Yeah. And I was never a collector so much as an accumulator (preservationist, if we’re being generous). It’s all just stuff that I read.

I had one or two of critical mass at some point. I had to look it up, but I remember some of those covers

I’m feeling worse rn

You all have options??

I’m resolute on not selling to any sort of store. I’ll get 25¢ per comic at most. And then, yeah, they’ll sell at much more of a markup.

After a lifetime of reading comic books, and amassing a pretty large collection, i just… stopped. It wasn’t so much losing interest as I’d gotten what I needed from them. I just don’t need them anymore. Now I’m left with 50 some boxes of comics to get rid of…

Poetry

Where can I look up to see if games that I want to play that are currently PC only can also be played on Linux?

Getting into marriage in this context seems like a recipe for creating financial and legal stresses for a future you if a divorce happens. The rules of engagement, so to speak, change once you get married and it can create a lot of misery that just co-habitating or co-parenting avoid. Divorce is a whole other level than breaking up.

Also just because her parents are rich, doesn’t mean they’ll share it with you - or not use it as a way to control you

Nice. I like that it’s Québec French to boot

When I was learning Japanese, I used an app called i mi wa https://www.imiwaapp.com/ that I found pretty useful

I have to admit that I’ve given them a little wary side eye due, paradoxically, to brand recognition - coupled with the assumption that enshitification would have occurred by now with an established one like that

Is wordreference good about providing translations that are common usage? I found some translators are too literal

https://www.etymonline.com/

That’s a fun one. Dangerous tho. I could easilly rabbit hole there

That’s an interesting one. Looks like it pulls from a few less common (well, to me) sources. Has old school internet vibes

Never heard of it! I’ll check it out

I appreciate this. Why do we have to align only with one approach/perspective? Being versatile is more alluring

Useful clarification, thank you. I’m not sure where my vision is at. I definitely do the thing of taking my glasses off and back on depending on what I am doing. But even with them off I’m starting to find some print hard to read — mainly the small print on products. I’ll have to see. I’m overdue for a new prescription. Also getting intermittent splotches of white in my periphery so that’s a new fun thing to worry about.

Reminders of aging bodies + of capitalism’s negative impact on us: this post has not cheered me up today lol

I appreciate the clarifications, thanks! Yeah, I agree on that slow creep of vision loss. I’ve been nearsighted a long time and am now losing my reading distance vision. But I can still read without glasses, and so I do. But it’s probably not as sharp, and I suspect that might lead me to read less than I otherwise would

I don’t understand this statement, tbh. Or the odd antagonism of it. Are you saying all people above the age of 42 need to be wearing progressive glasses?