Gah, sword of truth. I read that, ok, so there’s a hero’s journey thing going on, I can dig it - suddenly BDSM fanfic!
Nope, Goodkind ain’t for me. It was SO jarring!
Still, you also recommended Bujold. My fav! I’ll have to check out Valdemar.
Maybe not, but if they’d actually work on it instead of stringing us along, maybe there wouldn’t be hordes of loudmouths.
Also…keep in mind, they chose the author’s life. I find it pretty tone deaf for a famous person complaining about what fame brings when that’s the path they pursued.
Dragons? Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series is worthwhile!
I’m not familiar with Jacqueline Harpman, but Left Hand of Darkness is quite fun. Not at all what I expected going in.
I’ll add Lois McMaster Bujold and her Curse of Chalion to the list. Great book.
Oof, that’s rough. Guess I didn’t miss out when we stopped using it back in the day. Although…at that shop, we switched to Jira. What a mess.
At the time, I really appreciated the simplicity of Trello. Nothing else I’ve used has come close. Working as a programmer, I really just want a simple system.
Oh, good to know! I def don’t use it every day, but I did use it for something yesterday. I’ve been using it since before Windows had zip handling integrated with Explorer; I still like having the extra options it gives me.
Oh, dear. Trello enshittified? :( I thought it was really cool when we used it for a project at work back in … oh, maybe 2016? Way too long ago.
This sent me down a little rabbit hole, lol.
January '93 - NCSA Mosaic released.
April '94 - Mosaic corp founded.
October '94 - Netscape browser released.
November '94 - Mosaic corp renamed Netscape corp
June '97 - Netscape Communicator released.
September '02 - Phoenix released
May '03 - Phoenix renamed to Firebird
February '04 - Firebird renamed to Firefox
I couldn’t find any indication that there was any code in common between NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and/or Phoenix.
7zip, notepad++, ScreenShotAssistant, git
Eh, give yourself a little grace. Everybody sucks sometimes. No one is perfect (except God, if he exists, IDK, I believe so, but there seems to be some debate on the matter). Everybody gets into a little trouble at school. Again, nobody is perfect.
I’ll also just say that depression fucking sucks. More so than everything else you’ve listed. All the external things can sometimes be handled, but depression is a pit that just drags you down. Struggling with problems that are objectively simple to resolve? Doesn’t matter, pit of despair. It’s not fun at all :(
Eh, I’ll still count it. Even if it’s not a formal “mortgage” from a bank, it’s still a loan to buy a house.
People with rich parents own homes…
Wait, I own a home, and my parents aren’t rich…
Well…I didn’t think so when I was growing up, and my parents divorced when I was in high school, so that colored my perceptions a bit…
OTOH…my dad went on a 10-month “world cruise” two years ago, and my mom is wealthy enough to snowbird. Still, my childhood was “a normal-seeming house in Small Town USA, going to public school”. Hardly gold-plated.
Because their parents gave them the down payment
I bought my first house at age 28, no direct help from my parents (in before “but check your privileged upbringing!”). I won’t whine about how I don’t have enough money, though. I budget and save pretty aggressively.
coastal USA
Yeah, that’s fair. I’m firmly in MCOL flyover country. Completely different world for housing than the bay area or NYC.
Does it really count as owning if you have a mortgage? (partly tongue-in-cheek, but only partly)
Edit: Bah, someone else already made this smart remark. That’s on me, I didn’t read the whole thread before posting.
Edit again to answer your “how common” question: Most of my older friends/relatives/acquaintances own their homes. Most of those younger than me do not. Or maybe it’s 50/50 by now? I’d have to make a list and try to count, but that’s too much trouble for a lemmy comment.
There’s no such thing as being a bad child to abusive parents, IMO.
Tie one on? I don’t think that mixes with driving…
This has me thinking of that old TV show Dollhouse.
better than the alternative
Ha, I always say this in response to anything about getting old.
Life sucks sometimes, but sometimes it’s good. I hold out hope for more good parts. I try to hold to a certain saying:
“If you’re going through hell…keep going!”
The horrors persist, but so do I.
An old gaming buddy suggests
“Peachy”
Adjust your tone of voice to suit the day.
I thought they were fantasy for the longest time! I remember reading a later Pern book (can’t recall the title anymore, sadly) where there was a computer system that got uncovered after like 600 years - surprise! SF!