Congrats! LIfe is so much better without alcohol. Especially once you get past your college years. I can't recall the last time I had a drink, I think it's been about a year since my last single beer, and the last time I drank to the point of drunkeness was at a beer festival was in 2018.
I occasionally enjoy a non-alcoholic IPA, I like the taste.
Dang. My late GenXer brain can't remember that far back.
There was only one final fantasy game, a story about the Warriors of Light who must defeat the fiends who darkened the elemental crystals.
This Boeing Rocket Fiasco could end up being the Titan submersible disaster 2.0.
I played Skyrim up until the quest where you had to unite the leaders of the warring factions. I got bored, haven't picked it up since. This play through was this year in 2024, it was the anniversary edition, first time I had played it. The combat is boring, the armor got too good too fast, and it wasn't a challenge, so then go back to story, the story is not good either. Just not a fun game, no reason to keep playing.
They should have enforced a much more rigid class system, warrior, ranger (or thief), or spellcaster, and not allowed you to be anything you wanted. Elden Ring suffers the same, you can start as any class, but become anything you want. It defeats the purpose of class based systems. Also, there should have been much more armor and weapons choices for each of the classes.
Path of exile excels at class based choices and goes even further with ascendancy, so much more replay value.
A big part of all good fantasy games is the specialization and discovering new gear, abilities all the time, and fighting bad guys, not running around all the time doing boring quests, and then fighting boring dragons.
2001-2005. My computer lab in the school of math and natural sciences (including computer science), had windows 2000 (best windows of all time), Apple Power PCs, and all dual booted linux. All we used for comp sci was linux. Yellowdog on the Power PCs. Learned to program/develop in C++ and Java, mostly used e-macs, goal was to never lift hands from the keyboard or use the mouse, keeps you in the zone. Used Gnome as the desk top environment back then.
So pretty good :)
Today I use linux mint with cinamon for day to day computing, been using it for about 10 years now without issue.
I went back to college for a professional program, and used linux mint in 2022, it worked out just fine. As far as office software, I used word 365 online through the university web portal.
I think word sucks a lot and 2003 and 2007 are the best versions and little improvement since then (improvement is efficiency and easy of creating an end-product), but I'm not willing to re-learn how to master Libre Office, I just can't be bothered. So no input on that.
Oh yeah! Take-out pizza was a weekly regular thing for me too! 30 bucks for the pizza meant it was costing 15 bucks for a single meal, half a large pizza, not only was it thousands of calories, but I got to thinking what else I could buy and cook for $15 bucks, and it always ate me up inside, that's enough for a luxury meal if buying the ingredients and cooking it myself, something like a 6-8 oz steak or salmon and 4 oz shrimp dinner with 2 healthy sides like asparagus and basmati rice. Not to mention how much less something like tofu, beans, lentils, or even chicken or pork would cost!
Meanwhile, further east. Only 2,500? 
I was eating there in a bad way, like 4-5 times a week for breakfast, and then one day, two egg mcmuffins were like 11 bucks, and I said fuck that. I switched to about 400 calories total greek yogurt, about 20 oz. Cheaper and healthier.
I haven't been back since, and combined with other healthier choices, I'm down from 208 to 193 lbs over the last 3 months, with a goal to eventually reach 180 and maintain it.
For example, instead of getting 2 triple cheeseburgers, I made a 6 oz grilled chicken breast sandwich with pickles and light mayo, came out with more protein, less fat, and less overall calories.
Thanks McDonalds!
This shit is uniquely evil. Like, you could write a sci-fi distopian novel best seller about how bad some of this shit is and 8th graders would be forced to read it.
It's kaye fabe pro wrestling drama jinned up to get voters to vote. Propaganda works. Hell, after visiting Reddit I almost thought about Voooting for 
!but then I remembered xibe-check We already had Trump for 4 years. None of that happened.
America only exists for capitalistic parasites to extract wealth from the working class. By 2050, everyone will recognize America as a second tier nation.