It wasn’t this bad back when I was growing up in the 80’s-90’s. We were definitely fans, though the Superbowl years gave a lot of us football PTSD. I always enjoyed the Bills because so many of the players then were very small town types. It was normal to see even the big name players like Jim Kelly playing pool in one of the small, rural communities outside the city. (Sabers, too!). I moved away in 2004, so I don’t know how much of that community feeling is still there, but something definitely changed. Fans are kind of embarrassing now.

Funny aside:. When Jim Kelly retired as quarterback, he and some others went to play pool at a place in one of those little towns. A friend of mine found out they were there and phoned me up all excited because she was going to go and try to recruit him for her Amway downline, “because now that he’s retired, hell need a new source of income!”. She wanted me to go with her. Haha hellll no girl, you go shill your MLM by yourself! The second-hand embarrassment was awful.

Oh god. This caught me completely off guard and I just laughed so much. Grew up in western NY, understand perfectly!

If that’s a popular place to cut through, that hedge would also get wrecked from kids trying to see if they can jump it.

Source: the hedge surrounding part of the property of my childhood home. (I could jump it!)

I get it. I have a folder on my phone of all the screenshots I’ve taken off crafts I want to do (but probably never will) while doom scrolling.

In my experience of being the person who always gets talked over, women do it just as much as men :(

I am mediocre at a lot of things. But the way I combine and use those skills are what make my skill set unique and what makes them great.

I love this. It pretty much perfectly describes how I got every job I’ve ever had as an adult.

Look at it this way: after AI replaces you, a lot of companies are going to eventually realize AI can’t cut it. Once that happens, you folks will be in high demand. You just… have to find a way to survive in the interim. :(

Well, this is the cutest thing I’ve seen in a while.

I could never get into Halloween because I grew up in western NY and it wasn’t unusual to have a ton of snow by the end of October. Hard to to be excited about a costume when it has to be covered by winter clothing. I think the very last time I went trick or treating, I just threw a sheet over me and my snow suit and called it good lol.

Well, he’s got the ubiquitous “other duties as required” part of every job listing covered, anyway.

I kind of think about things like this a lot because of my family. My mom’s parents were amazing. My mom was amazing. Her brother… total asshole. My dad’s parents - especially his mom - were beyond awful. Out of 6 kids, only 2 turned out good, and 1 was my dad. He’s told me so many times over the years how he swore he’d never be like his parents. I’ve wondered before how things might have turned out of my maternal grandparents had been awful and my paternal ones good. I wonder how things would have changed.

I love and relate to every one of the comics at that link lol

I had a blast playing solo. It’s not a game I would have ever, ever picked up if it hadn’t been free with PS+, because it didn’t appeal to me in the least. Got bored enough one day to give it a shot and I’ve got 100s of hours in it. Put it aside finally for BG3… for now.

I have thyroid issues, and when one of my hormones is out of wack, it feels like microscopic bugs are crawling all over me, especially in my eyelashes. That was A TON of fun to deal with until I realized what was going on.

What is neutral good called when the user keeps a large space between the monitors? That’s pretty much all of my coworkers, and it drives me nuts.

This would 100% be my setup if I could use more than two monitors. I am incapable of having just one project at at time open, and this would just work so well for me.

autocorrect has fickle’d me in the ass

This caught me off guard and made me laugh. I needed that right now, so uh. Thanks for getting fickle’d?