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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I can’t stand the competitiveness now. Like, I know I suck and I’ll never be good because quick reactions aren’t my jam.

    I still want to play every now and then, but since I play infrequently I really need something with a very simple mechanic. 30 characters to pick from is overwhelming and I can’t learn how to level up and pick a character build during the 10 minute matches and I’m not going to study builds before I play games casually. And I feel bad when I’m trying to learn and I sink the team. Like who wants to be the one that causes a dozen other people to not have fun or get frustrated. Give me counterstrike. You get good guys or bad guys. Then a handful of guns in very specific categories.

    I really like RPGs where I can take my time and learn the game. Where mechanics arent too crazy and where there is only one currency in the game.

    I feel like it’s become too complicated to pick up some games now.

    You’ve got normal gold, then some weird premium gold that you get at a much slower rate. And somehow a third currency that you can only buy.

    There are hundreds of build paths, and somehow within the first 5 levels before you even know the game or whats good you have to make a decision and lock yourself out of half of them.

    Each character has a gimmicky different way to level up or learn moves.

    Then there are mini games, where you have to collect things or others where you now need to level up in a whole different way. And then lock out entire portions of the main game unless you spend a dozen hours playing a mini game that really isn’t that fun.

    But I digress, I really like single player that at this point are pretty easy to get into and start having fun or experience the story right away.






  • Yep, totally aware how they are set.

    Thats a big jump to say because I hate the idea of things beeping at me that I’m a bad driver or that I speed. I typically don’t speed, I just really hate the idea of anything monitoring what I am doing and nagging me.

    I want fewer distractions when I’m driving, and having something beep at me for whatever reason is distracting. Collision avoidance does it quite frequently when I’m coming up to a bend in the road and cars are parked on the curb. The car doesn’t realize that the road curves and that I will too. I’ve even had it hit the brakes for me when coming up to a trailer pulled off at a turn out so we could pass on the turn.

    My girlfriends car uses a camera to put the speed limit on the screen in the gauge cluster and it frequently misreads the signs and I don’t want to hear a car nag me when it’s wrong. My aunt’s car beeps frequently when going through an intersection to say it can’t detect lane lines and it can no longer warn me if I drift out of lanes. The driver assist will push me towards the center of the lane even when I intentionally am hugging the shoulder to give construction or emergency workers more space.

    When something beeps at me. I have to look down at the silly gauge cluster to try and see why it’s beeping, taking my eyes off the road and more importantly my mind away from the task of driving to decipher what the car misinterpreted.

    There are too many things the car is trying to notify us of that the car itself is becoming a distraction.


  • In residential I tend to go around 15-20 instead of the posted 25. I’m almost never in a hurry. I drive a 20 year old 2 seater convertible sports car, not a truck.

    I was talking about highways. Posted speeds are 65 for the vast majority of them. Many are 5 lanes in each direction. If you go 65, you will be passed by 99% of traffic, including semi trucks. Most traffic is going 75-80mph and it’s not uncommon to have the entire freeway cruising around there. At 65, you may be following the law, but you become an obstacle. I’ve been on highways on Sundays where traffic is flowing almost at 90mph. And I don’t mean a few cars weaving, I mean almost everyone.

    California freeways can be nuts.





  • The final purpose is to be happy with someone. With or without kids.

    There is no true underlying purpose to a relationship. There are adventures to share together if you are both into them. But there doesn’t need to be some ulterior goal. Dating is just enjoying and wanting to spend time together.

    Did you have another Lemmy account on leminal.space? If you did and are the same person I’m thinking of. You spend A LOT of time thinking and talking about relationships. And that account always came across like they wanted a relationship but didn’t want to put in any work to get one or work on themselves. They always spoke as if there was no hope and already prejudged women as if they never would like them.


  • This was a big deal when I started dating my current girlfriend. On quite a few occasions when planning dates or things for us to do with her daughter, I would bring up her daughter and think of her first before I thought of myself or my girlfriend. Or if my girlfriend would mention something about her daughter, I would always encourage her to take care of her daughter first and we could work out dates around her.

    I knew that her daughter was her first priority, and I never asked her to put me before her daughter. Not once. It’s almost 3 years later, they moved in with me. And I’m loving the life together.







  • I’ve made a few things. One, Mickey shaped cabinet hardware I put up for free because I didn’t want to deal with Disney. Though I might put the raw print up on Etsy or something just because.

    Another is a frame to turn a Disney name tag into an ornament. I’m selling the completed product rather than releasing the design because I wanted to really offer it to people who didn’t have 3d printers and wanted to ensure that it met my standards. And I didn’t want competition. That said, it takes quite a lot of time to print, prep, sand, and paint. I spend a couple hours in finishing each and sell it at a price that… Totally doesn’t make it worth it.