Just had a thought that maybe I should look for an occasion to visit with or host an old friend who has a 7 year old now, and was brought to reflect back on all those times in childhood family friends stayed in our guest room or we stopped in for dinner on vacation and I thought “who the fuck is this guy” and then was stuck waiting around forever while my parents had coffee and talked
Same. But I learned to listen anyway because once in a while the old friend would share a story about the good old days that Mom or Dad would never mention.
Yeah in retrospect mine were mostly law school friends trying to impress each other by pulling out their best real estate development stories
You know what no I like this Japanese food subscription box, it’s not going for solid everyday stuff, it’s once a month and with this one it was like “…and this talked-about ramen from Chicago!” And like, their spin was roasted garlic and this one base. Which I didn’t love but I was like “hm interesting I see what they’re doing here, this makes me think about other flavor combinations that could work!”
I will say the preparation instructions kind of imply there are producers offering these packages to an intermediate market of redistributors, like someone’s getting that ramen in their “Taste of Chicago” boxes and someone else from their “Garlic Wonderland” subscription
One takeaway from the personality change and particularly the autistic/allistic thing, if you think apologies are easy to make it’s only because you just use words to make goodfeels and don’t actually care about ideas or invest yourself in them, at which point why on earth should anyone act like your feelings matter, anyways?
One of the highest achievements of Italian Gothic art and architecture is Orvieto Cathedral. Few buildings in the world are that ornate, and at the same time - few have such a well balanced and harmonious architecture.
You know what no I like this Japanese food subscription box, it’s not going for solid everyday stuff, it’s once a month and with this one it was like “…and this talked-about ramen from Chicago!” And like, their spin was roasted garlic and this one base. Which I didn’t love but I was like “hm interesting I see what they’re doing here, this makes me think about other flavor combinations that could work!”
You know, the Shadowrun notion of the “Mr. Johnson”, the cyber future using trivially thin pseudonymity to allow the same actors to use lightside and darkside capabilities… that didn’t really pan out, did it?
Interesting, because the European campaigns seemed to reflect some knowledge of the period antifascism that serves as precedent to modern partisan doxxing.
The main stuff is so Cascadian though, not even just Seattle as default setting, just the UCAS, CAS, Pueblo, Sioux Nation, and Aztlan basically ARE the northeast, south, midwest, and Mexico as seen from 90s Amerindian-adjacent (thinks they’re neat!) Cascadia. (They themselves are divided into that-but-it-me Salish-Sidhe, and Tir Taingire as basically Ren Faire State of Jefferson-tinted Oregon, which fair.)
Meanwhile the Chicago campaigns are a 50s drive-in movie.
You know, the Shadowrun notion of the “Mr. Johnson”, the cyber future using trivially thin pseudonymity to allow the same actors to use lightside and darkside capabilities… that didn’t really pan out, did it?
Interesting, because the European campaigns seemed to reflect some knowledge of the period antifascism that serves as precedent to modern partisan doxxing.
