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Perhaps it’s a Brewster’s Millions situation, where he has to burn through a bunch of money quickly to earn even more money.

Hoopla is a service your library system has to subscribe to. They do a variety of media other than books.

That’s good to hear. I ordered mine a few days ago.

You definitely get what you pay for with office chairs. Moreso the ergonomic variety and not the terrible race-car-seat “gaming chairs”.

Honestly, if you’re paying less than $500 for a chair, be prepared to buy another one in two years or less if you actually plan to put in many hours on it, especialy at your weight. Cheap chairs start to break down quickly, with their immediately-flattened foam, particle board components, and cheap fabrics. None of it holds up well to pressure or long-term use. Think of the investment in terms of how long you’ll use it: if you spend $500 and don’t have to replace it for 10+ years, $50 per year is a pretty reasonable price to pay. I know the upfront cost is high, but it makes a huge difference in the quality and lifespan of the chair.

I just bought a chair myself a few days ago that will take most of a month to be constructed and get here, but my $700 Ergohuman chair has had another major failure for the second time in 10 years, so I figured it was time to buy something hopefully even more reliable.

I had to do a lot of research to find something that suits my height (the lumbar on about every chair I’ve ever seen seems to hit me in the tail bone instead of the lower back and I’m only about 6’1" - or 185 cm to you) and it’s getting harder to find good ergonomic chairs with headrests. I ultimately decided to pay a fuckton for a Steelcase chair, as I hate mesh, hate Herman Miller, and I basically spend a third of my life in it. Skimping would be like buying a bad mattress and expecting to feel good after sleeping.

Anyway, I’d look over recommendations from sites or perhaps YouTube channels that review office chairs regularly. Use that to browse around and see what you can find at a cheap price from an online store that might be getting rid of some things that would work for you. (If I hadn’t wanted a chair with a headrest, I probably could have gotten the same model on sale from one store for about half the price I paid.)

If you’re sedentary and have weight issues (as most of us start to as we age), you definitely have to look out for your back as best you can, in all your furniture. Soon enough, you’ll find your back getting tweaked just from laying wrong on the couch or in your bed.

It’ll probably only appeal to that limited, low-end Chromebook market.

You’re making the assumption that, since the pandemic ended, people actually want to go to the theater to see movies. They demonstrably do not. People will not go to see a movie they’re interested in in the theater; they will only go to the theater to see a movie they are absolutely driven to see immediately. It has to have huge visual spectacle and be truly worthy of their time to waste the time and money to sit in a theater, which no one seems to want to do anymore. It has to be something that needs to be seen on a large screen.

I’m sure Dune will do well later this year and there’s been plenty of movies recently that did fine in theaters. But there’s going to be plenty more along the way that fall by the wayside despite the fact that they would have been tent pole pictures with guaranteed box office in past years. But people aren’t going to show up for things like Indiana Jones or Flash after major failures previously in both of those series.

“Buying Srga in 202”?

Deadwood. The movie was too little way too late.

This seems on-brand for Villa Rica.

Well, they’re not known for not being hypocrites.

True, though that’s also the UK. They probably have a different attitude toward games than I’m used to and have any experience with. I’m mostly speaking from the viewpoint of different generations in American culture. There’s still a certain amount of viewing gaming as a wasteful pastime with no value that permeates multiple cultures even to this day.

It’s not age related. It’s generational.

You’re at the end of Gen X (as am I), meaning most of the women of your age group that you’re probably dating didn’t really grow up around video games and probably still see them as a wasteful, childish pastime, which was the general, parochial view of our parents’ generation about our hobbies. (Sure, endlessly watch people play sports on television but never waste your time doing something you personally enjoy.)

Meanwhile, those even a few years younger than us grew up in a generation where more and more girls grew up with video games, have a more personal relationship with them, and understand the value of the hobby. That’s only increased with time.

My own wife, who is at the older end of the Millenials, grew up playing video games with her younger brothers but never had any real affinity for them. She’s never particularly cared about my gaming (something I do now with my daughter), though she’s never taken interest in playing anything herself.

Ultimately, you’ll probably just have to choose a better class of date.

Being that deep, they’ll die of hypothermia before the oxygen runs out.

There’s also tools you can use to make local downloads of your LJ posts. I did that with all of mine, so I have them stored away as a series of per-month html files of all my posts.

Honestly, I mostly used desktop and the official app sometimes (mostly while I was watching TV, like right now). I don’t think I’d realized there were third party apps, otherwise I would have been using one before all this mess.