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A more satisfying conclusion than I expected…

Because there are good people, Bub has been paid back what he had stolen from him.

It only took a day and a half for enough people to mobilize to make that happen, and I am so thankful that there are still good people in this world… even though I live in the United States (and, at that, Texas, where I have regularly had it screamed at me that I am a leech and a mooch for being disabled, that I am teaching my disabled children to be leeches and mooches because they are disabled and we get the disability benefits that we are entitled to, that I “could find a job if I weren’t lazy”, that sort of thing) where people who espouse MAGA tendencies and vote Republican seem to proliferate more and more with each election cycle, which doesn’t help matters out any. But the fact of the matter is that there are still plenty of good people on this planet and we are thankful for them. So Bub will be getting that game when it is released for purchase.

Steam will have to learn not to mess with me too.

Through… something that I don’t even know how they managed, someone got into our Steam account — you know, the one with two-factor authentication on it — and stole the money that had been put into our Wallet with the intent to pre-order something that would become available later on this month. So far, Steam has been completely non-compliant on the issue (“because they spent it on Community Market goods”… well, if your site is so horribly regulated that hackers are easily able to access accounts and Wallet funds they shouldn’t, and you know they spend them on Community Market goods because you won’t go after them if they do, do you not see the problem here?), so I’ve filed a complaint against them with the Federal Trade Commission and intend on opening support tickets with them until they get so tired of me that they credit my account the money that was in our Wallet to shut me up. I am not at all opposed to doing that because sometimes it is a tactic that works — I’ve had to do it with my state’s HHSC (Health and Human Services Commission) when they refuse to work our renewals, that was how I got my Twitter account back in good standing after… we all know what happened there, and now this, I guess. At this point, I don’t care.

…what these agencies or organizations must think of me for forcing them to ethically do their jobs.

I am fixing a problem Windows Updates caused.

It will remain to be seen how long it actually takes until this problem is fixed (as everything went to Hell in a hand basket, as they say, after I did the update)… but there is my laptop which continues to function well, which has not been updated and which will not be updated in the foreseeable future until this is a problem that has been confirmed to have been fixed, and I am fastidious about backing up absolutely everything of essence that needs to be backed up. So while I’m rolling back that Windows update on the desktop, glad that I caught this when my kid was blissfully sleeping, I am checking my mail and updating things on my laptop because it continues to work just fine. So we’ll just have to see how that goes. It isn’t as though Windows 11 hasn’t given me problems on that thing in the past, or it hasn’t given me… problems to begin with, even though it’s able to take Windows 11 just fine and is nearly a clone of this computer. If this continues to give me trouble, I’m seriously thinking about leaving Windows 10 on it because Windows 10 has given me a lot less trouble than this and it’s just not something that I want to fight this computer over.

It had to be mentioned in here at some point.

One of these days, I’m going to get around to starting a category (or tag, I’m not quite sure yet) about questions that I’ve gotten asked… a lot of them have to do with whether or not something is “safe to take”, and friends of mine like to ask me these questions because they know that they’re going to get a non-judgmental answer, but also a no-nonsense one. Two of the questions that I am most frequently asked are whether or not kratom is safe to take — and questions branching off of that about kratom, which for the sake of this blog post I’m lumping into one question — and phenibut, which… I’m going to warn some of you now, I have developed quite a colorful response to that for reasons I get into when I answer the question…

Meanwhile, now that this computer is hardwired I’m beginning to muck around with different streaming schedules to figure out which one will work best for me. I don’t want to stream to the point that I burn myself out on it, but I do want to become Twitch Affiliate at some point (and then, in the future… Twitch Partner).

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