S_Bear

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by S_Bear 26d ago
"I've never met anyone who was sorry they had children" I've met my parents for 18 years before I moved away.
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by S_Bear 27d ago
I've been waiting for a successor to Aerobiz: Supersonic. I've played about every airline management sim since then, and nothing scratches the itch.
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by S_Bear 28d ago
I read something a while ago that said a lot of 'introverts' are just extroverts with social anxiety.
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by S_Bear 1mo ago
This is a lot of fun. My 'biggest' gripe is that in the shapes quiz Tuvalu and the Seychelles are so tiny that no image displayed for me that I could see.
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by S_Bear 1mo ago
My wife's friends from her Minecraft server joined us on vacation the past few years. We have multiple people from all over the US and Canada meet us where we're going and we go do touristy stuff together.
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by S_Bear 3mo ago
One of my all-time favorites. Still reads like a 'modern' book.
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by S_Bear 3mo ago
The best part of the Singularity is that, once everyone who wants to uploads their consciousness to a computer does so, we mortal humans can simply unplug it and go on about our lives.
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by S_Bear 3mo ago
I was helping an 80+ year old with a phone problem this week. Dealing with the AI CSA was so frustrating. I don't think this lady was ready to burn down data centers that morning, but I think she was looking for a pitchfork by the af
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by S_Bear 3mo ago
Including their ridiculous naming system. Referring to a playstation generation is easy, referring to an xbox generation past the 360 is incredibly difficult.
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by S_Bear 3mo ago
I used to work in a bookstore, and I've been working in libraries almost my entire career. Most books have no value. I've probably thrown out a million books in my life; most of them have been diet books, cook books, and politica
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by S_Bear 3mo ago
I've been replaying some of the games of my youth, and they are either super easy or don't take very much time (I remember the original Final Fantasy being this vast epic tale; it took me 9-ish hours to beat as an adult. My Punch
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by S_Bear 4mo ago
Club Happily Bald here. My wife prefers me without hair, and razor blades are significantly cheaper than haircuts. I can't imagine trying to preserve my hair.
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by S_Bear 4mo ago
III was my favorite. Lyle was so cool to 13 year old me, the multi-generation cyborgs were awesome (in fact, the multiple ending were all kind of neat), I loved the biomes connected by tunnels, and the art direction was kind of gross and f
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by S_Bear 5mo ago
Cahokia was one of the coolest places to take people when I lived in St Louis. It's kind of a hidden gem and it altered the way I had been taught that native people had lived.
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by S_Bear 6mo ago
I read this every couple years or so and enjoy it every time.
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by S_Bear 7mo ago
I work as a librarian (and have been one for 25+ years), but I kind of hate the things that librarians should care about. I got into this business because I like helping elderly people in my community with their smartphones and tablets, an
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by S_Bear 7mo ago
Other people's dogs are my favorite dogs.
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by S_Bear 7mo ago
And wife and I are both old and wrinkly and happily child free. Childfree people aren't just hedonists.
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by S_Bear 7mo ago
I cut my parents out of my life as soon as I was able. Depending on the 'vibrancy of family life' when you're old is often a bad gamble.
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by S_Bear 7mo ago
I used to have a 'Rugged Indoorsman' shirt. Loved that one.
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by S_Bear 7mo ago
My home insurance jumped from $600 a year to $2300 a year from 2019 - 2025. A big boost for consumer spending indexes, but I feel really ripped off. (I shopped around last year and every company was charging the same amount)
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by S_Bear 8mo ago
My parents are poor boomers, but if they had to live as I do, they'd be rich boomers. They have no financial discipline and burned through cash like crazy. If they would have saved even a little bit in the 80s and 90s, they'd be
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by S_Bear 8mo ago
For all the effort we put into science education, cooking is applied science we do every day. We should start in elementary school and keep at it through high school, in my opinion.
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by S_Bear 8mo ago
That book killed Dilbert for me. I enjoyed every Dilbert book up until that one, then it just faded away for me.
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by S_Bear 8mo ago
My wife has been on the same minecraft server for 15 years. We meet up with the other members fairly regularly; a few of them even flew out to Hawaii with us for vacation last year. This year we're going to Canada for vacation, and w
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by S_Bear 8mo ago
My favorite mobile game ad was for Jeep, which was 3 seconds of the word JEEP on a black background. My wife and I laugh about it, but we remember it. It was actually really effective in that regard. My second favorite was for some pirate g
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by S_Bear 9mo ago
I'm not 'in tech', but I am a technology librarian and a large part of my job is teaching senior citizens how to use their devices. I don't make a ton of money, but I get a lot of social capital in my community, as well
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by S_Bear 9mo ago
I was at a conference in St Cloud, MN a few years ago, and I could see the Panda Express from my hotel. Took around 40 minutes to walk there because I couldn't get the timing right to frogger myself across the 6 lanes. Got stuck in t
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by S_Bear 9mo ago
When I was starting in retail, I had several notebooks I made of conversational flowcharts. They helped a lot back when I was in my late teens, and, along with some improv training, I can put on a pretty convincing performance now (my custo
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by S_Bear 11mo ago
Yeah, mine was count down from ten. Made it to eight, then I was in a different room and an hour had passed. Closest thing to time travel.

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