Haha so many times I’ve heard stuff playing that sounds catchy in like random sandwich shops, and hunt down where I can get a clear detection on it.

It’s actually pretty impressive what the average smartphone mic can pick up … For better and worse. =\

But I’ve found some favorite songs that way. It beats the old days of trying really hard to discern some words in the lyrics and hoping a search engine would help!

It even works for the music library!? Jellyfin is crazy rad.

And the story is set in modern times but it sounds like an 80’s arcade cabinet. Bwoop-bwoop pew pew!

Granted some people are so focused while gaming that they look like drowned salmon, but streamers have proven you can still be emotive and act whilst gaming lol.

KeePassXC is such a lifesaver. Back up that local database a few safe places, and even the BS accounts got like 32 char passwords. Good for keeping notes too like “Why did I make an account here again?”

Like when healthcare or government stuff makes you have like 5 sign ups with various crappy contractors to access your basic crap lol.

Lmao I was confused but I think I see where I got it wrong. I said “bread game” instead of “stick game”. XD

Apologies for butchering the language. :)

…Lol the machine translation of “jogo do pau” appears to be…Less than polite? Hahaha.

So, clarification: I think rural stick fighting from Portugal would be really cool to learn. :) lol

Ignorant North American here but I’m now legit wondering what happens to people backpacking-possibly-solo through places like Romania. 😬

Natural hazards like “If you twist an ankle you’ll get no comms service and be eaten by a bear.” aside, of course.

Buddy system is never a bad idea. :)

That’s really sad, because one day I wanted to go and learn Jogo do Pão. I hear it’s a dying art but they’re trying to keep it alive.

That gave such Space Quest vibes and I’m here for it. Just needs the narrator: “Don’t lick that! It doesn’t know where you’ve been!” Lol

Ha! Glad I wasn’t the only one. I fondly remember that about highschool too. My friends group was from all walks of life. Hugs every time!

I got called back by a staff guy once. “You’ve been hugging like lotsa girls. Have you seen our PDA policy?”

I was like “Bruh everybody hugs.”

Guess we hadn’t learned to be proper grown-up, repressed, judgemental shell-dwellers yet.

Society feels like a prison-zoo now: “Eyes down. Keep to yourself. Eye contact could start trouble.”

And we’re statistically the lonliest adult generations in history.

by calling MS support.

Which hopefully wasn’t a 1-800 number flashing obnoxiously on the screen. 😂

Unless you’re Bruce Wayne, in which case when asked you might say NA NA-NA NA-NA NA-NA NA…

I’ll see myself out.

Having worked in an environment helping people who either didn’t have either, or didn’t know how to use them, and needed jobs…I discovered basically the answer is somewhere between “Wait outside at Home Depot” or “You don’t.”

It has nothing to do with fun, they just want the carrot being dangled in front of their nose.

This might explain the marketing that seemed to start with mobile games and now infects AAA MP titles:

“PLAY NOW AND GET 34 GAZILLION WORTHLESS EMERALDRUBYGEMCOINS and a RARE DROP POPSICLE MAGIC DOMINO”

Like…a newcomer would have zero idea what the heck they’re even talking about but somehow it seems to work, to entice players with worthless free…server database adjustments?

Hardly any focus is on the games being unique or exciting (Surprise, they aren’t!) It’s all about a reward-based impulse, like training a bunch of rodents to use a casino.

In an alternate timeline Fireworks MX went open source and people might use one or the other but everyone’s happy. Lol

if they changed the workflow to be like Photoshop, it would leave those of us who know how to use Gimp but not Photoshop high and dry

That’s a VERY good point. I think a good example would be how Blender has evolved in the last decade or so.

It started out very “in-house” and unconventional, but it had very specific UX principles in mind rather than just aping “ThE iNdUsTrY”. Coming from learning 3D MAX to OG pre-3.5 Blender was really difficult. Right-click select?!

But like Blender, I feel like GIMP could benefit from having easily adjustable settings that could line up with what a particular user finds intuitive. Certain layer behavior seems to be the big one here. The settings are there, they’re just awkwardly small buttons or buried in menus.

(Adding the universal transform tool was a VERY nice jump in the right direction.)

Blender’s UI / UX overhaul caused a bit of screeching, but overall was instrumental in balancing accessibility with familiarity to existing users. It made those options very accessible and modular.

For instance, I always use left-click-select, but I use the “Blender way” for everything else. If someone’s coming from Maya? There’s the “industry standard keymap” for them.

Sorry for the ramble. LOL

WW2 again, I don’t mind learning the era but I’ve relearned the same thing over and over again

When your history class is written by the same folks responsible for the History Channel circa ~2002-2010.

Dang, I was really hoping this would be one of those stories that goes like:

“How long will that take?”

“It’s a lot of data…like a month?” (But I actually wrote a Python script that compiles and formats it perfectly in like 5 minutes.)

“You’re such a hard worker!”

LOL whoooops. That’ll teach me to actually read links once in a while. But hey, we can be distant neighbors hahaha.

You’re right though, plenty to go around. If we could all root out corruption starting in our own neighborhoods, they’d have nowhere to run. :)

Now the question is if they actually pay that or if they interview and say “Well, depending on experience so we’ll start you off at $10 and see how it goes.” Lol