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[Yoink]

Had what I believe was a pretty great dream involving fun times and adventures with various IRL friends in some strange foreign land (which I think also had strange public transport), but now I can't even remember enough for a basic summary of it.

[itisnotlogical]

Adobe is axing their version of Fuse, the program I occasionally use to mess around with creating 3D characters for games and stuff. Sure, there's Poser and Daz Studio, but you could actually make things with Fuse without first buying hundreds of dollars worth of models to use, all of which have different licenses and many of which both aren't designed and can't be licensed for use in games or interactive software.

The only realistic alternative is MakeHuman, which is unsatisfactory *at best.* MH rigs are crap, development is even more dead and stagnant than Fuse, and the models look like rubber blow-up dolls, or maybe cheap action figures. That's not even going in to the lack of content for MakeHuman.

[Iduno]

We had an unscheduled company call today, which I assumed was going to mean we were being acquired by another company.  That would suck.

Instead, we learned that about 20% of the company was being laid off.  2 weeks before Christmas.

I wasn't affected, nor were my direct coworkers or direct managers, but this still really sucks.  It's also put a sour taste in my mouth for the CEO that took over less than a year ago, since I'm pretty sure this was at his direction in an attempt to maximize profits despite the fact that company was already profitable.  Projections for next year looked less stellar, but this still feels excessive, with some very long term and experienced employees being let go in departments where their replacements aren't clear.

It's a shame I don't drink.  This week and entire quarter has really sucked at work.

That reads a lot like the new CEO is trying to come in, make a short-term profit, and leave before the whole thing falls apart due to (I'm assuming) his short-term planning. That does suck.

How many people actually pay for Youtube Red? Or whatever their premium service is these days?

Redtube.

Adobe is axing their version of Fuse, the program I occasionally use to mess around with creating 3D characters for games and stuff. Sure, there's Poser and Daz Studio, but you could actually make things with Fuse without first buying hundreds of dollars worth of models to use, all of which have different licenses and many of which both aren't designed and can't be licensed for use in games or interactive software.

The advice I've seen has been 1) never pay Adobe money; they will screw you 2) maybe use Blender?

[pikachu17]

Had what I believe was a pretty great dream involving fun times and adventures with various IRL friends in some strange foreign land (which I think also had strange public transport), but now I can't even remember enough for a basic summary of it.

Yeah, its always sad when you have an awesome dream, but you forget everything about it that made it awesome.

[Iduno]

I saw a sign on the highway today that said "stopped traffic ahead 4 minutes next mile." That wasn't true at all. It felt 50% slower than normal, not 50% faster.

Edit: the claimed 15 mph on the highway would be equivalent to ~24 kph.

[Grim Portent]

Loki, my snake, seems to have lost some scales around the tip of his tail somehow. He had a bit of shed that hadn't come off so I had to soak him in the bathtub, but it also looks like he's caught it on something and pulled out a few scales. Hopefully it'll heal up fine, if it doesn't and the area goes necrotic his tail tip might need to come off. 

[Naturegirl1999]

I hope he heals

[wierd]

I keep getting tasked with doing Factory Reset Protection bipasses by family members.

Today, two of them. One LG, one Samsung. Different methods for each, 2 hours of my life spent.


Why did I ever obtain this skill set?

[IcyTea31]

As they say, you should never help your family with tech unless you want to keep doing it. They'll never bother to figure things out for themselves when there's a "tech guy" around who can helpfully solve all of their problems.

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[itisnotlogical]

My head and my stomach both hurt at the moment.

[ChairmanPoo]

I quit my job. I was growing increasingly frustrated so I kind of had to. Even so it always makes one uneasy

[hector13]

Frees up more time for handstands, man. Live the dream!

[Frumple]

Good luck finding food in the interim.

[JoshuaFH]

I quit my job. I was growing increasingly frustrated so I kind of had to. Even so it always makes one uneasy

I handwrote a resignation letter today for my job. I have it hidden away in my work-cubby. My friend wants to reassure me that I just need a two-week vacation; I really couldn't get a word in edgewise as to how I feel I'm wasting my life and that I'm certain to disintegrate psychologically over time, and that I'm already disintegrating. She's very well-meaning though, she doesn't want me to cast myself out into joblessness without a plan, when that's exactly what I want to do, as I want to establish a new baseline of living for myself before making another move; and she's worried that I'll waste all the seniority and shit I've built up over the years, though I don't really give a fuck about that I'm in a deadend job anyway.  *(EDIT: To be clear, I have 10k in the bank, so I definitely could live on my own for a while)*

Also, I can't help but think that that is very cowardly logic, and that if I'm going to do anything I need to throw what is logically the "good, safe idea" and just destroy my own identity. I can't do that with safe, step-by-step, methodologic planning; I need the force of suddenly, intense change to do that, to shatter who I am, so I can become someone else. Naturally I can't think of something like that to say in the middle of a conversation, but that's how I was feeling, and I couldn't really retort her optimistic reassurances except with an exasperated "...._huh...". She really does want to give support, and she intuits that my motivations are partly suicidal, which they definitely are, so I can't be upset at her.

Still have this resignation letter, and thinking what to do with it, and I just hate the idea of taking things slow, I want my future in my hands right fucking now goddamnit.

[ChairmanPoo]

I quit my job. I was growing increasingly frustrated so I kind of had to. Even so it always makes one uneasy

I handwrote a resignation letter today for my job. I have it hidden away in my work-cubby. My friend wants to reassure me that I just need a two-week vacation; I really couldn't get a word in edgewise as to how I feel I'm wasting my life and that I'm certain to disintegrate psychologically over time, and that I'm already disintegrating. She's very well-meaning though, she doesn't want me to cast myself out into joblessness without a plan, when that's exactly what I want to do, as I want to establish a new baseline of living for myself before making another move; and she's worried that I'll waste all the seniority and shit I've built up over the years, though I don't really give a fuck about that I'm in a deadend job anyway.  *(EDIT: To be clear, I have 10k in the bank, so I definitely could live on my own for a while)*

Also, I can't help but think that that is very cowardly logic, and that if I'm going to do anything I need to throw what is logically the "good, safe idea" and just destroy my own identity. I can't do that with safe, step-by-step, methodologic planning; I need the force of suddenly, intense change to do that, to shatter who I am, so I can become someone else. Naturally I can't think of something like that to say in the middle of a conversation, but that's how I was feeling, and I couldn't really retort her optimistic reassurances except with an exasperated "...._huh...". She really does want to give support, and she intuits that my motivations are partly suicidal, which they definitely are, so I can't be upset at her.

Still have this resignation letter, and thinking what to do with it, and I just hate the idea of taking things slow, I want my future in my hands right fucking now goddamnit.

I empathize a lot. Not tio dissimilar to what happened here.

My situation is that  after leaving my last post abroad and a hiring freeze in the nation that was hosting me, instead of going back home I went to an overseas territory in my own country because the head of department made a series of promises to me, the core of which was that I'd be given the opportunity to learn a new technical skill. I figured that at the very least it'd be good for my CV.

Upon arriving they backtracked  on everything. I did not get the promised training, and I was there mostly to cover whoever was missing at any given point. Half the time I had no real role and was sitting on my hands. In short for all the promises, I was being used as a float consultant. This is very much a dead end, and on top of that I did not have either the perks I'd have abroad or back home. So I was fairly bitter.

Like yourself, the economic impact is nonexistent (even more so, as I earned *lots* of money abroad). My idea for the time being is to take a long break. I'll be back home but I'm looking more into options abroad at present. If the hiring freeze persists for much longer I'll do short contracts at home, but I think it wont come to that and I'll be working abroad again in a couple of months