Christmas is but two months away and everyone seems to be doing their shopping now all of a sudden.
I know it's supposed to be all about the act of giving and not the gift itself, but upon observing others I had a thought. Your son asks you for a book for Christmas and it's one fairly easily available. However whilst not poor per se, you've never been super well off either and so you've always managed to live thriftily. For that reason, you went and bought the book in question from a used book store for a couple of pounds cheaper than just buying a new copy. As he was holding up the book to me and gloating about how he's already finished his Christmas shopping, I couldn't help but observe that the cover is peeling off, large numbers of pages have been bent and the pages themselves are a horrible yellow colour. If I was still a librarian, it would have gone in the trash and not a Christmas stocking.
Man, I couldn't help but think about whether there's a line between ungratefulness versus expecting better of gifts. If I were the lucky kid, I might have preferred getting coal for Christmas as at least that would have been funny and not just sad.
"Here's a bangin lil' tune about takin' on The Man!"
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Gifting someone something used is already tacky enough even when it's at the best possible condition.
shit BL says
Once and always and nevermore.
oh no bl history locked
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would say something, but dont wanna make random thoughts locked, so i will shut up
sometimes ppl need to learn to shut up
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Oh, come on.
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If I could, I would advocate on fiberglass never being used for anything again.
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Drunkenly trolling Youtube while grinding mobile games and it ended up recommending me a old video complaining that Chicken Wings were running $3/lb during Superbowl weekend 2013, while I just paid $14/lb last week at the bar. 8 Years ago seems like another world. I miss weird wing flavours, like Maple Dijon.
Binged All Of Gundam In 4 Years, 1 Week and All I Got Was This Stupid Mask
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The new Metroid game has been REALLY fun.
Binged All Of Gundam In 4 Years, 1 Week and All I Got Was This Stupid Mask
FF XIV: Walked to the End
Started Legend of the Galactic Heroes (14/07/23), pray for me.
does it have a map that made me drop classic metroid
[04:55] Lianru: i3uster is actuallly quite cute
I'll be honest, I really don't remember much of old school Metroid beyond Fusion but I'm still going to say no.
The biggest QoL improvement is that if you encounter an obstacle, it'll stay on your map and tell you what you need to bypass it if you have the required weapon.
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I like that they let you highlight and mark certain places on the map.
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Binged All Of Gundam In 4 Years, 1 Week and All I Got Was This Stupid Mask
FF XIV: Walked to the End
Started Legend of the Galactic Heroes (14/07/23), pray for me.
I was browsing here on BL and on a whim I clicked on 'Blogs'. It's like I discovered a whole side of this site I was unaware of. There is even a user who posts there frequently but hasn't posted here on the forums for years now.
I also clicked on 'BBCode Guide' on a a whim. Now I finally know how toNow I just need to learn how I do to put - - - Updated - - - when I edit a post to add more stuff.write like a chuunibyouuse rubytext.
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IIRC the Updated thing is a double post merger thing.
Binged All Of Gundam In 4 Years, 1 Week and All I Got Was This Stupid Mask
FF XIV: Walked to the End
Started Legend of the Galactic Heroes (14/07/23), pray for me.
yes it's automatic
but there is time limit, 2 minutes?
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