@ShadowThePrincessWizard my GF cares too. The trick is to put them on when she's not watching and make sure the line of color at the top is never visible!
The hardest part is the children's clothes though. With a 9 y/o girl and a 7 y/o boy, they have very similar size, and some matching clothes. Impossible to know what belong to whom.... not to mention the son has same socks as wife, just bit smaller! (the black socks)
@ShadowThePrincessWizard She can't help it. She's a professional artist and mismatched socks just offend her sensibilities. It's fine if she doesn't notice, but if she realizes the ones I have on don't match, it's like an itch she can't scratch!
I was looking at the chinese language stack exchange since... that's my native language and theoretically I should know enough to write some kind of answer and try to make it good, but... they use simplified chinese
I grew up learning traditional i.e. not simplified
@ShadowThePrincessWizard I should bloody well hope so! Anyone who actually spends the time to do that one click at a time seriously needs another hobby!
('cause of course, all of my hobbies are productive and don't include anything like spending 12 hours sitting down in front of a screen playing a game)
@Tinkeringbell I'm sure they were. I just really, really like the Civilization and Total War games. I've never found anything that grabs me like those (and I am really afraid to try, it's hard enough keeping those two in check)
@terdon-stopharmingMonica I've never really played those, only heard some bits about those here and there... I must admit I usually stick to just one or two games too ;)
Civ was probably the first "real game" (as opposed to little puzzle things like tetris) I ever played. Must have been back in 2000 or '98 or so. Never looked back...
@terdon-stopharmingMonica I like to think a lot and plan out and see plans shake out, not mindlessly drone on. Thats why I like tactical games and those that reward planning and mindfulness
I too prefer when there's a number of complex interrelated things to figure out, puts you on top if you can use strategy over simple pay to play; or OCD style winning.
You can suggest but I'm on my phone, and don't like the bloat that it leads to. I deleted Fortnite and gained so much space back it was more enjoyable than the game, especially since it was pay to play and people would appear out of nowhere and lay waste to everything.
@terdon-stopharmingMonica good for you... I always preferred simplicity, even in D&D, used to be the warrior. Dash ahead and kill anything that moves. :D
@ShadowThePrincessWizard Most games have disabled and replaced lootbox functionality in belgium, as belgium was threatening criminal penalties on executives
Or cheap on the big ticket items, and have a box of junk - with the occasional super-box for the most chatty player, so they'll promote the box and get everyone to buy it.
there's a whole subfield of behavioral psychology to find the optimal reward and frustration structure to get people addicted to opening your lootboxes
@ShadowThePrincessWizard But that implies you have to eat the whole thing, in which case it very much becomes an important consideration beyond just staying green.
Why is this question off-topic: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340017/… ? While it is not about the software per se, social and organizational questions have always been allowed here.
And if you want to be nice, you don't do even that... because we don't discuss suspensions publicly so the person that returns after one can start with a clean slate, without having their suspension brought up to them.
my take on the question: It is only something SE could answer meaningfully, and they've decided not to, thus it is unanswerable. Also kind of weirdly personal
The concern I have with the suspension silence is I am seeing lots of people getting suspended without any real idea of why. That means that I cannot learn any lessons from them. I worry sometimes that I will make the same mistake they did without realizing it was bad, because no one told me. If the moderators are cracking down on potentially snarky comments, I can know to be extra careful.
@ColumbiasaysReinstateMonica Generally speaking you get warnings before you get suspended, and if you do, the first suspension will be short and accompanied by a mod message with instructions for how to avoid a longer one
@JohnDvorak Yeah, we're working on it... but until then, I'm sorry y'all have to deal with a never ending flood of negativity, answers that don't actually answer questions, reposting of and linking to deleted (r/a) content every other post, and people that weren't that much involved in moderating meta suddenly knowing better than the people that have done this for (often) years. :)
@ChrissaysReinstateMonica three is not "droves", less so one. Agree it would be ideal to know everything, but also agree with the policy of not discussing suspension in public.
@ChrissaysReinstateMonica that's exactly it. The number of suspensions here on MSE seems to be going up, and these are suspensions issued to people who don't seem to have done much wrong except make unpopular posts. That worries me. Is that all, and those unpopular posts are literally what got them suspended, or is there more underneath the surface and those unpopular posts are just one of many factors that get someone suspended?
@ColumbiasaysReinstateMonica And well, basically the reason you're seeing lots lately is probably on us. I do feel like I messed up and didn't get the troublemakers quickly enough. If I had, things wouldn't have gotten so bad, and suspensions not so clustered. But hindsight is always 20/20
@ColumbiasaysReinstateMonica consider that this is because lots of people have exhausted the "innocent mistake" excuse for their continously problematic behavior now. After a few warnings, suspension is the next step if no betterment occurs
@ShadowThePrincessWizard I was basing it more on the point Mr. Columbia seemed to try to make and less so on specific experience with the exact number of MSE suspensions.
If you've never been warned, unless you cross the line hard and clearly it's unlikely you'll get suspended. If you've been warned, the warning contains examples and general explaination as to what not to do.
@ColumbiasaysReinstateMonica It'll go down eventually ;) either people get unsuspended and stay that way.. or get longer suspensions meaning the total number of suspensions they can earn each year becomes much less ;)
@ShadowThePrincessWizard I got a warning some years ago on SO and it included 2 examples, but I only have one warning from 2016 to sample against personally, so :D
@Magisch ime this happens more frequently as sites mature. There's another community that I am a part of. Five to ten years ago, people got individualized feedback and warning periods. Nowadays, I hear from people that they didn't realize anything was wrong until they woke up one morning and they were permabanned for something vague like "inappropriate behavior". The problem was they wanted feedback and didn't get it until it was too late.
@ChrissaysReinstateMonica well to be serious, we have to consider split personality cases. That's a mental illness, and if someone can prove they have it, and one personality upvotes the other, its legit.
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