Foam mattress promising to be extra firm. It arrived in a convenient little roll, but 6 months later, it is absolute shit. Fell for the marketing and now my back is paying for it.
I bought a Douglas one and I’ve been incredibly happy with it. My sleep quality improved quite a bit, and almost 2 years later is still going well
With foam mattresses, you need to look at the density of the high-resilience foam (HR foam) that they use. Generally the higher it is, the firmer the mattress will be and less prone to sagging.
It also means it will be a lot heavier and difficult to move around. If the density info is not provided, you can just look for ones they claim are for people who are heavier than your own weight.
Which brand? My IKEA Morgedal (now superseded by some other name) has been incredible.
Try flipping it.
Go hybrid
Music. Way too many albums are that one decent song you hear on the radio and 38 minutes of filler shite, and you could never take it back to the shop to get a refund for being full of shite. So all my music is pirated first, purchased second, and anyone that objects to this is basically admitting that their industry is based on selling shite that can’t be refunded.
Have you thought about having better taste and listen to bands other than one-hit wonders ?
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I bought the finger eleven CD. So, can confirm. I also bought Cult Ceremony, thinking it would be anything like Sonic Temple. This just means I don’t learn.
album sales can’t be refunded? I bought one physical CD, and one full album for download. Never wanted to refund either purchase, never found out that it’s not possible. But really? It’s not possible to get a refund from buying a physical album?
It’s to prevent people from buying the CD, ripping it (or taping it back in the day), and returning the CD with a free copy of the music.
Nothing major. Back in highsch ool my best friend had convinced me to buy CS:GO on Steam so we could play together. I basically never played it unless he was playing since I was never a huge fan of those types of games when doing online PVP (unlike him). I haven’t played it in a really long time, with no plans on playing since it just doesn’t interest me.
Marriage
Many people commuting in the Bay Area… “My Telsa.”
Gold coins. I bought at the all-time high.
The all-time high so far
Isn’t the all-time high now?
I once got a ouya.
Always think of this when I see someone mention the Ouya: https://youtu.be/QY5yG2KyQfM
When I got it, I remember the lag the most.
You would do a button press and then about a half second later it would register. It was VERY bad and laggy.
The controller buttons would stick as well. So playing an actual game sucked.
And it had to be online on order to play any games. Which sucked at the time when att would be flaky.
It was actually a cheap lesson in not pre-ordering anything ever again. It’s inadvertently saved me thousands over the years.
Ouya really got burned on that one.
I got the remake that Razer made after they bought Ouya. I still use the controller it came with…
Same.
I still use the controllers to this day though. Those are actually pretty good. The console itself though… Garbage. So much regret. First, last and only kickstarter project for me.
I have a Tesla that, for financial reasons, I can’t get out of for another couple few months and while it is one of my favorite cars I’ve ever driven (and I’ve driven many), I can no longer enjoy driving it because Musk is a piece of shit that deserves cancer. Looking at Lucid and Rivian now.
I also used to believe America was a great country, but in my late 20s started to realize it’s bullshit (I’m in my 40s now). It was kind of a sad realization and it has only gotten worse since then.
I also used to believe more in people and their ability for empathy and, if presented the facts, they’d ultimately make good decisions. I now believe people are generally selfish and narcissistic, and that most don’t give a shit about facts and live entirely on off-the-cuff emotion. It doesn’t stop me from caring and trying to help (some) of them, but it’s definitely made me more wary and paranoid.
I also used to believe America was a great country, but in my late 20s started to realize it’s bullshit
Honestly I was 100% bought in when I was like 19. I’m still a big believer in what the Constitution stands for (at least as it means to me), but I fully understand that I got duped by the branding with that one. It has been exceptionally radicalizing and upsetting to see how few of my countrymen believe in the dream of America as I do. May we one day live up to our lofty ideals.
Felt this. I haven’t really ever felt proud of America. It was weird growing up with immigrant parents, proud of their new homeland, just for me to learn of all its atrocities across the world and be like: “y’all moved here for this? They murdered and raped your birth country!” I really want to be more optimistic and hopeful, it’s just so hard with everything going on and how overt the racists are these days.
So you’ll buy another car, while you mention financial problems, just because the (ex-) CEO of the manufacturer is a piece of shit?
Yes. Because in my area Tesla’s are being spray painted and kicked. Which also has financial implications.
Are you me? I was about to post the exact same thing, almost verbatim.
I went here as well, but managed to turn it around. I now have more belief in America being a great country, but as an ideal, as something we need to work hard toward. I’ve become a lot more progressive as I see what it would take to live up to this myth about ourselves. Let’s do it. Let’s do it for our children, for the next generation, for a better world tomorrow! Lets start small and local, be the neighbor you thought you had, show the empathy we all deserve, make America a Community again
Surely there can be some symbol or obvious modification to let people know when you own a Tesla but disown the talking head at the top.
I mean, I guess I could put stickers on it and stuff, but I live near Portland and the Tesla vanadalizing is pretty wild here. Not sure it’d do much.
I’ve actually been taking an old gas truck around lately just so I don’t have to be seen in it. But it sucks because the Tesla costs me like $20/month to drive and the truck costs like $30/week.
Maybe pre-vandalize it to take the fun out of it?
I haven’t been hyped for anything since Godzilla Minus One came out (which more than lived up to my expectations). I do have to live with my parents buying into the hype of owning a new home. So I’ll be stuck inheriting a pile of shit that’s going to be falling apart by then instead of their old house that was rock solid.
Before you end up selling the house and moving to the pile of shit, let me tell you that there’s nothing wrong in living with your parents. Everyone I know at age 25 still has legal residency at their parents’ house.
What I’m saying is they sold their good old house and had a new house built that is incredibly shitty for what they paid. It’s just a straight downgrade in almost every way in workmanship, materials, layout, and neighborhood. Inheriting from them is also probably the only way I’m ever going to own a home so it really frustrates me that they did that. Living with them or not won’t make a difference.
Crypto. I didn’t spent a ton, but I didn’t make a ton either. I’m net up now but it’s so stupid.
I made 2K on Doge a few years ago, but ever since I’m just sitting on it. It’s not a loss unless you sell.
I’ve been shuffling a few thousand Doge on the peaks and valleys ever since the SNL Spike. Sell a thousand at .20, buy it back at .15.
It’s softened the blow, and I think overall, I am slightly ahead. (As long as it doesn’t crash to 0) I’ve given up on the moons, but I’ll keep holding and hoping it gradually climbs before it dies.
Could better to cut your losses and reinvest
I don’t know. I’m thinking of selling off my traditional stocks before they tank any more.
Doing a PhD. One more year and then I’m free again…
At least you learned how to make a killer Latte.
You’ll make it. I, too, fell for it.
Not stuck anymore but I was for like a month. I bought Pretty Litter cause multiple drag queens I liked told me to do so. That is the worst goddamn litter I have EVER used in my life. The smell was horrendous, the dust was so so bad I actually couldn’t even be in the next room when my partner did the litter because of my allergies, and our house looked like a fucking beach. Fuck those people. (And shame on me for falling for goddamn ads)
Is it for cats?
Yeah it’s marketed as being able to detect urine irregularities in cats so it changes colour with their pee. It also supposedly “locks” in the smell which, to their credit, I couldn’t smell the cat shit, all I could smell was dust.
It’s also made of silicone which, you know, not meant to be eaten so I’m sure that’s great for cats to have in the fur they clean with their mouths.
I really didn’t do my research on this one.
Spore :(
Everytime I see it in my library, i feel a little sad.
What’s funny is I just made another comment about it in this thread and I’m starting to feel nostalgic, but I know if I go back and play it I’ll just be disappointed again!
My feed:
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I’m so sorry that you have to suffer and see that some people have the same answer to the question OP asked.
Oh it’s not a complaint. I’m just pointing out that somebody mentioned spore, and someone else chimed in to say hey I just mentioned spore I can’t believe it. And then right below that post, for me, was the third person mentioning Spore.
It’s funny.
The Spore hype was genuinely the reason that killed my thrill of anticipation in video games and movies altogether.
KSP2
Can’t get it refunded now
That’s definitely a lesson
After a couple thousand hours in KSP1, I still managed to dodge that bullet. The only new feature I really cared about was multiplayer, and I knew it wasn’t going to happen when they they started early access without it.
I don’t know, the ksp redux project that a lot of the ksp2 modders are working on sounds pretty promising.
https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/226985-ksp2-redux/
Pretty much anything Elon Musk. I used to be an Elon Musk fangirl up until 2018, then each successive year was like the cutscene of Crash Bandicoot having all the boxes he’s missed falling on his head.
I enrolled in Aerospace Engineering in 2018 because of Musk.
Part of why I never graduated was the gradual loss of faith in the person who had inspired me. Although he has actually never changed.
I remember on Reddit one awful “This is Musk. He didn’t like ___, so he invented ___” picture with like 4 examples of things he stole and a stick figure with his head. “Be like Musk” was the bottom text. I agreed with it at first, then I saw it like 6 more times.
Being annoyed at those constant repost made me leave his fan club pretty quick. Oh how naive I was, thinking the worst thing he could be was annoying.
