I didn’t ignore it, but I did have to put up with it for months:

Discord would just never recognize that my PC was being left idle, so I would never get notifications on my phone, which constantly left me gaslighting myself into thinking my friends were ignoring me, or just didn’t have any reason to message me all day.

I contacted Discord support at least once over it, and they couldn’t do anything to help me figure it out, since I had all my settings set properly to have it switch over to mobile notifications after 1 minute of inactivity.

After a shit ton of googling, I found out that certain devices, namely third-party xbox controllers, could cause a PC to never actually go idle, and then I found a tool to help me check if my PC is idle, started unplugging things one-by-one, and found out that my 8bitdo Arcade controller was the thing keeping my PC from going idle.

The issue popped up with an etsy-bought Guitar Hero controller further down the line as well, but thankfully by then I knew how to troubleshoot the issue. Bonus points, my new fighting game controllers don’t have this problem.

If the average user has to interact with a command line interface, EVER, as anything but a truly desperate last resort, with someone holding their hand the whole way through, they’re probably gonna give up and never wanna look back.

A lot of people barely know how to copy and paste, or don’t even know what the phrase “right click” means.

When I did some work from home training a year ago, I looked like a goddamn wizard for knowing how to manage browser tabs and put folders on my bookmarks bar.

TLDR: It needs to just work for people that don’t know jack shit about using a computer, which in a lot of cases it just doesn’t.

Also for the love of god, don’t be sticking anything in places it could get lost without a flared base to keep at least part of it outside.

It’s currently free on YouTube (or at least it is for premium users).

I wonder if they’ll ever flat out destroy the Millennium Tower

Why is it the Yakuza font

Chaotic feels more appropriate, since they’re only really predictable if you try and think of the absolute dumbest possible thing they could say or do at any given moment.

Relevant Mitchell and Webb

I think I pretty quickly came to the conclusion that I was effectively being punished for understanding the normal material more easily than my classmates, and I didn’t get why my “gifted and talented” work was necessary, since it was, to me, bonus material, and not even interesting bonus material.

A core memory of mine is after showing up one time without an assignment done, my teacher decided to go around the room asking what everyone wanted to be when they grew up. All my G&T classmates said standard kid answers like doctor, lawyer, firefighter, whatever. Not being a smartass, I gave the genuine answer that, because I really liked Taco Bell, and there was a taco bell in walking distance, I’d be happy to work there and get some free Taco Bell.

Teacher called my parents.

How the fuck was I supposed to know giving a real, and in hindsight significantly more attainable answer was unacceptable? We were in elementary school, so why the hell would I know at that point that basic food service is basically non-viable in America?

I know for sure that Sonic and Knuckles was the very first game I played, or at least that I formed a memory of playing. I also had this handheld Radica Junior Bass Fishing game. And then I think I got to play Cruisin’ USA at somebody’s house and they had a full steering wheel setup for it.

“swims” can be rotated 180 degrees and still say swims. It’s an ambigram. “pod” would be another.

I especially like raisins baked into pastries.

One of the (thankfully) only times I saw one of these fuckers it was on my ceiling above my desk. I left early for school that day.

Specifically 64, yes.

Basically 3D Galaga with furries.

Me asking if I can steal the 2.5lb plates so I can accurately follow along with what my app is telling me to put on the bar.

I do. The number one “complaint” people had with me pre-pandemic was that I should smile more. Not one fucking dumbass person has told me to do that when I have my mask on. That alone is enough reason for me to never take it off when I’m dealing with customers.

I am also still paranoid and I don’t trust the average person out there to be doing safe things.

Pay everyone in my building several years’ expected pay to quit all at once, except for one specific manager that everybody hates.

Mismanage something that I shouldn’t be messing with and die.