I appreciate the sentiment in point two. I feel similar when others speak of suicide. In this case I think of this more as death with dignity for the terminally ill. And it’s years away, so don’t lose sleep over me.
Also, i don’t get the pushback you’ve received for wishing someone will continue to live. It’s a weird hill to die on (heh, puns)
Anyway, thanks for the kindness and have a good life
I’m self employed. I enjoy my work. It’s very rewarding, but every time i get a little extra money sometime comes along and takes it.
I have no retirement savings. My retirement plan is to kill myself when I’m too sick to work. I’ve made sure my life insurance is written so that it will pay out to my wife even if I off myself.
I come from a long line of men who don’t die easy. I watched my grandfather refuse food or water after being diagnosed with stage 4 bone cancer and still live for two weeks. That was after ten years of enduring strike recovery. My dad coughed up a lung from congestive heart failure for over two years before finally wasting away, looking like a pregnant Holocaust survivor. Same for several other uncles and great-uncles. I figure I’ve got another 25 years before I’m a liability. I’m already physically miserable. Middle age sucks. Old age sucks even harder and I’m not even there yet.
I’m gonna follow one of my great-uncles examples and go for a walk in the woods. I’ll make sure whatever SARs volunteer that draws the short straw isn’t too traumatized when they find me. Just another old man that chose his own time
ETA: to be clear, i don’t wish to die (any more than normal lol). But I am pragmatic about the reality of old age and my likely path. Will I feel the same in 25-35 years? Maybe not. We’ll see what happens. Perhaps our fortunes will change for the better, perhaps we will be able to immigrate to a nation that has better social safety nets, perhaps we die in a meteor strike in 2039
Opium Wars II, Electric Boogaloo
For me it’s a toss up between Night Watch and Reaper Man. Probably NW by a Librarian’s hair
How they do rise up
You haven’t touched a single boat tho
What is this goddamn UP Michigander bullshit? You count to ten with a six and a four, like any civilized human
More like the Vimes Unified Theory of Adulthood
Another gem from that theory:
“That was always the dream, wasn’t it? ‘I wish I’d known then what I know now’? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn’t YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp”
High school was only a few hundred million seconds ago
Reminds me of Sam Vimes seeing his younger self and thinking “Thirty damn years of being hammered on the anvil of life, you poor bastard. You’ve got it all to come”
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thank you for posting your OC, it is evocative
I too enjoy The Outer Wilds
I’m ootl, what racist stuff?
I mean, I’m familiar with bitch lasagna, but i imagine it’s worse than that, considering another commenter called him a Nazi
This is a genuine question, btw. I used to be with it, but then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” anymore, and what is “it” is weird and scary to me
D&D 5e: Tiamat bad
D&D 2024: Tiamat down bad
Over 12 million is also over 5 million, which is tens of thousands (over 1200 tens of thousands, technically)
I used to drink. I still do, but I used to too
You’ll need z87+ (ANSI Z87.1) impact resistant safety glasses or goggles. If the chemistry store does not have these you can find them at any big box hardware store
Halo was best when it was Halo:CE played 4v4 on two linked systems, with the teams on two screens in an undersized dorm room in 2002. Alternatively, two people playing through the entire game in co-op mode and finishing at 3 in the morning.
Everything since then has been mid at best
I not only liked it, but am apparently one of today’s lucky 10,000.
Thanks for posting
I thought that weather forecast was either a reminder or advice lol