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The kemco rpgs tend to be... fairly competent? Far from amazing, but the mechanics usually aren't particularly odious (especially the humble bundle versions) and the writing is occasionally quite amusing. If you've already played every rpg your machine can emulate that you care to, they're engaging enough.

I guess it's only a matter of time before someone here brings up the reasons why we shouldn't trust the government or something. Though there is that weird bit where we trust the government more than we trust politicians, except politicians compose the government. A bouquet of wilted flowers still smells sweet, I guess.

Eeehhh... I think much of my trust for governmental institutions comes more from the employees than the politicians, really. The ones that aren't elected officials. So far as personal interactions go, they've always been significantly more likely to be there at least in part for some ideological reason that doesn't basically boil down to fucking one demographic or another over, nor to be there primarily for the graft/networking opportunities. And a lot of the ones that don't start that way have tended to end up pretty sympathetic and/or invested in whatever they're involved with, if they have even the least iota of ability to empathize with their fellow human being.

Ground level government work has been surprisingly effective at producing relatively decent people legitimately trying to help with whatever they're doing, basically. Not perfect or anything, by any means, but better than most organizations I've personally interacted with.

Haven't bothered to really check numbers and whatnot to see if it's an attitude that's particularly justified, but so far as your kinda' day-to-day evaluation of things go, that's around the point I'm at, at this point in my life. I trust the government more than I don't 'cause most of what actually makes it up (state/federal workers) have been pretty alright on the net of things.

... I imagine some portion of that observed behavior is due to gov't work just not paying particularly well, comparatively, and usually making a good-ish try to take care of their workers. You get folks more inclined to be there for reasons that basically come down to being a relatively decent person, and leaning towards less concerned about exploiting things.

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The existence of an easy way to mitigate or reduce the effect does not make it less annoying, for me. Half the time it makes it worse, tbh. Would have been fine with MM if time advancement had been entirely voluntary, but it wasn't~

Youtube ads are actually probably my least favorite internet advertisement... and I was active on the 'net for most of the 90s. They're basically TV commercials on my computer, and TV commercials are about 90% of the reason I haven't owned a TV for around a decade. On top of that, they're noisy, jarring, and most damning of all, slow. Most 'net advertisement is annoying; youtube video ads are obstructing, and that nonsense can get buggered. If I wanted to deal with that shit, I'd be sitting through TV commercials.

I was actually running sans adblock for most of my life... right up until a year or three ago when I started actually watching YT vids with any regularity. Between those and the advent of HTML5 animated banner ads (cpu wrecking pieces of shit) that started regularly popping up at some point during that period, I've started using it. I can't see that stopping at this point. I could deal with pop-up Windows and shit. Today's noise can go screw itself.

Well, he didn't exactly manage much. Also, y'know. US. I think a good chunk of us just kinda' assume there's some number of nutters sincerely plotting to kill one politician or another at all times. It turning out one actually tried is just sorta' eh. Especially considering how unspectacular the attempt was.

Mind, though. If you can afford it, it's fairly unlikely getting a quick checkup is going to hurt much. Does sound like mostly a lifestyle change thing, but it's not exactly impossible it's something else, or something else on top of said changes. And if it is something else, the earlier you find out, the better.

Maybe consider actually keeping up on checking your weight for a week or two. Iirc, more than two or three pounds of weight loss over the course of a week (discounting normal water weight and whatnot variation, anyway) is potentially unhealthy. Not time to panic or anything level unless it's extreme, but in the range of "maybe check with the doc occasionally just to be sure you're not overstressing anything".

E: Just about the only decently competent LP series of Blacksea Odyssey that I've found is in... russian, I think. Pretty sure it's russian, anyway. Related to that, I have been listening to someone speak russian while playing Pulling Legs Off a Frog, Sci-fi Edition for the last. Uh. Eleven hours. Something approaching straight. Maybe two or three hours in there I was away from the sound, at least. Whatev'.

I don't speak russian. I have no idea what this guy has been saying, save when he busts out the loanwords and/or english. Eleven hours. There has been a russian man chattering nonsense in my ears for the last eleven hours. I just noticed it has been eleven hours. I was not expecting that.