Man, I hope it’s good. Scrubs is my favorite non-scifi show. I want to buy the whole thing on bluray/dvd but right now I can’t find the whole thing. Some people, when you say “Eagle,” think the bird. Some people think “USA”. I think about Turk and JD.

So let’s start with college. Failure is a part of life. You can do everything right and still fail. There’s no shame in that. If you gave it everything you had, then you have nothing to regret. And what you can ‘give’ changes over time. Now, let me tell you as someone who is a software engineer… experience and certain certs will likely count for more over time. College is a great way to get your foot in the door, give you some experience, etc. Some jobs might “require” it, but that’s going to be some crap FAANG job. So, if you want to go back, do it because you want to, not because you think you have to.

But let’s shift this to your career as is. Imposter syndrome is a very real thing. If you feel like an impostor BUT you’re able to do the work and people think you do good work, then you’re doing good. The impostor syndrome will go away as you gain confidence in what you do. So if you think the company pays you fairly and you see financial growth in your future, you’re doing fine. And I know what it’s like to be the solo developer, with multiple managers all wondering when a thing THEY promised someone is going to be done. A month or so ago, I had a happy hour with a colleague/mentor of mine, who said I had nothing to worry about, that my job wasn’t on the chopping block, and everyone is really happy with my work. After that, I felt less pressured to work 12-16 hour days (especially as a salaried employee).

Now for the harder stuff, homelife. Listen, you’re the kid. You’re young. Your bio-parents have problems and are refusing to do anything about it. Those problems are not your problems. It’s not like they 80+ and you’re in your 50/60s and your bio-parents just can’t move around like they used to, stairs are dangerous because they have a bad hip, they’re getting weak, etc. It’s possible, and I’d think likely, that your own mental problems are extensions of theirs and being around them. Now, I’m no doctor (as I previously stated, I’m a software engineer…) but I strongly feel like if you had your own space, away from them, were you can focus on just you, not surrounded by negativity, and you can decompress… I’m not saying it’s going to cure you, but maybe it goes from ‘quite strong’ to ‘very mild’. From habanero down to jalapeno.

Story time, kid. When I was younger than you, I lived with my Mom and step-dad. They were garbage parents to me (apparently, they got better with my younger siblings). Every job I wanted, they told me how terrible I’d be at it. They never showed up for my sporting events, didn’t support me in any of my extracurricular stuff (like knowledge bowl). When I’d get the admission letter for the gifted and talented summer program, well… most parents would be super excited that their kid got into it, but they weren’t. My mom regularly let me know how much she just really wanted me dead (by hand gun!) Eventually, moved in with my Dad and my step-mom. Who were ALSO, somehow, terrible but in fun new ways. One fall, being 18 but in high school (where my birthday lands me on the older side for my grade), at maybe 2 am on Saturday, I had an argument with my Dad. He insulted me and my girlfriend. For context, she wasn’t there, he was just “in for a penny in for a pound, if I’m going to burn this bridge, might as well do it right”. So, I was 18, paying rent/bills, going to high school yet, and working full-time. None of my parents gave a shit about me until I graduated college… But, backing it up a bit, living with my folks, I thought I’d amount to nothing despite the school system labeling me as ‘gifted’. Eventually, I was extremely suicidal, depressed, unhappy, etc., and single. At one point, I was working a job I FUCKING hated, living out of a long-stay hotel, watching my bank account drain slowly, buying the cheapest food I could… I’ll be honest, I figured I was going to die before I turned 21. But I met someone, and she was amazing. She didn’t demand anything of me, she was just there. She was just kind. And when I’d hit my lows, she and her mom didn’t abandon me, they supported me. They supported me on my terms, how I wanted. I felt someone cared about me. I became happy. I became motivated. She inspired me by just existing. And I remember the day it all “clicked”. Where I saw a future. A “hey, I think I might want to grow old” kind of future. It’s the day I knew I wanted to marry her, the day I decided to turn my life around, etc.

Now sadly, this story doesn’t have a happy ending. People change over time, that’s the sad truth of reality. But, that’s not the focus of that story. It’s that… I felt like nothing when I was with my folks. And when I was on my own, it was hard and I was failing, so I wanted to be nothing. But then, she walked into my life. Then I wanted to be something. And even though she’s no longer in my life, I’m still moving forward

Hope that helps. You’re not alone out there, even when it sometimes feels like it. And you’re young. You’re in your twenties, you’re still figuring out what it means to be an adult. Figuring out who you are. But from my personal experience, your 30s are amazing. I don’t have a full view of the 40s yet so I can’t comment there yet.

It want that long ago. Just read any OBS posts. Honestly I haven’t kept up with it for a while. A quick search shows discussions continue. Does appear most still think Nvidia has the best quality.

But the games aren’t the same price. And the policies ran by the companies aren’t the same. I don’t think Valve has ever said they’re going to break your steam deck if you use it in a way they haven’t deemed fit. And I’d question if you can mod games on the switch, like even games that normally support it.

Kids are very materialistic.

When I was in middle school, I was probably the worst for me with the bullying. I came from a family that didn’t have a whole lot of money. Like even the cheap stuff we had to cut corners with. And well I was fully aware, that there was no real difference between what I had and what they had, it didn’t stop the consistent bullying. And the teachers never cared. The other students didn’t care in fact some of them would chime in too. And when that’s your life for several hours a day 5 days a week… You eventually just get to a breaking point.

I’ll never forget the day I basically had a complete emotional breakdown because we were doing back to school shopping at Target, and I saw one of those trapper keepers. With a weird designs on the outside. They were all the rage. And it was like eight bucks I think. My mom did end up buying it for me, but only because her soon-to-be 5th grader, collapsed in the isle crying. I don’t remember what I told her, but all I could think about was having that was going to make life just a little bit easier for me.

Kids can be real assholes to other kids.

Oh snap! I didn’t know that! (Not a Christian)

There’s only 10 fucking commandments! How hard is it to remember 10 short items for a faith you claim to believe in.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20&version=NIV

Not voting for them sends a message, but it’s the wrong message - and that message is that the populace prefers the GOP

Hard disagree on that. That’s assuming the intentions of the people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_are_either_with_us,_or_against_us

If you’re argument is that we need to be doing what’s right and pushing for progress, then why is that cast as something ONLY the “blue” can do? I don’t know how old you are to see how many times the “blue” has absolutely failed at their job, failed the people, but for no other reason than they’re in the right party, they keep getting voted in. But I’ve seen several “blue” presidents do anywhere from fuckall to the bare minimum in terms of progress/change.

There are other options to vote for that don’t just include the GOP as you seem to suggest. The US isn’t supposed to be just a 2 party system. It’s supposed to be dynamic; these parties are supposed to die off when they no longer represent the people. If you want progress and change, but keep doing the same thing that doesn’t seem to be all that progressive… are you making any progress?

Hard disagree. If we continue the narrative that the US is a 2 party system, actively rejecting and backing other parties in fear “the bad guy will win” (a sentiment and view shared with the Dem/Rep parties), then we’ve entered a endless loop that only as we’ve seen over the decades, is a race to the bottom. We elected Biden because we didn’t want Trump and largely for no other reason. That’s not a good reason. And Biden even commented that he was perhaps too old (his words).

And it’s a fallacy, shared by the Dem/Rep, to fear-monger the “If you don’t vote for MY party, then it’s voting for the other party (the bad guys)”. This was a false narrative that was spread this election and several before it, to prevent anyone else from opposing the status quo. A vote for ‘not my party’ is not a ‘vote for the other party’. If I can’t vote how I want (speaking broadly here for everyone), then my vote doesn’t matter. And if my vote doesn’t matter, then I’m not being represented. And if you’re going to argue that, I’d like to point to the huge number of eligible voters who consistently don’t vote. If we cast non-votes as a vote of no confidence, we’d see a big change in things. But doing that means Dem/Rep would lose the seesaw swings in power they have come to enjoy.

So no, you shouldn’t just throw your vote blindly behind any side. Especially because the internet thinks you should (and again, that goes for Dem/Rep alike).

Ah, but if you said anything against the blue (but not in favor of red), you were the vile, evil… CENTRIST! (I.e. a label just applied to you to single you out for not blindly agreeing with the zeitgeist.) Seriously, the front page of Lemmy for a good while was just toxic political “VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO” and if you didn’t agree, you were just a problem.

It’s ok.

Your enjoyment is going to fall intob either you making your own fun and/or playing with people. Playing solo, it’s a big ghost town.

Combat is unvearied. The gameplay loop gets very repetitive very quickly.

Early game at least, the sandworm and dust storms provide an interesting looking threat for a while.

It’s not a bad game, but it’s a pvp centric game with minimal pve to justify the story of Dune.

To me it seems like it’s very much going to be a flash in a pan kind of game. It is going to live and die by rapid updates to add content. What is there if you know what you’re doing, you could experience the whole game in about a weekend.

You can use your own. But at every single point they’re going to tell you that your brand new top of the line modem, is out of date and is probably the problem of any issue that you’re having. They try so hard to gaslight customers in believing that you need to use their white labeled equipment. They want you to use their stuff and pay the fees so they can resell the Wi-Fi, and they have full control over your device.

Could they at least be an alphabetical order!

Well, the refund policy has only existed 10 years now. Well in it’s current form. Previously refunds were much harder to get.

LOL, so I’m pretty sure her name really is Brenda. Years ago, we did a Pi(e) day thing. And one of the ladies, who complained to management about an optional employee lead event (myself and some other people just threw it together) where we offered food to people who didn’t participate, went to the fridge and was overheard saying how her husband and kid would like the pie and just stole a whole goddamn pie as she left.

That is made by someone who had a Geocities website, or went 1000% in on MySpace back in the day.

The news around Donald changes faster than the weather in the mid-west. He’s done more or been involved in more in a few months than most presidents could accomplish in 2 full terms.

Throwing a brick into a dryer is less chaotic.

One of my co-workers, maybe oversold his capabilities and experience. That or whoever told me what he was capable of oversold him. Doesn’t matter at this point. Not that long ago, he basically was never submitting any merge requests, and when he did there were a ton of issues. Then one week, everything changed. He was writing code and a style that didn’t match what he had done the week before, there was an excessive amount of documentation where before there was none. It was co-pilot. He had gotten access to copilot, which we all have. But it was obvious that he’s been leaning heavily into it.

And a short-term yeah it looks like he’s doing really well. But I fear he’s not actually learning anything by doing this. Which means if there’s a mistake, for a major change that needs a happen, He’s not going to get there on his own. One time he tried to submit a merge request and I was like, there’s an obvious flaw here because this could be null and you’re not handling that. If the company ever decides that we’re not going to use co-pilot anymore, cuz I think we’re still on a trial run, He’s going to find himself right back where he started. And that’s going to hurt his career in the end.

I suggest ZeroWater. The filters don’t last as long because they have more layers, but that means they filter out more things.

Sometime in my 20s I just switched to water only. It wasn’t even a conscious decision really. Wasn’t like one day I woke up and was like I’m just going to drink water now. Just one day I’d realize that you have been like 2 years since I drank any soft drink. So I tried drinking some Dr pepper which I loved. It was disgusting. I had someone try to see if there was something wrong with it and they said it tasted perfectly normal. And it’s been that way for a long time now. I’ve tried little sips of new soft drinks that have come out that my friends like… And none of them taste good to me. Just room temp water, perfect.

I used to use mio to add a little flavor every now and then, but switch to Crystal light. I found the flavors to be more consistently good.