If they can distract you, they can take more from you.

And by Trump, too. He’d definitely try and cash in if it were possible.

“You know what’d really help our finances? Being sucked into a DoTerra pyramid scheme.”

The parks or your own home. I don’t normally go into the middle of a highway interchange for solitude.

Had an old colleague who kept abbreviating ‘follow up’ as ‘f/up.’

“Yeah we should be okay, I’ll f/up on that later today.”

“Hey are you able to f/up on this?”

“Hey, I f/uped with our boss today on our issue.”

Getting over COVID (negative test but need a second one to be fully cleared) and the CDC says I can go out to the grocery store and all that but I need to wear a mask.

Nobody cares.

Also it’s winter. Last year when I would get random colds or coughs I’d throw one on and still nobody cares.

Disc drive boots up

System takes flight and blasts through the ceiling.

We didn’t roll out of the womb with this knowledge. We just aggressively Google. I’ve reached a point where I’ve stopped helping people if they haven’t done that step first since that’s basically all I’m gonna do. Might not get them what they need every time, but it will clear up a LOT of simple issues.

I’ve added a number of games to my wishlist I probably would have blown past thanks to a great demo.

The flip side is, sometimes the demo shows a promising game that doesn’t quite deliver on the original premise or introduces new, chunky systems for no reason and it’s all the more frustrating because the demo got my hopes up.

Having zero experience in design and just talking out of my ass, it might be easier to get that curve lined up with blocky pixels rather than trying to smooth it out in higher quality.