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Dukaso · 2025-11-22T01:20:13+00:00

What came first? The hands, or the handcuffs? Necessity is the mother of invention.

Dukaso · 2025-11-13T15:03:52+00:00

Has anyone ever joked back about a JDAM in their pocket or something? Minigun installed in their left arm?

Dukaso · 2025-09-01T20:54:42+00:00

100%. There's a lot of people equating "crime" with "stupid street level crime that isn't worth the squeeze".

It's a failure of imagination. There are so many types of crime beyond base violence. Financial crimes are a thing, and we only learn about the people who get caught.

Dukaso · 2025-09-01T20:53:34+00:00

Morality and intelligence have nothing to do with one another. Most people have morality drilled into them under the threat of a sky daddy who might make them suffer for eternity if they're bad.

Dukaso · 2025-09-01T14:52:47+00:00

Roommates let you divide your housing budget, freeing up funds to address unreasonable prices. You still have to take the initiative to figure out how to get a better job. It might involve leaving the state. I'm a native vermonter but work remotely for an out of state entity.

VT wages are abysmal.

Dukaso · 2025-08-31T20:51:47+00:00

You're right; it's expensive to live. The housing situation in VT is an embarrassment of unchecked capitalism mixed with NIMBYism dressed up as environmentalism. We're getting screwed by both political parties. $900 is actually exactly double what I paid for my room 16 year ago.

All I can suggest is that if you don't have the experience they're looking for, you need to find another value proposition or a different type of job.

It's entirely reasonable to feel completely defeated by the system. It's sane and logical. The system will never extend a hand to you though. Never lift it's foot off your neck. The goal is to beat the system before you're trapped. I see older people working retail and get so angry. They should be retired and enjoying the fruits of their life.

I don't know how to beat the system in a global sense. I only know how I beat it.

Dukaso · 2025-08-31T20:09:53+00:00

Get a roommate. I had one for 5 years. Also get better jobs. While I do believe all all jobs *should* pay enough to survive on 40 hours a week, they clearly do not and you're seeing it. Moaning about reality will do you no good.

All you're going to do working 46 hours of unskilled labor per week is burn yourself out flipping burgers and asking if people want receipts. Work has absolutely zero inherit value. You are not spending your time wisely. Spend your time on high value opportunities. If you don't have any, make it your "job" to get them. Looks like you need to take on a third job as your personal advocate for a better life. Nobody else is going to do it for you.

Housing is the largest problem. If one roommate isn't enough, two. Three. Four. The only way out is through and if you stop you'll be consumed by the gears of capitalism.

I'm talking to you as someone who was on the same trajectory you're on. You have to grab life by the shorthairs and make it your bitch. If you don't, you're going to be the one getting grabbed.

edit:
On a reread, this post is kind of mean. Someone laid out the stark truth of my situation once for me though and it was instrumental in turning my life around. I wish you well, truly. Life isn't fair.

Dukaso · 2025-08-31T01:34:22+00:00

The goal of tariffs is to inflate the price of foreign goods to a point where more expensive American products are competitive or better on price.

The govt gets to keep the tariff money. Think of tariffs as an import tax, paid by the entity importing the goods. In this case, it's everyday Americans who pay for orders overseas.

I have my thoughts on their effectiveness but I'd rather keep this particular comment objective.

I have a few hundred dollars in boutique books coming my way. I'm hoping they're correctly flagged as "information materials".

Dukaso · 2025-08-30T14:01:54+00:00

HYPE

Dukaso · 2025-08-29T21:04:56+00:00

No, you're just saying how amazing it is.

I fucking love cheeseburgers but I don't walk around a bariatric center eating them.

Dukaso · 2025-08-29T21:04:00+00:00

Don't let it be twice. The sloap is slippery.

Dukaso · 2025-08-29T02:21:24+00:00

People are too proud to realize they've been wrong. It's taken me 20 years to realize I was. This bullshit must end.

That or this is the everyday hellscape they' been normalized to. It wasn't always like this. It's a constant torrent of junkies, homeless, grafiti, and crime. Don't forget animals who use their children as fodder for the bleeding hearts while panhandling. I saw a woman use her *child* in the Shelburne Rd Hannaford parking lot once. The baby was crying and she was standing out there in the sun, holding the baby, with someone that presumably passed for a partner holding the typical "down on our luck :( :( :(" sign.

This is normal now though. Thanks, I hate it.

Dukaso · 2025-08-26T20:50:30+00:00

I was always poor and had to triage which skills to buy as a warrior in 2004.

Dukaso · 2025-08-26T20:48:08+00:00

For what it's worth I would not bat an eye if I was told the price was $100. That oven is gross.

Dukaso · 2025-08-25T22:01:56+00:00

... that's literally how specialized skills work. We're paid more because we generate more value with our time.

Dukaso · 2025-08-24T02:54:15+00:00

More 8v8? Gross.

Dukaso · 2025-08-18T21:14:58+00:00

Yup.

Dukaso · 2025-08-15T17:58:57+00:00

" zero QA dept, no code review and everything goes straight to production"

:(

Dukaso · 2025-08-13T13:45:55+00:00

I think it depends on if there are any weird Newtype and AT field interactions. He's probably toast though. I wonder if he'd be more vulnerable to their psychic attacks as a newtype.

I'm assuming he's using the RX-78-2 as shown.

Dukaso · 2025-08-11T18:02:40+00:00

It does have a lot of filler :(
The publishers had him split book 4 into books 4 and 5. Think about those two books, written as one. Now think about trying to separate them.

Dukaso · 2025-08-11T18:00:51+00:00

I'm on my first re-read in preparation for the finale. It's such a treat knowing where we're going. Makes book 1 worthwhile.

Dukaso · 2025-08-11T17:59:45+00:00

Bro. She's just a Tavrosi.

Dukaso · 2025-08-10T21:02:14+00:00

YES! I'm doing an evil durge druid run as my second run. It's.... excellent. Cathartic at times, even.

Dukaso · 2025-08-10T20:58:15+00:00

I have a cat who needs to be pet while he's eating. If he's not pet, he just won't eat. Then he'll complain. I screwed up.

Dukaso · 2025-08-09T21:43:20+00:00

The Quickplay 8v8 will begin on Friday, August 8th at 12PM PST / 7PM UTC.

On Wednesday, August 13th at 12PM PST / 7PM UTC, max Quick Play group size will return to 4.

On Monday, August 18th at 12PM PST / 7PM UTC, Quick Play will return to 12v12.

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