Sam Lowen

A dash of sanity, a dash of insanity, a touch of heat and a cooling agent. Do you stop and look at the flowers blossoming every day?

[Sam Lowen @samlowen5105]

This trap is a keeper. Solid. Will be implemented.

[Nerdcognito @Nerdcognito]

If you don't love this, you're not doing traps right.

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@drivenbyboredom Real estate wash sale rule.

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@Aella_Girl My wife was taught from a very young age to never rely on a man for anything. You don’t want to be stuck in a bad situation.

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@BecomingCritter I’m not a fan of the hems. Ugly.

[Sam Lowen @samlowen5105]

@sonyasupposedly @goblinodds How do you view growth vs change?

I don’t want others to try to try change me either but I welcome opportunities to grow as a person. Those can be tricky interactions. That is change.

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@GeorgeJourneys @Bonecondor Sam is going to Vibecamp 19 in 2040.

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@GeorgeJourneys @Bonecondor Maybe someday my work retreat will not coincide with Vibecamp and I’ll grab a ticket and experience it myself. Right now that’s looking like 14 yrs.

[Sam Lowen @samlowen5105]

Focus on what brings smiles. Last night I spent a hour tending to my hens, helping the four new girls integrate with the rest of the flock.

I watched one of the teenagers in the D&D group I lead DM for the first time and do it well.

I drove my son to the movies and had a good talk with him about his upcoming goals.

I rubbed my wife’s feet while we watched Baylen Out Loud.

I’m sure you’ve got plenty of things surrounding you that generates joy?

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@GeorgeJourneys @Bonecondor Thank you for bringing that part into my view.

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@Bonecondor I agreed with you that a particular set of interactions can be rude.

The rest is fluff, my personal experience, showing that these types of interactions in my world are limited.

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@GeorgeJourneys @Bonecondor By accounts you mean online status?

My reality doesn’t include situations where online status has any role.

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@callanable I can say that by 19 I had fully moved to the honeymoon stage/new relationship energy being on the bad side of the teeter totter.

I also believe people should never make important decisions while emotional. Let that stuff cool off.

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It was a shorter period until 2021 when the legislature changed it after Covid mail delays. Three days I believe?

I have seen a significant change in mail delivery in my area the past few years. What used to take 2 days is now taking 4, consistently.

I’d love to see a return to the prior mail delivery schedule and a shortening of the mail in ballot window. Both seem unlikely right now.

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@Nerdcognito I was disappointed my players chose tunnel number 3 and missed an encounter with one of these guys.

The older monsters are a fun injection into modern campaigns.

[Sam Lowen @samlowen5105]

Fair questions.

Every relationship shifts over time.
I view best friends as chapters, not the whole book. Each segment of life typically brings a new best friend. Childhood, high school, college and beyond.

If there is a meta best friend it should be the spouse. You’re having kids with them, building a life, making huge financial decisions together that have lasting consequences. This is the person who should be the best friend. You’re actually sharing more of yourself with your spouse than anyone else. Why isn’t this person your best friend? Why would you marry someone who isn’t?

My view assumes a trad life of marriage and kids. I sit solidly in the camp that marriage/kids should be the goal for most and this heavily influences my views.

The wrong gender, not attractive, romantically unavailable stuff are legit questions that singles and non committed types can ask/answer for themselves.

I’ve been around many successful lifelong marriages and they all have one thing in common. The spouse is the best friend.

The marriages I’ve seen fail all feature spouses with other people they are more fully committed to…those best friends that they run to when things fall apart.

I clearly level this stuff and non spouses lower on the food chain to me.

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The 70’s had just ended. Disco and drugs were everywhere. This was normal.

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

Imagine turning on SNL and seeing this in 1980 without knowing the B-52s:

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@jaycaspiankang I assume everything is ai at this point. We shouldn’t believe anything online anymore without explicit verification.