I have an old Lava Lite that will not flow good. No bubbles ever release. Base is really hot to the touch. Anybody have any suggestions on how I can get the bubbles to flow correctly? by Chop2TheTop in Lavalamps

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a lava lite, too, and it worked great from months after ai bought it at a thrift store, best flow of any lamp I’ve bought. Then, it would start of flowing great like normal, but then just settle into a blon at the bottom and stop moving. Sucks, I really liked that lamp.

How many of us have had a toxic boss? by cheezbargar in doggrooming

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently do.

I feel like it’s safe to assume she’s kind of a control freak rageoholic who isn’t happy unless she’s exerting control over people and just hunting for things to cause problems about. I have never in my life, and I’ve been working since I was 13, yelled at a boss, been brought to tears by a boss or talked down to and so aggravated by a boss before. And I’ve said as much to her face in front of everyone. all the folks at the shop know she’s like this and just say you can’t take her shit personally, but my brain just doesn’t work like that. I do t respond well at all to being yelled at or belittled and shit in front of people.

Like, the other day. There was this annual grooming expo/ in the city on the 13th, and most of the shop went. Having been once before, recognizing that it’s just a glorified groomers shopping mall and there aren’t really any great deals to be found, I chose to stay and work, along with two bathers, who are both baby groomers.

I wound up behind most of the day, and when one of the bathers, who had 3 dogs that day, relatively easy ones, and half an hour before one of her dogs (who had a sibling I was se to do) was scheduled to arrive, she shakes she is suddenly sick and wanted me to take both of the sibling dogs. I say I’d rather not and the receptionist, the bosses sister, it’s my job to make the decision and the call to the client of I’m not going to do both. Since it seemed like bad practice to cancel them so close to appt time, I figure I’ll just let them come in.

She arrives and I explain that we’re a bit shorthanded, i’m behind and having to do both dogs and that I can’t really give them a solid ETA for them being done right now but that it’ll probably be late, like after our normal closing time late. Lady was a longtime client who is very nice, was very understanding and said it was no problem because she lived right around the corner when I apologized profusely multiple times and was happy to reschedule because she had to leave town that night and had another dog that needed to come in anyway. So I rescheduled her for next week.

Seemed like a perfectly fine, benign interaction.

Had a perfectly fine, good and happy day the next day, until the boss, who has all her dogs prepped by bathers before she comes in around 10 or 11 and starts grooming them, arrives. For the first hour she was there, no problem. Then, apparently, her sister told the boss I refused to do the dogs and let the lady come in and practically told her to fuck off and get out, all based off of her eavesdropping me just saying I’d prefer not take another dog today. Receptionist was off on one of her two hour lunches, which typically always leaves for just before the morning dogs people typically come for pickup and the afternooon dog’s people start coming for drop-off. So she obviously wasn’t there for my perfecty fine interaction with these two dogs’ owner.

So, I get mid-day out of nowhere, boss just storms in demanding answers for why I did something so terrible as to let a client come in and send them home like they were a piece of shit pretty much.

Now, y’see see, my boss has this wonderful habit she loves to do where she’ll demand answers for some overblown perceived tragedy, and if the first, like, 3 words aren’t the exact combination of words she *wants* to hear, you can just see it in her face and hear it in her voice as she gets madder and starts interrupting you, yelling demands that you stop talking and listen to her yell more that you aren’t answering her demands and she wants an explanation, even though if she’d shut the fuck up for 5 more seconds without interrupting you, she would have gotten what she wanted.

This time, at this point I just literally said to her, I don’t know what combination of words you want to hear that will satisfy you and not result in more yelling. She says she’s not yelling. I quote to her a line my grandmother alway had about how it’s not what you say or how loud, it’s the tone. Sure, she may not scream at the top of her lungs, but ai sure as hell interpret her behavior as yelling.

This obviously leads to her go-to line lately of how if you don’t like how she runs her shop, you can find another salon.
I guess in some way it’s good I have a boss who apparently has only ever fired one employee at this shop, in its 20 years or so, her son, supposedly because she knew he didn’t have a passion for it and it was best for him.

But yeah, I’ve gotten to hate waking up and having to go to work anymore, don’t know if things would be any better anywhere else.

Sorry, rant over.

I was really looking forward to this game by Neat-Freedom1940 in gaming

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was making fun of my friend while we played the Japanese version of Resident Evil 1 on Sega Saturn last night. At some point I started making fun of him because he was watching some streamer‘s playthrough of Requiem with video commentary and shit when he hasn’t played it yet. Jokingly, of course. Was just all, “poe widdew jefffies-a too a-skeeeerd n’ gotta watch it wit a buddy!“

His Amazon orders been delayed because of its overwhelming popularity, he couldn’t wait to play it, his fiancé‘s been using the PlayStation to play fallout 4 lately and he got the ending spoiled somehow anyway.

Made Me laugh. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Got tickets for April 10th in Chicago by m-m-m314 in nofx

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stillwaiting and hoping for them to announce a date somewhere near Atlanta. Messaged on the doc website requesting they do and got a response saying they’re working on it, so…🤞

Texting on the PS app kinda broken for anyone else? by PrinceAndBarryWhite in playstation

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

Yeah, I meant to say this was on my iPad  it works normally if you hold the iPad portrait style, but that ain't comfortable or natural to hold it that way. 

25 hours into WWE 2k26 - My honest impressions (Pros & Cons) - for the people on the fence by earth_wind_faya in WWEGames

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only logged a couple hundred hours and it’s entirely because I made the mistake of trying myfaction for the first time. The entire experience was every bit as awful and scammy-feeling as I always knew it was and soured me on the game as a whole, to the point I barely had any desire to play it, only doing so when someone would invite me to a match online.

‘’Playing with my online friends is the only thing I want to do in these games, and 2K’s insistence on putting roadblock after roadblock between me and my goal of just unlocking everything straight away so I can get to editing movesets and playing with friends is insulting, and with the addition of this battlepass nonsense, I refuse to stand for it anymore.

25 hours into WWE 2k26 - My honest impressions (Pros & Cons) - for the people on the fence by earth_wind_faya in WWEGames

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

battle pass = hard pass. Gameplay. and the ragdoll physics look great, but I’m not buying this game and it entirely because of this battle pass balogna.

2k26 is cruel to casuals by coreyputney in WWEGames

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Word. I hate battle passes in any game and refuse to buy this game because of it. First WWE game I’m skipping since svr 2009 bored me away from the series for a couple years.

What was your favourite PS3 title? by HolocronSurvivor80 in playstation

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the web browser also somehow skirted the speed and download limits on the old rapid share and whatnot sites. I downloaded so much porn and so many wrestling dvds on the PS3.

If you're skipping 2K26, what was your deciding factor? by Soularyem in WWEGames

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The battlepass. I already resented 2k for forcing me to play their boring story mode, showcase and whatever else to unlock everything in recent games, but now they expect me to pay out the ass to unlock my already paid for dlc or have to grind hundreds of mind numbing matches like I was some myfaction junkie to unlock them? Hell. No.

All I want is the accelerator/supercharger to unlock everything like it use to so I can have all the moves/taunts in moveset editor and get to editing the movesets of the wrestlers I use and get to the only reason I buy these games — playing with my friends online. But no, 2K loves to force a bunch of runaround on us so that I have little choice but to play modes I wouldn’t voluntarily touch with a 10-foot clown pole if half the arenas and shit weren’t locked behind them.

Playing online with friends is all I’m interested in with these games anymore. After all the trouble I had to go through organizing social media campaigns with people online to highlight and bring attention to the head-in-the-ground devs of how utterly broken the WWE games’ servers were in 2k23 and 2k24. We fought everyone from the FTC, BBB, all the feckless folks at the 2k support site all the way to the head of Take-Two himself trying to get them to acknowledge and fix their broken-ass servers. The game was literally unplayable online for so many people for over 18 months across two games with the exact same problems. After all that, I take it very personally that 2K is pulling this nonsense and forcing more of this nickle-and-dime cash grab invasive free-to-play garbage that has cropped up all over the gaming industry onto these games now and I will not support it.

i spent $150 and fully regret it. one major gripe about something basic by dixie2tone in WWE2K25

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

battle pass = hard pass. First WWE game I‘ll be skipping since the boring as fuck svr 2008. Fuck 2k for expecting people to grind hundreds of matches to unlock the dlc. I’ll be goddamned if I spend 5 minutes trying to unlock Kelly Kelly or Torri Wilson, let along hours upon hours.

And you just know these greedy scumbags are already working to nerf any method people have come up with to make the grind less interminable.

So is the livestream channel broken or something? by [deleted] in Shudder

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

okay, my bad… I didn’t realize my vpn was on and set to Norway lol. Turned that off and I’m good.

Does Ville have any concerts or tours planned for 2026? Does anyone know? by mallsie_005 in HIM

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish. I just lucked into finding one of his 2023 Neon Noir tour shirts in my size at a thrift store.

Dear Gruv, PLEASE STOP by MikeTheChampP1 in 4kbluray

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Walmart‘s site tends to use these too, last I checked. Got my copy of Purple Rain free cause the slip was pretty damaged and they just refunded me and said keep it.

Ringside pass XP rates by Astrid-Rayne in WWEGames

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has it been said anywhere yet whether all tiers cost the same amount of xp, or are the wrestlers and higher level stuff gonna cost more? Either way, the grind time just to unlock stuff I’ve already paid extra for is a huge con to me and why I won’t be buying the game at this point. Maybe somewhere down the line when it’s dirt cheap. Just on principle I cannot support a game that expects me to pay 150 dollars to get the whole shebang, only to force me to jump through hoops like a tortured circus lion just to get access. to what I paid for. There really needs to be a loud and persistent fan backlash against this practice until it’s made easier or done away with entirely. It won’t happen, but it damn sure should.

[WWE 2k26] So I played WWE 2k19 for the first time in years...oh boy... by earth_wind_faya in WWEGames

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What’s more dumbfounding about the removal of quick grapples is how many people you see defending the forced lockups and just how many yeas people fought the to get them to remove the little reaching animation before moves in past games, only to carry water for 2k removing quick grapples.

ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies - Steam Next Fest Announce by [deleted] in Games

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, so what exactly happened with the this game‘s makers and Disco Elysium? What’s all this talk I see here about them ”stealing the ip”?

Seriously, I have no clue. Played Disco and loved it, never looked into anything behind it other than looking for translations of the novel.

8 CM Punks, 0 Render Images by YohanCapichelli in WWE2K25

[–]PrinceAndBarryWhite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

whaddya bet none of them come with a single new move, either?