So the was this dnd inspired text based multi user game. Actually there are hundreds of clones and variations.

It was called circleMUD. The server version I played was called Riftsmud.

Now it was a long ass time ago and World of Warcraft didn’t exist at all yet.

When I started playing there was a level 50 cap. A few years later they revised the game and it became a level 100 cap.

Now we grinded. Oh my God did we grind.

But when you hit those power spikes it was so worth it. The grinding actually meant something because when you hit the level cap and maxed out your experience you could remort.

Meaning start over picking your class all over again and a keep a all the level up stat bonuses you got every 10 levels.

And also a base increase on your health/mana/stamina

The other thing though was that you also kept 15% of the skills from the class you maxed out.

Some of the classes(casters mainly) got skills or spells almost every level. Martial classes many boring levels.

However after a few times remorting you started to develop a unique way to play the game.

And while originally it was completely random what should you got, to we ended up getting to designate a few skills and you would get one of those 4 for sure, and if lucky more than one.

Some skills were unique to a class. Some were available at different levels between classes. A neat thing was if you had a keep at a higher level than another, if you ever went a class with a lower level you would lower the level on your keep, so keeping them at the lowest level first was awesome, or getting those unique skills first time round

Did my 21 time remort character hit 24 attacks in a really lucky roll when using the ranger skill flurry? Yes yes he did.

Did I find out that if you successfully execute the skill, but a teammate kills the enemy before your hits land the flurry is saved until your next round of attacks? I did

Did I also have a skill called rampage that attacked every mob in the room with your full compliment of attacks? Well I was a warrior and I did have that skill yes.

Did the game give me flurry of blows on every mob in a room? Yes yes it did.

Did I have a skill that could sacrifice gold at an altar to do more damage? I did go Paladin. Did I have a spell that increased my damage by 50% sure why not, keeps baby.

Did I have a skills that did more damage when I was low on life? Also yes.

Did I have sanctuary and also super sanctuary to cut my damage received by 25% and then 50% as well? Sure did.

I maaaaay have walked into a zone that had a high amount of enemies in the same room after buffing the ever loving hell out of myself while at 10% life with a stacked flurry and rampaged on over a dozen mobs.

Did I crash the server?

Yes yes I did.

Worth it!

I have never wanted to punch so many people in their good fenced faces as much as this decade has done to me.

Going down from 24" 2048x1152 to 27" 1920x1080 was an extremely noticeably change. Good god I loved that monitor things looked so crisp on it.

As one of the many services they use to provide the best results they can, they use Yandex and just pay them some amount. Yandex is a Russian product.

That’s really all there is to it.

Fyi Cory Doctorow used kagi because it worked well.

He says that they basically use Google under the hood without Google fucking with the results you get it tracking you.

Not sure if he still uses it or not

Correct. I used to live 8 blocks away. Never went to that one but am told they don’t serve alcohol. Which seemed weird for those kind of places.

It’s a strip club in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

You can get there in about 30minutes on the SkyTrain from Vancouver International Airport (YVR).

No idea why you would want to but you can

Have you been paying any attention? There’s home homegrown fascists here with a love for the us. Maybe we need to clean up our own shit before we just blame the us

Kate Mulgrew

It’s completely lost all value or meaning to end consumers.

Agreed I bought a fender telecaster (black cherry starburst, so sexy) and it had a prop 65 sticker on it. Absolutely rediculous and meaningless

You can often find these at certain stalls in your local seasonal German/Bavarian Christmas market/villages.

Usually ones that sell hamhocks

Thanos is simping for Lady Death who doesn’t give a thought about him at all

You’ve had how many years to fix this bullshit. Your methods have only produced failure and further enshtification. Now you gave the world another Hitler.

That’s on the masses who don’t vote

Who bury their head in the sand and say I’m not into politics.

Enough is enough

I never wanted it to go this way but your country has failed at every opportunity to hold your leaders accountable.

Yes it’s horrible

But when less than 35% of you bother to do your fucking job (voting) then this is what you get after decades of it.

You have only yourselves to blame and I’ve heard many of you say as much.

Take responsibility finally or accept your fate.

My own country isn’t innocent either in our own bullshit

Arts disingenuous.

Many small businesses struggle with labour costs. What needs to go hand in hand with an increase in wages, is a reduced cost of business focusing on real estate.

There’s ways around this but what is needed is reversing the syphon of money to billionaires and trillion dollar organization

Bold choice indeed

When my company used to move or make new branches, we would sign the wall if we were on the project.

I think my name is on 2 walls

Your substitute for tomatoes is different tomatoes? Bold choice

UBI would allow you to do what you wanted. Which one was it that wanted to go that route in 2016?

Seems to be.

Used to eat carrots out of my grandma’s farm when I was a wee lad. Have never found ones that taste the same.

But there is now a Korean grocery store nearest to me and is been great to get different varietals and seeing what ingredients are like from other places just because they grow a different one.

I’ve found the greenish part of the stem can go a bit further in some of the carrots which isn’t the most pleasant but it’s only been like one carrot that was like that, the rest were just a big ole tasty carrot. Surprisingly juicy compared to what I’m used to from the grocery stores I’ve gone to most of my life.

If the rest of America is going to let it happen then again that’s what they deserve

Honestly say this point be is everything the usa deserves. They deserve every pain every heartache and every atrocity they is happening.

There is no reason this should have ever been allowed. So the checks and balances have been eroded for years by all parties involved and the people are actively letting it happen.

It is absolutely terrible for many individual people who don’t deserve the horror they find themselves facing but the people en masse are to blame.

Burn it to the ground and start over. Such a disgrace