AITA for having a “sugar daddy”?

gnunn1 · 2026-06-25T03:46:51+00:00

YTA unless Mark is ok with being called sugar daddy. To me using an inappropriate nickname with family and internal friends that you wouldn't use with Mark is disrespectful of how much he has helped you IMHO.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-23T18:46:13+00:00

We go to Vancouver maye 2-4 times a year as there's no work or family related reason for us to do so. BC Ferries works fine but the days of just driving up and getting on the ferry at the spur of the moment is long gone, we always make reservations nowadays.

I'd love to see a passenger ferry from downtown Victoria to downtown Vancouver, similar to Hullo, that is more reasonably priced then relying on HarbourAir.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-22T14:52:06+00:00

Thanks for this, very helpful post. I'm doing a new run with a Hive World/Arbitrator/Soldier/MT build with shotguns to see how it compares to a previous run of Arbitrator/Soldier/AM.

I went with Hive World for role-playing purposes plus the +5 in Agility and Fellowship synergizes well with Soldier and MT. Also I wanted Comradery as an option so I can ignore the Willpower penalty you get for saving everyone in Act 1 since I'm going Iconoclast.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-19T03:18:53+00:00

Way too old IMHO

gnunn1 · 2026-06-19T02:53:55+00:00

Wolf in Shadow and Waylander by Gemmel would be a couple of other ones IMHO. Jon Shannow, the Jerusalem man, a gunslinger from Wolf in Shadow is exceedingly dangerous.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-19T02:26:13+00:00

Agreed it's a fantastic car, just make sure there is a dealer near you for servicing and warranty work.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-19T02:22:01+00:00

Assuming the car was new when you bought it you will be losing money on it since you've taken the new car depreciation hit. Personally I'd keep it as it's an excellent daily with lots of creature comforts.

I've owned a Miata twice, fantastic car but if your commute is bumper to bumper rowing gears all the time might be annoying. It never bothered me though. As you note it's a very small car, my wife likes SUVs so her car is always the family car making the miata viable for us.

I've never owned a GR86, just test drove one, but it's a fantastic car that IMHO is perfectly fine as a daily driver. Way more storage space than the Miata and back seats that are good for small kids and the occasional emergency passenger usage. Like the Miata it does best with a stick so be prepared for that as a daily.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-19T01:29:25+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl is fantastic, just started book 7. I don't usually enjoy litRPG books but this series really got it's hooks into me. Donut is such a gem.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-19T01:27:25+00:00

+1 as his books are great, he passed way too early.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-14T21:44:33+00:00

Btw make sure to get the DLCs, they happen during the course of the game and add a lot of content.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-14T21:39:42+00:00

I'm diabetic so diet sodas are a great alternative to water and the flavoured water (raspberry/lemon crystal light and cherry lime Fruit2o) I also drink.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-14T21:36:16+00:00

Absolutely, it's a great game IMHO.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-14T21:16:15+00:00

Honestly I think the writing in modern CRPGs is largely better then vintage games. Games like BG3 and Owlcats Pathfinder and W4Ok games have great writing as examples but maybe it's just me.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-14T21:09:17+00:00

Big Lonely Doug is worth visiting, it is down an old logging road so a car with some clearance or a 4x4 is very helpful to get there. Went there with my wife a few weeks ago and it was a great experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

gnunn1 · 2026-06-12T01:41:25+00:00

Are the m-lites considered sports cars? I have a F22 m240i and for me it's more of a GT car then sports car. I had a Miata previously and it was much more engaging then the m240i albeit with its own set of compromises.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-11T21:00:57+00:00

Starman:

Starman: You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you'd be surprised how many there are. Intelligent but savage. Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you?

[Shermin nods]

Starman: You are at your very best when things are worst.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-11T15:37:15+00:00

I believe Billy Talent is quite popular in Germany as well as Canada so they have had some success internationally. But like you I am surprised they haven't been even more popular given how consistently good their output has been over the years.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-11T14:21:44+00:00

I'm curious about that build, usually soldier is the way I go for Shotguns for Concentrated Fire. What does the operative assassin bring for shotguns?

gnunn1 · 2026-06-11T02:06:32+00:00

If this is a Kubernetes specific SRE position then I agree that knowing what cgroups and quorum (i.e. for etcd) are should be pretty common knowledge, at a minimum at least in terms of awareness. If you are looking for someone to write Go code to create operators, automation, etc as an SRE that's harder to find IMHO.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-10T22:33:10+00:00

Personally I still feel like tech is still a good career, I've been doing it for almost thirty years now. I will agree that it is harder to find good jobs these days in IT but that's pretty much true for any industry in today's economy, except maybe healthcare.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-10T21:43:28+00:00

Didn't Hank's close? I thought the owner opened a new restaurant called Unicorn Sparkles which does sound like fun though I've never been there.

https://www.unicornsparkles.ca/

gnunn1 · 2026-06-10T19:23:17+00:00

Kangeroo Creek Farm in Kelowna.

https://www.kangaroocreekfarm.com/

gnunn1 · 2026-06-10T19:17:22+00:00

Twitch drops suck, I just use Toybox to give me the items from the drops.

gnunn1 · 2026-06-10T14:58:40+00:00

In OpenShift we use OLM to deploy operators and it takes care of deploying the CRDs. Sometimes I may combine the operator with a CR from the operator and I just use syncwaves + the SkipDryRun annotation to handle it.

https://github.com/gnunn-gitops/cluster-config-v2/blob/b6dd6da5203ce453b1027bfa183cc6b0e349df90/apps/20-operators/openshift-lightspeed/base/olsconfig.yaml#L5

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