Fleppensteyn

I got exactly one day off for the funeral after a parent’s cancer but it’s not really comparable. Becoming a parent doesn’t exactly happen against your will. I may as well take a dog and claim I need time off to walk it.

They already are. Months of parental leave, come back, make another child, get another couple of months off. If the money is it there to allow this, why can’t we get some kind of sabbatical

On winecfg you can try the checks on the Graphics tab, it shouldn’t break anything. Also, try to change the Windows version. Sometimes either XP or 7 work better. You’re right about it being c++, not sure which one I installed, maybe this one: https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist

Install the full Visual Studio runtime and try some different settings with winecfg. People recommend Lutris but for me it never made a difference

I often do surveys online and the American ones always ask this. They like to lump all people who look alike together and don’t even bother asking where you’re from. They really believe we are split in different species or something.

I’ve never heard about Peter judging or the gates etc. in all my religious upbringing and didn’t realize this was an actual belief.

I just knew this pearly gates thing as a movie cliché, from Tom and Jerry to modern shows copying that idea.

You mean all those Poles coming over every year are not white, or migrating for work doesn’t make them migrant workers?

Why Brits and Americans? Every major city has expats.

You go abroad for a job, usually temporarily -> expat

You give up your citizenship to move to another country -> immigrant

Does Lutris require some special setup?

Using fitgirl repacks are a bit hit and miss for me. But if they don’t work, Lutris doesn’t help.

It takes some time to block out stuff to make Lemmy usable. So much anime, bots and dumb American politics.

It’s nice there are a bunch of apps for Lemmy, but using it without an app is not very welcoming. It needs a lot of improvement (e.g. manually compose urls to subscribe to communities on other servers).

I haven’t seen such warnings for years anymore

Sure, I was always interested to see where everyone was traveling. That’s what I had Facebook for until it turned to shit.

I don’t have to hear anything about babies though.

Because they don’t have change?

Happened to me before. The ATM only gives out 20s but the driver only wants small coins, only cash is accepted.

It happened in several countries and it’s still a mystery to me how you’re supposed to get small change when you’re fresh off the airplane or something (or why they don’t just take card).

I’ll just mention QMMP which is basically a Winamp clone. Works great and I’ve used it for many years now.

In the last week, I came across 2 videos that started with an ad. Both were embedded YouTube videos. They must have found a way to circumvent adblocking.

It’s loud and annoying and I don’t have the patience for this. I just didn’t watch those videos.

You’re out of touch. Employers don’t want overqualified people. They are the ones that decide for you that you can’t possibly be motivated for such a job. You’ll only leave when you find something better they think, which is definitely true when you claim to just “bridge the gap”.

Yes, it tastes a bit earthy to me.

I got a tour of the place where they proudly show these cats in the most horrible conditions. Also, it doesn’t even taste good.

I remember always switching to another channel when ads came up, but later that became impossible because they all started ads at the same time. So it seems to be on purpose to prevent people from switching channels. This was in the Netherlands, though I haven’t listened to radio anymore since Napster came out.

It’s normal to get such weird brainfarts, like the call of the void or imagining murder or other bad things, just like when a song suddenly gets stuck in your head. A healthy person thinks “wtf brain?” but when you start to think “that’s a great idea I want to act on”, maybe that’s not completely normal.