Posts made by Auspice

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I should probably just start taking a potassium supplement. Every ER visit, surgery, hospital stay....has involved them fussing over how low my potassium is.

Might want to have a doctor look at your thyroid.

I'm already on thyroid meds. Have been since I was 18.

Grant Thompson, aka 'King of Random' dies in a paragliding accident.

He had one of the most popular YT channels (and much of what he did were experiments and such you could do with kids), so I figure this fits here.

Now for a different kind of peeve:

People who speed up in parking lots just to cut you off need to go to the special hell.

@Taika said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice - late to the game, but my gramma drank tonic water for cramps if bananas didn't do it. They used to prescribe quinine for cramps, but stopped. Guess what tonic water has :3

And it's because of the quinine that it glows under black lights. (I was once tasked, in helping organize a TEDx after party, to find the lowest ratio of tonic water to water so an ice sculptor could make us one that glowed).

Unfortunately, I absolutely loathe tonic water.

I should probably just start taking a potassium supplement. Every ER visit, surgery, hospital stay....has involved them fussing over how low my potassium is.

I know we have a recipes thread, but what about general 'food?'

Anyway, I wanted to share this chocolate brand:
https://www.raakachocolate.com/collections/all-raaka-chocolate

It's the first time I've eaten a piece of chocolate and actually tasted the 'flavor notes' mentioned. It was amazing.

As an added bonus: all of their chocolate is kosher, gluten-free, soy-free, and they have vegan options as well.

But mostly it's just fucking delicious and my new favorite brand.

@Selira I tried watching some of the top Destiny 2 players when I was really into it. I found the ones that played the same sort of build I did and would watch them in PVP.

It just didn't capture me, unfortunately. I got more benefit from talking to clanmates and reading reddit.

I sometimes check in with the Rocket League tournaments, but really it's just for self-improvement. I couldn't tell you details about teams, players, etc etc.

I still have a really hard time watching other people play video games.

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Ah, the real reason people stick with being educators.
The sunk cost fallacy.

doesn't that go for every degree?

(In all honesty I've found myself utilizing the studying I've done so far on teaching in discussions at work as to why we need to deliver the training this way.)

...they weren't happy when I broke down why no one was engaging with the 'workshops' so far (they were a bunch of slides along the lines of 'In this section we will discuss:', the developer* going on about the tool, then doing a quick flyby of how to use it).

*T is a great guy. I love working with him. The one-on-one deep dive sessions we've had are great. but that's partially because I know what questions to ask. But traditionally, having your developer be the one to walk end-users through how to use something is not the best plan.

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice It's government work, it doesn't get casual.

look I already made the initial payment for my teaching cert. I'm invested. You can't scare me away.

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Prob not on a school district level

It's policy. Worked, briefly, at a tech helpdesk for our equivalent to a school district. It's basically the same as a corporate gig. You have a script, your calls are recorded, and teachers/administrators think they know everything so you have to follow the script so you're protected from their arrogance.

Well, corrected on that front then!
I'd have thought it more casual than that (but then again, my only experience remotely near to IT in public schools was a contract during which we upgraded computers and networks in elementary schools in DC).

@silverfox said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

or they treat me like I'm an idiot as they run through the troubleshooting that, yes, I have already done and TOLD THEM I already did.

In all fairness, as someone who has been on both sides of this:
a) Sometimes it's policy. Prob not on a school district level, but for major companies you can get in trouble if you don't go through those basic steps with people.
b) Anyone can miss the obvious. I've seen a dev friend pull the 'omg why aren't my speakers working I've checked the volume settings and reinstalled the drivers and....' only to realize they left the headphones plugged in.

The issue lies in that the tone can come across for two reasons:

1. Some people just suck at empathetic communication, so they come across with that 'talks down to' demeanor.
2. When you talk to people, day in and out, who do get rude and snippy about every. little. thing. (trust me: if you're nice and patient with tech support, you're a rarity) it becomes hard to keep up the 'chipper' exterior.

I mean, they could just be snobby, but it's a complaint I hear a lot ('I know what I'm doing, how dare they take me through these basic steps like I'm some idiot.') and it's sort of frustrating.

@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I’m, uh, just gonna sit here at the table in the break room for a while longer and pretend I didn’t just trigger muscle cramps in both calves from stretching.

send help

Eat a banana!

Trust me, I do.
Over a decade now, I eat bananas 3-5 days a week on average.

I still get fucking terrible leg cramps. I think the banana thing is an annoying af myth.

ETA: and I damn near put 'inb4 someone tells me to eat a fucking banana like always' in the original post.

I’m, uh, just gonna sit here at the table in the break room for a while longer and pretend I didn’t just trigger muscle cramps in both calves from stretching.

send help

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Derp Psh, they're fifteen year olds. They're already having more sex of more kinds than I ever have.

You're always too drunk to remember the fun stuff.

AHEM. Now that that is out of the way. >.>

I know Fast & Furious films get a bad rap in nerd communities, but I finally sat down and watched them and they're just a fun time. And this film, I swear to god, is a near-future cyberpunk film with themes of transhumanism.

Anyway.
It's downright hilarious, it doesn't take itself seriously at all (it knows it's a ridiculous film and just has fun with it), and Ryan Reynolds' parts are funnier than the entire first Deadpool film.

@mietze when I volunteered with a cat rescue, it was always the best to show up for my shift and see a cat gone.

After some feedback, tweaks are being made where necessary.

Documentation is well underway.

I edited the die roller output to highlight 1s in red (otherwise it's still all classic FS3 incl. successes in green). If you should happen to want to make this tiny change yourself, I can share the code upon request.

@Aria This sounds like it halfway belongs in RL Things I Love because good on the rep you spoke with for sharing that and his reaction to the other guy's horror.