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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • My wife’s standing at her company’s IT dept skyrocketed during COVID lockdowns.

    Why? Because we were both working from home, and aside from helping her with basic troubleshooting, I also helped her formulate her tickets better.

    Turns out, tech support folks like it when a ticket has concise info, instead of “screen broke”.


  • It’s why Ubisoft baffles and aggravates me.

    They clearly have wonderful game devs and designers working for them. A lot of their games have some really neat mechanics that are fun to play with.

    But then they fuck it all up by monetizing it all to shit, or padding the game with so much useless bullshit it becomes a chore to play, or fucking up the pacing of the story with the sheer amount of useless side quests.

    I’ll freely admit - I enjoy playing their open world collect-a-thon games. But I have to play it in parts, because it just gets too grating. And of course I only buy their games when they’re already a few years old, so I can take advantage of sales. No way I’m paying €120 for a game, even with all the spinning rims and fancy baubles.










  • There’s an app for that!

    It’s called UniversalPauseButton (no link because on phone, but you can Google it). It basically makes the PAUSE/BREAK button pause any active process. Press it again to unpause.

    Will likely cause issues with online games, but if you’re playing offline or in single-player, like Witcher 3, Remnant, Baldurs Gate 3, etc it works wonders.

    Signed, a new parent who often has to go comfort a waking baby at night.