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  • The video game?

    I also was very used to drink while gaming and sometimes still think about getting shit faced to enjoy my gaming day.

    But then I realize that’s not true. When drinking you end up playing less cause you need to take a drunk nap or whatever. You spend quite some time being idle or not really into the game as your now poisoned brain can’t thinks that well.

    You are also worse at the game cause you’re drunk. After a while you don’t do multiplayer voice chat as you can’t speak without sounding drunk. Your aim becomes shit as your vision gets doubled. In an MMO like RuneScape you might fail your skills rotation almost every time.

    Nah, trust me bro, you’re not better at video games while drinking nor it makes you play for a longer time.

    Another motivation was “I don’t want to be the drunken teammate always unable to play correctly after 22h”, I entirely stopped multiplayer games because of that.

    Now that I don’t drink I can play coop games again and chat with friends without being a burden.









  • You can open or replace this fake ceiling square by square as behind it you may find some electrical stuff that sometimes needs to be repaired. It’s also probably cheaper.

    It’s kind of the same as the floor in data centers. If you’ve been in one, the floor is a fake floor made of square sort of plastic tiles. Below that you have the cold air that goes into the servers, AC and DC power, fire and water detectors, cables road etc. You need an easy access to those fake floors or ceiling for maintenance.



  • I work in ATC and I’m a gamer. We do recruit some gamers for their competences that are 2000% beneficial to the job, like 3D space representation, stress resistance, quick eye to hand movement and quick thinking (think fast RTS or MOBA for example).

    But honestly I still find it hard to convince management into studying gaming benefits to ATC.

    Most of them still have the boomer reaction, aka:

    “bUt ThEy’Ll ThInK RaDaR iS a ViDeO GaMe!!! ThEy WoNt TaKe iT SeRiOuSlY”



  • Skunk@jlai.lutoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    Between 15 to maybe 30h a week.

    Working shifts in ATC at 80% so it is always different depending on the roastering office, some weeks can be 4 days of work, other could be 5 days off.

    I believe it is officially 28h a week (14 days of 8h a month) but unofficially a working day is around 5 to 6 hours, not 8 (paid pause included, + unlimited sick days + minimum 6 weeks paid vacation. Hooray Europe!)


  • Exactly, and accident in aviation are never because of one factor but rather multiple of them, and Murphy’s law.

    Handling an engine flame out is ok. But in reality it might be an engine flame out + icing conditions + OVC008 + non precision approach + windshear on short final.

    AI pilot would have quit the seat a long time ago, leaving the self loading flesh bags at the rear alone.

    ATC here and the only time we consider an aircraft safe is when it’s at the airport. That’s why slots exists. As annoying as they can be, better have the aircraft on ground at DEP rather than holding to wait for the thunderstorm to pass.