictions have been proven false.

There will be more new technology next year, and if we avoid an apocalypse, there will be even more advances five, ten and fifty years from now.

I’m not saying it doesn’t suck, I’m just saying that claiming that technology peaked with the steam engine, when we live in a world where we can send messages across the globe in less than a second is just incorrect.

I agree with the sentiment, but I disagree that technology has “peaked”.

Technology constantly grows, and it’s moving faster now than ever. We won’t see the peak until society collapses and all the systems required to fuel that technology fall apart.

Can’t help with pricing, but as far as variety and quality of games, the SNES dominates. We play ROMs at home, and despite having pretty much every game for every system, the SNES gets the most play hands down.

I hear Reddit is looking for users.

For future reference, a “My bad, I misunderstood.” goes a lot further than being a dick to others because of your own mistake.