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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Since they say they will be giving you a quick lesson… might be allright. It will most likely need some time to get used to it but you might be fine. See how the quick lesson goes? They might show you around the neighborhood for you to then drive around yourself and get used to it a bit.

    It will be a whole another thing to keep in mind so be extra careful with your driving probably




  • The point is the legal benefits and publicly declaring your love and commitment, if you care about that.

    You can spend as little as you want, if you only care about the legal status. But since you are probably asking about the usual big wedding - it’s really just throwing a party to celebrate the act. It’s not mandatory. Invite people you want to party with and celebrate life in a way you want.

    What can suck about it is the peer pressure from parents and other people to do it the way they want, to do it “properly”.








  • Pros: you have a weekend when other people don’t. So wherever you want to go, there will likely be less people there (thoug do account for morning and evening workday traffic). Some places you may need to go to may be closed on weekends, but you won’t face this issue.

    Cons: you have weekend when other people don’t… If you want to do something with other people, you will likely be limited to evenings.

    It’s nice if you have a close person who can have similar week schedule like you, or if you just want to do stuff by yourself. I did use work like that (though I didn’t have fixed days) and it had its perks for sure. Split days off may be manageable sometimes, but it is a terrible idea longterm. Might work forbyou, we are all different - but I’d advise against it. Go for it sometimes if you need to change shifts with someone (especially if you could get a 3 day “weekend” out of it), but I’d advise against having it fixed like that.



  • I will provide a point of view of someone who is a bit more pro “live service game” concept.

    While I agree these can be scummy it depends on the game. I see them as evolution of the subscription model on which most MMORPGs functioned back in the day (and few big ones and several niche ones still do). You used to pay monthly sub to be able to play the game, now you have the opportunity to pay for the season pass. Depending on specific game you get content for free (no neex to pay the sub to access the content) and alonv with the content they will launch a season pass which gives you some goodies for playing. Gives them engagement numbers and expectable revenue stream.

    In the above model, I usually decide whether I like the content that they bring and if I would realistically play it enough to get majority ofnthe rewards from the pass (because, and this isnthe worst part - once the season ends in 99% of the cases the pass goes away and its rewards are gone forever if you didn’t have time to earn them). Then there are also games like Destiny where the content is not free but tied to the pass, so you basically purchase x months of content (+the rewards from the pass).

    There are many shades of season passes - some could be considered fair, some are alright, some are ignorable and some are bad. All of them are made to make money - which in a live service game is I think fair, as they need to fund the ongoing developement. It all depends on the way they want to takenyour money: can be used as a nice bonus you can purchase if you are enjoying the game - in which case I’m fine with it. It can be used so they want to manipulate you through various way to feel forced to purchase - in which case I’m very much oposed to it.

    Though I think we all agree that the part when the rewards you purchased are only available temporarily is a scam and shouldn’t be a thing - and I do realize I will be called out here for sometimes purchasing them. I try to view them as simply making a voluntary payment for the content I got from the devs. And the rewards tied to it a bonus.


  • Ok, I’m not Polish (hopefully somebody Polish will chime in soon) but from neighbouring Slavic country so tried to figure this out with some translator help. My gues it’s something like “tam idzje” (or close to it, might not be comoletely gramatically correct), but pretty butchered - I understand your father doesn’t speak the language but probably heard someone in family as a kid say it and tried his best to mimic them? I’d expect it not sounding quite right.

    I think I can get reasonably close to pronouncing “tam idzje” weirdly enough for it to sound something like “yadja”.