tabris

joined 2 years ago
[–] tabris@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Possibly a bacterial infection, I get them somewhat regularly due to hyperhydrosis, it's easy enough to clear up.

Trim and shave your armpits and use an anti-bacterial body wash, a medical grade one from the pharmacists. I use Bactiscrub, works great. Leave the body wash on your skin for 3 minutes, then rinse. You should be good to go, no stinky pits, at least for a few weeks. If you start to feel stinky again, just repeat the steps above.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That case is gorgeous, what is it?

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it should be "fig 1", "also fig 1, but the other half".

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Shitting themselves in public. It doesn't happen often, maybe only a handful of times over your life. But it will happen at some point. You'll be at the urinal, or sat on a barstool, go for a cheeky fart, and feel a warm wetness you haven't felt since you were a baby. Then you run to a bathroom stall, see what you can salvage, and excuse yourself from the situation.

It'll happen to you at some point.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

All of the Ubi-art games were great, Rayman Legends, Valiant Hearts and Child of Light, all fantastic games. And then Ubisoft said they would only make open world games. Idiots.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

She's a perfect Rio Morales, just saying.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

As a forty-something year old, I've also been struggling with digital overload and have spent this year working on it. One of the biggest things is reducing emails. I've created a new email account and started migrating anything I want to keep using over to that address, and whenever I get an email from a mailing list, I immediately unsubscribe. I remove email notifications from any service I'm still using but don't want to bug me, and I close any account I don't want anymore. I've gone from around 200 emails a day to less than 10, and most of those are for a job search which will be unsubscribed from as soon as I'm employed again.

A lot of work to get this far, but so worth it.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks very much for your advice. I've reworked my CV using Open Resume and updated it on all the job boards I've been using, hopefully that gets me further.

I'm also continuing to update my portfolio website and building out apps in different languages and frameworks to demonstrate my skills.

It just looks like the job market sucks at the mo and I just need to keep trudging through.

Thanks again.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It's okay. The animation is mixed, scenery and mecha are amazing, facial animation is awful. The story has a good premise in making the traditional bad guys the protagonists and the Gundam the antagonist, but the actual story is mid at best.

 

So I've been out of work for over a year now. I'm a software engineer with 20 years experience in Java, I have experience in over a dozen other languages, I've worked for companies of around 30 employees as well as big multinationals.

Over the last year, I've applied for literally hundreds of jobs, and I've gotten one interview, got all the way to the final stage of the process but missed out to someone with more experience of that specific framework they wanted. I was told that they really liked me, that my code was good even though I was learning that framework while doing the code test, and that I would integrate with the team very well, but they needed someone with more experience with the framework they use. They did say that if another position opened up this year that they'd get in touch.

So my question is, what the fuck do I do now? I'm still applying for every programming position that comes up on the job boards, I'm emailing recruiters to try to get my foot in the door, I'm teaching myself different frameworks and languages and building small demo apps to show what I can do, but I'm getting nowhere.

Five years ago, I had absolutely no issue getting a job. I'd literally have several job offers within a month of looking. Now there's nothing. For context, I'm in the UK.

So what are my options. What can I do to get work as a programmer in today's market? What else is there for me to do? How would I get started freelance if I've never done that before, and is that even a viable option? Are other people experiencing the same at the moment?

Please help, I'm getting desperate.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Deleted my Plex account as soon as I got this email, using the account link in said email, so hopefully they see the connection.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

The Evil Dead trilogy.

A younger friend of mine had started playing the Evil Dead game with some of his friends but had never seen the movies. I'd not watched them in years, so I invited him over to marathon them one weekend. We drank, ate pizza and did the whole trilogy, and we had an absolute blast. He loved how different each movie was, especially Heart of Darkness. How each one gets sillier than the last.

A few months later, Evil Dead Rise came out in the cinema, so we had to go see it. While this was much more a straight up horror movie (with a small amount of the Evil Dead silliness), I still enjoyed it (I find horror movies quite funny, like an emotional rollercoaster), but he was hiding behind his coat the whole time, terrified of what was happening on screen. That made it even funnier for me.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Pooh Bear energy.

 
 

Four drag queens accidentally book the wrong venue, a biker bar in the middle of nowhere. During their show the bar is attacked by vampires, so the drag queens have to team up with the bikers to survive the night.

This wonderfully camp horror comedy had us laughing throughout. There's a lot of really sweet characters, tonnes of references to classic vampire films and TV, and the drag queens are played by real life drag queens.

This needs cult status.

 

I'm still not sure I believe this is real, but loved these games as a kid, glad to be able to return to them.

 
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