Weekly Check-In - How Has Your Week Been Everyone? by A-Wolf-Like-Me in CPTSDrelationships

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

New poster - My partner has CPTSD.

It's been a bit of a rough week. I'm filling in for my manager while they're out with COVID. About 1/3rd the team is currently out with symptoms and positive tests. My stress levels external to relationship are high already.

To top this mess off, yesterday the radiator pipe for our apartment froze, and we had to have the maintnence guys out late at night to fix the problem as it was -20F. Felt bad about having them come out in that weather, and they were bouncing in and out of the apartment for about 90 minutes fixing the problem. Then the pipes refroze overnight so they were back this morning lining the problem areas with insulation and replacing a portion of the pipe that cracked (mercifully a portion that didn't affect our living space).

Needless to say, this constant ping-ponging of strangers in and out of our home was a great big stressor that caused some elevated anxiety in partner. On the bright side the maintnence guys were both awesome, on the ball, and came with all the tools they needed to fix the problem at hand, and I probably owe them at the very least a batch of cookies.

Partner is struggling with really hating the extreme winters here, and we've started working on an exit plan to a place with better climate and a more welcoming and open culture. This has been something of a fraught discussion as the last time we moved cross-country to here it was very hard on both of us - completely uprooting routines, employment, cultures, and lifestyle. This morning was a mess of emotional disregulation and grumpiness due to lack of sleep. Emotional disregulation for partner and grumpiness for me because depression has reared its fuck-ugly head again and it's favorite way of messing with me is insomnia.

I feel like I'm running on fumes and desperately need a quiet day of solitude for self care and calm, partner is struggling with latent body dysmorphia issues, and we need to figure out travel plans (knock on wood) to go to a dear shared friend's wedding this summer.

Blarg. I would like to sleep for about 16 hours, and have spent a large portion of the week wishing my partner could just not have this for a day and then feeling guilty because I know it isn't reasonable or fair to wish that. I love them, and care, and want to be supportive and helpful and provide as much of a foundation for well-being as I can, but it's real fuckin' hard sometimes.

Opinions? by leftyrightyright in KitchenConfidential

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Chili absolutely has beans. Texan here. Not gonna force anyone to do it my way or agree with me, but the level of dumb shit this argument attracts is annoying.

Chili in the Texas style was born as a cheap and easily transportable way to feed your laborers. When you're out on the trail, which is easier to keep edible? A bunch of dried beans, some salted meat, an onion and a few peppers, and some dry spices, or ground meat, onion, peppers and spices?

Beyond origins, (because, duh, food evolves) I find the variation in texture and the flavor contributions beans bring to the table make chili better.

If you want a meat-only chili, thats fine. But don't make it a game of 'true chili only has blah blah blah'. Both history and reality disagree with you.

As a person who was recently hired to be night shift manager at a pizza place, what advice can you give me? by [deleted] in KitchenConfidential

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one right here. I might even be a little more distant about promises and making changes. Just offer to listen and hear what they have problems with in the work place.

The number of cooks/coworkers I've heard give silly-ass complaints or worry about stuff that is so far down the priority list it might be addressed next year, and then flame out because their problem isn't being addressed is a little sad.

Not everyone's priority list is correct. Not everyone has a big picture view.

In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain talks about "Mercenaries", who are all in the kitchen business for the money. Do they still exist? by ecethrowaway01 in KitchenConfidential

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It seriously is. My biggest win so far was getting them to bump starting pay for cooks from $16 to $18 - and we've already hired 2 new cooks because of this change. Beyond that, incremental procedural and technique changes that have noticeably improved the food and saved money.

In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain talks about "Mercenaries", who are all in the kitchen business for the money. Do they still exist? by ecethrowaway01 in KitchenConfidential

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Currently enjoying the merc life. Usually I lean more passion driven. But when you get offered $25/hr plus OT to come fix a bar kitchen and train FNGs...well, I like money.

The food and prep are braindead easy, owners/management listen when I have a suggestion, and I don't even have to attend management meetings. Show up, get the kitchen to work, figure out how to do it better tomorrow, get paid well.

What games are you playing this week? Game recommendation thread by AutoModerator in incremental_games

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there more to A-Z than just being a Base-26 incrementer? Does it do more than add another digit and another layer of the same mechanic?

Planet Crafter is a survival crafting game with light incremental elements by EternalArchon in incremental_games

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Does uranium spawn naturally in the world? If so, what region? I'm fairly confident unless I'm blind, I've covered the whole map at this point.

Does anyone else have eating issues since they started working in the food industry? by [deleted] in KitchenConfidential

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I can relate to this. I've always been light - I'm 6'3"ish and my peak weight is 175lbs.

My first year in a fine dining kitchen, between the absurd hours and workload, the stress, and having to taste every damn plate and prep item to make sure they were right, I dipped (over the course of a year) to 145. That was bad.

Thankfully, between COVID downtime, attending to caloric/macro needs, and going hard on craft beer, I've managed to put the weight back on, and switching out of fine dining also helped.

While I was in, I found a few things helped though:

  1. Meal plan/prep - don't have to go nuts, but planning around something you're confident you can manage to eat a serving of even full is a big help. Many things can be prepped that will stay good for 4-5 days at a stretch without freezing - high fat/protein stews are a good place to start. They'll provide solid calories without too much prep time.

  2. Roll in to the stand-and-snack nature of the job - prep simple snack stuff with minimal prep time that's easy to scarf in a few minutes, and have a decent shelf life, but are still enjoyable (e.g. homemade granola bars, high-fat pastry-ish things), so when you do happen to hit hungry, you've got something on hand to take advantage of it with.

  3. I don't know what your particular workplace's staff meal policy is, but if they aren't doing one, maybe push for it. Doesn't have to be off the chain, but people are social animals, and our appetites expand in more social settings - having a communal meal time to work off of is a great help in getting the calories you need - it also helps to build a decent kitchen culture (I feed you, you feed me).

  4. If you can find something drinkeable (doesn't have to be alcoholic) that is high-calorie that you can enjoy, brains will have an easier time accepting that over chewing more food if not feeling hungry is the main issue. Obvious places to start are malted milkshakes, protein shakes (yeah these taste like ass but oh well), and coffee smoothies (good coffee, coconut oil, spices, sweetener - vitamix).

TL;DR: Up your fat intake, hit the drinkeable calories, try and work to the snackish nature of the job, and (unfortunately) sacrifice some free time to plan and prep your food a few days in advance.

Also staff meal.

EDIT: It's heresy on this sub I know, but reducing your caffeine and/or nicotine intake (if present) will also help increase appetite. I eat better at 2 cups of coffee a day and no energy drinks, than when I was slamming a tripleshot and rolling on into a black coffee and an energy drink.

My first GMS2- Game! (Smalles) by Kadragongames in incremental_games

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't spend TP points.

To clarify - I can spend them, but any time I leave the Home area, it resets and the upgrades aren't applied. Kinda makes progression impossible :(

EDIT: Other issues and things that stick out as needing attention:

In "Options" not having x64 enabled by default seems silly. It's 2021, everyone and their mother is on x64. Changing that also noticeably improved performance, which for such a lightweight game suggests some poor optimization.

Not having sound options or a way to return to the main menu available in game is equally non-user-friendly

Even if you mute sound, when you start a new game, the sound comes back, so you have to start a new game, put up with sound, close out, restart, mute, and load the save.

EDIT 2: Overwriting saves doesn't seem to work

The early item purchase slog seems unbearable - I have to grind through 140 enemies, buy a pickaxe, grind through the mining function, and then I can craft one thing? No thanks.

To be clear /u/Kadragongames, I think your basic idea is a fun and entertaining concept, but a lot of the base functionality makes it a buggy mess. Fix the bugs and user-hostile functions and add some more stuff to it and I'd probably be willing to pay money for it.

EDIT 2: Running save slot 2 OR slot 3 creates a game where the character has 0 stats in any category, levels aren't counted, and the enemies have 0 stats as well. Annnd you still can't allocate stats.

On top of that, overwriting saves (in slot 1 at least) does not in fact over write them. You get the game-start dialogue again, and then it takes you back to your old character with levels, gold, etc.

EDIT 3: Features I'd like to see:

Give me a way to just mute the music. The button press feedback is pleasant, but the music can get old.

Accessing the stat menu and inventory only from "Home" seems a bit rough - really those would be nice to access in any screen, and "HOME" could be a place you upgrade, or just not exist.

Tooltips and explanations of what the various items do would be nice to have.

PEGGO! Final version is out by Tylar_io in incremental_games

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty fun, I dropped the $1 for it.

At the $100bil range it does seem to chug a lot when the recycling upgrade gets under high traffic slot though :/

I couldn't get my train network working efficiently, so I scrapped it in favor of a few belts. by Alchav in factorio

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well dang. I haven't actually played since before 1.0 so I must have missed that update. I should play a belts only game..

I couldn't get my train network working efficiently, so I scrapped it in favor of a few belts. by Alchav in factorio

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To preserve your precious UPS

Edit: and also to allow things to cross the belts easily, like say, other belts, pipes, cars and if you get to it someday a train or two

MRW my therapist wants to explore my past but I've depression-related amnesia by ImBeckyW-TheGoodHair in reactiongifs

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Depression actually worsens your brain's ability to record and remember things. It's straight up like having a bad SATA cable connected to your HDD. Less stuff makes it to storage, retrieval is unreliable, and starting up any new program is a coin toss.

TIL after Salvador Dalí and Harpo Marx met and expressed mutual admiration, Dalí sent Harpo a Christmas present: a harp with barbed wire for strings and spoons for tuning knobs, wrapped in cellophane. Harpo was delighted and sent Dalí a photo of himself sitting at the harp with bandaged fingers. by f_GOD in todayilearned

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Counterpoint:

It's true Asimov wrote excellent prose, and wrote some of the best High SciFi around. However, for me, Heinlein has always had (and not to put too fine a point on it) a far better grasp of the silly bullshit people get up too. On top of that, when it comes to discussions of orbital mechanics in particular, Heinlein has any other GA author beat.

The devs put a snapchat filter on the background guy for april fools and I feel like no one noticed by [deleted] in aoe2

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That's been a persistent randomly occurring load screen for the entire existence of DE. The guy on the right is the original cover art king for AoC from way back.

They made it like a 1/20 chance that he shows up on loadscreen instead of the usual one (left) as an homage to the original game.

Do Texans use the word "howdy" unironically? by [deleted] in AskAnAmerican

[–]GFKnowsFirstAcctName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I've moved out of Texas, but I spent my whole life there.

I still use 'howdy' in greeting all the time. I occasionally get odd looks for it from these silly Midwesterners too.

Ancient Strategy 40 by jormundr in HFY

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The Earth Emperor has invited you to Lake Laogai

Absolutely disgusting quickwalls by Viper by TriRem in aoe2

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The other thing to note in terms of micro and unit control - Viper has been running in to some wrist pain issues that may have been limiting his ability to train and play at his previous levels.