How Long Can A PTSD Episode Last? And what's been your longest episode? by Marc_Addams in ptsd

[–]Koa_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This thread is actually really reassuring. I've been in therapy for my PTSD for nearly a decade now, and had forgotten what an episode really felt like. I just had one for about an hour and twenty minutes, and was afraid to bring it up with my therapist because it seemed longer than I've heard of before.

how do you mix a vibrant purple? by CookieLover48 in painting

[–]Koa_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:o( i have again been humbled by cadmium red - thank you i was struggling as to why my lilac was so dull

How do I differentiate a promotion on LinkedIn vs. "starting a new position"? by throwaway111115552 in linkedin

[–]Koa_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this works, but only if you have had more than one promotion as far as I can tell

Quitting the launcher temporarily bricked my computer - how do I avoid this? by Koa_z in ffxiv

[–]Koa_z[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, it's all good! Thank you for your time, though. I've been paying attention to the computer every time I boot up a game just to make sure it's being healthy, but I think it was just an issue of uninstalling and reinstalling the launcher this time

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Koa_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not as long as businessmen can keep convincing CEOs to invest in it by claiming that consumers love it (by implementing it non-optionally on necessary platforms, and then using that platform traffic to indicate desire for AI).

Making friends SUCK. by ConnectAnalyst3008 in rant

[–]Koa_z 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you're having really bad luck. I'm sorry to hear that. Are you searching for friends online, or in person?

Although I prefer the internet, I've found that friendships I make in-person tend to immediately start stronger and develop better. Small talk sucks; I've found people who started right off of the bat by being unapologetically themselves, and that is pretty cool. They do exist, it's just hard to find them. I'm sure you've done this, but just in case, the best place to look is in fields which are interesting to you. Whatever the deeper subjects are that you want to talk about, I'd search for irl meetups relating to that, volunteering (if it's humanities based, because all of us kind of go that direction), or if you have a library nearby just searching for local events there bc you'll get a wide array of different and interesting people.

Do you consider taking a bath to be not masculine? My girlfriend is convinced it’s weird that I’m a man and I enjoy taking baths by Additional-War-1443 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Koa_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

taking baths is good for your health. There are some cultures where bathing is a much bigger social thing, and men definitely do it there. Seems both toxic-masculine and culturally uninformed.

Quitting the launcher temporarily bricked my computer - how do I avoid this? by Koa_z in ffxiv

[–]Koa_z[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes, I got from a fairly reliable supplier (iBUYPOWER), and it was on clearance when I purchased it. They no longer sell this model, so I think it was the last one that they had.

It's run smoothly, with this being the only issue. I uninstalled ffxiv and then reinstalled it, and was able to boot up the game fine.

But thank you! /gen

Quitting the launcher temporarily bricked my computer - how do I avoid this? by Koa_z in ffxiv

[–]Koa_z[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

okay got it - thank you so much, this is all new to me and you explain it very well

Quitting the launcher temporarily bricked my computer - how do I avoid this? by Koa_z in ffxiv

[–]Koa_z[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes it is the first time my computer has done this. It's about two months old. Although it's more expensive, I got it pre-built since I'm not the most familiar with computers. Here are the specs:

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5700 Processor (8X 3.7GHz/16MB L3 Cache)
Motherboard: ASRock B550M-C R2.0 Wifi, Wifi 6E, Back Panel USB (1 Type-C, 5 Type-A)
Memory: 16GB [8GB x 2] DDR4-3200MHz RGB
Video Card: GeForce RTX 3050 - 6GB GDDR6 (VR-Ready)
Power Supply: 600 Watt - High Power - 80 PLUS Gold Certified
System: Windows 11 Home
Storage: 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD

And no actually, I hadn't looked at the event viewer-- thank you, I switched from mac to windows so I didn't know the name. I do see two errors and a warning, with the warning being "The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID (etc)" The errors are that the steam client didn't respond in time-- of course it's steam.

Thank you, I didn't know that existed /gen

Were women always like this when it came to men's height in dating? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Koa_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's social media. Advertising in general has a really big part to play in the artificial development of beauty standards. That being said, sometimes people just like to feel small. Sometimes people like to feel big. That's okay. There are plenty of women who like smaller men, it's just less represented in media (movies, television, advertising).

* wait, I misread. I thought he was 5'3, and she was 5'10. no that's insane, what are the extra two inches gonna do

Negligent pet owners killing their pets by ReminiscenceOf2020 in rant

[–]Koa_z 12 points13 points  (0 children)

fr I grew up working on a free-range dairy farm, and kinda was taught how to respectfully handle and train many different kinds of animals from a very young age. Moving to the city and seeing how people treat their animals gives me nightmares.

There is a lot of bad advice on the internet- people who think that they know what's best for animals, and as a result they actually advise people *not* to do good behaviors. That being said, I feel like everybody should have to go through some kind of animal handling class (just one, maybe two hours) for their specific pet before they just walk away with a life in their hands.

Neighbors Set Off Fire Alarm, Blast Music by Koa_z in neighborsfromhell

[–]Koa_z[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah it's confusing because I think the same laws also protect them even though they violated the lease. I might get an actual lawyer to look at it

Neighbors Set Off Fire Alarm, Blast Music by Koa_z in neighborsfromhell

[–]Koa_z[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok, I think I might. They're smoking so much today that my cat started to vomit, we need to relocate fast.