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Happy Anniversary to Stronghold!

I'm very excited about the upcoming Stronghold 4. Pretty much every promotional material about it says that they went back to the original formula and mostly just made quality-of-life improvements to the core gameplay. If it's half as awesome as the first one, it'll still be better than most recent releases I've played.

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Mission to the Cloud Server

There's a scene in Space Force where a flight controller can't do something crucial because of a forced Windows update. I remember thinking "this is such a silly, cheap gag, there's no way a space organization would use Microsoft".

Well. I stand corrected.

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Big mistake rule

As the husband in such situations, I find this very frustrating from a practical perspective.

Guy comes over to install some tech. Me and my wife are both home. I'm working, she's doing chores. She knows her stuff and did the research, I very clearly don't know shit about fuck. Guy looks for me every time he has a question. The answer is always "I don't know, but my wife does". After I tell him this, he still doesn't ask her, just makes a decision on his own, so I have to drop everything and get her to make sure he doesn't fuck things up. At one point, I had to ask my wife to physically stand next to the dude so that he wouldn't interrupt an important meeting. She later told me he still tried to look for me.

When we need repairs or some kind of work done, I have to be the one making the call because I'm less likely to be ripped off or treated rudely. And since I'm dumb, I have to prepare for these calls because they sometimes cross-examine you with terms I never even heard of. In the middle of a busy workday, while my wife has the time and the know-how. We share household tasks with my wife as equally as possible, I'm just stuck with this.

Female contractors popped up in the area recently. I instantly chose them every time. No such issues.

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We need to make informed choices

I actually toyed with the idea of making a YouTube channel dedicated to recreating food from other channels and only showing the clean-up. Like "thanks for the tip Babish now I get to scrape off sticky eldritch bullshit from a ridiculously tiny whisk AGAIN" and "we're going to soak these plates for at least an hour because we fell asleep as soon as the guests left and the sauce hardened into concrete".

Any YouTube money would've gone into a dishwasher fund. I would've reviewed the dishwasher after buying it and that would've been the last video on the channel.

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Polygamy

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The implication is that the wife is exhausted because the husband doesn't help enough in running the household. The obvious answer is that the husband should do more chores to help out. My man here suggests adding another wife, with the ultimate goal of getting laid more often.