Oooh mushroom gravy is a great idea. Just a little can of blended mushroom with flour/oil/almond milk.

Well I did say “for same reason lots” XD so yeah, basically.

Then sales reps can rope in new people with “It’s industry standard! It’s easy to hire people who know this!”

Well for the same reason lots of not great software is used.

It was once the best (or only) in the market, and now it’d cost literally millions of dollars to change in training/conversion/hardware changes. As long as we keep above the “We cause less damage than a change costs” folks stay.

Heh, yeah but my metrics don’t care about how many trucks I roll! Just how long my calls are! “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” X100

100 calls an hour BABY.

sigh

So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we don’t trust clients to do it. It’s very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.

So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and it’s approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we don’t wanna give them the needed files early for… reasons never explained properly to me.

Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.

Then we do it all over again for the live.

Welcome to corporate policy that’s been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.

There’s always next weeks call deflection meeting for me to try again!

I haven’t been uninvited from it yet! But yeah gotta love these “problem solving” meetings from management, where they don’t actually want to give any resources or allow any policy changes to come from them.

No hackathons from my school, I do game jams, and so maybe doing one using only code and not a game engine would be an interesting challenge. Plenty of game jams where the goal is to have the game be like under 10 megs, so straight code is the only way to go.

I work full time while also going to school so no freedom during summer or anything.

I’ll see if any foss projects look interesting!

If I could get an internship that could pay all my bills I would love one. But I have a mortgage as I’m currently 30. I probably don’t have time for college, my full time job, and a part time internship!

If there are any internships paying around 70k a year I mean I’ll start it in a heart beat XD

This post was 4 months ago.

Fun to know that it’s still absolutely screwed.

Every mc pvp server I looked at had wonderful “Supporter packs”

Brain says bad. Because I’ll be there, working on trying to get a new shiny ship and then the brain is like… “You make 40$ an hour overtime. That’s a lot more ship than doing this.” or "instead of checking in on your skill queue every day for two years to make sure it’s optimal $300 worth of plex and you have your dream toon. "

And yeah… I know myself. I need to avoid games that make that lil voice pop up.

My brain is like “I played that game just like… last year right?”

Nah bro, you played that in high school, which was most certainly not last year.

I mean… in eve you were allowed to straight up buy perfect characters or skill injectors, then the isk to buy a ship. So you could have a newbie with the same character power as a 3 year old player.

My brain does not like grinding games with strong P2W aspects, it messes with me.

I see gold is for sale in the shop, is store bought gold a big influence in the game? Or pretty irrelevant?

Spanish or vanish!

(for anyone who missed my favorite april fools joke of the year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWXuz95uBQo)

Punishing US companies that greedily stayed in Russia?

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Dang it, I feel like this could be a really stupid study. Do this to hundreds of people and record the average response.

Except… if you said you were throwing paper, they would think you were trying to bait them into going scissors so you could go rock.

So wouldn’t they themselves go paper? Why would they go rock?

“Huh, I wonder who that beeping was for”