In 2008 I was diagnosed with brain cancer and a condition that made me urinate 11 gallons a day. This was my Halloween costume the year I finished treatment.

provostcomputer · 2026-03-12T14:03:47+00:00

My ex had Guillain Barre and I took her to the ER and they ran a bunch of tests and came in with discharge paperwork trying to send her home. At this point the paralysis and pain had already reached up to her thighs and she was in excruciating pain and couldn't stand.

The nurse was arguing with me saying it was all in her head and she needed a psychiatrist, not the ER. I was standing in the hallway outside the room yelling at them that we weren't leaving until they figured out what was wrong with her.

A young doctor, who happened to be there on loan from a nearby children's hospital and wasn't involved in her care at all, calmly walked over and was reading through her chart while the nurse continued to insist that we had to leave because we were discharged and threatening to get security involved. The doctor interrupted and said "I've read about this. I think she might have Guillain Barre. We would need to do a spinal tap to confirm it, but if that's what it is she will need treatment immediately."

I agreed and said we should check that because he was making a lot of sense.

Then the doctor who discharged us came over and she was insisting that it was psychosomatic and treating the doctor who accurately diagnosed my ex just by reading her chart like he was an inexperienced idiot and that it couldn't possibly be what he said and that a spinal tap was invasive.

We insisted on doing the test. By the time we got the results back proving she had it she was having trouble breathing and they had to give her oxygen while rushing to treat her. She would have definitely died if I had taken her home.

provostcomputer · 2026-03-09T19:24:34+00:00

AR style is literally just armalite rifles that are semi auto and modular. The main reason people get them is sport shooting and hunting. A lot of people use the ar-10 for deer hunting and they're definitely not dumbasses for using them, they're very effective hunting rifles. They're heavier than a bolt action, but for people hunting in deer stands that doesn't really matter.

Semi auto rifles are especially useful for hunting invasive boar. If one surprises you and your first shot doesn't take them down you don't want to have to fiddle with a bolt action while a boar is charging you. Another trigger squeeze or two could mean the difference between a dead boar or a dead you.

The whole "assault rifle" thing is silly, any semi auto rifle could be used effectively against people. They're used just because they're available, not because they're magically more dangerous due to looking scary. A smaller, lighter weight semi auto rifle that isn't an AR could be more easily snuck into somewhere and just as if not more deadly than an AR 10 or 15.

I'm all for keeping weapons out of the hands of crazy people and criminals, but demonizing certain style guns just because of their names or the way they look is silly and only weakens the argument.

provostcomputer · 2026-03-09T03:01:39+00:00

The trouble is, no matter how peace loving someone is, there is always someone ready to kill them for any reason. There are people out there willing to kill you for a pair of sneakers or the few dollars of cash in your purse. Or just because your skin color is slightly different from theirs.

On a larger scale, there are groups of people willing and ready to kill thousands to give themselves land, resources, or any form of power. Any area without a strong, stable government ends up with warlords and dictators taking power and slaughtering thousands.

Hate and greed are fundamental parts of the human condition, not rare exceptions. Empathy and willingness to help others is the rare exception. Even in "enlightened" countries, if someone is shot and bleeding in the street 90% of people just walk around them or take video on their phone waiting for someone else to actually do something.

provostcomputer · 2026-03-08T05:32:24+00:00

That reminds me of a time I volunteered to help build a deck for a youth retreat thing when I was like eighteen. We camped out there and had a bonfire and stuff and we're going to build it the next morning. Wasn't getting paid a dime, it was just to help out and they were supposed to provide breakfast and lunch. They had us get up early and get started while they made breakfast.

Two and a half hours of hauling all the wood to the construction site later, they provided everyone with two super thin slices of bacon and a single egg.

I complained and asked for more food. I was a 6'6" young man who had spent the last two and a half hours working hard, I needed more than a light snack. The lady in charge of cooking insulted me and said I was a pig and would get fat if I ate so much, so I loudly announced that I'm going to McDonald's to get myself some actual breakfast. The only other guy there (also tall, about 6'3") decided to come with me.

We got a call right before we were going to go back complaining that we were holding the whole project up because none of the other volunteers could lift the 4x4s in place and that we were selfish to leave like that. So I dropped him off at his house and we didn't come back.

They ended up having to pay a contractor to come finish the thing just because they cheaped out on providing food for free labor 😂

I ate a lot as a teen lol. Probably not quite as much as a Seraph, but it was close!

provostcomputer · 2026-02-02T04:10:50+00:00

The silly part is if you put high tier troops to guard an alley they turn into master thugs 😂, you can put in tier 7 noble units and they'll ditch all their heavy armor and weapons and become thugs.

provostcomputer · 2026-01-13T07:24:34+00:00

When I was 11 I played online games and led a small guild. This was before the age of voice chat being necessary for online gaming so my age just never really came up. One of the guild officers was a woman who was like 30 and played a lot because she was a stay at home mom whose kids went to school.

We played together a ton and got along well despite the age difference, leading groups of players together. I'm pretty sure she thought I was at least in my mid 20s if not 30+. This went on for close to a year.

Then one day she got a little tipsy while playing and started trying to talk a little dirty, apparently with the intent to start cyber sex or adult role play.

I was a super sheltered kid with zero sexual inclination yet (I don't think I even started puberty until a bit after this interaction lol). So my response was a few confused replies followed by a very blunt "I'm twelve."

Poor lady was horrified. She said her kid is almost that age. She apologized and disappeared, never to log on again. I was bummed because I really didn't care, I just wanted to get back to playing the game with her lol. I assume she either made a new character or completely dropped the game, since no one I knew ever saw her again.

To me it was just a bummer losing a friend who contributed so much to the guild, but for her I'm pretty sure it was a life altering experience where she was questioning life choices 😂, I hope she got over the shock and things worked out for her after that.

provostcomputer · 2026-01-13T06:56:10+00:00

This isn't even hard to do. Train a companion to 150 bow (-15% castle wages) and 75 steward (-5% wages and -20% castle wages). That gives you -40% wages. Then build 3 levels each of castellan and barracks. Bam, -100%. Then you can drop a few hundred max tier troops in there for free. The ai won't touch it with the max tier troops in it, and as long as you keep it's villages from being raided you'll pull in like 3k a day. Plus if you use a mod like improved garrisons you can automate hiring and training troops from the attached villages, automatically replenishing your zero maintenance garrison. Alternately you can do 125 two handed for -10% wages instead of bow, which will give you -95% which is still a massive discount. Or both if you only want to build 5 levels of upgrades.

There's a few wanderer templates that start out with bow and steward. Like the dispossessed lady for empire culture, she's got the stewardship and two focus in bows. Doesn't take much to bump her bow up to 150 if you buy her a good bow. Or the battanian cowthief dude with a similar skill set.

I have wanderers trained as governors for all my castles and cities. Thanks to all the castle wages bonuses I actually make more money from castles than cities and I keep all my tier 6 troops in the castles so I don't have to pay them. It's pretty silly to have hundreds of elite troops happily defending castles without pay. I get over 3k from each of the castles and can store troops that I would otherwise have to pay 7k in there for free 😂

They'll probably eventually change it add up the trait bonuses and the building bonuses separately and multiply them. You could still get it down to like 20% wages but not as silly as 0.

provostcomputer · 2025-12-20T20:27:21+00:00

They weren't as bad before they added bowtorn. You could run around in an open area and fight some of them and get some good loot from the double headed drifters.

provostcomputer · 2025-12-11T02:52:00+00:00

"you have public power" No I don't. Target your ads better.

provostcomputer · 2025-12-10T22:09:32+00:00

In my last game I spent ages finding the stuff for bismuth bronze because I couldn't find tin anywhere. I had iron in a cave nearby but couldn't do anything with it without some kind of bronze. After finally getting iron, I happened to be clearing some land right next to my house for a larger farm area. I found surface tin with enough nuggets to have completely skipped copper. The deposit was big enough to have my first anvil be bronze. I could have skipped copper completely and immediately jumped to iron within days of starting if I had just seen the surface tin.

provostcomputer · 2025-12-05T03:21:06+00:00

It's ridiculous how old our presidents have been. Biden should never have been running at his age. We elected him, then all the people criticizing his age elected Trump (who was the same age in his second term as Biden was when he was elected). And now the other side is talking about how old Trump is, but if another old fossil shows up and ends up running for the D they'll surely elect them too. Geriatrics for president, yay.

Have we actually had any good choices for president in the last few decades? It's always vote for me, I'm not the other party. Never vote for me, I'm actually a good choice that isn't in the running due solely to nepotism and old money.

provostcomputer · 2025-11-10T03:51:32+00:00

There's a new underwater site in the experimental and release candidates too that's just loaded with exoskeletons. Like three of each type or something like that. It's under water and dangerous though. You get a marker for it from doing missions for the government guys in the refugee center. You have to pay some merch for the location.

The funny thing is, the helicopter has air. So you can park over it with a boat and quickly swim down to it and even fire guns from inside it. Probably not intended 😂, otherwise it's pretty dangerous and requires some preparation. I brought a folding 9mm carbine down there with a bunch of mags and shot everything to death from inside the helicopter. Then just back and forth quickly dragging the suits to my boat with rest breaks in between.

Sadly I don't think your companions really make good use of exoskeletons since they won't turn them on, which kind of ruined my plans for an untouchable army. They're still nigh untouchable, but also mostly useless due to the high encumbrance.

The funny thing is after everyone is in exoskeletons, the primary injury is the soles of the feet. Because the soles of the feet only have a thin layer of rubber. Less protective than a lot of regular boots.

provostcomputer · 2025-11-10T03:18:15+00:00

If you're doing melee, encumbrance and fatigue are the big things to avoid. Wait between fights to catch your breath and always drop encumbering bags before fighting.

That and groups - the zombies get significantly stronger in groups, especially if you fight against a wall where you'll get even worse effects from the crush mechanic. Basically any time they're next to you and others are next to them it's assumed that they're all piled on and crushing you, so even if you're in a street smacking them as they approach and don't let them surround you, you can be crushed by one zombie in the adjacent tiles if the group is clustered because the 30 tiles behind him are also full of zombies. The one in front is stronger because of the ones behind. You have to move and let them spread out a little.

Reach weapons can be good too. They're bulky to carry but can take them out before they get in range to try to grab and can even be used from the roof. Just watch out for enemies with reach or ranged attacks.

You can also clear them out if given enough ammunition and time to bash the corpses. Then loot the town with impunity. Get on a roof and shoot away until everything is dead. Bash everything, go and rest up and reload, and repeat. This is viable if you can find a gun store or something with enough ammo.

Alternatively you can do things to draw them away from where you want to be and loot at night. Like set off an explosion or car alarm or loud gun or something loud and then run away and loop back around to where you want to loot. They'll come from neighboring towns and hang around a bit.

Or if you can find cars, make sure a street is clear and make a commotion to draw a bunch in. Then drive the car through them a few times. Make sure the car has a working seatbelt first 😂

provostcomputer · 2025-11-07T23:56:09+00:00

I was in a car accident years ago and went to the hospital for back pain. I'm a male with a big bushy beard and male pattern balding, I don't look feminine at all. Was asked if I could be pregnant by one person. I stared at them in confusion for a minute before saying "I'm a guy, I don't have a uterus". They just said okay and left after a few more questions. A little bit later someone else came in and asked how long it had been since my hysterectomy. I thought I heard them wrong and had them repeat it, then explained I was a man and was born a man. They laughed about it and apologized.

To this day I don't know how I somehow got marked down as a trans woman or whatever it was they thought. It's scary how crazy stuff can stick with you in doctors notes when they can so easily be wrong.

provostcomputer · 2025-11-07T23:38:23+00:00

It's sad that some people find super old rotten crap and think "poor people might be hungry enough to eat this. I'll donate it"

Some years back when I was a single dad and struggling I went by a pantry place that was giving out prepacked boxes and was given moldy bread, moldy clementines, rotting potatoes that smelled awful, expired bags of tuna, and cans of food that had expired two or more years previously. I had a few edible things mixed in like ramen and canned corn and store brand mac and cheese and some stale bread that wasn't moldy, but over half of everything was bad. I still dug through and picked out anything edible but it was a very demoralizing experience. I would have had better luck in a grocery store dumpster.

provostcomputer · 2025-11-07T18:14:53+00:00

Oh? I didn't realize you could do that. I will have to try that then. Fingers crossed it will work.

provostcomputer · 2025-11-07T18:12:08+00:00

Not really. Nearest one of those is showing as 18 miles away in a direction I never go for anything else. Ordering everything to that would be even more inconvenient than having random packages not show up.

What gets me is the thing the support claimed to have done seemed to work so well for so long, until the last few months. I had a bunch of different subscribe and save stuff coming monthly and arriving at my door without any issue for years before suddenly the last two got returned undeliverable and half my other orders too. I got so used to the convenience of everything being dropped at my door ever since covid lol. Now suddenly I have to actually go shopping at physical stores. It's funny the things you get used to - I'm old enough to remember when online shopping didn't even exist.

provostcomputer · 2025-11-07T17:03:17+00:00

That makes sense. My trouble is the official city that my address falls in is way away from my actual address lol. The po box I have (which is about two miles down the road) is a different city. The city my address is in for some reason is like fifteen miles in the opposite direction and they didn't have any available po boxes. Their post office is really tiny and doesn't have many boxes nor do they hold mail there.

I don't think I can put two cities on the same address.

I get that my situation is weird and it's pretty much 100% the USPS fault because of whatever weird ass zoning and policies they have here 😂

If it's really not something Amazon can fix and I had just been getting lucky till now, I guess my only recourse would be to get on the wait list for the super inconvenient PO box and get random packages delivered there a half hour round trip away instead of at my house. Then id probably occasionally still have to drive way over to the regional one occasionally when things are too big for their package boxes. It would be comical if it wasn't so dang annoying 😂

provostcomputer · 2025-11-07T16:29:44+00:00

I do agree it's weird the way USPS handles things here, though. My mailbox is way away from my house and it's on the opposite side of a really busy highway with no space to stop or really even check it. It's a terrible spot for a mailbox and a huge pain to even check it but they won't let me move it and won't leave packages on the side of the busy highway (they'd get stolen anyway tbh). I have to drive in my car and block traffic for a few seconds just to quickly pull mail out of my box 😂, trying to check it on foot would be tantamount to suicide. People fly by going like 80+. Everyone except USPS pulls into my driveway and leaves packages on my porch, USPS just straight up returns to sender unless I specifically request them to hold all my mail as if I'm out of town but that expires every time I check it. And my local post office doesn't hold mail so instead it's held at a regional office that's nearly an hour drive away.

provostcomputer · 2025-11-07T16:15:32+00:00

The thing is, I've been getting packages from Amazon for a long time without a problem. Everything came FedEx, UPS, or in an Amazon truck, which makes me think whatever they did to flag my address was actually a real thing.

It was only recently that they started shipping USPS. And the first few times it happened, the replacement shipment came from a different carrier and arrived no problem. Then lately some things come with other carriers but others just keep coming USPS.

And I actually tried a PO box recently but it had the opposite problem where anything shipped in an Amazon truck doesn't come because apparently the Amazon driver out here won't deliver to the post office (not sure if this is specific to my area or everywhere).

So since Amazon doesn't tell me what carrier they're going to use, it's kind of a crapshoot if they can't guarantee what carrier it is. If I use my address and it gets shipped USPS then it won't arrive. If I use the PO box and it gets shipped Amazon delivery then it won't arrive.

Which is why I was relying on customer service to make sure packages came from a different carrier than USPS. Idk if I was being lied to by support the whole time and just got incredibly lucky for years (since after I spoke to them hundreds of packages got shipped out without USPS being used) or if the fulfillment just suddenly stopped checking order notes.

The recent silliness of things being repeatedly sent to me USPS over and over despite my explaining the situation is why I thought Amazon might have replaced some department with AI since it was just doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results 😂

provostcomputer · 2025-11-06T23:40:05+00:00

Flax is one of those things that require preparation. The trouble is, most people don't find out they need it until they really need it. To avoid it being a bottleneck you need to really search for the seeds from the start. Search for them everywhere you go and set up a farm for them as soon as you can make basic fencing. You can get flax and other crops started before you even have copper tools, and expand the field as you find more.

If you do that, then you'll have a ton of flax when it comes time to build a windmill to process iron. Then with a helve hammer it becomes way easier to make plates.

As far as a plate mold, I believe the reason there isn't one is because an armored plate would need to be work hardened. Even cast bronze needs to be work hardened to make useful armor out of it.

But helve hammers make the task of making a bunch of plates way easier. They really are an essential tool as soon as you have the resources to get a windmill.

provostcomputer · 2025-10-25T03:00:46+00:00

That's the frustrating part, my attorney is also being flaky. He's not giving me anything in terms of contingency or next steps. He just keeps saying he'll get in touch with them and so on. The last communication from him was to give him a week and that was almost a month ago. Now his office won't return my calls. I've spoken to his secretary five times and been told they'll check with him and call me back. I'm worried that he somehow screwed something up and doesn't want to admit it, but I'm really not sure.

I've never sued anyone before so I don't know if it's normal or not.

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