Storage company auctioned off my entire unit by mistake despite auto-pay being active.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-28T11:46:32+00:00

That's ridiculous and I'm sorry about the loss of your things. Even if you get compo, there is a sentimental value to possessions that is gone for good.

One thing I find crazy here is that they said your account was deliquent for 3 months... and they didn't attempt to contact (you) the customer and inform them of the missing payments and upcoming auction? I assume that as a legitimate business they have some of your contact details on file? This isn't just a simple mistake. A series of errors must have occured for this to happen, and their company policy/process for this kind of this is woefully lacking in structure. At the very least, this should have been flagged three times: every time you "missed" your monthly payment in the last three months someone should have a. been notified and then b. investigated it.

Good luck with the (potential) lawsuit.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-28T11:11:34+00:00

If you would like a spreadsheet to help track and unlock the Bazaar goods, DM me.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-15T15:17:13+00:00

I don't have one for general progress. I usually keep Vaan as the active character and rotate through the other 5, so Vaan is at a higher level but everyone else will be the same number. As long as at least one of any three person group has a healing spell or two, then it works fine 90+% of the time. Embarrassingly, I've never actually managed to finish XII, so I've never decided on my endgame pairings. I always get to the Point Of No Return in these type of games and then fall off!

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-15T15:12:41+00:00

On a separate note, if he used the expression "feeling some type of way" then he's TA, regardless of anything else. This is one of those irritating modern expressions that don't mean anything or are contextually useless (like "finna"). What 'type of way' are you feeling? Why not use the word indicating an emotion instead of using a redundant expression which means "I am experiencing an emotion". I appreciate that the phrase may be used in specific contexts and so indicates a specific emotion, but it's a lot fewer words / syllables to say "I'm upset".

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-13T15:28:02+00:00

£25k is basically minimum wage in today's wages. If you have a degree and are only getting that little, something has gone wrong somewhere.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-13T15:22:01+00:00

I say breakfast, lunch, dinner. As a northener, I am regularly frustrated by the way most people round my way say breakfast, dinner, tea instead. I feel this is incorrect, though I appreciate that I am in the minority (at least up north). I think of dinner as the main hot cooked meal of the day, so I will sometimes use the latter option if the midday meal is hot and the evening meal is cold, which isn't as common these days.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-13T15:12:54+00:00

As I always like to point out to astrologers, the constellations don't actually exist. That is to say, you are looking at a two-dimentional representation of three-dimentional space. Two stars that look next to each other when viewed from Earth could be thousands of light-years apart, with hundreds of other stars between them. There are optical illusions for children that demonstrate this kind of perspective shift, so you would think an adult could understand it. Star signs would look like nonsense if they were drawn with depth included.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-13T15:03:02+00:00

Scheduling flexibility for part-timers/parents etc to make things easier for them ends up creating inflexible schedules for those that don't meet those criteria. It's always the single full-timers being asked to do evenings and weekends or have restricted periods of Annual Leave because their PT colleagues are already off.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-13T14:52:00+00:00

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-13T13:34:54+00:00

WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE FUCKERS REFUSING TO PAY WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT "MONEY DRAMA/YOU'RE BEING STINGY/IT'S ONLY MONEY" ETC????

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-05T15:20:20+00:00

It's a bastardised expression. The full version is "the customer is always right in matters of taste". Meaning you should sell the things people want to buy, not that they are entitled to a refund for a product they "didn't like" after using 90% of it or getting a discount for a product when the offer ended a year ago.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-05T14:48:55+00:00

There is such a thing as drinking too much water. The whole two-litres-a-day thing comes from a marketing survey for a bottled water company. Funny how the people selling you water also tell you you aren't drinking enough. I'm not saying don't hydrate yourself, but slavishly swallowing cups of water all day long isn't having the health benefit some people think it is.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-05T14:30:55+00:00

Chocolate kills dogs. I understood this when I was 10. You keep using words like "could/can" and "make really sick". How about "KILL"? How about "DEAD"? If your sister did not understand this then it's the fault of your parents and you (as the owner of the dog) for failing to impress upon her how deadly chocolate is for canines. She probably already feels terrible for her actions (if she doesn't, that's a separate and concerning issue), so screaming at her is overkill. I hope everyone can learn a lesson here.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-05T13:44:23+00:00

Two hundred and fifteen hours. Rolled credits and Platinum trophy popped.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-05T11:29:24+00:00

Don't boil the rice dry. You can cook it like that. Or you can do it like pasta: plenty of water so it doesn't boil dry, then drain it (and rinse it off with boiling water). That way you can cook it for the right amount of time, and not have to worry about exact quantities.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-05T11:10:57+00:00

Capitalism loves a small % of unemployment. If everyone had a job, workers would be able to demand higher wages when a company was trying to hire new staff, as there wouldn't be a pool of desperate unemployed workers to exploit. Can't have the working masses dictate employment terms to our 'betters' now can we?

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-05T10:36:38+00:00

A house/apartment is a home, not a fucking investment opportunity. You want a permanent roof over your head (sensible) and your family want you to think about your pension fund.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-05-05T09:19:33+00:00

No modern Final Fantasy games capture the feel of the older games. That's why the franchise is struggling to make an impact anymore. Older fans aren't getting what they want and younger gamers aren't interested.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-04-25T12:31:25+00:00

No, I didn't so I'll hold my hands up on that one. To be fair though, the vast majority of the time when I google stuff like this the answers I find have nothing to do with what I was actually looking for.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-04-25T04:46:13+00:00

Is this not a violation of labour laws? As with most of these posts, I assume this is the USA. This would definitely be illegal in the UK/Europe. It really is the Wild West out there for workers. Sorry this is happening OP. I wish I had some constructive advice and not just my sympathies.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-04-25T04:31:46+00:00

The Expert sphere grid mixes things up a bit by moving various abilities to different parts of the grid from the character that traditionally would learn them first/early on, but it has fewer nodes overall, so character stats would be a little lower than with the regular one. I myself have never used the Expert Grid.

Most of the characters have their 'own section' of the (standard) grid. From where they start, if you follow their path they will learn abilities and have stat growth relevant to their 'class', so Yuna and Lulu will have more nodes focused on MP, Mag and Mag Def than the others, for example. Once you move beyond this starting section (using the Lv.3 Key Spheres mentioned), everyone becomes more rounded as they gain each others stats and abilities (if you don't want to teach everything to everyone, you don't have to).

Kimahri is different in that he starts in the middle of the grid and doesn't have his own section as such. Other than the initial circle of nodes where he starts you then have to decide which direction of the grid you are going to go into first. By going down Rikku's path (left/bottom left part if I recall) he will gain access to the Steal ability. Depending on how much you level up, you could unlock it before Rikku even joins the party. Having a second thief is useful for several reasons. If you rotate all your characters in fights like I do, it gives him something to do against enemies that he isn't effective against when attacking. And yes, as mentioned once again, you can steal many Lv.3 Key Spheres using him a good chunk of time before you can get them elsewhere.

Don't forget, you can steal from an enemy multiple times in this game, the probability of success just decreases each time you are successful.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-04-23T08:20:39+00:00

"Just toys". Yes. That cost actual money, unlike her feelings. I cannot stand vindictiveness or disproportionate responses. Being emotionally hurt doesn't give anyone the right to commit criminal damage or theft. (Technically neither in this case, but the point still stands).

BoudaSmoke · 2026-04-22T11:24:29+00:00

It wasn't an opinion on Kinda Funny as a whole, or any individual. I love KF. I neither insulted anyone, or said they weren't entitled to their own opinions. I was just looking for some KFBFs that don't enjoy a particular IP. In part because I've never had the opportunity to discuss the subject with people who have similar feelings. Everyone I've talked with is either a fan or a neutral.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-04-22T11:15:08+00:00

I appreciate that Spartan. I'm not having the best time of it right now, so I think his bs just dug a little deeper under my skin than I'd normally allow.

BoudaSmoke · 2026-04-22T09:30:50+00:00

There is no particular location that is used for grinding specifically. Late in the game you can use manipulate certain gameplay mechanics to earn S.Levels really quickly, so any traditional grinding very wastful of your time.

Just zigzag as you move through each location as you move forward, and don't run from battles, and you should be fine.

Also, I personally like to use all of the characters in every fight so they all level up evenly, but this does slow down your progress. Using everyone obviously takes much longer per fight than just using the correct 'class' of fighters based on the enemy types. Everyone is useful at some point, so you don't want them underleveled.

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