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There is nothing wrong with tipping. My rule of thumb is that if I paid for the foot after I ate it, then I will tip 20%.

Breakin it in:

https://i.imgur.com/BnGrniw.png

Far-Queue posted...

Yo you're in Massachusetts right? Sell it to a local retro gaming store. I know a few in Mass I can PM you if you want

The one in Lowell is in the middle of moving to a new building and the people they're moving to screwed over their tenants giving them a wrong move in date so they're opening up first week in November I think,

To be honest the selling off of video game related stuff started off last Christmas when I RMT'd away both my Runescape and Path of Exile assets. This is just the next part of the process of getting rid of stuff I haven't had any use for for at least 10 years now and goes along with how I am donating a large amount of my excess clothes away (much of which doesn't even fit me anymore and hasn't for years). Clothing donation is easy, but i'm more annoyed that the email I sent out to the local game store hasn't received a reply, but that is largely because they are moving locations.

I think I could probably hardwareswap away the graphics cards I have. Maybe the consoles too. It's moire about getting rid of excess stuff as I don't like having excess stuff in general.

Lokarin posted...

Unless you need emergency money

I want to throw it all away but I'm stopping myself because there's monetary value. None of this has any value to me anymore.

bachewychomp posted...

Secondhand store if you just want a safe place to get it over with and don't care about getting the most money you can for it. Craigslist if you want the most amount of money for it and can handle the awkwardness and potential danger (however unlikely) of meeting people in person. eBay if you want a medium where it's pretty safe but they do take a little cut.

If you do CL look into if your local police station has an area where you can do those transactions. Maybe I'm a little bit paranoid but I personally wouldn't go around selling hundreds or thousands of dollars of stuff in person to a stranger. An individual game here and there, sure. Aside from the safety aspect, selling as a lot will also most likely get less value than doing them individually.

Not like you have to choose only one thing. If it was me I'd probably sell the higher value games on eBay individually and then package some lower value ones together as a lot (whether it's to sell on eBay or CL).

Thanks for the advice about selling. I haven't really sold anything online before.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1szKI0Du-FfrT2sMKgPQcmZOTQENA8O9L78MQID84GaA/edit?usp=sharing

I do not want to create a 100 orders. Maybe I will just sell it as a lot or put it on craigslist?

ConfusedTorchic posted...

it's 2025

leave trackballs in the 90s

stop playing video games like you're 10.

Mice in general are way overpriced. I love my Elecom HUGE. Way better than gaming slop.

Today, I had asked my coworker to review some code I wrote now that he finally had time for him to half-ass review the code, and make overly nitpicky suggestions like he usually does. This was after a month of him "being in a rush" and refusing to apply any of my review comments to his own reviews. Now that it's my turn to have code reviewed of course I have to obey his every whim because double standards.

The breakfast shakeup seems to have been a major success. It's lunch time and I am NOT hungry. This will mean I need to go through all of my current food for my second meal if I want to transition to this. Good thing that I don't have a ton of food, but I REALLY like the idea of doing this every day.

Damn_Underscore posted...

I think pizza has gone up slightly in price recently but thats basically the price of a pizza. Not worth it tbh

The thread I got the idea from was about Pizza. Breakfast is around $10 less than dinner and I was thinking about it and if I forced myself to eat out (and only eat out) I would have less crap inside of the apartment and force myself to eat certain times of the day / certain foods, specifically protein and vegetable rich foods. One of my favorite lunches / dinners is a cast iron skillet chicken with peppers and onions that a local restaurant serves which I could probably make at home, but going out to eat means that I actually exercise which is worth the extra money.

If Delta and Lokarin can do it (for years no less), surely my life is interesting enough to do it now that I'm no longer being held against my will by my mother.

Today I woke up, took a 10 minute walk to the cafe and had breakfast. Meat Lover's Omelette. Cost me $15 but if I don't have an appetite until this afternoon I'll claim it is a win and do it tomorrow as well. Walked 2 miles and the whole ordeal took approximately an hour.

Actually thanks, this thread may have given me a really good idea of going for a jog at 6, going to a local diner, having breakfast and returning by 8. Breakfast is generally really affordable (and protein rich) and it would be cool to do as I've been trying to establish not trying to eat food after 1pm unless it's a snack in the evening (although that can mess with IF).

Also I'd been bored for a few hours and you gave me something to think about / research.

Yea as I posted that does not exist here. Most places you'd want to eat at are in the $15-$30 range for a meal and that is without drinks.
I do want to go to a diner at some point but never get the time to. Honestly maybe I will tomorrow if I can fit it in between waking up and my first meeting at 8.

For me it is cost. There are a ton of places to go, but I am not spending $20-$30 for the options. I'd much rather spend that money on things that actually matter.

Glob posted...

Also, you talk about already having ingredients in. I dont usually keep food in.

I eat out ~once a week (I do not like most places as I can usually make or buy fresh premade equivalents for cheaper) and meal prep for the other 6 days so we are total opposites.

Same. I have some in the fridge but won't be having it until Wednesday.

And another place people consider "trashy" https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c7adddac.jpg

You must live in a VERY LCOL area. Here is a local place:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/fbcf8d65.jpg

What is that a plain cheese Pizza? I can post local places (where I'd actually buy Pizza) and they are all $20+ for a large 3 topping.

Yea you are cutting so many corners for quality and getting pre-processed crap like bacon bits. I am trying to create Greek-style Pizza (fresh oiled dough, pan pizza), with fresh ingredients. As I develop my strategy I'm going to look into different toppings, but I can only feasibly cook 1 pizza a week because of how little food I actually eat.

But your prices are quite good. They are less than mine, but I am creating full sized pizzas with actual pizza dough. Still better than spending 10x the price for takeout.

Lokarin posted...

Get some eggs

I don't eat eggs yet so I would basically be throwing the eggs away. I'm trying to figure out how I could effectively use a dozen eggs in a week, but that's really rough because it would end up being like 2 eggs a day for something I don't even like that much (I like fried eggs in breakfast sandwiches, but I haven't cooked them before).

adjl posted...

How many of those days do you actually have non-junk mail? Of those days, how often is it mail that would suffer for being there an extra few days?

You have a good point, but I like to have everything in order every night to the point where I know / learn when the mail comes. This is similar to like... not keeping dirty dishes laying around to me.

I have always checked the mail once a day, and now I share a mailbox with my landlady. She might check her mail like once a week which is really messing with me. Like who the hell checks their mail once a week?

Yes I'm happy I did my food shopping on Saturday.

SinisterSlay posted...

Still affected. Jira is broken.
I mean more than usual

Our Jira instance is working now.

heIly posted...

because buying all the shit for a pizza costs more than getting a pizza delivered, and id have to actually make it.

That is a Pepperoni, Ham, and Onion Pizza.
I had 2/3 of the toppings in my fridge (Ham / Onion from sandwiches I regularly make).

Pizza dough was $4.99
Pizza Sauce was $2.99 and you can make 2 Pizzas with a bottle.
Cheese was $3.29 and you can make 2 Pizzas with a bag.
Pepperonis were $2.25 and you can make like 4+ Pizzas with a bag (I snack on them).
An onion is like $0.99 and you use like 1/3 of one per Pizza.

That is like less than $10.00 for a pizza.
I get at least 3 meals out of a Pizza when I add a side (e.g. French Fries / Onion Rings)
Even with the French Fries / Onion Rings it still costs < $3.50 for a meal.

At a local restaurant you're looking at $15+ for a Pizza and $6.50+ for some fries / onion rings and then there is tax on top of it so you're looking at like $25 for the restaurant equivalent and that is assuming you have self control and don't eat all of the takeout fries at once. It is not abnormal for a Large 3 topping Pizza in my area to cost $20+.

Keep in mind my convection oven can fit a 16'' Pizza (which this is).

You are so far off on how much stuff costs it's delusional.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

there's an x32 version of windows 10?

fucking why

Compatibility with legacy systems. It's not about you.

Glob posted...

Ordering requires less effort.

Hopefully one day my life is so stressful and consumed with things to do that I can do these mental gymnastics. I love meal prepping on a Sunday morning.

Why not just make a pizza?
I made this one today.
https://i.imgur.com/Eb09Zt4.jpeg

I'm thinking of organizing this at my local game store as it has some interesting rules that other TCGs don't have. Is anyone else interested in it?

I'm not in the mood to argue a 40 year old anime with random people online.
Y'all have better things to do with your lives.

hockey7318 posted...

Which aliens are you saying were more down to earth?

The Demon King that is basically the backbone for the entire series (basically nothing happens if Piccolo comes to Earth) and the only "alien" character in Dragon Ball.

I prefer Dragon Ball to Z so I will always like Piccolo more. Having a more down to earth story with a "out of this world" ending was better than having a story that was always out of this world.

The 9000 hours I played of Star Trek Online.

idk like 300 miles but that was nearly 30 years ago.

Past 10 years probably close to 10 miles.

Perfect. I am so grateful to have job security to the point where I could finally move into my own place.

I understand the use case but they're no different than Credit Cards, Rent-A-Center, Layaway and every other past iteration of the concept of credit.

Haven't found a single mobile game that wasn't an operant conditioning machine.

jsb0714 posted...

If eating natural foods causes people to be like you, what's the point?

You need to not be a dick. You do not know me.

All of them.
I love the word fuck.

captpackrat posted...

With the advent of breakfast cereal people started eating smaller and smaller meals in the morning and shifting the big meal to the evening. But since you're not generally doing much physical activity after supper, your body has nothing to do with that energy except store it as fat.

Exactly. That's what all of the literature I am ingesting is telling me and is also what my body is telling me as well. When I read online about why people don't do this the only replies I seem to find are people who don't feel like eating in the morning, which is weird to me because I'm starving when I wake up and really need something to get me going. I'm not at all hungry in the afternoon / evening (e.g. right now would be dinner time).

Basically:

5am-6am: Brunch
12pm-1pm: Linner

Basically I want to break free of traditional meal tropes and have a healthy & balanced two meal day where I IF tthe other 16 hours a day. I'm thinking this will focus my eating during the part of the day I need it most (when I am working in the morning and actually hungry) instead of at night where I am lazy, sometimes working, but don't need as much energy.

For a diet, I am thinking of a balanced set of meals where the combination of the two meals try and hit every part of the food pyramid dropping crap that I just have no interest in eating, or just isn't as filling. Most of the meals would have a starch base (e.g. rice is fantastic for this, but so aren't noodles and pizza / pie / calzone dough) mixed with a meat and a vegetable with a side of fruit. Dairy would be integrated in as an addon (e.g. cheese on pasta) or via yogurt. Not a huge egg fan but I'm willing to try them again as it's been a few decades since I really had them. Vegetable preference would be any kind of hardy / fiber rich vegetable like Corn / Peas / Carrots / Green Beans as I prefer those over leafy / deep green vegetables. Onions and Peppers are also great here as they can be easily integrated in the same way and extend to other kinds of food like as pizza toppings.

Also you'll notice there are basically zero artificial sugars here. I drink primarily water and have for years. I plan on getting my caffeine intake from other means (e.g. caffeinated gum).

Any thoughts on this?

Pass. Extremely bad for you processed crap. Loaded with saturated fats, salt and artificial sugars. Eat an apple instead. We have so many cultivars these days that there are multiple amazing affordable Honeycrisp crossbreads that you'd be stupid not to enjoy one.

No.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4f446960.png

My 4 primary machines run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Ubuntu 25.04 (Have not upgraded to 25.10 yet) and two machines on Windows 11 24H2 (hasn't upgraded to 25H2 yet).

I don't either especially with my long history with it.
But this case it's less boredom, and more looking for things to do. I just wasted 2 to 3 hours trying to get my 2070 working because I wanted to play Hades 2 and my 470 was struggling to play it. I could just wait a couple of days for my 7900 XTX to come in but no I had to rip everything apart and fail because something about Nvidia's latest drivers is broken (thanks Nvidia).

I can always find things to do, it's just that those things aren't necessarily the most interesting.

I bought a couple of games and I've been playing them today.

adjl posted...

therapist that specializes in depression.

Okay. We need to drop this. The "depression" issue was resolved. I am absolutely not depressed. The factor that was causing my long term depression in the past was resolved. It took a lot of effort but I no longer need to think about a psychopath needing to micro manage every element of my life anymore.

adjl posted...

hobby

Please, please tell me how many more hobbies I need. I work Monday to Friday, 5am to 2:30pm (roughly). I will use the time after that to walk to stores and whatnot. Window shopping if you will. I have money, but there's only so much money I'm willing to spend in a week and so many things I can buy.

I've picked up playing card games on Friday nights, specifically Pokemon. The game store I go to does Wargaming on Tuesdays, Flesh and Blood on Wednesdays, Commander, on Thursdays, Pokemon + Vanguard on Fridays, Pathfinder on Saturdays, and Lorcana on Sundays. The issue is that the amount of people who actually attend is pitiful and it's a bit discouraging to me. Also I can only budget so much to buying pieces of paper.

Okay, I still have SOME time to play video games, but they largely aren't new or interesting to me. I dropped $80 on the FFT Remake and Hades 2 today. I'll get some good time out of both of these (currently doing a hard mode run of the FFT Remake) but because I don't like video games doesn't mean that I'm "depressed" especially as I've been saying for years I don't like video games, and me quitting STO basically allowed me to get control over my life after 15 years of basically being someone's servant.

I've also picked up cooking, because you like need to cook to survive. I hate takeout (expensive, usually meh quality food and I'm having a good time working on the apartment. Basically I purchased a hole in the wall that needed some work done to it to make it mine. I'm handy to a degree and I've been having fun with that, but that can also only go far (also things cost money) and there are some things like a Washer and Dryer I did the math on (and the time optimization on) that basically make it non-trivial for my whole load of laundry a week (which costs me $6-7 to do at a laundromat)

And yea, what else have I done recently that's hobby-ish? I've been doing some programming on the side (far less recently, the move disrupted that) and I've invested into AI stuff recently (I just bought a 7900 XTX for AI, not for gaming but once again, there's only so many hours I can invest a week, and the topic is adjacent to work as the AI parts I'm interested in are all related to software development (e.g. agentic coding).

What's left? "Go to the gym". I'm already spending a good deal of time outside walking (because I have some blockers preventing me from learning to drive right now, but those should clear up soon), but join a gym? I've actually debated it because I'm not against it, but I'm still a few pounds underweight and I'm monitoring that for the time being as well (I'm trying not to change my diet too much from before and after the move).

I genuinely cannot emphasize how much I've changed in the past couple of months. The "depression" you guys saw over the years was because I was in a situation I genuinely felt that I could not escape, but someone dear to me helped me get out of it when I finally grew the balls to ask them - and I wasn't even going to ask them in the first place.

The difference between me and other people is that I don't like being lazy / slacking off / relaxing. I like to be constantly doing stuff. That makes finding enough stuff to fill the holes difficult and some of the things that people do to fill those holes (e.g. going to a bar, collecting random shit, watching tv) don't appeal to me.

So seriously, I have actually made changes in my life. Old dog shit on the floor Judgmenl doesn't exist anymore, and only existed because a psychopath was controlling my life. Now that part of my life is over, I feel like I can actually talk about it now.

Waking up at 5am is pretty normal for me. I live off of 4 hours of sleep a night and if I need a couple of extra hours I'll take a nap during the day. I don't really play video games anymore, but if I did I'm currently waiting for my new GPU to come in (which I got for AI work).

Just scratching my head on what I'm supposed to be doing with my free time as that's been an issue that has been raised more than once over the past few weeks.

Also I'm eating a Yogurt right now.

I am a 35 year old single male living alone. It's the weekend. I've already done my grocery shopping and laundry for the week. I have no household chores to take care of. It's going to rain this afternoon. I'm all caught up on work.

What should I be doing?