My mouth hurts so that my heart doesn’t
BougieBirdie
Sometimes I make video games
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3 hours of debugging can save you 30 minutes of reading the documentation
I suppose people will always do what they think is easiest
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Amazon Boycott Begins Friday, Includes Whole Foods, Ring, TwitchEnglish41·3 months agoWhen you consider that a lot of their customers are pretty entrenched in Amazon’s services, “Boycott Amazon for a week” is more achievable than, “Boycott Amazon forever.”
Now don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see people give up on Amazon forever. But sometimes taking a week off is long enough for people to change their shopping habits.
Although I suppose the insidious thing about Amazon is that they only offer an annual subscription so I doubt people are cancelling their service for a week.
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has anyone ever heard of the "classic prophet-squeeze-monster trope"? What could it possibly describe?English4·4 months agoI can’t find anything concrete online, but my assumption is that it has to do with the adventure / module design.
Consider a scenario where the party is going to go kill a lich, but first must delve into the lich’s lair before they may fight.
“Prophet” being that the party is forearmed with the knowledge of what the final encounter will be - and perhaps some intelligence on the dungeon.
“Squeeze” where the party has encounters that drain their resources. Those grenades / fireballs are going to be handy for fighting the lich, but they’re also useful for dealing with the lich’s zombie army.
“Monster” where the party finally encounters the prophesied monster and fights the lich.
I’ve never heard this trope named this way, but it’s how so many dungeons and adventures are designed. The party knows they have a particular fight coming up, and must carefully manage their resources because they won’t be having that fight at full strength.
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you resent your parents for forcing you to pay rent your whole life with out asking you first?English5·4 months agoWhen I was a teenager I felt this way. I didn’t ask to be here, and so far life has sucked pretty hard.
My stance has softened as I’ve aged. I still wish I’d never been born, mind you, but I don’t blame my parents for having kids. They just did what came naturally for them.
You can’t consent to being born, and that upset me a lot. But it’s not like they could have asked my permission anyway. Might as well make the most of the situation.
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Linux@lemmy.world•TIL when you change your region from US to UK in Mint, "Trash" becomes "Rubbish Bin."English3·4 months agoSo you’re saying it’s light on flash
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto [Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•How much do you find FOSS important and why? What length do you go to use it over CSS?English32·4 months agoI hate CSS, my brain just can’t seem to wrap itself around a flexbox
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Thumbs up is such a common emoji but almost nobody gives IRL thumbs up anymore.English6·5 months agoI use a thumbs up reaction as “I acknowledge I’ve read and understood this, but don’t think you require a push notification” so I guess your mileage may vary
I really hope to, but sadly then I couldn’t afford more sandwiches
I would love to be able to gift my unplayed games to others.
I guess you do get into a problem where a group of people might swap the game back and forth to avoid ever having to pay for the game. But people will abuse any system, so I guess that would just be a cost of it
If a game is still within the refund window, then maybe it should have an option to gift it. The devs / publishers could keep their money and Steam doesn’t have to process a refund. Seems like a win-win
Calling someone an idiot after having your opinion refuted in a thread about people having thin skin is either some high level satire or proof you have thin skin
I suppose it could be some third thing, but I don’t want to make baseless assumptions
In my experience, the fries are great for five whole minutes before they turn into soggy cardboard and broken dreams
It’s a pretty good five minutes though
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you diminish the "aghh it's back to work" feeling at the beginning of the week?English3·5 months agoThat’s the plan, yup
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you diminish the "aghh it's back to work" feeling at the beginning of the week?English13·5 months agoHonestly, that’s tough, but fair. No therapeutic tool is going to be a magic bullet solution for everyone.
My wife struggles with something similar. When we try to walk through an exercise together she thinks it’s about saying that her problems are “all in her head.” For my own outlook, I liken it to thinking that although my thoughts might be faulty, my feelings are valid. But hey, I’m not an authority, I’m just another struggling human trying to make sense of it all.
For what it’s worth, one stranger to another, I think that whatever you’re going through you’re totally valid. I hope you find or have found some relief - goodness knows we’re still looking
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you diminish the "aghh it's back to work" feeling at the beginning of the week?English863·5 months agoI highly recommend Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. CBT is the best medicine I can afford, because all you need is pen and paper.
If you don’t think you can change your circumstance, then you can try to change how you react to it. The core model of the therapy is to analyze your thoughts and look for patterns in which your brain tries to fuck with you. Identifying distortions and fallacies helps to replace your automatic thoughts with more positive ones.
Example:
Thought: I hate my job, everything about it sucks
Distortions: Overgeneralization, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Feelings as Facts
New Thought: I hate certain parts of my job, but I like X part of it
The whole thing only works if you believe in it, and the important thing is that you’re not just putting a sunny face on things that make you feel terrible. You’re working to restructure your thought based on objective truth.
I’ve struggled for a long time with the Sunday Scaries. Sometimes it feels like it’s never going to get easier, and I’m going through it right now, but I know if I take the time to untangle my feelings then things end up easier in the long run.
Good luck out there, partner
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What fantasy thing would you like to happen to you?English151·5 months agoI’d like minimum wage to be able to support my family, so that a job flipping burgers could actually feed us
Failing that, to live as a bunny in a cottagecore tree stump, spending my days slicing up strawberries like they’re roasts, and baking pies with my neighbours
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Games@sh.itjust.works•ABI-DOS is now free foreverEnglish14·5 months agoI paid a dollar for this two weeks ago
Worth it
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk urges King Charles to dissolve Parliament—What can UK monarch do?English16·5 months agoSince this is advice given to a monarch by a person who otherwise has no impact on the rich and powerful, I’d argue you could call this a case of Jester’s Privilege
We should bring that back. If nothing I do matters, then nothing I say matters, right?
BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty companyEnglish123·5 months agoWe’re burning the wrong Amazon
What doesn’t kill you might succeed on a second attempt.