Random Rants 80: Computer Says No

[Broken_Erika]

*walks up in a suit of shining armor and hits Synsensa over the back of the head with a rubber chicken.

 

[Synobun]

That's it! You're being relocated to Hamilton.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Who wants popcorn?

 

[Takhisis]

*takes popcorn container from aimee and upends it over Synsensa's head*

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Now all the popcorn is spilled everywhere.

 

[Takhisis]

Forty-second rule. Go!

 

[Broken_Erika]

*Proceeds to fill rubber chicken with popcorn.

 

[The_J]

The thread title is obviousy, obviousy, obvioulsy, and as usual, an abomination ^^.

Actual rant: Gastritis.
I think that's now the 4th time I had one. I wonder what amount is normal .

 

[Takhisis]

*Proceeds to fill rubber chicken with popcorn.

This is obviously almost as bad as USian cooking.

 

[Ajidica]

Rant 1: I slept on my back awkwardly last night so my neck and shoulders (and strangely eyes) are feeling a bit sore. It's going to be an early night for me!
Rant 2: The Atlantic is going to a NYT style paywall where you get 5 articles free a month. I've been thinking about getting a subscription to them for a while given how much I read it, so no time like the present I guess! Trying to decide what tier to get. The pure digital or the digital + magazine one. On one hand, I like the idea of being able to read hard copies of something. On the other, once I'm done reading it, the magazine will just sit in a corner until I eventually recycle it.

 

[Takhisis]

Freaking paywalls.

 

[cardgame]

And not DRM-free!

Some games on Steam are DRM-free, though. Like Kerbal Space Program. You can install it wherever, completely uninstall Steam from your entire computer, and the game files will still launch (come to think of it, Steam might delete all of its game directories if you uninstall it entirely, but you can copy and move the KSP files anywhere else and they'll still work without Steam).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

One of the things that annoys me about Steam is that it puts everything into a SteamApps folder. This makes my game install folder more of a pain to navigate.

 

[Ajidica]

Freaking paywalls.

The Atlantic does quality long-form journalism so a paywall is fairly standard. TBH I think they were the only long-form journalism outlet that didn't have a paywall of any sort - even for their back archives.

 

[Takhisis]

Hmm, yes, to me they're an additional problem because I live in a country with insane exchange rate fluctuations. The official peg the peso had in 2002 was 1-4 to the US dollar, it went down to 1-3, then rose with a few bumps to 15 in 2015, then 20 until 2018, 40 until two weeks ago, anything between 55 and 70 then. Paying anything from outside with electronic payments means I can suddenly have paid inadvertently too much and have a lot of tax collected automatically by the state and only refunded next year when rampant inflation has eaten away at my saving power. The same applies to collecting debts, too.

Which really does help explain why Argentinistan is a country with a *bad* business climate.

 

[cardgame]

One of the things that annoys me about Steam is that it puts everything into a SteamApps folder. This makes my game install folder more of a pain to navigate.

I put a shortcut on my desktop to steamapps>common so I can find them all right away. You should too?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have the folder pinned as a tab in XYplorer. Because I can't just use Windows Explorer like a normal person.

 

[Takhisis]

You had me at ‘Windows’.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

And the worst part is that I'm stuck on Windows 10 because Microsoft actively blocks updates for my specific processor on earlier versions. (Surprisingly, though, it hasn't given me as much trouble as I'd expected. And I actually kind of like the new start menu.)

 

[Commodore]

You guys remember a while back I talked about those little messages my employer puts all the restrooms? Well the one they have in there this month has me thinking the person who came up with it didn't really think through what they were writing.

The message was about diversity in the workplace. Cool. The line that stood out to me though was at the end it said something like "We want a workplace where everyone feels comfortable being their authentic self". Now that sounds good on the surface, but when you really examine that statement, I don't think it really aligns with what the company wants. It's the use of the word "everyone" that throws a wrench in that statement. I mean, do you really want the closet Nazi working in Accounting to "feel comfortable being his authentic self"? Somehow I'm thinking the answer is gonna be a no on that one.