Famous example… a man spent $44b to push his memes.
I once met this girl who let me touch her boobs and do other fun stuff. In order to make that more convenient, we rented an apartment together. Which meant I needed a job to pay rent. Eventually we wanted a nicer place, so we bought a townhouse, which meant I needed to make more money and get a better job. Then we wanted kids, which meant a bigger house, car, etc etc. So needed a promotion to keep up with growing bills and spending.
Now I’m in my 40s, have a bunch of kids, work too much. And all I wanted was to touch some boobs and stuff.
I mean, I mentioned my bunch of kids, so you can extrapolate… at least a few times.
I play the sims sometimes. A few years ago I realized that I only really enjoy it when I have a fully fleshed out story of every sim in the game, their relationships to each other, their personalities, etc. So I began the extensively tedious task of making a save like that. I have an excel file with hundreds of lines of text and several sheets detailing every personality trait, every relationship, their hopes and dreams, their ages so I can age them all up appropriately, and more. I also use it to make sure that I have a balanced amount of traits/goals, since the NPCs as EA made them are almost all identical with very small differences (~60% of them had the “family oriented” trait, and if they had that there was a very high likelihood they had the cheerful trait). I will work on it obsessively for a few weeks at a time then stop for months, repeat 1-3 times a year.
A coworker once said I sounded a little flat on Teams, so I bought a USB Audio Interface, boom arm, shock mount, shotgun mic. Couldn’t stop there, of course. Bought two studio monitors, foam pads for the speakers, and audio foam for my bare walls. A little over board, but now my coworker can hear me apply chapstick like I’m two inches from their ears.
Someone has adhd. This is the exact amount if insanity I would participate in.
Someone needs to remake http://conferencecall.biz/ but with ASMR quality dialogue. That would add a whole new level to the madness.
I learned just enough coding and firefox framework to compile my own version of firefox with middle mouse closing tabs disabled
lol why not just not use the middle mouse button? Did you remap it to something else?
Yes i have it mapped to a thumb mouse button for other applications. And then im browsing firefox, i wanna switch to a tab on the left, the button bumps against the keyboard, tab gets closed.
Not saying it wasn’t worth it, but some other options that might work:
- bind middle mouse to an extension (e.g open lastpass)
- buy a mouse that lets you change keybindings on the mouse instead
This may not be at the top of my “excessive” list, but it’s the most recent. I bought a pair of ex-enterprise HP servers and a 32RU rack to hold them, so I could cancel my Netflix subscription.
I did the same thing, but didn’t get around to actually using them… so I just sold them after a year of running an FTP server for no reason.
Link to what? The person is either pirating or buying digital copies of TV/movies and storing them on a server. Likely being served with Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin.
