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Alright UK GAF which one of you is this absolute pussy slayer?
 
BadBurger

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MrFancypants said:
Only news I’ve seen is the new PS Plus plans, and that wasn’t exactly unexpected, but what other news has there been?
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BotW 2 delay, RTX3090i, executive leaving Valve, Ezra Miller having another hissy fit, another round of Steam Deck shipments, a popular gaming podcast being delayed four days due to promises / rumors of more news, etc
 
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BadBurger said:
BotW 2 delay, RTX3090i, executive leaving Valve, Ezra Miller having another hissy fit, another round of Steam Deck shipments, a popular gaming podcast being delayed four days due to promises / rumors of more news, etc
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BotW 2 was expected, I don’t care for PC gaming, I didn’t know Valve were still going, Ezra Miller has always been a cunt, I don’t give a damn about some Switch rip-off, and I didn’t know people still listen to podcasts.

What else?
 
SoggyBiscuit

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MrFancypants said:
BotW 2 was expected, I don’t care for PC gaming, I didn’t know Valve were still going, Ezra Miller has always been a cunt, I don’t give a damn about some Switch rip-off, and I didn’t know people still listen to podcasts.

What else?
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Switch rip-off?

You just crossed a line, Mr.
 
IzukuMidoriya

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I really want to cancel my YouTube TV but my cat keeps getting behind the TV and knocking down my antenna, causing me to do the "pointing game" where I have to point the antenna in endless amounts of directions until all the city TV stations come in. It's incredibly fucking hard to pick them all up in my apartment.

Instead I have to rely on expensive as hell IPTV services just to get my local channels.
 
nush

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IzukuMidoriya said:
I really want to cancel my YouTube TV but my cat keeps getting behind the TV and knocking down my antenna, causing me to do the "pointing game" where I have to point the antenna in endless amounts of directions until all the city TV stations come in. It's incredibly fucking hard to pick them all up in my apartment.

Instead I have to rely on expensive as hell IPTV services just to get my local channels.
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Cancel your cat instead.
 
SoggyBiscuit

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I'm supposed to be flying to Germany on Monday and I really can't be fucked with it.

You'd think almost 3 years of being cooped up due to Covid would've changed my feelings around this, it turns out, it just made me weird about air travel.
 
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haxan7 said:
I dunno how Maiden Voyage Maiden Voyage does the constant traveling. I just got back and wasn’t even gone a full week. I’m spent and I don’t wanna look at a plane again for a while
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Because we are not lightweights. Also, actual real work time you often do isn't as much as you'd have to do on a normal 8 hour office day. Not only that but you can expense a whole bunch of stuff you'd usually have to pay for yourself on a normal workday.

For example, I had a meeting with Apple in Bejing. The actual meeting took just under an hour, then I had the rest of the day to myself until my flight in the evening. So I went to Beijing Zoo to look at the Pandas.

I'll tell you it is tiring often (You can sleep on the plane, don't book meeting first thing in the mormning and you can sleep in) but you miss that road warrior lifestyle when you are not living it anymore.
 
BadBurger

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Because we are not lightweights. Also, actual real work time you often do isn't as much as you'd have to do on a normal 8 hour office day. Not only that but you can expense a whole bunch of stuff you'd usually have to pay for yourself on a normal workday.

For example, I had a meeting with Apple in Bejing. The actual meeting took just under an hour, then I had the rest of the day to myself until my flight in the evening. So I went to Beijing Zoo to look at the Pandas.

I'll tell you it is tiring often (You can sleep on the plane, don't book meeting first thing in the mormning and you can sleep in) but you miss that road warrior lifestyle when you are not living it anymore.
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This is the only aspect about my old job I miss. I only had to travel / work on the road about six weeks out of the year. But I stayed in very nice hotels that were paid for by the company, all of my meals were covered, and I got to visit a lot of cities I'd probably never have went to otherwise. It was sort of like vacation. I even brought my then fiancé along on a few trips.

Training trips were the best. Wake up your posh hotel room. Eat a nice free breakfast. Attend a pampered training session loaded with breaks, free snacks, damn near gourmet lunch (free), and leave around 4PM. Spend the rest of your day essentially being a tourist. Dine at the most expensive restaurant around because why not - it can be expensed. Go back to your awesome hotel at night and maybe get tipsy at the bar or just chill. Repeat for several days, go home. Beats a 9-to-5 any day.
 
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BadBurger said:
It was sort of like vacation.
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It's not called a busmans holiday for nothing.

I had one meeting with a supplier at the rooftop pool of a hotel in Hong Kong drinking cocktails. Head office didn't know. all they care about is the E-mail about the meeting report. I expensed the cocktails under hospitality.
 
Maiden Voyage

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haxan7 said:
I dunno how Maiden Voyage Maiden Voyage does the constant traveling. I just got back and wasn’t even gone a full week. I’m spent and I don’t wanna look at a plane again for a while
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Sorry, but my blog is going to begin, feel free to skip this if you don't care about my work travel.
I don't make time to myself when I travel for work. I actually got lectured by my boss that I need to start planning in some time for during my trips. I've been torn on this for a while.

I'm not traveling as much these days--75% travel was the peak, right when I started the position. Status on the airlines, hotels, cars which helps a persons sanity a great deal. The travel then was mostly at our locations & I would spend all day meeting with the management teams, going over projects, and streamlining processes. These days were hours working at the office until dinner, ordering ubereats or going to dinner with site management, then trying to catch-up on all critical emails at the hotel until bed. I would lose all productivity on the days I flew. That meant I had 3 days to do everything, or I would sacrifice my weekends. I finally tapped out after 6 months and my boss said go for 3 more months and you will be 100% in charge of your travel schedule after that. So I did. So I am.

I am usually quite exhausted when I get home and need between 1-2 days to recoup mentally. More if I go to a location where the hosts are less than amenable (work politics).

I've got a 3-day trip in 2 weeks and then my calendar is open. There's talk of a trip to Canada this late spring/early summer. I would happily take that one and do an extended weekend. I fucking love maple syrup.
 
SoggyBiscuit

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Maiden Voyage said:
Sorry, but my blog is going to begin, feel free to skip this if you don't care about my work travel.
I don't make time to myself when I travel for work. I actually got lectured by my boss that I need to start planning in some time for during my trips. I've been torn on this for a while.

I'm not traveling as much these days--75% travel was the peak, right when I started the position. Status on the airlines, hotels, cars which helps a persons sanity a great deal. The travel then was mostly at our locations & I would spend all day meeting with the management teams, going over projects, and streamlining processes. These days were hours working at the office until dinner, ordering ubereats or going to dinner with site management, then trying to catch-up on all critical emails at the hotel until bed. I would lose all productivity on the days I flew. That meant I had 3 days to do everything, or I would sacrifice my weekends. I finally tapped out after 6 months and my boss said go for 3 more months and you will be 100% in charge of your travel schedule after that. So I did. So I am.

I am usually quite exhausted when I get home and need between 1-2 days to recoup mentally. More if I go to a location where the hosts are less than amenable (work politics).

I've got a 3-day trip in 2 weeks and then my calendar is open. There's talk of a trip to Canada this late spring/early summer. I would happily take that one and do an extended weekend. I fucking love maple syrup.
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I didn't read all of it but maple syrup caught my eye and that means I have to agree with everything you said.
 
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I still haven’t traveled for work since Feb 2020…and while a break from being dad is nice once in a while, I know I’ll miss my kids terribly if I go back to traveling multiple times a month.

I *almost* got dragged onto the tiny corporate jet to Texas last week, but it was between me and another guy for the last seat and then I got COVID again so 🤷‍♀️
 
BigBooper

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Maiden Voyage said:
Sorry, but my blog is going to begin, feel free to skip this if you don't care about my work travel.
I don't make time to myself when I travel for work. I actually got lectured by my boss that I need to start planning in some time for during my trips. I've been torn on this for a while.

I'm not traveling as much these days--75% travel was the peak, right when I started the position. Status on the airlines, hotels, cars which helps a persons sanity a great deal. The travel then was mostly at our locations & I would spend all day meeting with the management teams, going over projects, and streamlining processes. These days were hours working at the office until dinner, ordering ubereats or going to dinner with site management, then trying to catch-up on all critical emails at the hotel until bed. I would lose all productivity on the days I flew. That meant I had 3 days to do everything, or I would sacrifice my weekends. I finally tapped out after 6 months and my boss said go for 3 more months and you will be 100% in charge of your travel schedule after that. So I did. So I am.

I am usually quite exhausted when I get home and need between 1-2 days to recoup mentally. More if I go to a location where the hosts are less than amenable (work politics).

I've got a 3-day trip in 2 weeks and then my calendar is open. There's talk of a trip to Canada this late spring/early summer. I would happily take that one and do an extended weekend. I fucking love maple syrup.
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Sounds like your boss really wants to make sure you stay happy and stick around.
 
Maiden Voyage

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BigBooper said:
Sounds like your boss really wants to make sure you stay happy and stick around.
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Yes, he has given me a lot over the years. We get along very well. I love working for him.

I’m a bit frustrated with everything else but this major project and him will keep me there for the time being. Also helps that my raise this year was more than I expected and more than took into account the inflation.
 
DragoonKain

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Do you believe extreme laziness is always tied to depression or are some people just inherently lazy without depression being a factor at all? I have a friend who's so fucking lazy it's really starting to bother me. Don't even know why it does, it's not my life, but it's insane how fucking lazy he is.
 
SoggyBiscuit

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DragoonKain said:
Do you believe extreme laziness is always tied to depression or are some people just inherently lazy without depression being a factor at all? I have a friend who's so fucking lazy it's really starting to bother me. Don't even know why it does, it's not my life, but it's insane how fucking lazy he is.
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Good question really. I think some people get really comfortable and settled in their routines and any disturbance from the norm can be devastating.

My depression certainly didn't or should I say doesn't help with the "can't be fucked" attitude I generally have sometimes.

But accomplishing tasks or stuff at work I now almost gamify in a sense and it lends a wondrous feeling of achievement when even small wins add up.

It almost borders on parody, but even small things like brushing my teeth or making the bed in the mornings are the little things that give me a dopamine hit these days.
 
DragoonKain

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AmorousBiscuit said:
Good question really. I think some people get really comfortable and settled in their routines and any disturbance from the norm can be devastating.

My depression certainly didn't or should I say doesn't help with the "can't be fucked" attitude I generally have sometimes.

But accomplishing tasks or stuff at work I now almost gamify in a sense and it lends a wondrous feeling of achievement when even small wins add up.

It almost borders on parody, but even small things like brushing my teeth or making the bed in the mornings are the little things that give me a dopamine hit these days.
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My friend is comically lazy. And I’m curious if he’s suffering from depression. He’s a friend I’ve known since we were kids and he’s always kinda been this way. So if it’s depression he’s had it chronically since he was like 10. As a kid he never wanted to do anything. Like he’d blow off hanging out, blow off plans we’d make. When we did hang out, he’d fall asleep sitting up in a chair. Just always lazy and extremely low energy.

It’s cost him jobs. Where he just doesn’t feel like going in and then gets fired. He kept putting off signing up for health insurance because he was too lazy and missed the deadline a couple times.

Just recently he’s been dealing with health issues and I told him to make a doctor appointment. His response is “I don’t have a primary care doctor, I need to find one.” I said well ok do it, let’s go, I found a new one in like 15 minutes recently, it doesn’t take long. He said “I will after dinner.” That was back in December. I text him several times a week and ask him. Same response “keep forgetting, I’ll get to it.” He isn’t a busy person either. Comes home from work and basically watches YouTube on his phone for a few hours because it’s like the least effort thing you can do. And he got a really nice laptop from his family for Christmas and barely uses it because he’s too lazy to turn it on and plug it in. Totally insane.
 
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DragoonKain said:
When we did hang out, he’d fall asleep sitting up in a chair. Just always lazy and extremely low energy.
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This comment makes think he might have an underlying medical condition affecting him. Could also be a porn addict. Would take a lot of effort of yours or his other friends and family to find out because he clearly isn't concerned about it himself.
 
SoggyBiscuit

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DragoonKain said:
My friend is comically lazy. And I’m curious if he’s suffering from depression. He’s a friend I’ve known since we were kids and he’s always kinda been this way. So if it’s depression he’s had it chronically since he was like 10. As a kid he never wanted to do anything. Like he’d blow off hanging out, blow off plans we’d make. When we did hang out, he’d fall asleep sitting up in a chair. Just always lazy and extremely low energy.

It’s cost him jobs. Where he just doesn’t feel like going in and then gets fired. He kept putting off signing up for health insurance because he was too lazy and missed the deadline a couple times.

Just recently he’s been dealing with health issues and I told him to make a doctor appointment. His response is “I don’t have a primary care doctor, I need to find one.” I said well ok do it, let’s go, I found a new one in like 15 minutes recently, it doesn’t take long. He said “I will after dinner.” That was back in December. I text him several times a week and ask him. Same response “keep forgetting, I’ll get to it.” He isn’t a busy person either. Comes home from work and basically watches YouTube on his phone for a few hours because it’s like the least effort thing you can do. And he got a really nice laptop from his family for Christmas and barely uses it because he’s too lazy to turn it on and plug it in. Totally insane.
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Hopefully your friend gets the help he needs. It doesn't sound like depression, but could have some sort of illness?
Either way,. I hope a doctor sees him soon
 
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BigBooper said:
This comment makes think he might have an underlying medical condition affecting him. Could also be a porn addict. Would take a lot of effort of yours or his other friends and family to find out because he clearly isn't concerned about it himself.
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That’s a hell of a leap to go from saying he’s depressed to suggesting he could be a porn addict. He could just have an undeactive thyroid.
 
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