Ancient video time!

https://youtu.be/yWYvl_AIIbU

Austin Evans tried this.

He deemed it unnecessary, IIRC.

I did - I’m from the US and have been confused by this before.

Also I saw Technology Connections’ rant video about this! As always, in case you’re not familiar, I highly recommend his channel.

I thought that was a legal safety requirement in the US.

It’s just the special effects department showing off.

I just assumed he was in some foreign language class.

Fair enough.

NerdCubed is, or was, my favorite YouTuber. I don’t like his live streams as much, but he did play Tomba in one.

https://www.youtube.com/live/0KMxIdL56TA

Didn’t NerdCubed recently play this?

Hmm, my client has recently changed how it interacts with usernames when clicked. I think that interfered with this post.

I used to see you all over Lemmy, then my client added automatic suppression of hugely expressive characters in usernames.

I thought I stopped seeing you after that, but your 18,005 comments suggest I probably just didn’t notice.

I sincerely hesitated before posting that, unsure of the word “affliction.” I’ve only ever known one person with it and they didn’t seem to suffer from it. However, their view of the world absolutely was fascinating.

I intend no denigration of anyone with synesthesia. However, for anyone with it reading this, I’d love to learn more from you.

Why not both?

Synesthesia is a fascinating affliction.

I’ve never had to manually do that. I use almost exclusively Kensington Orbits and have for around twenty years. Maybe my hands are either clean or dirty enough that the balls are being polished by use.

That said, while I would say “have to” is strong wording, it’s still probably a good idea to polish your balls, innuendo or not.

Trackballs are glorious, just saying.

I thought slop was what you feed pigs.

Well, thank you for the information.

In that case, you sound like a good manager to have.

I like my current managers, but I think if I stopped showing I’d eventually just stop getting paid. There was a period where I wasn’t attending daily meetings because I hadn’t received the invitation to them. Eventually I made a comment to my manager that I was glad the current contract didn’t require a ridiculous number of meetings and he said something like “what are you talking about? There are daily meetings. We just thought you were out sick or something.”

I’ve always been skeptical of greentext (and most internet) stories, it’s just more fun to suspend one’s disbelief.

I’m just still confused about the concept of “implication arrows,” heh.

Yesterday, I (sort of) learned the phrase “implication arrows,” from which I learned that I should assume that this story is not true, though the arrows… Imply that it’s true. I still don’t really get it.

Anyway, I’ve never held a job where the employer would do more than the bare minimum required by law if I disappeared. Certainly not so much as contacting my family unless there were extenuating circumstances like me verifiably disappearing mid shift. I suspect this is true for most people.