If the average user has to interact with a command line interface, EVER, as anything but a truly desperate last resort, with someone holding their hand the whole way through, they're probably gonna give up and never wanna look back.

A lot of people barely know how to copy and paste, or don't even know what the phrase "right click" means.

When I did some work from home training a year ago, I looked like a goddamn wizard for knowing how to manage browser tabs and put folders on my bookmarks bar.

TLDR: It needs to just work for people that don't know jack shit about using a computer, which in a lot of cases it just doesn't.

I do. The number one "complaint" people had with me pre-pandemic was that I should smile more. Not one fucking dumbass person has told me to do that when I have my mask on. That alone is enough reason for me to never take it off when I'm dealing with customers.

I am also still paranoid and I don't trust the average person out there to be doing safe things.

Willingness to info dump works wonders in a casual retail sales environment. Customers come up with what they think are silly questions, and I'll just give them as complete an answer as I can, engaging fully. Vast majority of them are greatly appreciative of it.

A few even come into my store specifically to find and ask me stuff.

Compulsory customer service for a couple years might make retail customers less miserable to deal with overall.

I especially like raisins baked into pastries.

Chaotic feels more appropriate, since they're only really predictable if you try and think of the absolute dumbest possible thing they could say or do at any given moment.

Also for the love of god, don't be sticking anything in places it could get lost without a flared base to keep at least part of it outside.

Gaslight Obstruct Project

Basically 3D Galaga with furries.

God, the amount of times I've had to explain the EcoTank vs HP math to customers in my store, and then STILL have them pick an HP is fucking baffling.

Literally viewing this thread while laying in bed with a FFXIV cutscene playing on my Deck right now.

It's so cozy playing stuff on this thing, even when I have an extremely powerful gaming PC less than 5 feet away.

And when I go over to my girlfriend's house, I just bring it with me, instead of having to lug a whole laptop over there and get it set up just to mess around with something casual that I wouldn't wanna run on my phone.

Me when I had to go to 3 gas stations last night to find one with a functional air pump for my tires, and the one that was working was not automated, and it even cost me 2 dollars for the privilege of reading that stupid analogue gauge in the dark.

The broken free ones were automated.

Already enjoying the hell out of all the stupid groaner puns happening all over the place, and much like The Fix himself I'm having a bunch of fun sort of quizzing myself for how much of the humor and setting I understand just from browsing all kinds of wonky shit all the time.

I didn't ignore it, but I did have to put up with it for months:

Discord would just never recognize that my PC was being left idle, so I would never get notifications on my phone, which constantly left me gaslighting myself into thinking my friends were ignoring me, or just didn't have any reason to message me all day.

I contacted Discord support at least once over it, and they couldn't do anything to help me figure it out, since I had all my settings set properly to have it switch over to mobile notifications after 1 minute of inactivity.

After a shit ton of googling, I found out that certain devices, namely third-party xbox controllers, could cause a PC to never actually go idle, and then I found a tool to help me check if my PC is idle, started unplugging things one-by-one, and found out that my 8bitdo Arcade controller was the thing keeping my PC from going idle.

The issue popped up with an etsy-bought Guitar Hero controller further down the line as well, but thankfully by then I knew how to troubleshoot the issue. Bonus points, my new fighting game controllers don't have this problem.

Mismanage something that I shouldn't be messing with and die.

Why is it the Yakuza font

"swims" can be rotated 180 degrees and still say swims. It's an ambigram. "pod" would be another.

What was the single thing I did that had the last direct impact on myself, that had the greatest lasting impact on anyone else?

Things like spending the extra time one day making a cup of coffee made it so this specific person was stuck behind my slow-ass speed limit driving, averting what would've been a multi-car pileup or some shit like that.

Thank you for giving me 3 huge reasons not to switch, cause I've been a bit tempted lately.

That one's definitely a leverless fighting game controller like a Hitbox.