I will always be grateful to that hospital. I was expecting to owe $300k+, it turns out the total bill over $550k, but the hospital fought with the insurance company and got them to pay for most of it leaving me with a balance due of $10k. When I called to set up a payment plan, the lady on the other end said that they would forgive all but $996. I paid it and as soon as I hung up, I was sobbing. $550,000. What is the point of surviving if you are going to spend the rest of your life slaving away to pay off you’re debt.

Notice I used the word “appreciate” instead of “like”.

I am 51 now but in 2018, while still in my forties, I had to have multiple major emergency heart surgeries. I was hospitalized for a week and bed ridden for about a month altogether. During that time, all I had for entertainment was my PS Vita. I decided to buy and play Persona 4 Golden blind and I spent those weeks drifting in and out of consciousness while making friends, fighting monsters and hanging out with high school students in that make believe world instead of focusing on my near death experience or the possibility of financial ruin thanks to medical bills.

I will never judge anybody that is moved by or comforted by things like anime or JRPGs. I get it.

It’s an unpopular opinion, but I actually appreciate this guy and what he is doing. He has opted to open his entire research and data to anyone that wants to look at it. So, even though he is definitely a weirdo, the data he is providing might be of some use.

I don’t want to look like a vampire, but if his research leads to the discovery of some protein that allows my heart to beat at full strength for a little longer, or slows down the onset of dementia, etc., then I’m all for him wasting his money trying to look like a Twilight cast member.

Baldurs Gate 3

I would think that the traffic cone would be the lion. I don’t think there is enough lube in the world for someone to fit a traffic cone in their butt.

I don’t need to see evidence to the contrary. Thank you.

Fuck. Thank you.

That hits

I like the movie, and I am agreeing with Ridley Scott. It was clearly a comedy. The book had humor in it, but it was science first. I saw it as a thought experiment on what it would take for someone to survive in Mars. The movie’s tone was more of adventure comedy, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Donald Glover was fantastic.

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It is a very big change because of the reason he only uses his own poop and not the poop of the other astronauts. They broke away from the hard science in order to insert a joke.

Yes but it never breaks the science in the name of comedy. Using the other astronauts’ poop to fertilize went against the book just so he could make an extra joke. The Ironman scene was also ridiculous and unnecessary.

The movie didn’t need to dumb down for a few extra gags.

The book is hard sci-fi and excellent.

The movie is dumb shit and screwy. The only way this change of tone and content is justified is by realizing that they switched genres and turned it into a movie.

I have said it before. Trained skeet shooters are going to be required for every squad.

I got to ride with that guy back in ~2013. Rad dude. I completely forgot his name.

If that’s what you got out of my post, then you missed the point. Yes, Billy Crystal is getting press because he’s a celebrity but what really hits hard is the loss of a home of 46 years. Nobody is rich enough to replace the irreplaceable, and many people with a lot less means than they are also losing generational homes. It is that irreplaceable loss that hits hard.

I was dirt poor when a hurricane devastated my home literally two weeks after my mother had died. It wasn’t the fact that I uad to live with relatives for months that hurt, it was that all but one photo album covering my mother’s life and most of my childhood were ruined. Material losses hurt but emotional losses are devastating, and they know no social class.

Don’t let your heart harden by putting people in groups of “others”.

That article is bleak as fuck.

Danke

I haven’t played DF in more years than I care to admit. Can anyone explain what adventure mode is?

Their definition of poor is likely not ours. We might see someone rich beyond words while they see themselves as ruined. A great example of this is the ending of Succession.

But no. They will never reach our definition of poor.