u/TheLightningCount1

Location: Texas

On the 12th my neighbors across the street accidentally left their gate open and their dog got out. I was sitting in my car eating and saw the dog go into my garage. Its a husky and appeared to be friendly. At first I just waited for it to go away and just kept eating in my car, but the dog was looking at me and wasnt leaving.

So I just got out and gently let the dog smell my hand. It was cautious but ended up being friendly. The dog ran off and ran into the open gate across the street. I thought that was the end of it but he came back out and started sniffing me again.

I just walked over across the street knocked on thier door and the surprised home owners thanked me and that was that.

Or so I thought. Today they came over and said that I punched and kicked their dog and they want me to pay several hundred for the vet bill.

They said they have video proof of this, did not show it, and said they had to pay 800 for the vet.

Im thinking its a scam. I do have the dog coming over on video, can show still images of the dog in my driveway and garage. Can barely see me in my car eating as well. Just wondering should I get a lawyer or wait an see as this sounds like a scam to me. If I did do what they said, and they had video of it, then I would probably be in jail for animal abuse.

One of the creators I follow has a horrible habit of deleting/censoring old posts. On Kemono I could just click the button to view an older cached version of the post. With Pawchive I cant. ANyway we can include this?

I had a gamer oopsie moment where I took my 15mg lantus along with my pills before bed. I got to gaming for about an hour before just telling myself to go to bed. I got up and accidentally doubled up. I saw the discarded needle right on top of my trash and remembered I took my shot already. Thankfully didnt double up on synjardy or my blood pressure meds.

So obviously not going to bed now. I started checking my bgc with finger prick every 30m. Once it gets quite low (about 60-65ish) I bust out the tater chips. Dill pickel flavored kettle chips from kroger btw.

I munch those and it goes up to roughly 80ish. I eat a bit more and go to bed.

I wake up at 5 am needing to pee and felt wrong. Just totally wrong. I check my blood sugar and its 550.

Drive to local hospital and they gave me saline. Didnt go down so they finally gave me a shot. Went down immediately.

I go home and regulary check y blood sugar all day long. Its normal. Highest it was was right after lunch at 180. A bit higher than I liked but not terrible.

I ate half a 8 ounce bag of potato chips. That should not have made my bgc rise to Hospital right now levels.

My doctor just gave me the line of "Potato chips are high in carbs." Yeah Its why I normally eat a handful at most. Hell last night I only ate half a bag too. For dinner I had chopped up boneless skinless chicken strips cooked in the air fryer and served with a full bag of frozen vegetables. Mainly been drinking flavored water. Those sugar free drink mixers.

I check my sugars every day after each meal and never see a giant spike like that. Like even when I eat what Im not really supposed to, like spaghetti, its 190-210. Yeah thats bad but not like go to hospital right now bad.

Side note, I dont eat that stuff often. Like 1-2 times a month kind of thing.

Just unsure what happened or if this is the suddenly getting worse moment people talk about. Im 40.

This tale involves probably the worst raid lead I ever had in ffxiv and his know it all friend who kept countermanding the advice I was giving him. I wont get into the reason he was the worst raid lead I ever had. Just know he was a bad tank, and a bad raid lead.

The tech issue was complex for him. Whever he plays ffxiv in discord, his game freezes up. He has no issues if he is not in discord. He uses a set of senheiser (sp?) headset and a dac6. I asked him to bypass the dac6 one day as a test.

He said he did this, but did not. Issue occurred. His best friend, and girl he just happened to be sleeping with, both were telling him I was an idiot and had no clue what I was talking about. The issue HAD to be video and not audio.

Even though the issue ONLY occurs when he is in discord and playing ffxiv.

Second solution. Turn off hardware acceleration.

He did not do this. Ill give you one reason why.

Third freeze happened mid raid. He asked me what he could do. I gave him team viewer and checked event viewer once connected.

I used a 3rd party website to read the vent viewer log, as I was too lazy to look it up for a raid member, and it showed a flurry of audio errors and permissions errors right at the freeze.

I check discord. Hardware acceleration is on. I turned it off. I turned off all audio enhancements in his headphone settings. I set the dac6 control panel to use 24b 48khz, windows sound settings for the dac6 to use 24b 48khz as he had set it to 32b 48khz.

FFXIV can cause a freeze if there is a mismatch.

I turned off exclusive control for the dac6 in legacy control panel sound options and then had him restart.

Rest of night no freezes. Rest of raid week. No freezes. Two whole weeks of no freezing.

Then his friend got ahold of his system. Ill give you one guess what happened next raid night.

I asked him if discord hardware acceleration is on, or if he turned on the audio enhancements in his headphone software. Yes to both.

I told him to turn it off and turn off the audio enhancements while using ffxiv. You can turn on your custom mixer when listening to your music after, but turn it off for ffxiv. Its causing issues.

Two weeks later.

His friend, the know it all, got involved again and told him that the changes I made obviously did not work as his game crashed on him.

His game actually crashed from using mods and Lightless Sync updating in the middle of limsa with 40+ people near him he was synced to... But thats just my opinion.

I joined discord and heard his friend saying I had no clue what I was talking about and that he should just kick me and replace me with his astro friend.

The static was doing Tea and just gotten past BJCC.

I hear his friend say this and basically tell him dont bother. I will leave on my own. I send a DM to the raid lead telling him his friend is an idiot and if he wants the issue fixed, to leave the changes I made alone.

His response was to send me a HR approved team removal message a day later. Said the group came together and made a decision... yadda yadda. Then a very snarky message that I should just give up on TEA.

I was going to leave it alone. But I am petty. That message to just give up on TEA?

So I cleared the fight 3 days later and just HAPPENED to be near the exact spot he likes to stand in Limsa on his server with my shiny new legend title.

The funniest part. After he saw me in game and said in his discord. "Lightning got his Tea Clear. Yeah he is standing right by me in limsa." People in discord called me out. "He totally did that on purpose to rub it in our face that he cleared."

Before he could answer... He froze up live on twitch again. His friend, the one who constantly counteracted everything I did, suggested he turn off hardware acceleration in discord and turn off audio effects in his headset control panel software.

EDIT: I should not type these up when I am very tired. It was only a few days after I cleared when I saw him go live in twitch. Thats why I went to his location in game. I was being petty and rubbing it in cause he told me I should "Just give up" on Tea.