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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I assume the route calculations happen on device as they work in offline mode, but that doesn’t explain sending me the objectively slower way when it knows what the traffic is like

    Also my alternate route passes more businesses, meaning it’s not some “well advertise to him” bullshit

    I turned OFF the “prefer eco routed” setting thinking it might be that, but no dice


  • Yeah, about 2 months ago I noticed it no longer recommending a slightly alternate route on my way to work that lets me bypass a potentially 20-minute red light (bad light timing)

    If I turn and do it myself it goes “oh shit you right” and gives me an updated ETA and shows the route, but it WONT show the expected slowdown anymore and WONT even suggest the alternate route


  • To the nearest convenience store: 2.3mi / 3.7 km

    To the nearest chain supermarket: 9mi / 14km (not actually a chain store, it’s a small grocery in a small rural town)

    To the bus stop: lol, I don’t think any of the cities near me bother with that, nor would they be useful to me

    To the nearest park: 5mi / 8km (lake, about a 5 minute drive)

    To the nearest big supermarket: 14mi / 22km

    To the nearest library: 9mi / 14km

    To the nearest train station: 51mi / 82km (and this station doesn’t service any location I couldn’t get to faster than driving, even across country. Because AMTRAK is shit. I know because I’ve done it before)

    This is in central CA, not far at all from the Capitol, Sacramento. For being the 5th biggest economy in the world our capitol is pathetic



  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldLingering damage
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    6 days ago

    Always makes me wonder what other people do to their houses to fuck them up so bad.

    They installed the carpet with the seam down the middle of the living room at my place, then said it was my fault the seam started peeling

    Same place tried to charge me for 119 plastic window slats. When I asked my old neighbor (same unit type, 1 floor up) I counted 43 total

    I sent them proof of all of this along with the bill for my security deposit and another bit of maintenance I had in writing they’d fix and never did, they suddenly decided to stop hounding me for the bill but never paid. Wasn’t enough to bother in small claims on my end, sadly


  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoGames@lemmy.worldhow is final fantasy XVI
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    9 days ago

    Gameplay: watered-dowm DMC + watered-down FFXIV. You’ll be spamming a base combo and using “rotations” as they pop. It can be a little more.complicated than that but even normal raid tiers in FFXIV require more thought than any fight in FFXVI

    Story: couldn’t tell ya, gameplay was so shit I sincerely regretted buying the game physically, as I was too lazy to return to the store to return it in time





  • My parents both openly smoked weed in front of my from a young age. I was told that as long as I was home by curfew and didn’t come home in a cop car they were fine with me doing basically whatever cuz they knew I wasn’t a complete moron (my dad worked in the school system and knew all the ACTUAL problem children really well, they hated me because of that so I never got to be a hoodlum lol), though my nugs WERE taken from me at 15 because “you were dumb enough to let us catch you with it” which is fair but I say they were out and bumming off of me without saying so lol

    As for sex I got a quick talk about using a condom after my dad caught my GF and I doing it, but otherwise it was left mostly unsaid cuz my sex Ed wasnt trash



  • Ill add something I’ve never really seen anyone mention: it used to be a lot better at staying on topic without ME keeping it that way

    For example: this weekend I was playing Blops 3 and googled shit like “Winslow accord bo3” and after 1-3 searches I could just type shit related to bo3 and even if it had relevant pages related to other shit, it’d remember my recent searches and keep them rather relevant even if it was on my phone or a new window rather than the same search bar

    At least, it used to work that way. Now every 4-5 searches it suddenly forgets what tangent I was on and I have to start adding qualifiers again to get relevant searches


  • One time I was playing modded Skyrim when it froze/crashed at the loading screen

    So I summon task manager, it hides behind the frozen game. I alt+tab and start blind keying to Skyrim to end it, been here hundreds of times, but nothing happens and the Skyrim world music STARTS???!!!

    ALT+TAB to see TM and Skyrim both reporting non-responsive. Tab to Skyrim and press w, clearly hear character moving and reacting to my input

    Try again to end process via ALT+F4, No dice. Try via TM, still unresponsive

    I had to reboot my PC with a hard power button press that time and I still don’t fully understand what the FUCK happened





  • They could have a community center or a library. Sure funds are hard to come by but what kind of political party would even consider that?

    Funny enough here in the rural parts of CA I’ve seen Raleys and Holiday Markets putting in large community areas with amenities like cheap (sometimes free) printers, office space, children’s areas, etc.

    They’re not perfect or anything but its wild to see capitalist behemoths pull off something actually close to what the ideal would be, even if it’s likely to manipulate people somehow

    Make it law that communities with a dollar general or fuck it any grocery store we all have to eat have a community center of halfway decent quality in it like those places have done willingly and you’ll have an improvement, guaranteed



  • I carefully got what I expected my party to get through for their first few sessions as maps into Roll20, fog of war so that they can only see what they’d reasonably have seen so far themselves, mood music set to play when going to the appropriate screens, snacks, and a big ass black cloak and evil laugh. Really went all out with it.

    The people I first did it for ghosted me and when I went by their house later that night (parents lived down the street) everyone’s cars were there

    I still do whenever I get groups that want to play, but it always makes me feel like I’m wasting my time now :(