Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of their women.

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  • AngryDeuce@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Gaining his blessing
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    1 天前

    Oh, tons. Her mom and dad were pissed more than anyone else, her mom for understandable reasons, the sentimentality of it and watching her little girl walk down the aisle, but her dad moreso because he was a major schmoozer that sat on their town board, owned many local businesses, is friends with state-level representatives and was a “VIP” that had already been pressuring us to invite people that neither of us even fucking knew for networking purposes which really pissed me off (less so my wife, she grew up with that shit). He offered to pay for the wedding which in itself was a source of stress as I didn’t want to give him any angle with which to dictate the manner in which the wedding was conducted and damn sure didn’t want it to turn into some state function.

    My wife hated that shit, too, but it caused drama between my wife and I because her parents were up her fucking ass about this shit and she felt like she was in the middle despite being in full agreement with me because she’d given in to this sort of shit so much in her life she was used to it…she’d never had so much as a birthday party that didn’t have at least three dozen people there, most of whom were there for her dad, not for her. I was just not going to let her family push her around, and I had zero hesitation in telling them to back the fuck off, which her dad was definitely not used to.

    My family is a lot more “live and let live” with that sort of thing. I have some cousins that spent the equivalent of new car money on their wedding, and cousins that did like us and just went to the beach and had a friend of theirs get ordained and perform the ceremony while everyone is in their bathing suits with wet hair, but its very much left up to the people getting married and nobody else gets in the way because that’s not their place. We have our own drama but at least in that regards its way better. My parents more or less said “Congrats, go have fun!” lol

  • AngryDeuce@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•🫤🤬🥴
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    1 天前

    I’d have to look at my bill(s) but long story short, every time I visit the doctor, I get billed by two seemingly separate entities for merely visiting them. Everything else they do is a separate line item on their respective bills. So if it’s not a copay, what is it? A visit fee? All I know is I either pay it or I get harassed incessantly so I pay it.

  • AngryDeuce@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Gaining his blessing
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    2 天前

    My wife and I were 6 months into planning ours and so fucking stressed out over making it a great experience for our honored guests. A text from her mother that read “Well if you invite X you have to invite Y or else it’s going to be an issue…” was the straw that broke both our backs, but there had been months of this shit prior to that point, to the point where it was affecting my wife-to-be and I’s relationship and we never argued like we did over planning our “traditional” wedding.

    None of the stress was internal, it was all external…people weighing in with their opinions of our plans, what we should serve, oh this person doesn’t like that, you should have this instead, well this person is going to insist on bringing their kids even if they kids are not invited so you’d better plan on having settings for them, dont use that photographer use this photographer or else wedding ruined, dont get this caterer get this other caterer or wedding ruined, dont have it here, have it there, or wedding ruined…

    So we both said “Fuck it” and eloped. Found a small bed and breakfast a few hours away that offered a literal Elopement Package…the owner was a certified JP, his wife did all the decorating…they even provided witnesses. All we had to do was show up. The price was just under what the photographer alone was going to cost us.

    Happily married for 10 years now. Best decision we ever made.

  • AngryDeuce@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.
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    2 天前

    Definitely. Like I think a lot of people forget that the older generation of games, like the 8bit era especially, were arcade ports that were designed to eat quarters and not really modified much when moved to console. That was the main reason it was like, “here’s your three lives to get through the next 15 levels and when you’re out go fuck yourself start over loool”.

    I was an 80s kid and have tons of nostalgia for the time and the games even but to put it simply, there were not many games back then that you were getting more than a couple hours out of unless you were getting your shit pushed in constantly due to the artificial difficulty designed to suck up those quarters at the arcade. Even games like the original Legend of Zelda, if you know what to do ahead of time youre only talking a few hours of actual content. For platformers it was far less…Ninja Gaiden, a brutally difficult game…turn on invincibility and you can speed run that shit in like what, 20 minutes?

    And not to toot my own horn but there would be games I paid $50 for that Id have done in an afternoon and then what? Nothing, play again I guess. Which sometimes was worthwhile, other times not so much.

    Even later the ethos was still there, just instead of the quarter stealing mechanic, it was the “dont let them finish it in a rental period” mechanic…they wanted people to buy, not rent.

    But, I do definitely miss the simplicity. No fuckin achievement chasing bullshit, no fucking unlocks, no dlc…they couldnt as easily release 40% of a game and lock the remaining 60% behind season passes and shit.

    And of course having the whole game be dependent on multi-player and an active community for it to worth a shit beyond the first 60 daya. How many full price AAA games out there that lasted a few mere months befoee the server was a ghost town and nothing to do in the single player game.

    Cest la vie lol

  • AngryDeuce@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•🫤🤬🥴
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    2 天前

    My bills literally list them as separate line items, theres the clinic copay, then the doctor copay.

    Occasionally I even get two separate bills, one from the hospital, one from the Dr. Guessing their practice is the source of the one and the hospital system is the other?

    Either way its fuckin annoying to be paying out of pocket 30+ bucks only to be told the equivalent of “gee i dunno take Tylenol I guess”.

  • AngryDeuce@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•🫤🤬🥴
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    2 天前

    Oh, you see an actual doctor? I haven’t seen an actual doctor in the last like 3 years, always just a physicians assistant or other nurse.

    Still get charged the dr copay though, funny how that works.

    I wouldnt be surprised if the doctor is an AI construct and theyre just running my symptoms through whatever insurance company provided AI bullshit at this point.

  • AngryDeuce@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•The Feds Say Cutting Fuel With Ethanol Will Bring Down Gas Prices. We're Not Buying It
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    2 天前

    Even if you drive a new car everything ive heard from actual mechanics is that it causes much more buildup and bullshit in the engine and you end up spending far more in maintenance due to using E85 then you save paying less per gallon for the fuel.

    Personally in my step father’s flex fuel truck the MPG dropped by like 20% on E85 thus evaporating even more of these “savings”.

    Ethanol is a trash substitute. We should be going full electric and putting all our money into that, but of course that dont prop up the corn and soybean farmers to keep them voting Republican.

  • AngryDeuce@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your ComputerEnglish
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    3 天前

    That’s for after youre onboarded, so they know what names to drop when theyre sending you scam texts and emails.

    So whatever you do, make sure first thing you do when you get a new job is drop as much PII in there about your current employer so your IT department doesnt get too lax with thinking people are finally figuring out that the CEO that you’ve never even met in person would totally send you a text asking you to buy 1000 bucks worth of iTunes giftcards on your second day of employment.