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Thank God I am not alone in that regard. For a brief moment there I thought I finally went completely insane.
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Rimna
Well-known Monkey
One of these days I'll simply delete all my online accounts, sell everything I own and disappear somewhere far from civilization. Everyone I know is a part of a caste I do not belong to. I drift further apart each day. The fact that I do not belong is proven again and again and again.
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Deleted member 160111
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Join the hermit caste. It's great here. And you don't have to destroy your past if you don't really want to. No fees and requirements.
quoting_mungo
Well-Known Member
If I were to do that boyfriend would definitely ban me from bagel-cutting! XD
ssaannttoo
Joy Boi
Finding a place where you can feel at home is integral to us, being a part of something and feeling safe. Many times it is hard to find this place. But I know that forever and always you will always belong with me. You are my friend, I care for you and will be there whenever I can for you.
Firuthi Dragovic
World Serpent, overly defensive
Does anyone here have VPN experience?
Because I finally, FINALLY found a situation where I might be able to justify using the software (I can't modify the NAT on my router and there's a game I want to play that requires something other than restricted NAT) and I'd like some pointers.
Because I finally, FINALLY found a situation where I might be able to justify using the software (I can't modify the NAT on my router and there's a game I want to play that requires something other than restricted NAT) and I'd like some pointers.
quoting_mungo
Well-Known Member
I discovered why the “buy the whole book” rate was as low as it was. It wasn’t.
It’s literally just a way to pay 10 points per (remaining) chapter in one go, and I’d missed that the 100 chapters were split into three “books” of 30-ish chapters each.
So the full story would be upwards of $50. I wouldn’t pay that for a hardback!
All the best to the writers who actually do well on the platform, but no love on the publisher’s business model. If you pay for individual chapters you’re paying way over market price for comparable products. If you pay for their subscription you probably won’t get permanent access to the books you read.
I’m like… I shouldn’t get this annoyed by this. But it’s irritating that this company has somehow managed to make bank off of this, both because it’s screwing readers with its pricing model and because it’s probably not giving its authors a much better deal.
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The next stage. You should be able to read the page in a minute, if you haven't, the chapter starts over!
RamblingRenegade
Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
*feels today*
Minerva_Minx
Explosion loving skooma cat
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it really depends what's doing the translation.
Minerva_Minx
Explosion loving skooma cat
My sympathies. It takes forever to get a doc as well who actually understands.
quoting_mungo
Well-Known Member
Haha! Doesn’t take many minutes to read a “chapter,” I can tell you that much. Never timed myself reading, but I’m faster than most people I’ve read over the shoulder of. XD
It cracks me up, sometimes, when people more interested in appearing to be good than actually being good drop their mask. Especially when they know the mask dropped long enough for you to see their real face.
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Well, at least you'll know they're fake.
Now, yes, I certainly do. A lot of things also make much more sense.
Kellan Meig'h
Kilted Luthier
You're thinking of what we call "Snake Shot." It's basically a little plastic capsule with 1/15 oz #12 shot for the .22lr, the .22WMR is 1/8 oz #12 in it. Found in .22lr & .22WMR. Good for snakes, not so good for squirrels and bigger for some reason. Not for self defense. Even for varmints, you have to be at very close, almost touching range with it.
And a big shout out to @BooTheHamster for his edit. I don't live in Gary, in fact I'm half an hour from Indy. NO fracking way I would live in Gary, since it's probably the worst city in the USA right now. I carry because our cops (will not call them policemen because the do not police) do not do their job. We had another drive by about two hours ago and yes, that silver Caddy went flying by the house within twenty seconds.
I was carrying the big piece because I'm sick of this shit. Someone got jacked in the grocery store parking lot yesterday, so that makes all four grocery stores in town, All the McDonalds, most of the Dollar Trees, one CVS and one Walgreens. That's happened all in the last two months. Can't hide inside forever because Wally*Mart rarely gets a delivery order right. At the next city council meeting, the residents in my neighborhood watch area plan to call out the mayor on this shit.
Move here and join the homeless, we have PROGRAMS!! Free food morning and night, job hunt assistance and if you're working, they can get you a bed to sleep in and set you up with programs that give you money to supplement your regular earnings.
That business model appalls me. make good scratch by writing six paragraph chapters, charge too much for each chapter, make bank. That is gouging in my book.I discovered why the “buy the whole book” rate was as low as it was. It wasn’t.
It’s literally just a way to pay 10 points per (remaining) chapter in one go, and I’d missed that the 100 chapters were split into three “books” of 30-ish chapters each.
So the full story would be upwards of $50. I wouldn’t pay that for a hardback!
All the best to the writers who actually do well on the platform, but no love on the publisher’s business model. If you pay for individual chapters you’re paying way over market price for comparable products. If you pay for their subscription you probably won’t get permanent access to the books you read.
I’m like… I shouldn’t get this annoyed by this. But it’s irritating that this company has somehow managed to make bank off of this, both because it’s screwing readers with its pricing model and because it’s probably not giving its authors a much better deal.
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I'd actually kick that dubious honor to either Oakland or Flint. Gary's becoming a Romero zombie, Oakland's like one of those fast headcrab-zombies from HL2.
Kellan Meig'h
Kilted Luthier
Well, Oakland is just one giant homeless encampment right now. Anyone smart would sell their place and leave while they still can.
quoting_mungo
Well-Known Member
It absolutely is, but I put the entire blame there on the publisher. The interview with the author who used to be signed with their parent label that I linked earlier in the thread makes it pretty clear Galatea is to writing what that one website (my memory is shit, it’s one of the current big 2-3 sites that host large numbers of comics) is to webcomics. Deliver “episodes” frequently, make numbers, and if you don’t make the cut, well…
Like, you could argue that the authors are complicit, I suppose, but… what’re they gonna do? It’s where their fanbase is, particularly if they’re one of the success stories. There’s a lot of big promises dangled, and very little transparency in terms of how many authors actually get to that point. (“Some writers make <amount>” sounds great if you don’t have the life experience to realize that those writers will be a small, prolific minority.)
Rimna
Well-known Monkey
I can't leave my home while my parents are still alive. I will never forgive myself if I abandon them. But I am not much help here like this either.
Fallowfox
Are we moomin, or are we dancer?
I feel like I ended up doing that to mine. They can't access some rooms of their house because of hoarding, have no hot water, and manage a variety of disabilities and medical problems.
I don't know whether I can forgive myself for not staying to try to help them. In some ways though they cannot be helped and I owed it to myself to at least try to have a normal life. I'm not going to have one at this point, but I can try.
The definition of "normal life" means less and less every day tbh
There's certainly some degree of dysfunction present in a lot of situations but that's not necessarily abnormal anymore if it ever was
There's certainly some degree of dysfunction present in a lot of situations but that's not necessarily abnormal anymore if it ever was
quoting_mungo
Well-Known Member
Wheee I started getting a headache around like 5:30-6 pm. It was pretty ignorable for a while, but then decided to ramp up pretty steeply.
Feeling wretched. Like, it’s just pain, at the end of the day, but it’s really obnoxious.
Feeling wretched. Like, it’s just pain, at the end of the day, but it’s really obnoxious.