I am fairly certain the original version of this meme has red shirt saying Linux and getting beat up

I loved Project Gotham Racing because it rode the line between arcade game and simulator quite nicely. I haven’t seen anything like it since.

Flicking my orb

Depending on the hobby, this is some fucked up gatekeeping.

My first thought was riding a motorcycle as a hobby, and that is one activity that many people severely underestimate how much expensive gear you should be wearing for your safety before you even consider doing it.

Whatever you do, don’t use G2A and other similar CD key reseller websites. Developers would rather you just pirate the game because a lot of those keys are stolen, which cause a charge back that ends up costing the developers tens of thousands of dollars in fees. In rare cases it has even bankrupt them.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/g2a-controversy-indie-game-developers-calling-out-illegal-key-resellers/

Yeah this basically sounds like it takes the temporary container add on that I think was folded into Firefox at some point recently and basically just does it behind the scenes now on a per domain basis

I only just got around to deleting Alien Blue a few weeks ago. I don’t think that app has worked in like 5 years lol. RIP Apollo

I forgot it’s already bee n 5 years since Covid fuck. Keen definitely got worse way before Covid so it was probably 7 years ago. Updated. You honestly might just not know what you’re missing if you’ve only had shoes from them after the change. As I recall, almost every component of the Presidio got cheaper and it went from a nice leather walking shoe with a well padded tongue to just another synthetic sneaker with a thin tongue basically for the same $110

Kleen Kanteen insulated water bottles is my pick. I have one from 2012 that looks like the Gameboy that survived a bomb blast from a decade of dropping it while walking and biking, and it still holds a vacuum on the insulation walls and doesn’t leak.

Nah you can’t trust Keen anymore as of like 7 years ago. They switched to much cheaper shoe materials on their presidio walking shoe that was super popular, but the price didn’t drop at all. At the same time, they started inserting huge globs of rubber in the heel of their hiking shoes so you are forced to use their brand of insert that has a hole to fit said bump.

I’m aiming for $1,000,000 by 50 to retire actually. I’ve got no clue if I’ll pull it off, but this site seems to think so: https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement

I’ll honestly probably be dead by 70 anyways due to health reasons so even if I don’t hit that goal, I’m probably just going to retire anyways and yolo it

First of all, I’m a millennial lol.

Second of all, you’re preaching to the choir, and I agree on all points. I was simply trying to give some helpful advice in the form of a way to play the game that is becoming successful in America right now as I was literally just describing how I did things because it worked for me, and it’s worked for others as well.

I was poor for many years as an adult. I went to college, and I got into computer science. After 5 years in my career, I just (barely) got to a 6 figure salary at my last review. I’ve been putting as much as possible into retirement and living very modestly because I know there likely won’t be any social security for me so I took matters into my own hands.

Oh and for the record, my company doesn’t match inflation, and I’m still a renter and will probably never be able to afford a home.

I guess I just assumed OP was in America since their retirement plan is a bullet to the head, which is a distinctly American joke since most other countries don’t seem to make retirement such an impossibility.

Never too late to go back and get another degree. I’m pretty sure the federal PEL grant will pay for 2 bachelor degrees so you aren’t disqualified for having already gone to school.

In other news, I don’t know why there are so many haters downvoting me.

Well hey good news, college is still free as long as you’re poor and at least 25 years old. That’s how you get a federal PEL grant to break even on college. Your state probably has grants to literally pay you to go to school on top of the PEL grant since you’re poor. That’s how I did it.

Wait until you’re 25. Go to college for free and get a degree in something STEM. Get a career. Work your way up to a six figure salary. Contribute heavily to retirement. Retire once you get however much is enough.

Having grown up on chiclet Mac keyboards, you should try a mechanical keyboard. It’s such a much better experience

Whether or not they remembered me was irrelevant to the story frankly. In the 10-15 years I’ve been shopping at Costco, I’ve never once been hassled at any location ever for walking in the exit to go to the food court.

Well, at least until this incident happened a few weeks ago.

Hell I didn’t even have a membership for the first couple years. I just happened to work very close to a Costco, and I would sometimes go get a slice of pizza for lunch.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2024/03/26/costco-food-court-memberships-required/73111473007/

For as long as Costco has existed, a membership was not required at any location to buy from the food court.

The other day I paid for pizza, and they didn’t have any ready. I had a 10 minute wait so I took my groceries to the car and then returned to pick up my pizza I’d already paid for. I was literally outside the store for 2-3 minutes. On my way back in, I ignored the receipt signers like I always have since I’m going to the food court and they literally shouted at me for walking past them because they forgot I’d just left the building. They made a big stink about me not showing my membership card when I exited the second time. I guess you can’t access the food court without a membership anymore?