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Next you're going to ask for a photo where the Elephant man looks sexy.
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Word of advice. Don't do a google image search for sexy elephant man.
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Thunder storms can certainly have a really nice smell. I always thought it was because of ionization in the air.
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Why is the Civ community so unhelpful when somebody is trying to figure out how to play a mixed hotseat / cloud game? I asked in a bunch of places how to set something like that and I got a grand of ZERO responses from anyone. Clearly this is something people have looked into before, since software exists to make it happen..
Why is it that the game makes you jump through all these hoops trying to set something like that up? Why is the only way to pass a save file back and forth and having to load it each and every time, every turn taking way too long? Making it essentially unplayable unless you have no life and unlimited free time?
Why couldn't somebody have just said "Oh yeah, they refused to add a way to do that in the game and there are no good mods for that, you guys are out of luck". Seems like an easy thing to say. If I asked a question like that in many other gaming communities, I'd have an answer in a couple hours or the next day at most. But nope, Civ fans seem to not give a crap about people asking simple questions.
I assume it's because everybody has gone through this process and it traumatized them. We ended up playing Worms instead. I thought Civ was supposed to be in part a good multiplayer experience, but if 2 people want to play on the same PC and the third person is somewhere else.. Nope, sorry, can't play
This is just a rant really, in the form of questions that nobody has to answer. I will just never ask a Civ question anywhere again. And clearly most people in off-topic don't even play Civ anymore, so none of this is really directed at any of you, I'm just waking up and it was annoying last night to have wasted all that time, when somebody could have easily said "Nope, can't do"
Why is it that the game makes you jump through all these hoops trying to set something like that up? Why is the only way to pass a save file back and forth and having to load it each and every time, every turn taking way too long? Making it essentially unplayable unless you have no life and unlimited free time?
Why couldn't somebody have just said "Oh yeah, they refused to add a way to do that in the game and there are no good mods for that, you guys are out of luck". Seems like an easy thing to say. If I asked a question like that in many other gaming communities, I'd have an answer in a couple hours or the next day at most. But nope, Civ fans seem to not give a crap about people asking simple questions.
I assume it's because everybody has gone through this process and it traumatized them. We ended up playing Worms instead. I thought Civ was supposed to be in part a good multiplayer experience, but if 2 people want to play on the same PC and the third person is somewhere else.. Nope, sorry, can't play
This is just a rant really, in the form of questions that nobody has to answer. I will just never ask a Civ question anywhere again. And clearly most people in off-topic don't even play Civ anymore, so none of this is really directed at any of you, I'm just waking up and it was annoying last night to have wasted all that time, when somebody could have easily said "Nope, can't do"
Civ fans are too busy arguing over who should be in the next expansion pack, and why the leader choices are so wrong.
Try asking in the modding forum, or technical support. People are a bit more helpful there it seems.
Try asking in the modding forum, or technical support. People are a bit more helpful there it seems.
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Yeah, you are probably right. Too late though, I've already figured out that there is no way to do this.. for some reason
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While poking around my Telus account settings, I noticed that around two-three times a day at random times, my account got dinged for $0.01 of data usage. (It's prepaid, and I don't have any data plan on my account.)
I checked my phone settings. Data is turned off entirely and the little graph thingy shows 0 MB. I also checked all my apps and made sure none of them had data turned off.
Any idea what's going on and if there's a way to fix it?
EDIT: After a bunch of messing around with different words in Google, I found this thread about it. Apparently it's not an uncommon problem. Sigh. I'll try switching networks and then if that doesn't work I will try to get a data block.
I checked my phone settings. Data is turned off entirely and the little graph thingy shows 0 MB. I also checked all my apps and made sure none of them had data turned off.
Any idea what's going on and if there's a way to fix it?
EDIT: After a bunch of messing around with different words in Google, I found this thread about it. Apparently it's not an uncommon problem. Sigh. I'll try switching networks and then if that doesn't work I will try to get a data block.
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warpus
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3 cents a day, that's $10.95 a year or 91 cents a month
Call your cell provider and ask for $1 off your bill each month, citing the above, or you're switching. If they give you a discount, you don't have to worry about the random dings. If they don't, then you can proceed with your current plan A. But of course calling these people is annoying. And $1 off is low, so I would complain a bunch and ask for a discount. Let them name their price first, that will put them at a disadvantage during negotiations. It's what you learn when you learn how to haggle. Anyway, you might have to escalate to a manager, i.e. someone who has the power to give you a discount.
Usually over $1 a month I am not willing to go through those charades with a bunch of morons working for an evil company. So I suck it up or yeah just switch, but that's annoying too. You lose no matter what
Keep in mind that there is a pandemic on and I have been stuck at home for months and am slowly descending into madness, this is not meant to be legal advice or actual advice of any kind.
Call your cell provider and ask for $1 off your bill each month, citing the above, or you're switching. If they give you a discount, you don't have to worry about the random dings. If they don't, then you can proceed with your current plan A. But of course calling these people is annoying. And $1 off is low, so I would complain a bunch and ask for a discount. Let them name their price first, that will put them at a disadvantage during negotiations. It's what you learn when you learn how to haggle. Anyway, you might have to escalate to a manager, i.e. someone who has the power to give you a discount.
Usually over $1 a month I am not willing to go through those charades with a bunch of morons working for an evil company. So I suck it up or yeah just switch, but that's annoying too. You lose no matter what
Keep in mind that there is a pandemic on and I have been stuck at home for months and am slowly descending into madness, this is not meant to be legal advice or actual advice of any kind.
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I've had not any more data usage on my account since I changed my network. I guess it work.
@aimeeandbeatles Look into Ting.com. They're Canadian. Inexpensive and we've used them for years.
If you have a good eye exam, you'll read many things from a far-away eye chart and a close-up eye chart, with both one eye at a time and both eyes together. You'll look at 3D images to test your depth perception and colored dot patterns to check your color vision. You'll watch moving objects to check how well you track and change focus. If your vision needs correcting, you'll look through a huge parade of lenses and be asked which looks better. The optometrist will shine bright lights in your eyes and look in them.
You'll get a glaucoma test. Usually this is drops in your eyes (these burn me a lot for a short time (like, less than a minute), but most people apparently find them not too bad) and then a blue glowing triangle on a large device gets put up next to your eyes. Sometimes it is done by puffing air at your eye from really close. Sometimes my kids have to get a manual exam because they can't deal with the drops or the device close to their eyes.
Eye dilation requires drops that also burn me quite a lot for a short time, but not usually as badly as the glaucoma drops. The dilation itself does not hurt. This takes 15-30 minutes. Then the optometrist shines more bright lights in your eyes and looks in them. The dilation takes a long time to wear off, and your vision may be significantly affected. (I have to increase the type on my kindle by several steps if I want to read while waiting, and I never let them dilate my eyes if I have to drive home.) You'll need sunglasses for afterwards.
You have to make small talk with the optometrist, as they try to put you at ease.
You'll get a glaucoma test. Usually this is drops in your eyes (these burn me a lot for a short time (like, less than a minute), but most people apparently find them not too bad) and then a blue glowing triangle on a large device gets put up next to your eyes. Sometimes it is done by puffing air at your eye from really close. Sometimes my kids have to get a manual exam because they can't deal with the drops or the device close to their eyes.
Eye dilation requires drops that also burn me quite a lot for a short time, but not usually as badly as the glaucoma drops. The dilation itself does not hurt. This takes 15-30 minutes. Then the optometrist shines more bright lights in your eyes and looks in them. The dilation takes a long time to wear off, and your vision may be significantly affected. (I have to increase the type on my kindle by several steps if I want to read while waiting, and I never let them dilate my eyes if I have to drive home.) You'll need sunglasses for afterwards.
You have to make small talk with the optometrist, as they try to put you at ease.
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Small talk?! That's the worst news you could possibly deliver!
But thank you. That's very informative. I suspect the drops will give me issues, as plain old water tends to burn. Although I did try lubricating drops last year and they weren't so bad.
I've never had an eye exam done, but I've slowly been having issues focusing on things that are moving, and I can't focus on things a few inches in front of my eyes anymore. I've read online that eye dilation can correct that if it's just the muscle that's gotten "stuck." But it's probably about time I get an exam done anyways, just in case. Not jazzed with the idea of maybe needing to get glasses, though.
But thank you. That's very informative. I suspect the drops will give me issues, as plain old water tends to burn. Although I did try lubricating drops last year and they weren't so bad.
I've never had an eye exam done, but I've slowly been having issues focusing on things that are moving, and I can't focus on things a few inches in front of my eyes anymore. I've read online that eye dilation can correct that if it's just the muscle that's gotten "stuck." But it's probably about time I get an exam done anyways, just in case. Not jazzed with the idea of maybe needing to get glasses, though.
I've never had to make small talk with the optometrist when they were dilating my eyes, as they'd just ask me to sit outside the examining room for 15-20 minutes whilst they saw someone else.
If you're becoming noticeably long-sighted, it does sound like you'll need glasses at least some of the time.
If you're becoming noticeably long-sighted, it does sound like you'll need glasses at least some of the time.
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