<2023-01-30T00:16:02.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Yeah... they were young.  Punk rockers.  Marriage lasted less than a year and they both willingly gave up custody to mom's parents, so Raised By Boomers(TM).  My actual parents are trash tier and I'd not piss on them were they on fire.
<2023-01-30T00:19:12.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: honestly, same story. My parents were 17 when I was born, my mom left to be a coked out stripper and my old man enlisted to provide for me, so I was raised by his mom and her second husband who were decent people, as far as they could be being poor southern white trash. My old man shaped up by my mother never did, I haven't seen her since 2011 and I have no desire to see her again, and her second husband was literal scum, big banker who was caught stealing from the Brinks vault, last I caught up with them he was a janitor meeting 16 year old boys on craigslist for sex. I hope he died of his diabetes
<2023-01-30T00:19:56.000Z> RupertvonRipp: TBH I'm less disgusted by my mom than my dad at this point, even if she's worse by far in most regards.
<2023-01-30T00:20:08.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Because she's fucking nuts.  As soon as her dad's gone she'll be a homeless old woman.
<2023-01-30T00:20:29.000Z> RupertvonRipp: My dad's just a 'communist' so selfish he makes me look an altruist and I'm a disagreeable prick.
<2023-01-30T00:21:15.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Regardless, mom doesn't get to meet the kids.  She's unwell.  The only person I've ever preferred as an alcoholic (she's manic nonstop without the booze).
<2023-01-30T00:21:27.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: I genuinely could not care what happens to my biological mother after she stuck around with her second husband as long as she did with all the things he did to her and his kids. His son from his first marriage was a heroin addict he abandoned and his second daughter was "black by injection" (her words) and their kids together were on the same path
<2023-01-30T00:21:31.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Ever seen a lady in her late 50s who acts 14?  Yeah.
<2023-01-30T00:21:57.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Jesus.
<2023-01-30T00:22:12.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I just lucked out in that the rest of the family are normal stable people.
<2023-01-30T00:22:29.000Z> RupertvonRipp: But we're closer to the wife's parents than anyone in my family so it worked out.
<2023-01-30T00:22:51.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: oh yeah, I was removed from that environment when I was 8. My old man is a retarded pothead but he does very good by his people, and my adoptive stepmom is an actual angel
<2023-01-30T00:23:14.000Z> RupertvonRipp: But seriously my mom had a fucking mohawk when I was born and was going to shows on the regular while I was cooking.
<2023-01-30T00:23:26.000Z> RupertvonRipp: She got to sit on the stage while the Pogues played once when I was like 6 months along.
<2023-01-30T00:23:30.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: I was born addicted to coke
<2023-01-30T00:23:40.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Jeez... that's one thing she DIDNT fuck up, funny enough.
<2023-01-30T00:23:55.000Z> RupertvonRipp: For a brief period as soon as she found out she was preggers she went hyper straight edge and wanted to LARP the tradwife.
<2023-01-30T00:24:17.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Lasted until I was like a year old.
<2023-01-30T00:24:32.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Then she got bored of the LARP and gave me to her parents so she could go back to being party girl.
<2023-01-30T00:24:42.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Like I said, worked out.
<2023-01-30T00:25:23.000Z> RupertvonRipp: But looking back at the ages of everyone involved... she was a high school kid (constant runaway) and dad was an eternal college student who should've already graduated.
<2023-01-30T00:25:25.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: yeah it all worked out, I ended up better than any of my parents, I'm trading punches financially with my old man at 17 years his junior
<2023-01-30T00:26:21.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: and my biological mother was the "breadwinner" for her family (her second husband was an EVP for Brinks til they caught him stealing cash from the vault, last I caught up with him she was the leasing agent and he was the janitor of some shithole section 8 place in SC)
<2023-01-30T00:26:33.000Z> RupertvonRipp: oooof
<2023-01-30T00:26:52.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Well, one generation that fucks it up isn't sufficient to break the chain.
<2023-01-30T00:27:03.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Just forge a better link yourself.
<2023-01-30T00:27:12.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: I feel bad for my sister, my mom named her after my first girlfriend and she was a sweet little chubby thing but if she ended up anything like my stepsister she's guzzling nigger dick 
<2023-01-30T00:27:26.000Z> RupertvonRipp: .... broken branch ancestor cry
<2023-01-30T00:28:14.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: especially since said stepsister was also at that same company so she had constant access to her half-sister to poison her mind. she would brag about how she's "black by injection"
<2023-01-30T00:28:38.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I assume you aren't really on speaking terms with her, lol
<2023-01-30T00:29:04.000Z> RupertvonRipp: No coalburners in the fam but there's a distant cousin who trooned out, some professor's kids- two of his three trooned.  Zoomers:  The Cursed Generation.
<2023-01-30T00:29:57.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: no I haven't talked to that side of the family in over a decade, they're not my family anymore
<2023-01-30T00:30:25.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: I was adopted by my stepmother in my early teens and she's an absolute angel I love her so much
<2023-01-30T00:30:48.000Z> RupertvonRipp: So a far better outcome.
<2023-01-30T00:32:21.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: ok off topic since you brought up splatoon: I've been playing the dapple duallies with a bunch of sub power up an the squid beakon is SO MUCH FUN dude
<2023-01-30T00:32:39.000Z> RupertvonRipp: oooo... I've been playing with the ttek and then they buffed it and it's pretty fun.
<2023-01-30T00:33:02.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I'm using sticks because every time I attempt to learn motion controls it makes the wife's motion sickness rear itself so dualies in general... hmm
<2023-01-30T00:33:21.000Z> RupertvonRipp: What does a powered up beacon do different?
<2023-01-30T00:33:29.000Z> RupertvonRipp: faster superjump or something for anyone who jumps to it?
<2023-01-30T00:34:37.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: much faster jump yeah
<2023-01-30T00:35:08.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: you can also run one of the brellas for beakon but I don't recommend it, dapples complement their setup so well. 
<2023-01-30T00:36:05.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I've only 4 starred CJR and TTEK so far
<2023-01-30T00:36:08.000Z> RupertvonRipp: so been playing shooties
<2023-01-30T00:36:28.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: I haven't 4 starred dapples yet but I'm close, lemme check my app
<2023-01-30T00:36:33.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Have the octobrush almost at 4 though but haven't touched that since CJR came out
<2023-01-30T00:37:01.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids attached file https://squid.kids/media/919d8396d09298ed1923555482ff113788aa41666d74d941c24644d96e491c5c.png
<2023-01-30T00:37:16.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Someone loves turf war
<2023-01-30T00:37:25.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Exception:  The roller, I could see you using that in ranked stuff.
<2023-01-30T00:38:02.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: nzap is exclusively for tower, roller was my main in S2, reeflux and aeros are turf, dapples are everything right now
<2023-01-30T00:38:13.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: I can't stand clam blitz and I'm not a fan of rainmaker so I don't play much of either
<2023-01-30T00:38:25.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I like rainmaker and zones
<2023-01-30T00:38:41.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Haven't quite figured out exactly what I should be doing in tower and clam blitz feels like it's made for premades with voice coms
<2023-01-30T00:38:43.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: zones is my favorite because its just turf war but smol
<2023-01-30T00:39:00.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: honestly I'll play anything if its on museum its my favorite map in the rotation by far
<2023-01-30T00:39:08.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Museum is solid.
<2023-01-30T00:39:16.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Mahi Mahi is pain on any setting.
<2023-01-30T00:39:20.000Z> RupertvonRipp: too damn small
<2023-01-30T00:39:37.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: any match with an elevated hard to access point is pain
<2023-01-30T00:39:45.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Scorch Gorge
<2023-01-30T00:40:05.000Z> RupertvonRipp: gotta cross GRATES OF DEATH in several modes to hit the guy with a splatling standing there/the eliter making you hate life/etc
<2023-01-30T00:40:40.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: scorch is ok in turf, zones, and tower
<2023-01-30T00:40:49.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: because you don't actually have to go into the enemy side
<2023-01-30T00:42:45.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Unsure why they haven't come up with some maps with more options to flank vertical considering the squid surge and all that
<2023-01-30T00:42:57.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: hammerhead bridge is also fun because it confuses the e-liter race because you only get a snipe point for half the time
<2023-01-30T00:43:22.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I'd assume snipes are a bigger pain at higher ranks where aims are way better
<2023-01-30T00:43:25.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I'm barely in B right now, lol
<2023-01-30T00:43:35.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Only started doing something other than turf recently
<2023-01-30T00:44:49.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: oh they have plenty from S2, I'm personally waiting for Moray Towers and Humpback Pump track to come back 
<2023-01-30T00:45:10.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I've seen vid of the towers, looks fun
<2023-01-30T00:46:04.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: pump track is like a flatter wahoo world I really liked it
<2023-01-30T00:46:38.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Humpback_Pump_Track
<2023-01-30T01:09:23.000Z> RupertvonRipp: oh cool
<2023-01-30T01:09:35.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Yeah they'll probably keep porting maps over after tweaks
<2023-01-30T01:10:01.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: I expect splash-o-matic to get absolutely DESTROYED next patch btw so play it now if you want that meta experience
<2023-01-30T01:10:13.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Don't really like splash
<2023-01-30T01:10:15.000Z> RupertvonRipp: tbh
<2023-01-30T01:10:22.000Z> RupertvonRipp: It's too damn accurate for my potato aim
<2023-01-30T01:10:31.000Z> RupertvonRipp: A liiiitle spread helps me hit moving targets
<2023-01-30T01:10:39.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: its the meta with crab and burst bomb mostly
<2023-01-30T01:10:45.000Z> RupertvonRipp: yeah crab meta
<2023-01-30T01:10:51.000Z> RupertvonRipp: feels like it's easier and easier to break though
<2023-01-30T01:10:57.000Z> RupertvonRipp: more anti-crab tools
<2023-01-30T01:11:02.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: I don't get crab, in any map that eliter isn't bullshit on its garbage
<2023-01-30T01:11:17.000Z> RupertvonRipp: high level premade competitive types can take advantage
<2023-01-30T01:11:29.000Z> RupertvonRipp: because it gives you an insta-hydra for a 8ish second window
<2023-01-30T01:11:31.000Z> RupertvonRipp: and a bunch of HP
<2023-01-30T01:11:36.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: and if eliter is bullshit on the map.... just run eliter
<2023-01-30T01:11:41.000Z> RupertvonRipp: lol
<2023-01-30T01:12:02.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: also crab only has HP from the front, if you sneak around the back they're vulnerable
<2023-01-30T01:12:13.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: as dapples I eat crab for breakfast
<2023-01-30T01:12:52.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: nothing better than dying to a crab when you've got a soder in you, instantly respawning, super quick jumping behind them, and doming them before their crab even ends
<2023-01-30T01:26:11.000Z> RupertvonRipp: A Good Manuever.  Yeah dodge rolls are nasty to something that can't really 'move' much
<2023-01-30T01:26:41.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: The maneuverability of the dapples is insane 
<2023-01-30T01:26:54.000Z> RupertvonRipp: always more afraid of the squelchers though
<2023-01-30T01:26:56.000Z> RupertvonRipp: due to the range
<2023-01-30T01:27:07.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Those suckers outrange a splattershot
<2023-01-30T01:29:37.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: Yeah but they’re strictly worse than the jet squelcher 
<2023-02-01T02:31:29.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Yeahh like I said I jockey desks IRL, nothing high level or fancy, but hearing someone talk about trying to pull a mortgage fraud just makes my teeth hurt
<2023-02-01T02:31:39.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Like dude I work with this stuff you won't win that game and you'll get in gigantic trouble
<2023-02-01T02:35:29.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: trust me, if white people could think of ways to defraud the banks out of 6 figures and not get assraped for it people would be doing it. Best you can get is good ol business tax breaks for being a "failure" and even then if you get audited you're fucked
<2023-02-01T02:36:10.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Yep.  The best options for rigging shit aren't available to you, White man of limited means, they're for dynastic wealth.
<2023-02-01T02:36:51.000Z> RupertvonRipp: And as you can't rig shit you have to play the legitimate game as best you can.  If you aren't a professional minting coins yourself or a king of sales it seems like the best path is THE PATH OF THE ARISTOCRAT... assuming you're handy enough to maintain properties and can pick tenants well.
<2023-02-01T05:53:12.000Z> RupertvonRipp: True fact:  I can see KY from my front porch.  Unfair for sure I'm in the river valley.
<2023-02-01T05:53:44.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: that's fine I can see West Virginia from my front porch and its way prettier 
<2023-02-01T05:53:58.000Z> RupertvonRipp: ahhh you're way up river from me then
<2023-02-01T05:54:07.000Z> RupertvonRipp: Across from Huntington or something?
<2023-02-01T05:54:25.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I've got a coworker up there, she raises chickens, I'm envious.
<2023-02-01T05:55:09.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: oh no I'm up in the northeast 
<2023-02-01T05:55:38.000Z> RupertvonRipp: ahhh I forget how far up WV goes with that little striplet
<2023-02-01T05:56:00.000Z> sapphire@squid.kids: ugh thank god I'm not on the Ohio/PA side its shitty over there
<2023-02-01T05:56:14.000Z> RupertvonRipp: lol
<2023-02-01T05:57:21.000Z> RupertvonRipp: I will confess WV is prettier than KY or OH
<2023-02-01T05:57:37.000Z> RupertvonRipp: But the valley here is comfy and the river is homey.
<2023-02-01T05:57:43.000Z> RupertvonRipp: But I'm from Cinci so v0v