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turqrambles

For some reason my brain always forgets that Spiritfarer is rated T for language so I'm always taken aback whenever I talk to a funny cartoon animal in this Studio Ghibli -esque time management game and they're just like "Shit, these douchebags make me sick to my ass".

#spiritfarer
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crypticc4nnibal

Spiritfarer is cute and fun they said. It's a nice and cozy game, they said. THEN WHY HAVE I BEEN DRY HEAVING FOR THE PAST TEN MINUTES MY HEART IS BROKEN MY SOUL IS SHATTERED MY BODY FEELS NUMB NOTHING IS NICE ANYMORE I WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE HAPPINESS AGAIN I HAVE NO MORE TEARS TO SHED WHY DID THEY HAVE TO TAKE MY BOY FROM ME OH MY GOD LORD CHRIST WHY MY SWEET LITTLE BOY MY ADORABLE LITTLE MUSHROOM SON PLEASE GOD WHY

#spiritfarer
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trainwreckgenerator
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yu-gi-oh-slavia

Touchscreens do not belong in cars

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yu-gi-oh-slavia

And gauges and dials should be gauges and dials, not screens

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taken-aurally

Door releases should have a direct mechanical link to a latch, not send an electronic signal to a servo

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lithominium

You should not have to have your phone alive to unlock your car

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rayclubs

Most touchscreens have a temperature resistance of less than 40°C (104°F). They do not belong on cars, toasters, ovens and stoves, any kind of safety equipment, or any equipment that requires precision of operation to maintain safety. They do not belong anywhere near a working engine.

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puppy-steve
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iloveyourfeed
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” -Walt Whitman

This has 200k notes but none of you know the truth of the I Hate Rubber Boots Guy. This man lives in my city. He wears this outfit constantly. The Weird Toronto photo group has a ban on posting him because he’s always like this.  He has done this for years. Every so often he buys a taller pair of rubber boots.

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imfinereallyy

you can pry happy endings from my cold-dead hands. It can be the most heart stopping, gut wrenching fic that has every existed and I will read every drop of it if I get my happy ending. I have had enough painful endings in real life, give me happy in my fantasy world. It can be at the last second, it can be a single sentence, even a single word. Give me all the angst and hurt in the world for 500,000 words, but please give me the comfort I need in the ending. please and thank you.

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phantomrose96

Cant have fucking shit in Detroit

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phantomrose96

Cant have shit

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phantomrose96

Okay so door saga

  • The only way into my building is through the front door which locks itself when closed. There's a back entrance but it's deadbolted from the inside. This means the only people who can get into the building are me, my cat sitter with the spare keys, and the people living in the other two units.
  • The door to MY unit now... has no doorknob. Impossible to get in.
  • There is a shared BACK hallway that leads to the shared basement/back entrance. My back door into this hall is always deadbolted. EXCEPT, fortuitously, right now, since neighbor (Molly) in unit 2 had heard Patches meowing when alone and offered to spend some time with her, so I had the cat sitter unlock the bolt.
  • This, LUCKILY, means there is A Way into my unit. But it requires getting into the building, then going THROUGH my neighbors' unit into the back hall, then up to my unit.
  • Cat sitter is effectively locked out from Patches, and won't be able to get in if not fixed by the next day.
  • Text neighbor about predicament. They're willing to look at my door bUT (it's Christmas) they're not home and not getting home until the next day.
  • Next day, text for an update but hear nothing. (Neighbors aren't attached to their phones much). Communicate with catsitter saying "okay if I don't hear back from neighbors, maybe you go over and I contact a locksmith who you can let in?" (since cat sitter has the keys to the building)
  • Catsitter is very not keen on the idea
  • Patches is unaware she's a prisoner.
  • Hear back from neighbors. Say they should be home around 5pm.
  • Okay... Good Enough... (Patches graze-feeds so Luckily she hasn't missed any meals but we're going on 24 hours of house arrest Patches).
  • 6pm comes. 7pm comes. 7:40pm I text asking for an update. Nothing.
  • 8:30pm I'm figuring out what friends I can call to break into my own house. Text neighbor again and notice this text doesn't go through.
  • Text neighbor's partner being like "hey sorry, can't seem to reach Molly--". Get a text back "Sorry this is Molly on David's phone! My phone died." Family Christmas plans ran late but they're on their way back and will be home soon. Thank goodness.
  • 9pm-ish, they get back, give Patches attention and top up her food. I get a text "David fixed your door!" Woo!
  • Friday 5pm I finally get home
  • Lugging my suitcase up three flights of stairs while I hear Patches meowing like a dying Victorian child
  • Shoes off coat off suitcase down fish out keys unlock door grab doorknob
  • ...Doorknob falls off
  • Falls off right into my hands
  • Staring at doorknob. Staring at door. Patches meowing. Shove doorknob against door like an idiot and no it does not go back on.
  • Fucking
  • Go down flight of stairs, knock on Molly and David's door. David is luckily home. "My doorknob fell off again can I go home"
  • David lets me in. I scoot past their dogs and apparently I startled the more nervous one since she apparently tried to nip at me but I didn't even notice because I'm like my cat.
  • Get in through the back hall.
  • Patches comes bounding over.
  • My cat.
  • Doesn't even know she was a prisoner.
  • Doesn't even know what a doorknob is.
  • Later that night receive a text from neighbor apologizing for the dog and I'm like "I Did Not Even Notice."
  • Any attempt to leave my house now is perilous until I fix the doorknob.
  • Can't even leave my door cracked open because I know Patches is gonna shove her stupid little face through it and become the opposite of a prisoner.
  • I wanna go buy a reeces peanut butter cup but by god it's not worth the risk
  • I'm gonna try to fix the doorknob
  • Or... buy? a new doorknob?
  • On Amazon searching "doorknob".
  • Merry Christmas
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phantomrose96

You are completely right because I have now investigated the knob and can confirm the screw holding the knob to bar was loose. I have tightened the screw and it SEEMS fixed but I’m very Fool Me Once on this since my neighbor also thought they’d fixed it.

There is a Home Depot trip in my future. Or maybe an online purchase if Patches would get off my laptop

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phantomrose96

Merry Christmas I hope I know how to install a doorknob

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phantomrose96

Complication. Doorknob is here and I tried to install it, but because my door is older than God, the latch-majig (technical term) is offset like an inch higher than the knob. Modern doorknob has the latch LEVEL with the knob.

To swap in the new knob I'd need to cut a new knob-hole an inch higher in the door which

  1. With what tools
  2. That would leave an unused gaping doorknob-sized hole in my door which any robber the size of a weasel or smaller will use to rob my home. I don't need fucking Redwall in my home.
  3. Probably bad for the integrity of the door
  4. I don't wanna.

I think what I really want is just the knob like above tags said. Like the knob and the rectangular bar, which I can substitute in for my stripped-bare knob and rectangle bar. I WOULD do this with the new knob, but it's got two welded-on spokes poking out from the knob.

I can maybe drill two holes for the spokes in my door...?

(Squinting at shitty amazon listings trying to see if any knobs don't have the two spokes)

(I think the two spokes might be standard.)

Developing new respect for Jesus (carpenter).

In the meantime, because I'd already unscrewed a lot of things I DID take the genius action of flipping my current doorknob around.

This way the side that causes problems is on the INSIDE.

Doorknob fall of while INSIDE house significantly better than doorknob fall off while OUTSIDE.

I'm retightening all the screws.

Patches has offered no solutions.

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phantomrose96

So it does!

Never heard the term "spindle doorknob" before so I never would have found this on my own.

They're also all labeled "vintage" which extra feels right since my door predates the Cambrian Explosion.

Crowdsourcing my door fix on Tumblr dot com! Doorknob 2.0 is ordered.

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phantomrose96

At least 4,000 but we still got time

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