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[Shadowlord]

I'm fine now, I actually got to sleep last night but it wasn't comfortable.

I'm glad you were able to get to sleep.

What happened last night was completely my fault for over-reacting like I always do.

If there's things about yourself that you want to change, well, some of them are changeable more easily than others. Personally, how I react to situations - and how I feel about them, in some cases - has been one of the easier things to change, though I assume that isn't necessarily the case for everyone. (I don't think that applies to depression, for example)

(There are other aspects of my behavior/thoughts/etc that I have had little success changing)

[CABL]

Solar Pillar in Terraria is so friggin hard! Enemies have all those sudden dashes and deal GIANT amount of damage! It already was hard in Normal mode, but in Expert mode, it's pretty much "try to don't rip off your hair in rage" challenge.

[Xantalos]

Man, nothing is more irritating than having to borderline cheat in a game in order to get back equipment that got destroyed by a shitty bug.

grumblegrumblegrumble

[itisnotlogical]

I digitally got a game that I already own on disc, just so that I wouldn't have to get my CD case out of the closet and type in the key and deal with a full-screen installer.

It feels like a turning point. I've finally admitted that there is no point to owning PC games physically, unless they came in a cool box that cost almost as much as the game itself.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Do it.

[Yoink]

Yes, do it. You'll find it one day. That bumper sticker shall be your white whale.


In my own Mild Sad: yesterday's party wasn't quite as huge as I'd hoped.
It was still a lovely time, with plenty of new friends made and old friends caught up with, there were just so many useless people who didn't show up after giving their word they would. Annoying. The stage was set for some truly epic party times, but it just needed more people to reach its full potential. Oh well, my friend who lives here is planning an even bigger event for his birthday in January, and at least a few friends who were legitimately unable to make it yesterday will be able to come to that. Plus, that's on a Friday, not a Sunday- although most of the people who flaked were perfectly happy to go out last Sunday.

[Shadowlord]

You'll find it one day. That bumper sticker shall be your white whale.

and then, if you continue the metaphor, it will kill you when you try to acquire it, won't it?

[IcyTea31]

I need to work on my saucery skills. I tried making roux today. I botched my first attempt, creating some unholy greasy horror. Second try, I was more careful, but nothing tasty became of it before I got help from my mother. Why is the simplest sauce, literally just butter, flour and water, so hard to make?

[Eric Blank]

Saucery requires special skill and attention to detail that must be acquired over time. Your problem is you havent done it enough.

God knows that gravy I made was simply terrible.



Oh, and this whole week our portable toilet hasnt been serviced. We have of course paid for the service this month in advance, as we always do. Called them this morning and got some lame excuses about the weather and the discretion of the drivers and how the trucks are different from normal cars and cant be given studs or chains. We have no trouble getting up and down the driveway at all, and there's yet another storm coming this week, so... I'm gonna have to call back and talk to this lady's manager.

And the jeep won't start

And the generator won't start

[heydude6]

I need to work on my saucery skills. I tried making roux today. I botched my first attempt, creating some unholy greasy horror. Second try, I was more careful, but nothing tasty became of it before I got help from my mother. Why is the simplest sauce, literally just butter, flour and water, so hard to make?

From what I understand, making sauce is a little more difficult since you have to be more precise with the heat. I've left chicken on a grill 5 minutes longer than I needed to and still got a tasty product. You can't get away with doing that with sauce.

[Rose]

Which is weird because I never had issues making a roux for alfredo pasta.

[heydude6]

It might be the frying pan though. We once owned to frying pans of the exact same model, one was heavily used, the other wasn't. I noticed with the used pan that things in it tend to heat up very fast and get burned quite quickly, if you tried to make sauce on a pan like that, you'd probably get a black smudge as your end product.

Maybe the frying pan is the problem?

[itisnotlogical]

The TV is too bright. Literally gave me a headache in about 30 minutes of use. I'm hoping it's a coincidence, but the screen is bright enough to light most of the room by itself. The "brightness" setting on the TV just darkens the dark colors when I turn it down, leaving the whites eye-meltingly bright. The only thing that seems to work is some energy-saving preset, which dims the light but also has an annoying adaptive brightness "feature" that makes it impossible to watch anything.

[Shadowlord]

It doesn't have both brightness and contrast?

[itisnotlogical]

It has brightness and contrast. Contrast is what you expect, but "brightness" seems to also be some sort of color balance thing, as opposed to the actual brightness of the screen. Changing the brightness on the blue "no signal" screen does nothing, ferex.