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Oklahoma City.

What an entertaining read. I disagree with about 95% of what I read, but knowingly unhinged rants about inconsequential things are usually fun, and I learned today that a sizable portion of people have an active dislike towards achievements. Most of my gaming friends try to 100% the games they really like.

I find it interesting that the post itself has mostly upvotes, yet every comment I’ve made explaining why I don’t like it is downvoted

I’m down with the look, but cleaning does look like it’d be a nightmare.

Well, I wouldn’t say I’m outraged by it, given the community I posted it in. I’m not foaming at the mouth, I find the arrangement unpleasant and unnecessarily odd. Am I not allowed to think so?

They need a way to continue making money off PC players while we wait 2 years for GTA 6.

It sounds impressive to people who aren’t in the field. Like “scientist” or “doctor”. You might be really dumb but when you drop that title it tends to catch attention, warranted or not.

The pattern doesn’t go on for terribly long (you can see a break in the pattern towards the left of the photo, where there is actually a set of 3 aligned rows instead of 4).

They could have accomplished the same thing in a more uniform way by placing the tiles in the standard half-interval or quarter-interval pattern across all of them. The only thing that makes any sense to me is that it’s quicker/ faster to align the tiles than it is to offset them, but they couldn’t have them aligned the whole way for the reasons you outlined.

The every fifth tile is what I have an issue with, tiles laid out at half-intervals or quarter-intervals on every row are common and perfectly fine. The chunk of 4 aligned tiles is very unpleasant to look at imo.

The pattern is stupid.

It isn’t normal, and you trying to convince everyone that it is normal also isn’t normal.

I’m pretty sure they have for a while, now

People lie about their credentials and accomplishments on the internet all the time. I would know, I have a master’s degree in internet lies.

Linus tech tips, after letting his son go through and pick parts to build a computer on top of everything else I just couldn’t stand it.

What happened here? I see some things about people being upset about how little he pays his kids for appearing in videos but I’m not sure that’s what you’re referring to?

I definitely feel like he lost touch a long time ago.

There was a video that was hosted at one of his employee’s houses (I’ve tried to find the video before but couldn’t) and there were multiple points where Linus was being incredibly rude to the guy’s new home. He was making fun of things for looking cheap, and at one point stood on (or placed something heavy, I don’t remember) a table as the owner asked several times not to in fear of it damaging the table. The video didn’t really get much attention as far as I’m aware, but it left a bad taste in my mouth and I kinda stopped watching as many of their videos.

A few years later the fiasco with the prototype they sold without permission happened and his reaction and the fallout that ensued took LTT off my subscription list.

The video where he talks about how it just didn’t make sense not to buy a private jet was so far beyond out of touch I don’t know how anyone thought it was a good idea (the video, not the jet).

Do you have a list of approved activities that we are allowed to enjoy into adulthood? I’m afraid some of the aspects of life that bring me joy may not be mature enough. What other things should I stop enjoying based on age?

Yup. Maybe I’m just a lazy bum but I can only really handle college a few years at a time. My first time was awful, I wasn’t ready and blew off half the year I went. My last go was 2 years long and I did incredibly well, but transferred to a new career using my newfound knowledge and had to put a pause on things. Now I’m about 2 years into that and am just starting to feel like I have the mental wriggle room to start thinking about picking up a class or two… I may be 50 by the time I end up actually “completing” something! But one of my last classes had a gentleman in his 60s, so I’m not too worried. Everyone has their own speed, just find yours.

Seconding this. The library was my best friend when I was still in school (I did not finish my degree but the field I am in was satisfied with what I’d accomplished). I made myself do most of my homework there and it’s probably one of the main reasons I got as far as I did. My college had private study rooms with a large table and white board in them; some people would isolate themselves in there and use it for a large workspace for their own projects, but when I was in Gen Chem (that class nearly killed me), I was there with classmates most weeks doing study groups.

OP, if you are the introverted type, these informal study groups are one of the best ways you can get to know people imo. It’s like the classroom, because you’ve all got the same class, tests, homework etc, but it’s less formal and more social. It was my favorite place to share the weird ways I made the concepts make sense to me, and next to my professor was the best source of information.

When I was a kid playing Old School RuneScape before it was “Old School” RuneScape, the only thing you could purchase was the $5/month membership. That’s how most MMOs like that worked back then; you can play ~%30 of the game for free, forever, no strings attached, and the entire rest of the game was behind that subscription. No second barriers, no seasonal passes, and certainly no God damn microtransactions. You would be banned if you were caught buying things in-game with IRL funds from 3rd parties. How did you decorate and improve your Player Owned Home? You fucking increased your Construction skill and made your own damn furniture. $12 for a home cosmetic item is already absurd, I think the article might be a little misleading in saying they’re “one time use decorations” (they seem to work more like loot boxes with a permanent reward, so your decorations aren’t one time use, but the item that gives it to you is) but they still should never have existed in the first place.