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[Vector]

ARR-HARR!

It's what I can get.

[Reelyanoob]

Too many subscribers for the cable service I guess.

[Mindmaker]

Whuh? I thought you guys had good connections in USA?

I heard many of the wires running there are pretty outdated.
So on average the connections are better in Europe.

[Truean]

Absolutely massive head and stomach ache. bleh.

[Aqizzar]

In the past two days, my mother has glared at me for not laughing at a joke she told about me, gotten angry at me for being an hour late to visit my grandparents when she didn't tell me everyone was going there in the first place, and now is in hysterics because she had a dream that her cat died.

Mother, when you proudly announce to the world that you're going to stop taking your anti-depressants because you're sick of the side effects, it falls upon you to go the extra mile to keep your shit in check.

[Vector]

Bear with her--that stuff is hard.  I do hope she's slowly weaning herself off the program like she's supposed to, right, rather than going cold turkey?

(My mom was on them when I was a little kid.  She's a lot grumpier now, but she's also a lot more fun, frankly)


EDIT: Descartes, I can smell the trans-humanism beginning to waft off the page.  Thanks a lot.

[Aqizzar]

Bear with her--that stuff is hard.  I do hope she's slowly weaning herself off the program like she's supposed to, right, rather than going cold turkey?

Ooooh no.  She had a month's prescription worth and mostly stayed on top of taking them until the last few and decided to "ration" them out.  I don't know if she's finished them or not but it's showing.  The point being, this is the first time she's ever taken them (at least that I can remember), so I'm perfectly aware of her personality quirks.  It's just been rapid fire for the past week, and I know she's aware of it because that's why she decided to try medication in the first place.

I would try to make things easier for her, but absolutely anything can set her off, and she does nothing to avoid what she knows will upset her.  When I was a teenager, she would call me in from another room to chew me out for not reacting strongly enough to something she just saw on TV.  A couple months ago, or whenever it was, I thought the Casey Anthony trial was going to give her a heart attack.

[alway]

My computer is doing basically nothing else.

Whuh? I thought you guys had good connections in USA? I'mma getting better results than that on a 4G mobile connection and I'm torrenting 10 things while the test is running. Is that some sort of budget connection, Vector?

Nope.

In 2008, the United States ranked 15th out of 30 countries in broadband penetration rates.[13] This low worldwide ranking is surprising to many, as the Internet itself was invented in the United States. The country places behind most other developed nations, including the UK, Germany, France, Denmark (#1), Switzerland, and Canada. The ranking also fuels a debate around the need for a national broadband policy, which would provide high speed broadband internet access to all citizens. The difficulty of successfully designating and distributing government funds in order to increase Internet access (particularly via broadband) are central limiting factors in the development of such a policy, but proponents believe that establishing one is necessary for social and economic progress.[11] Those demanding a national broadband policy argue that such a policy is the best method by which the United States could achieve “universal availability and adoption of truly high-speed access.[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States#Implementing_a_National_Broadband_Policy
Access in the US can best be described as 'spotty.' A lot of the rural areas don't have many options when it comes to internet access. IIRC, we're also pretty costly compared to others when it comes to the higher speed stuff.

[Aqizzar]

The difficulty of successfully designating and distributing government funds in order to increase Internet access (particularly via broadband) are central limiting factors in the development of such a policy, but proponents believe that establishing one is necessary for social and economic progress.[11]

Read: America could have T3 connections for 90% of the population at a fifth the current user cost, just like Japan and Germany and every other real industrial country, but AT&T likes money.

[RedKing]

Today is the 70th anniversary of the dissolution of the Volga German SSR, and the beginning of the ensuring forced resettlement and near-genocide of not only the Volga Germans, but numerous other ethnic minorities from southern Russia.

I'll be drinking an extra toast tonight to Stalin's rotting corpse in Hell.

(In case anyone's wondering why this is a big deal to me, both of my grandmothers are Volga German. Our family got out just before the Revolution, but we lost many cousins in the pogrom.)

[KaelGotDwarves]

My computer is doing basically nothing else.

Whuh? I thought you guys had good connections in USA? I'mma getting better results than that on a 4G mobile connection and I'm torrenting 10 things while the test is running. Is that some sort of budget connection, Vector?

Also from the same approximate area and Comcast (we're just over the East bay hills from each other):


Of course, we pay a combined $100USD/month for shitty tv and internet service.

On the sad note, I went from a [redacted] oil company bbq picnic of my father's in the burbs, to a mozilla/programmer/wine-filled/cat meetup overlooking SF and Castro for dinner, to a vodka/rum/weed filled college/struggling/post-Marine friends hangout near a local college in the same day.

The difference in socio-economic status and lives - so trippy and bizarre.

[Cthulhu]

Counterstrike makes me mad.  I'm a normal human with normal human reflexes and everyone else in this game is a twelve year old crack addict who can't shoot anything but people's heads.

[Aqizzar]

Counterstrike makes me mad.  I'm a normal human with normal human reflexes and everyone else in this game is a twelve year old crack addict who can't shoot anything but people's heads.

I actually got to sit in the room playing the original Counter-Strike with two guys from Korea and Taiwan.  Yep, they knew exactly where and how to headshot people through walls with the AWM, first time every time.  It was all I could do not to slap their shit after the fifth.

We decided instead to play Firearms so we'd be on the same team, where upon I was totally useless while they utterly dominated.  But that's pretty normal for any game.

[Grimshot]

 Burned the inside of my mouth again . The worst part is pulling off the dead tissue (which hurts a little and leaves a sore spot) and the odd taste of the wound. The burning itself is always hard for me to notice for some reason. Instead of the pain you would normally expect its more of a "*chew* *chew* Hey, thats hot... *chew* aww fuck I burned myself again. *chew* *swallow*" and thats when I notice it at all. The way I feel pain is odd sometimes lol.

[Bauglir]

I will probably never be able to find a RL group willing to play Dungeons: The Dragoning, and I'm unsure if it's suited to online... Plus I'd need to find somebody to run it, because my current character concept would be far less fun as an NPC of some kind.