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Joined August 21, 2024
I'm getting paid to learn new work skills, which is both cool as fuck and exhausting my brain in equal measure.
For the first time in my professional IT career, I no longer work tickets. I do projects only, and it feels fucking amazing.
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Have a look at this tiny, singular moss I spotted growing out of a mailbox #Mosstodon
Lately I've been entertaining the idea of learning to code. Not because it would help in my SysAdmin career, but just to spite GenAI companies and vibe coders. :blobcatthinking:
I love my weird internet friends; you entities make the horrors a bit easier to bear. Thank you for that. 
It’s my first day back working in a corporate office in six months, and lemme tell ya, it’s a lot to process. :blobcatdizzy:
One would think that by my age, I’d have learned that too much coffee = stomach hurts, but here we are. :holdthepain:
My doctor: It's possible your palpitations are caused by an increase in stress. You need to try and reduce your stress level.
Me, living in the US now: :holdthepain:
It’s been a month, but it still feels kinda weird going from being a Systems Administrator that does Cloud Admin occasionally to being a Cloud Admin that does Systems Administration occasionally.
They suck a lot.
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The year was 1984. I received Optimus Prime for Christmas. In terms of cool factor, no gift has surpassed it since. I don't know what the equivalent gift for a child would be today, but it would have to be pretty amazing.
#Transformers
Oooh, a user serviceable Linux tablet? Consider my interest piqued.
Cortana crawled so Copilot could walk. Hmm, walk may be a bit generous. Stumble? Shamble?
Given the state of #Destiny2 right now, I've been looking for something that could scratch that itch while I wait for Bungie to get it together. I'm coming up empty so far.
I already play Warframe off and on, and I'm not seeing too many other looter shooters worth investing in. I really wish Bungie would've focused on Destiny instead of pouring talent and resources into a Marathon title no one asked for.
There seems to be a coordinated hate campaign going on over in the Steam discussion and community pages for #Marathon, and I don’t get it at all. I value my time too much to spend it repeatedly attacking a game I don’t like on a forum. Like, what do they get out of it? :blobcatthinking:
Wishing I had a dog to walk right now.
I feel like this might appeal to some of my mutuals.
Escape will make me God.
Holy shit, there's a cave-dwelling arachnid that eats "light emitting prey" (gloworms) and it's called Ungoliant photophaga??
*maybe don't click if you have arachnophobia*
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@outofprintarchive@retro.pizza I used to have a pretty extensive collection of Saturn shmups, sourced mostly through Yahoo auctions Japan. I had connections there that could order the games and ship them to me. And this was around ‘99 to the early ‘00s before people were going crazy for old titles. Everyone wanted the new stuff, so I was picking up these games in auction bundles for a small fraction of what they go for today.
Then hard times came, and I had to start selling stuff off. If only current me could go back in time and slap past me in the face. :blobcatnotlikethis:
*Sees Monster Hunter Stories 3 is coming out in a week.*
Oh yeah, I should probably play Stories 2. :blobcatthinking:
But I can't, because I'm in the middle of playing Dragon Quest VII R. :blobCatOhNo:
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@outofprintarchive@retro.pizza You're totally fine! I'm sorry you had to deal with that. Some of it sounds sadly familiar to people in my own life.
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@outofprintarchive@retro.pizza One of my life’s regrets is selling my Saturn copy of this game.
That #DeepDishDungeon demo scratches an itch I’ve had for awhile now in a dungeon crawler. Now if only I could get a few friends interested in it.
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@SynAck My Joes disappeared over time, too. I suspect they were donated/sold at garage sales as I lost interest in them. I think the only 80s toy I still possess that was originally mine is one of the cars from M.A.S.K.
While I'd love to have some of that stuff back now, these days I guess I just don't have the physical attachment to nostalgia any more. Probably for the better given what that stuff costs to replace now.
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@SynAck Man, I'm pretty envious of that. I have no idea what happened to mine, or any of my old Transformers for that matter.