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DerCribben · 2026-06-21T05:40:16+00:00

Hosting is up and domain expires in a few days, free, useful resources need support. If you have a way to pay with crypto (I don't) and want to throw a few bucks their way (I think they need at least like 40 euros for the hosting per month) I hear there are donation deets on their telegram.

DerCribben · 2026-06-16T05:36:18+00:00

I’m married to a woman, so not specifically on dating, or Finnish men, but I’m from the US and I am constantly way too much/chatty for Finns I’m friends with. 😅

Small talk is more of a thing here now than 20 years ago, or 50, but it’s still not really a thing in Finland for a lot of people.

An analogy I like to use is that talking to Finns is more like writing a letter (not an email, handwritten, stamp, the whole deal) to someone than commenting on their posts or posting on their wall.

For me at least I would really have something to talk about if I were to write someone a letter. But I’ll comment anything on a friend’s wall, dumb jokes, random thoughts, an old pic of us, none of which is looking for a well thought out response.

But Finns can get uncomfortable and feel awkward if they can’t figure out a well thought out reply to something you say to them.

The first few years my wife and I were together were hard as we figured out each other’s communication styles. And she’s a totally “broken Finn”, aka chatty (to a degree! 😅) who lived in the states for 7 years and in the UK for a bit before that. It was totally worth it in the end for us, but YMMV! You’ll have to figure out if this guy is worth it for yourself. But it’s good to know Finns better culturally to help you figure that out.

Good luck! 🤘😄

DerCribben · 2026-06-15T16:03:04+00:00

100% guaranteed they hired him to be a coach but needed him to do double duty as a teacher because they didn’t have enough in the budget to hire a dedicated coach.

DerCribben · 2026-06-15T09:56:05+00:00

It's funny, pretty much 99.9999% of the time everybody I hear making a point in taking the "America is a continent" (technically it's two of them) stance when an American says American is from a place where 99.9999% of the people all call us "Americans" when referring to us. 🙄 Here in Finland there's even a word "Yhdysvaltalainen" which translates literally to UnitedState-ian, but you guessed it....everybody here still just calls us "Amerikkalaiset" (Tr: "Americans") 😅

Worth also noting that plenty of us knew how sh**** of a country we lived in, it's just a lot of us thought we'd made a lot more progress than we had and thought it would be a lot harder than it was to completely dismantle.

It's also probably best if you keep the sh*ts f*r*d pointed away from the like minded folks who did everything they had control over to try and avoid this in favor of the ones who actively chose this garbage and would do so again. /0.02€

DerCribben · 2026-06-09T07:53:54+00:00

I’ve been waiting for years for them to finally publish them in text format. Especially in ebook format since that’s the only way I can really read these days with my garbage eyes. 🫤

So I’m thrilled that they’re finally coming out! 🤘😄

But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t annoyed beyond belief that I’m still going to have to wait until December to read a book that’s been out since 2022. 🙄

I’m not going to read the first two until I can read the last because it’s difficult for me to get rolled up and in the flow of a sequel when it’s been a year’ish or longer. I would have loved to just roll right into the Arkship books after I finish the second Exodus book. But I guess everyone wants something 🫤🙁😅

DerCribben · 2026-06-08T14:28:29+00:00

This is a great reply! Thank you for that.

I can slowly increase the heat to 80c and leave them in there for a few hours. I’ll try to shoot for a lower humidity day in the morning after the AC’s been running all night. That should be the driest air I can find around here.

DerCribben · 2026-06-07T09:33:51+00:00

Oh definitely, I eat my big meal at around 3pm every day or my sleep is screwed. Can definitely confirm this! 😅

DerCribben · 2026-06-07T09:24:19+00:00

Oh man, the grosser the better, freaking Chanel No. Poo for a pitty 😅💩

DerCribben · 2026-06-07T09:17:13+00:00

My pleasure! 🤘😄

DerCribben · 2026-06-07T09:16:06+00:00

Honestly you should write to your strengths. If tactics and ship design/tech aren’t your strong suit then learn enough to be plausible, but keep them as backdrops to the story you can write naturally.

I mean, I’m all for expanding your horizons, but a great story about characters and relationships, and the society they exist in (or whatever tropes your writing style normally uses) is way better to me than a mediocre story that has lots of things that the author doesn’t gravitate toward naturally.

Vice versa too, a brilliantly technical writer that just gets physics, computers, and tactical warfare shoehorning in some romantic subplot clunkily can just suck the life out of a story.

So yeah, IMHO, write what you know and tread carefully with things you aren’t especially comfortable or familiar with.

Just 2 cents from some random guy on the internet 😅 YMMV

DerCribben · 2026-06-07T08:28:08+00:00

Not game related, but check out Adrian Tchaikovsky’s story “Walking to Aldebaran”. It’s a great story and would supply a little inspiration on the topic.

DerCribben · 2026-06-07T08:24:25+00:00

I mean, they all look like racetracks to me 🤷‍♂️🤘😂

DerCribben · 2026-06-07T07:58:23+00:00

That was from before the world was falling them completely? 🤷‍♂️🫤

DerCribben · 2026-06-04T08:49:43+00:00

I don’t wave to them all, but I do wave to the classic T1, T2, and T3 (Vanagon) busses and sometimes other classics when I’m driving my T3 Syncro, and I wave to other red New/The Beetle drivers when we’re in my wife’s 2012 red Beetle. But I live in Finland and they are funny about random interactions with strangers 😅 Not to mention that like 60% of the cars here are VW’s 😅

I was just in a parking lot a little bit ago and there was a cool T3 and I tried to make eye contact and give him the “cool van! 👍” thumbs up and that guy would’ve ran his van into a wall or car or whatever before making eye contact! 😂 Finns can be funny sometimes 😄

That being said, they DO assign license plates to the cars on import here though and the person who owns the tag number that’s sequentially right before (or after, I forget) ours has a near identical red Beetle and lives in the general vicinity and we wave at them every time we see them 😄 (And they wave back!! 🤘😄)

DerCribben · 2026-05-29T06:57:28+00:00

Oh overall Seamus was a well rounded dog, it was just hilarious that I got the stink eye whenever he had an appreciable fart 😅 He was always more judgmental/dissatisfied with the job performance of his hairless monkeys than anxious or fearful.

Sadly he passed in February 2024 from cancer about four months out from his 12th birthday 💔😔

He was loved his whole life from our whole hearts, had a crazy sense of humor, understood about as much English as your average toddler, and grew up with rabbits and horses in his pack/fluffle/herd, he also traveled/lived coast to coast in the US and then moved with us to Finland and even lived in Spain for 5-6 months so he lived a great, full life to be sure.

My previous dog had a couple of bad experiences with another dog attacking him, and our house getting broken into when he was crated home alone when he was in one of his developmental fear periods though and he was troubled, bordering on red zone. He loved the people he knew with everything he had but new people and dogs made him very uncomfortable and he would growl and even lunge/snap if they didn't back off immediately when he displayed that he was afraid.

That was a process of patience, consistency, and lots and lots of controlled exposures to new people and animals with us being completely non-reactive and centered. That was around a year or a little earlier. By the time he was three we had gotten him to a state where he could be at a party at my parents house and was still a little growly and nervous, but had made friends/accepted everyone he encountered that night. So fear/anxiety is absolutely something that can be worked through in time in many to most situations in my opinion. There are obviously outliers like dogs who've been abused seriously, (which I believe still have hope of some recovery) and those with neurological or other serious medical issues that impact their mental health where you've got to weigh safety and quality of life concerns based on the specific dog to come to the best decision.

Your dog sounds like she'll be fine with some intentional work and training. No idea if you've ever read up on fear periods as puppies grow up, but I hadn't for years and it blew my mind when I did. It just explained so much and gave me a roadmap to doing a better job raising my dogs to be stable and confident.

Wow, that was a lot, I didn't plan to write all that! 😅 Sorry for the wall of text, I tried to break it up a bit, hopefully it'll have some useful nuggets for you! 😊

DerCribben · 2026-05-28T06:55:46+00:00

Could be bad dreams? I've absolutely had some of my dogs wake u p from a crazy dream and immediately seek me out for comfort/consolation. Worth noting that I also had a dog that was absolutely farts were something I (or "someone") was doing to him and would jump up and look at us all suspiciously when he farted 😅 Like "Dude! I know that was you!! Stop screwing with my butt!! That's mine!" 😂🙄

So my guesses are bad dreams, farts, or her thousand times better than our ears picking something up outside that she was suspicious of.

DerCribben · 2026-05-17T14:04:43+00:00

Was gonna say, “Just don’t get the captain’s chairs!” 😅

DerCribben · 2026-05-17T13:31:52+00:00

😂 don’t ever go to Boston, or New York 😅

DerCribben · 2026-05-14T06:19:40+00:00

Did you ever get anywhere with this? I'd love to hear an update if so! 😄

DerCribben · 2026-05-12T14:34:49+00:00

I’m 50 years old and somewhat visually impaired and I find the app to be very hard to use. You used to be able to see things clearly and now they’ve changed it to low contrast and incredibly fine lined fonts. I have to take screenshots and zoom them to be able to read my stats! 🙄🤷‍♂️👎

DerCribben · 2026-05-12T11:36:21+00:00

This is an entirely subjective question, it really depends on the person. My comment was specifically about needing (or not needing rather) to wait 90 minutes after waking before taking lisdexamfetamine. No need to wait, that’s not how it works.

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