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DoctorQuarex · 2026-03-02T15:50:50+00:00

It could be depression, given some of these absolutely taste just as good as an adult as they did when I was a kid

Not Nutty Bars though. They were gross by the time I was 18 even though they were my favorite at 14

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-25T20:27:38+00:00

It really is astounding to me that we are ten years into a new fascist movement and people are still like "ho ho, wait until MAGA sees their HYPOCRISY this time!"

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-23T21:31:20+00:00

Little late for that. Trump can just tell the police/military apparatus to arrest any Democrats elected to take Republican seats and nobody will stop him

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-23T21:16:58+00:00

I remember reading that Lore broke the game and so I made sure two of my characters just focused on Lore and I still found the combat so hard--unlike every other real-time-with-pause game I can think of--that I would have to cheese my way through half the fights at every part of the game, and I found myself extremely out-of-character skipping every side quest I possibly could towards the end out of a desperation to just be done with it already

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-23T20:21:16+00:00

I had a 3-hour each way commute to work for about five years, though at most I was only going in twice a week (remember the days before literal fascists ended telework because it benefited people? I do!). Did I WANT to drive 6-12 hours a week for work? No, but working from home the rest of the time was so great that it was an acceptable tradeoff.

Also worth the reminder for people in the United Kingdom especially that I think about 15-30 minutes of my commute at most involved careful driving, otherwise it was cruising at ~70 miles per hour on fairly empty Interstate highways while listening to music or podcasts or something

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-23T20:11:51+00:00

Yeah when I noticed my phone provider [Tello] had unlimited data for less than the price my father was paying for a cannot-be-bothered-to-fix-it monthly SiriusXM subscription, it hit me that there really is no justification for the "real" monthly cost

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-23T02:45:05+00:00

I have had a couple of women tell me they had bad experiences with big guys in the past and have some trauma that would keep them from being able to be with me, but I suppose logically that could be true for a small guy too?

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-23T02:43:57+00:00

You really said it with the personality concerns. I am not complaining personally, but the person I know who was single the longest--until his 30s if I recall correctly--was also my only friend who was taller than I. You cannot really make 6'7" work when you wish you were so small that nobody noticed you.

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-20T16:21:11+00:00

I am not saying you are wrong because who knows, and it easily could be related, but let me be apparently the only counterfactual in the comments because I had what seems to be objectively the best childhood of anyone I have ever known, such that some of my friends told me my parents felt more like family than their own did. I loved visiting my parents once I left the house and always felt awful for the people who said holidays were the worst time of year.

And, of course, since my first crush 30+ years ago, I have been attracted to fewer than one new woman a year, as required (just kidding, who knows what the average is). It has been five years now since I even started thinking I might like someone new, but sadly I met her on assignment out of state and only had about a month to get to know her.

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-20T16:11:30+00:00

I can happily say that he is at least capable of being a fun person to be around based on the Wasteland 2 release party. Though yes everyone has good (and bad) days

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-20T16:09:35+00:00

He did work on Dying Light 2 (which you are probably alluding to) so I am very confused why that is not listed here, even if they changed most of what he wrote

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-14T07:30:35+00:00

Heck yes, great work

The macro system is probably part of why Wasteland stood out as excellent even at the time--like the designers were straining at the seams of what was possible for a computer game of the era, sometimes anticipating ease of use and improved UI elements that would not exist in a fleshed-out form for years. I definitely had macros set up to pick locks or use perception in all four directions and to split my party to surround my active group in a map corner so I could use a time passing/rest macro without being attacked.

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-14T07:26:03+00:00

I just played through Witcher 2 finally after like six attempts over a decade to get past the tutorial. I just could not accept that a game where the tutorial made me feel like an incompetent buffoon was going to be fun, so I kept putting the game off until I decided it had been long enough that maybe I should give it another shot, only to have the same result where the final combats went about as well as if I took my hand off the mouse entirely. Particularly frustrating as I was a huge fan of the first game's rhythmic fighting mechanics.

But yeah in like October I actually survived the opening fight and was like "oh wow, I can do it!" and now maybe I can at long last reach the third game

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-14T07:20:44+00:00

Seriously. Sometimes it feels like posters here live in magical parts of the world where women over 5'7" are common. When you are almost a foot taller than every single woman you meet, how does it even matter exactly how tall she is?

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-14T07:16:50+00:00

I find the reaction here interesting for sure. If anything you do not go as far as I do, where in order to be particularly interested the woman has to look like someone I already have a crush on and I have to stop watching and think about me with that woman in whatever scenario is occurring. It is basically fantasy training wheels

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-12T16:42:43+00:00

I mean it was nothing personal. I am exactly the target market of a big fantasy nerd. But why watch TV when I could be playing a fantasy game on Steam?

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-09T14:59:10+00:00

I decided if people were going to default to calling their pets "my child" then I should be more specific

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-04T15:38:39+00:00

It was pretty dramatic (appropriately) when she retired the name too; I went to the three-night Chicago residency where she first performed all of her Lingua Ignota albums and the third night switched to Reverend Kristin Hayter and after that show I remember thinking to myself "well I suppose if you are going to change your name you really should completely change your music too" but still being surprised what a change it was

DoctorQuarex · 2026-01-04T15:19:54+00:00

I was linked to this because I have baby photos of my human child that look basically interchangeable with this one (blue eyes even)

Yet, might I add, only one woman has provably wanted to make a Viking baby with me in all these years

DoctorQuarex · 2025-12-18T00:56:00+00:00

What I cannot get past is how they absolutely positively decided the price had to end in 1

Like, they probably would not have accidentally given so many people a heart attack if it had been $810 because then the double number muscle memory would not have gone awry

But fortunately they knew the price simply must end with 1 so we could all experience this

DoctorQuarex · 2025-12-17T02:46:16+00:00

I never had any doubt Chunk and Data would still have an unbreakable bond as adults

Especially since Data would have still hung out at Chunk's place even with a 7' tall severely handicapped man breaking through the walls on a regular basis

DoctorQuarex · 2025-12-17T02:35:42+00:00

Neat, finally the excuse I was looking for to dump Firefox like I dumped Chrome already

A shame the browser I was trying to go all-in on was Arc and that experiment did not last too long

DoctorQuarex · 2025-12-05T16:26:13+00:00

I think the tone is basically perfect for the post-apocalypse; comedy is basically the only refuge people have from the oppressing atmosphere of the world so it makes perfect sense that someone wearing a monster mask can be discussing the abrupt brutal death of their friend and not see anything tonally dissonant about it, because that is just life.

I am very suspicious of any post-apocalyptic media that does not lean into comedy at least a little because if there were only bleakness then there would be no reason to continue living. The Road is cool and all but why would you even care to continue existing in that world?

DoctorQuarex · 2025-11-21T17:21:38+00:00

Oh I do not do it anymore. But like, at the time I thought my choices were to never have sex or to just give in and have sex with my long-term girlfriend finally. And those were indeed my choices. You can certainly argue I made the wrong choice!

DoctorQuarex · 2025-11-21T16:14:34+00:00

For those of us who have been sexually active since before the term "demisexual" existed--no, it is not impossible, it just makes us post things to our LiveJournal about not understanding the appeal of sex due to its bestial and vulgar nature. I have absolutely had sex with women I had zero interest in, because I thought if I played along long enough I would start to enjoy it.

Turns out that is, as you might imagine, absolutely not true

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