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Alright, yo, it isn't even throttle time yet. WTF internet speed is this!? What are we even paying for??

I try to stay professional at work, but I want to know if wasting time is a legitimate haggling strategy. Why, after explaining our reasoning for a reduced counter offer do people bother countering our counter offer with a lower price with no message? At least make an attempt to reason your haggles.

Alright, throttling is one thing, but Optimum Online just straight up throttled us all the way tonight. The internet is dead. Nothing will connect. At the same time nearly every night when they throttle us. "No outages reported." What a load of bullshit.

Great, Dunkin Donuts' Rewards require a bit more points than before for the same rewards, and the points also expire now after a year. Even aside from being able to afford earning rewards, I just don't have enough opportunities to go for all these places with rewards programs.

I did a thing with Google Gemini for fun.

Jesus, I have patience for bad drivers on the highway, but I don't have the patience for my ISP throttling our internet speeds so low at late hours that I can't even connect to a mobile game's servers!

On a related note, for the several drivers I've seen drive slowly on the passing lane with no cars in front, often side-by-side with another car in the middle lane for miles with traffic behind you, then eventually moving over to the middle lane to GO FASTER THAN IN THE PASSING LANE ...

... Why?

I'm sure I've complained about this on my Twitter years ago, but I'll say it again.

People on the highway that camp the passing lane at or below the speed limit need to leave the lane. The passing lane is for passing other cars. If you're not doing that, don't use the passing lane.

AI is a powerful tool, and will help channels reach broader audiences by breaking the language barrier. But by forcing it on to people by default, especially in YouTube's current AI quality, it sours the viewing experience. Set the default to off, and let users turn it on for a better experience.

And it's not like YouTube assumes I prefer one language. My Mark Rober videos get translated to awkward Japanese, and my Japanese WasyaganaTV videos get translated to English. YouTube knows I understand both languages. They're shoving AI translations in my face for the sake of showing new features.

I like the YouTubers' personality and charm in their videos. But when their voices get replaced with mediocre AI voice overs, not to mention how unnatural their translations can be, it's a much shittier experience. It's nice to have WHEN YOU NEED IT, so let the user toggle it on with a button.

I'm annoyed with YouTube as a viewer lately. Why is AI translated video titles and voice dubs the DEFAULT? As a bilingual person, naturally, I watch content in both languages which YouTube knows. So why must they give me my subscribed content AI translated at first instead of the original?
#YouTube

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Also, #D4DJ just added a cover of Bling-Bang-Bang-Born from #Mashle season 2, which I was just thinking would be a fun song to play in a rhythm game. Love seeing songs I recognize and enjoy.

I did the meme Achievement Points in Guild Wars 2.

Now I'm finding myself focusing more on Guild Wars 1 to review the story and lore, as well as working towards Hall of Monuments points. Unlocked so many skills for classes I hadn't played much of. Got most of what I need for Mesmerway Hero party.

I also finally got around to playing #Balatro. It's fun. So far, I'm finding myself winning with builds focused on Straights, especially when I find the Jokers that lets you have 1 gap, and a Joker that lets you get Straight and Flush with only 4 cards. Gonna experiment with manipulating my deck.

Also on Guild Wars 1, I'm up to Level 19 on my Monk in Pre-Searing now. Only a few more days of Vanguard Quests til I hit Legendary Defender of Ascalon and leave Pre-Searing. ... I'm contemplating buying another character slot for a dedicated Pre-Searing character. Still need to collect skills.

More GW2 Unlocks

Dapper Pants - 1200 Gems (-Coat, -Wingtips)
Water Dragon Chestguard - Unavailable?
Dragon's Jade Warhammer - 28 Gold
Ebon Vanguard Elite Shoulders - 30 BL Statuettes
Mini Spooky Moa - 75 Gold
Firework Short Bow - 9 Gold
Hardlight Sword - 91 Gold
Necrotic Essence Warhorn - 54 Gold

Wow, I didn't know our door can sign for packages. Thanks, Amazon.

There are replaceable attachments that slide into that AC Adapter so that you can use it with different outlets. Kinda like this.

Excited about tomorrow's news for GW2. In the meantime, I've been enjoying GW1 again. Playing through multiple classes, mostly going around unlocking elite skills to give myself more options with my heroes. Also working on LDoA title on Monk. Level 15 now. Can't wait for 16 to finish quests.

More #guildwars2 Guaranteed Skin Unlocks.

Festive Winter Hood - 15 Snow Diamonds
Bestial Tides Tattoo Pack - 800 Gems
Lorekeeper Torch - 29 Gold
Skritt-Scavenger Finisher - 24 Gold
Plasma Dagger - 27 Gold
Mini Cozy Wintersday Skimmer - 20 BLS
Quiver - 38 Gold?
Crimson Dragon Slayer Longbow - Quest

It's so nice having another day off from work. It feels like I could catch up more if I had 2 days off from work a week instead of just 1. Can't remember the last time I could just sit down and watch a 2 hour movie in peace.

I forgot to set my Wizard's Vault to all 3 game modes for the weeklies again because of Memorial Day...
I like setting my dailies to PvE + either PvP or WvW depending on when our WvW guild is running. Not to mention I have to log into the game on Mondays at work, between the weekly and daily reset.

I haven't been doing Guild Wars 2 Strike Missions and Fractals much at all lately. I should try to get back into the habit of doing the dailies, but that ends up taking up most of my gaming time if I do, and I want to do other things too. I wish I had more time off from work...

As for what I've been playing aside from the obvious from my recent posts, Guild Wars 1 for the 20th Anniversary event, which still holds up pretty well as its own game, and I just finished the story of Neo: The World Ends With You. Going around completing some stuff I missed in both games now.

DoAXVV is similar; the volleyball game is mostly auto. I kept up with it because I like the DoA series, but I really want a new fighting game. XVV can be entertaining with ridiculous "bathing suits", and event stories, but the story doesn't have much going on compared to other live games, IMO.

Duel Links was great because I could farm cards and gems to get cards semi-passively by auto-dueling NPCs. Helped me get into YuGiOh, learn the game, get familiar with (meta) cards, etc. But I ended up doing just that for meta cards to play a competitive deck. Everyone plays Master Duel anyway.