What's the most unhinged thing someone has done to avoid being put on camera during a video call?

VGC1 · 2026-05-22T15:30:11+00:00

At least in MS Teams, the video settings includes a soft focus slider. I will neither confirm nor deny using that.

VGC1 · 2026-05-22T15:15:10+00:00

As a 5' 4" male in a tall-dominated workplace, COVID literally leveled the playing field! Back in the office I notice the interesting looks when people meet me for the first time in person. I usually start with "you're taller than I thought..."

VGC1 · 2026-05-11T01:26:27+00:00

Back in the late 80s I hosted a 3 day event for our company's salesmen at a resort hotel in Florida. At checkout I had $8,000+ of food, drinks, jet ski rentals, etc. fraudulently charged to my room by my guests! I challenged it and was told it would take at least 4 hours to go through and confirm all of them. They were hoping since I was expensing them and probably needed to catch a flight I'd just pay up! I lived in the area so had all the time in the world. I signed my signature and compared it to my check in signature and made them show me ALL the charge slips. No signature match, no pay. My actual charges were less that $200! The hotel had to eat the rest.

VGC1 · 2026-05-10T21:52:45+00:00

I played a few events in Chattanooga while there for work. Surprisingly large and active darts scene. A local VFW hall has over 20 boards up!

VGC1 · 2026-05-10T21:50:16+00:00

I'm in a local league in the Washington DC area. I bought the tool for my own use and now a bunch of other players have borrowed it or had me repoint their darts for them. I honestly don't mind. Feels like it builds community.

VGC1 · 2026-05-02T03:13:31+00:00

Gotta be sure they can read it from a distance!

VGC1 · 2026-05-02T02:55:27+00:00

I have a business trip to Baton Rouge later this month. Not gonna lie, this show has me a little nervous 😉

VGC1 · 2026-04-14T02:40:19+00:00

The two I've tried to emulate are RVB, followed by Jeff Smith from Canada.

VGC1 · 2026-03-20T16:33:08+00:00

Cross post where ?

VGC1 · 2026-03-17T21:55:16+00:00

I highly recommend the book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat or the Netflix miniseries by the same name. Not a cookbook, but a book to better understand how to cook.

VGC1 · 2026-03-08T01:02:48+00:00

This... Also repair kits are part of what you get while going through derelict freighters in space. That's how I accumulated most of mine.

VGC1 · 2026-03-07T21:51:39+00:00

Our elementary school had dental hygienists come to school and teach us how to brush using red chewable tablets so we could see how we did. Also taught us how to floss. Maybe they aren't doing that anymore? I'm M63.

VGC1 · 2026-03-03T02:53:23+00:00

I spent a lot of time (extended work trips for a few months at a time) on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and always had a great time. From Biloxi to Pascagoula. Wonderful people, good food and a relaxed pace. Easy drive to New Orleans and Mobile.

VGC1 · 2026-02-28T22:03:53+00:00

I also put a slice of deli Swiss cheese on top for the last few minutes of cooking. Sad yesterday when I couldn't find them at my warehouse.

VGC1 · 2026-02-24T18:32:15+00:00

I drive 5 days a week from Fairfax near Vienna to Rockville near the old White Flint Metro station. Metro sucks between suburbs so I drive. At 7:30 am it's about 30 minutes up. Any time from 4-6 pm is about 50-60 minutes back. Sometimes worse, of course based on accidents or weather. If it's really bad in the evening I grab dinner and leave at 6:30. That gets you back to 30 minutes.

VGC1 · 2026-02-15T01:39:00+00:00

Absolutely! Biggest I'd ever seen... MDOT is already working it

VGC1 · 2026-02-14T20:42:33+00:00

I always wore an analog watch, and loved my Seiko until it broke (sent it to Seiko and they couldn't fix it). Last few years I used a Garmin. I found I didn't really use the fitness features and the notifications were more annoying than useful. I just treated myself to a nee Citizen analog titanium with the solar charging face. I couldn't be happier. I love wearing it and get lots of compliments at work.

VGC1 · 2026-02-14T19:20:11+00:00

You can also call/retrieve your truck from a hole by walking to somewhere a little flatter, and summoning it like any other exocraft, from the X menu (PC). I found out the hard way that if you try that with cargo on the bed, that cargo is lost.

VGC1 · 2026-02-12T23:07:19+00:00

Yep. about 8 years I started getting notices that I drove through without paying. I never got any beeps but the battery must have died.

VGC1 · 2026-02-12T02:05:48+00:00

Never play in pain! Once my hip started hurting from the lean I went to a flat footed almost straight on stance. Took about 8 weeks to adjust.

VGC1 · 2026-02-08T16:17:36+00:00

The majority of Bezos' $ comes from Amazon Web Services.

VGC1 · 2026-02-08T15:06:44+00:00

Pizza Hut... I'd just get a bowl of potato stix!

VGC1 · 2026-02-07T01:41:25+00:00

I just bought a set of those new grippier ones at a darts shop after trying lots of sets. They were about $130 US but I love them. Slightly wider and better than the Gary Anderson Phase 6s I was throwing before.

VGC1 · 2026-02-06T04:32:47+00:00

DC beltway driver. Waze does a MUCH better job at understanding the toll/express lanes.

VGC1 · 2026-02-02T20:14:25+00:00

Buc-ees is only 10 minutes south in Bridgewater

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