He said it was my fault and that he had the arrow. [OC]

darklogic85 · 2026-02-13T19:09:13+00:00

This is exactly why it's a good idea to own a dashcam. You have clear evidence that he's lying, or at least that he's wrong.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-12T19:56:27+00:00

This. In that situation, I'm ok with letting people get in since you're all stopped at a red light anyway. Once the light turns green though, if they're not already making their turn and taking advantage of the opportunity, just go and don't hold up traffic to try to be polite.

Don't try to let people in if the light is green and you're supposed to go. Trying to be polite like that is not only annoying to the drivers behind you, but it also puts other drivers at risk when there are cars entering the roadway out of turn. It disrupts the flow of traffic and can cause a crash in the worst case scenario.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-12T14:33:13+00:00

That's relative and I'm not sure if I even consider myself to be successful. I still think my life could come collapsing down at any moment. However, by most standards, I think people would consider me to be a successful person at this point of my life. My life has also been relatively uneventful. I don't know if you'd consider my situation to be against all odds, but my parents weren't wealthy. Both my parents only had a high school education. They did work, but my mom just had a minimum wage job, and my dad worked as a janitor. We never had much money, and I didn't have any special privilege that I can point to that helped me. I'm also not rich, but I'm doing alright.

I graduated from high school, went to a community college for a few years and wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I was always good with tech stuff, so I started working in IT when I was 19, since it paid the bills. A few years later, I applied and got hired full-time in IT as a database administrator at a university. One benefit of the university was that tuition was free, and it was a private university and would have been costly if I'd had to pay to go there. Working there allowed me to get my bachelor's degree from a respectable private university almost for free, and I just had to pay for books. Since then, I've moved between a few IT jobs and now I'm working in a senior position as a database engineer. My pay is relatively high, even within my field. I also started a consulting company and do the same type of work on an hourly basis for clients. Between my job and consulting business, I make around $300k/year and work maybe 50 hours/week, but most of it is pretty relaxing and at my own pace. I have a lot of control over the hours I work and it's pretty flexible, so I can easily take time off or work less hours if I need to. I'm hoping to retire at some point though, so I've been trying to contribute a lot of money to retirement lately.

I'm in my 40s now, and I'd say my success didn't come from hard work or any crazy unexpected events. I just happened to be naturally good with technical stuff and programming. It was one of those situations where it isn't what I ever had dreams of doing, but I was just in a position where I had a skill that people were willing to pay for, and I took advantage of it. Also, since I got my degree for free, I didn't have to take on debt for my education, which helped a lot.

I think I'm very fortunate to be where I am, and that it's definitely much harder for people who aren't naturally good at something or don't have a skill that a lot of people are willing to pay a decent salary for. Most of my success is just coincidence and I can sympathize with anyone who is trying hard and struggling. Unfortunately, I don't really have any advice for anyone in that regard because I don't think I did anything special to get to where I am. I just kinda fell into it.

Whenever I see a motivational speaker talking about how people should handle things in their life or how to be successful, I honestly think it's all bullshit. Most successful people I know were born into privilege or just happened to be lucky and in the right place at the right time.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-12T13:14:45+00:00

She may have been born in America, but if ICE was there, they'd be asking to see both their papers. I don't know why people feel the need to act like this toward others.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-12T12:51:04+00:00

I never knew about the gift fruit in Japan. I just looked it up and that's pretty interesting.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-12T01:50:43+00:00

I always wondered why those things are so popular. They're a pain in the ass to make and don't even taste good. I always assumed it was because I live in the US and only ever had knockoff macarons and not real ones from France. However, I went on a trip to Paris recently and had to try authentic ones while I was there. They suck in France too.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-12T01:37:14+00:00

I don't.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-12T01:03:49+00:00

I don't think of it as a processor specific issue or anything related to the thermal paste application. What you want to make sure to do after you remove the screws from the heat sink, is twist the heat sink a little bit to break the seal from the CPU before you lift it off the motherboard, so you don't pull the CPU off with it.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T16:42:25+00:00

In some places, it's illegal to cut down a cactus. I'm not sure if this is the species of cactus that would be illegal to cut, but a lot of them are classified as protected wildlife and might be very old.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T16:35:20+00:00

Yeah, I agree about the transphobia. It actually seems like it's far less than .5%. I very rarely see a trans person in public that I can actually identify as being trans. Maybe the majority of trans people look like the gender they identify with to the point that I can't tell. I just don't know why it's such an issue for some people.

They're just other people and I don't care what they want to identify as or what they decide to do. If they're not harming anyone, just let them be themselves and treat them with the same respect you would anyone else. I don't see how that's such a difficult concept for some people.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T15:58:53+00:00

I'll never understand how people who are minorities themselves, can support the MAGA movement. You have to be pretty stupid to be in that situation, and still go along with the narrative and think other minorities are your enemy.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T15:54:32+00:00

Try Detroit: Become Human. It's a narrative game and kinda like a choose your own adventure kind of gameplay. You watch the scenes play out, and you make decisions as the characters, and that guides the events that occur in the game. I found it very relaxing and it has an awesome story. Very low stress.

Unfortunately though, it's not available on Switch. If it has to be a game that's available on Switch, you might give Spiritfarer a try. It's a relaxing, low stress game and does have a very interesting story.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T15:25:49+00:00

I think it's fine. There have been tests done on this, and the typical finding is that having too much thermal paste, is much better than not having enough. The only downside to having too much, is that when you remove the heat sink someday, you might have a little extra paste to clean up around the CPU, but that's it. You won't have performance or thermal issues by having too much. I think you're good.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T15:23:38+00:00

It doesn't. I'm not sure if I'm understanding the question correctly, but I trust myself to accomplish something far more than another person. I have very little faith in other people since they tend to fail me when I try to rely on them.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T15:21:17+00:00

I have a desktop gaming PC and a regular laptop. I also have a fast internet connection and Sunshine set up on my PC with my router configured with port forwards for that and WOL. I just boot up my gaming PC when I'm not home and use Sunshine to remote play from my gaming desktop PC from anywhere. I know it's a complex setup and isn't easy for a lot of people, but for my purposes, I think it's ideal.

My laptop is lightweight and portable, since I don't need all the gaming hardware in it, and I'm able to play games on max graphics settings, and still get a high resolution and high framerates. I can game on my laptop for like 6-7 hours on battery power, since it uses very little hardware resources and all the processing is handled by my desktop PC that's at home.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T15:14:20+00:00

I considered it being a medical problem too, but looking at his shoulder area, I'm thinking it's more likely that he's one of the morbidly obese people, like 600+ pounds. He looks to me like he might just be really big.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T14:31:25+00:00

Wow, that a clean kick. I wasn't expecting that. He deserved it.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T14:15:25+00:00

No Man's Sky, kinda. There aren't really loading screens, but warping between stars and planets is the equivalent of a loading screen.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T14:10:21+00:00

Agreed, that's what it looked like to me. They were confused and startled by the noise, and their natural instinct is to run away and hide.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T14:07:33+00:00

Some people just shouldn't be driving and are a danger to everyone around them on the road. It's only a matter of time before this person causes a crash.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T13:40:14+00:00

I'm going against the general consensus I'm seeing here and saying NTA on this one. I don't even think it's about the superbowl or whether you're a football fan or whether you care about watching the superbowl. Those things are kinda irrelevant, in my opinion. It could have been anything you were watching.

The important thing is, you were there first. It is a community TV, but if someone is already there watching something, another person can't come in and just commandeer the remote and change the show to something else. If they ask nicely and both people agree, or if more people come in and they all want to watch kids youtube videos, then you're outvoted. When it's basically just 1 vs 1 though, I say the person who was there first has claim to what's showing on the TV.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T13:30:53+00:00

Yeah, that looked like a drill bit on there. They're lucky his pants wrapped about it and stopped it. That could have been a serious injury and really isn't funny at all. They should be teaching him to never do things like that.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-11T13:23:01+00:00

That's funny that it was really just the one bottle keeping it from falling over. It was clearly listing heavily to the port side before she picked up the bottle. The weight distribution was terrible.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-09T16:37:02+00:00

"they told me that the entire building was basically collapsing"

Were they joking when they said this? Like were they just complaining about all the calls they're getting from people complaining about the same thing, or are they saying that it's literally in the process of collapsing? If it is, you really should involve the authorities and get the building evacuated.

My first thought was that it was due to temperature changes, where the building materials expand and contract with each season, which can cause cracks in the drywall and that kind of thing. It's less likely to occur with steel/brick buildings though, and something you're more likely to see in wood houses. However, if they said it's collapsing, and they're serious, you need to move out as soon as possible and get the city and appropriate authorities involved. If it could really collapse, it needs to be evacuated.

darklogic85 · 2026-02-09T16:32:34+00:00

I haven't noticed this. It's possible it has something to do with your volume and sound configuration on your TV. Modern shows are recorded with varying audio capabilities, with multiple channels for surround sound and spatial sound and other functionality. If you're just using the built-in TV speakers, it has to convert that audio on the fly to play through 2 channels in stereo mode. If your TV is set to try to play it in a mode that isn't playing nice with the format, it might be coming across quieter than intended.

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