Thank you for giving me 3 huge reasons not to switch, cause I’ve been a bit tempted lately.
Thank you for giving me 3 huge reasons not to switch, cause I’ve been a bit tempted lately.
I didn’t ignore it, but I did have to put up with it for months:
Discord would just never recognize that my PC was being left idle, so I would never get notifications on my phone, which constantly left me gaslighting myself into thinking my friends were ignoring me, or just didn’t have any reason to message me all day.
I contacted Discord support at least once over it, and they couldn’t do anything to help me figure it out, since I had all my settings set properly to have it switch over to mobile notifications after 1 minute of inactivity.
After a shit ton of googling, I found out that certain devices, namely third-party xbox controllers, could cause a PC to never actually go idle, and then I found a tool to help me check if my PC is idle, started unplugging things one-by-one, and found out that my 8bitdo Arcade controller was the thing keeping my PC from going idle.
The issue popped up with an etsy-bought Guitar Hero controller further down the line as well, but thankfully by then I knew how to troubleshoot the issue. Bonus points, my new fighting game controllers don’t have this problem.
Killer Instinct-generated.
Probably that I met a bunch of other decently-high-level fighting game players that have similar demeanor about the games we all play. Hanging out with them gave me an entire new community to feel at home in, and got me back into content creation. Plus, they collectively made it not feel impossible to go to my local tournaments on occasion, at which I’m at least not the weakest player in the room by a good margin.
Oh yeah, I completely quit drinking as well, after overdoing it one night and teleporting to the bathroom to vomit. I’m not counting days or anything, just kinda neat that I dropped it cold turkey, had plenty of opportunities to drink again, and just haven’t wanted to.
I mean, ideally I’d want a ranking of every decision I ever made in my whole life on that scale, so I could thumb through it.
My favorite concept for an afterlife is being handed a magic book that contains the answers to every question like this where it’d be impossible to track the data, and it would be able to display it in any way you want.
What was the single thing I did that had the last direct impact on myself, that had the greatest lasting impact on anyone else?
Things like spending the extra time one day making a cup of coffee made it so this specific person was stuck behind my slow-ass speed limit driving, averting what would’ve been a multi-car pileup or some shit like that.
If the average user has to interact with a command line interface, EVER, as anything but a truly desperate last resort, with someone holding their hand the whole way through, they’re probably gonna give up and never wanna look back.
A lot of people barely know how to copy and paste, or don’t even know what the phrase “right click” means.
When I did some work from home training a year ago, I looked like a goddamn wizard for knowing how to manage browser tabs and put folders on my bookmarks bar.
TLDR: It needs to just work for people that don’t know jack shit about using a computer, which in a lot of cases it just doesn’t.
Me when I had to go to 3 gas stations last night to find one with a functional air pump for my tires, and the one that was working was not automated, and it even cost me 2 dollars for the privilege of reading that stupid analogue gauge in the dark.
The broken free ones were automated.
Also for the love of god, don’t be sticking anything in places it could get lost without a flared base to keep at least part of it outside.
It’s currently free on YouTube (or at least it is for premium users).
Chaotic feels more appropriate, since they’re only really predictable if you try and think of the absolute dumbest possible thing they could say or do at any given moment.
Gaslight Obstruct Project
I use a metal straw with a silicon bendy bit on the end, and it’s not like I throw away the bendy part.
I know for sure that Sonic and Knuckles was the very first game I played, or at least that I formed a memory of playing. I also had this handheld Radica Junior Bass Fishing game. And then I think I got to play Cruisin’ USA at somebody’s house and they had a full steering wheel setup for it.
“swims” can be rotated 180 degrees and still say swims. It’s an ambigram. “pod” would be another.
Specifically 64, yes.
Basically 3D Galaga with furries.
I have a set of Sony Float Run headphones (I’m still gonna say headphones even if they’re in a different category) and they’re pretty good even in relatively chaotic environments like a crowded gym.
I can’t give up my Stream Deck plugins. I don’t trust that that Linux port thing supports all the plugins I use.