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In it's defense, it's a pretty tongue-in-cheek series. They know it's a ridiculous premise and they make a ton of 4th wall breaks and self-aware observations, both in the manga and the anime.

When I was a kid, I always got confused for an adult. Nobody believed I was a minor. I once got confused for a college student when I was just about to graduate from elementary school.

Now I'm 41 and I have the opposite problem. Everyone thinks I'm in my late 20s/early 30s. Even with a white patch on my beard, people still think I'm just a young man who's going gray young.

It doesn't help that I retired at 38 years old. No one believes me when I say I'm already retired. I've had a few people ask me if I'm just living with my parents and calling it "retired." Ha!

When I first bought Red Dead Redemption (well over a decade ago, for the Xbox 360), I got it exclusively for the "Undead Nightmare" expansion pack. I love zombie games, and setting it in the Wild West? That's a unique twist I hadn't seen yet.

However, I didn't want to just jump right into the zombie gameplay. I wanted to be intimately familiar with the world and its lore first, so I could squeeze all the enjoyment out of the zombie expansion. I wanted to know all the townsfolk, so when I had to blow someone's brains out, I'd understand their relationship to the main character and how emotionally impactful that choice was.

Suffice to say, I was so anxious to get to the zombie expansion that I rushed through the entire game in maybe 2 evenings. I didn't really enjoy my playthrough because I was just trying to get it over with as quickly as I could.

When I finally got to the zombie expansion, I didn't really enjoy it that much. It was at that moment I realized that the original game was far more fun than the zombie expansion. But I had rushed it and wasted my whole experience.

Last year, I finally got around to playing through the game again and I made sure to slow down and really enjoy it. It's such a fantastic story. I played the Undead Nightmare expansion afterwards and made a post about it here for Halloween month. That, too, was more fun than I remembered.

Now I need to finally play Red Dead Redemption 2. I've owned it for years, but I always get bored maybe an hour into the gameplay. They put so much effort into making it as realistic and complex as possible that I just get distracted and lose the plot. RDR1 was a more straightforward plot and kept me engaged, but I keep losing focus on the sequel. I need to force myself to sit still and power through it sometime. #ADHDproblems

That's very interesting. I learned the history of my name through living descendants of my ancestors in Norway. (Two brothers immigrated to America, while a third brother stayed behind in Norway) They were the ones who told me Norway was conquered and ruled by Denmark for a while.

Perhaps it was a mistranslation between us; I had wondered how Norway was able to preserve their country's heritage and language while being ruled by their neighbor.

My family is originally from Sauda in Norway. Norwegian tradition used to be that your family name was the name of your home. If you moved to a new farm, you adopted the name of that farm as your new family name. They don't do this anymore, as it got really hard to track genealogical records with families changing names all the time.

When my ancestors immigrated to America, Norway was under Danish rule, as Denmark had conquered Norway at the time and was forcing Danish pronunciation on the Norwegian language. So my family name's pronunciation of "saw-duh" became "sov-dae."

When my ancestors got to America, no one could pronounce my family name correctly, so they changed the spelling to be more phonetic in the English language. And that's how I got my current family name!

I mean, this is my public username. It takes a very quick Google search to dox me. Most of my name is in my username already.

In my 40+ years alive, I've never met anyone with my first name, although I know they exist; a quick Google search shows me at least a handful of people who have it.

My last name is an Americanized spelling of a Danish pronunciation of a Norwegian farm name. There are very few people who have my exact last name, and every one I've ever spoken to has been a descendant of my ancestral family who immigrated to America a century and a half ago.

Combine the two, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on the planet with my specific name. I've never had a problem making accounts with my first.last name anywhere.

I read this as "fragrance" at first and thought maybe I had a particular smell that set babies and dogs at ease around me. Kinda like how pheromones can unconsciously draw people to one another.

For the record, this was while I was serving in the US military. I had a military doctor, and we were used to being yelled at when we made mistakes, so his reaction wasn't too surprising to me. What shocked me was that he was so calm and quiet before that moment. I didn't see it coming, and it took me a moment to process why I was suddenly being yelled at.

He turned a 1993 Fiat Panda into a 1993 Flat Panda.

A couple decades ago, I got a call from an ex-girlfriend who said she just tested positive for Chlamydia and recommended I get myself tested, just to be safe.

I went to my doctor, who had a bunch of questions about my sexual health before he administered the test. One of the questions he asked was, "do you use condoms?"

Of course, the answer was "yes," but for some reason, my mouth defaulted to the word, "no."

I was about to correct myself, but out of nowhere, the doctor screamed in my face, "Are you STUPID?!" I was so stunned by his sudden outburst, I froze on the spot.

He them proceeded to lecture me on proper sexual safety, half shouting at me. It was too late to fix the mistake; I felt like he'd think I was backpedaling to stay out of trouble at that point. I resigned myself to sitting through a lengthy, angry lecture.

By the way, I tested negative. My doctor was genuinely surprised. I was not.

Both. I don't like bitter foods, and they're both bitter to me.

Yuck! I hate olives. ;)

I posted this in another thread about a month ago, about why the official Midwest was composed of a bunch of eastern-leaning states:

[...] Our country was originally established on the east coast. Anything off the coastline was considered "west." But knowing just how massive our country is now, we have the true west (left half of the country) and then the mid-west (anything not on the east coast, but not on the left half of the country).

Our basis for cardinal locations is centered around the concept of our nation slowly expanding "out west" from the east coast.

The first two are part of the reason I can't sleep at nighttime. It's finally quiet, no distractions, I can finally sit down and focus on that project, and... why's the sun coming up?!

Fortunately I'm retired so I can sleep whenever I want. I typically sleep through the mornings and am awake all afternoon, evening, and night.

United States of America: We're made up of a bunch of states in North America that, ideally, are united. Although we've hardly lived up to that sentiment since the original 13 colonies fought for independence in the American Revolutionary War.

Technically, we didn't call them "states" until the Declaration of Independence was drafted in 1776 (they were "colonies" before then), so I guess that was the first and last time we were ever truly united.

Google Maps is convenient, yes. But I've been trying to de-Google my life recently, and finding alternative map programs has been difficult.

I was using OsmAnd~ for a while, then switched to Organic Maps. Just recently, I've switched to CoMaps, since Organic Maps started including affiliate links and could potentially be harvesting user data to sell.

It's always a struggle, trying to find free open-source software (FOSS) that provides a reliable service without collecting your information.

EDIT: As part of my de-Googling, I've been trying to find software through F-Droid instead of the Google Play store, since Google can potentially track my apps and their data usage through their store. CoMaps is available on F-Droid.

I don't want to stop mid-season and have to wait for the conclusion a month or more later, so I just avoid the show until the full season is released.

I guarantee this update didn't drop on Thanksgiving. Photo OP probably hasn't turned it on since their last BBQ months ago and is just noticing - on Thanksgiving - that an update pushed a while ago that they now need to install to get started.

Pro tip: Start up your electronics a day or two in advance of events, so you can pre-patch anything that needs it.

Source: Former IT guy here, who had to ensure that updates ran at the most convenient times possible for thousands of users. "Patching Tuesday" is an unofficial but well recognized "holiday" for IT folks. It's not first thing Monday morning, which could throw off the workflow for the week, but it also gives the max amount of time to resolve any issues that patching might cause, so we (hopefully) don't have to work through the weekend.

Pay attention to when your stuff requires patches. A lot of the time, it'll pop up on Tuesdays.

I have two original Steam controllers and I absolutely hated them. The track pads, whereas a cool innovative technology, weren't good for 90% of my games. I needed that D-pad, or at least a joystick. I hardly used my controllers, and now I just hold onto them as a piece of Valve history.

Mine came with the physical Steam Link box. I bought two of those boxes, so I could use Steam from a couple different places in my home away from my gaming desk. Instead of the controller, I just plugged in a keyboard and mouse to the Steam Link box. They did away with the hardware though, and now it's just an app on Smart TVs and app stores. So I can't use my keyboard and mouse without some extra steps.