People tend to assume if someone is smart in one thing, they’re smart with everything else too.

That’s not usually the case.

Which would have been funny. They didn’t ever restock the drink, though.

One time I was at a grocery store and they sold out of a particular drink I liked.

A manager was standing nearby and I asked when they would restock it.

“Never.” He said. “It always sells out and I don’t want to constantly order and restock it, so I’m not going to get more.”

At one point I was pretty broke and bought the super cheap hotdogs and basic sliced sandwich bread for use as buns.
Still considered them to be hotdogs, despite being sandwich shaped.

Getting small tasks done today. Changing car oil, cleaning the dishes, etc.

It’s not much but I feel I’ll be a little more on top of things when I start this next week.

That’s rough. I hope things get better for you soon.

I know its always been somewhat toxic but the gaming discourse has gotten to be ridiculous. It makes it difficult to even discuss an upcoming or newly releaded game because someone will have an intensely negative view of the studio/dev/publisher/IP Owner, etc.

1 in a mapleillion.

I’m of the opinion that sourdough makes for great french toast.

It seems like its usually just one person just posting over and over or making alts (I assume, based on the fact they just reiterate the same arguments), rather than a coordinated effort.

I know someone like this and it was very anger inducing. Easily the worst lies and sometimes about the dumbest things too.

I’ve come to realize its a compulsive thing they do when they’re stressed, which made me more sad about it than mad. (But its still a little maddening)

Weirdo answer, but Geralt from the Witcher games.

I can relate to the somewhat outcast with a specialized skillset that people need but also loathe to pay for.

Easily 1000% my Samsung TV.

Each update somehow makes it slower, it always loads up whatever the Samsung TV app thing is before it will do anything with a menu so you can get out of it, I believe it requires a Samsung account before it will allows you to do anything, and every now and then it locks up so hard that I have to factory reset it to get it to work again.

I refuse to buy anything from Samsung ever again.

Its a potential though nowadays I’d have to somehow find a few hours a month to even get to play lol.

I think its more mainstream now, but looking for players ~2 decades ago, it was generally only socially anxious nerds who were interested in the idea. (At least around here)

I’ve seen some players prefer a ‘back seat’ and not engage too heavily in the social part of the game and watch others do that role, which is fine, but I could see where they’d probably prefer different types of games altogether.

I was, yes.

Admittedly, D&D (and other TTRPGs)

I used to do a lot of DMing but its a lot of work to keep the campaign up, dealing with players who just don’t show, and a million other frustrations.

I reached a point where I finally stopped and said “Am I even having fun playing this?” The answer ended up being generally, no.

Was going to recommend ifixit as well - I got the little toolkit and replacement parts from them and their guide was very useful.

I have a little foundation for this:

I’ve seen a lineup of hundreds of identical PCs all get the exact same OS image, and inevitably you’ll get one or two that are significantly slower than the rest.

Its my belief that sometimes there’s some sort of deeply embedded hardware flaw that makes some computers suck and there’s no amount of tweaks or reinstalling an OS that will fix it.

I had a cracked phone screen (which made ~half the screen unusable) and after an absolute debacle trying to get it fixed at a phone repair place, I finally just ordered the parts and did it myself.

I was intimidated because I haven’t messed with phone repairs before, but it came out great and works as it should.

Its not a major project but it was a weird stress and I feel much better having it fixed.