They still keep servers up and even do minor patches for Guild Wars 1 twenty years later. I am optimistic that we will have plenty of time to enjoy the current Guild Wars 2 content.

There’s tank/support/dps in GW2 for sure, but pretty much every class can build for any role and it’s only relevant in raids.

My Mesmer (a mage with the lowest health and lightest armor) is my best and toughest tank in my character line up.

So it was sexting with adults? Consenting adults? Consenting adults he didn’t have a power imbalance over?

Guy sounds like a saint compared to the people on capitol hill right now.

Maybe I’m getting old but these things used to be something the middle class could afford. Sending your kid to a 12k a year school was something a middle class family could do 30 years ago. Not even upper middle, upper middle would be going to the 40k a year school or whatever. Middle class used to mean going to another state for a week during summer vacation, staying in a hotel and visiting a theme park, or road trips to a national park in your (own!) RV. Being able to put a new bathroom in on your 3 bed house in suburbia, or sending the kids to summer camp. If that sounds rich to you then where do you think that wealth went? Billionaires have been bleeding people so dry that a nice little treat or maybe a splurge for most college educated folks from 30 years ago sounds like some impossible luxury today apparently.

Guess we have different definitions of being rich, clearly. I don’t begrudge people who can afford a vacation or a nice fridge when billionaires are flying their private jets to their seventeenth home and their yachts have yachts. Graham owns a boat too, how bougie!

So was this restaurant a national chain? His mom owned a business in an industry with famously slim margins and that’s supposed to fail him in some purity test? His parents aren’t venture capitalists, bankers, politicians, technocrats, or corporate billionaires. Anyone who has to work to live is working class. This idea that he has to be “poor enough” and “low class enough” is such bullshit. If his parents were homeless junkies you can bet it would be spun just as negatively. You got anything to say about the actual shit he’s running on?

I was responding to someone saying he had no policies, when he has an entire list on his website.

He doesn’t have any policies.

Oh I see you haven’t checked out his website. Here you go

https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

Take on waste and corruption at the Pentagon… Massive, massive waste in procurement. A revolving door between the Pentagon and massive “defense” contractors. Widespread consolidation, encouraged by deliberate government policy, to the point where competition has virtually disappeared in many vital areas. This is the legacy of several decades of disastrous mismanagement and profiteering at the highest level of the American military.

No more pointless wars I will never, ever vote to send Americans into a pointless war. Everything we went through in Iraq can be laid at the feet of those in Washington, like Senator Collins, who knew better but voted “Yes” on a disastrous, deadly war.

So if the argument is that he is, still, currently a Nazi, just running on progressive ideology to pull one over on all of us dumb rubes, why bother hiding it? Why be a cryptofascist when obvious-as-fuck fascists are running on fascist platforms and getting elected because they’re fascists? He has said literally nothing even in his online posts as a private citizen anywhere near as far-reich or as blatant as the current admin says in plain sight on Twitter.

Sad to think that the economy has gotten so bad that his parents who both worked normal ass professional jobs are considered blue bloods now. Back in my day we called that middle class.

Interesting how many billionaires are pouring cash into spreading any and all kinds of bullshit about this guy. The more they spend the better I feel about him.

Not just aging, I would say intelligence is highly variable just on an individual level due to all sorts of factors. How much rest you get, the quality of said rest, current physical comfort level, distractions, stress, whether you’re hungry or have eaten recently, time of day, whether there’s a time constraint, etc etc etc. I wonder how many “stupid” people are genuinely that way even in the best conditions, or if the majority are just suffering from any of multiple detractors on them. Because of this I try not to judge, because I don’t know their lives.

If it’s a straight edge and the measurements don’t have to be too precise I would just sand the edge flat, personally

Thank you for providing a possible answer for why my Jellyfin server is such a memory hog. It eats up memory and CPU even while idling and grinds all of my other services to a crawl if I let it

You’re not the only one. I’ve been having an issue where Jellyfin just decides to use 90% of my server’s memory and cpu just for giggles and I haven’t had the time to unravel it so it’s just unusable at the moment.

I was going to recommend Primal Kitchen! I only will get theirs, it tastes like what (IMO) ketchup is supposed to taste like.

Thankfully ice cream is something that can be easily made at home and the jump in quality makes it well worth it. Frozen drum type ice cream machines end up in thrift shops all the time, but are also under $100 new. I don’t eat any ice cream that isn’t home made now, it’s completely spoiled me. I use light cream, whole milk, sugar, my flavoring of choice, and add a little alcohol (the equivalent of a tsp of wine per serving) to keep it soft. I really can’t recommend it enough!

Is it something you do as a hobby/interest or for a living? Bc that sounds like a lot

Yes to both. I have always been interested in clothes and fashion since childhood (dolls and sewing and crafting etc) and I like getting the most value out of my money, which led me to thrift shops and buying second hand. Thrift shops and the quality of their items are highly variable but for some time I lived in a place that had multiple fantastic shops. I would rotate through them and grab high quality items that were not selling there and sell them online. I moved and don’t pick as much to sell anymore, but I still buy for my family and self.

Thrifting is sort of like gambling, except it costs time instead of money to “play”. You only pay after you “win” by finding the Awesome Thing. Sometimes you will strike out and not find anything, that’s normal. If you only look at one thrift shop once or twice you will likely not find anything, and you usually will find something other than what you were specifically looking for. However when you “win” and find something truly special and exciting, it can keep you going back to the hunt.

Men’s clothes are harder to thrift generally, because as a group, men are more careful consumers and will wear their clothes out instead of donating them. However it’s still perfectly possible to find good things. You already know to look for natural fibers, but did you know you can dye stained shirts in your washing machine with dye from most grocery stores? If you have a an otherwise good quality plain shirt but it has some discoloration, you can spend $5 on a bottle or box of dye, and either throw it in a big cookpot on the stove or run it through the hot wash cycle with anything else you want to be that color. There are also other places to thrift, like online second hand marketplaces (Ebay, Poshmark, Vinted, Thredup etc), Church fundraiser sales, and of course good old yard sales.

Honestly there is a tangible difference in clothing made of synthetics. Like, literally, you can feel the difference. I thrift a lot, and am a clothing and textile snob, and through many years of groping fabric I’ve become able to identify cotton, silk, wool, rayon etc just by touch. In my experience textile labels seem to be accurate as long as they are present. The really shady manufacturers will not put a label on or will call polyester/acetate/acrylic some other name to pretend it’s fancier than it is. If something says it is 100% cotton I personally have never found it to be otherwise. There are methods to test, for instance burning a scrap and looking at the residue or using bleach on protein fabrics (wool/silk). Most often when I misidentify something though, I check the label and it’s like 2% elastane which is frustrating because that stuff wears out and is completely unnecessary in knit fabrics.

Anyway, my recommendation is to avoid feeding the fast fashion industry as much as possible, and thrift or get second hand as much as you can. Those heavyweight 100% cotton T-shirts from the 90s or early zeroes are made of way better quality materials anyway.

Orrrr you know, people who just don’t have that much libido and are otherwise content. Or literally anyone in a happy partnership but on the asexual spectrum. Or mature people who have longer refractory periods. Or people with busy schedules who are too tired during the work week. Etc etc etc.

I genuinely appreciated being able to do a round trip for under $100 all in including train tickets. Like you I had my own backpack, snacks, water and wore extra clothes. Going to miss those deals.