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I’d like to go on, that when I was a teenager me and friends split off into pairs as a sniper and spotter, and played war games with each other. Eye pro, tac-vests that held stuff and were just another layer against a pellet, sometimes heavier clothes (winter), but in the summers it was usually dark colored shorts and tees, and a little bush craft (I picked up a surplus army sniper manual).

Dangerous? 110%

Painful? Only if you get spotted.

Dumber than we allowed ourselves to feel at the time? You betcha.

Cutting to the chase, each pair came up with their own sign language that was useful in the dark, in the quiet, etc.

One of our buddies knew ASL (hearing impaired, deaf parents) so they used that.

Me and my partner decided on NATO hand signals, as we were both the most of ware of that format.

The others? Not entirely sure.

I know a lot was just made up on the fly through gesturing and combining the few signals we remembered, and that was all of us except our hearing impaired buddy.

So yes, some sort of sign language is often created on the fly based on cultural parameters. ASL, NATO, etc… just standardizing the symbols helps, but a lot of families, especially without access to resources use “home-sign” as I’ve heard it called. Basically, they standardized within their family unit over time based on mutual understanding.

So, there are cultural elements, but it expands past that.

I’m older, spent my 20s in a mosh pit fighting to the front, have ND related APD, at least I think, but sound is still HUGELY important for me in the world. Just don’t talk to me, lol.

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Plus how many people have multiple computers in the house?

I sure as fuck do.

I generally run a phone (just because it was mentioned), a desktop, and a laptop.

Plus, my wife technically has three jobs (1 full time, 2 PRN) and hardware (laptop) from each of them, plus she not only has a windows laptop, but a macbook, plus her phone, plus her tablet… it goes on, lol.

My desktop is currently on windows as I’m relying on some third party tools for a game, and I just haven’t had the energy to look into it and get it running on Linux. (EQ private server, well within their rules, though their rules don’t match the live environment - just wanted to clarify I wasn’t cheating anyone, if they include install instructions on the home page, I assume its allowable, plus the GMs give advice in chat for configuration for newbies)

The laptop, is almost, without fail, some flavor of Linux. Its a personal machine, but I’ve mostly worked night shift help desk… sometimes there is time to kill. So I keep it in my backpack of tools and other shit, boot it up and continue whatever I was looking into previously to entertain myself.

Technically, I’m studying for an advanced role at <Insert Company> on the security team, for the most part, lol.

Just because I cracked the coffee shop next doors wifi to borrow their internet (So I can view things that are NOT on my employer’s network on my personal phone) doesn’t mean I’m doing anything nefarious to my employers, and the coffee shop had the wifi password written on a board at their stations, but they were closed because while people may NEED coffee at 2AM (especially to keep fucking children’s hospitals running), they don’t seem to care.