Alaois posted:

Ken

Roth posted:

Logged off SF6 since I was sick of fighting Kens and yet here we are.

Roth posted:

Logged off SF6 since I was sick of fighting Kens and yet here we are.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

The time they killed Chewie by dropping an entire moon on him.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

they're dancing

Captain Invictus posted:

the time han solo fistfought a giant jewel-encrusted space weasel

Leal posted:

gently caress Han Solo where is my Dash Rendar movie?

Violen posted:

just laid my head down on this absolute unit

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

Pokemon trading card game has been released on the switch gameboy emulator

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Captain Invictus posted:

holy moly someone mentioned this thread CPS Took my kids this morning: Do I have a legal leg to stand on? elsewhere and it is real bad, I'd never seen it before.

can't quote it because the thread's over a decade past at this point, but someone reposted some of the pictures the OP took and jesus christ it's bad. spoilering it because it's pretty nasty, cat poo poo and food all over the place

not quite total squalor(I have seen true squalor in person and it is GNARLY), but still super bad. I hope the OP lost their kids because small children do not deserve being raised in a household like that. also hope the OP got their poo poo together but probably not if they spent $2700 on a gaming PC rather than using that money to fix the literal rotting holes in their floor from a pipe leak

not sure why it was goldmined, like yeah the dude's a trainwreck but there's not a lot of lols to be had in that thread, just sadness when thinking about the conditions his kids had been living in, while his money went towards building a PC for his WoW addiction

Boba Pearl posted:

It was gold mined because he turned his life around and got his kids back op

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

The time they killed Chewie by dropping an entire moon on him.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

what, han solo's daughter?

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

what, han solo's daughter?

Captain Invictus posted:

holy moly someone mentioned this thread CPS Took my kids this morning: Do I have a legal leg to stand on? elsewhere and it is real bad, I'd never seen it before.

can't quote it because the thread's over a decade past at this point, but someone reposted some low resolution reuploads of the pictures the OP took and jesus christ it's bad. spoilering it because it's pretty nasty, cat poo poo and food all over the place

not quite total squalor(I have seen true squalor in person and it is GNARLY), but still super bad. I hope the OP lost their kids because small children do not deserve being raised in a household like that. also hope the OP got their poo poo together but probably not if they spent $2700 on a gaming PC rather than using that money to fix the literal rotting holes in their floor from a pipe leak

not sure why it was goldmined, like yeah the dude's a trainwreck but there's not a lot of lols to be had in that thread, just sadness when thinking about the conditions his kids had been living in, while his money went towards building a PC for his WoW addiction

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

in the same trilogy luke gets molested by aliens after using the force to make himself look more attractive to them

steinrokkan posted:

Weren't those pictures taken after their initial attempts at "cleaning up"?

Captain Invictus posted:

oh, that's wonderful then. I swear there's been similar cases on SA of people NOT turning things around when in that sort of situation. did he post another thread about making a huge change like that, or is it in that thread, I only lightly skimmed it.

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The next day after that hearing was actually the first time things got better. The head of our local CPS division personally took the case for our children and was a lot nicer than the original woman who came; I don't know what it was about her but she was able to flat out point out to us what was wrong and not do it in a way that made us hostile about it. She had suggestions and paperwork for us to go through and talked with us about what we thought was wrong, and why, and how we thought we could change it, and then provided new insights and viewpoints to get us along to where we needed to be.

Long story short, she had my wife go see a councilor to work through some of her issues (which for her privacy sake I won't list here, but it is obvious there were some), and had me go see one as well. After two sessions I went to see my doctor as she said it was apparent to her that my problems stemmed from deeper sources than what she could fix. Immediately I was put on two different anti-depressants and went on trial with them for a month each. After a month, I went on a different one as they weren't doing a whole lot, and a second pill for panic attacks; these worked wonderfully. I began to improve.

After three months of medication, seeing councilors, and talking/working with the woman from CPS our house was at the point they deemed acceptable to return the children to, so long as we kept working on the condition of the home and did not let it deteriorate. The amount of help this woman provided was immense; from helping us start up schedules, to just sorting out our lives and providing us with the information we needed to get back on track. She helped us get our son screened in a program called Birth to Three to make sure he was developing correctly, and helped us get our daughter into speech therapy in her school.

To make this long post shorter: things continued to improve. Around the time of her leaving the case and passing it on to another worker, this was the state of the house:

http://imgur.com/a/e5gUi

Finally at the end of June, the case was closed against us and CPS left.

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What's all changed:

Our house is cleaner for one. We've since moved into subsidized apartments which have clean carpets. I would post pictures of it but while we were moving some clumsy rear end in a top hat dropped the box with the camera in it down the stairs and broke it. (namely me) We talked about buying a new one but couldn't come up with any decent reason to spending a couple hundred dollars on a digital camera again at this time.

My wife has a new job, she works overnights at wal-mart. I work there during the days now. We've paid back the vast majority of the debt we were in, and have finally gotten off of food stamps. It feels good really; we're working on our credit, and switched to a credit union here in town who gave us a loan for our car when the old one died. With the car loan to bolster our credit scores, we hope by next summer we can get a loan through a program called Habitat for Humanity here in town and actually get our own home to live in.

I cut my hair. I no longer have a ponytail. I actually switched up my eating habits as well and began to walk and ride bike nearly every day. Once school starts up here in a couple weeks I also plan to work out at the university's gym. I've dropped from a 4x t-shirt so far down to being able to comfortably wear a 3x. Not a huge improvement but it's a start.

I get up every morning at 6:30 A.M. now to wake up to pick my wife up from work. I get the kids up, get them dressed in clean clothes. Once she's home we all have breakfast together, and after that, when my wife lays down for bed (she works night shift like I said) I'll start what laundry there is to do. It's good to have a schedule, and now that everything is more under control and we're in our new apartment I feel a poo poo load less stressed.

Frank Frank posted:

Not a SA legend but genuine lmao:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h9DooYaNjM