I don’t think it’s a can’t, it’s more of a “Ok, I’ve seen the game, this is a slog, I’m moving on to something else.”

Just got a PS5 so I’m absolutely loving Demons Souls, been like 10 years or more since I played it. First time playing magic in a souls game and it feels down right broken. Will likely work my way back through the series on the new hardware.

With all the bingo brawlers seasons I’ve seen all the end bosses, so doing it myself just hasn’t felt like a priority.

Haven’t beat the dual boss at the end of Elden ring, or the final DLC boss.

Think i’ve done most the rest of Soulsborn bosses.

In terms of time, some Demons souls boss I got stuck on, put the game aside for years, then went back to.

In terms of number of tries, I think O&S in Dark Souls one still holds the title. I ran into that brick wall for a long time before getting good.

Can’t think of any game series I had as much difficulty in and didn’t just give up, unless you count the Mun in Kerbal Space Program as a boss, cause that took a long time.

For sure the one with the pickaxe

And the one with the parachute

Saw Emo Philips open for Weird Al in a rather small venue.

I don’t think you really appreciate his talent till you see him live.

The level of knowledge considered “expert” is variable, and is relative to the knowledge possessed by the people they already employ or at least have access to.

20 years of experience in C++ is very much expert if they don’t have anyone with more than 5 years on staff.

I have 20+ years in the primary language I program and I damn well tell an interviewer I’m an expert.

Anything souls, factorio, subnautica, cities skylines 1, humanity, journey, og doom.

This is still sitting in my “to play” bin, I really need to get to it.

I love my work, but I wouldn’t do it for free.

I do things I love for free as hobbies.

Doing work I didn’t love would mean a huge percentage of my time would be spent doing something I don’t love.

Rodney Mullen. One of the greatest athletes of all time, and just a genuinely wonderful person.

If this was true, wouldn’t you see things like AI being forced into every computer and software app, large data centers consuming all the power, chips, and hard drives, blind adoption into the military… Oh, wait a minute, you may be on to something.

From a high level, this is about supply chain disruption and market confidence. This 20% impacts the entire world, and there is no clear time frame to any resolution.

Oil is used in almost everything, so the gas at your pump is competing against everything from medical plastics, to jet fuel, lubricants, fertilizer, you name it.

Gasoline for vehicles is a very easy place to squeeze out profits in a very uncertain environment.

Cars, and while we’re at it, ditch the touch screens as well.

Well, my mom died two weeks ago and my girlfriend of eight years left me this week, I suspect once the shock wears off the flood gates will open.

Came to post Bojack, it’s the only one I sit through every time.

Your mental problems are yours, not your bosses. The simple question of “Are you taking the time off or not?” would maybe have been a more professional way of handling it however.

That said, what makes you chose to stay at a job or move on is entirely up to you. If you want an environment more attuned to a “sensitive ass man like me”, go find one.

As to what has made me walk out, a far from complete list includes:

Suffering multiple hospital requiring injuries and not being allowed to leave my station.

New management changing the scheduling policy so that I’d be required to work nights and weekend.

Not receiving a promised raise after a significant project.

Being assigned an impossible task to be used as the scape goat for a failing project.

Being assigned a management role after explicitly stating I could not manage a team in the field when I don’t speak the language.

Not wanting to transfer to the new location.

Realizing I was too old and broken to enjoy working in such a confined, loud, dirty, and crowded environment.

It was my birthday and I wanted to quit as a present to myself.

I was raised catholic, and the steps you need to complete, the sacraments, would be baptism, which I would think is a freebee as they do it to babies, first communion which we did around 1st grade. I went once a week to a school in the evening until the third sacrament, confirmation, which is your “I’m an adult and chose to be a Catholic” . That was around 15 or so, similar to a bar mitzvah.

There are a total of seven sacraments, last rites at death and a Catholic wedding are two others I believe.

There really weren’t tests and such, I could name a few more saints than the average person I suppose.

I’m sure a local church will have adult classes, I can’t imagine it being a difficult process, though how long it would take I have no idea.

Still haven’t played this one through, just downloaded it for like the third time.

I don’t know why it hasn’t hooked me, it’s just the sort of game I should enjoy.

I so want this game to be a worthy sequel. Having the original team back is hopefully a step in that direction.

I do work that I love and find rewarding, I continue to create systems I am very proud of, and I work for a company I have high respect for that makes products I believe in.

I can’t think of any work I’d do for free, those are called hobbies.

Have been working on moving what I can to a VM, but the systems I develop require physical access, and when I’ve asked, I’ve been told there is no way to give a VM access to the laptops ports.

Many of the systems / devices are on physically isolated networks, use RS-232 or USB for access, etc.

If there are netsec approved ways of passing physical ports to the VM that would solve a ton of my issues.