I don't really operate in default society, which is important to note going forward.
I was totally on the fence about going to Church Night, a weekly event at the burner warehouse where I totally whiffed on getting involved. This week, it was RGB LED testing, and that's not something you walk into.
This places me outside, which isn't the worst. I'm watching the hot dogs grill, and then comes the unexpected item in burner area.
Apparently, as with the admins here, I've been identified as a rogue actor in a stable community. In both cases, we move forward.
I end up talking with a woman who happened to sit next to me for an hour. She teaches fifth grade and, well, she meets my physical interests. But we've talked before, so this is just shooting the shit while I'm getting weed from the right-hand side.
Then, it's back to the person tending the fire. Tiny Tim informs me that they've both flagged me as a risk within the community and subsequently de-escalated. "I got you wrong," they said.
We are still at the fist-bump level of physical interaction, but I doubt much more would be useful. It's a step up from vitriol.
From here, we head off to gallows humour. And by this I mean Gallows' humour. Oh, yeah, we all have burner names. There isn't much point in having you guess what mine is.
Anyway, Gallows is one of the leaders of the space. He's very much neurodivergent and has been encouraging me to explore that, because, once again, I'm being told my behavior only makes sense within that context
This is another hour or so wherein he give me a couple of cigarettes.
So, we're drinking and smoking, and Leonard comes up. We chat for a bit, he said he's tired, and would I like a ride home?
This always ends the same way. He knows where I'm parked, some three minutes away, but we talk for at least 30 minutes.
This week, Leonard brings up Young Sheldon. I leave it as an exercise for the reader as to why this is amusing.
You know you've truly become part of a community when people are basically fighting for your time when they see you idle. Hopefully, I won't wake up feeling the loss of community, but this was the first time I just pinballed from connection to connection.

I was once a die-hard Asus fan. Then, well, they kept fucking up. I used to have motherboards and routers from them, without feeling shortchanged.
This latest news is of scarce interest. Of course they priced ahead of the rise in memory and storage costs.