I would bring my own cup to restaurants if they let me. Also they always give me a straw I won’t use, they should at least ask if I want more trash.

I look up game info on the steam forums several times a week, and I have found them significantly less contentious than lemmy. I don’t remember ever seeing a “woke” thread. I assume it’s because it’s largely contained to AAA games and I’m usually playing indie games?

In any case I think it’s an exaggeration to call them “unusable”.

I assume what happened was costs went up $18B, but they charged an extra $130B because they knew they could get away with it.

I’ve been loving my frame, but I didn’t realize how much I needed those prescription lenses in there. I just ordered them for about $60. I was going to get a smaller pair of glasses that would fit in the headset, then I remembered seeing the lenses on the store page.

The ergo kit was out of stock unfortunately, but I can’t say it’s “mandatory” like some others do. I might buy it when it’s back in stock, but I’m not in a rush as it feels alright as-is.

The fanny pack is interesting, but I think I’d rather just get a long cable and tether to a wall. Maybe I’ll feel differently after some extended use.

I have very little soldering experience, but every once in a while at work I have to use a soldering iron to install heat-set threaded inserts into 3d prints.

The little machine that controls the soldering iron only has a power button and knob, and no indication that it is heating up or hot or even working. Each time I use it I convince myself that it isn’t on and have to test it. And each time I briefly consider using my hand. It’s always super hot.

I worked in a Mexican restaurant for two months. I burned my finger on the beans pot on my first day, and my hands were always wet from washing dishes, so it didn’t heal until after I quit.

I actually like using excel.

One year, I think I was around 12, I told my family that I thought maybe I was too old to trick-or-treat so I would figure something else out. They were effusive about how wrong I was and unanimously told me absolutely not, I was still a kid and 100% I had to go trick-or-treating.

The next year I assumed I was still young enough, since they were so insistent the last time, so I told them I planned on going again. They all gave me worried looks and said I was clearly too old.

I don’t remember what age it was, but there is an exact age that people find acceptable, apparently. I’m tempted to go out now, many years later, just out of spite.

An hour after ordering: It arrived in Colorado.

One day later: Still in Colorado.

One week later: Still in Colorado.

One hour after that: Shipped via truck, arrived in California, picked up by carrier, out for delivery, delivered.

That guy was so weird. Even the worst hill I’ve ever chosen to die on only lasted like 4 comments.

That’s the one! Thanks.

What movie is that from again?

Spellcheck is awful now, I can only assume because of vibe-coding.

The top right panel always bothered me because it looks like the guy chose to slap the right cheek with the palm of his left hand from behind him, which is absolutely crazy.

Great comic though.

There are some gifts that are good for a lot of people regardless of their interests, but these guides never seem to know any of them and it’s annoying.

For instance everywhere cold that I’ve lived, people would love another heated blanket, even if they already have one. Or really just any blanket, can’t have too many. Also a good evaporative humidifier is something everyone needs and no one has. It took me 15 years to buy a real carpet cleaner for myself, just check their house while you’re over to see if there’s one lying around. Consumable stuff is great because even if they already have it they can use more soon.

Guides ignore this kind of thing and pretty much exclusively recommend stuff that most people wouldn’t like due to tastes. “Get them this clip-on book light!” but they only read on tablets, or they already have a light because that problem needed immediate solving, or they simply don’t like the kind you bought because there are so many.

Anyway the guides are terrible, but they don’t have to be.

It snowed pretty hard once in Alabama, and the roads got icy so they cancelled work. Management told us that we would all have to use a day of PTO for this unplanned vacation. I told my boss “Fuck that, I’ll walk to work. You’re not getting my PTO.” and he said “You can’t do that, the building’s locked.”

I was prepared to become an Issue, but the next day they must have realized how illegal that paper trail was because they retracted the PTO thing.

A similar, much more severe storm happened a few years later, and I told my boss that I was absolutely not driving to work in my little sedan. He told me he would come pick me up and that I was a big baby, then shows up sliding around in his Prius with no chains or anything. After barely making it in, no one else was at the office and everything was dark. He made me work the full shift anyway before letting me go home, and HR said they wouldn’t give me any consideration for working a day more than everyone else.

Playthru 1 is for stealth sniping and 100%’ing every area.

Playthru 2 is for getting that slow-down-time implant and killing everything that moves with a sword while never stopping a full on sprint.

I felt a genuine lack when it was over.

Glad they’re working on it.

Turns out I needed to open some ports for SteamVR to work! Main text updated.

That’s a good point. I start SteamVR but it doesn’t seem to recognize the Frame and just waits for a connection from my long gone Vive. I’ll look into that.