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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • This reminds me of once when I was playing the original EverQuest. Someone named Dunn entered the zone and everyone there started OOC broadcasting anything from “Dunn!” to “Dun dun duuuuuuuun!” I was young and sheltered and didn’t get the reference; I messaged the guy something like “what was that all about?” and apparently he didn’t, either. Probably pretty fun to be that popular for thirty seconds for no known reason, though.






  • I have a pixel watch 2 and have had a few false positives - one because it thought I had fallen (for some reason. I don’t know why; I was just lying in bed at the time) and one because I didn’t know you could press the button five times to call emergency services, so I let my kid play with the watch.

    In both instances, the watch vibrated violently and constantly for about five seconds before initiating a call. During those five seconds, it displayed a prompt to cancel the upcoming call. I wasn’t quite fast enough to cancel the call my kid started, but I did manage to cancel the one for the alleged fall. For the one that went through, I hung up just as it connected, so they called me back. They did not appear perturbed by the mistaken call, but it only happened once; if it were repeated like you described, they probably would have been more upset.

    I agree that we should have false positives as rarely as possible, but I think having the opportunity to cancel a call from one is a good stopgap.









  • Somewhat frequently, I drive by a nearby house with a wide window clearly visible from the road. Almost every time I drive by it, there’s a dog very similar to this one in the window. It’s not a bay window, which makes me think the dog’s owner(s) must have put a table right in front of the window specifically for the dog to be able to lay there and watch life go by.

    I think that’s very sweet.