God damn, I guess there really isn’t such a thing as an original thought.

The reason those games are so popular is that they’re inherently exploitative. I have no issues with predatory app developers being priced out of business.

Correct.

It’s hard to care about people who develop games to encourage and monetize on gambling addictions.

That’s the point that’s being made.

One of my wife’s friends just had her trip to Japan delayed by 36h and she just got an email saying she’d have to go through the CTA even though they promised her the money at like 3 separate points.

Do you also tend to learn a new job very quickly and actually put effort into doing well? I’m convinced that’s why she’s had trouble at every job she’s had.

At every job, her manager also had the same job duties, so my suspicion is that they secretly resent having to work harder to not look bad.

Yup, that’s part of the problem, that darn sense of justice.

She also doesn’t understand that people are, by and large, selfish assholes who only care about themselves most of the time, and any perceived negative behavior or actions towards her is very likely subconscious and they’d be mortified if confronted with it. She won’t confront them, and she won’t let me do it.

She’s a tattoo artist. And she isn’t when it comes to work.

For my wife I think it’s because she puts so much effort into her job that it makes the people who were just coasting look bad, or makes them have to do more work. Those people are usually her bosses.

This is my wife. All of her clients love her, but the people she works for always hate her.

A few months ago I was tasked with translating a script from one IBM emulator program to another because the owners of the first program wouldn’t respond to requests to purchase a new license.

The scripting language used on both was unique to the software, and the documentation was basically non-existent. Plus, the script was written over a decade ago, and the guy who wrote it was long gone.

For weeks I banged my head against the wall trying to figure out the logic flow before I realized that it was essentially BASIC, which I haven’t touched in over 20 years.

You’re just trying to get the device into a known good state.

The truth is that it’s rarely worth trying to find the root cause of an issue unless it’s a frequent problem.

Something somewhere went wrong. We don’t know if it’s a hardware or software issue, so we’ll try a solution that covers both.

Powering the device off stops the flow of electricity, and waiting a few seconds makes sure that any capacitors (think of very tiny, very fast batteries) bleed off the power they’ve stored. Then turning it back on makes it go through the full startup process which is likely to result in a working state.

Or we could all just move to nano and be less frustrated.

Are you high?

And like the other 10 companies that own pretty much every brand in the country.