About the craziness - yes absolutely. In most other places, you use a thing until nobody would use it, or sell it online. And here, people are just: “nah…”
Well, better for us. I also have a shitton of good stuff, including half of my clothes (I’m lucky to have size M, so a lot of stuff fits). Second hand stores look weird now: “Whoa, you need to pay for that?”
I do that all the time. A thing is a thing, and it can be your thing now. I only try to ask myself two things:
Sidenote: I live in Denmark, where people overconsume, and then get rid of stuff which is still in good condition.
Sanctus Reach is something I poured a lot of hours in. It’s a classic tabletop-like turn-based game where you pick units for a set number of points.
Yeah, vinyls would die if it was only about sound quality. So as would heating food over campfire when there are perfect convection ovens, effective microwaves, etc
IPS matrix screens were kinda ok even in 2007, when I was selling them, but they had a super shitty reaction time, so everything had quite visible trails. That was the time when a good CRT was still a professional choice. But now, and for the last 10 years or so, IPS became much better, and kept their great color palette, so there are zero reasons to look elsewhere, a standard midrange monitor does the job. And if you want even less trouble, just buy a designer a used imac - that’s an almost complete workplace, and apples retina screens are also IPS. This is what several development (mobile, web) companies I worked in did.
Well, you can go fancy and buy new ones, but the used ones are in abundance - rich mac fanboys switch to every new model that comes out
Iiyama monitors were the shit, especially if you were a designer
They are alive, we employ some
I’m from a country where you can tip if you feel like it, I’m living in a country where you don’t tip, because employees are paid.
But when I was in the US, I understood how hard can it be to feel ok while not overpaying (because tipping is overpaying in many cases). I went to a concert, and there was a lady managing the automated wardrobe system. Leaving a jacket was $5, and on top of that you were offered to leave 10-20-40% tips. For what?
I entered “0”, the lady was looking at that, and she told me “THANK YOU, SIR!” in a very passive-agressive manner, so I felt like shit. But really, all I wanted is to hang my coat.
Yes! Puffy gloss leather boss chairs ftw! I don’t have one right now only because there’s no space for another proper workplace in our apartmentsm
Universe admin: ha, look, some idiot just fucked up his own account record, how could he even do that?
I’ll wipe him and run consistency tests.
Oh, my GPU fans were dying, so I leaned a case fan to the GPU to help with cooling.
It was GTX570 which I bought when it was new, shiny and expensive. Server me over 10 years, including Witcher 3 on 100C temp
what about posting offensive stuff? “Slide your democrate dick into my feces! Oh, I like the Musk y smell!”
I’ll work!
I just meant to say that an eternal life in exchange of putting something up my ass is too easy of a decision. So I imagined how far i’d go, and I would be ok even with a permanent wound I have to poke every day. Because that’s a fucking eternal life!
I’d take it even if it was a “put it into the cut in your arm” form
Can confirm. The longest train I ever rode was a 44h long train. The first 12-24 hours push on your nerves: you’ve listened to music, read a book, eaten, slept, and haven’t much left to do. But slowly you come to understanding:“you don’t HAVE to do something”. This is when the therapy starts.
Ummm…what? How do you think did CRTs show the picture?
So, “A Porche with no brakes” is good, right?
I was thinking that I could as well live in Germany, until this moment. Seriously.