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[hector13]

You ever been tested for coeliacs?

[nenjin]

Failing celiac's disease, you could try a legit regime of pro-biotics as well.

[lemon10]

Me: Lying in bed for hours unable to sleep.
Brain: Hey, remember the Grudge, remember that scene where a ghost appeared under the woman's bed sheets while she was sleeping and disappeared her?
Me: Goddamnit brain, not helpful.
(Upon rewatching to link it turns out she wasn't actually asleep at the time, but still not a good thing to think about when you are trying to sleep).

[McTraveller]

Ugh I'm so far beyond "mildly" upset...

The stupidity of the modern consumer software market and how difficult they make it just to purchase something for your child.

Damned "this is locked to the account that purchased it" without letting you know, not the account your child is on, and you don't know until you downloaded it because of course we want to make your life full of an 8-year-old screaming that their save isn't on your account and you can't transfer save files on a console.

F*)@#$*@#$* support says "oh sorry it's our policy, and no I can't escalate."  AF*ASF*S&DF*SDF&

EDIT: What is the rationale behind "no refunds after download" for a product for which you entirely control the DRM? Also the download happened automatically as soon as I logged on - what kind of abusive policy is that!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Credit card chargeback and nasty letter to their claims department on the way....

[femmelf]

I'm with McTraveller on this one. That's a horrible refund policy and I get it but wow. They want to deal with their whatever policy OK I guess, but that doesn't mean it has to be a riddle to buy a toy for your kid. It's not intuitive and they could totally provide a guide "Click here to buy your kid this thing. Instructions included." Step 1: Make sure you are on the device the game is going to be used on..... Wouldn't kill them.

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In other news: I do so adore being screamed at for misunderstandings and bad motives being unreasonably applied to me despite several years of good work. Sure, I was somehow doing something I had never done before and had always done the exact opposite of.... Right...., except not... Also you take one look at me and realize I am nowhere near that brave..... Then when explained I get told to just "Move on from it and time will pass Ma'am." No sorry no nothing. Also God I'm not quite old enough to be Ma'amed but that might be the closest to an apology I'm getting. Ah toxic workplaces, because somebody's gotta work there until they say no one does.

[nenjin]

I'm guessing....mobile app game?

[McTraveller]

Console.  Wasn't even a full game, just DLC... baffling how when you own the f'n disc, DLC would be account-locked.

Although this morning my son says he thinks it Is working on his account, as he has content he didn't have before... so confusing and frustrating all around.

[McTraveller]

Had new shingles installed not even 6 years ago, and there's a leak somewhere over my porch.  Definitely still under warranty, but annoying nonetheless.

Also weathermen, you whiffed on that rain forecast: >2.25" total is quite different from 0.75" estimated.  I know this is nothing like they get down in TX or FL, but anything over about 1" in a single day causes persistent standing water in my yard and I like to kind of be prepared...

[dragdeler]

I have seen it rain in front of the house and not in the back. If you truely want to be on top of your game you need to monitor rainfall in realtime. If they mispredict by an inch between 3 and 4, would that change your behaviour? No I assune you either turn on the pump or you don't. My dude you can seriously attach your wellbeing to some weatherpriest, this is bad. You either solve problems yourself or you're stuck hoping for somebody to solve them.

[McTraveller]

Oh the forecast didn't really matter. It was just a correlated piece of information.

The leak seems to be more correlated with rainfall rate rather than total amount, and the prevailing winds.

[dragdeler]

Sounds plausible. I allready had that whole debate in my head because I slept badly so I'm putting my nose in other people's problem instead of minding my own.


So like, a simple pluviometer isn't much more than a beaker but then you have to go out there and write the results and by that point your feet might allready be wet. It should be fairly trivial to put a swimmer in said beaker to action something. Simplest I could come up with on my own terms without much research. Swimmer just serves as on/off contact for the pump. Primitive but a start. Said primitive variant could probably much be improved by playing with proportions, collect larger surface, steeper walls, smaller volume -> go for inch/min or 10min and then extrapolate. But there is more. Turn the swimmer into an analogue measuring device with the aforementioned tweaks, and some algorythmic magic you should be able to be a real engineer about it. Put like a little concrete syphon on the lowest point so the pump can start working early... Hehe if you're growing saffron, or magic beans, or the finest sinsemilla it might be worth the effort. I'm just going off in my head here.

I would be interest to know tho, how it performs vs say leaving the pump on overnight. Obviously it wouldn't be running as much, but it would be running much more often, whereas long term, some rains might drain, that were technically a bit too much, before you notice or act or do anything.

[McTraveller]

I don't have a yard-scale pump, though I have thought about installing one.  Mostly it's the heavy work to do excavation to put in drainage lines to feed the pump that would be prohibitive, not the pump itself.

When I get a good heavy rain (not this year so far, but last year we got 2" of rain on top of 5" snowpack) I had an area of water probably 150ft by 50ft, more than 12" deep at its deepest part.  I wouldn't mind too much - except at its closest point the edge of the water was only about 20ft from my house.

Yay for having a property that is "variable wetland"

[dragdeler]

I mean it's not great for mosquitoes, but yes mostly overkill, to do it actually right, you'd have to excavate. To protect the property it probably suffices to not take any vacations in the rainy seasons.

[Great Order]

Working on a new Shattered World mod for Vicky 3 from the ground-up. Lots of states, no way to input the information in an easy way. Instead I've got to go along making nation tags and colours for every nation, and insert the culture and state manually. Then I go through it all again when naming each nation so it's not just its tag on the map, although thankfully it's not as much effort since there's only a state name and adjective form to input there. Once that's done, I'm hoping to make a good number of formables from the base game's nations that aren't normally formable, then if possible create a unify-type AI to increase their aggression, at least within certain regions. Might even add some continental or sub-continental nations with the same AI to promote further aggression once they've got their new tags. And I've got to set the base laws (probably traditional laws, so autocratic monarchy with no institutions, and serfdom. I'll manually add slave trade, agrarianism (Since the AI is shit at changing economy laws), maybe professional army (They're also shit at reforming military laws)) on top of that, set every nation's tech level, and finally set every state's buildings to nothing (Excluding built wonders, since you can't build the ones present at game start).

So much work to be getting on with for such a simple mod. And I keep compulsively ctrl+s'ing now.

[Grim Portent]

Loki has a mild case of scale rot.

Caught it early, so home treatment should handle it no problem, but it does mean I've been slipping up somewhere in his care regime, so that's going to need looked at.

EDIT: One round of treatment later and Loki is now stained yellow.