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Comment on Dead In The Water by On The Road Again | Kart before the H0rs3

On The Road Again | Kart before the H0rs3 — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:03:09 +0000

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Comment on Dead In The Water by Out Of The Woods? | Kart before the H0rs3

Out Of The Woods? | Kart before the H0rs3 — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:16:33 +0000

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Comment on Dead In The Water by I-n-s-u-r-a-n-c-e | Kart before the H0rs3

I-n-s-u-r-a-n-c-e | Kart before the H0rs3 — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:01:27 +0000

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Comment on Where Does The Time Go? by Larry

Larry — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:56:10 +0000

brace yourself. According to Einstein’s theory of the relativity of age/time, time accelerates with age requiring that we need to do things faster than we ever had before or just give up, which was my choice.

Comment on Money For People by Larry

Larry — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:35:49 +0000

Josh,

I agree whole heartedly. Your Mom and I have agreed that within our relationship we will celebrate the Winter Solstice in the most Pagan ways possible in lieu of Christmas. This means no gift or card buying between us, no trees or lights on the patio and no wreath on the hood of the car. But that still leaves our friends and relatives that we don’t want to offend or have them misunderstand us. Maybe an honest sharing of ideas with the “obligatory people” in our lives is a good step in the right direction… and may be very liberating. Happy New Year to you and Beth!

Comment on What Do You Want? by Money For People | Kart before the H0rs3

Money For People | Kart before the H0rs3 — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:34:07 +0000

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Comment on What Do You Want? by Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:10:42 +0000

In reply to Ailea.

I know, wasn't gift giving so much easier when we were kids? When even a little craft project would be appreciated. Now one has to worry about budget parity, and the whole "but if I get this person a gift, I should get one for that person too..." thing. It's enough to make me want to say to people "My gift to you is freedom from the stress of having to get me a gift."

That being said, I'm still selfish enough that I enjoy getting gifts/free(ish) stuff, so I'm not sure what to do.

Comment on What Do You Want? by Ailea

Ailea — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:52:54 +0000

Yeah, I hate that question for most of the same reasons and will generally avoid answering it. Which often ends up with me getting a gift that I don’t want or can’t use because people don’t like to give gift cards, I guess. Which makes me feel bad because I wasted their money.

I’ve started asking for donations to charities that I support. That way, they can feel like they gave me something (they usually come with a little certificate thing for gifting) and I can feel like they didn’t waste their money on something I’m going to goodwill after they have seen it in my home/on me once or twice over my inability to decide that there is anything that I actually want that is of a reasonable size that I can ask for it.

Hilariously, I get caught in the same trap for other people. Gift cards seem like an easy way out/not personal enough/I don’t want to admit what I spent on your present, but I probably don’t actually know the person well enough to know what they could use or what their secret desires are. I sometimes stalk people’s Amazon wish lists, but most of the people I have the most trouble with don’t have one or don’t ever update it.

Good gods, I hate gift giving holidays and the obligations that come with them.

Comment on Completionist by Servillo

Servillo — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:19:44 +0000

I did this, a lot. I didn’t just want to finish the game, I wanted to do all the sidequests, get all the unique items, all the spells and abilities and so on and so forth. The only thing I refused to do was level grind beyond what the game needed. And since a lot of games in my preferred genre have limited time windows for a huge number of their sidequests, usually requiring backtracking to areas I would have never thought to visit, it’s very easy to miss stuff. So I used guides, walkthroughs, etc. to make sure I didn’t miss anything, which inevitably led me to skip ahead a little to make sure I wasn’t going to miss something…and winding up spoiling the game as a result. Sometimes as far as the final boss, which really killed any enthusiasm I might have had.

Now, I don’t care. I still buy games because I want to try them. If it grabs my attention, awesome! If not, then it still looks pretty on the shelf, and one day it will draw me back in. Or not. The collecting is now as much as a hobby as the gaming itself, and I’m actually okay with that. It’s cool to see all those titles lined up on my shelf, even if I’ve only finished a third of them, left another third half played, and the last third not even opened past the shrink wrap. I get what entertainment I want out of a game, and that’s that. Were it not for wanting to see my collection ever growing, Gamefly might actually be a good service for me to use, and I have considered it before.

Comment on Never Enough by Completionist | Kart before the H0rs3

Completionist | Kart before the H0rs3 — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:09:28 +0000

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