It brings me comfort knowing they aren’t competent enough to surprise attack Canada

Redfall was trash, checks out

*turns to look at Alabama expectantly*

Tempted to pick this up and then a friend tells me he doesn’t think we’ll play it enough. Like, whaaaa?

Spy came in from the cold, it feels so odd to see his face after so many years of maining him. He was my first Merc. Damn I’m a bit sentimental now…

I love this for you :)

Longer short answer: yeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss

I’m happy I could help, I hate to see current industry workers forget what it was like to wonder and be uncertain before taking the plunge. Gatekeeping is an unfortunately common part of IT.

It sounds like you have a solid start in terms of homelab work, I’d definitely talk to your local library and get some real workplace experience. Homelab experience is easy to disregard when hiring unless you can show your work too, so network diagram charts or a splashy data visualization page on a server you can access remotely will help in interviews. The library experience is actual workplace application of knowledge so that’s much harder to ignore and should be a priority.

I wish you all the best, I’m sorry your first encounter with the community was a territorial greybeard. As ever, I remain happy to help if you think of more questions.

Don’t mind my jaded fellow IT pro. The job eats at you if you’re in a bad position, which I’m guessing he/she/they/drag is.

In a small way I can see they’re trying to help (even if the delivery stinks), as IT isn’t just something you can dabble in and then pivot into it at this point in time. If you want to work in IT you really have to want it and make it a priority simply because the competition is fierce and getting started is grueling and will potentially burn less dedicated people out.

To support that point it’s worth pointing out that the entry level of the industry is both very saturated and generally very unsatisfying help desk work. Without dedicated experience in system administration and/or formal education in IT you’re most likely only going to get a help desk position, and that’s if you’re lucky.

That’s not the end of the road though, at that point you’ll need to absorb as much knowledge as you can, get some certifications to show you know what you’re doing (which certs will definitely change by the time you get there.). Once you have them you can leverage those certifications into a better position. That position might be a junior sysadmin if you’re lucky, but in my experience those positions want years of experience in sysadmin tasks.

As the saying goes: The hardest part of getting into IT is getting a helpdesk position, the second hardest part is getting the hell out of helpdesk.

That’s the general roadmap. If you have more specific questions feel free to ask away.

Might I recommend Journey and Abzu? They’re both wonderful experiences with a healthy dose of zen if you decide you want to just pause and appreciate the environments.

Happy to help!

Are you sure it isn’t a custom designed one? It took 15 seconds to mock up basically the same thing here: https://xboxdesignlab.xbox.com/en-ca/configure/xbox-wireless-controller

Even the text is in the same place by default so I think this was just someone’s custom order

I never played grounded, could you elaborate?

Yep. Lots of “Plot” to appreciate here

I feel like I need a translator for this comment

Just wanted to say I always enjoy a good game tale, thank you for the content :)

How’s the game? My tolerance for anime tropes is decently low so I’m not sure it’s for me but I’m curious

I actually found it pretty soon after it went free to play, I thought I’d check it out and then BAM I’ve completed all class stories, maxed levels, got into housing decoration, and even have an unhealthy number of alts I’ll definitely get around to playing through again someday.

I remember being so happy it was on steam largely for the auto updates. Seems it’s been a very healthy success since then.

That’s awesome! Thanks for making an MMO I personally have 500 hours in on steam. It’s actually the MMO that made me open to playing MMOs, I hated the genre before because all I knew was WoW and Korean stuff that’s all walls of bland text and dull repetitive tasks that don’t respect your time.

The stories of SWTOR and full voice acting were something else entirely. I really enjoyed it and have some very fond memories of my first time playing it as a teen years and years ago, it basically absorbed my holiday vacation that year as I found a guild, made friends, got into some RP, and really just found some cool experiences. In a market starving for anything halfway decent that’s star wars I’m glad we have it.

I request lightsaber pictures!

You helped develop it?