ExoMonk

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[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Surely they'll just use your google account id as the identifier.

Edit: I just realized the game may not eve have that data for unity to be able to grab. Nevermind.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think people should read the actual NY Times interview because this post reads very unhinged and foaming at the mouth. So many things taken out of context and twisted to fuel a narrative.

The real interview was pretty soft but AOC was pretty clear and transparent in what she does and why.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230831054327/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/aoc-third-term-congress.html

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's different for the upper management types, but for me I am easily 3x more productive at home in < 6 hours than I ever was at 8+ hours in the office.

There are soo many distractions in the office environment we had (cubicle farm). People chatting behind me, constant noise, people coming up to my desk throughout the day to ask me something and disrupt my entire workflow.

I work in my quiet home with headphones on listening to music. When people need something from me they ping me in Teams or send an email and I get to choose when to stop my work to respond. And when I really need to focus I can throw on Do Not Disturb mode. In the office "Do Not Disturb" was me booking a conference room for myself to work in silence.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I made enough to pay for the 3080 I was mining on and heat my office in the winter at the same time.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

This is probably one of my favorite albums. Every time I hear it it brings out some latent memory of when I first got the album. I remember convincing my boss to let me take off for a bit to go buy the CD and then come back so I could listen to it at my desk while I worked the rest of the day.

I was new to living in Seattle so I listened to the almost exclusively while driving around. Hitting up jack in the box after playing arena soccer and eating a breakfast burrito in my car in the parking lot, heading to somewhere new in Ballard after work to meet up with friends for taco Tuesday. Flying down the freeway to my brother's house on Sunday to watch football. This album reminds me of freedom and adventure which is weird given the name but that's what it was for me.

Vol 3 was my favorite slipknot album before this one but it always reminded me how something happened to Corey's voice because his brutal growl was almost complete gone, despite that album being fantastic in its own right. All Hope is Gone was a return to form.

Anyway that's my story. I love this album still to this day. Thanks OP for the post.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(all the copy and paste rule of 3 quests to find three MacGuffins then SAM will figure out how to find a location for another fight).

This has been my biggest complaint as I've been going through ME:A for the first time. I have limited time/energy to play so jumping into ME:A for 2ish hours and basically accomplish nothing really hurts my motivation for the next play session.

When I first started playing it, I was really enjoying the game. It was about the 3rd planet where I had to go to 3 places to unlock a vault to do a thing that the progression loop really started to weigh me down.

The original trilogy was brilliant for me. Get in, do a couple of missions (each one progressing the story a little more) maybe get sucked into a couple more missions and go to bed excited for the next session. But ME:A is just a slog. I'm doing various loyalty missions which is a little better, but still seems to require a lot of go here, here, and here and shoot some guys and then go into here to finish up.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh so if you have an android phone with a custom rom and no play services you can't get the proton apps? That's pretty lame.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its a great indexer. This and nzbgeek and I need pretty much nothing else

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just started the show earlier this week and just finished season one. I really like it!

It brings back some of the flavor of TNG where it's more about exploration and diplomacy, but keeps some of the "modernness" of the Star Trek movies. Graphics, set design, wardrobe are all fantastic. I love the crew, everyone feels unique and authentic. It's been a lot of fun.

I don't have that "omg I need to watch the next episode" thing which IMO is a good thing because I can watch a couple episodes and then go to bed at a reasonable time. The episodes don't leave you on cliffhangers, each one wraps up nicely.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Final Fantasy 7 when Aeries dies. I was a teen then and it was the first RPG I ever played and the first time I experienced a main character just die and is gone from the game.

I don't think I experienced anything like that again until maybe Destiny 2 when Cayde died. Little different with that though as they should his death in a live stream about the launch of that DLC. Had a different impact but had to be done since the entire premise of that DLC was getting revenge so couldn't hide it from the promo materials.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation!

The funny thing (or sad thing depending on how you look at it) is that at the age of 37 I'm not that young, but there's a lot of music out there I have little to no exposure to. Music hasn't been a huge part of my upbringing despite all of my brothers being musicians; I was always a movie/tv/game kid. These days I trend towards heavy metal and some rap (depending on the artist).

You're right though, that video is the most 80's thing I've ever seen. I can see a montage of 80's music flowing through my head when I was listening to it.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Read through the post, OP mentioned a few times that this isn't about a phone war. It's just one persons experience going from Android to iPhone; what worked well and what didn't.

I think a lot of folks have picked an ecosystem and never strayed from it; seeing a post like this helps fill the gaps of their curiosity. Being exposed to other people's experiences and experience a change yourself is a good thing.

At the end of the day phones are just tools to help you go about your day to day. We don't have to foam at the mouth over a discussion like this. iPhones are very good devices and have great synergy with other Apple devices and apps. Android is a very customizable experience which has many great phones at very good prices. You can't go wrong with either IMO.

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