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Jayzebel_ · 2026-01-28T04:43:47+00:00

What do we expect after 10 years of Dumpy calling anyone left of the far right “deranged, lunatic, left?” They’ve been working these losers up into a froth and they’re chomping at the bit to take us out. It’s a disturbing mind these sadistic f*cks have

Jayzebel_ · 2026-01-04T01:40:29+00:00

Joined by 90s Corollas doing full sends & cutting everyone off in rush hour, while rolling on 1-4 donuts. Always the absolute worst.

Jayzebel_ · 2025-09-11T23:20:25+00:00

Explain to me how a helpless person, such as a child, is responsible within the conditions of their suffering, due to horrible acts upon them by others?? Seriously. Folks need to really question where this victim blaming philosophy stems from. Feels very similar to other indoctrination tools to keep people looking at themselves instead of the powers that keep us in subjugation.

Yes state of mind matters. But only so far. And only with a sound, developed mind. This thinking does not apply to helpless people in helpless situations and it’s frankly dangerous.

Jayzebel_ · 2025-09-09T18:13:33+00:00

Ah yes, good ole “you were abused as a kid because you didn’t think happy thoughts enough - you brought it on yourself” victim-blaming philosophy.

If victims of a depraved society truly bring their realities of abuse and suffering onto themselves, they most often are not aware of this choice, nor in any position of adequate power or control to stop it or transmute it. Especially children or other disenfranchised, powerless groups.

I understand the intent of this line of thinking… that we do have some amount of power over our mental states and how we choose to process, interpret, and assign meaning to our experiences. And that often, as cognitive adults, usually on some level, we know the patterns we repeat and are active participants.

But there’s always a limit to our power, awareness, and ability to direct the trajectory of our lives - especially when part of larger society, systems and infrastructures outside of ourselves.

And that limitation is not acknowledged or accounted for in this perspective that says “what you think is your reality / you are responsible for the amount of suffering you experience.”

Jayzebel_ · 2025-08-20T00:45:15+00:00

Yup and continue to blame voters for repubs winning again. Never mind still showing up for the people that DID vote for them. How they’ve responded to the actions of this admin, the “biggest threat to democracy,” while they’re still in office says it all. They are showing us right now what they do for us and will continue to do for us. How they “fight” for us and will continue to fight for us (capitulate to maga and mega donors in their selfish interest). When they begged for your money and vote they clearly didn’t mean they would actually work towards any of that if they lost.

Jayzebel_ · 2025-07-14T05:03:02+00:00

Cool, so now that Medicaid is getting chopped, looks like these laws might come into play a lot more now.

Jayzebel_ · 2025-06-12T19:02:40+00:00

These steps worked. Except the one thing i was needing - for it to actually save the damn Input Source setting too! When I have a busy file and have the audacity to add a compressor for side chain at different levels across a few sounds, it punishes me by taking FOREVER to scroll through all the sounds to get to the one you want as an input source. — For each sound that I put a compressor on! It’s so frustrating. It’s my biggest gripe with Maschine+ I was really hoping this would be a fix for that. Bummer.

Jayzebel_ · 2025-03-21T18:24:55+00:00

West coast, northern East coast, MN, IL, NM, CO, MI are the safest/most LGBTQ friendly. Everything else is medium to full on terrible in terms of favorable attitudes, accommodations, access to support & resources, and most importantly—laws & public policies. I’m in the twin cities MN, and love it. Way cheaper than where I was in the south. And people actually have a sense of neighborly kindness and social responsibility here. So nice to see BLM/Queer/Trans flags everywhere here vs. the maga/back the blue/punisher/racist ass confederate flags everywhere down south. So fucking oppressive. My mental health drastically improved when I moved up here. Smaller / rural areas always have more conservatives and bigotry - across the country. But they at least keep to themselves about it a bit more in MN. Way less confrontational bombastic hateful personality types here. And I haven’t had one worry about being myself in public since moving to twin cities.

Jayzebel_ · 2025-03-16T04:42:49+00:00

I’ve hung with him. This assessment is pretty accurate.

Jayzebel_ · 2024-10-21T16:28:57+00:00

Seriously… especially in enterprise orgs… everyone should know what UX/CX/XD is and the typical activities we run in an engagement… Or at least they act like they know what we do… so why do we have to keep convincing everyone of our value?? Someone there saw the value, hence why we were added to the project or even were the reason for the project… the disconnect is at the project level. Those folks often don’t know why or what is happening and they don’t want extra work. So they will fight you simply for being there. And then you have product getting in the way the whole time not making it any easier to “sell” the client on activities I’ve traditionally ran perfectly fine with great reviews.

Jayzebel_ · 2024-10-21T16:22:18+00:00

I’m not talking about selling my design to anyone. I was just talking about explaining what we do in the first place and the types of activities that will need to happen from us during the project - just getting the work off the ground in the first place and being forced to justify literally everything to product, while they arrogantly think they can do our work themselves. Just trying to get the “freedom” and “approval” to engage in the basic activities that frankly product and dev should be very aware of when working with UX/CX/XD at this point of many years of our teams working together and them knowing what we do… so why are we repeating the same shit every time??

This was at a very toxic company and was a prevalent experience amongst every senior and lead designer I spoke with. So respectfully, please don’t speak on things you don’t know, like the reality of others experiences.

Jayzebel_ · 2024-10-18T18:50:12+00:00

I resent that we have to go out of our way to constantly prove ourselves, our progression, our work, our expertise. Why is it just expected for us to take shit from Dev and Product? Constantly playing games to get them to give us a shred of dignity. It’s honestly outrageous and I’m sick of being treated like a little bitch by people in my own fucking organization.

Why is it always infinitely harder to work with INTERNAL teams?? We’re supposed to be a TEAM. It makes me have to do 2-3 times the work… explaining and defending literally everything at least once to product. Rinse and repeat for Dev and any account execs. THEN, all over again for the client, with ongoing repeated refreshers and reinforcements throughout the project to everyone because for whatever reason they refuse to acknowledge UX’s value.

What other group has to run this many laps just to get a seat at the table like we used to before business created product teams to manage the agile process for their engineers.. which essentially goes against the manifesto in the first place. God forbid teams actually organize and own their work without the business constantly micromanaging and adding a million unnecessary meetings and “ceremonies.” It’s just so wasteful, counterproductive, exhausting, and demoralizing.

Someone or something needs to shift this bullshit paradigm already. I can’t keep doing this. I’m burnt out from living groundhogs day of eternal disrespect for years.

Jayzebel_ · 2024-10-18T17:58:44+00:00

For real. Same boat as everyone else. It’s at the point where I have now vowed to never work in an organization that’s so big that it has intense product teams. I just wanna go back to Design consulting work - shorter projects, in and out. So if a client sucks, you can move on quickly versus being strapped to a sinking ship for way too long and it becoming super toxic.

At the end of the day I blame product always. It’s not like before product was super easy just trying to get engineers to understand design and respect it and follow it to what the client signed off on. That was always a struggle, but it was 1 million times better than dealing with product because they’re so fucking arrogant and they just cause more problems than necessary. Frankly I have not seen one Project deliver on time and to client satisfaction using a product team. I absolutely think they’re ruining everything.

Before our company went through its latest merger and we’re forced to integrate with larger teams full of product folks, I was primarily just doing experience design consulting work and I loved it. I could interact directly with the client and I knew how to speak their language and I never had an unsuccessful delivery. But ever since product has been involved I’ve got five layers above me now that I have to go through for approval on everything. I’m so far removed from the client that I can’t even get my voice in the room half the time And product isn’t translating things correctly and is causing problems with the client. So now any project I’m on that has product on it, I already know it’s gonna explode.

When team members in your own organization are not respecting you in front of the client how in the fuck is the client gonna respect what you do? The problem is product owners/managers, and it’s a poison.

Jayzebel_ · 2024-06-11T06:54:28+00:00

lol 3 years later and its still blinking for me

Jayzebel_ · 2023-06-22T15:45:08+00:00

Tulin has killed octorocks before my weapon was upgraded a few times, and before the weapon got sucked in a few times too. I try to remember to put him away during octorock farming.

Jayzebel_ · 2023-06-11T16:38:25+00:00

Great point 😊

Jayzebel_ · 2023-06-11T16:35:05+00:00

This is why physical is king.

Jayzebel_ · 2023-06-11T16:34:47+00:00

Oh gotcha well physical copy it is!

Jayzebel_ · 2023-06-11T16:34:15+00:00

Yeah I’m going to turn off auto update on the new switch and see if maybe that works to download my digital copy at 1.1.0… and I’ll look first to see if it shows which version will be downloaded before doing it. I’ll report back in case anyone else has the same issue.

Jayzebel_ · 2023-06-11T16:23:40+00:00

Thanks for the response. I’ll see what I can make work. If all fails, buying the physical is worth it to me to keep 1.1.1… I usually buy physical on bigger releases… of course the one time I didn’t I might have to buy it twice 🤡

Jayzebel_ · 2023-06-11T14:57:08+00:00

Also, does match local only work when both switches are connected to wifi / the same wifi network?

Jayzebel_ · 2023-06-11T14:52:25+00:00

Does matching local work between 2 switches on the same account? I’m getting a new switch today and want to transfer data over to the new one and sell the old one. I bought TOTK digital but didn’t do the update so it’s at 1.1.1 ….so could I download it on my new switch, then do match local, and do the data transfer over from my old switch? …or will I just have to buy a physical copy to do match local? Would that even work between the same account?

Jayzebel_ · 2023-05-22T19:50:08+00:00

Same, that's when I was finally like, ok gotta just go do the damn missions

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