ScaryLarry's recent activity

  1. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    This was me in 2020 when my son was born, adding covid lockdowns on top of it. Your post brought back some rough memories. In the moment it felt like it would be forever, but luckily it’s just a...

    This was me in 2020 when my son was born, adding covid lockdowns on top of it. Your post brought back some rough memories. In the moment it felt like it would be forever, but luckily it’s just a season. My son is 4 now and rarely wakes up during the night, and I get plenty of game time/sleep in. I no longer feel like I’m just surviving. Hang in there, it gets better!

    2 votes

  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Quantum Break is one of my all time favorites. It follows the fixed timeline time travel theory and the storytelling is phenomenal.

    Quantum Break is one of my all time favorites. It follows the fixed timeline time travel theory and the storytelling is phenomenal.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Seeing very smooth movement on classic shows on a big screen TV in ~tech

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    I used to hate motion smoothing because of the soap opera effect, but since getting my OLED it was way too choppy without turning the smoothing on. The faster OLED refresh makes sense, I hadn’t...

    I used to hate motion smoothing because of the soap opera effect, but since getting my OLED it was way too choppy without turning the smoothing on. The faster OLED refresh makes sense, I hadn’t thought of that. I figured I had just gotten used to the smoothing effect.

  4. Comment on What are your top three video game soundtracks? in ~games

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    I’m also surprised that no one posted anything from Command & Conquer yet. Maybe it’s just the nostalgia, but I love those soundtracks, especially C&C Tiberium Sun.

    I’m also surprised that no one posted anything from Command & Conquer yet. Maybe it’s just the nostalgia, but I love those soundtracks, especially C&C Tiberium Sun.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Real men share the housework: what Britain can learn from the domestic bliss of Scandinavia in ~life

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    I live in the U.S. and am fortunate to work for an employer that provides equal length paternity and maternity leave, subsidized daycare, and general support for parenting duties. I have found it...

    I live in the U.S. and am fortunate to work for an employer that provides equal length paternity and maternity leave, subsidized daycare, and general support for parenting duties. I have found it to be much easier to have a more equal share in the household duties with the support of my employer. It's interesting to read about it on a national level with these Nordic countries.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on Email, calendar, todo, chat ... How are you keeping it all straight? in ~life

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    Check this guy out. He’s got some good productivity ideas that build on GTD. He focuses more on personal productivity, but it can be incorporated with some of the team project management tools...

    Check this guy out. He’s got some good productivity ideas that build on GTD. He focuses more on personal productivity, but it can be incorporated with some of the team project management tools mentioned here.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What are you supposed to be doing right now that you're not doing? in ~talk

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    I build Alteryx workflows at work, and I’ve been browsing Tildes during test runs. I should be doing other work in between, but here we are…my new addiction.

    I build Alteryx workflows at work, and I’ve been browsing Tildes during test runs. I should be doing other work in between, but here we are…my new addiction.

  8. Comment on According to Reddark, ~6k of 8,800 subreddits are still dark including four of the largest seven by subscriber count in ~tech

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    I really resonate with this. I only rarely posted/commented when I first joined reddit 12 years ago, and as time went on I stopped completely. I still lurked daily, but saw the quality of content...

    I really resonate with this. I only rarely posted/commented when I first joined reddit 12 years ago, and as time went on I stopped completely. I still lurked daily, but saw the quality of content deteriorate to the point where most of what I was seeing was bots/ads/spam. Even with the poor content I still lurked, mostly because Apollo was so well designed and fixed a lot of what was broken with the official app.
    I recently joined tildes, and I am finding a desire to post/comment again which I haven't felt for a long time on reddit. It's like waking up from a bad dream and finding the internet of old again.

    9 votes

  9. Comment on What are your favorite books in the horror (or horror-adjacent) genre? in ~books

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    This was one of the first Stephen King books I read and is by far one of my favorites. The book is pretty long, but it is worth it since King builds up the characters so well. It's a perfect mix...

    This was one of the first Stephen King books I read and is by far one of my favorites. The book is pretty long, but it is worth it since King builds up the characters so well. It's a perfect mix between horror, action, and drama. There's also some eerie similarities between the pandemic in the book and the COVID pandemic.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on How do you feel about the ongoing Reddit migration to Tildes? in ~tildes

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    I was checking out Lemmy servers to join, and Malwarebytes popped up saying one of them was compromised. It might just be a false positive, but it makes me a little wary.

    I was checking out Lemmy servers to join, and Malwarebytes popped up saying one of them was compromised. It might just be a false positive, but it makes me a little wary.

    4 votes