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[pikachu17]

I pretty much use this thread as the "Talk about random stuff that I don't think has a thread, or I'm just too lazy to find one, Thread". I hope no one minds.

Any way, first of all I can apparently cross jump able rivers in DF adv mode without going out of travel mode. Yay!!!
Also, it says drunken fistfights have been changed. Does anyone know how?

And now that I just though of it, if a melencholy dwarf gets bitten by a werewolf, would he just live suicidally depressed forever in a little room? Sound awful, if so.

[scriver]

And now that I just though of it, if a melencholy dwarf gets bitten by a werewolf, would he just live suicidally depressed forever in a little room? Sound awful, if so.

Well shit. Somebody tell my psychiatrist.

[overseer05-15]

If you need any more help, just follow the lead of this plucky young lady who paid down her sizable student loan in just three years thanks to a healthy helping of grit and determination!

Dear God. I can't believe someone wrote that with a straight face. I almost thought it was a joke, but no... it's real.

Spoiler: For those who don't want to read the article, here's the TLDR (click to show/hide)

Woman decided to move back in with her parents (Many of us already live with our parents). Her mother used her connections to get the girl a well-paying job at a company in a region where the cost of living is significantly lower than where she originally lived. When she married her boyfriend, her mother then gave her an entire condo that she purchased a long time ago (back when condos where only 13000 dollars) as a wedding gift. Girl then started to make money by renting the condo out. Using the profit she made from rent, she bought two more condos and started to make even more money by renting them out (somehow they only costed 42000 and 54000 respectively). Eventually she got enough rent money to pay off her loans. The article then started talking about the "sacrifices" she made, like moving in with her parents, or not buying a new vehicle when one of her two cars broke down.

The worst part about all of this is that this woman thinks she can write a book.

She just pulled herself up by her bootstraps yes she did, no help from anyone except for every single thing she has being given or arranged by her family connections.

Related: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/millennial-hard-work/

Just a small loan of a million dollars

[Egan_BW]

The easiest way to make enough money to buy property is to already own property.
Nope nothing fucked up about that.

[Eric Blank]

And now that I just though of it, if a melencholy dwarf gets bitten by a werewolf, would he just live suicidally depressed forever in a little room? Sound awful, if so.

Yes. Ive had that happen. Couldnt even toss things in with him to dispose of because even as a werewhatever he was too depressed to hurt anybody. I ended up just leaving him there.

[Yoink]

The cheapest rent I've seen posted is around $1300 and up, way outside my budget even it if it did include utilities.

Have you looked into sharehousing? There are generally websites, advertisements and/or social media groups for that.
I'm not saying to just jump blindly into some unknown housing situation with a bunch of strangers who may or may not be sane/able to pay rent, but if you at least put some feelers out the perfect place might pop up eventually. Doesn't hurt to look around, right? Well, unless your stepdad spies on your enquiries and hits the roof upon discovering that you were so much as considering moving out, I guess. >.>

[Lord Shonus]

Lack of other practical options for housing I imagine. You can get stuck in a really bad situation if you don't have anywhere else to go.

This. The cheapest rent I've seen posted is around $1300 and up, way outside my budget even it if it did include utilities. Sure, there might be cheaper places, but I can't find them posted, probably don't include utilities, and they're probably not safe places to live.

I seriously do not understand how other people make similar to what I do and can afford to live they way they do.

Generally, there are a lot more places available to rent than there are advertised. For example, if you go by the print and online advertisements where I live, the average rent for a house is around $800+ monthly. If you walk around, you'll find plenty of similar opportunities for around $300-$400. Generally, the folks that advertise are the ones with a lot of property that are doing it as a business, while a lot of people that just want to put some extra property into use don't bother with an ad. This does mean that typical landlord duties aren't their top priority, but plenty of the more usual sort of landlord are pretty lackadasical anyway. Try going out and pounding the pavement - remember that you can take anything in your name with you.

[Kagus]

Try going out and pounding the pavement - remember that you can take anything in your name with you.

I interpreted this as her going out and taking the internet service package for a walk. On a leash.

[Lord Shonus]

My point was that locking into a contract shouldn't prevent Akura from moving if the opportunity arises. Given the boundary issues that have been described, that seemed like a useful reminder.

[Eric Blank]

Technically you can always go hit the road with a hammer and end up in jail. I hear they offer free food, utilities, and housing. All for the low, low price of a misdemeaner and resisting arrest on your criminal record.

But seriously, move in with some coworkers you trust or something.

[BlackFlyme]

I'm still getting some persistent emails. Ignoring them doesn't seem to be helping. I got two just today.

[Yoink]

But seriously, move in with some coworkers you trust or something.

Doesn't Akura have some of the most awful coworkers of anyone on the forum?

[Lord Shonus]

In an unrelated WTF, I'm trying to buy renew my FFXIV subscription (something about it scratches an itch I have every so often, and they just had a free-play period that got me back into it), and the "buy time" page doesn't have the prices for the different options listed (besides the discounts for 90 or 180 day subscription periods, there is a slightly cheaper but more limited option that restricts your number of characters). This is kind of an important thing to tell somebody that you are trying to get money from.

I have to go to a completely different page to get the pricing information. Bad form, SE. Bad form.

[JoshuaFH]

You don't?

[milo christiansen]

So, I tried to fire up a game for some evening fun, and it immediately crashed. Tried again, same deal. Look at the list of recent downloads, and sure enough, Steam had just updated it.

I get all ready to fire off an irate bug report, but first I decided to check what the log says, just in case. Hmm... It is failing to create a DX11 context, so it falls back to DX9 but that fails too. Odd. Very odd.

On a hunch I try another game, and it crashes too, although it complains my graphics card does not support OpenGL 2.1 (which is absolutely ridiculous).

By this point warning bells are going off, so I check GeForce Experience, and sure enough: It is offering to install the drivers I had just installed yesterday. Apparently driver installation failed silently yesterday (after successfully uninstalling my current drivers), and when I started Experience today, it realized I didn't have any drivers installed at all and offered to install the ones I had downloaded last.