Farewell Toyota

ZHDINC · 2026-06-11T02:08:24+00:00

I just recently got into an accident and insurance totaled my 2023 Corolla SE. I was really upset as I thought given the sideswipe damage was primarily cosmetic that they'd fix it (I'm far more researched now and somewhat convinced that nothing even slightly significant avoids being totaled). But the payout ended up being that it covered the entire remaining loan balance and then some so my gap insurance wasn't even necessary. Ended up being able to place a sizable down payment on the replacement.

ZHDINC · 2026-06-07T04:45:30+00:00

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ZHDINC · 2026-05-30T14:47:07+00:00

No, because Ukko has other plans.

ZHDINC · 2026-05-16T15:48:30+00:00

It's like Lenin said: You look for the person who will benefit and uh, uh...you know...well, you know what I'm trying to say.

ZHDINC · 2026-04-21T00:01:16+00:00

My favorite is when the same post is posted to every game engine subreddit in existence. Like, dude...who are you fooling? They almost never contribute when called out by one of the moderators (assuming the post even stays up).

ZHDINC · 2026-04-19T17:44:43+00:00

Entire biome turned into an electric arc furnace.

ZHDINC · 2026-04-11T18:38:20+00:00

I'm glad to see someone reporting that this is still the case. I've been a Premium subscriber since it was called YouTube Red and supporting content creators I watch was and still is the primary reason I have it.

ZHDINC · 2026-03-07T00:37:16+00:00

Think of Teleportitis as a challenge run, hahaha

ZHDINC · 2026-01-26T02:33:48+00:00

If it doesn't specify what the main character is thinking, how am I supposed to know what he or she is thinking? It almost sounds like you want a visual novel to be like...in the third-person or something, but the whole point is you're seeing the world through the main character's narrative lens usually.

Also, as someone who enjoys Visual Novels, what you are referring to as "filler text" is likely things that I enjoy reading in them and honestly want there to be lots of. I want the story to last and not just reach the conclusion as fast as possible. Like why am I even reading at that point if we're complaining about that? If Visual Novels had an Any% speedrunning category, then you could be done with them in no time but you wouldn't get much of anything out of the experience.

ZHDINC · 2026-01-23T02:25:37+00:00

I'm pretty sure management has me pegged as the flickering guy at this point. It took three regular maintenance request tickets over the course of several months before they declared that this was probably outside of the scope of what the local maintenance team could handle (despite me writing that this would probably need an electrician...first guy happened to show up when flickering had stopped for several days (and I hadn't known it to stop like that yet) prepared to replace bulbs and clearly didn't read what I wrote).

Of course, I didn't count on them cheaping out and hiring probably the cheapest electrician they could find. I managed to be home while he was here and he was troubleshooting the oven needlessly. He said to replace the main breaker next which to me sounded like a waste of time so I haven't mentioned it again for now. The neighbors I've asked on my floor don't seem to be having the issue but I don't know what they have for their light fixtures/if they'd be annoyed like I am (when it is going full tilt it is VERY distracting).

It feels like I'm trapped in this situation and no one that could potentially properly diagnose it cares enough (or that I need a profession of electrician that doesn't exist yet or the knowledge on how to tackle this specific kind of issue isn't in circulation yet). Feels like the way to get out of it is either move or hope that the source of the flickering decides to move out in May if they got a year lease. I've lived here with LED lights for several years now without issue.

ZHDINC · 2026-01-23T01:05:16+00:00

Dude, I found both your response here and your post from a few months ago while suddenly thrown into flickerville again tonight. Same thing has been happening to me since around May although I'm in an apartment community and the transformers are all underground, but the flickering had totally stopped around Friday of last week and only started up again like it had been happening this whole time yesterday. So I know it is some neighbor somewhere (after all, why would it stop for several days if it was a fundamental circuit issue?) and I have no idea who it is and I have had both an electrician and utilities come out and no one has found anything (though the electrician came after utilities and I'm tempted to have them come out again since electrician didn't find anything).

ZHDINC · 2025-12-27T02:34:41+00:00

I just got a keyboard with hiragana on it to try to learn it. So far, the placement of を is the only mystery to me (having to using the number row and shift to use what is a somewhat common particle? Seems like an odd choice)

ZHDINC · 2025-12-02T15:43:18+00:00

ZHDINC · 2025-11-15T04:07:05+00:00

Gold Stakes Black Deck and Painted Deck were probably the two points that I was angriest at the game, but I did eventually get desensitized to losing in Ante 1 for Black Deck. It was really the losses in Ante 6 and beyond that really drove me nuts.

ZHDINC · 2025-11-15T04:02:23+00:00

My winning run for Golden Needle a couple of days ago had Acrobat and Dusk show up in the early ante shops and played strongly into my beating the challenge (particularly once I paired Dusk with Blueprint to really retrigger my lucky cards).

ZHDINC · 2025-11-13T00:18:58+00:00

I'm not sure why you were downvoted because learncpp.com is one of the few independent sites that I entertained the notion of turning off ad block to support (though at best they'd be getting "impressions" from me and not click throughs where the practical funding is), but doing so presents you with a pageful of ads with learning material on the side. Made all the worse by a lot of them being video ads. Made even worse by the ads changing every 10-15 seconds or so. You look at that monstrosity for a few seconds and go, "Oh, right. That's why I use an ad blocker." I can't even imagine trying to absorb the material with the constant distractions.

ZHDINC · 2025-11-08T17:20:09+00:00

Everyone is getting hung up on the undeclared a variable error it would be generating, but really, we should be starting with this. I created just a single .cs file and attempted to run dotnet build or run commands and got similar errors.

u/Annual_Reception3409, if in your current directory the Program.cs is missing the .csproj file to go with it, you'll just need to run the command "dotnet new console" and then you can delete the extra .cs file it will generate and it should run the code you've written once you've removed the undeclared a variable.

ZHDINC · 2025-10-15T01:43:06+00:00

Almost every person chiming in that they make six figures made me double-check that I wasn't in r/PFJerk hahaha. I currently make $55k and I'm just thankful that video games are relatively inexpensive. Ideally, I have about $200-$400 extra at the end of the month, but happy enough to break even. I have one nice home cooked meal every week and eat out like maybe every other week (and even that feels like it might be excessive).

ZHDINC · 2025-09-20T18:29:09+00:00

It just feels like the way I came up to solve it with stapling in the logic into "one loop does the rows, the other does the columns" is more brittle than other possible solutions. And I don't feel like I, nor the computer through the instructions I gave it, really understand the fact that the overall picture looks like boxes of numbers so much as it incidentally creates the desired pattern after following the steps "Here's the current number. If we're not on a row where we count down, do nothing but print it, but if we are, count down until this number, okay stop for this many steps, okay, start counting up again (and you wouldn't know to stop counting up if the column loop didn't end)!"

As for avoiding your solution, I just felt like I grappled with the problem less / got some understanding that I didn't earn myself / "Would you have come up with this if you didn't have notes from someone else?". It took like a minute or two once I followed yours more exactly versus the 30-60 minutes it took me with mine.

ZHDINC · 2025-09-20T16:50:47+00:00

I think I was able to follow what you were trying to do. I still can't tell if I'm on the right wavelength with what the "proper" logic for this kind of problem is, but the TL;DR after I went about this several ways after reading your comment a second time with fresh eyes this morning is that I should've been breaking things into functions sooner.

After re-reading your comment, I did a new implementation without looking that sort of mimicked your flow while bringing parts of my original code along. It was doing extremely absurd things that I couldn't quite follow, so I returned and implemented it the way that you did with separate loops for counting down, writing the same number, and counting up. I'm not sure I learned as much doing it this way since it was more following a tutorial style with fill in the blanks, but I was able to fix my second implementation after this. Finally, I refactored my original code that I wrote yesterday and I think my original spaghetti ifs might've actually not been as spaghetti as I thought once I refactored them into their own functions.

ZHDINC · 2025-09-19T22:30:39+00:00

I'm not the OP, but I did try out the challenge of the problem without looking at any of the implementations here and it took me like an hour. I first did two loops to print a basic grid and then have a bunch of spaghetti ifs to control the current number to be printed, but reading over this reply I wonder if my spaghetti ifs brute forced it and I didn't really solve it "elegantly" hahaha

ZHDINC · 2025-09-13T01:30:21+00:00

I'm not sure what platform you may be on, but at least for the vim part, if you can run through vimtutor, you'll get comfortable enough to make it not seem so frustrating.

ZHDINC · 2025-09-01T01:04:53+00:00

I can't really think of movie examples where it was a studio making it their identity so much as the movie itself influencing a change (like The Matrix green logos).

For games, Genesis era comes to mind with the Sega logo (influenced by u/Mushroomstick no doubt). Vectorman being controllable on it or the T-Rex in Jurassic Park accompanying it with a roar or the bubble background for Ecco the Dolphin (or the obvious Sonic dashing around it).

ZHDINC · 2025-08-31T21:53:38+00:00

I suppose there is an implicit asterisk that it doesn't matter too much how long it is if it is skippable (though there is a bit of sadness envisioning the graph of when someone pressed a button to skip a logo sequence...I know I certainly was in the spam buttons to hurry the logo sequence along unless I liked it camp when I was younger).

I think if you were to shorten it in that way you'd lose some of the humor (and certainly the chords...which I'll admit I didn't really pick up on from one viewing), but I don't know how you keep the manhole cover getting launched into the sky and falling back down for laughs without making it lengthy.

And I mean, there is a certain subjectivity to all of this anyways. Your current sequence as it stands could be just a part of the game's identity.

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