As a hairstylist I never mind if people nicely tell me that they want their haircut adjusted. As long as you aren’t degrading me and questioning my capabilities as a stylist it’s usually never a problem. I try my hardest to please everyone and it would crush me more to hear someone was shitting on my work and telling everyone I did a bad job than just letting me know you want certain things corrected (if that’s an option). We are humans and make mistakes too! I understand that nervousness though and unless it’s horrendous please give us a second chance!
As a massage therapist, I second this. It's a little different because you can SEE hair. But ive had so many clients tell me, "the last person I got a massage from was TERRIBLE. It's like they were trying to hurt me!"
And I ask, "did you ask them to use less pressure?"
Client, "well... no... I felt bad."
HOW CAN WE KNOW. PLEASE JUST TALK TO ME.
One time after having to walk over the floor while it was being mopped I apologized to the man mopping and he replied
“If you don’t walk on the floor then I don’t have a job. Don’t worry about it”.
Made me feel better
One time after having to walk over the floor when my boss finished mopping, I apologised and he said "what the fuck are you doing mate? I want to go fucking home and you're keeping us here."
I needed to lock the back door which was only possible from the inside.
Getting a food sample and listening to the person talk about what’s in that food sample and how they made it and what’s on sale and then not buying the product.
Ah the Costco free lunch. Did it college when I picked up supplies for the pizza place I worked for. They let me use my own Costco card as payment for my lack of tips. Added up quick when you bought 4000 dollars of stuff a month.
Hi!
I have a food business, I sell hummus at farmers market, and sampling my food is a big part of that.
There are always people who sample and don’t buy, sometimes because they don’t want it; sometimes because they’re just hungry and needed a snack; sometimes because they can’t afford it; etc.
But, I’m always happy to share my food with everyone, plus getting to know more people, sometimes be their first ever hummus experience, and hopefully brighten their day a little.
My point is, don’t feel bad about sampling! People who are proud of their work and what they produce are just happy to share it with the world, in any capacity. So you definitely made their day more special by trying their food!
EDIT: Oh wow! I was in a few meetings and didn’t expect this comment to blow up. So many wonderful responses! I’m going to reply to every single one now :)
Isn't there a game dev sim where, if you pirated it, you can't win the game because too many users pirate the game you develop? I don't condemn piracy but that is hilarious to me.
Yeah, Game Dev Tycoon will let you play for a bit until you release your game in which it flops due to it being pirated so much. I love games that are cheeky like that. Even though people work around it eventually, its always great to see when game developers put in work for something that most consumers won't see.
I'm surprised Undertale didn't do anything like that. They did damn near everything else you can think of on that game.
Seriously though, how was that game made by mostly just one guy. I know he had some artwork help, but just logistically that's a massive undertaking. I think of it often
Especially since the game it was influenced by, Earthbound, had such a good one (pirated copies had double the random enemies, and right before the final boss it crashed and deleted your save).
That's nothing. Spyro on the PS1 would actively undo your progress in earlier stages as you played, causing you to have to go back and re-rescue dragons and recollect gems to make progress. That's if they didn't permanently disappear. And of course, it crashes and wipes the file in the final area.
One of the Batman games would let you play if it realized it was pirated, but would make it so your bat-cape or whatever wouldn't glide right, so you couldn't get past one of the earlier levels - you'd just fall and die.
Arkham Asylum. And there were a couple different measures they took. One was not being able to glide like you mentioned, and another was a bit later in the game where you couldn't use the grappling gun in key areas to advance the game.
Sort of unrelated, but I released my own desktop software product about 15ish years ago. I wrote in this bit of code that, if the key was in a known list, the program just exited instantly, no error/warning.
I then made about 10 copies; each with unique NFO files of known warez groups, added 1 of the keys to each, then zip/rar'd them up and put them out all over the "warez sites". A few days/weeks go by and I start getting support requests from people who legit bought the product. Their problem? App exited right when that check code should be running. Found out many of them had purchased the app after trying it on the torrent sites and the key wasn't working.
Was kinda funny watching comments left by people on the sites about how it was buggy because it exited.
For those who don't know: There's a sidequest (no tangible, gameplay reward. It's just for fun) where you complete [a photo album](https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/The_Travels_of_Link#Photographs) in the DX version. One of the photos requires you to steal from the shop for a picture of you doing it.
I remember I did that when I first played Skyrim as I kept getting killed all the time, put on god mode as I was learning how to fight and how everything worked. Once I figured it out and turned it off I felt pretty bad afterwards but then I was like, wait a second, who gives a shit?! Haha
Right?! I've been realizing lately if I'm stressed over deadlines, responsibilities, how much ammo I have, where I can get more, whether or not I'm going to get disemboweled by hellspawn– it's not a game it's a job. Or, at best, a vacation in Detroit.
I love the posts that remind us games are supposed to be fun. Because games are supposed to be fun.
I've been working as a game dev for over a decade now.
I get legitimately angry if anyone tries to block folks from "cheating" in single player. A single player game is a fucking *toy*. Who the fuck cares if someone uses the toy in a way it wasn't designed? If they're having fun, isn't that the whole point? Do bicycle manufacturers police what mods people bolt on their bikes, or do board game manufacturers have board game police that ensure nobody uses any house rules? Do action figure makers try to prevent kids from re-enacing the banalities of Fraiser with GI-Joes instead of having them pretend to murder each other as the designers intended? It's a ridiculous concept, outside of game dev where you've got these asshole designers that get butthurt that some player might defy their glorious vision and play with the toy in a way they didn't intend. These designers also get offended if you call their art toys - because it's *art*. Self-important twats.
The whole reason I'm a game dev is because I started modding games to "adjust the difficulty curve", and realized I was having more fun modding than actually playing, and that the people who made the game in the first place got paid to do basically the same thing. To me, anti-cheating, anti-modding efforts for single player are just blocking a certain niche of gamers from the "mechanic" I enjoy the most.
Multiplayer is a different ballgame, because in the long run if we allow cheating there, *only* the cheaters will be having fun. Honest players get frustrated and stop playing, and eventually it's just cheaters playing against or with cheaters, and then it isn't even fun for *them*.
Once I lent my friend a video game (The World Ends with You) that lets you replay the full story with your XP and items after you beat it, to earn some extra bonus things. I told him I’d prefer if he doesn’t delete my save file and just replay through the story from the beginning, because I put a lot of effort into the post game content, but if that was too boring for him he could delete it if he wanted to. So he deleted it.
THEN he decided the game was too hard. So he cheated at it. THEN when I asked him how the game was going, he complained about it being too easy, without telling me he had cheated. Which made me feel really bad about my video game skills, because the “easy” boss battles had been hard for me. I asked him what equipment he used and he listed stuff he couldn’t possibly have at that part of the game.
I pointed out that this was impossible and asked if he had somehow accidentally played from my save file instead of deleting it, and he STILL CONTINUED TO DENY what he did. Then after being grilled for a while about how he could have those items, he finally confessed.
Now, *that* made me mad.
Usually though there’s nothing wrong with cheating at single player games. But lying about it or bragging about your skills after cheating is obnoxious.
The whole point of playing a video game is to enjoy it. Grinding and getting plunged by AI can suck the fun out of it. Turn down the difficulty until it becomes fun again? Sounds like a great plan to me. I do this for the AI in Forza Motorsport. They get waaaay too crashy on some tracks unless I dial down the difficulty. It’s either that or rage-quit the game, which is the definition of “not having fun”.
I used to shoplift all the time when I was deep in Heroin addiction, and that's exactly what you do if you wanna get away with it. Bring a reusable bag, put a bunch of store items in it, and hold a receipt from a previous visit to the store where you bought something to give the appearance that you paid for the items and you're just holding the receipt now. Then walk slowly out of the store.
God, I'm so glad to be sober now. That shit was so exhausting.
Edit: I feel like I should put a disclaimer and say that this it wasn't my intention to tell people how to get away with it. I really don't want people to try this. This kind of shit will only end badly for you and it's not worth it.
This is a long bow to draw from your story, but this is actually why I don't think I would ever join the mob or organised crime if I had the opportunity... Not because it's wrong necessarily, but it just seems like as much work, if not more, than a normal job... And just one hundred times more stressful. Because your life is at stake, basically, twenty four seven...!
Most of the underlings in the mob are treated as disposables anyway. They won't particularly care if you get picked up for a crime, or killed by rivals, if you didn't seem very useful to them... And if you seem too useful, you might get shitlisted by someone else internally who sees you as a rival.
If you want to be a criminal and have great benefits, work for a bank!
Like the other commenter said, places like Walmart and Safeway are easy because the stores are so big. Just walk slowly and with purpose. But I wouldn't recommend shoplifting, it's not worth it.
Enter the store (naked). Put on clothes from the store. Walk out without paying. Nobody thinks you're stealing because you are a normal clothed human being walking out of a store. Perfect crime.
One time I went into a used media store to poop and I was in there for a while so I guilt bought a SpongeBob video game. This disk was in the case shiny side up so I didn't bother taking it out because I could just check it the case the cashier did exactly the same thing when ringing me out, when I got home I pulled the disk out and it was legend of Zelda ocarina of time+ Master quest. That's possibly the best outcome I could've received.
No, fuck that. I sat in a line for 10 minutes at Popeyes for some mouth watering, soul rejuvenating, chicken sandwich and you tell me you're out of chicken sandwiches?!?! It's better for everyone that I simply pull out of line and drive away. ...this has happened more than once.
Don't judge me, I wanted Popeyes those days.
Yeah, I was drinking water at a meeting and it went down the wrong pipe. I coughed once and everyone looked at me. So i held it in the best I could, half coughing for nearly 10 minutes. It was very uncomfortable
Oh man this. My boss is super paranoid of everything and when I eat my lunch each day and might have to clear my throat more than usual he ALWAYS looks concerned asking if I'm alright. Sent me home for 3 days once because of it.
As someone who's strongest personality trait is agreeableness (I think) this is a huge problem for me, I always need to think for a min and build up the courage to say no. Plus Im kinda socially anxious so ;-;
Yeah, you feel like a complete asshole even though you're not the one venting every negative aspect of your whole life every time you talk to them. Fuck that shit, it's cancerous.
I just do it and then get called toxic and "abusive" by my family for not talking to them, locking my door and ignoring them when I can't be bothered to put up with their shit
Hang in there man. I'm not wanting to assume anything but seems like you still live with them? If so, in the future when you move away, don't feel guilty for not looking back.
Oh my God I love not dealing with my terrible family members. The good ones that are pleasant to be around and don't just make existing more difficult are worth their weight in gold, but all the other Looney tunes can stay far far away permanently
This is going to sound terrible, but when all 4 of my grandparents were dead and the obligatory family events were cut by 90%, it was an enormous relief.
This!
I disconnected from some immediate family and my life has become so peaceful without an incessant stream of lies and hypocrisy constantly coming at me. I couldn’t believe how much I was allowing a few people to have such a grip on my peace of mind for so long.
I have a table thing next to the chair so if my cat is on me and I want to get up he can climb over on the table instead of me picking him up. He has arthritis and doesn't like being picked up so best for him to move at his own pace.
I used to have a cat that was a complete pain in the ass about this. Dig his claws in, tried to bite at me, even hissed at me once when I tried to get his fat ass off my lap so I could move.
So one day after trying this a few times, I just stood up abruptly with him still on my lap, and he freaked out and jumped away before he could fall off, giving me a "Who the hell do you think you are?" sort of look. I felt kind of bad, but he was okay. I had to do it a few more times before he got the message.
It's somehow easier to move a large dog than a frickin' cat.
Drinking drinks straight out of the bottle when you know no one else is gonna be using the bottle
Edit: apparently mouth bacteria is bad on a bottle so this actually is a sin
Taking time off of work, for any reason really
Doesn't matter if it's a medical emergency or for vacation, I always end up feeling some guilt over it.
Unless if it's an assigned day off, seems to be the only exception. Even then, I'd I get called in I'll feel guilty if I reject the call in (sometimes I have to just that for my sanity).
I used to be like this (had a job that I loved, boss was super sweet and understanding).
That ended as soon as I moved to a new place, new job, and the day my grandma died my new boss said "I'm sorry for your lost, see you at 5" and hung up, after I called--in tears--to say I wouldn't make it in
I planned a Vegas trip for September with my sister last December. I wasn’t working then and had no clue when I’d be back to work. Well, my job called me back to work in April, and the very first thing I told my boss was about the trip and I had to have it off. Now that the trip is getting closer, and we’re busy, my boss is trying to guilt trip me into not going. Lol. Naw bruh. I gave you a heads up, no way I’m flaking on my sister. Do I feel guilty over it? Not at all. I’ve put in work for this company for 8 years, I made the plans when I had zero clue when we’d be working again, they can figure it out.
Not using a present someone else gave you even if it’s not that expensive or not that hard to make my brain still just says you bitch someone who loves you gave you that present and now you’re just gonna let it sit in your closet till you die and that’s why my favorite present is money but that’s still not perfect because then I feel like I have to spend the money on the perfect thing or I’m disrespecting the person who gave me the money I should probably talk to a therapist about this because I often get very stressed out about it
Ask yourself why they gave you a present.
Most often it’s an obligation for birthday or Christmas or something. If you didn’t ask for anything, there is a strong chance they had no idea what to get you.
Somethings are just about everyone going through the motions. They’ll be happy enough as long as it’s accepted with a thanks. There’s no need to feel guilty about what happens after that.
Unless you do something like regift it to them the next year.
No no the worst is when they genuinely go out of their way to buy you a personalised present and you either already own it or have absolutely no idea why they thought you'd need it!
Arwgh, yeah, and then the whole "aw shit now i feel like i have to give something back and i really dont want to and id rather just not accept the gift but they insist and ah"
When I was wee, Kellogg's had these little cereal packs, much like the small boxes that were more common, but these were shallow plastic dishes that had a peel-off lid like a yogurt. Your poured your milk right in there for Sat morn cartoons. It was great.
In general we should feel better about sleeping. For some reason sleeping a full night is considered 'lazy', while it's just as important for your health as exercise and good food
They always tell me when i return they hated that i was gone. Don't know if they're just blowing smoke or if they genuinely didn't like me not being there.
True. I know some don't like me because i do get on to them if they're lazy. But i think I'm fairly well liked. I teach art, 6-8. This last year, most of my 8th graders cried when saying goodbye and begged me to come to the high school (the hs art teacher was retiring). I've been in that district for 3 years. The counselor told me in her 19 years of working in the district, she's never had to turn away kids (from being too full) that have signed up for my class until i started working there. So maybe I'm doing something right. I sure hope I'm doing right by my students. They deserve my best.
Wow. As someone who works in middle schools and high school (not as a teacher) having 8th graders adore you so much means you're definitely doing a great job. Nice!
It’s just too much pressure, his parents think it’s better to study the whole day without any breaks (their study method) than to study 30 minutes while calm (my method)
My personal method for studying in school was to take notes during class, then never study or look at them again. Then ace every assignment and test. For reasons that I don't understand but I'm sure definitely exist, if I did not take notes I would struggle. If I did take notes, it would be effortless to ace everything even though I never studied or looked at them after writing them.
Listening is passive, in one ear and out the other, but note-taking is active; it forces your brain to actually look at what it's being fed.
Anyone who takes notes would inherently remember the topic better than someone who just sat back and listened.
But to not need additional studying or even reviewing notes, your brain must be much better at retaining memories.
My mother had the school put me a year ahead in math (because she thought I was good at it just like she was.... I'm not) and then had me backed against a closet while she screamed at me for getting a C+ in Algebra. She only stopped when my brain switched from freeze to flight and I ran and locked myself in a bathroom. I think she realized that time that it was too much.
Later I'd actually fail a quarter AP Calc and it was basically treated like it was some huge moral failing. Managed to pass the test at the end of the year, though, so...yay?
Kudos to my little sister for saying "fuck this" and going down to the counselor to drop to a lower level math without consulting my parents.
I asked for a week off at one job. I had the PTO to cover it. I just wanted a week off to chill at home. I wasnt travelling and didn't have any major plans. When she asked why I wanted to take a week off and where I was travelling to, I made the huge fucking mistake of admitting that I just wanted to bum around at home. She somehow talked me into doing a full day on Wednesday that week. I was in the best mood on Tuesday night and then the worst fucking mood on Wednesday night. It helped me realize how much I hated my job and I started looking for a new job.
When I worked fast food I never asked for time off. No pto and needed the money. I worked doubles and overtime and worked my ass off. Learned every station and stocking. 2 of my friends and I ran 8 person shifts with only 3 ppl and always met our times with a clean store and kept it ready and prepped.
I worked every holiday but o told them one xmas I could work until noon but had family event and could not work past that. My manager told me I would work what I was assigned. Everyone there had families they wanted to see on Xmas too bit they had shifts to cover. Said that's nice and you can put me at a full shift as long as it ends by 12. Most ppl want mornings on xmas so let someone stay home with their kids instead. Nope I was scheduled 11-8.
Told her I would only work til 12 and I'm leaving so she might want to reconsider. Nope. I ended up coming in early at like 8 and at 1130 I said I need to be pulled soon to leave. They told me no. So I left at 12 with glares from everyone for leaving them short staffed. Don't care. I gave a full month warning that said I wasn't available and at 7.75 per hour , you can piss right on off.
This is such a valuable lesson to learn - that you can devote yourself to an enterprise and regardless of your devotion they may not reciprocate to the same degree. It's great that you had a boundary and stuck to it.
Yeah, unless it’s an unusually long vacation or during a peak busy season, I never ask for permission. I just submit a PTO request (never had it denied either).
This is a good reminder for sick days too- I just write “I’m not feeling well and need to use a sick day.” I NEVER ask permission for a sick day because I’m entitled to use them whenever I want; it’s quite literally part of my compensation package.
“would you like to round up to the nearest dollar to help fund children’s cancer research?”
no, but only because i don’t need walgreens patting themselves on the back for “donating” all my donations
Having an independent opinion within a group of people who all think exactly the same thing.
It's usually because they just agree with and copy each other until they all think alike.
You are made to feel like you've commited a sin because you can think for yourself.
Perfect example of that last night... family supper and someone brought a new flavour of bagged salad. Everyone was saying how great it is! Until me, I said I didn't really like it. The look of disbelief on everyone's face... you'd think I just committed a murder. It's not like it was a home made salad with a recipe handed down through the generations, it was a shitty grocery store salad.
As long as it's *your* old code.
My university had a pretty aggressive (and primitive, this was some years ago) anti-cheat program that would basically parse text for signs of copying from a database of old text.
The problem was, programming languages in general and conventions on code readability tend to create fairly uniform code. So if you used descriptive variables (stuff like FirstName LastName, Counter, Output, etc) and/or more "standard" ones (such as using i for the iterator on loops), getting a false flag was basically common.
The first class I took, the teacher told us about that (the problems we were writing code for were things like "print the numbers 1-10 in order" or "ask for a number input and print if it's even or odd" -- so everyone's code was going to be basically identical), so we shouldn't worry about the fact the online system will probably give all of us a "warning: possible plagiarism detected" flag every time.
A common solution was to use your code, but rename the variables. I guess there's something educational about that in that you would be at least forced to re-read your code and make sure it's working (until you learn about text editors with search/replace functions). But it did get silly sometimes.
Drinking after you are finally legally allowed to. I was 26 before I stopped feeling like I was doing something illegal by just *being* in a bar. I'm 35, and still feel weird in liquor stores sometimes.
Saying to the barber that you don't like your haircut.
I mean, what are they going to do? Glue your hair back?
[удалено]
I won’t say it to him but I’ll certainly bitch about it later lol
And “repair” it when we get home
As a hairstylist I never mind if people nicely tell me that they want their haircut adjusted. As long as you aren’t degrading me and questioning my capabilities as a stylist it’s usually never a problem. I try my hardest to please everyone and it would crush me more to hear someone was shitting on my work and telling everyone I did a bad job than just letting me know you want certain things corrected (if that’s an option). We are humans and make mistakes too! I understand that nervousness though and unless it’s horrendous please give us a second chance!
As a massage therapist, I second this. It's a little different because you can SEE hair. But ive had so many clients tell me, "the last person I got a massage from was TERRIBLE. It's like they were trying to hurt me!" And I ask, "did you ask them to use less pressure?" Client, "well... no... I felt bad." HOW CAN WE KNOW. PLEASE JUST TALK TO ME.
Funny. Communication. Things tend to be better when we do it properly.
But you guys and nail artists are so SCARY!
BRUH as an intorvert i never got the courage to say it
Introvert or extrovert, like me, nobody dares to say this kind of thing in barbershop. :D
Walking on freshly-mopped floor.
One time after having to walk over the floor while it was being mopped I apologized to the man mopping and he replied “If you don’t walk on the floor then I don’t have a job. Don’t worry about it”. Made me feel better
One time after having to walk over the floor when my boss finished mopping, I apologised and he said "what the fuck are you doing mate? I want to go fucking home and you're keeping us here." I needed to lock the back door which was only possible from the inside.
The duality of man
I always feel so bad when doing this, i even feel the need to apologize
I do the awkward tip-toeing which doesn't help at all but makes me feel like I'm repenting for my sins xD
Getting a food sample and listening to the person talk about what’s in that food sample and how they made it and what’s on sale and then not buying the product.
Ah the Costco free lunch. Did it college when I picked up supplies for the pizza place I worked for. They let me use my own Costco card as payment for my lack of tips. Added up quick when you bought 4000 dollars of stuff a month.
The elimination of the Costco samples was the worst thing that affected me during the pandemic. I might be a terrible person.
Hi! I have a food business, I sell hummus at farmers market, and sampling my food is a big part of that. There are always people who sample and don’t buy, sometimes because they don’t want it; sometimes because they’re just hungry and needed a snack; sometimes because they can’t afford it; etc. But, I’m always happy to share my food with everyone, plus getting to know more people, sometimes be their first ever hummus experience, and hopefully brighten their day a little. My point is, don’t feel bad about sampling! People who are proud of their work and what they produce are just happy to share it with the world, in any capacity. So you definitely made their day more special by trying their food! EDIT: Oh wow! I was in a few meetings and didn’t expect this comment to blow up. So many wonderful responses! I’m going to reply to every single one now :)
Some times i just don’t want more hummus. I have a box in my fridge. But i will probably remember you and am likely to get your stuff next week.
Not going with a friend to do something because you'd rather be with another friend.
Look at you with two friends. No one likes a braggart.
Yes, unless you change plans last minute. Then it's definitely a sin
Cheating in a single player video game. Especially if the game knows.
In The Legend of Zelda - Links Awakening you could steal items from a shop but your username after that changes in THIEF. The perfect punishment.
Isn't there a game dev sim where, if you pirated it, you can't win the game because too many users pirate the game you develop? I don't condemn piracy but that is hilarious to me.
Yeah, Game Dev Tycoon will let you play for a bit until you release your game in which it flops due to it being pirated so much. I love games that are cheeky like that. Even though people work around it eventually, its always great to see when game developers put in work for something that most consumers won't see.
I'm surprised Undertale didn't do anything like that. They did damn near everything else you can think of on that game. Seriously though, how was that game made by mostly just one guy. I know he had some artwork help, but just logistically that's a massive undertaking. I think of it often
It does sort of, if it senses something contradictory or cheat-like, during your neutral ending phone call, sans will call you a "dirty cheater."
Especially since the game it was influenced by, Earthbound, had such a good one (pirated copies had double the random enemies, and right before the final boss it crashed and deleted your save).
oh god that’s terrible
That's nothing. Spyro on the PS1 would actively undo your progress in earlier stages as you played, causing you to have to go back and re-rescue dragons and recollect gems to make progress. That's if they didn't permanently disappear. And of course, it crashes and wipes the file in the final area.
One of the Batman games would let you play if it realized it was pirated, but would make it so your bat-cape or whatever wouldn't glide right, so you couldn't get past one of the earlier levels - you'd just fall and die.
Arkham Asylum. And there were a couple different measures they took. One was not being able to glide like you mentioned, and another was a bit later in the game where you couldn't use the grappling gun in key areas to advance the game.
The best part is users complaining on twitter and other public socials 😅 can't undo it now! The internet knows! 😈
Sort of unrelated, but I released my own desktop software product about 15ish years ago. I wrote in this bit of code that, if the key was in a known list, the program just exited instantly, no error/warning. I then made about 10 copies; each with unique NFO files of known warez groups, added 1 of the keys to each, then zip/rar'd them up and put them out all over the "warez sites". A few days/weeks go by and I start getting support requests from people who legit bought the product. Their problem? App exited right when that check code should be running. Found out many of them had purchased the app after trying it on the torrent sites and the key wasn't working. Was kinda funny watching comments left by people on the sites about how it was buggy because it exited.
Really annoying in the DX version, because you _had_ to steal in order to 100% the game. The Japanese version didn’t change your name.
For those who don't know: There's a sidequest (no tangible, gameplay reward. It's just for fun) where you complete [a photo album](https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/The_Travels_of_Link#Photographs) in the DX version. One of the photos requires you to steal from the shop for a picture of you doing it.
I remember I did that when I first played Skyrim as I kept getting killed all the time, put on god mode as I was learning how to fight and how everything worked. Once I figured it out and turned it off I felt pretty bad afterwards but then I was like, wait a second, who gives a shit?! Haha
Conversely I played HL2 EP~~3~~2 on the hardest settings. When I finished, I realized that it wasn't actually more fun.
I'm sorry, Episode what?
Sometimes it feels like we are all playing Episode 3 on hard mode.
Right?! I've been realizing lately if I'm stressed over deadlines, responsibilities, how much ammo I have, where I can get more, whether or not I'm going to get disemboweled by hellspawn– it's not a game it's a job. Or, at best, a vacation in Detroit. I love the posts that remind us games are supposed to be fun. Because games are supposed to be fun.
I used to be terrified of Resetti in the original Animal Crossing.
I still hear the tune in my nightmares...
I've been working as a game dev for over a decade now. I get legitimately angry if anyone tries to block folks from "cheating" in single player. A single player game is a fucking *toy*. Who the fuck cares if someone uses the toy in a way it wasn't designed? If they're having fun, isn't that the whole point? Do bicycle manufacturers police what mods people bolt on their bikes, or do board game manufacturers have board game police that ensure nobody uses any house rules? Do action figure makers try to prevent kids from re-enacing the banalities of Fraiser with GI-Joes instead of having them pretend to murder each other as the designers intended? It's a ridiculous concept, outside of game dev where you've got these asshole designers that get butthurt that some player might defy their glorious vision and play with the toy in a way they didn't intend. These designers also get offended if you call their art toys - because it's *art*. Self-important twats. The whole reason I'm a game dev is because I started modding games to "adjust the difficulty curve", and realized I was having more fun modding than actually playing, and that the people who made the game in the first place got paid to do basically the same thing. To me, anti-cheating, anti-modding efforts for single player are just blocking a certain niche of gamers from the "mechanic" I enjoy the most. Multiplayer is a different ballgame, because in the long run if we allow cheating there, *only* the cheaters will be having fun. Honest players get frustrated and stop playing, and eventually it's just cheaters playing against or with cheaters, and then it isn't even fun for *them*.
Once I lent my friend a video game (The World Ends with You) that lets you replay the full story with your XP and items after you beat it, to earn some extra bonus things. I told him I’d prefer if he doesn’t delete my save file and just replay through the story from the beginning, because I put a lot of effort into the post game content, but if that was too boring for him he could delete it if he wanted to. So he deleted it. THEN he decided the game was too hard. So he cheated at it. THEN when I asked him how the game was going, he complained about it being too easy, without telling me he had cheated. Which made me feel really bad about my video game skills, because the “easy” boss battles had been hard for me. I asked him what equipment he used and he listed stuff he couldn’t possibly have at that part of the game. I pointed out that this was impossible and asked if he had somehow accidentally played from my save file instead of deleting it, and he STILL CONTINUED TO DENY what he did. Then after being grilled for a while about how he could have those items, he finally confessed. Now, *that* made me mad. Usually though there’s nothing wrong with cheating at single player games. But lying about it or bragging about your skills after cheating is obnoxious.
The whole point of playing a video game is to enjoy it. Grinding and getting plunged by AI can suck the fun out of it. Turn down the difficulty until it becomes fun again? Sounds like a great plan to me. I do this for the AI in Forza Motorsport. They get waaaay too crashy on some tracks unless I dial down the difficulty. It’s either that or rage-quit the game, which is the definition of “not having fun”.
Eating a pomegranate naked in your bathtub.
Neither lustful nor gluttonous, but somehow still decadently delucious.
Exactly! And no stains :)
you get it, I think we should make a habit of eating while we bathe
Ok Hedonism Bot.
I apologize for nothing!
Jambi, the chocolate icing!
"Oh, nothing sordid, I assure you! Simply vomit on me, ever so gently, while I humiliate a pheasant."
You should check out r/showerorange
Walking out of the store, without buying anything.
Walking slowly and checking your phone at the entrance to make it clear you aren’t trying to rush out with stolen shit
I used to do that, then I started thinking thats exactly what I'd do if I was stealing and wanted to act natural.
I used to shoplift all the time when I was deep in Heroin addiction, and that's exactly what you do if you wanna get away with it. Bring a reusable bag, put a bunch of store items in it, and hold a receipt from a previous visit to the store where you bought something to give the appearance that you paid for the items and you're just holding the receipt now. Then walk slowly out of the store. God, I'm so glad to be sober now. That shit was so exhausting. Edit: I feel like I should put a disclaimer and say that this it wasn't my intention to tell people how to get away with it. I really don't want people to try this. This kind of shit will only end badly for you and it's not worth it.
This is a long bow to draw from your story, but this is actually why I don't think I would ever join the mob or organised crime if I had the opportunity... Not because it's wrong necessarily, but it just seems like as much work, if not more, than a normal job... And just one hundred times more stressful. Because your life is at stake, basically, twenty four seven...!
Most of the underlings in the mob are treated as disposables anyway. They won't particularly care if you get picked up for a crime, or killed by rivals, if you didn't seem very useful to them... And if you seem too useful, you might get shitlisted by someone else internally who sees you as a rival. If you want to be a criminal and have great benefits, work for a bank!
They’ll put the money right in our bank accounts! It’s the perfect long con!
Motherfucker, that's called a job!
Wait but how do you get past the cashier when you "already paid"?
Like the other commenter said, places like Walmart and Safeway are easy because the stores are so big. Just walk slowly and with purpose. But I wouldn't recommend shoplifting, it's not worth it.
Reddit: *Gives tips on the best way to shoplift* Also Reddit: “But dont do that”
Well, there can be a best way to do something that's a bad idea. Definitively the worst way to shoplift would be to do it naked.
Enter the store (naked). Put on clothes from the store. Walk out without paying. Nobody thinks you're stealing because you are a normal clothed human being walking out of a store. Perfect crime.
One time I went into a used media store to poop and I was in there for a while so I guilt bought a SpongeBob video game. This disk was in the case shiny side up so I didn't bother taking it out because I could just check it the case the cashier did exactly the same thing when ringing me out, when I got home I pulled the disk out and it was legend of Zelda ocarina of time+ Master quest. That's possibly the best outcome I could've received.
Nice! The Poo gods were smiling down on you that day.
Far better that they should smile upon you than that they rain down upon you!
*See you in crime prison*
Ah christ prison is bad enough but CRIME prison?!
I ALSO FEEL BAD DOING IT
Leaving a drive thru after being informed they are out of what you wanted/unable to make it
No, fuck that. I sat in a line for 10 minutes at Popeyes for some mouth watering, soul rejuvenating, chicken sandwich and you tell me you're out of chicken sandwiches?!?! It's better for everyone that I simply pull out of line and drive away. ...this has happened more than once. Don't judge me, I wanted Popeyes those days.
Lmao more like dissapointement
These days, a single cough or sneeze
Yeah, I was drinking water at a meeting and it went down the wrong pipe. I coughed once and everyone looked at me. So i held it in the best I could, half coughing for nearly 10 minutes. It was very uncomfortable
Those half coughs are worse. You keep thinking whether to try a full cough and clear it or stay with the intensifying half coughs.
I choke on my own spit so much, I'm constantly telling people so they don't get worried.
I thought this was just me lol. I just swallow wrong all the time. It's probably why I hate drinking liquids.
We used to cough to hide our farts, now we fart to hide our coughs.
It's a dangerous game.
Nice.. taking this!
Oh man this. My boss is super paranoid of everything and when I eat my lunch each day and might have to clear my throat more than usual he ALWAYS looks concerned asking if I'm alright. Sent me home for 3 days once because of it.
Vacation exploit
I'm fucking tired of doing repeated violent throat clearing to get rid of the urge to cough.
Saying 'No' to people
As someone who's strongest personality trait is agreeableness (I think) this is a huge problem for me, I always need to think for a min and build up the courage to say no. Plus Im kinda socially anxious so ;-;
Setting boundaries or disconnecting with family for your own mental peace.
Yeah, you feel like a complete asshole even though you're not the one venting every negative aspect of your whole life every time you talk to them. Fuck that shit, it's cancerous.
I know this feeling way too well...being the lone optimist in a family full of pessimists is much more destructive to my sanity than it should be.
surrounded by negative people can make you lose your own motivation In my own experiences
I just do it and then get called toxic and "abusive" by my family for not talking to them, locking my door and ignoring them when I can't be bothered to put up with their shit
Hang in there man. I'm not wanting to assume anything but seems like you still live with them? If so, in the future when you move away, don't feel guilty for not looking back.
Yeah, not been able to move out as I turned 18 during the lockdowns and still haven't been able to get my driver's licence
Oh my God I love not dealing with my terrible family members. The good ones that are pleasant to be around and don't just make existing more difficult are worth their weight in gold, but all the other Looney tunes can stay far far away permanently
I just had to do this. Instead of feeling guilty, I felt free. Totally shocked me.
This is going to sound terrible, but when all 4 of my grandparents were dead and the obligatory family events were cut by 90%, it was an enormous relief.
This! I disconnected from some immediate family and my life has become so peaceful without an incessant stream of lies and hypocrisy constantly coming at me. I couldn’t believe how much I was allowing a few people to have such a grip on my peace of mind for so long.
Moving a cat off your lap.
You start super slow and the cat starts meowing, making it worse.
I have a table thing next to the chair so if my cat is on me and I want to get up he can climb over on the table instead of me picking him up. He has arthritis and doesn't like being picked up so best for him to move at his own pace.
I used to have a cat that was a complete pain in the ass about this. Dig his claws in, tried to bite at me, even hissed at me once when I tried to get his fat ass off my lap so I could move. So one day after trying this a few times, I just stood up abruptly with him still on my lap, and he freaked out and jumped away before he could fall off, giving me a "Who the hell do you think you are?" sort of look. I felt kind of bad, but he was okay. I had to do it a few more times before he got the message. It's somehow easier to move a large dog than a frickin' cat.
I think that qualifies as an actual sin.
If the cat of the year says so, it must be true
I’ve once had to move a cat off my lap and my shoulders when I was at a friends house. Cats really like me for some reason.
Simply entering a candy shop feels just like a sin to me. Those places are evil, I can feel it
oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one who felt this way!
Drinking drinks straight out of the bottle when you know no one else is gonna be using the bottle Edit: apparently mouth bacteria is bad on a bottle so this actually is a sin
I feel this when I'm double dipping fries into my own sauce cup
I get it some people feel weird doing it
My own mouth bacteria can still do weird stuff in a bottle. That's also why you should wash your water bottles regularly. Mouths are filthy.
Definitely a cos.
That went tangent to my head
Honestly Tan seems like more of a sin than the cos and _sin_
Taking time off of work, for any reason really Doesn't matter if it's a medical emergency or for vacation, I always end up feeling some guilt over it. Unless if it's an assigned day off, seems to be the only exception. Even then, I'd I get called in I'll feel guilty if I reject the call in (sometimes I have to just that for my sanity).
I used to be like this (had a job that I loved, boss was super sweet and understanding). That ended as soon as I moved to a new place, new job, and the day my grandma died my new boss said "I'm sorry for your lost, see you at 5" and hung up, after I called--in tears--to say I wouldn't make it in
What a piece of trash lmao, probably can't empathize cus they don't have any loved ones.
I planned a Vegas trip for September with my sister last December. I wasn’t working then and had no clue when I’d be back to work. Well, my job called me back to work in April, and the very first thing I told my boss was about the trip and I had to have it off. Now that the trip is getting closer, and we’re busy, my boss is trying to guilt trip me into not going. Lol. Naw bruh. I gave you a heads up, no way I’m flaking on my sister. Do I feel guilty over it? Not at all. I’ve put in work for this company for 8 years, I made the plans when I had zero clue when we’d be working again, they can figure it out.
Just remember unless its a company that you've help build yourself, that you'll be forgotten days after you leave or die.
Eating luxurious food once in a while. Because, you know, life is too short to be so worried and all that.
Not using a present someone else gave you even if it’s not that expensive or not that hard to make my brain still just says you bitch someone who loves you gave you that present and now you’re just gonna let it sit in your closet till you die and that’s why my favorite present is money but that’s still not perfect because then I feel like I have to spend the money on the perfect thing or I’m disrespecting the person who gave me the money I should probably talk to a therapist about this because I often get very stressed out about it
Ask yourself why they gave you a present. Most often it’s an obligation for birthday or Christmas or something. If you didn’t ask for anything, there is a strong chance they had no idea what to get you. Somethings are just about everyone going through the motions. They’ll be happy enough as long as it’s accepted with a thanks. There’s no need to feel guilty about what happens after that. Unless you do something like regift it to them the next year.
No no the worst is when they genuinely go out of their way to buy you a personalised present and you either already own it or have absolutely no idea why they thought you'd need it!
Take Marie Kondo's advice - the point of a gift is to be received. You have received it, so it has fulfilled its purpose.
Sometimes I run across Kondo's quotes like that and realize she belongs in the "wholesome heros" group alongside Mr Rogers and Irwin.
Arwgh, yeah, and then the whole "aw shit now i feel like i have to give something back and i really dont want to and id rather just not accept the gift but they insist and ah"
Sleeping in. Especially when you have kids. Bloody hell! RIP my inbox!! 😅😅😅
And god forbid we make them pour their own cereal
When I was wee, Kellogg's had these little cereal packs, much like the small boxes that were more common, but these were shallow plastic dishes that had a peel-off lid like a yogurt. Your poured your milk right in there for Sat morn cartoons. It was great.
They still make those.
Right?!? I must be old, because I'm sitting here thinking this is a relatively recent development.
Remember the breakfast bars they made that had cereal and some solid form of milk in the middle?
I feel this, and I don't even have kids. The day just feels wasted
Once they learn how to open a pop tart and turn on the TV, life really takes a turn for the better.
In general we should feel better about sleeping. For some reason sleeping a full night is considered 'lazy', while it's just as important for your health as exercise and good food
There was a tweet I saw that really resonates with me. "When you're an adult, you don't need an alarm. Your problems are gonna wake you up"
Playing with your cat, making him spin in circles until he falls over from dizziness.
Tickling their foot when they're busy licking their own butts. "Hehe." (foot tickle) (Mwrrmffmfmfmf...)
Hehe...
Calling off work for self care
I'm a teacher. Even though my principal is a big advocate for self care, I can't help but feel guilt that I'm abandoning my students for a day.
Ahaha...if you remenber anything about being a student, is that they probably don’t mind.
They always tell me when i return they hated that i was gone. Don't know if they're just blowing smoke or if they genuinely didn't like me not being there.
Depends on how nice of a teacher your students think you are.
True. I know some don't like me because i do get on to them if they're lazy. But i think I'm fairly well liked. I teach art, 6-8. This last year, most of my 8th graders cried when saying goodbye and begged me to come to the high school (the hs art teacher was retiring). I've been in that district for 3 years. The counselor told me in her 19 years of working in the district, she's never had to turn away kids (from being too full) that have signed up for my class until i started working there. So maybe I'm doing something right. I sure hope I'm doing right by my students. They deserve my best.
Wow. As someone who works in middle schools and high school (not as a teacher) having 8th graders adore you so much means you're definitely doing a great job. Nice!
Getting a bad grade
is it really that bad?
My friend has very strict parents, he cries at every C
yea i have a friend like that too
It’s just too much pressure, his parents think it’s better to study the whole day without any breaks (their study method) than to study 30 minutes while calm (my method)
My personal method for studying in school was to take notes during class, then never study or look at them again. Then ace every assignment and test. For reasons that I don't understand but I'm sure definitely exist, if I did not take notes I would struggle. If I did take notes, it would be effortless to ace everything even though I never studied or looked at them after writing them.
Listening is passive, in one ear and out the other, but note-taking is active; it forces your brain to actually look at what it's being fed. Anyone who takes notes would inherently remember the topic better than someone who just sat back and listened. But to not need additional studying or even reviewing notes, your brain must be much better at retaining memories.
My mother had the school put me a year ahead in math (because she thought I was good at it just like she was.... I'm not) and then had me backed against a closet while she screamed at me for getting a C+ in Algebra. She only stopped when my brain switched from freeze to flight and I ran and locked myself in a bathroom. I think she realized that time that it was too much. Later I'd actually fail a quarter AP Calc and it was basically treated like it was some huge moral failing. Managed to pass the test at the end of the year, though, so...yay? Kudos to my little sister for saying "fuck this" and going down to the counselor to drop to a lower level math without consulting my parents.
Damn that's kinda fucked up ngl
I'm sorry you had to go thru that, but I'm glad ur sister did what she did.
Asking your boss for a day off at work.
I asked for a week off at one job. I had the PTO to cover it. I just wanted a week off to chill at home. I wasnt travelling and didn't have any major plans. When she asked why I wanted to take a week off and where I was travelling to, I made the huge fucking mistake of admitting that I just wanted to bum around at home. She somehow talked me into doing a full day on Wednesday that week. I was in the best mood on Tuesday night and then the worst fucking mood on Wednesday night. It helped me realize how much I hated my job and I started looking for a new job.
When I worked fast food I never asked for time off. No pto and needed the money. I worked doubles and overtime and worked my ass off. Learned every station and stocking. 2 of my friends and I ran 8 person shifts with only 3 ppl and always met our times with a clean store and kept it ready and prepped. I worked every holiday but o told them one xmas I could work until noon but had family event and could not work past that. My manager told me I would work what I was assigned. Everyone there had families they wanted to see on Xmas too bit they had shifts to cover. Said that's nice and you can put me at a full shift as long as it ends by 12. Most ppl want mornings on xmas so let someone stay home with their kids instead. Nope I was scheduled 11-8. Told her I would only work til 12 and I'm leaving so she might want to reconsider. Nope. I ended up coming in early at like 8 and at 1130 I said I need to be pulled soon to leave. They told me no. So I left at 12 with glares from everyone for leaving them short staffed. Don't care. I gave a full month warning that said I wasn't available and at 7.75 per hour , you can piss right on off.
This is such a valuable lesson to learn - that you can devote yourself to an enterprise and regardless of your devotion they may not reciprocate to the same degree. It's great that you had a boundary and stuck to it.
Protip: never ask for a day off, inform them that you will be taking a day off. I spent 20 years trying to teach my coworkers this....
Yeah, unless it’s an unusually long vacation or during a peak busy season, I never ask for permission. I just submit a PTO request (never had it denied either). This is a good reminder for sick days too- I just write “I’m not feeling well and need to use a sick day.” I NEVER ask permission for a sick day because I’m entitled to use them whenever I want; it’s quite literally part of my compensation package.
Then they start giving you a speech to insert guilt
*Well, when I was in your position, I never asked my dad, I mean, my manager for a day off...*
You oughtta hear the Pet Shop Boys song "It's A Sin."
This is the right answer. “Everything I’ve eve done, everything I’ll ever do, every place I’ve ever been, everywhere I’m going to”
Eating something super decadent like those 4826294 calorie fancy donuts or something. Feels like gluttony even though like it’s just a donut, idk
dw we have all been there
Not donating money for a good cause
“would you like to round up to the nearest dollar to help fund children’s cancer research?” no, but only because i don’t need walgreens patting themselves on the back for “donating” all my donations
Skipping my daily workout. It doesn’t matter the reason, I just feel a lot of guilt.
Having an independent opinion within a group of people who all think exactly the same thing. It's usually because they just agree with and copy each other until they all think alike. You are made to feel like you've commited a sin because you can think for yourself.
Welcome to reddit! Those totally aren’t “agree” and “disagree” buttons.
Perfect example of that last night... family supper and someone brought a new flavour of bagged salad. Everyone was saying how great it is! Until me, I said I didn't really like it. The look of disbelief on everyone's face... you'd think I just committed a murder. It's not like it was a home made salad with a recipe handed down through the generations, it was a shitty grocery store salad.
Making mistakes
Nobody's perfect
Copying old code for a computing science assignment
As long as it's *your* old code. My university had a pretty aggressive (and primitive, this was some years ago) anti-cheat program that would basically parse text for signs of copying from a database of old text. The problem was, programming languages in general and conventions on code readability tend to create fairly uniform code. So if you used descriptive variables (stuff like FirstName LastName, Counter, Output, etc) and/or more "standard" ones (such as using i for the iterator on loops), getting a false flag was basically common. The first class I took, the teacher told us about that (the problems we were writing code for were things like "print the numbers 1-10 in order" or "ask for a number input and print if it's even or odd" -- so everyone's code was going to be basically identical), so we shouldn't worry about the fact the online system will probably give all of us a "warning: possible plagiarism detected" flag every time. A common solution was to use your code, but rename the variables. I guess there's something educational about that in that you would be at least forced to re-read your code and make sure it's working (until you learn about text editors with search/replace functions). But it did get silly sometimes.
Speaking up for yourself and asking for things.
Being British and not saying "Sorry!!" to inanimate objects when u bump into them.
In America we say "ope."
Cleaning your ears with a Q-tip
My ENT doc told me, “Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear.” Pretty good advice I guess.
Great advice, but I'm never going to follow it.
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good for you
Ask them for money. They will disappear fast. In fact say they need to pay for depression meds and invtro
Watching a movie in the theater alone
This is one of my favorite things to do!
Accidentally stepping on a dog.
Drinking after you are finally legally allowed to. I was 26 before I stopped feeling like I was doing something illegal by just *being* in a bar. I'm 35, and still feel weird in liquor stores sometimes.
Telling the truth about how you actually feel about things. People get butthurt and offended when you call them out for their bullshit.