I have an assignment due at midnight. It’s quarter past 11. Fml.
I already got an extension on it and is bound to be overdue. I need a certain average to keep the option of getting into honours open but I’ve already fucked up and let the shit I’ve gone through fuck me up. There’s always the option of pursuing research later down the line if that’s what I want to do.
Maybe it would be better if I went to sleep and got up early to work on it, taking the 10%.
I have another assignment due on Monday. I have had so much time to do them but I’ve spent all this time wallowing in self-pity. I am so mad at how I’ve let this stuff affect me. Another failed uni semester!
Don’t let guys get in the way of study. A good guy never will.
The worst will interrupt you all the time so you can’t get anything done. Will make drama that distracts you from your aim. Might even get nasty and sabotage you if you persist. Might start using put downs.
An example of subtle sabotage is organising an event when you have classes or work to do and expects you to come.
Do not blame yourself. If he is out the house and you are in no danger be done with him and get to work.
Ugh. I really want to like paradox games, at least based on the description, most of the game they publish are right up my alley. But it also feels like they only make games to sell DLCs for them, which sort of kills my enjoyment. Like cities skylines, I should really really really like, hell I have 30 hours on it, I want to like it. But I just don’t enjoy it. It feels like no matter how much I spend on it, there’s always more that should’ve been in the base game but wasn’t. Millenia and Victoria 3 I want to buy, but they seem like the same story.
Victoria 3 (a $70 game) has a $40 DLC releasing in a month that includes a bunch of stuff I just assumed would’ve been included in the base game, like you can nationalise your assets… In a country simulator… For an extra $40… I don’t think I’m going to buy cities skylines 2, partly because of price, but also because it’s probably going to cost like 2 grand to actually own all the different parts of the game, just like the first one.
I know that to continue receiving game updates, game studios need a way of continuos monetisation, and it’s unfair to expect them to provide years of updates for a $40 upfront fee. But the way paradox does their DLC just feels tacky and like a cashgrab. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind paying even $80 for a fully fledged, actually enjoyable, city builder if it included everything I’d need to play and enjoy the game in that price.
/Rant
Edit: Nacon seem dodgy too. They’ve published a lot of “life” games that seem to get abandoned after a few months when they move on to the next project. I want to buy Chef Life, which does have good reviews, but there’s a train Sim they made called train life which was abandoned half finished 6 months in. Taxi life has mixed reviews. garden life has positive reviews overall, but mixed reviews recently. The Devs don’t seem to be acknowledging or fixing critical bugs, so that’s probably abandoned too, and that was literally released less than 2 months ago. I want to buy Chef Life, but I don’t want to put 100 hours into a game just to have my save file wiped because the Devs can’t be arsed to fix bugs
In the first episode of Invincible there is an ink painting of bamboo in Nolan and Debbie’s house with the Japanese characters/word for Totoro, not the words for bamboo. Obviously a homage to Miyazaki.
What a terrible shock, I did not win Powerball. At least I am not alone, no one else won either. Sorry pets, unfortunately you shall have to remain treatless ☹️
I usually figure the chance of someone randomly giving me a winning ticket are not that different to the chance of winning by buying one, so I choose to save my money instead. But occassionally I feel I should buy a ticket, just in case all the laws of physics and mathematics are just for show and we are living in some Matrix like simulation or in a fake world created by some sort of deity, who has decided due to my absolute wonderfulness that I should be rewarded with riches the next time I buy a ticket. Every time I discover nope, the statistics were right.
You can beat those pesky statistics! You just need to increase your chances. A $27 Powerhit ticket for example increases your odds of winning from one in 134,490,400 to one in 45,379,620! You’re guaranteed the powerball. How awful would you feel to get all seven numbers and not the powerball.
In fact, you could go all the way! Simply buy 45,379,620 powerhit tickets and you are guaranteed a Division one winning ticket. In fact, it’s so easy I’m amazed that nobody has thought of doing this before!
Amazing plan, I’ll do that for next week. All those people at work with their $50 a share syndicate and their “but you’ll feel so awful if we win” will be so jealous.
Locke and Key, Netflix. Billed as the next Narnia, it was not even close. Not really a kid’s show, not really an adult’s show either. Might have been a lot better if it was all done from the kid’s perspective. 2 hobbits.
The Long Trench, Netflix. Life under Franco’s fascism. So many lives wasted.
Please think hard who you vote for at the next election.
So people are camped out at Melbourne Uni because they don’t like their relationship with Lockheed Martin.
From what I’ve read the relationship amounts to a few million in research funding to Melbourne Uni for non military related purposes. i.e. powerline management and first responder technology.
Even if Melbourne Uni cut ties and rejected funding it would make 0 difference to the conflict.
So either there’s something I don’t know, or the protesters aren’t very smart and/or mentally ill.
Had to battle the ring road at peak hour this afternoon. Haven’t had to do it in a long time and can report it’s as stuffed as ever. Glad its not a daily commute. Dinner saved the day, lamb cutlets, mash and veg followed by an apple crumble.
Oh, that is not fun. I was on it the other day and experienced the once car per green light entry system for the first time, then got to sit in very slow traffic banked up from the Greensborough Hwy exit.
No one happens to have a resin 3d printer? I can’t get replies from any of the facebook ads for it. I’m looking to print a DnD mini, pro places seem to want $50+ for it, I can get it posted from hero forge for that, and I don’t want to spend that much.
I’m not sure about specifically resin, the public ones are usually plastic, but I do know that there are makerspaces that will allow you to print something small for free. There was one in Hawthorn near Swinburne due to the techy students there
I have decided today is the day to buy a lottery ticket (an event that only happens once every few years). If I win 100 million in Poweball tonight I will buy all DT pets a treat. Plus some extra termites for Nellie.
See I’m the opposite. I don’t particularly like social situations but they don’t bother me. With tech shit I can make things disappear and then I get asked what happened and I don’t fucking know.
I have managed to find myself one of the few jobs that allow you to deal with people and not be polite - in fact sometimes being abrupt and rude can be an advantage! Being able to cut people off and focus single mindedly on getting the information you need is an asset in emergency situations.
Strongest : peopling. Also other species-ing. Mostly due to lots of practice. When I realised that tech was operated by people, a lot of things that were in the skills black hole suddenly became understandable and therefore doable. Weakest : I am the world’s WORST procrastinator. Particularly when it comes to my personal lifestyle. I really do have to prioritise life admin, and quite a lots of things are a lot further down the list compared to almost everyone else I know. Also not a film/movie/tv person - just the wrong format for me. When forced to watch a ‘show’, I have a strong temptation to heave half a brick through the screen. No matter what the show is. Haven’t actually done that yet, but give me time.
Weakest link : getting sick (no one to help me really and feeling very alone and isolated)
Strongest link: will and determination (quitting the top 3 most addictive substances on earth by myself and making a somewhat normal life without giving up)
I’m atrocious at sports and physical activities. I’m not handy at all. There’s a lot of stuff, particularly in more advanced math and science, that I don’t know much about. I don’t watch much TV or many movies compared to most people, and end up with little to say when the topic comes up. I know nothing about cars.
If it’s a one-on-one conversation, I tend to ask questions about whatever it is.
Unfortunately, this sometimes leads to them thinking I’m actually far more interested in learning about their GX-Holden-whatever than I really am, and they decide to tell me all about it next time we meet as well… 🙂
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