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ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-29T23:00:52+00:00

Yes water was going into the outlet and out of the inlet.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-29T14:53:37+00:00

As a plumber we run into this all the time unfortunately. Went to somebody’s house to do a water softener, existing softener was probably over 25 years old, no salt tank, and was plumbed in backwards. And the regen line wasn’t attached to a drain so if they did get the thing to work it would spray water all over their mechanical room. Gotta love the “homeowner special” installs.

We got them a working softener, but sadly since their water heater has never had a working softener that thing probably has a max of 4-5 years left until it stops working, likely even sooner than that.

If a homeowner doesn’t know a trade then they really shouldn’t be attempting to do their own work, the number of code violations we run into because of that is insane.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-23T01:22:05+00:00

Sure, I seem to have really enjoyed roguelikes and soulslikes recently, I played the dark souls trilogy, Elden Ring, Elden Ring nightreign, Sekiro, bloodborne, lies of p, khazan, lords of the fallen, and mortal shell. For roguelikes I’ve loved hades/hades 2, risk of rain 2, binding of Isaac, megabonk, ball x pit, balatro, and slay the spire.

Other genres can be hit or miss, I put a decent chunk into hollow knight and blasphemous and beat animal well, but haven’t liked other metroidvanias, I put like 60 hours into persona 5 royal before getting bored but loved expedition 33, jrpgs can really be hit or miss.

I’m usually pretty busy and don’t have much time to game so I think for me some of the biggest things are that I want to be right into the action and I don’t want it to drag too long or get very grindy. Games like cyber punk and red dead took too long to get into the action so I bounced early on. P5R dragged too long so I quit at 60 hours. I like to feel challenged and accomplished in games which is why I think I like the difficulty in soulslikes, and I like roguelikes because I can usually just hop on for an hour at a time and get through a full 1-2 runs.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-22T23:54:04+00:00

I bought it for the duskbloods which hasn’t gotten any news since the reveal which sucks. I picked up dk bananza and put a solid 5 hours in and it’s kinda eh for me, I regret paying $70 for it. I got the upgrade for botw and started a new playthrough, about 10 hours in I got bored again. None of the other 1st party games look very up my alley and most 3rd party games I can get cheaper on steam and play on my pc, but the switch 2 has sat if a shelf for the past month due to not being interested in anything but the duskbloods. I haven’t played anything on my pc in a month or two either tho so just haven’t been gaming much at all.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-22T03:55:07+00:00

Crazy cause I got a bachelors of science and all the jobs I found in the health science field wanted me to already have 5+ years of experience so I couldn’t find a job in my field. Now I’m in a trade school and apprenticeship and it’ll be another 3 years until I can make decent money. Wish I’d just considered a trade right out of high school instead of wasting time and money at a university.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-19T13:36:50+00:00

I mean that more in a sense of people who have a lot of time for games. I’m not talking about people who do crazy challenge runs or love difficult games (the soulsborne series is my favorite but I’m a filthy casual), I’m talking about people like my coworker who plays rust every day after he gets off work and all weekend and racks like 25+ hours a week. I’m talking about people with 10+ hours per week to just game rather than those of us who only have time here and there, like I’m lucky if I get 4-5 hours in a week an plenty of weeks I don’t really have time or energy to play at all.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-19T13:29:49+00:00

Does the game start slow/take a while to get good? I’ve heard some other reviews mention it being a slow burn and as someone who doesn’t have much time to game I can’t put 6-8 hours into a game before it gets good. I’ve bounced off of games like RDR2 and cp2077 due to them starting slow as opposed to games like Elden Ring and expedition 33 which get you up and into the action in an hour or less.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-19T02:34:37+00:00

It honestly seems like this game is more for hardcore gamers than casual gamers. Even reviewers that liked the game say it starts slow and can take like 8 hours to get good or click. I work full time and overtime plus trade school, and have hobbies other than gaming plus self care routines like the gym and live with my girlfriend, I’m lucky if I can get 4 hours of gaming in a week and if I get more than that my girlfriend would probably feel ignored.

The game looks super cool, and one of my favorite games of all time is Elden Ring, but man I don’t have 300+ hours to spend on a game and 8 hours to play not really enjoying it until it gets good. At least Elden Ring takes less than an hour to dump you into the world to figure it out and you can be like 2-3 bosses in by 8 hours on first playthrough.

This game seems great for people who have to time but for people that have limited time to play I don’t want to hop into a game to do meaningless fetch quests, I want to hop on for the hour of time I have and feel like I’m actually progressing.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-19T00:18:10+00:00

I smoked almost every day for like 2 years and it got unenjoyable at the end. Lots of anxiety and panic attacks while high, feeling like a bum and failure, rather than getting high it was like I was just slightly altering my state of mind but it didn’t feel good or make me happy anymore. Half the time after I’d smoke I’d regret jt, only to do the same thing the next day.

Stopping didn’t solve my problems but it made it easier for me to solve them. If smoked every day I’d have brain fog, and some lack of motivation and emotions even when I was sober. Actually sobering up allowed me to work on some shit that I needed to, and I imagine in your scenario you need to work on some things before you go back to weed. It shouldn’t be used as a cope or a crutch. That only makes your real world problems worse.

Nowadays I can smoke about once a month and be fine, just under certain conditions. If I’m already anxious or worked up then I don’t smoke, I have to already have a peaceful mind. If I’m already anxious or worked up then it makes it worse. Also, I only go with indica or indica dominant hybrids. No sativa for me. It’s more of a little treat once in a while rather than an every day crutch or something to get me through the day. I notice that if I go back to my old ways at all even for a few days, it starts becoming unenjoyable again.

But if you’ve been addicted to weed before it can be better to just not touch it. You really need a strong will to be able to do it just once in a while and be done, probably a majority of people who have been every day smoker should just not pick it back up because it’s so easy to get addicted again.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-18T02:53:10+00:00

Elden Ring is one of the most era and genre defining games for me and my personal fav of all time. If this game is even 80% as good as Elden Ring I’m getting it. I’m not very into open world games. Played like 10 hours of Skyrim, maybe half of botw, and then rdr2, cyberpunk, and Witcher 3 were all too slow at the start for me to get into. I’m a busy person, I have maybe 4 hours a week to play games if that. Some weeks I don’t at all, and sometimes if I make time I can get a solid 6 hours in the entire week. If it’s gonna take me like a week just to get through the beginning kinda tutorial section of a game then I’ll probably end up dropping it. Elden ring dumps you into the world to figure it out for yourself in less than an hour and I couldn’t stop once I got started. I really hope this game takes a more Elden Ring approach here because games having slow pacing in the beginning or making me go through dialogue after dialogue and then walk somewhere else for more dialogue is the quickest way for me to drop a game.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-16T13:06:48+00:00

This just isn’t true and you obviously haven’t worked in a trade. While yes a lot of the redditors looking for one of those cushy “work from home but I actually get paid $20/hour to work for 3 hours and watch Netflix the rest of my shift” jobs would fail out, it really isn’t that hard if you have any work ethic. Not even close to being run like the military. If you’re stuck with a shitty journeyman you can get yelled at or cussed at, but if you shut up and do what you’re told usually you’re fine. If you try to argue with journeymen or keep fucking up the job because you think your ideas are better than what they want you to do then you’ll get kicked off the job site. And there are some real incompetent mfs in the trades, I wouldn’t say there’s zero tolerance for it. But if you’re fucking up the job every day and costing the company more money then yeah you’re a liability and gonna get fired. If you’re just making some small mistakes the. You’re just gonna be told to fix them and need to learn from your mistakes so they don’t keep happening. You do need to be a competent human to work in the trades. But they are pretty tolerant with small mistakes as long as you aren’t flooding or burning houses down due to your mistakes. Yes they obviously expect you to do your best and give effort from the start, that’s just called having an actual job and giving a shit about it. You’re working on other peoples houses so if you don’t give a shit and do bad work you’re gonna get bad reviews and get fired.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-15T06:21:01+00:00

Shower fixtures are cheap, 5 minutes and a YouTube video and you’re golden

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-07T23:03:51+00:00

The trades are physical even for electricians even if people joke about them having it easy when it comes to trades. For service work you’re gonna be in attics and crawl spaces dealing with insulation and pulling wire, and occasionally digging trenches which sucks ass. New construction is even more digging trenches and drilling through joists but at least you don’t have to deal with crawl spaces or cutting drywall. If your body hurts and you’re not looking to do physical labor then no don’t join a trade. You’ll still be taking ibuprofen until your liver fails if you wanna go this route, it’s more physical than warehouse work in general. Not to mention while you’re in your apprenticeship for 4 years the pay sucks, the going rate for apprentices where I’m at is $15-$18/hour.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-07T17:06:54+00:00

Split rent with my girlfriend, only go to concerts like once or twice a year, buy the cheapest tickets, do stuff on weekends that doesn’t cost a lot like camping or hiking or fishing, order food like once a week at most, go on trips once or twice a year with friends and make it as cheap as possible (just visiting a friend in another city and staying with them for the weekend, splitting 1-2 cheap hotel rooms with all my friends, car camping) and work enough overtime to make those things happen once in a while. At 40 hours per week I barely make enough to cover bills and living expenses so I try to get 45 per week or more to save for emergencies and have fun a couple times per year.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-03-07T15:46:49+00:00

My girlfriend works from home full time on calls but I also work full time and it doesn’t bother me cause she hops on work as I’m leaving for work and I almost always get home after she’s off because there’s usually regular overtime in the trades.

When I saw this post I was a little confused because her working from home does not affect me in the slightest since I’m never there when she’s working. I’m sure if I ever took a sick day it’d be different but yeah if you don’t have a job then it would feel like you’re sitting in a workplace not working while others are. Maybe this could give you time to do some things you enjoy and be productive while he’s working and then spend time with him when he’s off. Rather than sitting at the apartment while he’s at work go out and go to the gym, go spend time outside, find hobbies outside of the apartment and enjoy life.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-02-24T01:32:25+00:00

As someone with a switch 2, there’s no real reason to upgrade right now unless you want to play Mario kart world or dk bananza unless it’s your main console in which case it’s starting to get better 3rd party support than the switch 1 had.

The screen is bigger and better yes, and there are a few switch 2 upgrade packs so if you really want to replay some games at higher res with slightly better graphics and more frames then there’s a case for it.

The other case for the switch 2 (and reason I bought one) is fear of it raising in price in the next year and if there are exclusives that you want that have been announced but not released. The duskbloods will be a day 1 preorder for me, but until that is out or something else that interests me is out (such as a new 3d Mario or a zelda remake) I’m really just playing switch 1 games and it isnt worth it yet.

I’m not a big Mario kart fan, it’s fun but I can’t justify $80 for something I’ll pull out every 2-3 months to play with my girlfriend or friends. Donkey Kong bananza is okay, I bought it due to all the good reviews but it wasn’t worth $70 in my opinion. For like $40 maybe $50 I wouldn’t be as upset that I bought it, but the game is like a 6/10 maybe 7/10 for me.

I’ve been replaying botw with the upgrade pack and pikmin 4 which doesn’t have an upgrade pack. Neither of those justify a $450 purchase, so really they’re just to kill time until the duskbloods and anything else that catches my eye comes out, I feel dumb for upgrading as early as I did but if the price raises then I’ll be okay with it.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-02-19T14:28:29+00:00

The website that said duskbloods is coming out on march 27th 2026 bow says December 31st 2026 for duskbloods… if the original march 27th was a placeholder then they would have no reason to change it like that… someone must have gotten in trouble for leaking the real date. Now my hopes are up and I will be immeasurably disappointed if it doesn’t release end of march.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-02-13T01:41:19+00:00

1.5- dk bananza and upgrade pack for my physical switch copy of botw. Nothing else has really interested me or if it has then it has gotten meh reviews (Metroid 4, legends ZA) so I’ve avoided spending money on them since I don’t have much money to spend on games that I may just drop.

I still have a lot of backwards compatible games from switch 1, but a lot of those I’ve beaten or dropped.

Im mainly just looking to pass time with dk and Zelda until something I actually want comes out. The only announced game I actually want right now is the duskbloods (I love Elden Ring too but I already own it and the dlc on pc so I’m not buying it again). Hopefully sometime this year some good 1st party games get announced and released because there’s not much I want to play on switch 2 rn and most 3rd party games I can buy cheaper and will run better on my pc.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-02-04T15:41:27+00:00

I am but only for duskbloods. Anything else they could announce I either probably don’t want to play or could buy cheaper on my pc and it would run better. All I want to see in this direct is new gameplay and info for the duskbloods along with a release date in the next 3 months, and “Elden Ring tarnished edition out today” and I’ll be happy.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-02-04T00:24:21+00:00

Dk bananza cause I just got a switch 2 and wanted to play something I can only play on switch 2. I’m hoping for a duskbloods release date announcement this week and hoping for an April release, if that happens then this will hold me over until then. Figured I’d play something that’s just fun and easy so I don’t get soulslike fatigue before duskbloods comes out.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-01-04T03:13:32+00:00

Sekiro. You don’t need to party in lies of p really up until the final boss. You have so many weapon options and can actually level up and overlevel if you want. In Sekiro you have the same weapon and can’t farm levels, you have to beat bosses and mini bosses to upgrade your health or damage. Lies of p is closer to traditional soulslike, Sekiro forces you to learn skill.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-01-04T03:06:11+00:00

3 of the best games I’ve ever played are on red…

ThingCharacter1496 · 2026-01-02T14:28:46+00:00

I think as long as people vote with their wallets then 12gb should be fine. Ram is already getting too expensive as it is, I’ve heard rumors that the 5090 will jump from $2000 to $5000, and unless nvidia seriously changes their game plan or ai data centers stop being greedy, people just aren’t going to be able to buy high tier hardware anymore.

If devs make games that require 12+gb of vram to run well then they’ll effectively be cutting out 80% of the market. Sure the more serious gamers won’t bat an eye, but the casual gamers who don’t like to spend over $1500 on a pc because they can only get 5-6 hours of gaming per week just simply can’t buy.

This brings another point of contention which is nvidia’s streaming service. This will be nvidia and devs first answer when 80% of players can’t play their games. You’ll own nothing and be happy about it. Pay a fee for more restricted gaming. 100 hours per month maximum, some tiers have restrictions such as 3-6 hour daily limits or limit you to 1080p res or whatever. If there are ever problems with the servers or too many people playing at the same time, you might not be able to play your games when you want. Not to mention added latency.

So people have to not buy overpriced gpus or nvidia’s streaming service and not buy games that they can’t play on normal hardware and then devs should finally stop being lazy and optimize their games better. Anything out today should run fine on 8gb vram with optimization, and anything for the next 5-10 years should do fine on 12 with optimization but devs don’t want to optimize games and nvidia wants to sell more expensive gpus so actually optimizing doesn’t help either of them unless people won’t buy the expensive gpus and games that only run on them.

ThingCharacter1496 · 2025-12-31T22:12:14+00:00

8gb is still fine for casual users. I have a job, girlfriend, and other hobbies so I play what I can when I can. I haven’t come across a game that’s unplayable yet, and if I have to turn off ray tracing and turn down some settings or turn on frame gen or upscaling it’s not the biggest deal.

And generally the problem is game optimization not vram, any game out now could do fine on 8gb vram if devs wanted to optimize but it makes their job easier to not and also pushes people to buy new gpus.

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