If you have a echo 4 and use the line in (eg: use it as a speaker for monitor ), does it cause Alexa to hesitate ? I cannot be entirely sure if this is indeed the culprit, I find that blue light will take 2-3 seconds longer to appear, also the speaker doesn’t hear me well at lower voice.
Toggle the setting to line out then back to line in temporarily fix the issue but it will eventually become slow again like 10mins later.
My[26m] wife’s[26f] younger sister [23f] passed away unexpectedly. It was shocking for all of us and I’ve just been trying to be supportive while processing my own grief. At her memorial service, I overheard a relative (who had lost her only child) tell my MIL that while my SIL’s death was tragic, at least she had another child. My MIL tried to explain that wasn’t any consolation since her daughters were both unique individuals but then they got into a borderline argument about it. My MIL then tried to put it to rest by saying, “In any case, even if I still have [my wife], [SIL] was my only hope for having grandchildren since [my wife] doesn’t want any so I’ll always be mourning that missed possibility.”
For context, my wife and I aren’t even childfree, we just don’t want to have children until at least our late-30s. It has been a very sore point for her mother, who has made it clear to everyone that she believes we are lying about delaying it just to avoid discussing it with her.
At that point, I interrupted and said it’s a very insensitive thing to say about both her daughters, to reduce one’s entire value to her openness towards having children and dismiss another’s value for not having children (in the near future.)
My MIL seemed to not even consider my point and was mostly just incensed about how I could even confront her at a time like this. She finally told me she’s not in any state to deal with this and left.
I later told my wife about it and she said that even if I was right, then wasn’t the time to bring it up and that she doesn’t have any emotional capacity to even care about it at the moment. I feel really guilty for being responsible for creating some new drama right now, but I also think what my MIL said was highly dismissive and that I had to defend my wife right there.
2021 was a difficult year, but I was lucky enough to try a ton of new games over the course of the year. Here are some brief thoughts on each of them!
##Not for me…
Roll To The Top! (3/10): Take this with a grain of salt, as roll and writes aren’t really my thing. However, this ‘back to basics’ take on the genre was probably the most bored I’ve been with any game I played in 2021. The dice switching mechanic is unnecessarily fiddly and slows the game down, which is a big problem when the best thing the game has going for it is how quickly it finishes.
Godspeed (3/10): I had high hopes for this one, but it fell completely flat. The semi-cooperative element (the ‘High Council’ event cards) just felt like they didn’t work at all. The rest of the game was more functional than this, but it wasn’t any more fun.
An Otter Won (3/10): Two-player trick taking that has some interesting ideas around set collection scoring conditions. Unfortunately, the actual trick-taking is dull and the only interesting decisions are in working out which card you should take as your reward for winning tricks. Some may enjoy it, but this felt far too mathy for us to get any enjoyment from.
Beyond The Sun (4/10): As someone with less-than-great vision, I will always consider games with vast amount of variable small text spread out across a big central board to be bad game design. I can’t remember too much about how it played to give any meaningful critiques, but I certainly found it a slog.
Fort (4/10): I’ve always been someone who enjoys building things in games, whether that’s decks, engines or anything else. Fort seems to actively push against building longer-term strategies, instead encouraging players to make the best of what’s available to them in the shorter term. Nothing wrong with that… but personally I didn’t like it at all. Fort doesn’t really have a ‘game arc’ and it made me realise how much I need that in my games.
Ghost Blitz (4/10): This is pretty much the same game as Dobble. I hate Dobble.
Oh My Goods! (5/10): We played through ‘Expedition to Newdale’ in 2020 and enjoyed it, but felt that a few of the elements added in (notably the map board) felt superfluous. Going back to Oh My Goods, the original card came Newdale was based on, quickly changed our minds. The game that’s left is slow, stodgy and not especially interesting.
##Inoffensive enough
New York Zoo (5.5/10): The polyomino puzzle is fine, and the race i
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
My friend has Ehtler-Danlos Syndrome, she does NOT use a wheelchair, any other assistive devices, or have issues with stairs, eating, etc on days that she's well enough to leave her house. We honestly aren't even sure exactly how she's disabled, because she literally hiked the Grand Canyon with us last summer. Our friend who's lived with her for two years and counting never saw any sign of disability either (i.e. not getting out of bed, off the couch, asking to delay chores, asking for help with something), so it's not even like she's struggling with daily tasks as far as anyone can tell.
She recently bought a "service dog", I put this in quotes because it's basically just a regular dog that she's in the process of training (by herself) to be a service dog, and I'm sure once it's trained it will be a great dog and I hope it's helpful to her. But it's currently still a puppy and not trained, nor is it currently enrolled in any kind of professional training. When she said she was getting the service dog, we honestly thought that this was just a smooth move on her part to get out of the pet rent that her building charges, until she actually got the dog and started bringing it everywhere with her (starting at 12 weeks old).
The issue that myself, and a couple of our mutual friends, are currently having is that she brings it to our house when we invite her over for parties and just to hang out. The dog is very hyper and pees on the floor and sniffs around every corner of the house, which I understand is normal for a dog exploring a new place. He is also aggressive towards cats, and the end result is this dog causing a commotion and scaring our cats. If she doesn't pay attention to it, which she sometimes doesn't after a couple of drinks, the dog will hunt down the cat and we've actually had to physically separate this dog from people's cats inside their own home. The dog also chews things, and she had to buy one of our friends a new laptop cord after the dog chewed it. He's also really gross about excessively sniffing/licking people (especially jumping and sniffing at crotches). So it's stressful when somebody just wants to hang out with their friend and now has to worry about dog proofing, putting their cat away in a bedroom, and supervising this puppy. It turns hosting her at your house into something that's a lot of headache.
It's just too much and she's started to be ostracized from our friend group because of this. The dog is hypoallergenic (some
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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
First time poster here. Myself (23 F) and my boyfriend (22 M) have been together for over two years now. We have been good friends since high school, and first met his family almost six years ago now. After “ lockdowns “and graduating college, (I’ll call her MIL even though we’re not married) invited me to move in with them and his family. I have been under their roof steadily since May of this year.
A little more context: originally, MIL and I got along fairly well. We seemed to share interests, and I could almost (grossly) see the stereotype of “men marrying their mothers”. His brother who is three years older has a relationship of six years, and they recently moved out of the house but had lived there together for almost five of those years. I feel like this is important to mention, as MIL and brother’s girlfriend are known to have a covert “strained relationship”. Quotations, because the girlfriend seems fairly close to MIL and readily available to jump at all of the family’s needs and impossible standards. She cheated on the brother years ago, and MIL held it against her for years. I see their relationship as fairly co-dependent and ingenuine as the girlfriend openly speaks about the aggressive and strained relationship she also shares with MIL.
For months, I have felt manipulated, controlled, and treated hostilely even if in a passive aggressive way. It started mostly when I needed to draw boundaries for myself. Whenever my boyfriend is present to his mother saying things that are insensitive, attacking, or otherwise inappropriate, he refuses to stand up to her or says that I’m too sensitive. I come from an interesting background- I have CPTSD (in therapy) from my own family environment and substance abuse growing up. MIL also had traumatic childhood, as she regularly will dump her “stuff” on me, whether it’s to do with her marriage, family, childhood, etc. I know in part, I must trigger themes within her and she has a very difficult time showing vulnerability and expressing authentically.
Because of my background, I will choose to avoid conflict and will typically swallow whatever she throws at me. I will walk away, or try my best to brush it off. It gets to be a lot. Her biggest complaint with me is that I isolate myself. They have gatherings multiple times a week at their house- drinking, sports, entertaining their adult friends. I’m easily socially burnt out - NEVER rude (always greet others, interact when spoken to) I am basically stuck do
... keep reading on reddit ➡They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
I just arrived at a vacation destination, so I’m supposed to be enjoying myself. Unfortunately, instead of feeling relaxed and happy, I started having a panic attack soon after we arrived in our room. I told my husband that I was feeling like an attack was coming on and he was a total ass. Let me explain…
A bunch of things happened that went into building this up, I think. I am scheduled for some follow-up medical testing in a couple of weeks and I’m worried about it; traveling during covid is generally stressful (and it wasn’t my decision to take this trip now); our first flight was delayed which caused us to miss our connection, which meant a lot of time today figuring out if we would even be able to find a way to our destination; I’ve had a particularly stressful time at work for the last month; and I had a minor medical procedure go wrong yesterday that left me with an injury that, while not at all serious, has been causing me pain all day. We started our travel day at 4am and didn’t arrive to our destination until 7pm after two flights and a long and noisy bus ride. The place we are staying at is also very noisy - different loud music everywhere you turn, lots of people, and as I lay here in a dark room I can still hear the concert going on the grounds, and it’s loud enough to keep me awake. I’m pretty noise sensitive so this is a big source of stress for me.
Immediately after we arrived we were moved to another noisy room to check in. There were lots of people, interruptions, and decisions to be made. We then got to our room and were waiting for our luggage so we could freshen up before going to a big social event, something I’m not a fan of but normally can deal with ok. While we were waiting, we were finally able to connect to wifi and immediately discovered that my father-in-law was hospitalized today and one of our kids (currently staying with my in-laws) had a close covid contact yesterday.
After all of this, I started to feel incredibly anxious, pressure in my chest, my heart racing, etc. I laid down on the bed and asked my husband to turn off one of the lights. He was obsessed at the time with getting an app downloaded on his phone and getting some info about our vacation while I was trying to text our child to tell them what to do and try to alleviate their nervousness about a covid contact. (They aren’t worried about themselves - they are worried about passing it on to their elderly grandparents.) My husband didn’t respond to my request
... keep reading on reddit ➡Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
You take away their little brooms
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
It was about a weak back.
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
ORIGINAL by u/SoulfulCircus
My [26m] wife’s [26f] younger sister [23f] passed away unexpectedly. It was shocking for all of us and I’ve just been trying to be supportive while processing my own grief. At her memorial service, I overheard a relative (who had lost her only child) tell my MIL that while my SIL’s death was tragic, at least she had another child. My MIL tried to explain that wasn’t any consolation since her daughters were both unique individuals but then they got into a borderline argument about it. My MIL then tried to put it to rest by saying, “In any case, even if I still have [my wife], [SIL] was my only hope for having grandchildren since [my wife] doesn’t want any so I’ll always be mourning that missed possibility.”
For context, my wife and I aren’t even childfree, we just don’t want to have children until at least our late-30s. It has been a very sore point for her mother, who has made it clear to everyone that she believes we are lying about delaying it just to avoid discussing it with her.
At that point, I interrupted and said it’s a very insensitive thing to say about both her daughters, to reduce one’s entire value to her openness towards having children and dismiss another’s value for not having children (in the near future.)
My MIL seemed to not even consider my point and was mostly just incensed about how I could even confront her at a time like this. She finally told me she’s not in any state to deal with this and left.
I later told my wife about it and she said that even if I was right, then wasn’t the time to bring it up and that she doesn’t have any emotional capacity to even care about it at the moment. I feel really guilty for being responsible for creating some new drama right now, but I also think what my MIL said was highly dismissive and that I had to defend my wife right there.
I should probably explain why I didn’t respond to any of the comments. It dawned on me immediately just how awful I was to say what I did. And that I continued thinking I could be right in some twisted way till I saw the answers here. I told my wife straight away how sorry I was for adding to her grief when it should be my duty to be by her side through it. I waited till
... keep reading on reddit ➡When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
