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Does anyone know what brand of American cheese is used at restaurants like Culvers? I love adding cheese but when I make sandwiches at home, it never tastes the same.

I need a gut check.

I have been a teacher in my district for 6 years. When I started I put 6% of my income in a retirement account with a salary of $40,000. Every year I got a $1,250 raise and I increased my retirement contributions by 1%.

District matches up to 6%. It's a 401k, not pension system.

This year I would be making $48,000 and was going to increase my percent to 13%, but I got notified by the district that the payscale of my school isn't meeting the rest of the state and my salary is going to almost $60,000. (The result of a mass teacher exodus lol)

I am seriously considering not increasing my percent and just enjoying making a decent income for the first time in my life. 12% of 60,000 is already a lot and I wouldn't mind putting money in a HYSA for home improvements/repairs or travel. Thoughts?

Not sure if this is the right sub for this.

My friend is considering a career change that is all stemming from AI implementation. She works in data science and her company is pressuring her to use ClaudeCode in her job. They are making her attend all these trainings and meetings in person and online, even some sort of conference.

She is very against AI. But the worst thing is that when asked for how they are going to pay for the ClaudeCode subscription, her boss said that's not something that would be eligible to be covered? She needs to pay for it out of pocket. She's worried that the price will skyrocket once she is comfortable with it.

I bought a summer dress on amazon -it's cute but too long. I want to try to hem it but would love some help by someone who has done anything like this before.

If someone who is a hobby sewer would be willing to meet up, maybe we could slice and sew it together?

I'm in town for a cruise. I figured I would see the Boston pops show tonight. I don't feel like the city is overrun with tourists. I went to the Harvard Museum and had a wonderful time. The flowers and minerals were beautiful and there were times I was the only one in the exhibit room. I ended with Sunset on the Prudential Observation Deck which wasn't crowded.

This doesn't seem like anything more than big city vibes. For the hotel prices I figured everyone in the country was coming to Boston for the weekend. :-)

Does it feel like anything more than a typical summer weekend in Boston to you guys?

PS your Subway system is so easy to navigate! Best experience I've ever had.

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Please let me know if I need to update or edit anything in these cards, especially as go fest approaches/begins and we start to understand some of the "TBD" details.

I created some flashcards to help me remember what is all going on this weekend. Feel free to use them and definitely let me know if there are any errors.

When I was in NYC all the pokemon players were hanging out at Bryant Park. What is the chicago equivalent of this? Is there somewhere that players are anticipated to gather? I would expect Millenium park?

I started gaming this past summer and decided to try the HK duo due to the infectious excitement for Silksong and overwhelming number of recommendations from friends.

HK took me 120 hours to get true ending at 106% completion.

I told myself I would take a break....and four hours later I was playing Silksong. That one was much harder, I hit a wall after about 90 hours, admitted defeat, and started a new save file. I was determined to "GIT GOOD!"

That second playthough lasted 109 hours and I hit 100% completion, true ending, 235/235 hunters journal. Something clicked.

Yes, that's right. Since last fall I have put 320 hours into these games. It was joy brought into my life every day. A beautiful world with an incredible story.

And now it's over. So I wanted to drop by and say how much fun I had, how amazing it was to explore these worlds, how I fought so many fights I never thought I would be able to beat.

Hornet first time: 6 hours in 3 days
Mantis Lords: 5.5 hours
>!The Radiance:!< 16 hours in 9 days
Widow: 4 hours in 3 days
>!Last judge:!< 5 hours in 3 days
>!Lost Lace:!< 9 hours in 4 days

Thank to this community and r/silksong for helping me escape deepnest when I got lost and helping my build to beat>!coral tower!<.

If you have other recommendations for wonderful games of any genre, I always appreciate it. I enjoyed expedition 33 and have Hades 2, Animal Well, and Ori and the Blind Forest on my to-play list installed.

I am doing a second playthrough of Silksong and Karmalita and the Clover dancers didn't use any tool shards.

In my first playthrough I only beat Nylith but I remember needing to take a break and farm shards. it's one of the main reasons I didn't finish the playthrough.

was this a quality of life update? Am I misremembering and it's always been like this? Is my game bugged? why aren't these "dream fights" using shards? Maybe I am misremembering and it was Seth that made me farm....