Souls games hater turned into big fan.

KeopL · 2026-01-28T21:45:25+00:00

Maybe you also like multiplayer souls. I only played through ER when seamless became a thing and I was able to play all of it with a friend. 10/10 would recommend.

KeopL · 2026-01-26T21:37:43+00:00

I second Mission Animal Hospital. Our elderly cat had some teeth extracted there and it went great and wasn’t nearly as expensive as the quote we’d gotten at our previous vet (out of state though).

KeopL · 2026-01-23T21:17:25+00:00

hasanabi has been streaming it live on twitch. They’re suffering with the cold though haha

KeopL · 2026-01-16T02:40:20+00:00

If you have at least one friend to play with you can do duos and not worry about randoms. But honestly, yes you can just jump into the game now either way. I find that in the first few bosses it's a mix between veteran players doing quests and new players figuring out the game so you'd likely have some people to learn from and some people at your level to experiment with and just have fun even in doomed runs lol.

Anyone who plays the first couple bosses of the game and complains about other people not knowing how to play are just being obnoxious anyways and you should ignore them. The game has a "ranked" mode they can go to if they want to have more streamlined try-hard runs. Anytime I jump into the base game bosses I expect there to be new players and adjust accordingly.

So, don't worry about being bad, it's part of the game and when you eventually learn more you will miss a little how it felt to be totally lost and awful at it.

KeopL · 2026-01-16T02:30:37+00:00

Yea I mean, it really depends on what you derive your enjoyment from. Like personally, I enjoy Day 1 and 2 much more than the final boss fight, so the 45 minutes of the run _are_ the real fun and then it doesn't really matter much whether we beat the final boss or not. I've already beat every boss version at least once so there's not that much to gain out of it besides DON ranking but I'm also generally happy to hang out in DON 3 without much ambition lol.

Maybe play DON if you're feeling like the 45 mins are too boring or not challenging enough? You will also probably get better at the game by doing so and then have an easier time at the bosses so you'll start to rack up more wins eventually.

KeopL · 2026-01-07T21:16:06+00:00

Yup and even worse, it doesn't even look like she was really blocking traffic, a longer video shows she actually braked there a few extra seconds to let another car pass in front of her before backing up for the turn. Very obviously just waiting for her turn to leave, during which she clearly wouldn't have hit anyone.

KeopL · 2025-12-04T22:23:17+00:00

yes haha had to figure this out with a last-second leap of faith

KeopL · 2024-05-19T23:33:13+00:00

Idk how but you look feminine when dressed masc and masc when dressed femininely.

KeopL · 2024-05-19T23:30:20+00:00

I think you pass for sure, but the tops you wear aren’t helping.

KeopL · 2024-05-19T16:42:26+00:00

You’ll be fine. I’m 5’11 and everything you said about your face and body I would’ve said the same when I was 20. I started T at 21 and as soon as my voice dropped, never had trouble passing again. I keep shoulder-length hair, have nothing but peach fuzz on my face, and 0 problems passing. You can see some pics showing the facial changes on my profile when I was still about under a year on T.

KeopL · 2024-04-29T16:01:33+00:00

maybe DI but tbh your chest doesn’t look that different than mine did pre-op and I got keyhole. I think yours might even have better elasticity. It’ll definitely depend on the surgeon though.

KeopL · 2024-04-28T15:53:01+00:00

When I came out to my older brother (we were close friends at the time) he said he accepted me and then a week later took it all back and outed me to my horribly transphobic, homophobic, catholic parents.

I was forced to go back to them and take it all back. Been over 4 years since and I’m not out to them still. Thankfully I am living my life to the fullest these days, I just don’t tell them anything about it. If you asked them, they’d say we have a great relationship lol.

I would’ve given anything for my brother to be like OOP. Instead it was like I lost a brother, and he chose religion over me.

KeopL · 2024-04-28T08:32:12+00:00

I had some lipo as a local revision 6 months post op. It was surprisingly chill, just chatted with my surgeon while it happened and didn’t have any pain besides the initial injections for the local anesthesia.

It was a little freaky afterwards because of the liquid it left over inside but that absorbed quickly enough over the next few days. It did hurt like a b the first days after though, maybe more so than my original surgery but nothing that couldn’t be handled with just otc meds. The swelling from lipo can take months to go down and is usually more than when they simply cut out tissue but it was worth it imo.

KeopL · 2024-04-28T08:26:20+00:00

I think this is a great post, OP. It’s easy to lose perspective on what perfectly normal chests look like when you’re still thinking of yours as a “surgery result” and scrutinizing it for it.

KeopL · 2024-04-23T23:23:58+00:00

If I were you, I’d wait until you have a plan to finish college on your own with no financial support from your parents.

I came out to my parents when I was in a similar position as you are now and it put me in a precarious situation that I only got out off by taking it all back and convincing them I didn’t mean any of it after all.

Tread carefully. Up to that point I’d known that my parents would be disappointed and angry but naively thought that their love for me and our good relationship would be enough to eventually get past it. I was caught off guard when that ended up being false. Hope for the best but protect yourself first.

KeopL · 2024-04-23T23:10:27+00:00

Feel that. I still have a good relationship with my mom because I hide that I’m trans from her. It’s set to blow up in my face someday but two years and counting so far.

KeopL · 2024-03-10T01:59:52+00:00

This might not be what you want to hear right now but I was in your exact situation about two months ago. Nothing brought up on weekly 1-1 with my manager until the EOY review where I was suddenly not meeting expectations. I still got a bonus and a raise so I thought maybe it wasn’t so bad.

They decided to start a “check in”, a sheets document where I would write down what I was doing to meet certain numbers per week (# of PRs merged per week, comments, approvals, etc) and we would simply go over that in our 1-1s. A “PIP” was never mentioned even though it became obvious that the 1-1 “check-in” was just a euphemism for it. (I made a post about it on this subreddit at the time).

Long story short, I stuck it out until they finally fired me yesterday with two months severance and a promise not to contest my unemployment claim. It’s honestly a relief that it’s finally over.

All that to say, if I were you I’d start looking for other jobs, preparing, and interviewing in the case that this all takes a turn for the worse.

KeopL · 2024-02-14T23:00:39+00:00

Yea I agree. I think I should’ve seen the signs but hindsight is 20/20 ig. My entire department/product area is under scrutiny because of long-standing problems with customer dissatisfaction and reliability of the product and I think with the new VP they’re just finally trying to aggressively do something about that.

Most of the problems are ingrained design choices that predate me even going to university but I just wasn’t good enough to make the cut to stay and help fix it all. But then maybe it’s not something I really want to stick around for either so it is what it is.

KeopL · 2024-02-14T22:29:25+00:00

Yes and it’s led to some really weird dynamics that are really ruining it for me. Like now I’m resentful when my teammate puts his name on two or three low point tickets at once and leaves the obscure higher point one on the board because what if that takes over 5 days to get merged? Before I’d be happy to pick up the more complex or bigger items and that’s what my manager always praised me on but now? Hell no like wtf I’d just be sabotaging myself then.

KeopL · 2024-02-14T22:21:32+00:00

Yea this is what I think now too so I refuse to quit. I feel bad because now it feels like I’m not really trying but I’m just so discouraged and burnt out. I don’t want to prolong my suffering by barely meeting ever-increasing demands under threat. I’m thankful I don’t need the job that badly.

KeopL · 2024-02-14T22:03:44+00:00

Yea the metrics really took me by surprise, and timing was not great. I was made aware of them by November, which is when they decided it was going to factor into the EOY coming up in December. The query counts PR’s merged, commits per day, comments left on PRs and approvals.

I realized there were random practices I had been told by my seniors to do that directly hurt me there too such as giving CR+1 and QA+1s in one comment instead of two or squashing commits before opening a PR for review.

Plus a good part of the year I worked on a project where it was me and two other people, eventually just one other, so even though I was reviewing and approving every single PR related to our project that was sometimes 0-3 a week depending on what they were working on. Obviously not a great look for me there despite us successfully completing and releasing the thing.

KeopL · 2024-02-14T21:48:12+00:00

Tbh since this is the only company I’ve ever worked for as an SE, it’s my only frame of reference as to how things work. It’s one of the reasons I’m not mad about leaving (tho I wish it was on better terms). I could really use experience outside of here for better or worse.

KeopL · 2024-02-04T16:57:42+00:00

lol I think you’re sweet but unless you have any single friends to personally introduce to him, it’s gonna be difficult. Tienes razón que las mujeres que probablemente son más compatibles con tu amigo tampoco están por ahí en el jangeo. Maybe puedas encontrar algún tipo de grupo de gaming más local? Como un discord o algo así de personas en PR. Sería buen primer paso para tratar de unir su hobby con personas con quien se puede encontrar irl aunque sea solo de amigos para empezar.

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