This show was absolutely ridiculous and over the top. Loved it.

No, it’s not. No matter how much effort you put in, it will never be enough. The world is only satisfied when we’re dead, preferably of natural causes after wringing us dry of “productivity.”

Yeah, imagine my shock and disappointment when encountering such limitations signing up for credit monitoring (by one of the big 3). It’s not enough that my employer has a breach, no. But also finding out that one of the big players has some ridiculous 12 character alphanumeric password restriction. Absolute dogshit.

I love the fact that the channel evolved from dunking on the uninformed public to full blown documentaries.

My teenage nephew, fresh off of regurgitating talking points about how $80 Nintendo games were total ripoffs, happily bought Doom on launch for $70 (with whose money I do not know), beat it in less than a week, and then raved about it in a phone call for over an hour, eager to experience any upcoming DLC.

So, uh, that’s the audience, I guess?

It’s still a struggle and it’s also cost me a significant amount of my ability to enjoy my free time (have to severely limit my investment in anything not work related so I don’t accidentally get consumed by it and lapse at work)

This path leads to burnout. I have no practical advice since we are kind of required to put work first in order to survive. But the fact that it’s socially acceptable to call this “living” makes me sick to my stomach.

“It only works once, sadly.”

- Me, being 45 minutes late for my dentist after they caught me out by scheduling the prior visit to accommodate my lateness ☹️

May I interest you in some apple cider vinegar? Or perhaps colloidal silver?

Complete removal seems extreme. Maybe just disconnect some of it, as a treat.

My microwave when done: beep. beep. beep. beep. beep.

My microwave stopped one second early to head off the unnecessary beeps: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I’m pretty sure poor sound balance in modern media is mandatory.

I haven’t worked in the field, but oh boy do I ever notice it. Is it the player? The display? The receiver? I don’t know, and I will fuck with it until it’s tolerable… and then something drifts and I’m clawing at the walls again. Yes, something in my setup sucks, but the gear is all from ~2017 and I’m broke. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My Xbox is connected to the 1080p/low latency HDMI port on my display, with the audio going over optical directly to my receiver, stereo only, foregoing 4K and surround sound for the express purpose of playing Rock Band with as little latency as possible. The two types of guitar and the drum set have slightly different optimal calibration settings in the game. The whole reason I bought a 360 over a PS3 back in the day was that the guitars were still wired, and trying to calibrate while playing on my friend’s PS3 was next to impossible and spawned a lot of arguments.

Today, that same friend contentedly watches content 1/4-1/2 second out of sync. And his wife prefers watching everything with subtitles. So I have to actively ignore both distractions and pretend everything’s fine to be a good friend. 🫠

Congratulations! You have been added to The List. Again.

This headline gave me flashbacks.

I was tired of my team having to load multiple 100MB+ tree killer reports from the repository just to access ~10 records of control totals. I poked around with grep but wasn’t landing on the solution. After much googling, I turned to sed. I have retained next to nothing of what I learned from that little adventure, but long story short those tree-killers started sprouting wee control total reports thanks to some minor additions to the job scheduler. Perfect for importing into Excel to appease the bean-counters.

Can’t speak for y’all, but I’m firmly in “will never be able to retire” territory.

Shout out to the $8 quart of ice water with half a lemon in it sold as “lemonade” at last year’s ren faire. Though I did get lemon-flavored melted ice for the next few hours out of the deal.

the subtitles in the center that I cannot disable. It’s an attack on my senses, pure overstimulation.

This, 1000%. They’re trying to use every “engagement” technique in the book, all at once. Shit’s exhausting.

https://youtu.be/JWVKrtmpQbE

If you need a clearer line of sight through some auto glass for recording.

It may not be marketable, but it is a skill. 🤝

The problem is that management picked up on that and now everything is a “sprint.” A never-ending marathon of sprints.