Had time to do another livestream tonight. I figured I would save video work for tomorrow after I get home. I wanted to run more stream tests, and found that 6000 kbps wasn’t enough for what I was wanting to do. I’ve since up’d it to 10000 and that seems sufficient for 1080p 60fps. I’ll probably stream some more during my vacation, possibly even new things I haven’t tried before… at least out in the open.
I never left, but I’m back
Sorry I haven’t posted much lately. I’m finally having a day off, and my head feels much clearer. I even celebrated by having a livestream with friends. I wanted to do something a little more sociable rather than Skyrim this evening, and goofing around in Sandbox with some buddies sounded like a good romp. We visited a couple custom maps, one is a near perfect recreation of Dragonsreach from Skyrim, and we also visited an extended version an abstract map. We also did some watermelon science during our stay in Dragonsreach. I managed to get myself infected with a watermelon virus (and no, that’s not why I have amazing melons in the thumbnail). I thought only NPC’s could catch it, but apparently once you contract the watermelon virus it will either cause you to shit out watermelons, or cause you to explode into watermelons. :rick:
It was nice to have a calm day where nothing went wrong… and hopefully I’ll have one more day just like that. :melon: Perhaps if I’m feeling good I’ll finish that one video I’ve been working on for fucking ever too! Perhaps after some other form of fucking about. :zorak:
Happy 4/20! Here are some livestreams
To celebrate 4/20 I did a couple long overdue livestreams today:
Today felt like a good day to explore and blow things up with good friends and company. I’ve been pretty much disappearing into my own world after reading and enduring my daily allowance of depression lately… there is something about being surrounded by people who think this whole thing is fake or overblown, and wanting to open the country again just to get your hair dyed canary yellow just boggles my mind. It’s also one of the reasons why I haven’t been posting much. I’ve pretty much been taking it leisurely today, because I know the next work week for me is going to be hell. They want me to work 6 days in a row, but at least I’ll have two days off in a row at the end of it. I’ve put in for my vacation (again) and hopefully I’ll stand a better chance of getting it. I’m really getting sick of that place.
Murican English Breakfast
I felt like trying out a semi-english breakfast. Here we have bacon, sausage, toast, a fried egg hiding under some toast, and tomatoes and mushrooms that were fried in the leftover bacon and sausage fat, and of course we have some British style beans that I picked up the other day. I wanted to try beans on toast and it actually isn’t that bad. I used to think they used baked beans, but they just use a tomato sauce instead, and they taste quite good on toast. I’ve made up enough to have for work tomorrow too, so that kills two birds with one stone on my to-do list.
Godspeed, you magnificent bastard.
On April 8, 2020 Rick May, who voiced the Soldier from TF2 as well as Peppy Hare from Star Fox 64 (among other roles he’s played) passed away at the age of 79 due to COVID-19. I love each character from the TF2 series, while the game is nonsensical and might not seem like much to someone who hasn’t looked into it or played it much (if at all), there is so much lore and story than you could possibly imagine, and it is really, really ridiculous. The Soldier was the only other American character out of all 9 classes (that we know of) and easily the craziest American of the two… I mean this is taken directly form the official site:
Though he wanted desperately to fight in World War 2, the Soldier was rejected from every branch of the U.S. military. Undaunted, he bought his own ticket to Europe. After arriving and finally locating Poland, the Soldier taught himself how to load and fire a variety of weapons before embarking on a Nazi killing spree for which he was awarded several medals that he designed and made himself. His rampage ended immediately upon hearing about the end of the war in 1949.
The Soldier is actually my 4th most played class (from when I actively played TF2). I think my proudest moment using him was during one of the Halloween events. I was playing on a public server with my Dad and Bro with a bunch of random people, and the opposing team had these soldiers that liked to rocket jump in the air using the practice rocket launcher (the rockets don’t harm you or anyone else, they just make it easy to jump), then parachute back down and try to either shoot you with a shotgun or hit you with a shovel. I used my Disciplinary Action to outrun them, and Direct Hit to not only rocket jump up to the payload (Helltower) but to also shoot at anyone around me (the Direct Hit is basically a Rocket Launcher that requires the accuracy of a sniper rifle, you have to be dead on in order to get a hit which in most cases is deadly) and sending us all to hell to race for the Bombinomicon, the two soldiers on the other team were both pissed and confused that I got past them, and inevitably my team won the round.
Rest In Peace, and thank you for voicing such an amazing character. If it hadn’t been for COVID-19 he would have still been working to this day. You can argue that he was old, and that he would have probably died from something else, but that isn’t the point. Him, like many people, are dying from something that could have been better handled if we actually had a government and people that could take it seriously… but that’s for a whole other post entirely.
Apocalyptic Food Blogging!
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a food post. With everything being insane lately I haven’t had much time to really make anything proper… I’ve been having some special instant ramens, and of course still doing the overnight oats for breakfast, but for afterwork lunches I’ve pretty much been too tired to make anything from scratch. I was craving something like an egg tomato flower soup, so this got to be both my breakfast and dinner. Composed of egg, tofu, ham, and a chicken ramen broth with tomatoes, red bell pepper, mushrooms, and a mix of Miso and Korean Chile Paste with some Japanese Udon. Sadly I had nothing resembling an onion to use or I would have added one, but it was still good. Not bad for not following a recipe anyway.
One of the interesting things I’ve learned from the current pandemic is that a lot of people are having to learn how to cook now due to restaurants being closed, or not being able to get takeout for any reason. If you do a basic online search you’ll find people posting about having to learn how to cook, or places to find online classes. I’m just thankful that I can still buy food and randomly put things together to resemble something looking like a meal. I still have plenty left over to last me a few days.
Easter Open Thread
Happy Easter! We enjoyed a nice dinner this evening after a surprisingly peaceful day of work… fortunately none of there were fewer members of the fuckwad brigade trudging around today, probably gave themselves the holiday off.
I went Easter egg hunting, but in AMID EVIL, and the Easter eggs were actually just souls of the damned, but that’s fine as they seem to give me the same sugar high. I’m thinking I’ll just take it easy tomorrow, my muscles feel about as tired as everything else… these last few nights I’ve slept without moving an inch… I think I’ve nodded off about three times trying to finish this up. :zorak:
It’s looking like I’ll have to delay the site move to May. I have a couple days off lined up next week, unfortunately it’s looking like it’ll be another busy week.
I hope everyone else is staying safe and having a good meal among loved ones, be it near or far.
If It Weren’t For My Store Sanctioned P95 I Wouldn’t Have Angered Store Management
A few years ago we had a fire that was 6 about miles out of town as the crow flies; transforming the air into a dark, hellish sky that would only allow us visuals of a red sun or moon every so often, in what was otherwise a smoky unforgiving abyss. There were days where I would go to work and you couldn’t see 20ft in front of you because of all the smoke. In order to make my job easier (read: not pass out on the floor) the company that I work for issued me a P95 mask (I originally wanted to pay for it myself but my boss offered on behalf of the company, which was a kind gesture), with COVID-19 becoming more and more serious, plus having to work and live around people (and pets) that could be susceptible to it if I drug it home somehow, I figured it was time to ride with the mask again.. that was until I found out that I can’t anymore. :zorak: Why you may ask?
I’ve been pulled aside and told by the main store manager, that the store sanctioned P95 mask I received is against store policy… Let me repeat that for some of you that may have missed that the first time. I’ve been pulled aside… by the head honcho who is in charge of micromanaging all of the micromanagers, to tell me that the store sanctioned P95 mask that was given to me… IS AGAINST STORE POLICY. HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN WORK?!?!?!?!?!
In case you haven’t noticed lately, or haven’t read my posts in awhile… I’ve been under a lot of stress to the point of wanting a throw a 65″ television at someone’s face while plugged into power. My work partner is out on stress leave because of how much management is slow walking safety procedures such as using masks and not even paying attention to social distancing guidelines, and he takes care of his elderly parents and brother with COPD. Another manager is out due to being a high risk (medical problems and medication that leaves her with a vulnerable immune system). Those were the only two people higher up in the chain that had… any form of sanity in them. To everyone else you wouldn’t know we were having a pandemic.
Tomorrow morning when I go in I’ll be handing my mask back to the manager who gave it to me and thank him. It just pisses me off that I’ve sacrificed things like my time off to work while someone else is on stress leave doing what used to be the work of three separate people, while also being pulled wherever they want me to be, and working to the best of my ability and even going as far as changing my schedule to help more and get things done faster, just to be forced to jump through these stupid assed hoops provided to me by who I would otherwise consider a walking tumor of a human being. as someone who might have a network of tumors in his head.
I’m getting to a point where I might have to contemplate getting a hold of my doctor to get a note to go out on stress leave. I really don’t want to, I’ve never been in a situation where I would even THINK I would have to take a break… but these people are sucking the life out of me while also wanting me to sacrifice my well being and personal time just so they can get shit done and make sales… because that’s totally worth sacrificing people and pets over. It would be really unfortunate though given that I’m the only other person who knows how to run the department and where things are kept, or what keys to use to access what products.
If anyone gets COVID-19 at work I really hope the upper brass gets a taste… If you’re going to put my livelihood at risk or possibly becoming a carrier (if I’m not already) or catching it myself then you’ve earned a permanent spot on my shit list, and karma has a really bad habit of coming back around… and these people, much like a lot of people in this town and throughout the country are about to get some serious karma.
YOU WAKE TO FIND YOURSELF IN A DARK ROOM!!!!
Posting for humor tonight to forget another shitty day. This is basically a live action text based comedy show about finding your way out of a dark room. Hilarity ensues.
ASUS Tech Support Says The Darndest Things
One of the key things I’m looking for in a laptop right now is a minimum of three hard drive bays. My current laptop has two NVMe slots and one SATA. I’m looking at a couple of good candidates for upgrading to, but the problem is the online documentation for these models isn’t exactly clear on how many drive bays come with each laptop, as there are different revisions of a particular model out there that have different things like screen size, the amount of RAM it comes with by default, etc. If I look up any motherboard I can immediately find information on its home website (even ASUS), but when it comes to their laptops you really have to dig on these newer models to figure out which revision comes with what, and nothing of what I read online in their manuals or in disassembly videos has given me an idea of a drive layout. I contacted ASUS via email to inquire about upgrading…
Hello,
I am interested in upgrading from a G752VT to a GL702VS, and I currently have two NVMe drives and an SSD that I would like to move over to a new laptop. How many m2 slots does the GL702VS have?
Thank you.
Over 24 hours had buzzed by, and I get this gem as a response (Note: I changed the reference number):
Hello ***********,
Thank you for your response. My name is David S. I appreciate the time out you have taken to notify us of your concern and I apologize for any inconvenience caused. I’m grateful to be able to further address this matter with you. I have escalated your query to our senior engineers for more information. Please allow 1 – 2 business days for feedback.
Thank you for the opportunity to address this matter with you. We value you as an important ASUS customer, and we want to ensure your experience with us is fulfilling.
If you have any other questions, comments or concerns please feel free to reach out to us again. Thanks for contacting ASUS support.
Please make note of your case number for future reference: XXX666XXXX
Regards,
David S.ASUS Product Support
Concern? The only concern I have is in this overall response… did they even bother to read what I wrote? Why are they responding to me as if I have a broken laptop? All I wanted to know was how many drives that laptop could hold in its fucking badonkadonk case.
What’s even more concerning is getting this exact same email again this afternoon… wtf?