If I understand the meta here, this is an occasional thing. So yeah, ask a 40 year old unemployed goth chick who lives with her wife, mother, and grandmother anything.

whats your favourite dinosaur

wait grandmother still alive? at 40? what the fuck

Ymir wrote:

whats your favourite dinosaur

It's a tie between stegosaurus and dimetrodon. And yes, I know dimetrodon is not a dinosaur, but whatever, it often appeared in dinosaur books when I was a little girl

Polyspora wrote:

wait grandmother still alive? at 40? what the fuck

Yeah, she's 95 and still going.

MistressRemilia wrote:

Polyspora wrote:

wait grandmother still alive? at 40? what the fuck

Yeah, she's 95 and still going.

damn the stories, you're very lucky

What was the last thing you ate

DM FOR MUTUAL wrote:

What was the last thing you ate

Couple slices of pepperoni pizza

is it hard being 40

sametdze wrote:

is it hard being 40

Not really, most of the time I still feel like I'm in my early 20s (non-age-related physical issues aside, anyway). I mostly still live like it, too, except that I'm not in college, and I'm not quite as thin as I was in my pfp (that was 12 years ago). I've never really fit in with my own age group, though.

What's kind of an odd feeling, though, is how my IRL friends now all have kids and shit. My wife and I don't, and it feels like my friends are now in an older age group than I am. But meh, neither of us want kids anyway.

thoughts on Gen Alpha

Jangsoodlor wrote:

thoughts on Gen Alpha

The emphasis on generations is stupid tbh. Young people will be young people, and history will repeat itself, just with new clothes and slang.

Do you have any interesting stories from your adulthood? If so I'd like to hear one

Ymir wrote:

Do you have any interesting stories from your adulthood? If so I'd like to hear one

Hrm... I went to Japan for about six months as part of a study abroad thing during college, as part of a minor in Japanese (my university didn't offer it as a major at the time). It was my first time leaving home, and my first time on an airplane. The place I lived was about halfway between Osaka and Kyoto, so I spent time visiting both of those cities, though I still ended up spending much more time in Osaka in the end. I bought sooooo much anime stuff from Mandarake that I almost couldn't bring home all my clothes in my suitcases. I did manage to fit it all in the end, though.

Speaking of university, I also attended classes for nine or ten years, yet never graduated with any sort of degree. I started out as a business management major, but that only lasted one quarter before I realized I fucking HATED business school and switched to a computer science degree. Around my second year is when I started to make plans to stay at university long enough to eventually get a masters or PhD. Unfortunately I got extremely sick my third year with bronchitis, which caused me to miss a LOT of class. My advisor at the time was also shit and suggested I drop two of my four classes, assuring me I could without any negative consequences. Yeah, that was BS. I permanently lost all of my scholarships and grants within days because of that. Thankfully by then I had a part time job on campus and an awesome boss. She hired me on as a full-time benefited employee, where one of the employee benefits was a full tuition waiver, with the only caveat being that I could only take one class per quarter. So, after six months or something like that, I was able to attend school again using that waiver. It took me longer, but I managed to complete the requirements for my minor (Japanese) and major (CompSci). All I had left were a few general education classes to take. Then I got moved to a different boss who fucked over that employee benefit for me, making it so I couldn't finish my classes. With that went my dreams of having a masters or PhD (in religious studies by that time - I didn't want to stick with computer science).

So yeah, spent nine or ten years at university, yet I technically only have a high school diploma.

Fuck that guy he seriously did you dirty. You seem to be surviving despite all of this though, but 10 years of education after highschool sounds like hell especially without anything to really show for it.

The Japan story was interesting, would you ever plan to go back there? Any pros/cons of your time there?

wow 40?

Ymir wrote:

The Japan story was interesting, would you ever plan to go back there? Any pros/cons of your time there?

I would love to go back someday, yeah. Pros would be the people I met, and the food. The one con I can think of is the heat.

z0z wrote:

wow 40?

Physically.

How did you come to start playing osu, and what keeps you posting in OT?

do you enjoy green day or bands similar? :>

Any reason why you decided to join this forum?
Why Slackware as your Linux distro instead of something more modern and used like Debian or Fedora?
Full Linux user or do you use Windows/MacOS as well?

DM FOR MUTUAL wrote:

How did you come to start playing osu, and what keeps you posting in OT?

A mapper I met on Mastodon recommended it to me. I played a shit ton of DDR and Stepmania when I was younger (still do occasionally), and things like Guitar Hero and Rock Band later on, so I already knew I liked rhythm games. But like any game, I don't play it consistently, and instead bounce around between different games all the time.

I dunno why I keep posting here. Guess you guys are cool or something.

lostsilver wrote:

do you enjoy green day or bands similar? :>

Despite loving gothic rock and industrial, I've never been too into punk. But there are a few bands I enjoy. Black Flag is pretty cool at times, and I absolutely adore this album by The Vladimirs, especially track 4.

Winnyace wrote:

Any reason why you decided to join this forum?
Why Slackware as your Linux distro instead of something more modern and used like Debian or Fedora?
Full Linux user or do you use Windows/MacOS as well?

Boredom XD

And Slackware was the first Linux distro I used back in 2002. Well, technically a derivative of it called TopologiLinux, which was just Slackware that could be installed without partitioning your drive, but I very quickly went to normal Slackware. I started using Linux (Slackware, of course) full time on my laptop in 2004, and used it full-time on my first server in 2005, but stuck with dual-booting Linux and Winblows on my desktop for a while longer to play certain games, and because of the music software/DAW that I used at the time. Later I had a second desktop that was also exclusively Linux. I ditched Windows completely about seven years ago or so when I realized I hadn't booted into it for over a year and could still play the games I wanted, and use the DAW and VSTs that I needed.

I used MacOS Snow Leopard for about a month and hated it.

I stick with Slackware because it's more Unix-y feeling, doesn't have systemd, isn't a rolling release, is stable af, and is easy on resources. I love its package manager, too. When I finally move on from it, I'll probably move to FreeBSD instead of a different Linux distro.

burgernfat wrote:

Because gorls :3

so how's your career stuff

z0z wrote:

so how's your career stuff

I stopped working in 2013 due to severe mental health issues. These days I try to bring in some support via a music player I've written and with my Bandcamp, but the income is sparse at best 😅

MistressRemilia wrote:

lostsilver wrote:

do you enjoy green day or bands similar? :>

Despite loving gothic rock and industrial, I've never been too into punk. But there are a few bands I enjoy. Black Flag is pretty cool at times, and I absolutely adore this album by The Vladimirs, especially track 4.

i see!!