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akadajet posted:as i've been getting older it's been harder for me to get into playing a video game, so maybe try aging. While my gaming variety has gone down, I find myself playing more of the same stuff over and over. Anything coop interests me because it's the easiest way for my social circle to get together in any capacity considering everyone's schedules these days. Deep Rock Galactic is currently the choice. On the WFH front, I got myself a nice lap desk and it's helped tremendously in that I can sit anywhere in the house now and work.
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haveblue posted:if you're in a big city you can probably find used aerons on craigslist, they're a few hundred but worth it graph is in the same area as me. When I looked a couple years ago there was nada. Herman Miller does an annual sale around this time for 15% off. It's still freakishly expensive though
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I gooned out and got a Valve Index last year. I guess it's playing off now, although I had no idea Valve was making a game when I bought it. Alyx is amazing a nice distraction from going stir crazy in the house.
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Mar 25, 2020 06:08
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Jonny 290 posted:my biggest MISS in gun land was not picking up a cx4 storm when they were still in production I've been looking for cx4 for a while now. It's impossible to find any information when they're coming back.
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Mar 29, 2020 23:23
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SO DEMANDING posted:raise your hand if you absolutely cannot give a single gently caress about work Buddy, hitting the post button is almost too much effort for me
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Mar 30, 2020 21:37
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We've had a critical position we've needed filled for two years now and we finally got the req open and posted this February. Now all hiring is frozen and they're projecting at least a 20% shortfall this year which means I can kiss seeing it filled goodbye as they'll cut any thing they can to make numbers. It's enough to finally make me look, except for the fact there's a global recession going on.
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Mar 31, 2020 04:43
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Just thinking about the new Star Trek series is enough to make me mad.  What if Star Trek, but we ignore the fundamental concepts of the series?
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Apr 2, 2020 00:35
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I'm amazed how well DS9 has aged.
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Apr 2, 2020 04:00
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PIZZA.BAT posted:finished hl:alyx yesterday. it was extremely good and i highly recommend it if you have a vr headset Agreed. Now to wait another 3 years for a AAA level VR game to come along.
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Apr 2, 2020 17:15
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echinopsis posted:are you worried it’s going to soon not want to experience real life again I don't get motion sickness, but VR gets my plumbing ready to go everytime.
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Apr 2, 2020 19:54
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I just realized today has been two weeks since I left my home to go anywhere outside of my back yard and the mailbox. Who knew I'd been training my entire life for this.
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Apr 3, 2020 05:50
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The sad part is I've been eating healthier and working out more than if I was going into the office. That place is such a stress pit.
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Apr 3, 2020 06:10
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:anyone else having trouble sleeping Working out at home has been my cure for this. Otherwise I'd be an absolute insomniac at night. qirex posted:seriously don’t read the news but super extra don’t watch the news I really really need to heed this advice. I've been a news freak for the past 5 years and it's not helped in the least.
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Apr 3, 2020 14:20
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Sagebrush posted:well i have two n95 masks that i found in my office drawer but idk if i should wear them out because i'll look like a heel "They laughed at me the first time I wore jeans with a sport coat. I was the first wealthy man in America to ever do that, now they all do it!" As an aside, I thought I had an n95 lying around in my basement. Turns out it's some old relic I must have grabbed with my grandfather's tools when he passed years ago. It has no expiration date on it, uses a 3M logo in a style I've never seen, and references regulations from the seventies. I think I'm going to mark that one off as a loss. I have a half mask respirator I could use if I want to pretend I'm Bane in public. (I don't)
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Apr 4, 2020 05:49
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I get dressed (jeans t shirt) else I'd feel like poo poo after a day or two, and I need everything I can get to keep focused.
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I really don't understand the shower in the morning thing even though most people do it. I like to feel clean when I crawl into bed at night.
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Apr 6, 2020 17:59
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So after 2+years of a Jira migration off our old system, they decide to dump our move to production to my teams with one days notice and everything screwed up on the component mapping.
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I wish I could to into details why they're scrambling now, but I know coworkers browse these boards. I'll just say it looks good on paper to outsiders that we're using "modern" tools for our work, regardless of whether or not it actually works. In the two plus years we could have updated our existing system to address the features we're missing and not have all our ticket history run through a shredder.
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Apr 9, 2020 05:09
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syntaxrigger posted:Wait what?!?! people like the smell of gasoline?!?!? As a kid I did. Not in the, "I'm going to huff this" sense, but filling up a lawn mower or driving by a gas station it was not an unpleasant oder.
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Apr 14, 2020 19:33
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Methanar posted:When it comes to the smell of gasoline, less is more. A little whiff can be nice. Yeah if you linger around it gets unpleasant pretty fast.
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Apr 14, 2020 19:35
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lancemantis posted:its funny how much all this poo poo works and really everything has been a farce for the past 240+ years I'm sure as hell not getting smarter as I get older. It's just so confusing as to why everyone else seems to be getting dumber.
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Apr 15, 2020 17:40
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It's like that episode of Futurama, The Day The Earth Stood Stupid.
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Apr 15, 2020 17:46
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echinopsis posted:the person i work with who was gonna break quarantine ended up doing so and was caught by the cops and is probably gonna get fired Congrats
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Apr 15, 2020 21:26
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Roosevelt posted:look man i just want to buy the biggest dildo you have in the fewest number of clicks, this isn't complicated Thankfully, Styme was never for sale
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Apr 15, 2020 21:37
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Adding to the Forgotten Weapons endorsement train.
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Apr 16, 2020 03:31
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Agile Vector posted:desktop tower wont power on, tempted to buy the best micro center/powerspec offering instead of fixing this 9 year old 2500k beast of a box or building one from parts mid-pandemic and shipping 1070ti to my brother since the rest of the tower is old af I've got a 2600k i was looking to upgrade when all this went down. There seems to be part shortages everywhere as most of the components I was looking at are out of stock. I was waiting for the next gen Nvidia cards before I pulled the trigger, but it looks like those are moved out to the fall at the earliest.
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Apr 16, 2020 19:44
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Jira is a POS. That is all.
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Apr 21, 2020 16:15
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Side note. Some of my buddies got a Minecraft server for us to shoot the poo poo in. They went with the win10 version because it's cross play compatible with the Xbox and Switch versions. I'd keep getting disconnected if alt-tabbed out to do something like read a wiki page. Turns out if you're full-screen in a Win 10 application and you minimize it, it suspends the process, and there's nothing an application developer can do about it.  The amount of regression in the software industry in the past decade for solved problems is dumbfounding
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Apr 21, 2020 16:23
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mystes posted:That sounds like a legacy of how WinRT was designed for mobile devices. I think that Microsoft has fixed some of this stuff now that they've given up on mobile, but I guess they haven't fixed everything yet. Suspending the processes makes sense if you're using an Android-style app lifecycle but it makes much less sense on a desktop. Exactly, but when I was looking into it, it's been an issue for at least two plus years. You'd think they could have addressed it in that time.
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Sagebrush posted:
Back in my college days there was a philosophy professor who kept getting turned down for tenure. He always blamed it on someone on the committee who "had it out for [him]". Turns out they "had it out for him" because he boinked a student (or several it was never clear) in the past. After his final rejection for tenure he left the college. I was a naive freshman at the time, and thought he was a pretty cool dude until I learned that little detail.
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A lot of small liberal art colleges are struggling right now and have been for years due to tuition inflation. This may push a lot of them over the edge.
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Funny follow up anecdote. The guy's replacement was a younger gentlemen that apparently was quite pleasing to the ladies. Apocryphaly he had a student in his office who pulled the "is there anything I can do to help my grade?  " and apparently lost his poo poo and threw her out of the office. He was a legit cool dude.
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Sagebrush posted:weird that he would "keep getting turned down." most places have an up-or-out policy -- you have to apply for tenure after ~6 probationary years, and if you get it you're set, but if you don't you get one terminal year and then you're fired. It may have been this. The story is almost 20 years old at this point and I wasn't an expert on the process.
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Apr 23, 2020 14:46
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Sagebrush posted:in this forum we don't use capital letters posting from mobile makes this a chore
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I about had a stroke last year when my mother mentioned that my father had signed up for a free trial of the Epoch Times. He'd always been conservative, but the past several years he's gone off the deep end and I don't think there's any coming back. The sheer hypocrisy of all the stuff he'd railed against, blatantly going on for the past four years, and him being okay with it because it's his guy doing it has really makes me depressed when I think about it.
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Apr 24, 2020 22:13
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theadder posted:in before mao was good i guess You know drat well if fismech were still here the next post would be "well actually" followed by fifty pages of additional posts by the morning.
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I'm still wfh minimum until June and in Ohio. We had a guys only weekend scheduled for the end of June before this all hit and officially canceled this past weekend. We knew it wasn't happening long before that though. Thankfully that was the only thing I had planned. I feel bad for people who had something that took a lot of planning. My one buddy is getting married in August and I don't know what their backup plan is.
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fart simpson posted:things can always get worse  E: holy hell does imgur suck from mobile TerminalRaptor fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Apr 28, 2020 |
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The pro move is to land another job and resign in between the period of signing the acceptance letter and actually starting your last job.
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