Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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You’re gonna have to buy a new one. The magic smoke containment failed on the one you have.
But how else will we know if they've chosen a new pope?
Dave
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GasBandit
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Me: "You know, things are going pretty well recently."
???: But what if it suddenly wasn't?
Me: "... what?"
???: What if there's something you forgot, or couldn't account for?
Me: "Well, it'd be unreasonable to expect to be able to..."
???: And then it all flies apart and comes crashing down. You entire life will unravel before your eyes and you'll be left a broken shell of a man that nobody will even bother thinking about except occasionally as "whats his name that fucked everything up then disappeared."
Me: "That sounds ridiculous and would never happen and now why does my chest hurt and why am I breathing so hard."
???: Here, let me take control for a sec, just put your brain in neutral and I'll handle all your movement and conversation for the next 45 minutes. We're gonna go to Dairy Queen and get a blizzard.
Me: "Is it just me or did the fabric of time and space just get.. blurrier?"
So that was mildly disconcerting.
???: But what if it suddenly wasn't?
Me: "... what?"
???: What if there's something you forgot, or couldn't account for?
Me: "Well, it'd be unreasonable to expect to be able to..."
???: And then it all flies apart and comes crashing down. You entire life will unravel before your eyes and you'll be left a broken shell of a man that nobody will even bother thinking about except occasionally as "whats his name that fucked everything up then disappeared."
Me: "That sounds ridiculous and would never happen and now why does my chest hurt and why am I breathing so hard."
???: Here, let me take control for a sec, just put your brain in neutral and I'll handle all your movement and conversation for the next 45 minutes. We're gonna go to Dairy Queen and get a blizzard.
Me: "Is it just me or did the fabric of time and space just get.. blurrier?"
So that was mildly disconcerting.
I just weighed myself. I'm at 252 lbs, the highest I've been since before I moved out of my parents' place.
It's my own fault. I can't stop eating garbage, I barely exercise anymore, and I just stopped caring.
I've also been more depressed than ever lately. Called in sick to work multiple times, including today. I'm not talking to anyone because what does it matter? Nothing matters. I don't have anything in my life.
It's my own fault. I can't stop eating garbage, I barely exercise anymore, and I just stopped caring.
I've also been more depressed than ever lately. Called in sick to work multiple times, including today. I'm not talking to anyone because what does it matter? Nothing matters. I don't have anything in my life.
Bought a dishwasher on Black Friday. It was $400 less than usual. They delivered today and it was so beat up, there were parts literally falling out of the bottom of it. Sent it back. Asked for another. Sold out. No more coming. Other retailers are 400-600 more than what I paid. Annoyed.
So Facebook sucks.
I'm sure everyone who uses Facebook realizes that it loves sticking random ads and suggested groups in your feed instead of actual posts and updates from your Facebook friends. I noticed this, naturally, but then I decided to game their algorithm to make it show me posts from groups dedicated to posting pictures that I'd enjoy seeing. (For the sake of discussion, let's say they're "landscape paintings".) Every time a "landscape painting" post showed up, I would tap/click on it so that the algorithm would see that I was interested in stuff like this, and it would therefore show me more "landscape painting" posts in the future. Eventually I got it to the point where I could open up Facebook, see a few updates from my Facebook friends, and then scroll through an endless collection of "landscape paintings" from a wide range of groups, all handily curated and collected for me by the algorithm.
And then apparently something changed in the last couple of days for me, because now I'm only getting Facebook friend updates in my feed, punctuated by unrelated ads. I don't care about my friends, I want "landscape paintings" dammit!
I'm sure everyone who uses Facebook realizes that it loves sticking random ads and suggested groups in your feed instead of actual posts and updates from your Facebook friends. I noticed this, naturally, but then I decided to game their algorithm to make it show me posts from groups dedicated to posting pictures that I'd enjoy seeing. (For the sake of discussion, let's say they're "landscape paintings".) Every time a "landscape painting" post showed up, I would tap/click on it so that the algorithm would see that I was interested in stuff like this, and it would therefore show me more "landscape painting" posts in the future. Eventually I got it to the point where I could open up Facebook, see a few updates from my Facebook friends, and then scroll through an endless collection of "landscape paintings" from a wide range of groups, all handily curated and collected for me by the algorithm.
And then apparently something changed in the last couple of days for me, because now I'm only getting Facebook friend updates in my feed, punctuated by unrelated ads. I don't care about my friends, I want "landscape paintings" dammit!
Yes, they do.
It's been something like ten years now and they still won't let me back into my account. Even though I know the password. And enter the code that gets sent to the email they have on file. I'm sorry that's not enough we need you to send scans of the front and back of your driver's license AWW HELL NAW.
It's fine, though. It just means I can't ever use Facebook. Or Instagram. Or an Oculus. Or WhatsApp/Threads/Messenger. I didn't need any of those things anyway.
--Patrick
Technically Oculus is not tied to Facebook anymore