I saw some article mention that there has not been a Half-Life game in ages… completely forgetting about Alyx.

I’m just hoping for some good games moving forward that aren’t trying to milk us for everything we have with slop we don’t want.

Why Half-Life 3 can never be made.

I was walking home the other night and I caught the tail-end of an interaction between some drunks and a woman walking in the other direction with one of the guys yelling at her saying something like “Just take it as a compliment luv!”.

Gross, I assume they made comments on her appearance and/or body.

XDefiant felt dirty with crossplay on.

A buddy of mine and I had problems playing against console players, the aim assist felt way too strong and I think there was mention of it somewhere.

So we turned crossplay off and we had a much better time instead of getting stomped on.

I have some buddies in a Discord server that always bring up AC whenever we say there is an unusual (the new norm) heatwave in Europe.

Get an AC they say.

OK, cool… but also contribute to the planet heating up?

I’d rather suffer the heat for a few weeks out of the entire year.

Currently 29.5C in my flat.

I keep the windows and blinds/curtains closed on the side of the flat that is currently receiving sunlight to try and limit the heating coming in. A lot of people say keep all windows and curtains closed… but at some point it is hotter inside than outside, so why not get some fresh air in on the cooler side of the building.

I’d rather have warm circulating air than warm still air.

When I lived in London, I rented a flat that was in the loft of an old house.

There was no insulation in the sloped parts of the ceiling, only the flat middle bit had insulation.

Meaning winter was cold and summer was hot. In summer my ceiling was hot to the touch and in winter often my heating could not keep up. It would be running at full capacity and I could watch my thermostat temperature keep dropping.

I could keep my windows open all night and by morning it was still over 30 degrees inside, the heat would just never leave. I think because the wind would blow along the side of the house instead of directly at it so I got no airflow.

It still gets hot in my current flat, maybe 33 degrees but at least in winter it holds onto heat well. I can sleep with thin blankets.

Here is a photo of my thermostat at the peak I noticed.

I find them everywhere in my town, just thrown on the ground.

I had no idea what some of them were at first, they looked like Nerf darts or something and then I saw someone sucking on one.

Someone I worked with used to buy all sorts of vapes pre-Covid and I was shocked at the waste they produce. The little one use tanks he would buy, use and just toss. So much plastic and other parts to it, had springs and valves.

I’m glad I never picked up the habit.

My aunt did this in the late 80s and early 90s.

She used to visit the one local burger franchise so much that all the staff knew her and she basically had her own reserved booth. Her husband, 2 kids and her would be there most days a week.

They lived across the country from us, but whenever we stayed with them, we were also at the burger place almost daily.

Asked to restart, sees restart and shut down, chooses lock instead.

My father did this.

I was giving him a PC tutorial and I asked him to turn off the PC and he turned off the monitor.

One of my users locked her Windows session and then signed in again, there, I rebooted.

Checks the system uptime… 97 days.

You restarted it, right?

Nah.

Someone added him to an existing meme.

But, if this was his code he would defend it and condescendingly tell you that he is correct, you are not knowledgeable enough to understand and let you know he worked at Blizzard for seven years.

I should have added this was back in 2010 or so, I don’t think it was as common to be able to open PDFs in browsers without an addon.

I remember sometime after 2014 I was just able to open PDFs without any additional software.

I used to work IT at a school and reports were emailed to parents as PDFs.

We got a complaint from a few parents saying things like, why are the reports PDF? Not everyone has Acrobat Reader, you should be sending these out as Microsoft Word files.

I then had to tell them that unlike Microsoft Word, Acrobat Reader is free to download and install. Anyone can get Acrobat reader or another PDF viewer, but not everyone just has Word on their device nor are they willing to buy it.

I didn’t mention the part about a Word file is easy to just edit.

I’m also going to assume that some of them are using a work laptop where they have Word installed and no admin rights to install a PDF viewer and too lazy to ask IT.

The IT manager at my previous job used this as a security feature.

People thought that because he was the IT manager he could just get another mouse, so they’d just take his when they left their mouse at home and never return it.

So he got a left handed vertical mouse even though he is right handed.

Nobody steals his mouse now because it is vertical and cannot be used in the right hand.

Had to look for it as well, hit “See More” below the Twitter/Xitter post.

Or the post link here. https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1739684413644972475