If I've had a tremendously bad day, I'll engage in the worst vices I have - smoking (hookah) and drinking (wine/beer).

But generally, I read to unwind - mostly history or philosophy related topics.

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I had a child in college and obtained sole custody thus no travel to anywhere I'd wanna go - but Google earth has panoramic views of *most* UNESCO world heritage sights (which is basically anything worth going to).

Plus it's free. So all you have to do is figure out where exactly you want to go and zoom way in and click away :D They even have Brestskaya Krepost - Брестская крепость

I regret lots of shit but I try not to dwell on it because there's really no point.

Wireless is generally unreliable. You simply can't expect wireless to function properly when constant stability is something you want.

It's not possible to move the router down to your pc?

I myself opted for drilling holes through the floor due to lack of working phone jack ;)

I ended up breaking up with my girlfriend on the way to prom because she was worthless, and then just met up with somebody else at prom and everything worked out great lol.

I use the in-game autoheal.

I've never really noticed difficulty with clicking on people unless you've got oodles of people standing in side of each other's hit boxes - but i imagine you'd have such difficulties regardless of what method you're using to heal.

While it's true that breaking the beam does delay your build rate, as long as you're not trying to heal everybody constantly your build rate isn't going to be effected in a way which could actually affect you in game terms unless you've made a dreadful positional mistake.

Since it's at work, I'd suggest hearts of iron 2 or Crusader kings 1 - along with a lot of gig and vortex mentioned.

When I've had the luxury of office jobs old paradox games come in really handy because they take forever to play anyways and pausing/unpausing isn't difficult and you don't find yourself getting lost or forgetting what was going on when last you alt-tabbed etc - or getting horribly painfully addicted and doing nothing for hours and hours.

Putting money down helps if you walk out immediately after and go somewhere else if they refuse ;) Especially if you buy from an individual or an auction-provided used dealer.

Buying on a loan right now isn't a bad idea given how low interest rates are generally, but I have a personal aversion to making payments on things, and particularly in my state, if you don't own your car you get reamed on insurance/plates, etc so I just avoid it altogether and buy old luxury cars lol. I very nearly once bought a 1990 mercedes-benz, it even had a working parking sensor and rear-view camera, but I figured the v12 engine wouldn't really be a good idea and maintenance probably wouldn't be easy enough for me (some really fancy brands do really peculiar things).

If it's a sudden change you really ought to look into cleaning out your processor's heat sink and make sure all the fans are spinning properly (if you can see them with a flash light or get real close-like and hear them running smoothly). Even a 10 degree change in running temperature can give me some major FPS related hassles with tf2 (mostly noticed when I try to record things - but I still see them lol).

If you want mediocre gas mileage, but solid maintenance, buy a caddy. I know it sounds silly, but an olderish Cadillac can be gotten pretty cheaply, you'll own it outright, insurance will be cheaper, no payments if you lose your job, etc. You'll also have a Cadillac. I've had mine for 4 years now and I have only had to take it in to fix anything once - and it was for faulty wiring in the gas pump which cost me 30$ lol oh and it's a 96' lol. Also it drives like it's floating on air. The only flaw with the 96' is that it doesn't have a heated steering wheel (which would be handy). When this one finally dies, I will amend that situation. I got mine for 3.3k in cash.

I approached the older gentleman who owned it (he had a fancy new black one), I showed him 3.3k in cash (he was asking more). I said I wanted the title right now no negotiations - and that was that lol.

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Gamer food ain't a thing AND it's real. Tbf I do really like eating sunflower seeds, but mumble gets hard.

I'm capped at 132 with no gfx config, it never goes lower unless i play on a 32 man pub - then it'll hang around 90 if all 30+- people are on screen.

As far as improvements the best thing you can do to eek out some more fps is blow out your processor fan - I always get much more stable performance from tf2 when my processor is bleeding heat efficiently.

Scout has a significant timing and positional aspect to it that's often over looked.

Let's use a simple example from something other than tf2 because I like to humor myself and write too much.

Anyways, so basically in any flight sim game dealing with WW2, the very first thing you learn not to do (if you want to be good) is to never take a head to head fight unless you know you're far superior to your opponent (like your plane is super swole compared to their's) because *most* of the time skill is completely negated and you've essentially taken a 50/50 fight which may leave both of you dead or basically dead.

Scout's mainly learning when it's ok to take a head to head fight, or to force somebody else into a head to head fight that they *really* don't want to be involved in. So, in short here are a few short tips:

Always stand on high places - the higher the better - always try to get yourself some height
Always shoot at anything in the sky, they're completely at your mercy
Make sure if you're going to try and force a head to head you've either got back up or a distraction. - What allows most of the best scouts to just run in and get a 3k is because everybody else on the other team is looking at somebody else jumping around or pushing a choke and all of a sudden a scout appears and poops on them.
Movement is really good - try to purposefully spam adada, mouse waggle - all the tricks, and if you can manage to actually control said evasive movement (so like consciously dodging rockets and so on) you'll be p-solid too.

He certainly is, but the only real way to survive the horror of being a parent, or even knowing a small child, is to mess with them in such ways.

I woke my kiddo up at the usual time (he's 6) I informed him at that time that school had been cancelled for some reason and he could stay in bed or get up and eat breakfast.

He chose to remain in bed.

So, at 8:05 (5 minutes before we have to leave) I wake him back up and inform him that school is in fact not cancelled and he has 5 minutes to be ready to go.

I laughed, he said "That's not an april fool's that's just MEAN!"

pretty much made my day.

I don't pug because generally 50% of the team I'm made to pug with is worthless/doesn't care/is just fucking around so it's not really worth my time. I'm not saying I need pugging to be super serious to have any fun - but I need it to at least somewhat resemble something other than a shameful display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay9ZxsulN2c

Unless I'm drunk - to very, very drunk. Then it's not such a big waste of time because it puts me in a place mentally where I can be confronted with stupidity that makes my game-play less fun/harder without getting upset.