Coskii

As much as I love lasagna, the noodles are the worst part of preparing the dish. They're awkwardly large and heavy (for a noodle), and God help you if you overcook them even a bit as they will disintegrate under their own weight.

Roads around me being salted, forecast looming and dooming about some flakes, here I sit knowing that it's not going to be at all serious enough for anything in my life to be changed. I'm not preparing for anything, I'm not changing anything. Might get a couple inches at best that will melt off within hours.

I returned mine, borrowed a friend's Iphone for the scan, but I should have definitely gotten an official ipd reading. The set they sent me was really nice, but the ipd was wrong and I'm already kind of susceptible to motion sickness regularly.

I got a discounted pimax for Christmas instead. It's huge, but has a lot of features I was giving up for the smallness of the bigscreen.

I figured I'd fill in some gaps I left out before about my specific case and why I decided to return the set rather than deal with their support team.

1. I get motion sickness rather easily. It's not instant while in VR, but the smallest things (like a smudge on a lens) can cause it to slowly build up until I'm unable to deal with it. That being said, something I wasn't prepared for was that having a just the custom printed faceplate on my noggin would slowly build up that motion sickness, it's something about having my vision obscured between my eyes that really set it off.

2. The only way I could use the supplied headset somewhat was by placing the faceplate lower than it's supposed to go, which after a bit caused a very unpleasant amount of brow pain. Aside from the ipd being incorrect for me, I feel that the orientation of the print for my faceplate wasn't set up to direct my eyes to the center of the screens. Support is more than happy to help with this with no charge.

3. I realized after purchasing it that I'm not the kind of VR player to actually need a slimmed down headset. I'm usually seated, not moving much at all besides my arms, so it's not like it's a big deal to just buy a 'one size fits all' headset that fits my playstyle a bit better.

Used vaping to quit smoking.

Weened off the nicotine then stop using the vape.

Got hit with cravings hard and dealt with them.

Been three years now. Any and all money I would have saved on cigarettes has instead funded my other half's addiction to take out food. I'm more broke than I ever was before.

I miss diving headfirst into every single plot hook laid out in front of me. Often a bit.. Too energetically.

I had heard absolutely nothing about Secrets of Grindea, but it looks like a game that's right up my alley, so it's been grabbed.

This is more of a public service announcement style of post than a deeply intentioned 'after incident response' post.

While I'm sure there have been plenty of incidents based on some of the other comments, there hasn't been some singular massive event to cause this to happen. If anything it's more of a reminder that one purpose of blahaj.zone is for inclusivity and acceptance. Excluding people because of some indirect words is not the goal.

As someone who works specifically to build and maintain low income housing, I was painfully aware of just how precarious of a situation the population decided to put us in.

On a really terrible upside, the housing market might nose dive from various other large city low income groups needing to sell off potential low income housing to fund and maintain currently functional low income housing.

I understand the question you are attempting to ask. However within this example if John decided that Johnathon/Johnithian are what John would like as pronouns, but somehow is simultaneously fine with being called John as a name.. I believe you would find most people would use John rather than similar and longer names as pronouns (to avoid confusion mostly). If John prefers to be referred to as Johnathon, then most people would follow that or split off entirely and pick up a nickname.

Idealogically anyone should be able to use whatever pronouns they'd like with no rules, limits, or caveats.

Realistically (for now/me), my social interactions are not high enough on my layers of priority, particularly with new groups, that I would consider the need to commit most or really any of anyones' pronouns to memory. As using those pronouns would require me to speak about someone other than myself, to someone who is not the direct recipient of those words. Being the hermit that I am, my comments throughout nearly the entirety of my time on Lemmy or other online social spaces reaching back to nearly the beginning of my time online does not need or use third person pronouns an absolutely vast amount of those interactions in that time.

As a completely off topic anecdote, the only time I can remember using third person pronouns semi often was while on a forum for the original halo game in which I'd attempt to decipher the horrendous typos and extra keystrokes of people I can only assume were younger children asking questions about the game.

They certainly do have an appeal, and ideally it's fine. Realistically though there's a mental limit to the number of those flowcharts a single person can be expected to learn and follow.

I could see a high fantasy setting where an entire culture followed a single chart and it would be fine.. But at the same time I've literally seen players fail to start a sentence with their own name and title (for court record keeping reasons).

You can use the 'oh I get whatever is on sale' method and just bypass most of the particulars. I get your frustration on the matter, but it I only takes a moment to fill in the blanks. If it's really not right you can return it later for whatever the right thing is. You were planning to go anyways.

For Max, I would use he/hims, they/thems, or whatever other pronouns Max would prefer. Max is a shortcut in and of itself. Maxwell, Maximilian, Maxine, or Maximus can all be Max.

If Max were to decide that Maxs' pronouns were Maxillaries/Maximilleficint, I would at that point likely just refer to Max as Max. As at that point I feel that what has been made are no longer pronouns, but situational proper nouns.

By a much more extreme example, if Max has a flowchart/spreadsheet of pronouns that are time/date sensative, such as changing pronouns according to the current astrological sign + day of the week/phase of the moon, Max is being called Max.