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SuperJail Warden wrote:

I decided to take my work Gmail off of my personal phone. The new cellphone policy says the teachers aren't allowed to use their phones. So I have no reason to have that on my phone and maintain communication with the district outside of work. I am cutting off work outside of work hours and shrinking my availability.

a blessing in disguise, then. if they say anything, kindly suggest they stop firing off emails during your students' time.

it's an unreasonable restriction. family emergency? better wait until after math.

sounds good on paper. "non-distracted students pay attention in class!" until we remember kids weren't paying attention in class even before the advent of smartphones and handhelds. teachers shouldn't have to be social police for the politicians.

let teachers teach. teach people how to learn, how to study, and why before showering them with a bunch of crap that takes over their day until like 10pm.

paying for both is wild

Except it was the boomers making the calls for someone else to get stuff done while they were sitting on a beach eyeing up under-age third-worlders.

Uzi what's the gen z slang like in Japan?

warcraft: forever announced.

like the surprise announcement of ‘classic’, coinciding with the covid lockdown years, blizzard seem adept at repackaging their original - and best - crack recipe and reselling it to their increasingly addled fan base.

how much i want to disappear into that game again, it’s genuinely an opiate. they know the exact right dopamine levers to press to get that hazy-woozy dreamlike nostalgia going again in the synapses of your brain. what do you mean, from november 2026 i can once again feel exactly
as i felt in november 2006? what witchcraft is this?!

and yet …

i can see the utility, if a cheap winter is on the cards or desirable. nice to stay in and do something wholesome. but, yeah ... whew. hard to justify spending that sort of time in a videogame now.

I think unfortunately the joy of video games has passed me by. I can't see myself justifying 4 hour blocks of video game time these days, and I just don't get the same enjoyment out of them that I used to.

I might fire up some RDR2 one of these days just to see if I still have that itch

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

I think unfortunately the joy of video games has passed me by. I can't see myself justifying 4 hour blocks of video game time these days, and I just don't get the same enjoyment out of them that I used to.

I might fire up some RDR2 one of these days just to see if I still have that itch

RDR2 was basically the last game i played, and an about-turn for me in that i actually sunk a decent amount of time into a single-player game. my teenaged self wouldn't have seen the point in spending 100 hours to 'achieve' something in an isolation chamber. with few exceptions of course, like the half life games and so on.

i also can't imagine ever buying or assembling a gaming pc again. not to mention, the culture itself has moved on in so many ways. all these revivals and reskins are trying to conjure up a lost world that goes way beyond what is technically achievable. people interact with the game itself in a more dischanted, 'sweaty', min-max way now. a lot of the charm of old MMORPGs was that basically 80% of people had no idea WTF they were doing. their gameplay wasn't optimized for performance. they were stumbling around in the dark, as if in a text-based MUD, trying to figure out the rules and which direction to go in. nowadays, especially thanks to youtube and discord and streaming and all the infrastructure around it, these games are basically solved rubicks cubes and everyone is trying to get as much juice out of the squeeze as is possible. not fun.

Who has the attention span these days to manage 4 hrs of twitch-blasting, let alone strategising?
Are clans still a thing?
Seems the vast right-wing conspiracy to fragment society into a collection of isolated dopamine-hit addicted individuals is working.

speaking of, g600 is still really good all around. won't win any minmaxed, twitchy, extreme dpi rocket sniping quake contests with it, but it's been consistently good enough. that keypad and the top buttons get their use. baked in tap to handily toggle through multiple sensitivity presets, chef's kiss. the numberpad is nice to keep from having to stretch my hand all the way from wsad or arrows to the number bar, but i usually assign it to different stuff per-game. or app. left and right mousewheel click gives some passing semblance of 3d if you don't want to use a trackball. "you won't use this because it's for mmos" lol.

the software is pretty stable at this point as well.

i've had a couple of these now, with a third remaining in its box somewhere, i think (good sale years back). maintenance could have been made easier. why they thought it was a good idea to put the screws under the pads is beyond me. a mess to remove, a mess to put back. removing and reapplying glue. blech. the mousewheel basin is a bit of a catch-all for crud and there's only so much you can do with rubbing alcohol and a few good spins, or compressed air. the rubber grips are usually the first thing to wear out in any sort of mouse, i think. would definitely recommend putting a beefier cable boot on this (or most mice). kink and fray-prone.


heinous. not my mouse rn, thank goodness. may as well just get a sheet of it and cut new strips.

a suite of features, but discontinued without a real spiritual successor. i wish companies wouldn't keep binning good flagship stuff like this. we were on a good road with force feedback. what happened to joysticks that can buck from your hands? now we have gamepads with sad little buzzers. the haptics of the 2000s are gone. enshittified. LOST TECHNOLOGY!

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