Dvixen
@Dvixen@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam News - Your 2024 Steam Replay is here 3 days ago:
- Comment on Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes? 1 month ago:
I’ve always added a carrot.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 1 month ago:
First I was asked politely to not swear, even if I was not a customer facing employee.
Second time I was cautioned was because I’d switched to swearing in another language. Manager thought it was hilarious, but they still knew I was swearing.
I spent the next five years being increasingly creative with how I swore. A temporary (and loud) revert to English swearing when I was in a workplace accident was kindly ignored due to circumstance.
There was no third warning.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 1 month ago:
There was a place like this in Vancouver, no idea if it is still there.
The Elbow Room. “Food and service is our name, abuse is our game!”
They weren’t kidding. One of our group asked for water, he got told his legs worked and he could get it himself. The food was amazing, although we did get told off for not finishing our plate.
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 2 months ago:
Hopefully through their buttholes, not through their fingers and mouths.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 2 months ago:
Our previous ISP kept after us for a few years to return their modem/router. Only problem was we were a BYO account - we never had a need for their device, nor was it ever on our account or any invoices. A few years later, and every few months afterward (typically after I’ve had to contact them to solve the hell that was constant dropouts - reconnecting 2-4 times a minute) the missing BUDii would pop up again and they’d demand we return or pay for it.
Each time I got snarkier and snarkier, treading the line of being polite and sounding like I wanted to chew their face off. Then I got Betty (fake name) who asked for a moment while she read the correspondence on our account. She commiserated with the troubles we’d been having, clarified notes on our account and then solved what a dozen others couldn’t figure out, and we never heard about the BUDii ever again.
- Comment on Day 59 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
I have ended every session of Sea of Thieves by setting my ship on fire.
I still feel bad for the two guys who were laughing as my ship burned (while on my ship) when the gunpowder kegs exploded and killed us all.
But only a little bad. They knew things would explode eventually, I was carrying a keg of gunpowder, and my shop was on fire!
- Comment on Introducing Steam Families 3 months ago:
We’ve been using it since it came available to test, and is such a lovely change from before. The check out system is so much cleaner than the old locked out of account while someone in the family is playing.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 3 months ago:
Cure for me - in my arse.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 8 months ago:
There’s a colony of them off the coast of northern BC. It was started about twenty years ago for a study.
Granted, they are plastic and nailed down, but hey, who cares about details.
- Comment on What games do you recommend to play with a girlfriend 9 months ago:
Satisfactory. Lots to organize and build.
No Man’s Sky. (Free to play this weekend on all platforms.)
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 11 months ago:
I have noticed this. I have a few searches that I do regularly, and over time I’ve watched the results get less and less relevant for the same keywords.
One of the more recent searches was for a set of data I had been building. I had the keywords from my notes, and when I went to search for it again, using the same keywords that found it the previous times, it was no longer a result. I knew the dates of one event in particular, so I narrowed to that, and still google served me results for ten years before the specified date range. A bit more fine tuning, and Google continued to serve the same results, all not even remotely close to what I was after.
- Comment on Why gaming is so important to players with chronic pain 1 year ago:
Not easily. :(
- Comment on Why gaming is so important to players with chronic pain 1 year ago:
Current list is Path of Exile, Sea of Thieves, Satisfactory, and Warframe. Aust timezone.
- Comment on Why gaming is so important to players with chronic pain 1 year ago:
No argument there. Just have to find a new place to game from.
- Comment on Why gaming is so important to players with chronic pain 1 year ago:
It’s incredibly isolating when there is a game you are super keen to play, but your gaming group powers through as a group to end game, leaving you on your own to play catch-up.
They make promises to help, but magically they are always to busy even for a ten minute assist to help kill that boss it took them five people to take down.
A little empathy would have gone a long way, perhaps an invite to a group when they’ve rerolled their fourth character while I’m still levelling my first.
The people I’d been playing games with for the past few years stopped including me even on a token level. ‘We thought you were in guild/server/discord already.’ Never did get those invites.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
Path of Exiles. Been many years since I last played, so it’s pretty much a new game to me.
Also playing Sea of Thieves, but not as much as I’d like - it’s boring sailing solo.
- Comment on Soaking in the worst air quality in the world 1 year ago:
We had 999 (scale used didn’t go any higher) during the Australian fires a few years back. Going to need a new air quality measurement system soon. :/
