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Dr. Harrold Leacher : Quid pro quo Mr Colt.  Colt : What does that mean? Dr. Harrold Leacher : It means I'm pretentious.  -- Loaded Weapon   Years ago in a college Creative Writing course, we had notebooks we were to write down story ideas and notes for class. I figured the teacher would be the only

People apparently find it therapeutic to share online... but I have such pronounced social anxiety that I see no distinction between online sharing and airing your problems to a crowd in meat-space. I have no illusion-of-anonymity that is so prevalent online. I treat my online self the same as IRL. In other words.... I don't know what I'm doing currently writing this. Perhaps it's purely cathartic. My way of dealing with people has long been governed by two rules: 1.) "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" and 2.) "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." This approach has rendered me very taciturn. Besides that... much of the time... people seem to not know what I'm talking about. I don't mean to come across as a know-it-all, but I do like to learn and share knowledge and I have a big vocabulary. I mean no offense, but I am afraid people may take it as such. I'd rather

I have been working in a warehouse for a publishing company. It's grunt work but not too bad and it's generally interesting enough. It gave me the much needed something to do I lacked while unemployed. The pay is decent, but along with my wife's two nursing jobs, we're doing much better financially. Within the last month workers have been laying down fiber lines in my neck of the woods. Not much activity the last week or so, seemingly with little to go before completion. There are wires sticking out of the ground near the electric poles. Presumably they just need to be wired into the electricity. Games (PS4) played/to play, in order of interest: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Spiderman Witcher 3 Ghostbusters Remastered Dragon Quest Builders 1 & 2 Infamous Second Son Red Dead Redemption 2 Online Duke Nukem 3D World Tour Nioh I'm interested in the game Pine , but insist it come out on console.

I have played through the long awaited Kingdom Hearts III and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was worried with all the trailers that there would be no surprises left, but I was fortunately mistaken. It was a very satisfying experience. My favorite world was The Pirates of the Caribbean (loved the ship battles and treasure hunting) and my favorite keyblade, The Wheel of Fate, was from there also. That keyblade becomes the Highwind, a spear that serves as one of the games few Final Fantasy references. Aside from moogles, there were no appearances by series regular Final Fantasy characters. I was so hoping to see them, so I picked up playing Final Fantasy XV again to fill the void.  Back to KH3, I finished the game, saw the epilogue and secret movie, and picked up all the secret reports, so I have an idea what the next Kingdom Hearts game will be about. People not so dedicated to the series are probably dismayed that the series will go on. Honestly I hope the series drops the numbered title fo

Games Kingdom Hearts 3 (Done: Wonderful) Bloodstained (Coming June 23)  Resident Evil 2 Remake (Changed my mind) Prey (Found this one at Fred's for $7 but was a bad disk. Bummer. Refunded it. Will seek it out again later. Update: Bought a good disk, started a game and then stalled.) Spiderman (Done: Excellent.) Kingdom Come: Deliverance (May be a while) Spyro Trilogy (Edit: After several chances to buy it cheaply I have never done so. Clearly I am not that into it.) Movies Ant-Man & the Wasp (Seen: Good) Venom Spiderman: Far From Home (Great!) Avengers: Endgame (Excellent!!) Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grunkapuffalow (Bought, but fell asleep during it.) Shazam (Enjoyable) Aquaman (Seen: Good) Captain Marvel (I don't know this character, but will give it a shot. Update: It was okay.) Detective Pikachu (for as little investment as I have in Pokemon, the trailer still looks entertaining. Update: Saw it ... it was pretty good.) Sonic - After that trailer,

The limitations of internet service in the boonies becomes more apparent as gaming moves along, possibly to the rumored digital only, horrific idea of gaming as a service. If consoles go that direction, I will be a dedicated retro-gamer. I have a DSL data cap of 150 GB, and it's $10 more per 50 GB increment we go over. Since we're a modern family, each of us with our own device, console streaming, two computers, and tablets, we eat through it. Not only that, but our download speed works out to 0.3 MB/second. We get by watching Netflix and YouTube with relatively few interruptions, but not concurrently with downloads. Downloads, if they occur at all, are done overnight. Game Download Commitment - I have to really want to play the game, I don't download it. There is no "Guess I'll try this game." and get bored, delete and forget it. A game download is a commitment relative to the size of the download. Each game is evaluated by whether it's worth the data