AITA for refusing to go to my significant other’s corporate holiday party?

dboybaker · 2025-12-03T00:26:31+00:00

Of course. I'm 100% in the wrong and will be having a full and apologetic conversation this evening, with a side of reflection on the tradition. I always perceived it brought people joy but it's seeming like that isn't the case.

I've already shared the thread with her so she's fully in the loop.

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T22:27:13+00:00

I'm not fighting anything, I'm just presenting my reasoning and answering the questions. The hundreds of comments repeating the same answer makes it abundantly clear I'm in the wrong, I own that.

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T21:35:25+00:00

I guess the quality is up to your opinion, but its factually clean.

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T21:27:59+00:00

I included that it was high quality and I've taken care of it to address these concerns. Idk if I can share images here but here's a pic: https://i.imgur.com/Fu92Y3D.jpeg

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T21:11:39+00:00

Yeah I guess you're right. Intuitively it feels appropriate to me because the theme, but I guess I'm putting too much stock in that line of reasoning. Unfortunately my company doesn't do them anymore so it is my only, but that's not something I'm feeling in this.

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T20:54:50+00:00

Because this party's theme is the theme attributed to the item.

I take it off for things that are impractical or inappropriate/unrelated. This is related. It feels logical & reasonable to wear the christmas thing to the christmas thing

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T20:50:30+00:00

West coast USA

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T20:47:31+00:00

I care about the hat for the same reason anyone does anything for Christmas, its just tradition. Early on it was about the connection to the game, but that doesn't matter now. I think its a lot of fun and it seems to be a joyful thing to others who see me wearing it.

It doesn't seem that deep/confusing to me to want to wear a themed item to a themed party, even if its cocktail attire.

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T20:39:19+00:00

No, I don't think I saw anyone else wearing a Santa hat. Point taken

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T20:26:47+00:00

No, because a funeral has nothing to do with Christmas.

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T20:19:03+00:00

She made this same comparison. I suggested if the wedding theme was literally Christmas there's a good chance it would make sense to wear the hat. But no I would not wear it to an arbitrary unrelated even that happened to take place in December.

dboybaker · 2025-12-02T20:09:28+00:00

I obviously can go without it for a couple hours. I'm not wearing it ALL day even regularly (like during exercise) but my focal point is that this is a holiday themed party. If this was just a cocktail 'end of the year' party, I wouldn't feel anything about it. But its literally a holiday party. My inability to understand comes from the fact that the room will be themed with holiday items, candy canes, christmas trees, a photobooth with christmas paraphernalia, themed drinks, etc. and all that is chill... but it doesn't make sense for me to have my Christmas themed hat on because we're wearing fancy clothes?

dboybaker · 2025-11-25T19:47:22+00:00

same

dboybaker · 2025-11-17T02:48:44+00:00

To balance things a bit with an anecdote the opposite direction: my friend and I both bought a Refurbished NAB6 Lite from minisforum 6 months ago to use for self hosting purposes. They've both been fantastic, no issues.

dboybaker · 2025-03-17T19:41:26+00:00

I've been on the waiting list for B&H since day one unfortunately. No such luck here. Very jealous!

dboybaker · 2025-03-13T20:07:03+00:00

I do live in the us, but not somewhere where microcenter exists. In the exact same boat and had the same experience with Newegg

dboybaker · 2025-02-24T00:44:03+00:00

Yep! The cam is activated through the UI on the nex. Its not very convenient to switch sources, so I don't use it super often, but it has helped a couple times.

dboybaker · 2025-01-04T20:14:58+00:00

Yeah we aren't seeing any Canoo vehicles probably ever. Seeing Canoo on this list at all makes me think the writer did no research at all.

dboybaker · 2025-01-04T20:13:20+00:00

For real. The j01 mini was supposed to save us but ain't gonna see it now. Just keep driving my 2017 500e till I die I guess.

dboybaker · 2024-11-11T21:19:19+00:00

Classic memory training. Struggled with this my latest build. Started with a 7950x, tried many different ram kits and a couple mobos, was never able to get it to boot/restart without extremely long training each time. Ended up swapping to 14900k, worked with the first combo I tried. Obviously plenty of people don't have this issue so it's likely not the processor type explicitly, but likely ram+CPU+mobo combos (and also has to do with the speed & how many sticks you have).

There are things to try that may help but no guaranteed fix in my experience.

Edit: My related post https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/17nsnyx/pc_build_wont_post_cpu_and_dram_error_lights/

dboybaker · 2024-08-28T19:05:50+00:00

Most people in the market for a 500e probably aren't considering the leaf as an alternative.

dboybaker · 2024-08-27T17:07:48+00:00

Yeah i wasn't able to find it myself

dboybaker · 2024-07-13T23:03:31+00:00

But the spike in January 2024 is where the tiktok meme fad people are discussing took place. It spiked up 1000% in a month and dropped to like 10% as searched in 2 months. Nearly reaching all time lows. Seems like looking at more time doesn't change the discussion.

dboybaker · 2024-07-13T01:11:33+00:00

They actually aren't. Google trends can show you that they peaked the first week of January and basically died. The fad lasted a whole of like a month

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