Dvixen

Dvixen , 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

245948 - buhbye!

Dvixen , 1 month ago

Wait for the sequel:

“I live in an iron lung and that’s ok!”

Dvixen , 1 month ago

I think he got his mom’s color palettes mixed in with his derp.

(Mostly older) People have been claiming they were a summer or autumn for decades.

Dvixen , 1 month ago

Santos wrote, “I just single-handedly made the left hate Drag queens lol,”

Nah dude, we just hate you.

Dvixen , 2 months ago

Or driveways.

Dvixen , 2 months ago

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Dvixen , 2 months ago

There’s a colony of them off the coast of northern BC. It was started about twenty years ago for a study.

Granted, they are plastic and nailed down, but hey, who cares about details.

Dvixen , 2 months ago

Yeah, nah.

Dvixen , 2 months ago

Uhh…

We ARE living in a mirror universe.

Dvixen , 3 months ago

Facebook did it as well, maybe a couple years after opening up to the non university crowd. Neither FB at the time or G+ years later gave any thought that their no pseudonym policies put someone’s safety at risk.

Dvixen , 3 months ago

Exactly. The choice is vaping or smoking, and the current movement is going to push me back to cigarettes. I’d rather vape, and I was well on my way to being able to consider myself quit when the restrictions on obtaining nicotine came into effect.

Yes there may be risks with vaping, I’m all for properly done scientific method, not funded by the ciggy lobby and would volunteer in a heart beat, because in my anecdotal experience I was getting sick far less than when I was smoking.

They definitely shouldn’t be in the hands of kids, and the disposables are absolutely a problem.

Dvixen , 3 months ago

Single use anything! Rawr etc. (I’m a nut who has carried my own water bottle, cutlery and straws for twenty+ years.)

Kids will get their hands on vapes, the same as alcohol, smokes, and so on down the list.

I’d be content with with restrictions that match cigarettes. I am not happy that access is being blocked over a bunch of whataboutisms.

sigh Same song, new lyrics.

Dvixen , 4 months ago

Satisfactory. Lots to organize and build. A bit of a learning curve if you want to get complex, but if you want to keep things simple it’s really doable.

No Man’s Sky. Space exploration, building, and all round reason to goof about for hours. (Free to play this weekend on all platforms.)

Both games have a great community.

Dvixen , 4 months ago

• Doesn’t do anything to accounts that raided a server, sending members gore and worse videos.

(Lost a good community in the aftermath, and at least one of the offensive accounts is still active!)

Dvixen , 5 months ago

I’ve had tinnitus for decades, and it SUCKS. I’ve always been careful for my hearing, but after a concussion it arrived and never went away.

I play games with most sounds off. I can’t use headphones, wearing them gives me a migraine no matter the volume.

I’ve had hearing tests, seen a specialist. I have no hearing loss, but I do have misaphonia and tinnitus. The combination is pure hell, there is no respite.

I can’t distinguish voices in chats well enough to follow what’s being said if more than one person is talking. It’s even worse online when I can’t lip read to decode what’s being said.

Project your earholes.

Dvixen , 5 months ago

Not as a rule, no. I end up with a bigger headache and more ringing.

Dvixen , 5 months ago

I’m jealous! Mine only is tuned out if I listen to something loud, and I don’t enjoy the headaches more than the tinnitus.

Dvixen , 5 months ago

Multi tonal tinnitus is a real thing.

Source: My right ear has two tones, and the left ear has different from the right two.

Dvixen , 5 months ago

I have noticed this. I have a few searches that I do regularly, and over time I’ve watched the results get less and less relevant for the same keywords.

One of the more recent searches was for a set of data I had been building. I had the keywords from my notes, and when I went to search for it again, using the same keywords that found it the previous times, it was no longer a result. I knew the dates of one event in particular, so I narrowed to that, and still google served me results for ten years before the specified date range. A bit more fine tuning, and Google continued to serve the same results, all not even remotely close to what I was after, and results that were found even as recently as last week are not longer there.

Dvixen , 6 months ago

I used to see a chiro, stopped while I was pregnant after he ‘treated’ PGP. (I’m hypermobile, and pregnancy made everything ready to dislocate.) Daily pain went from 5/6 (manageable, barely) to a 9 and severe mobility limitations.

I was slowly moving, but able to move before that appointment. Could barely walk, and climbing stairs was not happening for months after.

A physio realigned everything, and I walked out of the first appointment and could take stairs again. Ended up at a specialist dealing with the aftermath of that chiros treatment.

Physiotherapy is my first stop now, and I will never set foot in a chiropractor’s office ever again.

Dvixen , 6 months ago

I go to a sports physiotherapy group. Much better results when the goal is to help me recover so I don’t need to come to them.

Dvixen , 7 months ago

It’s incredibly isolating when there is a game you are super keen to play, but your gaming group powers through as a group to end game, leaving you on your own to play catch-up.

They make promises to help, but magically they are always to busy even for a ten minute assist to help kill that boss it took them five people to take down.

A little empathy would have gone a long way, perhaps an invite to a group when they’ve rerolled their fourth character while I’m still levelling my first.

The people I’d been playing games with for the past few years stopped including me even on a token level. ‘We thought you were in guild/server/discord already.’ Never did get those invites.

Dvixen , 7 months ago

No argument there. Just have to find a new place to game from.

Dvixen , 7 months ago

Current list is Path of Exile, Sea of Thieves, Satisfactory, and Warframe. Aust timezone.

Dvixen , 7 months ago

Not easily. :(

Dvixen , 7 months ago

Path of Exiles. Been many years since I last played, so it’s pretty much a new game to me.

Also playing Sea of Thieves, but not as much as I’d like - it’s boring sailing solo.

Dvixen , 8 months ago

I’m in the group that gets violently sick using VR. It also induces blinding migraines. Oddly, I don’t get car/air/seasick.

Dvixen , 9 months ago

Window key + Shift + S

Select only what you need.

Dvixen , 10 months ago

We had 999 (scale used didn’t go any higher) during the Australian fires a few years back. Going to need a new air quality measurement system soon. :/

Dvixen , 10 months ago

Could feel it too. Anything above 100 is already unpleasant. It got so bad it was like a gritty orange fog, and the smell got into everything. Couldn’t see ten meters on the worst days. Thankfully we had air filter units already for hayfever season.

Dvixen , 10 months ago

Consider sealing off the stove extractor fan (when not using the stove) if you have one, it was our biggest leak during the heavy smoke season.

Dvixen , 10 months ago

Yes, but since they have already begun on the furniture, you will need to train them out of it.

Find your best cat treat, (for our cat it is dried strips of beef) We began by placing the treat on the scratching post - or hiding them if possible. When the cat uses the scratching post (we have three different ones in the house, and they all see use). When cat uses the scratching post - praise and a treat. Uses furniture? Water gun NEAR the cat. (intentional miss)

The goal is a positive connection to the desired behaviour, and a neutral to negative for undesired. We had to go neutral because our cat is a rescue and pretty anxious. We didn’t want to add to it. Now she doesn’t use the couches at all, and runs to the scratching post when we enter the room and shows us she is using the post so she’ll get a treat.