wizardbeard

More Ivalice content? Hell yeah.

And I'm always down for more turn based tactical RPG. Reminds me that I need to get back to Horizon's Gate on PC.

Good luck, seriously.

As a beard (long past the pfy stage, still have a ways to go till gray status) I understand the desire to avoid the type of basic shit that seems to show up in sysadmin communities now. Way too much "I'm the only IT guy so they gave me a fancy title, but I'm doing Tier 2 helpdesk work at best" flying around in the admin spaces lately. The non admin spaces are even worse, with regular "sky is falling" articles about Windows features that are disable-able with a single click in a top level settings menu.

That said, if the space gets popular, it's going to attract all types, including the newbies with inflated egos. Kind of a catch 22. You need it to be popular to attract any users, but you're trying to cater to a specific subset.

I'd start with filling out the community description/sidebar, myself. Beyond that, you've got a new subscriber here.

I think there are a lot of fields people are being encouraged to ignore because "it's totally going to be made obsolete by AI any day now". I'm sure some of them ultimately will be, but we still have people doing financial services despite so much of the calculations being handled entirely by software under the hood.

The people pushing this AI revolution concept are those who stand to make money off it, and those who can use it as an excuse for layoffs to save money in the short term before they jump to another company and avoid the consequences.

We've been "rapidly appeoaching the singularity" for quite a while now, and the current tools being marketed as "AI" don't actually have any "intelligence" to them. We are not going to magically turn what we have now into "AGI", it's simply not possible given our current models and techniques.

From someone in tech, at absolute best this is something that we might see strides in by the time we all die of old age, and that's being absurdly optimistic. The only people pushing the idea of a faster timeline are those with money to grift off the idea.

What version are you running? That's definitely not vanilla or shattered.

There are a bunch of "gimmick" alarm clocks that might help.

I had this one for a little while that sounded like R2D2 being kept alive while it's brain was being scrambled. If you didn't get to it in 10 seconds or so, it would roll off the table and start scurrying around the room. It was annoying enough that my parents returned it, after it was their idea in the first place.

There was also one where the alarm could only be turned off by a "key" that would take off like one of those pull cord helicopter blade toys when the alarm went off.

I think there's also things like big vibrating bass speakers you can strap to a bed frame to try and "shake" someone awake.

In the end what worked for me was just setting a ton of alarms. Like every 15-30 minutes starting an hour before I actually had to get moving.

Good luck.

Yep, and smaller chunks are less likely to leave soggy sections from the juice leaking out.

Sorry to hear. Waiting to learn more can be the hardest part. For what it's worth, this internet stranger is hoping that it's one of the more easily treatable forms.

Please be kind to yourself, and try to be kind to your family members (without taking any egregious bullshit from them). This may bring out sides of them that they hadn't shown before.

One of the hardest things if this drags on will be allowing yourself to live like normal. You can't live your life just waiting for the call that things have taken a turn for the worse, but you also can't ignore what's going on. It's a fine line. I wish I could offer better advice, but you'll have to find the balance that works for you and that you can sleep at night with.

Just... good luck.

They sure seem obsessed with it needing to be a black oppressor. Maybe I'm insane but it always gives me the distinct stench of racism. Like they think it would be somehow worse for their enemies to lose to "the blacks".

And if my Grandma had wheels she'd be a car.

Unfortunately you posted a shitty, arguably racist, excuse for moralistic grandstanding and now we all have to deal with it.

Complaining about people complaining about petty nonsense is, in and of itself, petty fucking nonsense and a waste of time. If you feel strongly enough to imagine it's in any way useful to try and call out this shit, get off your ass and go volunteer in your community instead.

Man, 8 Bit Theater. Talk about a blast from the past.

Did they read the same article? It addresses this pretty directly I thought.