A single scent: it’s a tossup between mesquite or coffee.

A combination of scents hitting your nose like an olfactory blitzkrieg: that first step into an Indian restaurant when you get hit by a combination of different curries, naan bread, and the rest of their menu that they’ve been serving to customers over the last several hours.

says gaming, religion serve similar life purposes

Glad it’s a Buddhist saying this. My knee-jerk was to compare the benign influence of violent videogames to the radicalizing influence of violent religions.

This may just be my lack of familiarity with Buddhism, but my understanding is they’re generally pretty chill and actually make a positive impact on society. Other religions, not so much.

Deathwatch (Warhammer 40,000) by Jared Moreno Luna

7/10. It was great background music while playing Satisfactory, but now that I’m actually focusing on it, it’s pretty repetitive. Playlist started with Starcraft music - also a pretty good match for Satisfactory!

Hit it with a passport style stamp for Epstein’s pedo island.

Dark Souls is just clunky controls + sequence memorization, presented as ‘difficulty’. And yeah, operating the clunk effectively is difficult, but it’s a low hanging and very unsatisfying flavor of difficulty.

I could make Pokemon Yellow difficult by requiring you to operate the controls through a dish sponge, but that wouldn’t make it fun.

Unpopular opinion apparently, but I wholeheartedly agree with you on Dark Souls.

Agreed, I just know how quick the rednecks are to “BUT CLINTON!!” in response to any criticism of Trump. Beat em to it by including criticism of Clinton with criticism of Trump and their brain breaks a little cuz redirection is their only card.

Broken clock spiel.

Throw Bill Clinton’s sexual relations comment in between them - not for whataboutism, but because the rednecks are foaming at the mouth over the Clintons, and lumping them and Trump into the same group makes them uncomfortable af lol.

Is there anything stopping me from uploading an ID for Shrek or something? I foresee an explosion of popularity of fake IDs.

You’ve probably tried this approach already, but just in case: “You don’t play videogames to make progress, and you don’t make progress by playing videogames. You play videogames to have fun and pass time, and those are driven by the experience brought on by the game’s content, not by the name of the game’s host. Also, fuck Blizzard.”

most suggestions on here involve running unauthorized software or visiting sketchy websites

Agreed, which I won’t be touching. That’s why I opened with the example of the Bing trick to scrub ads off of YouTube: fully compliant with company policy. HR, IT, and Legal could be watching over my shoulder, and I’d be inclined to show off that trick just so they could go back to their own workstations and use it. Zero risk to my career, zero risk to my patients, and zero risk to the company. Win win win. Looking for more tricks like that.

I’ve actually played on a private server alongside an anesthesiologist! We both grew up on Vanilla WoW and the earlier expansions, and both developed the same animosity to Blizzard for the finger they gave to that original target audience. The WoW itch is still real; but Blizzard won’t get another cent from me.

I mean, I could afford a YouTube subscription just fine; nursing isn’t exactly a path to some Scrooge McDuck mountain of gold or anything, but we’re not living paycheck to paycheck either. My refusal to pay YouTube isn’t because I can’t, it’s because they’re Google, and fuck Google. If there was a playlist generator/streamer made by an ethical company who’s product is actually worth using, then fuck yeah point me to their subscription page! Unfortunately, the only options I’m aware of are either shit products or shit companies, so I’ll continue to be a stingy asshole until I find something worth supporting.

…and although it’s not really on topic for this thread, feel free to drop some recommendations - I’m most familiar with music.youtube, spotify, and pandora, but youtube is youtube, and the other two leave a lot to be wanted for the playlists they provide. Or they did at least, it’s been probably over 5 years since trying pandora or spotify… maybe they’re better now? /shrug

Probably better than trying to fuck with HIPAA.

Not sure you understand the goal - I’m not trying to pull anything shady with patient data; but to find better ways to use those comps. There are functions protected by HIPAA, and functions that Microsoft/Google/etc have enshittified that I’m trying to make a bit more user friendly - the only overlap in the venn diagram here is that they happen on the same computer.

Fortunately our charting software isn’t loaded with unskippable ads (…give it a few years…), so even if there are ways to fuck with that software, there’s no need to.

Can you install user apps (which don’t require admin elevation) or is it truly nothing?

It’s truly nothing - healthcare setting, so it’s pretty strict. Absolutely no installing anything, or plugging in an external drive to run shit from that. We’re allowed to use the work comps for personal stuff so long as it’s not getting in the way of our actual duties. For me this usually means putting some music on while I’m charting, but nowadays it’s more ad than music without an ad blocker.

The bing trick was great - pull up a 2+ hour long full-playlist-in-one-video, and just let it run in the background… but that loophole got closed. But from the hospital’s perspective, they didn’t care if we did shit like that - they couldn’t give a rat’s ass if we slurped up all of Googles ads or not; they just don’t want any liability from a security or privacy standpoint.

In my case, not an option. Healthcare setting, patient info is all over by our work stations, so having personal devices out will get you accused of a HIPAA violation in a hurry - even if it doesn’t have a camera, people get paranoid.

People do still use personal devices at work, but I see em get burned for that semi-regularly.

Just one more staged assassination attempt bro, I swear bro if we stage just one more people will believe it’s real this time bro. C’mon bro bro just one more. One more staged assassination attempt and people will stop talking about how Trump raped children on Epstein Island. We just need to stage one more, it’ll work this time bro, I swear!