Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Boblawblah]

Watch this:



While listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feA64wXhbjo

[Kacho_Nacho]

So interesting thing happened earlier this week.

My ABM pleaded with me to come back to work despite still being sick, so I did. His reasoning was that one of the flakier girls we've got (she's 6 months pregnant and was flaky before, she's become flakier now due to it), and they've been understaffed while I was out.

Sure, bet. I'll pass my flu onto you guys. About halfway through my shift my BM calls me. Turns out my mom fell while I was at work and she had called him to get ahold of me. Me living 5 minutes away from work I scrambled home, half-panicking that she fell and broke her hip.

No, instead she had fallen and at first we thought she completely dislocated her knee, judging by the lack of pain she was having. She had just gotten out of the shower when she heard the phone ring, and thought it was me. So she made a mad dash to the phone in her bedroom right out of the bathroom.

Unfortunately years ago she had nearly all of the flooring in the house replaced, from cushioned carpet to vinyl flooring that was directly on top of concrete.

We get an ambulance over, I got her the necessary things (cell phone, ID, insurance cards) they loaded her up and I locked up the house before returning to work, thinking she'd be fine. Not...really fine. About an hour later she calls me and tells me she had broken her kneecap right down the middle. She didn't exactly tell me how. It wasn't until after she got out of surgery she told me that she had completely split her kneecap in half, meaning one half was pushed into her lower thigh, the other half was in her upper shin. She had also fractured her shoulder while bracing her fall.

Since getting out of the hospital (she refused to stay the night, I don't blame her since that hospital does suck), she's been in a leg immobilizer and while she's allowed to put weight on it, she's been slowly waddling around the house via wall/furniture surfing. I feel tremendously bad that, had I not decided to let myself get talked back into going to work earlier than expected, she'd not be waddling around with a broken knee.

Upside is that I now have 6 weeks off for FMLA reasons to help care for her. It goes right through Mother's Day and graduation season for my work, so I get to miss out on those for work.

Oh wow! That really sucks and I'm sorry your Mom was so badly hurt. May she have a quick ((and uneventful)) recovery.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Picked up this print a couple of years back at.....Anime Boston? ConnectiCon? One of those, I forget. Put it in a poster tube to keep it safe until we could find a frame, completely forgot about it, found it the other day while looking for something else entirely. One trip to the craft store later, and now we just need to figure out where to hang it.

[Vyrerus]

Heavensward Hildibrand yeehaw

[Cincierta]

Only noticed this today, and I am upset.

[yurukii]

Anyone else getting weirdly high ping for being close(ish) to california? I'm in Nebraska and my ping hovers between 80-100, with ping spikes up to 150+, but back when I was in New York state my ping was like a solid 70-80. Wasn't like this up until maybe a month and a half ago, my ping was a pretty consistent 60-ish

[Larirawiel]

Only noticed this today, and I am upset.

Please do not link to Discord because the links will become invalid very quick.



Cheers

[Cincierta]

Please do not link to Discord because the links will become invalid very quick.



Cheers

What do you recommend that isn't saturated with ads or requires payment to use?

[Larirawiel]

What do you recommend that isn't saturated with ads or requires payment to use?

https://imgbb.com/

It is IMHO the best pic hoster so far. It also creates snippets for forums. And for image comparisons, i am using imgsli: https://imgsli.com/


Cheers

[Cincierta]

https://imgbb.com/

It is IMHO the best pic hoster so far. It also creates snippets for forums. And for image comparisons, i am using imgsli: https://imgsli.com/


Cheers

Wait, isn't that the one where files and picture links expire within hours?