I’m sorry to hear that. I’m afraid I don’t have anything clever to say.
Good luck with your abstaining.
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I know exactly how you feel.
This one, too.
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You ever have one of those days at work where everything is so dull and slow that you could literally have more fun watching flies fuck in the middle of drying paint?
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Nah
The forum changed the way the emoji menu is laid out and I really hate it. 
It USED to be in a consistent, logical order that flowed between different “themes”. Now it’s a jumbled mess. I’m assuming this is a Discourse wide update that you might not have much control over, @wincenworks? Just hoping for some clarification if possible.
Normally, the menu went through the different “happy, smile” faces. Then moved onto the “silly” faces (winking, blushing, hearts, heart-eyes, star-eyes) and so on and so forth. But now? Well… I don’t get it…
Case in point here: Normally the Hearts were laid out after the faces, and all grouped together. But here we have various hearts in a row, then more faces in a seperate group, then 3 more hearts on their own?? Aaagh, it’s annoying for my brain 
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i say we just go back to emoticons. =)
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But then how will I communicate my chicken-based thoughts?!
0>0
…it’s just not the saaaame!! 
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( •ө• ) is this a good enough chicken?
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The forum uses standardized emoji packs - plus a few additions, and so it seems like these is either an update to these packs, or to the core software of the forum.
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¯_ (ツ) _/¯ it may make us all look like ( ? )s
Second edit: yep! It makes me look like a dumb ass for sure bc I can’t get the damn emoticons to display properly.
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Bring Yahoo audibles to the forum 
BUZZ!
BUZZ!
BUZZ!
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Ok, I think I might have fucked myself up in an unexpected and kinda stupid way. Most of today while I was at work, during my break times, I wrote a Hitman parody of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel. It’s over in the Creative Corner if you’re interested. The thing is, because I spent so much time on it today, figuring out the right lyrics, going over dozens of times, editing it over and over, I’ve somehow got the song rhythm stuck in my head to the point that I can’t read anything right now without reading it as if to the rhythm of that song. As in typing this, right now, I’m still doing it, wow, there I go, once again, this is dumb, please let it end.
Seriously, this is annoying, I just want to read something like normal right now!
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First semester of uni is over! The exam period took forever but the results were ok. There were even a few full marks.
The interesting course was the C++ one (mainly cause I already knew it) and in the end I wrote two mini-games, a console version of MineSweeper and another console game based on the original Space Invaders, yet incomplete. There’s going to be Java next semester, and the final project will a be an app like YouTube, Spotify or other famous platforms of the same of difficulty to reproduce.
We went out for about two months until I ended it. It didn’t feel right and I couldn’t see any future with it. It was fun while it lasted though.
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You’re at the age where this is the perfect approach! Hell I think I’m still there and I’m nearly 40 
Anyway congrats on being done with the first semester of university and those full marks you got! I hope you have some fun before semester two starts up!
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Trying to be as polite as possible while still snapping a secret photo of some person on the L… but that’s a modern day Peaky Blinder, yea? Like are they attempting to move in on the Italians?
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I had a very strange encounter this morning at work. Sometime after 4:45 AM, I was mopping the lobby and then headed back to the hotel’s laundry room. While in the hall I heard the automatic doors open… Then heard a loud thud/bang… Like someone had a heavy suitcase they set down on the floor. I get into the laundry room and then head up to the front desk. On my way, I hear some yelling. I get up there and this guy cusses me out and hits the counter with his hand and tells me something like “Here’s what we’re going to do!” Then was saying something about his wife staying at the hotel… He was very drunk. If not drunk then on something. I told him that given the way he was acting, I was very likely to call the police to have him removed from the premises. Then he seemed to calm down and “act” more friendly. He kept going on about how he wanted to pay me money and something about making it look like his wife was never there.
So, I couldn’t make any sense of what he wanted me to do. He even wanted me to give him my PayPal so he could send me… $300… then $500… And I’m wondering why in the hell I should do this! (Not that I have a “PayPal” anyway). Then I was trying to figure out what would happen if he did send me any money.
Me: "No bullshitting… You send me this money and after that what is supposed to happen?"
He never gave me a clear answer and there were more things he said and did… Like trying to shake my hand. I did only one time. He tried to do it again but I outright refused. I didn’t know if he was going to try to do something or what. And I wasn’t about to give him the chance.
Then at some point, a guest (an old man) comes down to the lobby, stops, and looks over towards the breakfast area (this is away from the desk), and this guy says out loud to him “What the fuck are you doing?” Before this I had texted my GM and asked if she could call the cops… I ended up calling them myself after that guest was there.
So 2 police officers finally arrived and had him go outside to talk. I had things I had to get done… They ended up telling him that he needed to leave and that if he came back we (the hotel) could have him arrested for trespassing.
Suffice it to say I was a bit stressed out. I do recall smelling what must’ve been the guy’s cologne or something… It was that or piss… maybe the 2 smells were blending together. Anyway, 10 hours later all I have to do is just think of that smell and it’s making me feel on edge.
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Aw I’m sorry you had to deal with that Tetra! And doing it alone mostly, gosh, that’s pretty tense!
At my sbux location, we have this one homeless man who tends to visit us regularly. He’s recently been banned from our store earlier this month due to I think trying to use drugs in our cafe.
When he’s more stable in his head and civil, he’s a fine guy. But often, or more lately, I’ve seen him come in either quite belligerent or possibly drunk. (and we have to ask him to leave immediately now)
It’s sad, its scary, I really feel for him and others in his situation. I think you handled that quite well (and potentially got lucky it was all bark and no bite). Personally for me I turn to my supervisors and leaders who usually have more steeled nerves to handle situations like that.
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I’m considering upgrading my Steam Deck to its OLED 1TB model. Particularly considering my sister has taken an interest in the device so at some point between now and the end of the year I’ll be giving her my old model once I’ve ensured that specific things get transferred over to the newer model.
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Hey Mano I have a question bc I was looking into a steam deck. Is there an easy way to get it to screen share with a smart tv? I’m interested in some games that are PC only but really want to play on a big screen.
Also I hope the new fancy one is amazing when you get it and I know your sis will be thrilled to take your current one !
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