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No, he had to get on all fours and eat some of it to trick the dog

Pretty much this.   
I mean, I didn't actually eat it, but after a solid few minutes of calling the disinterested puppy in various voices, tapping on the food dish with my hands and trying everything to cajole her into coming and eating it all to no avail, I decided to change tack. I got down on my grovelers, snatched the dish away with a theatrical hiss of "no, it's mine!" and hunched over it with my back to her whilst making all sorts of exaggerated eating noises, jealously guarding my delicious feast from the one supposed to be eating it.   

Almost immediately the puppy is like, "Wait, what? You mean that stuff is actually human food?! Hol' up," taking a few adorable steps forward with a look of growing excitement on her face. I put up a bit more of a resistance, but before long she was digging in with gusto as though that same old dog food was the most amazing thing she'd ever eaten. I couldn't believe that worked.    

I was gonna say I think my depression is flaring up, but "flaring up" sounds too dramatic and energetic when I just spent most of the last few hours lying on the floor feeling as though some kind of PS1 vampire with weird dress sense sucked out the better part of my life force, with a little bit of lying on an armchair as well to mix things up.   

Did a bit of lying on the floor yesterday, too. Not for nearly as long, though. On the positive side, going anywhere near the carpet in this room used to cause my airways to go pretty much kaput, so I guess the seretide is working. Yaaay, I'm only suffocating figuratively for once.   

I tried it once, briefly, not sure if I bought it or got a free copy somehow.   
Nor am I sure quite why I didn't get into it. Seemed a bit overwhelming, I guess? I don't remember, I know I played for a little while but I don't think it was very engaging. I know there was a lot of totally unrelated discussion going on amongst my team through some kind of area chat, haha.   
Might be more fun to jump in and learn it alongside a bunch of (also new) friends. It also might be a very different game by now, too.   

Ohhhhh. So, folk music about nerd shit, or at least by nerds. That wasn't so hard, was it?!   
Thanks for finally clearing that up, guys. I was almost going to try to contribute by throwing out some folk recommendations, but the folk I listens to tends to be more about... uhhh, doing drugs, maintaining a nice garden, being wracked with loneliness and dying alone in a ditch. The lyrical themes are not so much "fantastic" as "craptastic".   


Speaking of craptastic themes, this old thing popped into my head just before. Or, specifically, I was thinking about how huge of an effort it is to be bothered maintaining dental hygiene whilst hideously depressed, considered the merits of just lying around with one's teeth rotting out, and my brain made the leap from that to "geek stink breath".   
...Although, I don't think I actually remembered the title, not consciously at least. I just searched the first three, classic lines of the lyrics in YT.   

I started work as a grim reaper, made it through my seven-day trial period and, when it came time for my performance review, had praise heaped upon me!   
They gave me an award (as if my desk wasn't cluttered enough already) and I even got a freakin' raise! ...Not that there's much to spend your pay on in the after-life, or... wherever this is. In any case, it seems like you can get away with fudging the numbers a bit here and there - though maybe it helped that I sometimes went above quota, sometimes below, so I guess it balances out.   

Mostly, I'm just glad I get to continue existing, even if it is in some weird un-life with only my boss/summoner and his adorable cat for company.   

   

I mean, their existence does kinda bring up an interesting.point. Why is anyone bound by laws in the first place. They're the laws of the country in which you reside, which is a privilege granted in relation to you "keeping the peace," i.e. not breaking the bounds your fellow citizens (assuming a functioning democracy) have decided they need. That's fair. The practical side of the matter. But in the first place, nobody decided to be born in a country.   

   
Yeah, there should really be like, a regular bus that makes stops at countries all over the world before finishing up its route at like, an uninhabited wilderness. For those who would really rather opt-out of whatever place they were born in, forsaking their citizenship in exchange for forging their own path.   
That'd be better for all involved. Unfortunately I don't think we have many suitable, unclaimed wildernesses left... and what about the children born in this weird-ass place? Are they stuck there, or at a certain age to they get an option to claim citizenship of their parents' original nation, if they don't wanna stick around in whatever hardscrabble, Lord-of-the-Flies-type shit they've got going on out there in the name of freedom? That sounds like it'd be expensive and/or tiresome for the countries in question.   
I just woke up, but like, this is interesting.   

GrayStillPlays' Air Marty series. Good grief.   

Have any of y'all played Salem?   
Just saw it mentioned on a forum somewhere while checking if some other MMO had permadeath (it didn't). Salem looks and sounds rather interesting, though it might end up being similar to games like H&H that I've never managed to really get into.   



Also, a rather different game called Albion Online, does anyone play it? I can't - I tried. Installed it and started it and it hangs at 1% on the first loading screen. Probably for the best, since for all I know my laptop would explode from the stress of trying to actually run it.    
It looks like a kinda interesting game, though. Unfortunately there is no permadeath, but from the trailers I watched (not the most reliable source, I know) it looks like there's a bit of fun to be had building empires and trade routes or raiding, conquering etcetera. It's free, too, which is just as well since it probably wouldn't be worth paying money for.