Last real day of work tomorrow.
Mainly meetings. Monday is do nothing day and Tuesday is the last day. Catching up with people Tuesday for lunch.
It’s almost over.
packing continues
Someone’s playing guitar real late. It’s pleasant though. Twangy, slow, country/blues-esque tune, a lilty voice that’s too faint to make out.
It’s a vibe and I’m vibing
Waking up at 530 completely refreshed is not usual for me.
Things of note today
2nd last of current role. Tidying up some things for handover and that’s pretty much it.
New AC game out, which shall be purchased swiftly
My new cannabis script is arriving at some stage.
Gonna be a good day
New AC game out, which shall be purchased swiftly
NOOOOOOO. Read a review or something first. People have got to stop giving ubisoft money if the game is shit. I stress the IF there. If its good go nuts! Took me ages to get my wife to see she was in an abusive relationship with AC games. She hate played odyssey and I had to put my foot down after she was yelling at the tv.
I have read reviews and watched gameplay videos over the past while.
Looks better than previous iterations.
And honestly, I’ve enjoyed each AC game to some extent. Valhalla was a low point for me, but had fun at the start. Mirage was decent, with a fine story.
By all accounts this one is an improvement over the previous RPG ones.
Valhalla didn’t gel with me for some reason after awhile, maybe it was the itemization.
I can’t say I’ve been following Shadows but I have heard about the twin protag thing and I’m not really sure I’m so keen on it being a dual protag game.
I’ve got Xenoblade Blade X today to pick up, I think Shadows can wait for a discount or something.
I’m actually looking forward to the dual protagonist thing. Syndicate was fine with it, but the characters were too close to each other. This one offers two very different gameplay styles.
From what I’ve seen combat is better then before and actually requires a bit of skill. They seem to have taken cues from Ghost of Tsushima.
In any case, got nothing else to play at the moment, so this should do me nicely. I’m off work next week, so can fully immerse myself in it.
I’ll keep my eye out on Shadows as I do love the Japanese setting. I’m hoping we’ll see Ghosts of Yotei later this year somewhere.
Let me know how Shadows go after you’ve had a good play session or two out of it.
Will do. I’ll probably post my feelings and experiences later today, or tomorrow.
GOY is my most anticipated game this year (I’m pretty certain it’s a 2025 release).
Hoping AC is big and decent enough to hold me over until the official announcement for the other one.
Well that didn’t take long to escalate.
Apparently there’s going to be a day 1 patch due to complaints about shrines and temples.
"The day one patch will make tables and shelving located in in-game shrines indestructible and will reduce non-essential depictions of bloodshed taking place in shrines and temples. In addition, when attacking unarmed NPCs, there will no longer be depictions of blood. "
Good morning Melburnians. There will be sunshine, wind, rain, possible storms. A little for everyone today.
Have to head back to melbs on PT… bugger.
Luckily the trains have roofs. You’ve got this.
Good morning. It’s will be an interesting one for sure.
Definitely a hold on to your hats kinda day.
My boxes should be arriving today. I don’t even have anywhere to move to yet, but the prospect of having to pack the house up is so overwhelming/terrifying I am determined to start as early as possible.
It’s World Happiness Day today 🙂
If we get some decent rain, then I will be happy.
Hmmm 😾
We are rebellious. We must be grumpy today.
I’m happy because it’s not fucking sweltering and I can do a workout today.
the sky will cry soon
Don’t tell me what to do.
I wouldn’t dream of it.
this reminds me of early Simpsons 😊 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujuKNNtOwtY
Oh well
😂
I got very lucky with my tech support session yesterday. I just had to set up a scanner, which could have been simple enough, but the laptop wasn’t connected to wifi, nor was it picking up the hotspot from my phone.
Fortunately, the laptop was old enough to still have a disc drive. So I was able to install the drivers from the disc that came with it instead.
Every house with thise demon diveless devices should have at least one usb cd/dvd rom. People mock the humble optical drive until the shit hits the fan, then they roll around squealing
I have one of these. I also have a usb 3 1/4 floppy disk drive, do I get bonus points for that?
I have a zip drive which I proudly display at the back of a cupboard somewhere.
Used to be used for a medical practice where they’d send disks up to Syd. every week for back ups.
Those floppy drives are mad useful when you do a deep clean and find Ye Olde Shite. I’ve still got one kicking around, amazing how many times it gets used once people realise you have one
I don’t have Ye Olde Shite, those li’l guys are in current use here. My sewing machine uses them for design files, so they are my link from the computer.
I plugged a leftover usb sata hdd controller into an internal cd-rom drive to get USB CD action a few months ago. Kinda surprised, kinda impressed.
It worked in this case. But it was so weird with this laptop, it wasn’t picking up any wifi networks. They had an ancient laptop at home as well and that one was connected to the wifi there. I was even able to connect the printer to the wifi via WPS. This laptop was picking up nothing. I was ready to drive down to the nearest Jaycar and pick up an ethernet cable.
I think I assume to much of a tech competence baseline in these sessions. At first I was worried they wouldn’t be able to login to the laptop because they bought it a while ago specifically to scan photos and hadn’t touched it in years. I should ask people to have their diaries with their passwords handy, make sure they can login to the devices and accounts they want to work on, and I should bring a couple of common cables just to make sure as well.
My older laptop stopped working with my WiFi at some point, I had to buy a wireless dongle to work with the newer wifi equipment.
That’s what’s so weird. This laptop isn’t ancient but it couldn’t find anything. The older laptop looked like it was from 2009 and was connected to the internet
what os on the non-ancient laptop? I’m guessing some proprietary wlan handler that windows is having a bargy with
Legitimate question; what has happened to the Monash Freeway the last four or so weeks? Morning commutes are now ~75 minutes from like 6:30am onwards. Used to be a clean run up until like 7:15 or so.
More return to office mandates is my guess.
It’s absolutely atrocious now; was hoping it might be temporary due to roadworks elsewhere, or bus replacements due to train works.
Makes my commute cancer, and I don’t even have the option to take public transport instead 😭
I’ve been going down a good length of the Monash counter peak a couple days a week the last 3 weeks for work, and I always look at the peak direction hellscape with a mix of horror, pity, and depression. It’s horrible. Even at 7:30am it’s backed up in Dandenong…
That’s what I’ve been experiencing as of late, too. Inbound, where the Gippy Hwy joins onto the Monash is slows to a crawl, then picks up until the Eastlink merge, where it slows to a crawl and continues until around Warrigal Rd where (thanks to the added lane?) it opens up again.
Now I’m to try and avoid the impact I have to either leave at before 6am or after 9:30am in order to have a somewhat decent (sub-45 minute) run into the office; but at least I’m lucky enough to have that flexibility!
Definitely milk that flexibility as much as you can. Spending all that time and energy stuck in (and causing) traffic is not how we were meant to spend our lives as humans 😭
It’s economically rubbish all round. More costs for government: More wear and tear on roads, more road accidents; Bad for environment: more petrol burnt, more pollution; Bad for employers: Less productivity, cranky staff, more leasing costs for offices, less access to talent because geographical restrictions; Bad for the employees: less personal time and family time, bad for kids, bad for community, and cost of commuting mean less money to spend elsewhere so cost of living impact. It’s completely ridiculous anyone would try to claim it has net positives, it’s nothing but a power trip for shitty employers. But this is the world we live in. There’s no sense to it.
If it were a family feud question I’d answer with accidents, return to office and dual cabs.
HA HA 🚎
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋Chicken chilli and two valium thx doc.
🍗🌶️💊💊
Thx. The chilli was awesome, the vallies haven’t helped.
💊💊
Some cherry wine please
🍒🍶 Apologies. We are out of stock. Please have some cherry vinegar instead.
Happy happiness day
I’ll have a happy meal, and a glass of sulfite free wine please.
🍎🍔🥗🥤🪀🍷
Straight to wine for me pls.
🍷
Thank you kind chef :)
My brain is in a different room to the rest of me and I don’t like it
I finally got some formatting on the online store working how I want it. Why doesn’t the Proceed To Cart and Checkout buttons inherit from the regular button style, and why can’t you change them in an editor if that’s the case?
That sounds like a pain in the ass tbh
It has been. I think between Wordpress and Woocommerce they’re trying to expand what you can do through visual editors, but there are still some problems.
I figured it out though, and I figured out how to do it with a live preview all through Inspect Element on the site. If anything, having limited editing and styling options was a distraction because I was trying to do it through there instead of just making custom CSS
just packing my demi tasse set
Are they for espresso? Nice colours.
yep, for espresso 😊 ( I just use a french press and make it strong )
I swear I thought the Minecraft movie was already out, so seeing all these ads and promotions for it has been such a trip.
I thought it came out last year, based on nothing.
With all the crap being churned out now, this one actually looks fun?
It definitely looks like one of the movies ever made.
Looking forward to this weekend!
Have band rehearsal with new band Saturday which should be fun.
Will go out Saturday night, have a couple of options.
Then 2 more days or work next week and I get a week off till I start the new job!!!
sounds great 😊
