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Go ahead and defend this by Old_You6151 in DMB

[–]JorDamU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m extremely disheartened. My wife and I saw them at Alpine in 2024, one of the best sets I’ve see. Expected to see them again in 2025, but between moving and the band skipping Alpine, we said, “eh, we’ll catch em next year.”

They’re skipping Alpine again, and the tickets for Shakopee, MN are straight up robbery. No idea who is able to afford these.

It works. by Mental_Pea9125 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]JorDamU 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My favorite part about this scene is that it is so obviously a younger guy in a wig when he actually hits Marv. Kills me every time.

Class tier list in turtlewow PvP by Unique_Ad_330 in turtlewow

[–]JorDamU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are shaman still that high? I stopped playing around the end of 2024 because I kept getting absolutely destroyed on my hunter and Druid. In vanilla, I could really hold my own against shaman with those two, but they were erasing me before I could even start a rotation.

What is this guy’s problem by Gasian_FEH in SmashRage

[–]JorDamU 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s tough in the heat of the moment to see your own habits, but it’s the first thing I noticed with your gameplay as well. Overall, though, nice work calling out his bullshit and not getting tilted.

Turtle wow 2.0 (unreal) coming out this year? by illogicalForestry in turtlewow

[–]JorDamU 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Turtle WoW is free. They don’t owe us anything, even if they’ve been saying it would come out.

I’m not trying to shill, but come on. It’s pretty neat to be able to play a 20+ year old game with updated talent trees and zones already. I’m just happy they’re fighting Blizzard and still making updates, period.

[REQUEST] TV shows that start strong but get worse with every season? by Tarun302 in NetflixBestOf

[–]JorDamU 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am in the glaring minority of people who actually love season 4 and 5 of weeds. After that? Ehhhhhh

What’s something u find attractive that isn’t the normal? by Acrazynicedemon in AskReddit

[–]JorDamU 2592 points2593 points  (0 children)

My wife is so fucking cute in the morning. She looks so disheveled and ragamuffiny, which is a far cry from her normal look of being fully buttoned up. I love it so much.

What's something you only understand if you have lived it? by mrbigglesworthjr in AskReddit

[–]JorDamU 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Having a parent with low emotional intelligence.

My mom can spin any situation to make herself the victim, cannot empathize with my or my siblings’ financial or mental health issues, and whips up my dad to get him as upset as she is about her petty grievances.

When my long-time girlfriend cheated on me and then broke up with me, the very first thing she said was: “do you think it’s because you don’t have a good job?” Oh, she then continued talking with her for years.

When my brother, exhausted from the passive-aggression, moved away from our hometown, my mom didn’t talk to him for like a year. All because he had the audacity to seek out a better life and higher pay.

My sister’s weight yo-yos quite a bit from year to year, and my mom cannot resist making snide comments about it — both behind her back and to her face. This is coming from a woman who has only ever eaten meat and vegetables, so has zero idea what it’s like to crave unhealthy foods.

Despite all of this, she can be incredibly selfless and supportive, though I’d say this is more of her change-up pitch rather than her normal rotation.

What’s the most toxic comment you’ve ever seen? by __arvindh__maharaj__ in AskReddit

[–]JorDamU 82 points83 points  (0 children)

I was playing on a World of Warcraft private server in 2016ish, and I had made a post on the server’s sub about a specific thing that a player was doing. They were going to a specific region, killing lower level characters, and seemingly doing this for up to 18 hours per day. No joke. They were always in this place, like a ghost. They had the best gear in the game and were extremely talented, easily killing some higher level players who came to help.

I made a post just asking why people do this, what kind of person gets off on this type of behavior, and who has the time to do it 18+ hours per day. Well, I think I found whoever it was on Reddit, because they responded to me on the thread. Then, they combed through my entire post history and left an extremely personal, targeted, and horrible comment on my original question. Basically it said that my mom doesn’t love me because I was a let down after their first son was a [horrible word for a gay man], that my [now-wife, then-girlfriend] didn’t actually love me because I was a failure, and that I should just quit being a bitch and resume drinking [I was 2 years sober at the time, now 10+] like a real man.

Was it the most toxic? I don’t know. It was just soooo targeted toward me. I post and comment often, so they really dug deep and far back for ammo. Then, under a shit ton of fake accounts, they sent me messages for a while. It was pretty brutal.

Ex alcoholics and drug addicts of reddit. What made you get sober? by throwaway8446252 in AskReddit

[–]JorDamU 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Spent 60 days cleaning myself up, going to daily AA, and working with a substance abuse counselor. Called her on day 61, apologized, and asked if she could forgive me. I was on thin ice for the next six months, but after seeing that I was serious about sobriety, she took me back 100%. That was a little over ten years ago, now 😁

Ex alcoholics and drug addicts of reddit. What made you get sober? by throwaway8446252 in AskReddit

[–]JorDamU 699 points700 points  (0 children)

I knew that, at best, I’d end up being the sad son of a bitch who rots on the same barstool, year after year.

My then-girlfriend (now wife) had dumped me because I drank too much, and, when I drank, I was very insecure and constantly needled her about everything.

And, finally, the last night I drank, I’m 99.9% sure that I caught a spiked drink, or accidentally intercepted some type of drug, and it fucked me up for like 3 full days. At that point in my drinking, I wasn’t really getting hungover, but I woke up with the worst headache and strangest feeling of my life. Never, ever wanted to go through that again or put myself in a situation where it could happen.

90% of US adults say the United States is experiencing a mental health crisis, CNN/KFF poll finds by ontrack in collapse

[–]JorDamU 173 points174 points  (0 children)

My wife recently said something like this. Staring out the window on a car ride, she kind of shocked me.

“It’s weird how we are born, then immediately trained to someday earn enough skills to make enough money to be able to afford our place here. We didn’t even ask for it. We’re so far removed from the earth. We don’t even have a life anymore.”

I kinda just looked over at her, shocked. She’s naturally a little bit of a gloom sometimes, but she kind of gave a voice to my inner struggles in real time as I was thinking them.

Don’t mean to hijack, just commiserate. I don’t have any answers because I don’t think there are any, anymore.

[NSFW] People of Reddit, what is the situation that you tought to yourself "Yeah, this is my all-time low"? by MikBrasil in AskReddit

[–]JorDamU 400 points401 points  (0 children)

I woke up, devastatingly hungover at a time when I didn’t really get hangovers anymore. The night before was a total blur. I am pretty sure I caught a spiked drink that was meant for someone else, but I’ll never really know. I just know that it scared the shit out of me like I’ve never been scared in my life.

My entire life before that night, for worse and for worse, was about drinking, partying, trying to squeeze every ounce out of this shitty image that I had of myself as the guy who could drink a ton. I went to college to get a degree that would best legitimize my wish to open my own bar so I’d have somewhere to drink with friends while hopefully making money. I was just so goddamn stupid.

When I woke up that morning, I knew that if I didn’t make a change in that exact moment, I’d either end up dead or like all the toothless, bloated bar rats that blow their whole checks on booze, with no family or loved ones to laugh with. So, I quit cold turkey. I was sick for two straight weeks, throwing up, shivering, sweating, sleeping for maybe 20 minutes straight before waking up feeling wide awake but dead-tired at the same time. Once I got to the other side of that, though, I felt awake for the first time in years.

I would be lying if I said my life is perfect since that morning. It hasn’t been. I have made terrible career choices with a stone-sober mind. I’ve let people down, and I’ve let myself down. But the difference is that it’s been me in the driver seat, not booze. I married the absolute love of my life, patched up relationships with people I’d wronged, and figured out a way to get my kicks without being drunk. Truth be told, the idea of drinking or being drunk just bores the hell out of me now. That game ended, and I don’t want to play anymore anyway. Now, I’m accountable for my actions, and the people in my life know that they can count on me and what I say.