Subscript5676

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[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I snorted at the driver's license. This is such a fun gem from the past.

Invalid if licked!

also readable as

Invalid if looked down upon!

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry, but he's just not Poillievre. Whether he's Harper or O'Toole tho, shrug. Indigenous leaders and MPs, including those in the Liberal party, have literally said that Carney's approach to push policies in parliament is reminiscentof Harper, and some have gone so far to say it'd make Harper blush. Article

So sorry buddy. Idk if Carney's "doing VERY well at not being them".

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 6 points 1 month ago

My tinfoil hat theory has been that this is just another way for them to cool down the housing crisis by just a bit, not by virtue of the policy being good, but instead by increasing the share of homeowners in the country to tilt the conversation slightly more towards The Haves. It achieves nothing significant aside from just another kicking of the can down the road.

But this. This just shows that they really aren't that smart.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Folks, you can understand why someone decided to kill themselves: e.g. a tragic life, and from their perspective, there's no one to support them, no one to love them, no one for them to love.

But it doesn't mean you agree with their decision to kill themselves.

If understanding = agreeing, a lot more people would be committing suicide while trying to understand why such a person would kill themselves. It makes no logical sense. Or it means that those alive is either of these: they either don't understand it out of naivety, or choose to not understand it to not kill themselves. Assuming it's an adult with their full faculty, who witnessed such a tragedy, that's just... such a sad world.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago

"Oh? Testing luck are we? I know just the reward for you! 🚽"

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks. I'm definitely on the verge of a burnout but it's also where I find that I sort of know how to keep myself on the safe side for just a while longer. I have talked to my manager, and he's working with the others on reducing my load, but this isn't always easy, even with supposedly nice people. And perhaps ironically, I'm supposedly the most junior of the team, at least in terms of title, though I'm sometimes not sure if anyone actually knows that.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ha! Funnily enough, Archives is almost always what I end up drafting from a Darkroom when I can't yet turn the power on, or when I just run out of gems and redraws, and Archives was the only selectable room.

But yup, once you've sort of get the hang of making sure you're stocked up on gems per run, and have a good way to get enough coins (trying not to share too much here in case anyone wants to discover that for themselves), and especially when you're no longer just chasing Room 46, the RNG isn't that important and maybe even ignorable in the grand scheme of things.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm someone who gets slapped in the face over and over with a large, wet trout by RNG, everywhere I go. And BP felt brutal until I started noticing some draft spawning rules. Decided to cheat a little and looked that up, and that allowed me to take advantage of the system to help me get almost all the way to the final secrets of the game at the time (way past Room 46). That, along with the various permanent upgrades and tips on gem management the game gives you.

I've otherwise been punished by red rooms even when those rooms are made Rare. Still happens after learning that mechanic too, and I still have runs where I have to end the day after just going 3 ranks deep, but the game feels just a bit more managable overall.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Surely the invisible hand will slap us!

Don't @ me. Just needed to be pointlessly funny for my own sake.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel you on that. I'm generally wasted after work cause my work demands a lot of my brain power and ability to context switch quickly. I'm also an immigrant, wasn't born rich, came here alone for university and continued working, with no family here, and still single too thanks to not having the mental energy to socialize on most days. My work pays well too, and the people are nice to work with, but it's not something that really fits my vision for the future, and, while my they are nice, I don't think my coworkers share the same kind of thoughts for the future. That said, I can live somewhat comfortably now, from near nothing to something, thanks to my job, from not needing to drive, and just needing little to live on.

I've been wanting to join my local Makerspace, but I don't know how well that'll work out if I can't show up consistently enough. To make things even harder, I'm quite the introvert too, so socializing is bad on my social fuel.

But I know I gotta push myself and try at some point, and the sooner the better, not just for my whole spiel earlier, but also for expanding my somewhat small social circle (at least, I think it's pretty small, but dang, it's so hard to keep those connections afresh).

I'm actively trying to push my work env to essentially lessen my burden so that I'd have more energy left for myself after work. It's not really working though, cause I'm just rewarded with more work after a job well done in getting more people to be able to share my work, and now I ended up as the expert whom all these people go to for help.

I yapped there, but my point is to say thay I'm trying myself too and I know it's not necessarily easy. But I'm determined to find some way.

 

I know this was talked about a while ago, that the Steam controller wouldn't work like a "regular controller" without Steam. So I'm curious what drivers are there if not xinput or dinput, both of which require MS licenses from what I've heard (please cmiiw), in which case it makes sense for Valve to not want to include that in their controller.

I guess this is more so a question for regular Linux junkies: what other drivers are available for Valve to adopt that would allow it to work not just on Linux but also macOS and Windows? Not that I use any of these systems, but just speaking from statistics, cause most buyers are going to be from Windows I reckon.

For Linux, does the Joystick API even support the back paddles? Gyro is likely unsupported from a quick search.

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