Oh I want to play with my family, it’s just that the bastards are all musicians who have been playing for 40 years.

Same, got Rocksmith and a couple bass guitars. Love it, but even after five years I’m not willing to try playing in front of anyone.

Give him a theoretical prize in physics

I did it for a few years, and blew through all my savings in the process.

Had to start an actual business, LLC, and deal with all the parts that as an engineer I absolutely hate.

Had done about 15 years in the industry with a small tech company, had all the skills, leads, etc, and wanted to do it on my own.

Way underestimated how much time and effort the running of a business part takes, and while I had projects, I didn’t have the time to do them right, payment was always late so my profit shrank, and I burned out in two years.

Hired an admin to help with managing the projects and clients, but it was too little too late.

I’m not saying don’t do it, I’m saying be sure to have all those other elements well in place, cause the actual time spent programming was pretty small.

In the end I took a role as the on site guy for a very large company, making decent money, and I’m back doing the parts I enjoy.

Best of luck to you.

Why is there a next target? Are we at war? We used to declare war on everything, drugs, poverty, crime, but we didn’t send in the Marines.

This can’t be the new normal.

This is a big part of it. I’m 50, and still skateboard a couple times a week. Sure, they aren’t close friends, but the people I hang out with at the parks give me all the personal interaction I need.

Granted, I am a bit of a hermit by nature.

I watch plenty of game stuff online, but there is no way I’m spoiling a game I’ve waited 20 years to play.

I’ll never get the chance to play an OG Zelda for the first time again.

I have the N64 version, as well as the switch.

Think I’ll probably play it on switch just to have wireless controller.

Majoras Mask. I’ve bought it, but am too wrapped up in factorio, another one I waited far to long to play.

Nothing wrong with having one sexual partner, and a small but relyable support group consisting of friends and family.

My girlfriend is an amazing woman, but I certianly don’t rely on her for everything. We live together, and she hears about most of my stuff, but there are hobbies and technical things I save for the people who are into those things.

The two that come to mind are Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Farcry 6.

They might have been ok games if the previous ones hadn’t been so damned good.

At least with Breakpoint they tried to make it right with a new mode, but still don’t enjoy it as much as Wildlands.

Leveled enemies and weapons are just not something I’m going to play.

“It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”.

Going to have to go with the three that had the biggest impact on me.

1: Doom / Doom 2. In addition to being two of the most influential and important FPS games of all time, they got me into modding, programming, the internet, 3D graphics, shaping my entire future career path.

2: Kerbal space program. No moment in all of gaming had me leap out of my chair and whoop the way landing in the Mun for the first time did. Now that I understand orbital mechanics, I get annoyed at almost all depictions of space flight in movies.

3: Factorio. Got to this one late, on Switch about 6 months ago. I can’t think of any game which has rewired my brain as much. As a programmer, I come away from each play through with entire new methods of solving problems at work. May be the single most in depth and addictive game I’ve ever played.

This is the way

As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.

There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.

Oh I know it has happened, and those type incidents are why the UCMJ now explicitly has the don’t do illegal shit clause.

I was talking here to the 2k or so that deployed recently in LA.

No Marine obeyed an illegal order, and that’s the whole point of this thread.

They were used in a very narrow scope as defined by law, protecting specific government buildings.

It was Trump being a bully and grandstanding, but other than the optics we’re talking about, it was really a lame event.

The vast majority of the 2k Marines did what Marines always do when they don’t have specific orders on a shit deployment, the sat around or caught up on rack time.

Not wringing my hands, in fact I never stated whether I was actually against Trump bombing cities, I just answered what was stopping him.

That was the question, and the answer is still the same.

As far as my lifting a finger? Well, short of the usual civic duties like voting and such, I’m not getting involved.

The chances of me personally firebombing anything is functionally 0.

I certianly expect someone else to handle this for me, the men and women of the US military who aren’t going to a US city into fucking Dresden.

My suggestion was to rely on the mechanism which has handled this type of issue without fail since day one.

Yours is to encite random acts of partisan violence.

I’m going stick with my plan thanks.

Well, let’s see.

It won’t be his moral fiber.

It won’t be China or Russia the only two military powers that have a chance to have any influence on CONUS affairs.

Maybe his desperate desire for public approval as I suspect major ordinance dropped on a US population center isn’t going to poll well, but I’d hate to count on that.

Me? Stop the president from doing literally anything? You vastly over estimate my powers.