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12:03 AM
so again the bead chain for my necklace broke. this time rather than getting another clip i thought to see if i had any spare chains which are the same length which are "patched" and found 2 which had a clip on it already
looks neater now. should look up where i can get some more instead of relying on taking them off clothing tags
 
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Yaaaay Norbert is home from his dental surgery and is being all cuddly and they gave me the teeth they extracted in a jar :p
 
@Ash could use them for like a rattle now
 
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@SaintWacko that sucks, I hope you can find something else soob
 
@Ash Yeah, me too
Didn't get much in the way of severance, so I kinda need it
 
12:29 AM
hey do you want to hear me talk about contract workers at my job if so streetfightradio.com/show/poop-at-target around minute 57 if not then ok I guess
If you ever want to complain about your job on a podcast and also Columbus local radio check out street fight on Sundays, they also do an ABCD (anyone but cis dudes) show every now and then too
 
1:16 AM
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Cobalt772I'm trying to make a function, that when run, swaps the teams of two armor stands. I have this code written in a function on a repeating command block to set up the swap function, and the "less_num1" is the function that is supposed to swap them. Set-up code: execute if score @e[type=minecraft:...

 
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Q: In Infectonator 2, what are the most powerful 4 zombies?

Jemerem MazzaI have been playing Infectonator 2 for quite some time, and I am having trouble on a few levels. What are the most powerful zombies to work with?

 
dam. when you go to download a video and between the moment you copied the link ahdn when youtube-dl goes to download it they mark the video as private
the video in question was a Melbourne Cup Video (according to the titlle) from the same people who did this video on Australia's Preferential Voting system
 
3:00 AM
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Q: Is possible to use a 3rd Party Controller or Mouse + Keyboard on the Windows PS4 Remote Play App?

LemonI recently found out about the official PS4 Remote Play application for Windows. Sadly, I don't have a separate DualShock 4 to use by another player from the Windows PC so I was thinking: Is Possible to use a 3rd Party Controller? (Xbox 360/One) What about previous generation DualShock? (PS2 vi...

 
3:41 AM
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Q: What does this text in the ice say?

DeepDeadpoolI'm playing Paper Mario for the N64. Just got to Shiver City and I noticed the ice has text in it. What does this say? Is it documented anywhere?

 
4:05 AM
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Q: Tag rename request: [remote-play] -> [ps4-remote-play]

LemonAfter asking a question where I used the remote-play tag, I was a bit worried that it might get edited and removed. The reason is that "remote play" sounds like a generic term (the act of playing a game remotely, via LAN/WAN or the Internet). After looking at the questions that are using this ta...

 
 
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Q: Synchronize two redstone pulse inputs

RedactedI'm making a goldfarm in minecraft. I'm making an automatic collection system. I have a hopper minecart run in an unloading loop. I have an issue with the unloading loop. I want to use the same hopper mine-cart to collect and unload the items. I need a way to keep the cart in the unload loop unt...

 
8:27 AM
> October 31st wasn’t actually Brexit Day, that’s just when believers in Brexit chose to celebrate it, coopting the date of an existing pagan festival. Historians and theologians don’t really know exactly when it happened.
 
8:55 AM
@Ave neat!
 
 
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10:36 AM
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Q: How do I complete the Festival of the Lost 2019 secret Triumph?

senpaiIn-gamewise, there's no indicator of what the Secret Triumph is. There is a Secret Triumph, although both the objective and reward are hidden. However, using a tool like Braytech or Destiny Tracker shows what appears to be the actual triumph: Now according to this, the secret triumph requires ...

 
10:58 AM
WHARR To The GAR To The R B L
 
Ave
random thought
 
@badp wharrgarrrrblllr?
 
Ave
It's entirely possible that gen-z will officially be called "zoomer".
 
11:10 AM
It's a shame I can't easily share these pug pictures with @GodEmperorDune while I'm on my phone
 
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Q: Why can't I use Clouds EX ability?

David YellIn the lastest draw I managed to get my first EX Weapon for Cloud. Which adds the Meteorain ability. When I go into battle the ability never highlights as usable. You can see an example in the attached image, where the ability is shown in dark red. Tapping this does nothing. How can I use thi...

 
11:28 AM
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Note that this picture was taken after 8 AM this morning
It's a week since the DST switch and some of the most important clocks in Bruges haven't been changed yet
 
Fucking Bruges
 
11:45 AM
@Nzall obviously not auto updating
 
@Memor-X obviously
 
12:01 PM
@Wipqozn Yes :(
 
12:15 PM
@fredley I can't see what this is a reply to on my phone, but I'm assuming bojack?
 
@Wipqozn It wasn't a reply to anything
Confuse someone using mobile chat
 
12:30 PM
Oh, poop
The new Steam library is out of beta
And still looks terrible
 
12:44 PM
@Wrigglenite screenshot?
 
@Memor-X Here's the announcement
 
@Wrigglenite going by the screenshots there i'm getting the feeling alot of that i wont be seeing
when i boot up steam on my laptop, alot of the time it's just running to download while on my PC it's offline so i generally only see the minimum because of offline mode
still, i hope they don't fuck up offline mode
 
@GnomeSlice No. I meant that when I adopted the last cat, Goblin, I kept the name the shelter had given her.
 
It's not a bad name, lol
Mine was Lacey so I changed that pretty quick
 
1:20 PM
@Wipqozn Disappointed you didn't go for a cat with socks
 
@fredley :(
 
@fredley he did, they're just too dirty too tell a difference
 
@GnomeSlice yeah, that's why I kept it. I like Apollo too, but I really wanted to name my next cat myself lol
 
@Wipqozn You could have called it 'socks' and put pictures up so that when people googled 'wipqozn socks' they would have seen a lovely cat
 
@Wipqozn "Myself" is a strange name for a cat
 
1:32 PM
@fredley Genius
 
@Wrigglenite Wipqozn is a pretty strange person
 
@Elva The cats a bit of a weirdo too. It's a perfect match!
 
What's AEW?
 
All Elite Wrestling, a new promotion to compete with WWE
 
1:39 PM
Intredasting
 
@Unionhawk the even have megalovania playing
 
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Q: Should the "linked questions" menu show questions where the link is tied to deleted answer?

WondercricketI was poking around a few older questions, and I came to this question. This question appeared in the linked questions menu, so I clicked on to see what it was. After viewing the question, I saw a comment with a link to the original question on an answer that has since been deleted due to being...

 
(extremely Zelda music plays in the background)
cc @Elva
 
Aww
 
She's going on an adventure
but she doesn't have the wall climbing item yet
or she needs some stamina upgrades
idk I'm not super up to date on the Zelda tropes
 
Last I played was windwaker sooo
 
2:12 PM
Climber's armor set and stamina upgrades
 
No wait I played one on the wii too
Though I didn't finish that one
 
@Elva link's awakening (GBC) and link to the past (GBA?) here, both emulated
kind of disappointed link to the past 2 isn't on Switch.
 
I played ocarina of time but I stopped at the ganon fight
wind waker and breath of the wild
and I watched my sister play Majora's Mask a lot
 
I have watched a lot of the other Zeldas yeah
including RIP @twobugs playing breath of the wild
 
@Unionhawk People are talking about the lack of hacking and/or lockpicking minigames in TOW and I just feel... Why? Why do you want a minigame? Either the minigame is skillbased like the Oblivion lockpicking and the skill is effectively useless for good players, or the minigame is RNG based like the Skyrim one and you're just frustrated at losing lockpicks because you started on the wrong side of the bar.
 
2:18 PM
@badp How else are they going to sell their spare 3DSs?
 
Palisagrus suffering through twilight princess and skyward sword,
@Ronan that sounds like a big pile of not my problem
 
Also I imagine it's not trivial to port 3ds games to switch
Unlike from the WiiU to the switch, which seems to have been designed for
 
eh
the wiiu had two screens
 
I mean only like, 1 game used both in any real interesting way
the rest just used it as a persistent glorified pause menu
 
Or the minigame is just a puzzle like the Fallout 3 hacking minigame and players like me who have no interest in solving mastermind-like puzzles can't even work around it by installing a mod that will tell you what to do.
 
2:20 PM
@Unionhawk If everyone had monochromacy, then Fire Emblem Awakening wouldn't work at all because that game doesn't make sense without divergent timelines.
cc @GodEmperorDune @Wipqozn @Ash
 
@Unionhawk so basically 3DS games were too clever in their use of two screens?
 
that was also visible in the pause menu
 
@Yuuki are you saying the game makes sense with divergent timelines?
 
@Elva Well, the plot hinges on the fact that timelines can diverge.
 
@badp I think some, but I'm not convinced albw is one of them
 
2:22 PM
Otherwise, there'd only be one Chrom: the one you stab in the back.
So, monochromacy.
 
Hmmmm
 
I'm trying to remember what was on the other screen, I think just a map...
 
That's such a bad joke.
 
But I meant the architecture of the code and such, rather than the game design
 
I can't quite see anything making more sense when you add multiple timelines :p
 
2:23 PM
Fun fact, that's the second Chrom pun I've ever made.
 
But, more or less what we expect frmo @Yuuki.
 
@Elva SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE HASN'T READ HOMESTUCK!!!
 
how many messages did you get about homestuck 2 by the way
 
about one
I need to read the epilogue still
 
@badp that would be accurate!
 
2:24 PM
I got to the part where the timeline in the epilogue diverges
 
@Unionhawk As a colour blind person, I appreciate this. I also didn't even realize they did this, because I never felt the need to look for a colour blind option. Good job.
 
and that would have required more stamina to read through than I had at the time
@Elva you only have a few months before all of the flash animations and minigames stop working forever*
 
@badp that's okay
I am fine with that
 
I am not
 
madp
3
 
2:26 PM
fuck Adobe
 
Well I'm fine with me not reading homestuck
 
fuck Apple
and fuck the tech bros just cancelling two decades of art without replacement
because fuck you that's why
the complete irresponsibility at display here is appalling
 
I would agree
 
we can run fucking windows 2000 in a browser
 
Flash animation and gaming was a pretty definitive era of the internet
 
2:28 PM
but flash animations? that's one step too far
that's where we draw the god damned line
 
meanwhile all of the things we loathed about flash ads
they're all supported in html 5
 
hue
 
the fucking bullshit Dutch national lottery running spinning fucking cube advertising all over the internet being the top offender
how can we cancel lotteries @Elva
 
@badp improving math education
Lotteries have been described as a "tax on the stupid", I would say it's more accurate to call it a tax on the math illiterate but the original gets the point across... crudely
 
2:35 PM
it's also typically a tax on the poor
poor people often see it as maybe their one shot to get out
 
Yeah, hence my preference for math illiterate
They're not stupid, they just don't really understand the odds
 
It doesn't help that winners are turned into PR spectacles.
 
Yeahp
 
"it helps fund education" is also often false or misleading, it typically goes to the general fund
 
It's also a tax on people who kinda wanna gamble and honestly don't really care about spending like $5 for a bit of fun for the week.
 
2:41 PM
@badp if you can download the swf files, you should be able to run them locally with some sort of a flash player
 
@Yuuki This
 
I had a math professor who bought lottery tickets. Said $5 was a pretty good price for the fun of anticipating the lotto results.
 
I believe even WMPC used to run swf files, back in the mid 2000s, not sure what's the status on it nowadays
 
Oh no the office is full of sugar and I've already had waaaay too much
How to remove sugar from the body
 
@fredley swoops in and steals all the sugar
 
2:43 PM
@fredley replace it with more sugar faster than your blood can absorb it
 
@Elise error: sugar overflow
 
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Q: My wheelspin perk is 70000cr is the any tip or cheats to lower it. One video the payer 1cr for a wheelspin

Jonathan W SarverIdont know how so get it for 50000cr on video the guy was paying 1cr how is the possible. I need help please

 
@fredley negative sugar value? I guess you should add more sugar 🤷🏼‍♀️
 
stop, my body chemistry can only handle so much
 
Oh yeah! I've been sitting at the other desks today so haven't been staring at the sugar
Lack of sweets has now been rectified
 
2:45 PM
@Elise There's actually a huge project called Flashpoint which aims to archive many of the games and animations done in Flash over the years.
178 GB to download almost every Flash game I've ever seen online, including a bunch of obscure ones.
 
2019: You can play DOS, Windows and SNES games in the browser, but not flash games
 
@Yuuki People who understand this aren't the problem with gambling. People that just view gambling as a form of entertainment you should make a budget restriction for rather than viewing it as a way to make money generally don't suffer many of the problematic gambling addiction symptoms like not being able to stop when your budget is done or using your earnings to increase your budget
 
@Yuuki but the main source of funding is not the $5 every now and then player, it's the addict who is targeted directly, and there's lots of data to back this up see above
 
It's the people that are trying to make a living from gambling or that are addicted to the rush of winning money that cause the real issues
 
e.g. lotteries usually foster some concept of having 'your numbers' - the same numbers you play every game. If you do this it's very hard to stop playing because what if your numbers come up the week you don't play
 
2:50 PM
Yeah, that's a problem with advertisement, which was the starting point for this discussion, I suppose.
 
@Nzall You can't make a living from gambling, except for maybe poker. There's a lot of psychology too. Near misses are more effective at getting people addicted than wins.
 
> For example, the state of Ohio hired a marketing firm to promote their SuperLotto game and in their internal collateral they said that advertisements should coincide with the receipt of “Government benefits, payroll and social security payments.”
 
@fredley I mean, going just by money in and money out, you can't make a living from gambling. But I knew a person whose parents who were basically paid to go gambling, compensation for pretty much everything and the casino even gave them chips to gamble with. Though that was because they usually brought a crowd of people with them, so the whole thing's predatory: someone's going to be losing money.
Also, blackjack is one of those games you can reliably win, although casinos watch blackjack tables a lot harder than poker.
 
@Yuuki Oh yeah.
@Yuuki Nah pretty sure the odds are still stacked in favour of the house (since the house always wins in a draw) so as long as you're playing a skilled dealer you'd still expect to lose.
 
@Yuuki So essentially the CSGO Lotto thing where a couple of people were gambling on their own site while encouraging loads of minors and vulns to go to that site and gamble their own money?
 
2:54 PM
@Nzall Sorta except they obviously didn't have any ownership stake or profit share from the casino outside of the casino comping their entire trip.
 
I used to play some social gambling apps a LOT on mobile with fake currency and the only one you could really make profit at was blackjack
 
@fredley from my understanding the dealer has rules on what they can do
 
It's easy for the house because there's no decision making
 
Basically "stop if the number is between $x and $y"
 
@fredley There are definitely a lot of ways for casinos to minimize counting, but a lot of them don't scale well.
It's easier and more profitable to just keep an eye out for possible counters and kick them from the tables.
 
2:57 PM
When the dealer has served every player, the dealers face-down card is turned up. If the total is 17 or more, it must stand. If the total is 16 or under, they must take a card. The dealer must continue to take cards until the total is 17 or more, at which point the dealer must stand. If the dealer has an ace, and counting it as 11 would bring the total to 17 or more (but not over 21), the dealer must count the ace as 11 and stand.
Yup, the dealer is an automaton
 
Time spent shuffling the deck after every deal is time spent not dealing the cards and taking money from players that aren't counting after all.
Having multiple decks for each table increases your starting costs.
(It's cards so it's not much but still)
 
Decks are consumables :p
 
Also, your maintenance costs since you have to replace decks for wear.
 
Fairly sure you're also legally required to have multiple decks at some places?
 
The dealer doesn't have to make any choices cause all they need to do is hit until they either draw or surpass the players
 
3:00 PM
tl;dr it's a lot simpler and cheaper to just have a security camera and beat up people who you think are counting instead of coming up with ways to prevent the counters from getting an advantage
 
Yeah a good enforcer probably only costs like 70k
 
counting cards just means you're 'good' at the game
 
idk I've never hired one
 
always found that silly
 
So as long as you're careful and don't overplay your advantage, you can make money reliably off blackjack.
It won't be much because the casinos watch those tables like hawks, but you can do it.
 
3:01 PM
@GnomeSlice it's simple, it prevents the casino from making money so it's not allowed
 
isn't blackjack pretty hard to count cards in cause there's so few on the table?
how can the casino even prove that you are 'counting' and not just winning
 
you just gotta go back to the table with a fake moustache
 
@GnomeSlice It's not something you do right away.
 
@GnomeSlice They don't have to.
They just throw you out if they think you are.
 
@GnomeSlice Why do they need to prove anything?
 
3:02 PM
It's private property, the can just ask you to leave for any reason
And then tell every other casino in the US to not let you in
 
What everyone said
 
in movies and shit they're like 'we're gonna break your legs unless you pay us back like 1 million dollars'
that doesn't happen on earth I assume
 
Yeah, they mostly just cut out the "unless you pay us back like 1 million dollars" part.
So it's "we're gonna break your legs unless you pay us back like 1 million dollars".
 
they just wont let you cash your chips?
 
jk, they mostly just throw you out
mostly
 
3:04 PM
@GnomeSlice I think they have to let you do that
 
And then they ban you after that.
You know casino games are rigged in favor of the house, so don't expect anything different from the casino rules.
 
Can't remember ever seeing a casino operator in a film who wasn't villainous, or presented as a villain, now that I think about it
 
@GnomeSlice They make for easy bad guys; they own places that bilk others of their money to enrich the owner.
Less subtly than other corporations, anyways.
 
@GnomeSlice Well, that one dude in Ocean's Eleven used to operate a casino.
Granted, Ocean's Eleven is kinda villains vs. villains so I 'unno 'bout that.
 
holy shit steam suddenly looks different
 
3:17 PM
@Yuuki sh....shuffle the cards?
 
23 mins ago, by Yuuki
Time spent shuffling the deck after every deal is time spent not dealing the cards and taking money from players that aren't counting after all.
 
@Yuuki There are machines that shuffle. Drop the deck you just used into the machine, take the other deck it's just shuffled and deal.
 
@fredley Buying the machine, buying more decks increases costs.
 
@fredley Apparently they're not very good
 
@Yuuki Yeah cos money is a limiting factor for casinos
 
3:22 PM
Look, you don't need me to explain everything. Casinos have done the numbers on this sort of thing.
 
they usually shuffle like 7 decks together
 
They do the numbers extensively on this sort of thing, that's literally how they make their money.
And yet counting is still viable and they still watch out for it, even when you can easily prevent 100% of counting by shuffling a new deck after every deal. So obviously that strategy isn't used for one reason or another.
 
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NataliaYesterday I decided to change my skin so i made a custom skin and uploaded the file and changed it and it said that it was changed however, I logged on and decided to go on Hypixel. When I got on I couldn't see my skin so I waited for it to load but it wouldn't show, I looked around and saw that...

 
 
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4:51 PM
 
@fredley I know this is old topic now, but I just wanted to add that letting the players think they can outsmart the casino is going to attract more players. If you can't come up with any strategy to win, you're less likely to try
 
@Elise Excellent point
 
@Yuuki C has had booleans in the language spec for literally 20 years
 
@murgatroid99 Which dates this comic at at least 20 years ago!
 
@GnomeSlice is Remnant cross-platform?
 
4:54 PM
@Elise I don't think so?
 
I feel like I heard it being mentioned in a conversation long ago
maybe it was mentioned in a "it is not cross platform" way 🤷🏼‍♀️
 
> The game is currently available on PS4, Xbox One and PC, though there is no crossplay at the time of writing (Aug 21, 2019). This means you'll have to stick to the player pool for the platform you're on.
 
sucks when you're a PC gamer and your potential gamer buddy is an xbox gamer 🤦🏼‍♀️
 
@Wrigglenite OK, that's actually plausible, but I would bet against it. It's much more likely just the standard people parroting outdated criticisms of languages they aren't very familiar with
 
@murgatroid99 Nah, I was joking
 
4:59 PM
java bad, c good. Updoots to the right
 
5:19 PM
@MageXy c still doesnt have buffer overflow protection iirc
 
I mean, that's not even remotely close to what C is designed to do
That may be an exaggeration, but some significant breaking changes would be needed to add buffer overflow protection to C
 
6:15 PM
@murgatroid99 The comic isn't even a criticism, it's literally build-up to a pun.
 
6:28 PM
@Yuuki That's barely a pun. It's just an observation that Java can't compare values of different types
 
I vote Sergeant Butter
 
7:09 PM
Why would the Fed cutting funds rate increase a mortgage interest rate?
 
Mortgage rates are based on long-term predictions due to their term and aren't directly related to fed rates
Like it certainly can have an impact but no guarantee and tbh the long-term prospects seem a bit iffy at the moment
 
7:41 PM
Fair enough, I suppose.
 
7:54 PM
They announced a relatively high-level reorg at work today, dividing a bunch of teams into two organizations, and the dividing line goes right through the middle of my team. So, we're going to be two teams, with two different reporting chains
 
@murgatroid99 Have you decided which one is the evil team yet?
 
@Ronan Probably the one @murgatroid99 is on.
I mean, not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but have you ever seen @murgatroid99 and his evil doppleganger in the same room? I bet you haven't, because they're the same person!
 
I did the spooky tree and the face and my girlfriend did the cat and moon. For her lost cat :(
He never came back by the way
But the pumpkins look great!
 
@GnomeSlice 1) Good work 2) That really fucking sucks
 
Yeah it does. I'm glad she hasn't found him any of the times she's gone to look after news of a dead cat sighting though
He was very old
I just noticed if you lower your intelligence to "below average" in the outer worlds, it says you unlock "dumb dialog options"
At character creation
Interesting
Tempting
 
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8:09 PM
@GnomeSlice these are great pumpkins!
 
Thank you 😁
 
@GnomeSlice Yeah, that sounds about right for Obsidian.
I remember some of those in Fallout: New Vegas.
 
Tempting but also has a pretty bad impact on crits
 
> With low intelligence, you can recruit Arcade Ganon without any other checks since he feels pity for you.
 
Lmao are they all dumb? I thought it meant it just have you a new one
 
8:15 PM
@GnomeSlice Depends on the dialogue.
Some of them have a "dumb" option and some of them replace every choice.
 
Gave you*
@Yuuki hue
 
8:48 PM
went out trick or treating with wife and daughter, went to this church lady's house who was part of my daughter's christening, she hadn't seen us since then (almost a year). She asked if I was [my legal name]'s sister 😮I kinda just froze and my wife told her who I was. The lady apologized 😔
 
huuuugs
That's great! :D
Ohs
 
not sure how to answer when people think I'm a girl, I haven't worked on that yet
I was a catgirl :D
 
Excepting the last bit which I misread
nodnods
I need new glasses and also to get rid of my facial hair
 
wife bought tiger ears and giraffe ears. It wasn't a difficult choice to pick between for me 🤷🏼‍♀️
 
But that's not relevant to the discussion >.>
mew
5
 
8:51 PM
@Elva sure it is :P
 
My comment wasn't!
 
@Elva sure it was! :P
 
Mebbe...
 
my cat is very uncomfortable around me right now tho
 
Hehehe
 
8:52 PM
cats don't like cat ears on humans
@Elva you should order some glasses on zennioptical, or some other cheap online website
I paid $23 USD + $9.99 shipping for mine
at that price, I could buy 10 pairs and still be cheaper than buying locally
 
Ooooor I should go get glasses and my insurance will pay for them
:p
 
my insurance only covers up to 150$
my wife recently got glasses, buy one, get one free
 
(it's been >4 years that I've had these, you get new glasses every that long)
 
she paid 400'ish $ AFTER insurance
@Elva my previous glasses were at least 5 years old :P
you could order online and do a claim with your insurance
I actually had to wear a hoodie outside, so I looked less like a "slutty cat" and more like a "back to school cat" 🤷🏼‍♀️
it was raining a little, weather sucks here
 
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