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Another point for why it’s important to own your own copies of music and media, and not use streaming services, is because the copy you own can’t be taken back.

(This is also a good time to remind people that yout*be to mp3 converters still exist).

hello hello! if youre usamerican with federal college debt thats about to start needing to be repaid, you should make sure youve gone to check out the new SAVE income based repayment plan the biden administration recently passed. this plan allows you to pay a monthly deposit that’s calculated based on your income. a few things make this different from the existing income based plans, including that your monthly repayment could be as low as $0 per month. if you pay the calculated amount, no further interest is accrued for the month, and if you keep up with these payments (which again, if youre like me and you dont make a lot of money might be ZERO dollars per month) then all your remaining debt will be forgiven after 12-25 years depending on your specific loans. the program application is very easy but processing takes about a month, so nows the time to get it in before repayment begins in november.

tldr: the SAVE federal aid plan can have you paying $0/month with no accruing interest on your student loans towards a guaranteed debt forgiveness after 12-25 years and you can read more about it and apply for it here!

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I love RPG games. And some of the best ones were made by Squaresoft. And some of the best ones were made in the 90's

There's people out there who call it Square's golden era. Banger after banger of quality RPGs, with wonderful worlds, beautiful art and magical stories. They're still remembered to this day as some of the best in the genre

Today i bring you something that i've decided to call, The Squaresoft RPG Golden Era Legacy Collection™

25 of the best games ever made. Now ALL of them translated and available on PC

The collection contains SNES, PS1, and Gameboy games. Emulators for all 3 are included in the pack. DOWNLOAD HERE!! (3.5 GB)

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hey guys! i just made my first neocities template. it's a responsive wiki-style page meant to mimic sites like fandom or wikipedia using only html and css!

get the code and find some working examples here!

College help post!

hi. i haven’t seen any of these floating around in a while so I thought i’d make one and try to help people. ‘cause there was a whole lot I didn’t know and it almost completely fucked me up! this is specifically for freshmen, since i’m only a sophomore. I’m gonna put generally important stuff at the top, and then go into more detail under a read more. ok, so here’s some advice from a very poor, white history major (and the two years experience my brother had before he dropped out) This isn’t perfect or all-inclusive, but it’s something

-College isn’t for everyone. don’t feel pressured to go if you don’t want to. there’s other options! i hate college 

-don’t feel pressured to go to a big name school. sure, the clout might be nice but a college degree is a college degree

-i operate under the assumption that if a school wants me to pay to send in an application, then they’re not worth my time

-if you receive any sort of financial aid for going to high school (like free/reduced lunches) then you may be eligible to take the SAT and ACT for free! please ask your guidance counselor about this, it definitely saved me. also i think they can send college applications for free? i didn’t do that so i don’t remember

-do your fafsa as soon as possible. it opens October 1st, and the sooner you do it, the more money you’re likely to get –what’s fafsa? student financial aid from the government. Includes grants (which you don’t have to pay back) and loans (which you do pay back, but cheaper than other loan people)

-keep an eye on your bill. it’s sneaky and new charges might appear as the year gets closer to starting. also! while registering, keep an eye out for fees that don’t appear on your bill

-check your damn email everyday. better yet, sync notifications of new emails to your phone

-start using a schedule planner. even if you’ve never used one and think you’ll be fine, start using one. they have free apps! 

-Know where the counseling office is. Know how to contact them. Every school is required to have them, and they’re free. they Will help you. Become friends with them, even

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Is Google Docs bad? Do you know of a good / safer, free, word processor? Thanks!

All Google products are bad!

There is an EXCELLENT free desktop office suite called Libre Office that you can download and install by clicking here: https://www.libreoffice.org/

If anyone reading this is a college student and thinking about purchasing microsoft home and student or an office 365 subscription please just install Libre Office instead. It is WONDERFUL.

If you’re looking to do something browser-based you should check out CryptPad, which is a zero-knowledge, encrypted online office suite with document storage and a spreadsheet maker and a complete boner for security. It allows for collaboration like gdocs does but it doesn’t track your data or store information about you because it *can’t* because all of your work is encrypted. Check out cryptpad here: https://cryptpad.fr/

And, as usual, if you want to ditch gmail check out protonmail.

readings: essays & articles

reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

what people around the world dream about

poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means

oranges are orange, salmon are salmon

how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not

the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins

the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation

disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?

after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back

on the igbo art of storytelling

what the caves are trying to tell us

promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition

the art of loving and losing female friends

on memorizing poetry

the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki

reading in the age of constant distraction

holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light

romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization

mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry

can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence

why female cannibals frighten and fascinate

when you give a tree an email adress

fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience

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A Weird Trick to Get Doctors to Listen to You — Pain News Network

By Crystal Lindell, PNN Columnist There’s a lot of advice out there on how to get a doctor to take you seriously. Most of it is wrong. Lu

This ABSOLUTELY works.

I have used this for many years. Definitely b do it.

Wait, do people know about the Before I Play wiki?

I have used this for..... at this point easily over 6 years. It's a wiki where there will be low-spoiler/non-spoiler hints about just stuff you would want to know before playing a game.

It's always stuff like.... "Vitality in this game is useless, put your points in everything else first" or "Don't leave the second hub town until you buy X item, it'll become unobtainable."

Lemme pick an example almost everyone will know. From the Animal Crossing New Horizons page, the first tip is:

Nearly everything on the island is movable later, including all buildings and even cliffs and rivers. The main things that are fixed are the stuff on the border of the island (river mouths, beaches, rocks/peninsulae, the dock and the airport) and the resident services plaza, so picking your island layout should be based around that primarily.

That's stellar advice, tbh, given what you'll know about the game 30 hours in instead of 30 minutes.

Not every game is covered obviously and not every piece of advice is good, it's all subjective, BUT..... I look up almost every game I play for the first time, just to keep stuff in mind. The SMT4 page had top tier advice imo.