Tell me you are a psychopath without telling me you are a psychopath.
Spent years on reddit after Google+ closed, my hopes are now with the Threadiverse
I’m interested in (among many, many other things):
TTRPGs, board games, longboarding, SUP / paddleboarding, and mechanical keyboards.
Yes, I realize that’s a lot of “boards” in that list. :)
Tell me you are a psychopath without telling me you are a psychopath.
“Unrelenting darkness within him”? I thought that’s why Uncle Xenu installed his Thetan pump so those can be sucked out like some sort of anti-midichlorians.
Einer der extrem seltenen Fälle von poetischer Gerechtigkeit. Elon Twitler als nächstes bitte?
Immer dran denken: Alphas sind unfertige und noch grob fehlerbehaftete Releases, weit von praktischer Nutzbarkeit entfernt.
Das passt bei “Alpha Males” (lol) durch die Bank ebenso gut, die jämmerlichen Loser.
There was another Twitler who tried to create an everything Reich.
What do you use for äöü߀ though? I’ve personally come to prefer ANSI layout with EurKey and going back to QWERTZ / ISO-DE feels off now.
Never heard of any of those brands but I dig the look of the blacked-out one in the middle. Are the keycaps shine-through with per-key RGB?
I know Elon Twitler is a giga troll but now he’s just taking the piss. He is probably going to fund his own legal bills against the unfairly terminated devs of the company he had to be forced to purchase.
Also using the Air 96 whenever I work at the office and it’s really nice. Overall, I prefer the Halo 75 at home but their pre-built low pro keebs are really neat.
For keycaps I am using these XVX doubleshot PBT shine-throughs on mine, like them a lot.
I really like Dorfromantik as a super relaxed solo game for when I need to calm down after work. Hopefully they’ll do an expansion with more unlockables at some point.
On the whole though, everything covered by SdJ is way too light for me which is why I’ve rarely paid any attention to its nominees and awards.
So, I really hate taking a laptop into meeting rooms so unless I know I’ll have to share my screen I (used to) take an A4 sized paper notebook and a pen to jot down notes.
Recently I upgraded to a ReMarkable 2 which, while certainly not inexpensive, has so been worth it for me.
I do type pretty efficiently on one of my mechanical keyboards, but putting my thoughts into handwriting is a different experience entirely and I always want to retain this option especially for personal one-on-ones.
No, never been. I just looked whether there are any in the wider region but looks like only bigger cities have any, so an hour by car minimum.
I don’t even have any LGS though, so a BGC would have positively surprised me.
I think I would like to visit a really nice one at some point just to try the experience. On the whole I prefer to play my own games - and to buy the games I prefer to play, needless to say - but going to a café with a nice small group and seeing what games they have could be neat.
I’ve enjoyed both On Mars and Weather Machine more than Lisboa although the latter is always lauded as Lacerda’s masterpiece. I really dig the complexity of his designs although it makes the games harder to explain to players who prefer lighter fare.
Backerkit was lovingly hugged to death for a couple minutes after campaign launch. I think it took me like ten minutes to finalize my pledge.
I’m curious what the campaign will be like. Cephalofair don’t do crowdfunding exclusives, stretch goals or any of that FOMO bait stuff usually. So with all of the content reveals front loader it looks like it’s going to be a pretty tame campaign with only a handful live play videos along the way.
Apple is a litigation company disguised as hardware sales. Steve “thermonuclear war” Jobs saw to this.
I’m very much looking forward to playing The Isofarian Guard! I snagged one of the remaining copies and it’ll hopefully be here before to long.
Didn’t hear about it being such a tough challenge though, makes it sound even more interesting :)
Exactly, it’s my “make them presentable” procedure, really. I’ll never brag about how well they look but they definitely have more presence than plain grey.
And I agree, not all board games have high quality minis unfortunately. But I’ve rarely encountered any that didn’t look better with a primer / base layer, some wash and/or dry brush.
Plus I really enjoy differentiating them a bit by picking hues for the ink and highlights that match the character class or monster type etc. But that is really as far as I’m selling to go nowadays. :)
It used to be Relay for me as well. Other apps had neat features I wish Relay had gotten as well, but I couldn’t get away from its neat UI and UX even though I tried pretty much every third-party reddit app there was.
I’m certainly sad to leave a handful of my favorite communities behind but Reddit overall can burn down for all I care. Even before the API BS and Huffmann lying through his teeth the Reddit experience had gotten more and more annoying aside from the coziest of subreddits.
Time to move on and perhaps some of the app devs try their hand at a sleek threadiverse app with all of the QoL goodies.
We don’t have our devs on call at all. Infra / platform ops are and I think they get 750€ per on-call week (not more than one week out of four) which includes two calls or two hours of call duration whichever is reached first.
After that it’s another 70€ per call or started hour and it’s the same if an expert who is not on call is asked to help out with an issue reported to on-call (but they may not answer / decline as there’s never an expectation to be “soft on-call”)
Overall that’s an okay deal and some sorely needed extra money for the ops guys and gals. But all the same I’m happy that my devs don’t need to plan their lives around an on-call schedule.
Edit: Ah sorry, didn’t even answer all the questions in OP…
We’re in Germany and there is a cooldown time after you fielded an emergency on-call report (which is outside of regular working hours by definition) which is either 8 or 10 hours (not entirely sure since my team doesn’t do on-call as previously stated) before you are allowed to start your regular work time for the following day.
Not sure how they tally up working hours for payroll but if you wake up to a call at 3am then certainly no one expects you to be online again at 8am. If you get a call at 10pm however then you get to start working normally the next day. (unless that issue took forever to troubleshoot ofc)
On-call rotations are one entire week per person who participates (which is not mandatory) and the participants per pool must be at least four - which is why they are pooling web admins, DBAs and other ops folk together.
That seems to work okay even though every so often more specialized know-how is required than the current on-call tech possesses for the topic at hand and then they request extraordinary assistance as described above.