[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Yes, it's the embarrassment that's really important here. 🙄

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

New plan: become an elite athlete, take advantage of free healthcare every 4 years. It's honestly a better plan than my current one, which is to pay 16k every year for healthcare, only to be too scared of extra fees to use it.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

I could see this leading to standardizing and outsourcing multiplayer services, which would be interesting.

That being said, before that happens, as a developer I'd be like: here's a zip file with all of our proprietary stuff ripped out. Have fun spending the next few months getting it to work well. Congratulations, you're now supporting a game that did poorly enough for us to drop it.

But seriously, go sign it. Long term it should be a good thing.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I once took over an app that worked like this. Access to one thing? Access to everything! And they had a hard coded admin password in the server code. 🤦 The client wasn't happy when I proposed a complete rewrite. Eventually my manager begged me to stop working with them, so we did.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

I guess I'm a shit landlord, because I'm still charging the same as 5 years ago.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Omg, did you just invent MicroAI's? I love it. Huge potential.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Just tried this with my kids. I got broccoli and tomato. I didn't look cool at all.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Stupid question, but why not just target more immigration? It's not like there aren't enough people in the world. Having babies first taxes the economy, then eventually helps it. Letting immigrants in now helps now. And they'll probably have babies.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
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Starting Quetiapine (lemmy.world)

Day one I pretty much slept all day. Day 2 I'm just irrationally fucking angry.

What will day 3 bring?

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I've made tea cakes before and generally enjoy them. I wonder how much flavor you get from used tea bags... I might try throwing some into the next bread I bake.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 92 points 10 months ago

There was a place on Venice beach called Rose's Thai Window which had the best pad Thai. You could get it mild, medium, spicy, or 'Rose spicy', which is how she made it for herself. Whenever we tried to order it Rose spicy, she would flat out tell us no. On the last day the place was open, before she moved back to Thailand, she finally made it for us. I lasted literally 2 bites before I couldn't taste anything anymore, except pain.

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USA vs RSA, LFG (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by anakin78z@lemmy.world to c/ussoccer@lemmy.world

Who's watching? Will Rapinoe get her bicycle kick?

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

I sleep well at night knowing nobody will steal my thing I don't care about because I don't own any. I just wanted you all to know that.

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submitted 11 months ago by anakin78z@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

OK, I finally took the plunge on Baldur's Gate 3, and, coming from playing several hundreds of hours of Solasta recently, the first thing I noticed is the lack of a combat grid.

Going back a bit further, my son and I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. We were super pumped for the sequel, but when it finally came out, it kind of fell flat for both of us. Whether or not it's down to this, I don't know, but they also removed the grid.

That game, of course, was an XCom-like. XCom used a grid, but a more recent Firaxis game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, got rid of the grid as well.

To me, all these gridless iterations of classic strategy games just aren't as engaging. I guess they're going for a more immersive rpg type of feel? But to me it seems to sacrifice the strategy aspect, and ultimately, judging based on my hours played, that always ends up being too great a sacrifice. My play time on Marvel's Midnight Suns is less than 10% of Xcom 2, and the same is true for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

I'm sure BG3 is a great game, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the campaign, but so far it's not giving me the 'feels'.

Do you miss grids? Or did they only slow you down?

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BP2. I've been in a depressive episode for almost 2 weeks now and I just can't fucking deal right now. I run my own business and I'm ready to fire one client and to tell another to take their project elsewhere. I know, I KNOW I should not be making decisions like this in this state, but I just can't handle it anymore. I basically quit in the middle of a meeting this morning because I couldn't handle another pedantic fucking conversation, and now everyone is messaging me asking if I'm OK, and I'm not. And there's really fun work that I should be focusing on, but I'm too preoccupied with the crap stuff, and I only have like 1/10th of the energy I should have, anyway, so I can barely muster the energy to just exist.

Thanks for reading. Maybe tell me to not screw up my life right now. Or tell me to go for it. I'm good either way.

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After having a fantastic squash harvest 2 years ago, last year kind of sucked, and we never figured out why. This year things started great, but then started going south, with plants yellowing and squash wilting. Well apparently there's these asshole moths who lay eggs on the stem, which then produce these little effers that bore into the stem itself and eat the plant from the inside. Cutting into the stems I was able to find and remove a bunch of them. Cutting the stems didn't feel great... I tried to cut along the grain, but had to pretty much cut a chunk out of every plant just so I could even see inside and prod enough to find the squiggly things.

Hoping the plants survive and thrive 🤞. Apparently next year I should get a syringe and inject them with something called BT. I had no idea raising squash required a medical degree 🩺

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He gets very excited when we feed him

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by anakin78z@lemmy.world to c/nwsl@lemmy.world

With the NWSL on break until August 18, the Challenge Cup is moving to a weekend schedule, except for its final game. Here are all the upcoming games:

Friday, 21 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT Racing Louisville FC vs Chicago Red Stars
  • 10:30 PM EDT Portland Thorns FC vs San Diego Wave FC

Saturday, 22 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT North Carolina Courage vs Washington Spirit
  • 08:00 PM EDT Kansas City Current vs Houston Dash

Sunday, 23 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT Orlando Pride vs NJ/NY Gotham FC

Friday, 28 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT Washington Spirit vs NJ/NY Gotham FC
  • 10:00 PM EDT OL Reign vs San Diego Wave FC

Saturday, 29 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT North Carolina Courage vs Orlando Pride
  • 08:00 PM EDT Chicago Red Stars vs Kansas City Current
  • 08:30 PM EDT Houston Dash vs Racing Louisville FC
  • 10:00 PM EDT Angel City FC vs Portland Thorns FC

Friday, 04 August

  • 07:00 PM EDT Orlando Pride vs Washington Spirit
  • 08:00 PM EDT Kansas City Current vs Racing Louisville FC

Saturday, 05 August

  • 07:30 PM EDT NJ/NY Gotham FC vs North Carolina Courage
  • 07:30 PM EDT San Diego Wave FC vs Angel City FC
  • 08:00 PM EDT Chicago Red Stars vs Houston Dash

Sunday, 06 August

  • 06:00 PM EDT OL Reign vs Portland Thorns FC

Wednesday, 09 August

  • 07:30 PM EDT NJ/NY Gotham FC vs Orlando Pride

I should probably see if any of these overlap with world cup games...---

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My first EV (lemmy.world)

Nissan Ariya, purchased in Iowa, US. Loving it so far. Don't have a 240V outlet in the garage though, so charging is super slow. We don't drive all that much though, so shouldn't be an issue. Also first new car in 12 years. So many new features 😵‍💫😍. Hands free driving is fun, and we love the 360 camera.

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