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Karen’s Are Important People

This is indeed an unpopular opinion!

But I've worked in fast food so I cannot in good conscience agree with it. I have some appreciation for assertive people with legitimate complaints, but "Karen's" as we know them are not that. They tend towards illegitimate and illogical complaints because they seem to feel entitled to get what they want, sometimes regardless of what they specifically asked for.

Nevertheless it's a hospitality workers endless burden to deal with these types. I understand the specific merits of what your post outlines, I just don't like it 🙂

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An Attempt at less scary gas masks

I remember reading a comment about this when it was posted elsewhere a while back. They said at the time that the mask was actually not as creepy as we think it is now. We have generations of people that have grown up watching horror movies and playing video games like FNAF that have altered our perception of creepy. In the same way clowns used to not be creepy. The comment also mentioned that since Mickey was a beloved icon for children it actually comforted them to wear a mask in that form. Also it's worth noting that there were much more horrific things occurring daily for them so this was probably quite tame in comparison.

This comes from someone else who heard about it from their grandparents so take it with a grain of salt, but it wasn't necessarily a scary thing for them at the time.

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Another Layer

Just use whatever words you feel like. Unless you're trying to use the most complex words possible at all times, no one really cares. At best people will think you're eloquent. At worst, snobbish. But if they think that, then fuck em, who cares. Don't get hung up on the way you sound. That'll just breed insecurities

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Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed

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As typical as it is for the current indie game dev climate, making a 'Vampire Survivors' type game is probably a really good starting point for game development. 2D games are somewhat easier to make than 3D ones, so a 2D roguelike could be fun (but get's very complex very quickly) or a old-school Zelda styled game would also be pretty cool in my opinion while remaining fairly simple.

Here's are a couple other avenues to learn off the top of my head:

  • Follow along with one or two of the large amount of tutorials they have for the engine and adding new features and gameplay mechanics to them when you feel like it.

  • Think of a cool but simple idea and try to execute it yourself through trial and error, referencing the online docs and asking questions to the Godot game dev community.

It can be super daunting as there is a lot to learn. Try to learn by working on something that you yourself think is fun and that'll keep you more motivated :)

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Is it worth closing the lid on a toilet before flushing?

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I saw the same or a very similar video.

Someone once tried to argue against it by saying it still got the droplets in the air with the lid closed so there's no point. My counterargument was that it still contained a lot of the droplets by closing it and that it's the most minor of inconveniences to close it so you should just do it anyways.

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[How is your day going?]

Was feeling alright this morning with a decent amount of energy. Starting exercising again on my work break but my office is not cooling me down enough.

Currently running a program (software dev) that's taking ages to finish so I feel like I'm not putting in enough effort but can't do much about it.

Going to paint some miniatures and play BG3 when I get home which is always good.

Overall I'd say pretty decent and an improvement over my last week :) Just trying to make small improvements to my daily life helps in a big way.

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Silly noob question, but...like, why aren't revenants undead?

It might be due to creatures with the undead trait die immediately at 0 HP (not to dying 1 condition). So they might have wanted a similar vibe to actual creature revenants but without removing player character survivability. Also the actual undead heritage you are referring to gets Basic Undead Benefits which notably stops them from dying at 0hp immediately, but also gives immunity to death effects and better vision, undead hunger etc. On the other end, an Undead heritage cannot have stabilize cast on them but a revenant can, undead are destroyed if they die so cannot be brought back to life again, whereas the Revenant can keep being brought back to life and become Revenant^2^ I guess.

So the Revenant background gives some aspects of the undead without giving all the full blown benefits of an entire heritage option and not as many drawback either. I'm seeing it now as Revenant == Undead-lite.