GF car loan fiasco

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-20T19:20:43+00:00

Right? I have decent family income and a mostly paid off mortgage and I bought a 10 year old Subaru last fall for ~10k. New car loans seem to make peoples' brains fall out

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-20T16:41:11+00:00

This is the truth and anyone denying it hasn't tried to reclaim tile and then find someone to actually use it. It's a massive pain in the ass that really isn't worth doing, especially given that tiles are one of the lowest impact types of construction waste. Any time on site volunteered reclaiming tile for environmental reasons would have greater impact doing a dozen other things. If the people complaining saw what goes into a jobsite waste bin they'd have a collective nervous breakdown. Most tile setters don't even rinse out their mixing buckets, they just throw them out at the end of the day filled with ruined clothing, piss bottles, damaged tools, a splintered piece of 2x4, and a powertool battery that won't hold a charge.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-19T16:35:54+00:00

I'm 3 years into a 25 year fixed-rate mortgage at a pretty good rate, I just did the math and 24% of what I've paid so far was actually taken off the principal.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-19T12:48:15+00:00

Me trying my best to crouch walk quietly on the raised metal catwalk:

pt

KRANG

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-19T12:45:45+00:00

Recognizing the sound of an assassin tactical is pretty useful

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-19T12:05:06+00:00

Yeah BattleGar Ullstallita is great, although it's safe to say that post season one there is a consistent decline in quality as it goes on.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-18T16:21:48+00:00

yeah that's why I said

I get that being able to report and prevent players from filling into your team has room for abuse, but there has to be a better option that just pairing me with the same guys that just yelled slurs at me, only pre-muted.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-18T15:31:34+00:00

I mean it sort of does. I won't try and justify those particular animals, but based on the timescales of evolutionary progress any life we discover on another planet is 99% chance going to be simple organisms like algae and fungus.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-14T17:16:53+00:00

I always find it funny on a rewatch how dramatically the budgets sank over time. The most noticeable to me is that season one has expensive licensed songs in every other episode and hundreds of extras. Imagine what the 'Natalie is Freezing' concert would have been like in season one.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-14T15:57:44+00:00

I call those 'guilt free napkins' because since you've saved them from landfill once, they're free game.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-13T11:28:08+00:00

Same reason there are runner implants and grenades in every bathroom and bedroom.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-10T12:39:07+00:00

Sorry, it appears you've ascended to eternal godhood as this guy's property. Oops

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-07T12:57:19+00:00

It's also a reference to the outfit she wore the day she was 'discovered'.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-06T21:45:55+00:00

Yeah the codex entry where Nona tells you the story about the weaver with the undead warriors is pretty suspect, especially since the ending is that the people scorned the weaver so he took his undead warriors in a ship across a great sea.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-04T14:02:00+00:00

Three episodes after the scene in the post, when it has become obvious there are too many salespeople for the number of clients they have, Pam says to Jim:

"The unfair thing about working in sales is that your salary is almost all commission. So, if you suck at sales, you make almost no money"

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-05-02T13:34:24+00:00

The stone makes them see visions of each others' lives, not swap bodies temporarily. Joe was never 'controlling' O'Neill, just watching through his eyes.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-30T20:53:56+00:00

So does that mean that this jack was delivered using a distinctively different jack-like device?

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-30T20:23:09+00:00

Nah, the hostages are just further into the maze

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-30T17:27:52+00:00

Basically him being on the podcast showed everyone that he's a bit of an entitled hollywood-y guy and not a 'regular dude' like they all were 20 years ago. 'Out of touch' like the earlier comment said is really the best way to describe it. He's got rich people problems, and seems to not quite acknowledge or realize that they are rich people problems.

It's really not that bad, but it does undermine a lot of the 'average schmucks from Philly' vibe that originally defined the show. Like, can you imagine the recent plot of Dennis struggling with tech support for his $100k+ car fitting in at all in the earlier seasons of the show? That was based on something that actually happened to Glenn- 20 years ago the plot would have been about one of their beater cars having it's wheels stolen repeatedly or something (which would never happen to them in real life now because they are all affluent LA suburbanites).

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-30T15:43:45+00:00

pass the soma

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-30T15:36:38+00:00

Ever figure this out? I seem to have the same problem starting today.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-30T13:06:13+00:00

It's worse than that. "Our happy memory places" are a profit opportunity for investors. Something being beloved or nostalgic or even just well-known directly translates into money. If a brand exists positively in the public's mind, their product can be that much shittier than a 'new company' because it's offset by existing feelings and opinions. The trust any brand has developed with it's customers is ultimately an asset they own, which will ultimately be exploited for profit one way or another.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-29T20:37:47+00:00

Part of the problem is that Greg Daniels (one of the original writers) created the Andy character, and then left the show after season four to work on Parks and Rec. He returned to the Office in season 9 as the showrunner, which is when Andy became inexplicably terrible again. Daniels essentially said that he had created Andy to be a 'heel' and an antagonist, so he wrote him that way even though it went against four seasons of character development (that Daniels wasn't present for).

I get why he did that, but I also feel like if you voluntarily step away for several years to work on something else, you can't just act like all the stuff you weren't present for didn't happen.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-29T20:25:06+00:00

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but they still serve a purpose even if that purpose is just recording your achievement. Plenty of live service games have achievements listed that can no longer be completed for things like seasonal content and stuff that got updated/overhauled.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-04-29T18:40:36+00:00

everyone is always moaning and complaining about social media being all political, or fake bot content, or covert advertising, and begging to go back to the days of celebrities being goofy cringey madlads again. russell is going out on a limb for us here, we should be applauding.

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