Reasonable posts generally don’t result in me deleting anything. Most posts have an interested audience even if something is technically against the rules, and as such it is very rare that I hit that delete button.

Please edit your title in the form of a question. I almost removed this as spam. In fact, there’s not a single question in your post, but I’m sure you’re trying to ask one.

Thank you. Have a magnificent day.

This was me in 2014. I didn’t think of it as drowining, it felt more like a plow working against too much snow: Things kept piling up in front, and not enough was shoved away, to the point where things started coming over the plow and starting to bury me.

Took me five years, some help, and a lot of luck to get things under control and start turning things around. And in 2024 all expensive debts were paid off.

It takes effort, but it can get better.

I was having a blast playing through Combined Arms recently. It’s a mod (or revamp) of OpenRA which provides a story an campaign that involves factions from all C&C and RA games, including the Scrin.

And best of all: Since it’s based on OpenRA it’s completely free. I highly recommend check8ng it out. It’s well balanced, it involves a cool story, and while I’m mostly a tiberian dawn kind of guy, I’m sure it’ll appeal to Red Alert fans as well.

Ever wanted to see how the mammoth tank fares against a tesla coil? Or a scrin carrier against a Yak? Well now you can try it.

May I ask where in India you live?

A don’t really have a whole lot of insight or comforting words, but I have to admit that my scandinavian ass is leaning towards “It’s not the first time. Cooler heads tend to prevail”

Wtf, Hugh Grant as a bad guy? I’m intrigued.

Hugh Grant. I’m sure he’s both a wonderful person and a great actor, but… he seems to have gotten typecast into a certain type of movie that I just cannot stand. He’s become a litmus test for movies I should just not bother watching.

That too. The entire stream was flooded with trolls. And some of them really struck a nerve. I don’t remember the exact words, but I’m sure “You can be as successful as you want, but your insecurities will never go away. That’s why you will always feel alone. It will never get better.” …hit home.

Usually: Power over Ethernet
In this context: Path of Exile

I hope it’ll be in a documentary one day.

That’s the gist of what we’re doing to Elon these days. In case you weren’t aware, read up on how his PoE livestream went.

I’m imagining the villain putting a gun to his head because of a one-star review.

Well, I work with IT, Ships, and industrial robotics, so I’m thinking that the villain gets maimed by a robot controlled by a perl script to the point where he is unable to prevent his ship from sinking.

EDIT: Oh, and don’t gets me started on the seismic source: 4000 cubic inches of compressed air at 2000psi. Seismic sources are scary. In water ut will turn anyone in yhe water into jell-o. I’ve coordinated these with simultaneous diving ops, and the divers usually call us to stop if they’re within 3-4 kilometers.

Printers. There is no excuse for (consumer) printers to be as shitty as they are.

There are reasons, but none of them are excuses: If patent hell wasn’t a main obstacle put in place by the large printer manufacturers, I am sure open source hardware alternative would’ve forced industry improvements ages ago.

Yup. My ear canals are much wider than the average q tip, so I don’t really use them as plungers, they’re more for scraping the sides.

I am terrified of losing my hearing or otherwise damaging my ears (long story, not that interesting), so I simply refuse to use them as far in as I safely could.

“Old man listens to cloud” is an even scarier headline.

Yup, I’ve made a habit out of doing this. I want to know if it’s a new position or if I’m replacing someone. The latter isn’t necessarily problematic, but I want to know if the role has been filled by someone before who had coworkers who are used to how my predecessor did things.

I played through it recently. It is one of the few EA titles where I will concede that they did a good job and that I feel I got my moneys worth.

Obligatory butt-in from a European: I just wanted to provide a baseline for comparison.

Here in scandinavialand we watched The Wave (1981) in school to educate us on how easily a population can be convinced to support fascism.

Seconded. I tend to shed accounts from time to time, mostly for practical reasons… you will never guess my previous two account names.

Seriously though, posting with a new identity every time is what 4chan does. While it has its use cases, never being able to conjure an opinion on the person you’re talking to over time is tiresome and annoying at best. You can spend am entire year talking to people and at the end of it you haven’t gotten to know anyone even slightly better than before.

Privacy is one thing. But being a perpetual blank slate gives you no advantages.