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Adulting is hard. I don’t even have kids, and even my childless friends have scheduling issues.

It’s universal, we’re all busy, especially at this time of the year (until we get mandatory days off at least). So much family stuff to do, even if you don’t have kids, seeing parents, siblings, cousins, whatever… It’s a whole thing.

I don’t think our games overlap very much, so I wouldn’t make a good gaming buddy for you. I hope you get to have fun with friends in good games soon.

I’m pretty deep into satisfactory most of the time. Over 1800 hours… That isn’t a typo.

I figure that it’s close enough that it might just fill in the gaps between satisfactory content updates. :p

My friends rarely play what I play. It sucks.

I’m thinking about grabbing…

Star birds

Last caretaker

And rv there yet

I’m also eyeballing planet Crafter, and a couple others on my wish list that dropped below $10.

I’ve also wanted to pick up ultra kill for a while but I never see it on sale for under $20 (Canadian schmeckles)…

Some that I’m still waiting to see come down in price to something more reasonable…

Horizon: forbidden West

Split fiction

Borderlands 4.

Even on discount, these are well over $40.

This is the way.

Right. Sorry, I’ve been dense the last few days.

Have a good one, kind stranger.

Maybe not, but it seems like this career has died. Haven’t seen him doing anything in the last 5 years, and I don’t think there’s been an album published under his name in more than 15 years.

The man might not be dead, but it sure seems like his career is.

I hope he’s enjoying retirement.

Sir mix-a-lot didn’t die so I can experience such oppression!

I need savings because all my bills land in the same week-and-a-half timespan.

So there needs to be all of the money in the account before that happens.

I know, it’ll balance itself out in the long term, but the weeks I don’t have bills to pay are usually the weeks that I need to refill the pantry, and end up spending more than I have allocated for that week so that I can eat.

I need to accumulate the base amount to pay all my bills when they come due, before I can really get started.

I know it seems really simple, once all my bills are done for the month, start then! Except there’s probably incidentals, like the food that I mentioned, that need to be purchased, that I just can’t afford on the $100 available for me that week. So I take what’s needed, and then I’m behind again. The cycle continues.

I had a very good system for this when I was getting paid twice a month. I took the ~400 or 450 or whatever (again CAD) from each paycheck, and I split my bills so that, by cost, they were roughly split between before-the-15th and after-the-15th pay periods. I’d get paid, take my share, let the bank do the rest, and when I get a notification for a bill I need to pay by hand, from my calendar app, I go and pay it in full.

Then I ended up with weekly pay and suddenly, I’m paying 130%+ of a weeks income to pay my bills on the same week.

It fucked me up man. I’m still pretty wrecked by it and it’s been like this for more than a year.

A cue is a marker point, usually for media production. It can be used in several contexts.

Queue would be a line, more or less.

I’m being reductive, of course. Just trying to help people who are too lazy to Google or look at a dictionary.

I like big butts and I cannot lie!

I like that cultures that make spicy food, usually have a “mild” for their fellow countrymen, and a special “mild” for white people.

The white person mild.

I think that’s hilarious.

For the record, I’m white and I appreciate having white person mild as an option.

By “taking off a layer” I mean, you take off your sweater and walk around in your t-shirt…

You would overheat in 15C weather in a T-shirt?

I’m in this same boat. Unless you count Reddit, or Lemmy, they ain’t finding shit.

Not that I want to go to that shit hole country.

This all sounds great until you realize that you need time to run up to this, or a modicum of savings in order to make it happen.

Your numbers are optimistic at best. My bills vary and they’re more than 70% of my income (roughly).

It’s more efficient to deposit my money into a bill payment account, then take out what I can spend from that.

Guess what I already do?

Guess how much “spend” I have, per week, that needs to cover all of my gas, food, and everything else? I’m not even saving a dollar, and my available money per week is around $200.

That seems great until you realize that I’m Canadian and it’s Canadian dollars, and $200 CAD is around $150 USD.

I’m employed, full time, in a specialized field, and I can spend $100 USD a week on food because I need the extra $50 for incidentals and gas.

I don’t need a budget. I have a budget. I need a raise.

I’ll vote on ewaste. They’re ewaste.

Child.

Ok

According to that, I should be 53.

That’s over a decade older than I am right now.