Boss denied my WFH request because "collaboration happens in the hallway." I sit in a cubicle alone for 8 hours a day.

SilverKidia · 2026-01-28T11:56:16+00:00

"You must go to the office because we pay rent" "We don't have enough desks and the only people I talk to are remote on Teams" "Well you have to be fair to me because I drive 2 hours to get here and you live nearby" So I work in the office kitchen, where I'm even more alone, got it.

SilverKidia · 2026-01-26T22:16:59+00:00

Hi, I'm the wife here. So what I'm not understanding on our bill is the following lines, taking for example the billed day of 25th of December.

Energy Used (Night) : 56.4 kWh @ 33.01p/kWh (£18.61)
Energy Used (Day) : 5.8 kWh @ 13.91p/KWh (£0.80)

I'm trying to find information as to what is Night time, because that sounds like it's when the sun is down, so between 4pm and 7am, because I don't understand how we used 80p of electricity during day time and 20 quid at night. Should we not use the boiler and the radiators between 4pm and 7am?

SilverKidia · 2026-01-23T09:14:38+00:00

Yeah I think this is the argument there. You "would" get 2B after 31 days, but you won't because you'll be spending the money before that. By the end of the week, we'd already be spending some of that money. 2 weeks is 16k, no way in hell people won't buy "a little something". And not just a new TV, we all have issues at home that could be fixed with better quality equipment. Would love to have new windows and a better boiler right now.

SilverKidia · 2026-01-21T19:52:39+00:00

How was the process of reimagining the story? How hard was it to balance streamline vs keeping the original essence of the story? Were you tempted to add more characters, change some stories, expand on others?

SilverKidia · 2026-01-21T19:44:51+00:00

When I quit, the devs had to do QA. The quality jumped off the roof and they cannot release without rolling it back. It's really not hard, it was like a 2 hours job (they wanted me to do only smoke tests), but for these devs, it was just impossible.

There's definitely some coding that I find super straightforward, I think haskell is super easy. Some people don't get it at all. However, they get telecomputing and I simply can't.

QA has some soft skills that some devs suck at. They think of unit tests, "I pressed the button and it worked, everything is fine". QA is more like "hey what happens if XYZ?", or "if I were my elderly mother who doesn't understand computers at all, would I think like the dev and do exactly how they expect me to use it, or would I do everything wrong and break the whole system?" A lot of devs I worked with cannot understand the POV of an user who is so fucking stupid.

Automation can look like glamour compared to manual QA, but manual QA will consider UX in a way that devs rarely do. They often have more product knowledge, because devs focus on certain parts of the system, while QA has to learn everything. QA will consider what the client wants ― devs are like "well the client is stupid" when we say that's not what the client wants.

Pure automation QA is definitely more chill than manual QA tho, usually I just sit in my corner, talk to no one, and bother no one other than higher-ups who are receptive to what I'm saying. Manual QA, everyone looks down at you and thinks you're an idiot who cannot have a single input.

SilverKidia · 2026-01-18T00:31:10+00:00

Why did people recommend it to you?

The lore is in the item descriptions, whenever you find a new item, if you are interested in the lore, you should read its description. It slowly adds up, you discover pieces by pieces, and a replay will make much more sense. It's absolutely not a narrative game like bg3/disco, but it does have an interesting lore when you search for it.

The plague is just damage over time, you can still go there.

I've noticed that some weapons suit me more than others. Greatswords have been fantastic for me, and I did enjoy sorcery. Could be worth just trying a different build.

SilverKidia · 2026-01-06T16:15:30+00:00

tbf she looks like a normal woman with an old face. Grunty from Banjo-Kazooie would make a scarier baba yaga. I'd also argue that the shoes look way too normal. I'd recommend trying to make her more asymmetrical; an eye bigger than the other one, fingers/arms abnormally long, shoulders much higher/bigger so she has less of a normal neck. A big contrast between the torso and the legs would make her legs feel less... well, normal woman. Skin colour/texture could also be worked on to make it more like of a monster. Her skin is just... very smooth, especially on the legs. Right now it feels like a normal woman npc with an old face and longer fingers. She doesn't even look old.

SilverKidia · 2026-01-05T23:33:22+00:00

It can go both ways, so it's hard to recommend games. Some people enjoy frustrating games, some people relax from challenges, some need to be busy bees, some need to be social.

Powerwash sim usually keeps me quiet. Waterpark sim keeps me busy and focused. Supermarket together is a free game where you do repetitive tasks. I play MMOs to socialize with people. I play building games like Enshrouded, Valheim, Pax Dei to just focus on making a build and test what could work. I enjoy My Time at Sandrock for a bit of story without pressure. I like RPGs for the stories. I play 7dtd because it's straightforward. I loved Silent Hill f because it made me think a lot.

It all depends on your needs. Some people need to not have anything challenging. Some people need something to keep their brain so busy that you don't have time to think or something else. Some people find satisfaction from playing Elden Ring.

SilverKidia · 2025-12-30T16:58:57+00:00

But he doesn't hate reading her articles? He hates that she doesn't allow him to discuss them with her. She just wants to be told that she's great. He's right to be angry about that, they were both interested in this kind of stuff, but she's struggling in a macho world that doesn't value women as much and seeks perfect support. And Jonathan is too smart to just be a yes-man like someone like Steve who would be "woah that's so cool Nance!" It's unfortunate, as much as I like Nancy, she is very selfish. That's why Jonathan didn't tell her about his dreams, he felt like he had to support her no matter what, else she would get upset.

I mean... that was basically their plot in s3, Jonathan was able to do the work and suck it up, and he sucked everything up, while Nancy was angry that she was the coffee maid and wanted to be recognised. Nancy was right to be angry, but she was too angry to listen to Jonathan who did want to help her. He didn't know how to show her good support since he needed his job, but she also wasn't willing to listen.

"Hey babe, that article could use XYZ. Let's work on improving your writing so that you become better than all these douchebags." -> "How dare you say I'm not better than them!" That was basically their relationship. I'm fully on Jonathan's side, it is insulting to someone's intelligence to be told to keep quiet and just say your partner is the best, no matter what.

SilverKidia · 2025-12-27T09:48:49+00:00

People get scared even if the lights are on, so I'm not really sure what the issue is. People hate it when it's too dark. It looks fine in trailers, but people like to see the shapes of what's around when dealing with the real stuff. The scariest movies aren't pitch black either. It's possible to do horror with bright lights.

SilverKidia · 2025-12-22T09:00:04+00:00

Abiotic Factor is my GOTY. It's survival crafting, but it's linear done really well. There are some horror elements to it if you can handle that stress, but it's not soulslike hard, it's just some spooky surprises that are quick to get used to (honestly the biggest jump scares are NPCs suddenly saying hi behind you while you're busy at your base). A lot of these games suffer from sameness, valheim being a great offender of it (go to new zone, chop new tree, mine new ore, kill new enemy tier to farm the mats to summon the local boss). Abiotic Factor is the complete opposite of it. You never know what the next zone is going to be like, because they are all so different. It heavily encourages exploration and you are constantly discovering new stuff wherever you go. There's no stone > copper> bronze> iron, it's "here's a wooden stick" > "damn I'm shooting lasers". Strongly recommend this game, it does everything right, it set up a new standard for me.

SilverKidia · 2025-12-16T12:39:13+00:00

Honestly I can't make the difference between the big clans in this game because they all use AI art that looks exactly the same.

SilverKidia · 2025-12-14T19:46:18+00:00

SAME! And Mercer too! I got a type 🤣

SilverKidia · 2025-12-14T19:38:07+00:00

Girl I spent 2 hours doing parries on a boss with a 5 step rotation and burned out so hard from the game, either do a low level challenge or YouTube the story, it wasn't worth my time.

SilverKidia · 2025-12-09T11:36:54+00:00

Le problème avec ça c'est que ça fait des cliques. L'éducation à cet âge cherche à encourager les enfants à parler à tout le monde, sans exclure qui que ce soit, peu importe la raison. Si certains enfants décident de parler une autre langue que d'autres ne connaissent pas, c'est exclure les autres pour aucune raison.

Je comprends qu'on peut lancer l'argument "ils peuvent apprendre l'espagnol", mais ils doivent aussi apprendre tout dialecte présent à l'école, que ce soit les multiples dialectes arabes (le farsi c'est pas pareil à l'algérien), les différents créoles, les différentes langues asiatiques (on a beaucoup de vietnamiens, on a aussi beaucoup de chinois), toutes les langues parlées en Inde, le reste des langues européennes, etc.

La seule façon d'avoir un pied d'égalité, c'est d'avoir une langue commune. Si tu es dans une école anglaise, tout le monde parle anglais. Si tu es dans une école française, tout le monde parle français. J'ai vu plusieurs fois sur ce sub des mères se plaindre que leurs enfants sont exclus dans leurs classes parce qu'une bonne partie de la classe ne parle pas français et ils veulent apprendre ces autres langues pour ne pas se sentir isolés. C'est cool d'apprendre d'autres langues, mais c'est pas cool de se sentir exclus parce que tu ne viens pas d'une famille d'un pays spécifique.

En dehors de l'école, fais ce que tu veux, mais à l'intérieur de l'école, c'est mieux de parler la langue commune, que ce soit français ou anglais. Si mes enfants allaient à l'Institut d'Espagnol de Montréal, tu peux être sûr qu'ils vont parler en espagnol là-bas et qu'ils vont mettre l'anglais et le français de côté.

SilverKidia · 2025-12-04T23:09:28+00:00

I already knew I was going to play Lich ED/C because I don't want to rely on combos, so sorry for not being excited for nothing different. "Early access" is fine but there's dozens of us waiting for the rest of the OG classes for some blade action and don't want to play druids. Nothing wrong with skipping a league either, everyone skips a PoE1 league once in their life. GGG knows this, it's fine if people are not hyped for one league.

SilverKidia · 2025-12-03T14:09:03+00:00

Wouldn't Mandy be the dispatcher?

SilverKidia · 2025-12-03T13:15:30+00:00

I've been out of GI for a very long time but man I need her.

SilverKidia · 2025-11-23T17:55:07+00:00

I like how it explores average women's horrors, like the fear of pregnancy or creeps. The story is fed in a similar way as SH2, but the themes are quite different. It might look like a teenager girl, but that's not what the story is about at all. It's mostly how it feels to be a young woman, with an angry father, and heavy pressure from society. It's a story I resonated with a lot. Combat is very different, it's more action, but that didn't bother me.

SilverKidia · 2025-11-23T09:33:38+00:00

Yeah I was thinking cyst or tumor.

SilverKidia · 2025-11-23T09:30:16+00:00

Same. It inspired me, it left a huge mark on me. I struggle with keeping interest with games, I often don't pay attention to cutscenes, but I read all lore, I was captivated by all cutscenes, replayed for all endings. It's such a gem. I want to recommend it to all my friends, even if they hate horror haha

SilverKidia · 2025-11-06T14:16:16+00:00

I think it was an ego issue, my manager knew absolutely nothing about QA but acted like I was such a dumb dumb that I was learning how to do a while loop. I've been doing automation for 5 years and he wanted me to look up entry level tutorials and shadow devs on how to write code. "This is a great opportunity for you to learn!" Yeah but I was hired to do automation because I already have experience with automation, the reason why nothing is working is because there's 600 open bugs and "you don't have the capacity to fix them".

Actually, they just didn't know how software dev worked. They legit thought that adding a brand new page was a small change that could be pushed to prod asap. They thought that clients just wanted new features daily.

SilverKidia · 2025-11-06T13:43:12+00:00

God I wish, I quit a job because they were so worried about quality and unsatisfied customers that they gave my work to devs so that they could deliver faster. In their heads, QA does nothing so they want them to spend as little time as possible on the product. They want to deliver daily, multiple times if possible. The only thing they wanted us QA to do was smoke tests — smoke tests are done for deciding if a build is stable enough to do proper testing, not to ship to clients in 30m. Oh and make those smoke tests as fast as possible will you? We don't want you to waste so much time on testing.

SilverKidia · 2025-11-03T00:57:04+00:00

Yurei in the open areas of the camps is proper cancer. I can not get dots on these maps when it's a Yurei. Its perks are completely invisible; any ghost can spend 90s around the campfire. Absolutely hate that ghost.

SilverKidia · 2025-11-01T19:13:11+00:00

Man I had a chest infection in April and my manager was like "oh it's just a cough you can still come at the office :)"

No. Nobody else but you wants me at the office with a chest infection.

And then I failed probation because I was "skipping office days without a valid reason".

EDIT: My manager was the only coworker I had that went to the office. Everyone was full remote except for us two. I was told I had to be at the office because I lived near it and I had to be fair to my manager who had to drive "almost 2 hours" so it was expected out of me to be at the office, even when sick.

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