If my company is looking at my Lemmy posts all I can say is what a huge waste of time and resources.

I take great pride in my work. The results are appreciated by the whole company. I’m lucky that now I’m on a small team of good people, but that isn’t always the case.

I tend to ignore the dead weight when it’s there, because I know I’ll get my part done, and if I have to work extra to pick up the slack, I’m not shy to draw attention to it.

My whole chain of command knows what I do, and not being in management, dealing with lazy ineffective people isn’t my problem.

Focus on you, talk to management about the issues you face, but don’t point out others failures, just let it be implied.

This is a big part of it. I’m 50, and still skateboard a couple times a week. Sure, they aren’t close friends, but the people I hang out with at the parks give me all the personal interaction I need.

Granted, I am a bit of a hermit by nature.

Always felt the cosmic inflation theory was a place holder until we better understand the early universe.

For snowboarding and skateboarding I’ve always used the Clip by Sansa, works in any weather, pretty damned tough, and if I lose or break it, at $32 I just dont care.

I watch plenty of game stuff online, but there is no way I’m spoiling a game I’ve waited 20 years to play.

I’ll never get the chance to play an OG Zelda for the first time again.

I have the N64 version, as well as the switch.

Think I’ll probably play it on switch just to have wireless controller.

Majoras Mask. I’ve bought it, but am too wrapped up in factorio, another one I waited far to long to play.

The thing that immediately ruined it for me was the leveled enemies and weapons.

Ok, so I can head shot a guy in this region and he dies, but same enemy one zone over takes like 10 shots.

It’s a lazy way of forcing artificial difficulty and making you follow a certian path through the game.

Did the same shit to the assassins creed series as well.

Nothing wrong with having one sexual partner, and a small but relyable support group consisting of friends and family.

My girlfriend is an amazing woman, but I certianly don’t rely on her for everything. We live together, and she hears about most of my stuff, but there are hobbies and technical things I save for the people who are into those things.

The two that come to mind are Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Farcry 6.

They might have been ok games if the previous ones hadn’t been so damned good.

At least with Breakpoint they tried to make it right with a new mode, but still don’t enjoy it as much as Wildlands.

Leveled enemies and weapons are just not something I’m going to play.

“It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”.

Circumcising a child.

An extended mini ramp w some features I could build myself.

A pump track that would be any fun and not be totaly dangerous sounds like a massive project.

As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.

There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.

Lost a lot of cool old stuff in a fire a few years ago, so I’m guessing my original N64.

This isn’t a problem, as it is well known that Adobe Premiere is not designed to modify video.

Once took a trip to Alaska to visit a friend. He was so excited to show me real mountain snowboarding, and boy did he have a surprise for me.

One night had a real good dump of snow, and he took me off trail. We’d been keeping it pretty mellow, with me being the more experienced rider, though only had done the midwest.

We rode into this mellow canyon, must have been a river bed or something, like a natural half pipe. Just got into a rhythm carving back and forth, following him, pushing higher and higher slashes on the walls.

Then, on one frontside wall, maybe 20 foot high, I look over my shoulder, and the world fell away. The whole thing dropped down into a steep wall that had to be 100 foot high. Powder up to my waist, almost in free fall, we ran down like bats out of hell.

When we hit the bottom I flopped down, completely covered in snow, and couldn’t stop laughing and grinning for a good 5 minutes.

Multiple times in my career the thing I had trained for basically stopped being a thing, or became such an easy thing it wasn’t going to be much of a job.

Being at the wrong point, either too early or too late, in various tech waves almost felt like my super power.

Wasn’t until I turned thirty that I picked the right tech at the right time, and for 20 years have had a great career in an industry that is just as valuable today as when I started.

Programming turned out to be a major component in what I do, and while I’ve seen AI spit out some reasonable code in the more popular languages, I can’t see it replacing what I’m doing before I’m too old to care.

Dominick the Donkey.

Was on a very short holiday CD at a very long job.