Ahh…they had woke_on_lan enabled. That’ll do it.

It’s got to change, right?

I’m hoarding my pills as it is, taking weekends off and the occasional weekday…and asking my doc for a refill 28 days out from the last fill regardless of how many I have left.

I take Vyvanse for ADHD + BED…it helps tons with squelching “food chatter”…so I am not getting distracted by a constant desire to snack and stay on-task. It seems to have helped with my social anxiety as well since I’m less clammed-up when medicated.

Doc suggested I try Concerta if Vyvanse is hard to come by, but Concerta hasn’t been too much better.

And I’m sure the pharmacy’s are just as tired of me calling them for inventory questions as I am.

I just wish there was a better way. The whole situation, and that it had gone in this long, is just absurd.

In the case of Vyvanse I almost get it, since it’s a newly genericized med. I used to work in Pharmacy Billing and I know insurance companies will not accept brand due to industry shortage of generic.

There were plenty of times when a new generic would hit the market by one manufacturer and it’d take months for them to scale up enough to match demand, but the entire time, insurance companies deny the brand because there’s a generic “available”.

But it’s not just Vyvanse, it’s all of them.

Rare cards are only worth real money because there is a secondary market for them.

As I understand it, the same is true for lootbox drops. The only difference is in how rare an item actually is, but that is also reflected in price, since the resale is entirely market driven.

You could say that Valve rigs the drop rate, but you could say the same thing for Magic. It’s all manufactured shortage.

You could say that Magic items are tangible…but honestly I don’t see how that’s an argument in the modern digital-first era.

I’m not trying to defend lootboxes…not directly, at least. Just trying to understand the hypocrisy in the gaming community comparing these two.

What’s really funny is that the only thing I even know about Barbara Streisand is that picture.

The Streisand Effect has immortalized her to a whole new generation.

I get the hate for lootboxes, but as a casual who hasn’t played PC games in forever…what makes the lootbox mechanic any worse than CCGs?

Couldn’t it be said that MtG and other CCGs have been guilty of the exact same thing since their inception?

Sure more Mel Blanc episodes would be great…but I think you have to realize a couple of things…

1, part of what made Looney Toons great in his era was the writing and animation style. The animation style can come back, sure…but the writing is (probably) long gone.

The casual racism and stereotyping might be “acceptable” soon, but the level of cartoon violence has little room in modern family screen time.

2, part of what makes the greats “great” is the finite amount of work they’ve contributed to. This is as true for voice actors as it is for any other art.

Let’s look at a modern example…Jim Cummings is probably the biggest and most well known voice actor today. He’s had tons of memorable roles over the years and many of his characters are uniquely his, such as Monterey Jack and Pete (Goofy’s villain)…to the point that my kids are giving eye rolls when I say “Is that Jim Cummings”, look it up, and of course, it is.

Jim is in his 70s now and likely doesn’t have many professional years left.

The idea of having an infinite amount of Jim Cummings voice work actually sounds tedious. I love the guy and all his work, but if they use his likeness in AI for anything, I’d hope it be to gracefully retire his recurring characters…not immortalize him with infinite new content. That’s the type of sendoff a legend like him deserves. Not for his kin to hear him do things he never did.

Purr like a kitty cat, buzz like a bee.

That’s how it sounds when I’m drying laundry.

Was it the DOJ, or was it Winston at the Ministry of Truth?

I was making a joke with a modern example of a noun being verbified, but thank you for your insight.

Did you Google that?

Better than the early days of COVID when they were up in arms about having to smell their own breath.

cough.

They don’t know or care what DEI is. They just know that white men like themselves now have to compete with non-white non-men for jobs.

So now they have to make themselves marketable, or shut that whole thing down so they can go back to living in the boys club. And since self-improvement is “woke”, they choose the latter.

They get it fed to them during their 2 Minutes Hate and that’s all that matters.

It used to be Antifa. They were staunchly against antifa. You know what you call someone who is anti-antifa? Fa. You call them fa.