I did the same with guitar. Stopped playing nearly 20 years ago and picked up again during Covid. Probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It gives me an outlet I didn’t have before, and I’ve put so much into it with practice and lessons that I’m better than I’d ever have thought I’d be.

Like you, I know enough to entertain myself and that’s perfect. Sometimes I’ll just pick it up and play along with new songs I hear and it still surprises me when I can do that well.

lol amazing.

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I literally started a new game this afternoon.

I haven’t been out of act 1 in so long…

I disagree. I have a modern American 3/4 ton diesel pickup. It’s not a crossover. I’m not in construction or maintenance, I work in tech.

I have four horses and a gooseneck trailer for the horses that the truck hauls once or twice a week. I also have a flatbed for hauling hay or moving the tractor.

For literally everything else i have a small car, because that truck is awful to drive in traffic or urban areas.

You realize that data comes from the same place, right?

Oh you grew up near Atlanta. I, too, am a Sid Williams commercial survivor.

This is one of the reasons I stayed. It was still small enough back then that you actually started to recognize people you had conversations with, and not just the troll farms.

Who’s chopper is this?

Chiefs have been over hyped all season. This team isn’t as good as previous SB winners. Most of their games were close 1-score wins, and they developed a reputation for some questionable calls assisting them.

None of that happened tonight, and they got exposed by the Eagles.

The dream

“the refs aren’t biased because we lost the Superbowl” isn’t the W they want I think.

You’re probably right. I’ll admit it’s a self selection bias because I’m old enough to have made up my mind not to associate with people that have fundamentally different beliefs than I do.

So there are likely a lot of them, but none of them are MY friends, so it’s easy enough to believe in my little sphere.

Yeah dude, I’m fairly confident most of us dislike Reagan a fucking lot.

At least, most people in my generation that I hang out with, so it could be self selecting.

Then call it for everyone equally. If not, it’s favoritism plain and simple. It was a bad call. Both times.

Where they went wrong: Deshaun Watson

How to fix it: I guess you just wait it out, back in the dumpster.

Connections Puzzle #565

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Blue is the one that threw me, but once I caught purple I understood it.

Same. 14kW system on the roof, 2800 gallons of water storage refilled from well with electric pump. 4xPowerwall batteries for storage/backup, all electric appliances/hvac.

We can theoretically go for weeks as well, assuming moderate sun.

Central Texas, 260+ days of sun here.

So this is a bit of a personal peeve of mine, so please don’t take it as an attack or argumentative, I’m just offering a perspective.

Generally speaking, gamey is a misnomer. Unless, if by gamey you mean “doesn’t taste like domesticated beef”, in which case you’re right on, but gamey itself isn’t a flavor.

Every meat has its own distinct flavor and calling something gamey just indicates that it’s not culturally normal for you.