callouscomic

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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Seeing more of your responses, it is clear you spend too much time online in anti-capitalist groups and expect people to just magically accomplish your ideals.

Good luck to you and your bitterness. The rest of us have actual lives to live and bills to pay. It's not as binary as you see it.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I needed to live and pay bills and take care of a family. I tried to write it in a sensitive way and it still wasn't good enough for your entitled, priviliged, and judgmental stance.

Some of us literally have no ability to just entertain "adventure." We needed to just survive. And I was simply stating that I think some people need to be a bit more willing to make hard choices to better their lives, such as moving where their particular jobs are more likely to be.

It has nothing to do with licking boot. It has to do with reality and survival. But a secondary benefit was that I found joy in my career and what I do since it's a public service type of career as well. I also became a productive member of society and can now help others a bit in various ways.

I'll also add that while the goal at the time was not to do anything I wanted, but to do what I needed, I wound up in a degree and field that is still interesting (I didnt study what I wanted, I studied what I thought might pay well and which I was good at). Moving for jobs was significant to changing my life and giving some new perspective and adventure in the simple sense that I got away from where I grew up and saw a different place and have met and worked with tons of great people from all over the world who also moved here. It was not my original purpose, and it's not the same as travel for adventure or leisure which was not something I could ever entertain for the majority of my life, but it has in a way given me adventure I wasn't seeking.

I will also note the original move for a job itself was never simple. We literally slept on floors for the first few weeks.

I don't regret any of it. Our lives are immensely better today for making hard but smart moves for the better. Others should also do the same if they have options to better their lives.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

This was an excellent serious comic book about this topic. It focuses on Kent State and some actual students lives leading up to it, with a heck of a lot of sources and information about where they got their info from to construct the story. This I think tells a great accounting of this significant event in the lead-up to Jackson, which happened not long after. I was able to read this from my local library.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50159458-kent-state

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 16 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

But getting more sex coverage on news media is good, I like that.

"... and she added that it was pretty good, but she wishes he'd have spent a bit more time warming her up first. Back to the studio."

"Wow. Excellent report, Kelly. Fascinating sex life Jill and Bob have. More at 11."

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago
[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yep. It became clear to me through difficult times and turmoil that my parents switch to Christianity during my childhood was their way to find excuses to never have to change or answer to others.

It's a convenient way to remain narcissist and pretend you're improving as a person.

My dad made it very clear he only needs to answer to "god" and nobody else.

Cool. Drop dead, dad.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

Everyone's experience is different, and things ARE absolutely more difficult in recent decades than many decades ago.

That said, I remember around the time I was graduating and how it felt like the vast majority of everyone I knew was baffled by my willingness to move far away (for the job), and how many of them refused to move away from home (where there weren't many job options for degrees).

There's also choices to make to do projects or a thesis around real productive ideas to build something to show off to employers. There's opportunities to practice interviewing, shadow careers, and make yourself presentable and stand out for your field, and again I just remember very few who actually put in the effort and wanted to appear well-rounded amd with a portfolio of sorts to distinguish themselves. Most of my classmates seemed to just want to check boxes and expect a career to happen.

Some people in my personal experience seem unwilling to do what's necessary to make their degree worthwhile.

Yeah you may be able to get [insert degree] at [random local college], but a lot of the good careers are not going to be where you got the degree, amd you really have to find ways to convince employers why you're different.

Then on top of all of that, there's just some luck as well. And I know in some ways I also just got lucky in landing a job.

Meanwhile, ever since I moved and started a career, I have been surrounded by incredible degree-wielding people from all over the world. So clearly lots of people do find success and they are doing great jobs.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Most of them. The more popular, the less I'd want to go.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

Yup. My Steam Link was a semi-cheap purchase when they were on sale, and over time their continued support of it only pushed me to use Steam more and more. I still use it today, and it was a big part of why I adopted the Deck right away.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

When she prefers anal.

 
 
 
 

It wasn't good. It got old real fast. Now they're giving him and Schrader their own show? And Schrader says he doesn't wanna just throw his opinions out there cause he dislikes everyone giving opinions all the time. That show is gonna suck.

 

Ys I Chronicles on Steam Deck. Adol meets Dogi for the first time, again and again if you decide to get imprisoned multiple times.

 

Today is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty from the Master Collection, Volume 1 on Steam. This is really just the HD edition from a decade ago though. But they did seem to enhance the visuals a bit, and like the other collection games, it comes with some background material like a Screenplay. This was probably my 20th time playing this game on yet another platform since the original.

Here messing around with soldiers. I like the markers over their heads.

Magazines come in handy.

I also like a lot of the in-game posters. There's some mods for these too. You should give Ghost Babel a try. It's non-canon, but still a great game.

More "interesting" posters.

There's an easter egg early in the Tanker if you find a specific poster of a woman in a locker and stare at it just right, then call Otacon.

 

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana for PS Vita. Fishing edition. Some random fishing pics I grabbed. I liked the fishing part of the game. It even slightly contributes to the story and progress if you catch them all.

 

Metal Gear Solid from their recent Master Collection, Volume 1. Played mostly via Steam Link and a little bit on Steam Deck. This was playing through the Japanese version (it has pretty much every version included). At this moment I think Snake's saying "that takes care of the cremation."

Here's a bonus screenshot of how this collection handles the games swap to disc 2. It does a disc flip animation showing one disc exiting and another inserting. I liked it.

And here's Johnny freaking out in Japanese.

 

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection, Volume 1. Mostly played streaming to my TV via Steam Link, but also played a bit on Steam Deck. I think this is an English dub of the MSX version. This isn't the NES version. It was an excellent game for its time.

Snake also seems really concerned with Christmas as you can see.

 
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