Turniper
2d ago
Every still image I've seen pretty clearly shows a bullet hole in the front windshield. Close to the edge of the front, roughly where state registration tags usually go, but still the front. I'm sure some shots went through the side considering like 4 rounds were fired, but characterizing them all as being shot from the side does not seem fair.
I have no idea what the official schedule for the democrat orgs in my city looks like. But I do know the potlucks I attend in which like 90% of the candidates for certain state house seats and a bunch of dem precinct chairs and heads of random third party YIMBY orgs hobnob are probably not listed on them. I just happen to be friends with a dude who is in that scene, and he runs events.
They might not be on the party calendar, but I'm pretty sure that you could make a lot more connections at one of them, than at anything official.
Everyone I know who actually got involved pretty much did so by going to some sort of event, a protest, reading, rally, etc; and then just asking who they should talk to and being directed to someone who could use labor for calls/event planning/etc. To address the question you asked downthread, nobody wants randos off the street, because anyone who doesn't at least have the gumption to attend an event on their own is definitely not gonna follow through with dozens of hours of uncompensated labor. And that pretty much is required, if you really want to get involved. Almost everyone cuts their teeth as a gofer or door knocker, unless you plan to enter as a candidate and bring serious money/recognition.
Turniper
14d ago
Well, if you attract them with personality, you don't have to keep spending money in order to keep them interested. Kinda a big difference if you're not made of dough.
Turniper
24d ago
Oh, we're all mad, I was just lucky enough to meet someone whose neuroses are complimentary to my particular eccentricities. Whether your own romance works out or not, I'm sure it won't be because you didn't treat the endeavor with the gravity it deserves. And if fate does intervene, you are building all the skills and temperaments that will help when you do finally have the stability to date off intercontinental hard mode.
Turniper
24d ago
It is difficult to overstate how different your love life is from mine. I am in almost every way the opposite of you. Partnered for ten years, soon to be married. Almost constitutionally incapable of big romantic gestures, inclined to focus on the smaller day to day things. Generally into women who are healthy, sane, and on the other side of the kids conversation.
But damn do I enjoy reading about it.
I wish you luck. You've had a hard run of it. But there's no rhyme nor reason to these things. Sometimes it works until it doesn't, or doesn't until it does. There's little more you can do than try and learn from your mistakes, and you're doing that. I hope you find all the happiness of stability while keeping hold of the passion. My dad likes to say the most important thing we can do in life is find the one person we're going to share it with. If you do that right, the rest all falls into place.
I am both pleased and regretful to say that while I'm only 10 years in, not 40, all my experience suggests he is probably correct about this. Hopefully this is the last of your excellent romantic catastrophe dissection essays.
Turniper
29d ago
Oh, no, if the publicly provided details are true the lady is obviously in the wrong, and were I inclined to chime in on their interpersonal disputes I'd be recommending she be less accommodating to someone obviously looking to push around their neighbors. The lady just straight keeps threatening to call the cops about completely legal street parking directly adjacent to their own property. She just doesn't want any cars on the street.
Turniper
29d ago
This is a reference to the particular dude who came in the fluffer in the famous Aella's B-Day sankey diagram. Yes, it is real. Her (Said fluffer's) twitter is Romy_Holland (I don't think this is doxing, she's quite open about the whole thing online, which is how I am aware of it). I know the above comment was a joke about future politicians in future orgies, but the specifics are kinda too wholesomely hilarious not to share.
Nioh 2! The third is coming out in just a few weeks, and I'm replaying the second in preparation. Having already beaten the game 1.5 times or so, playing "I constantly swap between the 10 different kinds of weapons based on what recently dropped well" is a ton of fun. So many of the move-sets and combos are basically muscle memory for me, especially the katana, since it barely changed since the first game. Sekiro is an honorary contender, but I really do think Nioh is the best 'combat focused' game I've ever played. At least for melee combat, the ranged is rather bolted on in comparison. But the stances, ki management, the way it encourages aggression without becoming a rhythm game like Sekiro, it's just all so peak. I really hope the third one lives up to the legacy. As much as I love onmyo being its own playstyle, I think doubling down on their melee focus was probably the right call.
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