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Were? Did they die? One of the crazy things was I expected everyone to be at work when I first retired. While there are definitely places less crowded (grocery store), there are a shocking number of people who don't have a 9 to 5.

I'm coming up on 5 years retired at the end of this week. It's gotten to the point where I forget that most people even have jobs, and I can't even picture myself working anymore (where before I could begrudgingly imagine it). The downside however is that my age peers won't retire for another...

I really didn't expect the new game shine to dull on this one for you all so quickly. Almost like all the criticism we gave during alpha was legitimate or something.

Same, at least, my last job before retirement. Literally a go-between for engineers and business people.

This show is so bizarre. That's two episodes now where the entire thing episode revolves around something they introduced in the previous episode and doesn't move the story forward at all (the first being him doing sign language at the bar, so we get an entire episode of alternate Jason taking...

Almost like casting white men as your main characters is good for show success? Not that I've watched this yet, but it's the one thing that sticks out from all the other Marvel trash.

This is a good point. It's not 1999 anymore. Grabbit's probably got a backlog of 100 games to play. Like Kirun pointed out, they're developing this like it's 27 years ago, not realizing that the entire gaming market has changed dramatically. They're going to be their own undoing. They could've...

Imagine making people pay to test your game, and when something completely inconsequential is broken, you ban someone who's paying for your dicked up coding. I'm glad I stayed far away from this shit show.

We threw in the towel. I guess this week is basically record highs every single day, and every day they push our power restoration estimate back another day. So we drove to my mother-in-law's place in Orange Beach. Which honestly we should've done days ago. I kept trying to save all our food...

This is such a bizarre take. You think it's immersive to write "/look" as opposed to actually...using your own eyes to look at things? Instead of using your own senses, you think typing out a command is somehow more rewarding. And you say you're not the autist here.

So we talked to a bunch of neighbors and most of them said this was significantly worse than any of the other hurricanes they'd been through. Guess we had a peak gust of 116. We actually didn't think it was too bad. It sounded terrible, but I feel like better than the earthquake. We lost like...

Good deal. You said check on things during...like what? It'll be dark out, and I imagine our power will likely go out sometime before 5pm today. With landfall looking like between 7-9pm. We're drugging the dogs and then likely going to just huddle together for a few hours until it passes.

Were they direct hits though? That's what my wife keeps saying about locals how they've been through hurricanes before. There's a difference between getting hit and being 50 miles down the coast where you get minor tropical winds. Like, we "went through" Frances and Ike in 2004 in Siesta Key...

We're between Pensacola Bay and the Santa Rosa Sound. Probably 1-2 miles inland from both. We're basically dead center on the cone. I wasn't super worried about the water. We're high enough that storm surge won't be a big deal, however, now we're forecast for anywhere between 8-15 inches of...