Whoever is recording that really needs to clean the lens.

And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

This is almost exactly the same as my experience as well. My premiums are pretty high (like $500/month out of my paycheck) but when the time comes for the procedures it’s usually not too bad. One caveat, we have not had any large medical expenses except for a relatively minor outpatient surgery that my wife needed last year, bill was over $1000 but the hospital had an interest-free payment plan that let us break it up over the next 12 months with no early payment penalty, so we took advantage of that.

As another poster pointed out, the big issue is the emotional and mental toll of trying to sort things out if the slightest little thing goes wrong. You basically have to do their job for them in that case and can be exhausting.

Edit to add: as you can see in this thread, people’s expenses can vary wildly depending on a lot of factors. For my plan, even if we don’t hit our caps, there is typically still a ‘discount’ and ‘allowed charge’ that the insurance has worked out with the providers, so we still didn’t have to pay the ‘full’ amount of that surgery even though we didn’t hit our deductible or out of pocket. We’ve also been to the ER a couple times for our 7-year old and it’s typically been about $600 a pop for each. It is insanely complicated and I barely understand it all but just thankful the plan my employer offers seems decent.

Octopath Traveller looks interesting.

I’ve been getting into Metroidvania’s recently. Don’t know how I went 40 years without playing them but here we are. They’re great to play on the Steam Deck.

Ooh Night in the Woods was good.

Gregg rulz ok

Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters has some great tunes.

Edit: and The Talos Principle

If we could move to Iceland or Finland, we’d do it in a heartbeat.

My plan too in October 2025.

I wish my Windows work machine wouldn’t boot. Everything worked fine for us. :-(

We just watched it last year and I can’t believe I missed it the first go round. We were blown away.

That whole arc made me sad.

Really sorry to hear about your duck.

Been really into Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year series, just good fun to make you laugh. They’re all up on YouTube on the duo’s official channels.

Understanding in a Car Crash

Did you get four hundred thousand viruses?

Got sick of being sold to, when they got rid of third party apps I bailed.

Hmm maybe William Basinski? He kinda has droney stuff that fuzzes out and goes on for a long time with piano fragments and stuff. I find his stuff very relaxing personally.

Haha yes!

https://youtu.be/ylhsbfQTPDQ

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Haha no worries. Did you see the Kickstarter for the sequel to Star Control 2?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity