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kalina

04:29

@JourneymanGeek boredom is quite accurate :)

also its like every 9 months I check messages

hardly an obsession :P

#weird

nobody

04:53

Okay, what?

kalina

what

nobody

I have to ask, did you just read the last six months transcripts?

kalina

I hit all of the places I used to hang out, found the search function, searched for 5 different strings and looked at the results

and then moved onto the next one

its primarily insomnia related

actually its quite sad as the years pass how few of these places even exist anymore

so many forums have just disappeared

still, definitely safer and less brain damaging than randomly browsing reddit

nobody

That depends on the subreddits you frequent

kalina

oh its not really about frequenting anything

I don't really reliably turn up anywhere anymore

reddit is just you keep clicking stuff and eventually you cause unexpected damage to yourself

nobody

05:08

Well, reddit hasn't caused me any sort of apparent damage yet. Although admittedly, I don't go there often

Mostly, when I'm bored, I just think of a random interesting topic, than google for related reddit posts, so I probably haven't seen most of the damaging stuff

kalina

oh right no when I'm bored I'm bored

looking for interesting when I'm bored is too late, that has to happen before I get bored

nobody

lol

kalina

once I get bored all bets are off and I probably need to clear my browsing history when I wake up

nobody

Whats that gonna help with?

It's not like you'll forget what you've seen

kalina

removing the evidence in case anybody else looks at my pc lol

I'm pretty good at forgetting stuff I don't need to know

and stuff I do need to know

nobody

05:12

I only forget the stuff that's useful

The useless stuff stays with me forever

kalina

my least favourite new habit is watching hours of youtube

if only there was a way for me to turn that into an income stream

nobody

I guess you could get a position as a youtube content moderator or whatever its called?

kalina

ahaha yeah but then it would probably cease being fun because of how much my brain loves procrastinating

nobody

What's even worse is, a month ago they transferred me to work on the game I was already playing, and suddenly I found myself procrastinating by playing the one I'd been assigned before. It's possible they're onto me and this is all part of the plan.

kalina

exactly that

gosh I need to do something productive

I will read my email

check twitter

right lets have a look at youtube

oh its dark

hmmm

oh its tomorrow already

today I will spend all day thinking about how tomorrow I will plan what I'm doing this weekend

nobody

05:22

my life is not much different than that. Except I don't plan anything

kalina

well it could be worse, I could be on tiktok instead

if zombies had brains would they just eat their own brains

nobody

05:37

@kalina That depends on how intelligent their brains are. If they’re too dumb, they’ll have difficulty figuring out how to extract their own brains. If they’re too smart, they’ll realize that eating their own brain is not a good idea.

kalina

ah my day has devolved into watching videos of people watching videos of people watching videos

I should try sleeping again

or maybe I'll make a drink to counteract how cold it is

7 hours later…

ThoriumBR

12:25

and some random guy made a trebuchet that can launch small steel spheres at 400m/s...

How to Build a Supersonic Trebuchet

►

sounds like a gunshot when it launches

@kalina I know how you feel...

A. Hersean

12:47

What could go wrong?

ThoriumBR

I am thinking "what if he scale it up to throw steel spheres as big as bowling balls?"

the sheer force of it would be deadly dangerous...

he could compete with spinlaunch: the trebulaunch...

I know it isn't possible to launch anything at orbital speeds with a trebuchet... sadly...

troubleshoot a script you made 6 months ago is too easy? need more challenge? get a 2 yo and sit on your lap while you debug!

Fire Quacker

13:10

4 or 5 mo can be a lot easier to keep calm while doing other things

Once they learn to talk and learn that computers are for watching YouTube, it becomes hard to do anything else... "I wanna watch a video!"

I bet you could make it work out if you narrated your hunt through the code with an interesting voice

Depends on the 2 yo, though... There is quite a large range of what 2 year olds can be like.

kalina

@ThoriumBR or a dog

ThoriumBR

he was sleepy, I put him in bed and he slept for 30 minutes and went back... he got in my lap for 30 minutes, slept again, I put him back in bed and got back to my chair, and he was by my side before I had time to grab my headphones...

he wants to play with the mouse, and I have an unplugged xbox controller with more buttons so he keeps playing with it

he loves to type, so when I am afk I have to lock the screen

he once wrote gibberish on the team slack channel and my manager asked me in private if I posted passwords on an open channel and if so, I would have to contact security

ThoriumBR

13:47

my bank manager sent me a prospect for an investment, and it says that "persons that don't read and understand the prospect should not invest"... ok, let me read the prospect... and it's 599 pages long. the summary is 9 pages long.

3 hours later…

ThoriumBR

16:17

I am installing a free game from epicgames, and I always install then on my external drive, it's the default install location... But my drive was unplugged and it was going to install to the default location, and it does not find the drive and gives an error message:
MD-OS-F

I know I have to plug the dtive, but come on, what in Netware name is that error message?

nobody

16:43

@ThoriumBR Come on, you can't expect it to swear at you explicitly. After all, children might play the game. They had to abbreviate the swearing.

ThoriumBR

hahahaha

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