Midnight Wolf

Hold my beer, I’m going in

Oof, coming out of left field with a damn tank over here, when all this guy has is a plastic butter knife and sarcasm.

You got a link for this? Like, I don’t want it to be true but holy shit, what a sentence.

GTA: SA has taught you well

holds the phone in front of me

WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU, SPEAK UP. HELLO? YES I HAVE TO HOLD MY PHONE LIKE THIS, I’M ALLERGIC TO TECHNOLOGY. JUST GO ABOUT YOUR DAILY ROUTINE, DO NOT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE HAT.

My guy it’s not just “the fans will be loud” it’s legitimately “the cooling is inadequate and the case traps heat in a cycle”. The hardware can be fine but if it’s all boiling at 100C it robs performance due to thermal throttling.

More of the fact that they are 2.5x the price of the parts, and the cases they are in are the opposite of ‘optimized for cooling’. Thermal throttling is the name of the game here.

Like a Ferrari that looks great (great in air-quotes here) in the driveway, but overheats a block down the street, essentially.

high-end

last-generation Alienware (Dell) machines

oof, a gut punch if I’ve ever seen one

E:

and office chairs

“this baby has a 4 speed manual transmission, an am/fm radio, and floor mats!” right out of The Price Is Right ‘feature list’. Mouse and keyboard not included.

Crush my keys into pieces, this is my

No, no, of course not. Just sensible yachts and mansions.

6. because you work three jobs and can’t afford rent, and because your entire family are religious idiots while you are a satanic gay furry, you [redacted] and nobody finds you for 7 weeks

…what, did I make it too obvious?

(I’m fine. Mostly.)

As someone who prefers licks, this is good progress

It’s not even looks, for some of us. I’m demisexual, and before we became a thing, my master was nowhere near my ‘type’. But he was incredibly sweet and caring, always has been, and the affection grew from there. When my ex fiancé left me, he was there, supporting me in crisis. Always there, doing his best to care for me. Now a few years on, I think he’s sexy as fuck, and I’m very happy with him.

Back to the question though, I’ve never really flirted with anyone. Always very direct, ‘hey you are cute/funny/shy/interesting’ mixed with ‘I’m horny, and you are the one causing that’ thus ‘want to fuck?’. I always put desert before the main course, as it were, since sex is a big thing for me - so I don’t want to get attached if we aren’t at least a bit compatible. What easier way then to jump right into it? Then if it goes well, we are already miles beyond the usual starter-pack bs, so the whole courting/flirting stuff is just unnecessary. We already have been horny freaks, we’ve already figured out that our desires align at least a bit, ‘why not date?’

The traditional way seems so… stupid, frankly. Slow buildup over weeks/months just to meet a brick wall when you find out that he only gets off with butt stuff, while you/they are repulsed to the point of vomiting at the thought… ‘well that was a fun 2 months, thanks and I’ll see you around I guess’. Nah, that just doesn’t make sense to me.

And there’s the whole awkward ‘what if they reject me’ like my guy/gal/sentient being, just stfu and ask them. Direct, no bullshit, no games, no dancing around the question. ‘hey, you’re cute, are you seeing someone?’ is fine. Asking if they have a Facebook account so you can add them and then changing your relationship status to ‘it’s complicated’ and hoping they comment on that, isn’t the smart play.

I guess if they enjoy it, sure, flirt away. But in my mind it makes no sense and merely complicates and extends an awkward phase.

Do note that I myself decided long ago that I’d only date other furries, so the dating pool is… very liberating, vs the standard. But that doesn’t mean that people have to continue following the same rules and expectations.

Do what makes you feel right, and fuck the norms. You don’t owe anyone anything, and if someone expects something of you that you don’t think is ideal, maybe they aren’t for you, and that’s okay. You aren’t made from a cookie cutter, don’t try to conform to one.

You will not, as a rule, run across many players from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Me, starting up my monster truck just shy of the DMZ: “challenge accepted”

I have used B&H for stuff whenever possible for the past few years. Less selection of general tech, but I have been flawlessly happy with the service, returns, shipping, etc.

When nature wants to one-up fursonas. Luckily, I’m a wolf-tiger-fox hybrid. Though I don’t have the weed pee…

This one right here, officer

I… what? concerned expression

It’s not what you’re looking for, but might be useful: https://github.com/aj3423/SpamBlocker

I use mine as my main number, though I ported away from GV (Project Fi, using GV as the backend) years ago

psp

retro

Well, guess it’s time to get my aarp card