D&D chat: Robert Downey Jr: Iron Man Would Vote For Hillary Clinton

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WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

When I'm mod I'm going to make D&D great again

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 13:10

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:34

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

When I'm mod I'm going to make D&D great again

sike it's always been poo poo

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 13:11

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Luigi Thirty posted:

http://elitedaily.com/life/savings-20s-something-wrong/1214445/

I don’t have any savings, but I also don’t have any wants.

I don’t know about you, but I like to enjoy my life. I like to go out to eat, buy clothes I don’t “need” and spend money with friends on memorable nights out.

This goes back to a piece of advice a very successful friend gave me: “Don’t save money. Make more money,” he nonchalantly stated, pushing me into a taxi.

Unlike most things people tell me, this advice did not go in one ear and out the other; it stayed with me and changed the way I look at everything from my career to my savings.

Before this piece of advice, I was frantic. I was always doubting and always feeling guilty. I lived in the most exciting city in the world (also the most expensive) and had yet to experience it.

I was trying to save, which meant trying not to eat. I wasn’t going out with friends, had yet to go to a club and had never seen the inside of a taxi.

I couldn’t enjoy my life because I was too busy worrying about my bank statement. I was too busy watching my savings instead of savoring my youth.

Why did I feel so guilty about spending money on myself and my life?

When did our 20s start to feel like our 40s? When did we get weighed down with the same pressure and stresses as a woman with four kids and a second mortgage?

We don’t have kids. We’ll be renting for the foreseeable future, and we have no problem eating McDonald’s when we’re skint.

I’ve recently figured it out: This pressure, this third-party stress, is ingrained within us. It’s this looming doom our parents carved into our unconscious, only to come out anytime we make an impulse purchase or have to spend the night without Netflix.

But like most things our parents have ingrained in us, we must consciously work to push it out. Because while they may have the best intentions, they don’t always have the best insight.

They want us to save because it provides us with a safety net, but that’s exactly why we shouldn’t. Their need for us to have a safety net is just a giant metaphor for the difference between our parent’s generation and ours.

They were getting married at 20 while we’re just getting our first apartments. They were saving for kids while we still want to be kids. We’re on different schedules, different paths and totally different savings plans.

We’re taking our time growing up, refusing to be shackled by mortgages and diapers. We’re not trying to live with safety nets; we’re trying to live on the edge.

smdh

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 14:01

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

There a retirement crisis looming in the next 10-20 years it's gonna be lol

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 14:15

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

zoux posted:

will boomers suffer?

well right when millenials finally move out of their parents' house, their parents are gonna move in with them

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 15:44

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

erin go bragh home country's full

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 15:45

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

I haven't lived at home in 12 years

It's me, I'm the unicorn millennial

im 32 (i forget what that makes me) but my mother-in-law lives with us because lol she has no savings at all whoops!

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 15:46

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

im 32 (i forget what that makes me) but my mother-in-law lives with us because lol she has no savings at all whoops!

we've been hearing "boomers are putting off retirement because they have no savings" for almost a decade but eventually they're not gonna be able to put off retirement any more and they'll still have no savings

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 15:47

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

my father's not even 60 yet so I don't foresee this in my near future

she's 68 and has alzheimers so maybe it won't be forever

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 15:53

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

i owe $6000 in taxes

thanks a lot, AMT

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 15:58

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Badger of Basra posted:

shut your trap, trust fund haver

hmm no i do not have a trust fund

i work hard for the money

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 19:49

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Today, in Ugandan facebook jokes:

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 16:40

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Cuba could basically live for decades off the proceeds of selling their cars to rich Americans

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 16:43

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Rafza posted:

here have another

why, are they particularly rare/valuable?

basically a bunch of cars from the 1950s that have survived to today because Cuba hasn't really been able to get any other cars since then

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 16:46

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

"meltdown" and "yikes" are my favorite election memes so far

# ¿ Mar 23, 2016 15:51

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

today, in ugandan facebook memes

# ¿ Apr 3, 2016 00:33

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

travis blackle

# ¿ Apr 4, 2016 00:27

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

friend of mine was on Jeopardy last night, then got an email mainsplaining later that night something she said

smdh

# ¿ Apr 5, 2016 20:07

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

welp, friend of mine killed herself last weekend

# ¿ Apr 7, 2016 01:29

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Rollofthedice posted:

oh god that's terrible

i'm sorry for your loss

she posted pictures of her new garden on saturday and then welp

:shrug:

life, man

# ¿ Apr 7, 2016 01:31

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Rollofthedice posted:

i suppose it would be in poor taste to talk about my own garden now huh

i've got the seeds in a greenhouse indoors and will plant them once this april freeze we're experiencing is over\

# ¿ Apr 7, 2016 01:48

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tciKSzVZro4

http://jezebel.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-weve-reached-peak-wokeness-1769715750

gently caress me daddy

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 05:56

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

zoux posted:

the worst shippers in the world are supernatural shippers who believe not only do the brothers in the show have a secret gay relationship, but that the actors themselves are gay lovers and both their wives are beards. they have gotten Jensen Ackles's wife ejected from conventions by making false security reports about how she's a stalker.

I just googled that and uh I think she was a stalker?

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 17:10

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/718470584141815808

What story?

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 17:11

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

zoux posted:

that she had to swipe her metrocard four times to get on the subway because of a) that's just how it always works b) she's a heinous elitist bitch who can't understand normal people things

smdh

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 17:13

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

the_paradigm_shift posted:

can't wait for this alec bill to hit my state too

Does ALEC do social poo poo? I thought they were corporate-only

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 17:15

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:34

WhiskeyJuvenile: Feb 15, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo

Playing a lot of Starsector lately

It's Mount & Blade in space basically

# ¿ Apr 9, 2016 20:14

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