Alcohol consumption. I don’t drink alcohol - ever. Never have and probably never will. And it can be really hard being with people, who find it cool and funny to drink excessive amounts. I volunteer as a scout leader in my country. It is astonisihing, what some of the troop leaders think of ok, when working with youth groups. And often enough even the regulations for underage drinking are broken (which are already relatively low, comparing to the US). They all just don’t care as long as they get to drink as they like. You can probably hear how frustrated I am, though I’m over with fighting it. Won’t change ever and it is not good for my psychological state to go against society here apart from my own personal decisions.
omg. bussiness practices. Im an aging tech guy who falls into bussiness stuff and it galls me to have people with jobs where their specialty is management and they can’t do the most basic stuff. Case in point we hire a management company for our condo association and are assigned a manager. I ask about the process for having some work done on my place and it goes into a back and forth chain because the manager cannot communicate clearly. What really galls me though is this is a common query that should have a document that I could be sent with all the formalities spelled out. Its like. How did you get this job!
I would rather lose than bring an unpainted/unfinished miniature to a tabletop game. On rare occasions if somebody is showing me a game and I have to borrow their models (for example a Battletech game last year) I will use them, but none of my own models are played unless varnished.
I don’t hold others to that standard, though I do appreciate seeing it.
You could try, “My 10 year old niece painted this for me and wanted me to use it tonight.”
It’s less about quality (I am not the best painter) and more about not bringing obviously unfinished pieces. “Greytide” is a phrase in Warhammer communities to describe unpainted grey plastic armies. Similar are armies just primed one color. Often with pieces not all assembled. It’s less fun both anesthetically and because it makes it more difficult to figure out which miniature is which.
For me, only using my finished miniatures prevents me from sliding into greytide.
Ah. Ok.
Maybe buy a set of painted ones?
I’m not trying to give you a hard time or change your mind or criticize. Just a random guy on the internet blabbing away.
For me, it’s not a problem that needs to be solved, I have plenty of finished miniatures. No problems for me to field forces in most games I play.
I consider my painting to be the stronger side of the hobby than my understanding of gameplay.
User Interface.
Two examples:
• Simple vs. Easy: Taking away all the buttons and menus makes the software (look) simpler, but having those where I can get to them and use them is easier. Easier still: keyboard shortcuts for everything! Not as simple, but way easier.
• Save, Save As, and Undo: Save needs to go away. It’s unnatural. You don’t save in the real world. Any change just stays. If you want it different, you undo the change. Undo needs to be near infinite. Save As can stick around since sometimes you want to branch your progress.
Privacy.
I know I can’t completely stop any large corporations from collecting or using data about me, but I pursue a stubborn, swiss-cheese/defense-in-depth strategy to reduce the data anyone has on me to a minimum.
This means I have a dumb t.v., don’t pay for streaming services, don’t like or subscribe to things, have a non-standard encrypted email, have a non-standard phone, computer, browser, don’t use AI powered suggestions if at all possible, and on and on.
It means a lot of minor inconveniences, basically.
EDIT: I just realized this probably counts as tech. Oh well.
Whats your non-standard phone?
It’s nothing fancy. Just rooted, and I have fewer Google apps, use open source apps through FDroid when I can, etc. I’ve also paid it off and I’m trying to make it last as long as possible, although that’s more of an experiment in being a cheap bastard than privacy.
Kitchen knives. Nothing is better than a chef’s knife with a forged shoulder and razor sharp blade.
Smartphones. I actually want them to last and be at least half reliable and work for a couple of years unlike xiaomi phones.
