What is something you never understood the hype for?
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I will also never understand the fascination with streaming. Just play the game, nerd.
It’s not just for the game, but the narration.
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Facebook.
La Croix
All the oddball fads like fidget spinners and rubber bands shaped like things.
Low fat diets.
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Working for corpos. It's a dream for most of IT people to get hired in Google or Microsoft. I guess being a worthless cog in a world-destroying machine is the top of the game these days.
As a software architect, I only target small companies. And I can do anything I fucking want, I'm currently rocking a SolidJS+TRPC+Prisma setup and life is a dream.
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Having multiple monitors. My boss now has three. One is dedicated to displaying their calendar the whole day.
Two at least. I am an accountant and constantly comparing at least two things. I have never been able to work on a laptop, need the multiple screens.
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Watching sports. Playing them, I get. Watching? Never cared for it.
I feel like this except for gymnastics, rythmic gymnastics, ice skating/dancing. Those are so entertaining.
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Mr. Beast.
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I'm a software developer, but I spent three months chucking boxes in the back of a truck for General Motors one summer. Some days, my brain is fried after six hours at my job, but the physical labor work I could do for 12 hours and walk out feeling almost refreshed.
I sometimes wish I could go through a day of work just... doing. Not wracked with indecision or trying to figure out which tradeoff I won't regret in three weeks. The idea of going into a framed house and wiring up electric all day and then going home — without ever having done it or experiencing the downsides of course— it sounds really nice.
Of course my back and joints couldn't keep up at fifty like they did at twenty-two, and I met a bunch of functional addicts working that job and I wouldn't have wanted to get swept up in that.
So the most fun I ever had at a job was the after I graduated college and worked as chef, the work was so much fun, the waitresses were hot as hell, I was young in great shape and we all got off work at 1030 went out and partied. I had sex with really sexy women. All I did for about a year and a half was work out, work and hang out.
It really was an amazing year, but there was no future in it. I often think back nostalgically to that time.
I hear you man, one of the greatest aspects was I left work at work…
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wrote last edited by [email protected]Almost anything. As a neurodivergent I seem to be mostly immune and I see the hype circles people are running in and find them bad as all distracts from the immediate issues we are having and should turn our attention to (from personal to global).
The same in most institutions and companies afaik.
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There are dozens of us!
My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don't even ask whether you watch, it's assumed you do, so they'll ask stuff like "that match yesterday was awesome, right?" or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can't comprehend someone doesn't watch hockey.
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The notion that working in the Trades is so great. Coming from a guy did a lot of construction work, trust me it can really suck… also most of the guys in that line of work are assholes.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I started an IBEW apprenticeship and was so put off by the vibe/attitude of everyone I quit in the first week. Fuck that, I don't care how much you pay me I'm not working outside in the heat getting literally and metaphorically roasted all day. If I wanted to work with toxic immature assholes I would get a fast food job.
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I'm a software developer, but I spent three months chucking boxes in the back of a truck for General Motors one summer. Some days, my brain is fried after six hours at my job, but the physical labor work I could do for 12 hours and walk out feeling almost refreshed.
I sometimes wish I could go through a day of work just... doing. Not wracked with indecision or trying to figure out which tradeoff I won't regret in three weeks. The idea of going into a framed house and wiring up electric all day and then going home — without ever having done it or experiencing the downsides of course— it sounds really nice.
Of course my back and joints couldn't keep up at fifty like they did at twenty-two, and I met a bunch of functional addicts working that job and I wouldn't have wanted to get swept up in that.
That sounds nice because you've never done it. The horrors you encounter in people's homes and the creativity you have to come up with when doing the wiring are real.
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Working for corpos. It's a dream for most of IT people to get hired in Google or Microsoft. I guess being a worthless cog in a world-destroying machine is the top of the game these days.
As a software architect, I only target small companies. And I can do anything I fucking want, I'm currently rocking a SolidJS+TRPC+Prisma setup and life is a dream.
The idea is to be a cog in which you can get lost and do minimal work while collecting a fat paycheck
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I started an IBEW apprenticeship and was so put off by the vibe/attitude of everyone I quit in the first week. Fuck that, I don't care how much you pay me I'm not working outside in the heat getting literally and metaphorically roasted all day. If I wanted to work with toxic immature assholes I would get a fast food job.
Most of my time in construction was during high school and early college and even then I recognized how many immature assholes I worked with!
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Twitter or any “microblog”.
I don’t understand why “following” a person/organisation would be interesting. I would rather follow a topic/community.
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I will also never understand the fascination with streaming. Just play the game, nerd.
I used to think this, but as I gave it a shot, I started learning new techniques in games like Overwatch. Learn from better players than me.
I also can just watch a stream of a new game and see if it's something I'd like to play. Saves me from buying a game I might not like.
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There are dozens of us!
My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don't even ask whether you watch, it's assumed you do, so they'll ask stuff like "that match yesterday was awesome, right?" or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can't comprehend someone doesn't watch hockey.
Conan O'Brien taught me how to deal with this situation decades ago.
Just say, "yeah, it was a real nailbiter!" that should buy you enough time to run away.
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The idea is to be a cog in which you can get lost and do minimal work while collecting a fat paycheck
Yup. When you're the only guy on the team, you have to do everything.
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Romance. Like I get on an intellectual level why people couple up and all, evolution and all that, and that people strongly desire it, but Ive never been able to imagine exactly what it feels like to want that close of a relationship with someone, let alone a formalized and exclusive one.
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I will also never understand the fascination with streaming. Just play the game, nerd.
It's not just to watch the game, it's to watch/listen to the streamer. It's like a talk show.
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Having multiple monitors. My boss now has three. One is dedicated to displaying their calendar the whole day.
Having two has definitely helped me, because most of my job is comparing what this thing says to what that thing says, but any more than that sounds like a bit much.