I had the chance to go to Wales for a semester during college, but was too nervous. In retrospect, that would've been cool as shit.

We had some exchange students from their end of the program and they were all lovely folks.

It's more fun, and mostly harmless, to believe these kinds of little stories happened. Life's more interesting that way.

It's actually more like three, but for one woman, that counts as a flock.

Definitely travel. It would've been nice to be able to get out of the states for a few weeks before I had all of the responsibilities that come with a full-time job, folks depending on me, a whole-ass flock of birds, etc etc.

My goal is now to (hopefully) travel before I'm 40 (currently 34, 35 in October). I'd like to hit up the UK (I've got a good friend there) and Japan (I'm a huge weeb), if possible.

My advice to the youngins out there: If you've got the means, definitely do a bit of travel between either highschool and college or college and a full-time job.

Oh my god, this one hits hard. The smell of bacon being fried in a skillet STILL gives me memories of when dad would fix some because he was up super early and needed something to do.

Ayyy, sleep deprivation buddy! I've been up since 5 AM and feel like absolute death. :)

Thankfully breaking a bone. The only time I broke one was back in the summer of 1999 on the way out to the car with my family, I think we were headed into town for something when I slipped on our porch and fell weird. As my parents supported me down to the car, out of instinct I put weight on my broken leg.

I can still remember the loss of absolutely everything else, my mind was just flooded with that agony.

Not at all the video you're referring to (probably), but my first thought was this wonderful gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDbwUka0JM&pp=ygUMcXhpciBjaGljYWdv

Gridders my beloved. This curator on steam might be of use.

@Chris_ni Yooo, that's super cool! I love the contrast between the purple and white.

God, I can smell the chlorine in this image.

Does the Sart Roloise carry the same yellow/purple gradient when it's cut open?

@LoneGansel Oh my god, that is brilliant. Definitely gonna have to give this a shot someday.

My only piece of advice would, if possible, be dyeing your beard blue as well for that sweet coordination bonus.

But yeah, the dark blue looks good! As someone who also has dark hair and experimented with dyes in the past, I hope your journey goes better than mine ever did.

Oh that is beautiful, absolutely love it!

Chip and Ironicus in general are just fantastic, especially when it's a REALLY stupid game (in the good way!) like Wonderful 101. Ironicus just losing his shit at this next absurd thing never fails to make me laugh.

Ayyyy, fellow Jets enjoyer!

The manga ended at least a year or so ago. The ending was... certainly an ending, yep.

God, as someone who loves birds, this is heartbreaking. :(

I adore the little Spongegar Lemmies.

Arby's curly fries are peak fast food fries.

Foreground Eclipse, easily the best screamo (maybe?? i dont know music words) band I've ever listened to. Bands like katikatiyama and Shinigiwa Satellite (some members of which became the aforementioned KKY) fill that void, I'll never get over the sheer mastery of mixing screaming and clean vocals.

Yeah, I wish I had more luck with making them; mine always end up being a bit too thick and not properly crispy :(

God that looks cool, definitely not what I expected from the title. I love the mixture of old and new.

What was it like? Looks like the kind of place that was absolutely buzzing with activity; chaotic, but in a good way.

I’m on the humans-don’t-have-free-will-train

Genuinely curious about this; could you explain that train of thought to me?

That burger looks like a gas station burger.

And I mean that in the nicest way possible, because gas station burgers slap.

Oh my god, using one of the little plug'n'play Namco boxes is GENIUS.

God, I wish my stomach could handle a heavy, fatty meal in the mornings. That sounds perfect for my own snacking problems.

https://gameboymaniac.com/how-to-tranfer-photos-from-the-game-boy-camera-to-your-computer/

This might be relevant!

Yep, they're gonna ignore this study and all this research just like the rest of it. :(

Wait, Factorio has mods?

Christ, and I thought Rimworld was a giant timesink for me.

New to all of this, what's a 'tankie'?

A friend once turned me on to peanut butter and tuna sandwiches.

I... do not know why I thought that was good at one point, now that I think about it.

Chained Echoes, if you like SNES-era JRPGs!

Omori is fantastic, but also incredibly heavy (depictions of various mental health problems and dark themes; don't play it if you're not in a good place), and is unfortunately leaving on 07/01.

Persona 3 and 4 are pretty good, but I REALLY wish we'd gotten the PS2 version of P3 (FES) rather than the PSP one (Portable).

I work for a fairly big university and we still ask (or at least we did pre-COVID, when I handled some recruitment stuff). And it has to be, like... two references from two different positions (or classes or whatever)? Again, unless something changed.

References are hard as shit to get ahold of, too. I could pay off all my debts if I had a nickel for every time I had to get recruitment to nab us more refs.

Sexy pictures of John Oliver, of course.

God yes; I've never done that because I'm paranoid about something burning or getting stuck to the bottom of the pot or whatever (and the fact that, before WFH, I would get up with about all of five minutes before I had to leave), but it's so convenient!

Definitely my slow cooker; I don't have a ton of time to actually cook (three birds who stick to me like glue will do that), so I can just throw some ingredients into the crockpot and have dinner done w/o much effort or having to wrangle the flock out of the kitchen.

Seconding ChatGPT; I do a lot of fantasy worldbuilding and run a few Pathfinder games, so having a semi-limitless sounding board for my ideas is a godsend.

And if you have plenty of time (relatively speaking), but don't want to put in a lot of effort?

Get a cheap slow cooker! There are so many amazing recipes that are just "toss five ingredients into a cooker and put on low for 8 hours".