could not agree with you more.

I am one of those people that has had circumstances improve. I grew up in a trailer that honestly should have been condemned rather than allowed to have someone live in it. I've gotten used to sleep for dinner when I was younger having my only good food be the fact that one of my friends mom's was our lunch lady and she took pity on me pretty regularly.

over the last 15 or 20 years I've somehow worked my way into a good paying job and when I read your first paragraph it was a little bit of a wake up for me since a lot of those things apply now.

I would say the main difference that I have between now and then is that I have more control over my life personally, if I were to lose my job I could probably find another one and even if I couldn't I could sell my house and be okay for a while. homelessness is not right around the corner like it was when I was a kid and we got evicted three or four times.

The real difference between classes though is not that I can afford my electricity bill every month or make sure that my kids have probably too many toys, as far as I'm concerned the primary difference is whether you have control of how other people live their lives.

The owner class has propaganda machines, owns government officials, can collaborate with each other to ensure that wages are suppressed and to ensure that the right people make the right business calls and make a bunch of money at the rest of our expense.

it's insane to me that the life that I have used to be common in America and I feel so lucky and grateful that I have it at all today. all I have is a house a job two cars and two kids and a cat I guess.

that should not be too much to ask for for the regular person. everyone should get to have that kind of stability in their life.

I vote and believe the way I do not because I think it will drastically change my own life but because I think that others deserve what I have, it should not be extraordinary for people to be able to survive on one job and build a family if that's what they want to do.

yeah intentionally misunderstanding it of course.

if anyone's Uncle does say this I would follow up with something like:

except it's not just your phone it's everything in your life only goes to 6%.

you have 6% shoes, they hurt they leak but you can't get better ones

you have 6% food, you are either hungry or eating something terrible for you or something that tastes terrible all the time (I for example did not realize steak could taste good until I was in my twenties and finally had a job where I could afford a nice dinner)

you have 6% housing, there are bugs and critters, there are leaks it is too cold or too hot all the time, you always live next to neighbors you aren't sure about so it's probably not safe to walk around, your landlord won't fix anything and you can't do anything about it

you have a 6% life most everything in your life cannot get very much better than it is and you don't have the time the money or the connections to do hardly anything about it

Lato is kind of Zen

tactics Master is fun if you like chess stuff

freecell4 is actually pretty good representation of the original if you like Free cell

tower defense has a few good options like anuto or chip defense

I play the puzzles game you mentioned most often though it's just got so many options. been into unruly lately

2 I try to live by

1. start in the way you intend to continue - so don't just accept something you can't stand forever as you may not be able to change it. it's much less work overall to deal with problems upfront and then not have to deal with the little consequences of ignoring them for months/years/etc.

2. don't put it down put it away - so many messes are created by setting stuff down for a minute and never coming back until there are 30 more things on top of it and it's an archeological dig to clean. if it takes less than a minute to put away properly then just do it immediately instead of creating hours of cleaning for you or your partner when you finally can't stand how cluttered and dirty your place is

where is the choco taco!

nope!

Chuck Testa

my two favorites are: DropItLikeItsHotSpot YouCantTakeWiFiFromMe

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fully agree on intellect devourers

one of my favorite characters ever got killed by one right in the classic brain eating way.

he had 5 int, gotta love rolling for stats

me probably nothing, but I do have you tagged as mothsexual for some reason.. so congrats?

I'm going to base this on the owl bear because I feel like it.

so my now made up rule is for animals merged like this the first animal is the modifier and the second is the base.

therefore it is a chicken with a buffalo look, not a buffalo with a chicken look.

real life reference: a whale shark is a shark that looks like a whale, not a whale that looks like a shark

also if you're looking for board games:

• Mansions of madness
• Arkham horror 3rd edition
• Arkham horror the living card game