Tyfud
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- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
All she has in her house are succulents? That makes sense. They’re literally the only things someone like her could possibly hope to keep alive. They need almost zero attention, maintenance, or moisture.
Just like her brain.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 6 days ago:
The image of a 4 inch tall human towering over a bird amuses me.
- Comment on A real landlord special. 1 week ago:
Ah, that’s possibly true as well. Good catch.
- Comment on Just kill one guy 1 week ago:
Franz Ferdinand was an excuse to start ww1, not the cause. The declining monarchies in Germany and other countries were looking for any excuse at that time to flex their remaining muscle in the face of a world which increasingly didn’t need them.
It was the last song of monarchist expansion.
But yes, killing Franz Ferdinand was the catalyst that gave them the excuse they needed. If it hadn’t been that though, it would have been something else shortly after they would have seized on.
- Comment on A real landlord special. 1 week ago:
I know exactly what happened here having just done a renovation on a basement with a completely fucked up bathroom.
They re-used the existing piping and lines when replacing the tub and shower surrounds.
They wanted to save a few hundred dollars and/or effort of moving the pipes to center up with the prefab tub/surround, and just figured they could drill the hole into the surround for the shower attachments wherever.
They’re correct, but that doesn’t make them right.
- Comment on How I imagine my father as a kid 3 weeks ago:
Same. Solidarity.
- Comment on human anteaters 3 weeks ago:
And when did Charles Xavier reach out to you?
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, if the fascist overthrow of democracy only had tariffs to worry about, we’d be doing well.
- Comment on cry harder 3 weeks ago:
As a treat.
- Comment on 8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment 3 weeks ago:
This is Narcissistic behavior, not exclusive to trump, but only because trump and musk are both Narcissists of a high caliber.
- Comment on What are the best anti-work movies? 3 weeks ago:
Glad someone mentioned this gem
- Comment on Good night, sleep tight... 3 weeks ago:
Only tiny couches. Full sized couches took millions of years to evolve to that size.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 4 weeks ago:
Izzard
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 weeks ago:
Oh man, blast from the past.
That was my jam, way, way, way, way back when ;)
Was a RR10 Enchanter and RR10 Blademaster, plus a TL for both classes. I think my account is still lifetime comped.
Put wayyyy too much time into that :P
- Comment on Good luck today, Americans 1 month ago:
…Months until Jan 20th…
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 1 month ago:
Whoever downvoted you, has never seen actual Robin Williams Standup or knows much about his political views.
Robin hated Bush Sr. and Jr., especially Jr., with a passion.
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 1 month ago:
He was also doing statutory rape things with a minor.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 1 month ago:
But then I’d only be viewing 5% of the content Lemmy makes available for me today.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
Closer to 96/95% now ;) But yeah, your point stands. What’s even worse about this, is I’m working on a dual citizenship with Portugal, so I should have had more self-awareness than I showed ;)
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
Ok, I missed the sarcasm and allusion to the US as the country you were talking about. That’s fair.
I assumed the OP was asking the question for the US. Which of course, is the thing people in my country do. Assume everything is about us ;)
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
There’s “hard” caps, and there’s “soft” caps. When you hit the soft caps with many of these ISP’s, they start throttling your internet usage by a substantial amount.
Relevant Screenshot of caps as of Sept 2024. Image
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
Home Internet usually doesn’t have unlimited internet. There’s usually caps baked in somewhere. Don’t believe me? Read the fine print. At some point, at some bandwidth usage in the monthly cycle, they will throttle the living crap out of your connection. It’s written into pretty much every contract I’ve ever signed, and I’ve been with over a dozen carriers of landline internet over the years.
The reason being that they don’t want you serving websites or business class functionality with residential level internet. They didn’t build their network with those constraints. They want you paying for and using the business internet package, which has dedicated bandwidth and no caps because you’re paying for a dedicated line to be run.
For mobile phones? Old pricing models still trying to be relevant. There’s no technical reason.
- Comment on Half as Hot 1 month ago:
Half Kelvins?
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 1 month ago:
The only correct answer in the thread.
- Comment on Get good. 1 month ago:
Are you attacking my cultural heritage of slurring words like a drunk ferret?
- Comment on Get good. 1 month ago:
I mean, California, and other states, are 4 syllable words.
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 2 months ago:
Haha, I feel that! I’ve got dozens of almost games in my wake. 🙂
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 2 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 2 months ago:
Thank you for that writeup, I suspect you’re right, that’s probably why a few people are downvoting :)
You’re not wrong though. It is a little crazy, I admit.
I have a decent bit of funds saved up to live off of, so I think I could do that for a while, and my company has offered to hire me back if I need (but likely without the aforementioned perks…). Worst case, I could take it and take the step down in comfort/lifestyle and go back to kind of what I’m doing today.
Earlier this year I had a medical disability thing that hit and put me out of work for almost 3 months due to stress related to my career.
I had to make a hard choice of trying to continue down this path I was on in B2B, where to get to where I’m at and maintain it is an easy 60+ hours a week plus a boatload of stress consuming my life.
In the end, I decided to try and follow my childhood dreams. The near death-ish experience has given me a new perspective on what is important and matters to me most in life, before I don’t have any more time left to do it.
Truthfully, I might be able to ride out the remainder of my days no longer working, if I pull in just a little bit of supplemental income. I own my own home, and have a modest lifestyle with no children and live well below my means. I’ve been saving pretty hardcore for over a decade, and while it’s not enough to live off of forever, it should cover me for a good while.
Even if this fails, I get a sabbatical from the job that’s killing me, and some new experiences to throw on my resume.
I sincerely appreciate your concern and advice, and it is well taken. I just don’t know how much longer I can even do my job today, every day is burnout day, I’m hanging in there until next year to get my bonuses and to ensure that my role’s successor-ship plan goes through so my engineering team continues to thrive when I’m gone. I’m also not burning any bridges at work, and for the most part, I’m pretty well respected/liked there so I have no doubts I could come back if I needed in an emergency.
But for now, onward :) Going to give this game dev thing a try for realsies :)
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 2 months ago:
I sincerely appreciate that concern :)
I am good on funds for a couple years of living frugally with my wife. One of the few benefits of having been in the industry for so long and trading my sanity and health for $$ is: I’ve got a decent bit of that saved up. Which I’ll be trading away for survival during this :) If it makes money, great, if not, I gave it a shot and I can always get a job again doing the B2B thing, even though I’m totally burnt out with it.
Thank you for the well wishes! I’ll be checking out your game when it’s released!
