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by anomie
Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:13 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: anomie's journal
Replies: 64
Views: 19048

Re: anomie's journal

I'm curious how you see gaming culture now. I know the culture of video games has changed a lot with the massive quantity on the market. What draws you to mmorpgs now? (attempt 2 to answer the question) I was initially drawn to mmorpg because of the possibilities of gaming in a virtual world with h...
by anomie
Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:08 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: anomie's journal
Replies: 64
Views: 19048

Re: anomie's journal

Was initially looking for a game to play with spouse when she was sick. We chose this game because it was reported to be couple friendly. She has moved on after a year. I stayed with it, and got more and more involved with it. I still find the variables involved in player outcome interesting - skill...
by anomie
Tue Jun 07, 2022 3:01 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: anomie's journal
Replies: 64
Views: 19048

Re: anomie's journal

Hi, I just realized that 5 years had passed and wanted to do some sort of summary reflection. I spent years here in ERE land, focused on many of these topics, and respect a lot of people I still see here. Yes, I avoided mmorpg's while working. And now am trying to explore and understand a sort of ag...
by anomie
Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:29 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: anomie's journal
Replies: 64
Views: 19048

Re: anomie's journal

5 Years of Retirement So I arbitrarily chose a date for my retirement, and made it so. Announced the date at work, got a small retirement party from the employer I worked with for ten years or so, and ended working for pay in the summer of 2017. I had noticed that my vision was getting weaker, and ...
by anomie
Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:26 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: CS's Journal
Replies: 82
Views: 20742

Re: CS's Journal

Hi CS -

If you have considered and are truly interested in deleting your LinkedIn account, they do still allow it . How To Here

It is pretty liberating once you have made the decision.
by anomie
Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:33 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Learn to Navigate Urban Areas?
Replies: 8
Views: 1720

Re: Learn to Navigate Urban Areas?

+1 Chenda a couple of things in my brain seem to have been damaged in younger years. A sense of direction I never had. I have to remember my Boy Scout training of (sun rises in the east, sets in the west, then orient from that... east is opposite from west, and figure north and south from there). A ...
by anomie
Mon Sep 11, 2017 10:18 am
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: What if US wealth was redistributed overnight?
Replies: 24
Views: 5625

Re: What if US wealth was redistributed overnight?

wonder how rigorous the methodology is in this study: https://futurism.com/new-report-claims-ubi-would-grow-the-u-s-economy-by-2-5-trillion/ Researchers from a U.S. think-tank have released a report detailing how a universal basic income could impact the overall economy. Based on their research, a U...
by anomie
Mon Sep 11, 2017 9:48 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Organising your music collection
Replies: 4
Views: 1181

Re: Organising your music collection

This is not what you are asking but ... I spent 2 days uploading my 15,000 mp3s to Google Play Music , just to find that I never even listened to them. Google makes their whole library available, makes it to easy to listen to any music I can dream of ... ... sigh ... kids these days will never appre...
by anomie
Mon Sep 11, 2017 9:18 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: anomie's journal
Replies: 64
Views: 19048

Re: anomie's journal

Hello! been a while. Lurking a bit, but hope to be back a bit more. So. I am retired. Done. my stats for possible useful reference by others: retired at 49 dw working till 55'ish, our month to month coming out of this no kids or other financial obligations own our home and a 15 year old car we are a...
by anomie
Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:01 am
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: Where do you stand on this political compass?
Replies: 19
Views: 5117

Re: Where do you stand on this political compass?

Hi!
Try this link:

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

my result:
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They didn't have 'don't care' as responses. Guess that makes you take a stand! :D :)
by anomie
Sat Oct 01, 2016 6:28 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: the animal's journal
Replies: 1057
Views: 258638

Re: the animal's journal

+1 on comments of the wilderness photography! They are amazing.
Fresh reminders of the world around us.
wow! Keep them coming.
by anomie
Sat Oct 01, 2016 6:24 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Lurker's journal
Replies: 26
Views: 10326

Re: Lurker's journal

Hi Lurker! You mention you and SO reading Sherlock. If you and co are of the gaming ilk, you may consider the fun narrative driven game Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective (1981) if you can find a copy. May be out of print.. It is a cool cooperative narrative adventure. Case props from each case bu...
by anomie
Sat Oct 01, 2016 3:53 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: The Reluctant Journal
Replies: 346
Views: 127558

Re: The Reluctant Journal

a little apprehensive about it as it is near family... I of course do not know your situation, but I am wishing that as we get older we were located closer to aging parents. It is very difficult to maintain a semblance of relationship over years when parents & in-laws are 1,500 miles away, and ...
by anomie
Sat Oct 01, 2016 3:34 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: anomie's journal
Replies: 64
Views: 19048

Re: anomie's journal

Greetings and salutations - It has been a long while since I have updated this journal. First, the meeting with the financial planner went really well; we got a gratis complete plan that included FireCalc type projections from them. Guess our savings qualified us for a real wealth management type tr...
by anomie
Sat Oct 01, 2016 2:31 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: Which Water Filter?
Replies: 27
Views: 6254

Re: Which Water Filter?

The "royal" and "big" berkeys are available in the scratch and dent section this morning. http://www.berkeyfilters.com/berkey-water-filters/systems/scratch-and-dent/ Scratch and Dent Berkey link just saved me $30 on a Travel Berkey. Thank you JennyPenny. beware: Berkey can not s...
by anomie
Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:14 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: Which Water Filter?
Replies: 27
Views: 6254

Re: Which Water Filter?

Hello -

Looking at the Berkey and stumbled on a look alike type called ProPur that one video reviewer said tasted better for drinking water.

http://www.gopropur.com/

Anyone familiar with Propur? Prolly this one.
by anomie
Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:08 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: ScriptBunny Journal II
Replies: 34
Views: 22190

Re: ScriptBunny Journal II

Hello: I am affected by SAD every year when ... When we moved northward to the northish midwest, where there is less sunlight than the southern us I was accustomed to, I experienced SAD for several years in the winter. We were finally diagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency (they now have a test for tha...
by anomie
Wed Jun 29, 2016 8:23 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: C40's Journal
Replies: 1192
Views: 373045

Re: C40's Journal

congratulations C40!
by anomie
Fri Mar 25, 2016 6:59 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Living digitally very inexpensive
Replies: 84
Views: 15838

Re: Living digitally very inexpensive

... an entire mega-corporation who is set against the existing status quo of monopolistic control of information: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. (I added the bold) source: https://www.google.com/about/company/ The time's they ar...
by anomie
Fri Mar 25, 2016 6:50 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Living digitally very inexpensive
Replies: 84
Views: 15838

Re: Living digitally very inexpensive

Pirating only works as long as there are enough paying customers to support the content generators. Perhaps helpful to conversation --> I am not aware of any forum members other than Jacob deriving profits from their contributions to this forum. Yet this forum exists. yes? Forum content is created....