Does it get hot by your front door or in direct sunlight? We have a few in my house that go off if our kitchen gets too hot. We had to move them down the hall slightly and they stopped. A really old one we have upstairs, hardwired into the house electric (built in 86) trips if too much steam builds up in the bathroom and let’s loose into the hall.

More of a “well we got what we could get while we could get it”

Which is ironic as fast food used to have 2 appeals - quick and cheap.

I’m not sure how quick they are these days because I can no longer afford it.

Well, they said it was a regrettable mistake! A whoopsie! Clearly, they didn’t mean to do that, so we should still support them.

Where is the red line? Have we misplaced it?

It’s a vicious pinch, rent rates going up preventing you from saving while housing rates (and minimum down-payment if you want a decent monthly mortgage/interest rate) are going up at the same time. My wife and I got lucky and we own our townhouse, but half of the properties vacated in our neighborhood either through eviction or owners moving out have all been turned into rental properties owned by a corp. It’s fucked up, they want noone to own anything anymore so they can get richer through obscene rent hikes every year… And we live in MD. I can’t even imagine trying to survive in NY or any other big city.

Also OK Cupid, but my wife and I also knew each other back in high school. So that was our icebreaker. Ok cupid was the only dating app I could actually use because everything else required a Facebook profile, which I do not have…

At my last job we actually had a guy die of a heart attack right on his forklift. Not a public spectacle, but it made me realize how bad that company actually was. His position was filled by Friday…none wanted to tell the guy his predecessor just died right there on the forklift he’s sitting in a few days ago.

Maybe the percentage is exaggerated, but I have no doubt that more people are having trouble keeping debt under control. I’ve hit a point where my debt is indefinitely growing, despite throwing every spare cent at my cards, and I’ve always been good with my debt. In the process of not using one of them, another gets piled on. Half of my pay goes to mortgage/utilities and the rest goes to my cards which are used for gas/groceries/dog food/emergencies. I’ve cut out everything I can at this point. My wife and I haven’t gone out to dinner in almost a year, no vacations, and I’m hesitant to even take a day off because I will only get 8 hours of pay, losing the overtime. All of this, and my card debt still goes up every month by about $50, which isnt a lot, but it’s unsettling that it’s at a point of steady increase. In a few years, at least one of my cards will be maxed or close to it. One emergency like my last (3k in car repairs) will immediately max one of them. The only other options I have at this point are giving up my dogs, or starving myself. The working class, even the responsible ones, are struggling.

I guess the best I’ll be able to do is take a half day off work on the day of my funeral.

Problem is that these will always be a thing because of whales. Am I supposed to not buy a game because of a micro like this? So basically quit gaming? Because they’re everywhere now, and as long as whales exist, micros will exist. You need to pick your battles. I stopped buying multi-player games all together. I’m not limiting myself on single player games because of a minor micro that changes nothing about my single player experience.

Everyone could boycott this game except for the whales, and that handful would still be considered a win for them. Don’t be disappointed in a single games sales, be disappointed in the current state of gaming.

While occasionally I wish I could save scum when I make a mistake, I’ve gotten through rough patches. I will say the performance is lacking sometimes, hopefully that will iron out in time. One save file can be a pain, but you can rebuild your character in any way you’d like throughout the game, and there is NG+. But I have 10 wake stones and 20+ ferry stones. They aren’t THAT limited without buying them. This just encourages me to explore more and think about my combat a little more thoroughly. I’ve run the same roads over 10 times and I’ll still find a new path to a seekers medallion or a cave I hadn’t gone through on the 11th time. I’ve only used 1 wakestone and that was because I fell a half a mile and ended up somewhere I hadn’t explored yet.

The game is not bad, it’s just built different. GOTY? I don’t know about that yet. But to be ‘disappointed’ that a game you didn’t like is selling well is nonsense. The micros are irrelevant as far as I can see with the stockpile of those items I have, and while I don’t like the idea of them being slid in there, it’s not predatory like lootboxes in some games.

283 million pound “tap”

I agree. After the ending, I was happy my boy could get some rest too lol

I’m hoping the initial backlash from cyberpunk actually registered with them. Other than that I’m also worried about what kind of story and characters they’ll use considering the way the last dlc for witcher 3 ended. Not sure I’ll be into Ciri based gameplay. That was my least favorite part of Witcher 3, and I don’t really want them to retcon the end of blood and wine either to continue with Geralt.

It’s because I said bad things about Biden, even though I was talking about politicians as a whole. But you can’t say bad things about Biden or be any kind of critical about the current administration without getting trashed on here.

I mean, you wouldn’t want the politicians to lose their legal bribes generous donations over acting in our interests instead of the corporations, would you?

Will someone please think of the rich folks pockets?

“Best I’ll be able to do is work a half day on the day of my funeral”

And even then, the mandatory overtime is gonna make me late to my own damn funeral.

It’s from 1986 and not insulated well. Between that and my wife keeping the thermostat and mordor temp, and opening the fridge for long periods of time not knowing it wasn’t working, it turned into a hotbox.

This is a great idea! But I will have to go with something other than meat. A fair amount of my wife’s side of the family is vegetarian. I’m also not that great at cooking lol one of my thoughts this year was to do some of my stencil spraypaints on canvas, as I have a huge stock of canvases and spray paint I never used when I stopped doing it years ago. I just wish I had more time to create some stencils.

No kids to take care of, but my fridge just went out today. This spoiled most of the food in the fridge as I can’t pick up a new one until tomorrow, and the of a new fridge and restocking my fridge pretty much cancels Xmas gifts for the family. I feel bad every year because they get my wife and I all kinds of cool stuff and it seems like every year I’m stuck telling them, “Maybe I’ll be less broke next year” Not quite the same, I know, but it still makes me feel aweful…

Meanwhile the owner of my company just bought a 5th wheel camper trailer and hitch for his truck in June because he felt like going camping, and is having a 6 bedroom house built for his son on his ranch because his sons wife is having a baby.

This world is fucked for the working class truly.