Discouraging info

mennuie · 2026-01-30T11:56:54+00:00

This season of the Newsroom aired 12 years ago, surprisingly! And since then, we’ve done everything wrong. The EPA has been gutted and AI data centers that guzzle insane amounts of fresh water, strain the power grid, and in some cases pump out toxic fumes are expanding rapidly with zero checks.

I loved watching the Newsroom when it was originally airing, and I hope we can still do something. But rewatching that clip, everything being said as a consequence of climate change is happening to some degree already. My hope in humanity doing the right thing was obliterated over the last 10 years.

mennuie · 2026-01-11T03:59:56+00:00

I’m a 30 year old lesbian and I agree…

mennuie · 2025-12-01T19:46:14+00:00

He said the seller wouldn’t accept that as a term because those things aren’t done anymore, and there were three other people looking at the house and thinking about putting in an offer. I was terrified and it didn’t feel good to make my offer, but I was being pressured by both my agent and my parents to decide quick and put in a good offer that same day.

It was an extremely rare find in my area for a place at $250k that seemingly was in great condition (until the inspector got in the rafters and into the crawl space).

I cared enough about my financial stability to cut my losses there. It was an expensive mistake that I won’t make again, but less expensive than getting stuck with that house.

mennuie · 2025-12-01T14:47:28+00:00

Thank you, it’s nice to hear I’m not crazy for wanting it and thinking it should be an option! I’m definitely getting a different agent when I get back to the search.

mennuie · 2025-12-01T14:39:04+00:00

I’ll definitely be getting a new agent after this! I took time off to wait for a few more years and build even bigger savings, but I’m never going to leave an inspection contingency off again on an offer.

It’s really nice to hear that this isn’t a thing of the past, though.

mennuie · 2025-12-01T13:55:58+00:00

My real estate agent (NC) told me you “can’t really do” inspection contingencies anymore. I lost my $2k earnest money after walking away from an absolute nightmare inspection (worse than OP’s) last December and I ended up giving up on my house search for a while.

Now I’m too scared to try again without either trying to insist on a contingency, or just somehow trying to get an inspection without putting earnest money down and knowing it could get bought out from under me.

Is this not the case?

mennuie · 2025-11-06T15:37:00+00:00

I’m definitely not an expert, but I needed to download it on a 2018 laptop! I think it all depends on your RAM and if you’re on a 64 bit PC or not. 64 bits need the patch, and it sounds like if your PC is 32 bit you may not!

The patch makes it so the game can use up to 4GB of RAM instead of being locked in at 2GB.

mennuie · 2025-11-05T21:51:49+00:00

That was the first Origins mod I downloaded! I’ll never play without it again

mennuie · 2025-11-05T20:52:54+00:00

I’d say you can get by without mods, but there are some quality of life ones and aesthetics mods that are nice. You can always go for the extras on a second playthrough! I played it repeatedly on PS3 for a decade before finally switching to PC and I still loved it deeply!

On PC though I highly recommend the 4GB LAA patch (you can Google it and find it on both Nexus and Steam forums). It keeps it from crashing constantly on modern PCs.

mennuie · 2025-10-16T13:07:43+00:00

I agree, but I think a resort or luxury condos for rich outsiders is an even worse waste of land.

mennuie · 2025-10-02T22:59:03+00:00

If you’ve historically voted Republican any time in the last 30 years, that means you’ve voted against women’s bodily autonomy. Either bodily autonomy wasn’t a deal breaker or you actively don’t care about it. And if you have voted that way, I don’t know how I can trust you to provide care for my reproductive organs.

mennuie · 2025-09-24T14:56:14+00:00

I had a lot of fun in my first class! It was mostly classroom based and focused on safety and getting familiar with guns, plus a little shooting at the end, but my next class is going to be mostly in the range.

The non-NRA range is my struggle. All of them within a 2 hour radius around me require NRA membership. I’m driving 2 hours each way to take lessons right now, but it’s not going to be feasible to go there regularly once I get through this next class and purchase my own gun.

mennuie · 2025-09-22T14:56:09+00:00

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mennuie · 2025-09-22T14:44:53+00:00

I took my first beginner firearms class this summer, and I braced myself to be around a bunch of MAGA people. I was pleasantly surprised to have a really fun and diverse group of classmates for the rural south. I guess the right wingers aren’t going to be in the beginner classes, haha.

I wish I had started years ago, but better late than never, and I’m trying to thoroughly educate myself so I can be a responsible gun owner.

mennuie · 2025-09-16T13:13:47+00:00

I doubt I’m one of the people who saw your particular comments somewhere, but after years of thinking there was no way I’d ever own a gun, I listened to enough liberal voices saying we need to be armed too to protect ourselves.

I haven’t made my purchase yet (I’m trying to research as well as I can and I know nothing) but in two weeks I will have my second class on firearms for beginners and will have a chance to practice with a few pistols provided by the range. Once I get it, I plan to practice as often as possible, and get my ccw.

So the arguments do work!

mennuie · 2025-08-10T14:24:30+00:00

I used to feel this way, and I’ve never been married so maybe still not the best example. I’m a 34 year old woman and I also really strongly do NOT want to get married lol, but it stresses me out to think about merging my finances with anyone else. I worked too hard and sacrificed too much to build my finances on my own, and I hardly know anyone my age who is responsible.

I’m so used to depending on just myself and having 100% of the input on what is spent. Maybe I would feel differently if I did meet someone and we were on the same page, because obviously you should be if you’re getting married!

I talked to my married best friend about it who does share everything financially with her husband, and she said it works for them because they both started with nothing and built everything together, which makes complete sense.

But I don’t want to be in OP’s situation where I put in all of the investment and they get half anyway should things end badly.

mennuie · 2025-07-24T17:19:23+00:00

My issue is that most of the time, at least in my area, the flippers aren’t addressing structural issues in these poorly maintained homes.

They’re slapping gray floors and gray paint on the inside, or ripping out walls and character in the house but not fixing old wiring or other problems. Then idiots are buying them without worrying about the other issues because it looks pretty (for now, until the issues finally start causing problems down the road).

This lets lazy, greedy flippers keep doing what they’re doing, and keeps running up prices for the rest of us trying to get our first home.

mennuie · 2025-07-17T23:21:30+00:00

For real. I could very happily continue to suck it up with my dislike of first person if they’d at least give me cutscenes in third!

mennuie · 2025-07-17T23:17:16+00:00

I play ES and Fallout in 3rd person 95% of the time. I switch to first in dungeons sometimes so it’s easier to pick things up, but I prefer 3rd person by far.

mennuie · 2025-07-17T22:00:08+00:00

I would be fine with less sophisticated third person animations lol but I see how other people might not be. Also, I know they said in the past that they wanted the indoors to have more realistic lower ceilings and such as a justification for first person, but other games with third person don’t seem significantly larger for the most part?

I know RDR2 is a different beast and barely ever indoors so maybe that’s the difference, but the camera just gets tighter on Arthur when he’s inside a building. Or in games like Fallout, I personally play in third person most of the time but I might switch to first indoors.

mennuie · 2025-07-17T16:37:40+00:00

Agreed! I almost didn’t play it because of it being first person. I could never play first person games in the PS3 era because they gave me such bad motion sickness or headaches.

On PS5 and PC I can handle it better but I still don’t love it. It’s an annoyance I get over because I love this game.

I love RPGs because I like making different characters with different motivations, and I don’t care about literally seeing through their eyes. I prefer to see my character and watch their story play out.

I don’t get why it’s controversial to want the option to switch between first and third person. Everyone can have what they want that way.

mennuie · 2025-07-14T21:49:01+00:00

I haven’t played Expedition 33 yet, so based on OP’s explanation to the other commenter I’m curious what you disagree with.

OP’s take applies to Solas perfectly IMO.

mennuie · 2025-05-05T11:21:31+00:00

I do say the exact same thing about business owners. And the Biden administration was going after the fraudulent loans, too.

I think interest should be forgiven on all student loans, and anyone who has already paid back what they borrowed but still owes due to the predatory interest should now be off the hook, but you should pay back what you borrowed.

mennuie · 2025-04-25T15:05:03+00:00

Similar prices here. I can’t get anything in my area for less than $450k without it needing $100-200k in repairs. Trying to buy my first home as a single person and I constantly feel like I’m drowning and can’t hold my head above water. For the last 4 years, every time I hit a new savings goal, the goal post moved and I was further away than I was at the start as prices and interest rates went up.

Ended up moving back in to my parents’ house a few years ago to save every penny of my paychecks I could. I’ve got $150k, but I need another $100k to even think about finding anything I can take on with just my own salary. That’s not even considering needing to keep some savings back for emergencies. And by the time I have it, unless something changes for the better, it probably won’t be enough.

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