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[Frumple]

S'definitely kinda' amusing how we seem to interpret that as a hug, rather than the cat holding on so it can tear out the prey's throat with its teeth and disembowel the prey with its hind legs. Lookatit so adorable it's RENDING THE FLESH OF ITS VICTIM d'aww.

[Moghjubar]

I thought thats what hugs were all about? Two people totally holding each other to let them know that they could eviscerate each other, but choosing not to, therefore creating a bond of trust?

[LeoLeonardoIII]

With the rending and the tearing. It's also why people love Riley but the human characters suck (CoD).

[Reverie]

Does anyone else panic and break into tears when facing responsibility? I swear Darwinism should have killed me by now.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Only if you're bad at mating.

[Reverie]

Only if you're bad at mating.

Ha! I'm trans--story of my life.

Imma go curl up in a corner now.

[kaijyuu]

Nervousness when faced with responsibility is 100% normal. The severity might indicate something else more serious going on, but don't look at it like a flaw that makes you worth less as a person, or something ridiculous like that.

[AlleeCat]

Only if you're bad at mating.

Ha! I'm trans--story of my life.

^^ Same

With the rending and the tearing. It's also why people love Riley but the human characters suck (CoD).

If you asked me the names of the characters in that game I could maybe tell you two, Riley included. None of the characters were really that memorable, but I loved that dog.
What I'm wondering is why people keep saying it was a critical failure when I can't find a single bad review of it. (besides Zero Punctuation, of course) Anyone else who says they didn't like it fail to say what they didn't like about it.

[Reverie]

It's been a longstanding issue of mine to be unable to look forward out of sheer difficulty to even handle stresses in the present. I can't remember a time where I didn't live day by day progressing from one ugly chapter to another. Just coasting.

[Vector]

It's been a longstanding issue of mine to be unable to look forward out of sheer difficulty to even handle stresses in the present. I can't remember a time where I didn't live day by day progressing from one ugly chapter to another. Just coasting.

Yeah.  I get you.

[AlleeCat]

It's been a longstanding issue of mine to be unable to look forward out of sheer difficulty to even handle stresses in the present. I can't remember a time where I didn't live day by day progressing from one ugly chapter to another. Just coasting.

Very much so.

[Yoink]

Thanks for the hugs, guys.
Hopefully after today I can do things to make myself a bit happier, such as a couple of friends' birthday gatherings and such. Who knows, maybe I'll even manage to find a new place to live, somehow.
I certainly feel much better than I did yesterday.

[hector13]

It's been a longstanding issue of mine to be unable to look forward out of sheer difficulty to even handle stresses in the present. I can't remember a time where I didn't live day by day progressing from one ugly chapter to another. Just coasting.

Kinda like that with me, though I'm generally quite good at just forcing myself through doing things. I have discovered over time that avoidance is usually worse than making decisions.

Past 6 months have been particularly hard for me though. Trying to get an American visa and it is the most complicated process, and I'm just getting sick and tired of all the hoops I have to jump through, both for that and for the people I live with.

[Anvilfolk]

Thanks, folks... I will take my hugs :<

Fortunately I'm doing okay, largely.  I just need to make sure this next time I'm moving back in with my parents is the last one.  Ever.  And then I need to figure out how to make friends as a young adult.  But once those two things are completed, I will be okay.

Serious suggestion: boardgames! I have the hardest time hanging out with people and enjoying it. I tend to feel like an awful person because I often don't want to be with friends as much as they want to be with me, and they feel hurt, etc. Boardgames kind of changed that. It gives me an underlying fun activity to hang out around, it's a way to meet new people, it challenges you, good for laughs, etc.

I've also recently become enamored with the public library. Such a wonderful place where the community can get together and and do things together, no religion - all citizenship! There's tons of activities there all the time. My wife made a bajillion (I counted!) friends there.

Those are the two things I could think of...

[Descan]

I was busy playing Civ, so sue me.

Anyway, she works in the government as a project manager. A lot of the paycheck to paycheck is because of debt from my father, including a second mortgage on a house that we had to sell within 6 months of buying. The debts been paid off (mostly) but recently enough that she hasn't managed to make any savings. Couple that with her... not really being all that good at saving money in the first place, and every so often she gets stuck in a loop of payday loans which extract 300 dollars every paycheque. For months, or longer, because of a single event, such as a larger-than-expected hydro bill, or repair work on the car.

The rest is because rent is really fucking high, groceries are really expensive, hydro-electricity is expensive, and internet/phone bill is gougingly expensive (we're fixing that one)

Also, that 100k is gross pay, not net. Her take-home is probably about half of that, if not less than half.

Canada: It's great, but expensive as balls. :V