#just me being a whiny baby

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Y'know I feel like I'm the only one on the planet who enjoys video games because they LOOK FUN. Like I'm SUPER excited for the new Assassin's Creed: Shadows game, and all I see is people bitching about the graphics (which like, this game isn't out until November??), or the length being possibly too long (which boggles my mind... I pay 80-90$ CAD for PS5 games... if I can get a game to last me 200 hours, that's money well-spent to me??), or the voice acting??? But no one, and I mean NO ONE ever says "that game looks fun".

I have never played a Star Wars game ever. But the new Outcasts game?? It looks fun, I WANT to play it! I don't care about frame rates... I care about "can I put more than 50 hours into this game? and enjoy it".

I remember when Sonic Frontiers came out, and I was SO excited, but everyone bitched about the pop-in and "it looks unfinished". But like... can I run across an entire map at super-sonic speed and have a blast doing it?? YEP. I love Sonic Frontiers.

The new Dragon Age trailer came out. People are bitching about the graphics in that. Uhmmm what?? It looks fun as hell. I'm pumped for Veilguard.

I dunno. Sorry, I'm just super upset because like, I was SO excited watching the Ubisoft Forward yesterday, and then I made the mistake of scrolling down to the chat. Everyone shat on all the games that looked fun that were single player, but got excited for the same old BS multiplayer, live-service, COD-clone, FPS snorefest games! Ugh. Single player games are the shiz! I've put 253 hours into the Witcher 3. 227 into Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen, 61 hours into Sea of Stars!!! Because I had a blast and I don't want them to end!! (Valhalla is still my record at over 450 hours LOL)

I get it, gamers are passionate. I'm passionate about games too!! I just often wonder when people stopped enjoying games because they're fun and instead want to essentially spend 90$ on a movie. *shrugs* Meh. Whatevs.

Sorry, I needed to vent because I feel so alone in my love of video games JUST because they're fun. Anyone else love AC because it's AC??? I've played both the new and old games, and I love all of them because they were FUN.

[daeyumi]

i think uh. the Announcement has ruined my night actually. the more i think abt it the worse it gets haha.. 🙃🫠 like literally i don’t think there’s a way the movie can be good. i’m gonna get off social media for tonight & go play switch or smthn,,,,,,,,

[socially-awkward-skeleton]

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[greyias]

My internet woes continue, which is very much a first world problem, but one that may make me have to like... actually drive into the office all five days a week (which is just... ugh) if this doesn't get resolved soon.

Now the good news is I don't have a complete internet outage, and when it deigns to actually connect (and not just time out), I have my full speed. The problem is just that... it likes to drop out. Like constantly.

I'm sad to report that I almost indulged my inner-Karen around noon, because after dealing with tech support for nearly an hour (in which I eventually had to connect my laptop to my phone's hotspot so the chat wouldn't get disconnected and boot me back to the beginning of the process), I got the tech repair appointment that was unceremoniously cancelled last week without any warning rescheduled. Before I disconnected the chat I was asking "what are my options if this suddenly gets cancelled again", and the poor agent who is definitely not paid enough to deal with my ass says "don't worry, it won't happen again". I get a text message confirmation of the repair appointment.

All is well.

...and then fifteen minutes later I get a follow-up text message from AT&T that mysteriously there's an "outage" in my area again, and the appointment is put on hold. I log in to my web portal. It says my appointment is on hold because there's an outage.

I scroll down to see the local outages, it's reported as all clear! But diagnostics has found an issue.

You can understand my confusion. Among other strong emotions.

My eye starts to twitch as I hop back into chat, go through the virtual assistant death spiral until I can get a hold of an actual person so I can beg to get my appointment back and they're like "I can't do that there's an outage in your area", and that eye twitch starts get a little out of hand. I am practically begging for the person on the other end to just please, please restore my appointment. There is no outage. I've pulled up the map, it's literally three miles to my northeast, nowhere in my vicinity.

She offers me a partial credit while I am already madly dialing in to talk to someone live, so I can descend into full Karen mode and demand to speak to a manager. I am not proud of myself in this moment, but I am at least still in possession of enough tact to be polite and tactful to the person who picks up the phone (after being on hold for about 10 minutes. No automated messaging system, I will wait with the hold music thank you. I do not have any trust a real person will call me back).

I finally get a real person on the phone and am like "please, please just restore my tech appointment. Please don't make me have to go into the office 5 days a week to work". I mean, in between once again explaining everything that has happened.

And finally, finally I have someone speak to me straight and explain what the hell is going on. Basically the hurricane last week actually did cause damages to various cable/infrastructure, and they're having issues tracking down what's causing a widespread issue, and also yes, I'm not the only one who's been going through this merry-go-round of tech support/intermittent connection.

There is actually no ETA on when my internet will actually be restored in full, because they honestly don't know what's causing the issue. And honestly, I'm a lot more understanding about that, because at least it's upfront and clear. He was also kind enough to actually tell me how to bypass the inane "try restarting your router through the app" 5x in a row nonsense if my issue persists after this "outage" is supposedly fixed (basically just call in again and talk to a real person).

So the TL;DR is... my Shroedinger's internet will continue for a while it seems. Pour one out for us ever finishing Greedfall on stream in a timely manner.

[demcnsinmymind]

so many of my mutuals that I've had some really cool stuff going with have gone so quiet/offline entirely for months and it really do be starting to feel so incredibly lonely tbh. Some of you obviously are still there and I am still talking with some people and definitely got some threads that get me ever so giddy and excited as ever, but those have gotten so sparse. And when I look at my dash and see some of the new moots active all the time and I'm liking and replying and memeing my heart out on everyone but with all the old moots gone and my activity feed basically looking like this

I'm really starting to feel lonely af, almost like a ghost stuck in the past or something. I just miss the old mutuals so much, man. And I'm honestly quite at a loss what else to do at this point. Maybe I'm too annoying with all the engagement on my part, sending memes and liking posts, but I'm genuinely just loving the absolute crap out of letting people know that I see them on my dash and love seeing them there and that I read all the stuff and what not but idek anymore. A lot of talk to say that I miss the hell out of a lot of people. Shout out to some of the 2018 OGs though. Also some of the new folks too, you're writing me into a corner with your quality and you're literally keeping my sanity and comfort level alive at this point.

[e77y]

Glad I’m starting therapy so soon after moving out ☝️ I am already feeling the helplessness and loneliness

[quietwingsinthesky]

funniest part of spn fandom is when people go “ugh i can’t STAND sam (or dean) because he’s so self-righteous and annoying and selfish and mean to his brother-” as if these are not traits that apply to them both equally. putting aside that yes, sometimes characters will be characters and have aspects of them that bring them into conflict with other characters, (even characters you might like! scary!) the show’s been off the air for like four years now, can we not all just admit at this point that 99% of brother favoritism isn’t about who they are as characters and is more about which one you find hot or which one’s daddy issues you were able to relate to more.

[chloecherrysip]

I ask the universe again, WHY must I be required to have a full-time job??? Is it not enough to simply spend one's time concocting sweet and/or angsty scenarios for two adorable plumber brothers??? Someone pay me to do that instead, please and thank you!!

[dragon-tidbits]

I wanna commission people for cute self indulgent things but my pool of potential artists is small cuz I wanna be smart with my money as I don't have a lot of excess for myself but I wouldn't know what to even get if I do get one and if all else fails I could just draw it myself but its not tHE SSAAAAAAMMMMEEE

[lecliss]

Started watching Bastard!! and I'm very pissed to find out Wendee Lee is voicing yet another black woman. Like I know she wasn't publicly racist until the (failed) Yoruichi recast last year and this came out in 2022 but like, I don't wanna fuckin hear her ever again after that.

[creaturebloom]

feeling a weird disconnect of like.

how am i supposed to do laundry when there's an active genocide going on?

[sonjabysonjamorgan]

i want 2 watch vanderpump/the valley but i have two aunts staying in my living room and i am not on a good enough work schedule this week to tolerate their commentary….

[bredforloyalty]

i don't think you ever get over that though

[bladeofthestars]

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[ceaselxss]

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[beskad]

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