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Knew I was in for a fun time with this new transfer when I asked which store she came from and she replied “that’s personal information I’m not answering that”
Monday, 23-Oct-23 20:16:02 UTC from web-
@scribus update on this: apparently she had somewhat successfully lied her way into the position she was in. She’d been hired as a deli clerk and was transferred to my store after basically becoming to much for the previous store to handle (thanks for that, guys!). Then when she got here she concocted this plan to basically act like she’d been promoted with the hopes that we’d give her the pay of an assistant manager for at least a while before we found out. Her refusal to answer most of my questions was because she didn’t want me finding holes in the story, like her refusal to tell me what store she came from was to stop me from contacting her previous manager and finding out that she was just a deli clerk - before the whole thing went down I had already figured out what store she was from because… it was listed under her file, which I genuinely can’t believe she didn’t think I would check. Before I was able to ask the manager there about her though, she’d already been fired.
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Got the new Cities Skylines, fun times fun times! Got a weird fixation on a six-sided grid as opposed to the regular right angles and all. It's obsessive, I can't stop. It's like some kind of curse. Or maybe even a hex!
Wednesday, 01-Nov-23 18:47:03 UTC from web-
@scribus I have hundreds of hours in the first one and the second one is driving me absolutely insane because of how much more in-depth it is, I can’t approach things the way I did in the first game because the first game didn’t have apple like air pollution, so now I gotta not put my factories upwind of a suburb. This is a good thing, I get sort of complacent in how I game, it just surprised me how much the game tries to kick old players’ asses in some regards.
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@zeldatra I spent half an hour relocating a water pump and even the road leading up to it, trying to get better than 10% efficiency. Then I found out that it actually needs to be fully staffed to be fully functional :o
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voting on Halloween because adulthood is tedium
Tuesday, 31-Oct-23 18:34:35 UTC from web-
@scribus Virginia. Kentucky. Louisiana. Only three states in the entire country where this is an annual thing. Can you imagine the junk mail volume? It’s a lot.
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Dodged some trick-or-treat-ers by having all my blinds down. Also it is slightly raining, so they weren't eager to try. Maybe next year I'll craft an auto-candy-dispenser. I have enough micro controllers.
Tuesday, 31-Oct-23 16:00:30 UTC from web -
the kosher section of the store is expanding into the halal section and it’s causing some problems
Sunday, 29-Oct-23 21:34:30 UTC from web-
@scribus true story: the fact that my store only has a kosher SECTION, rather than a kosher AISLE, resulted in me being called an antisemite by some elderly Jewish lady, like a) I was the one who decided this, and b) the section wasn’t as large or larger than the halal, latino, Italian, Japanese, German, etc sections on the same aisle
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cherryin hate being my own audio engineer, can we crowdfund a studio for me just so i can pay a different guy to set this up for me
Tuesday, 24-Oct-23 01:07:14 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I made a booth out of PVC pipe and some sound blankets that is fairly semi-permanent
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Which is to say, the pilot tries its best to be a black comedy, but every dark joke has to be a) only about as dark as what you’d see on Cartoon Network at 6pm on a weekday, and b) they have to counter balance it with wacky game jokez 4 kidz and meta commentary. It gets in its own way a LOT so by the time we got to the obligatory 2001: A Space Odyssey spoof about twenty minutes in I was fully checked out.
Saturday, 21-Oct-23 20:40:54 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Yeah, just watched it and first impression is that if I were the studio exec, I'd only greenlight it if we were having a really good year or looking at a very desperate one. Close, there's potential, but it's no Helluva Boss.
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Friday, 20-Oct-23 23:37:51 UTC from web
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It's almost like I'm good at this and not at all that I watched YouTube videos of people winning and ever-so-slightly might've cheesed the strategy just a bit <_<;
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@scribus Is watching a YT video so different from reading up on a strategy guide back in the day? I try to avoid guides but there are times when the game isn't fun and I want to get to the fun again without the road block.
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@adiwan Not quite so different, except maybe the video has a more obnoxious host than the written word, lol
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But I have yet to watch the circus cartoon so that's unrelated
Saturday, 21-Oct-23 19:41:45 UTC from web-
@scribus it sort of feels like if Mondo Media was told they had to keep it PG and not everybody was on board with it
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Maybe my sense of humor is just broken but I dont really think the new circus show is really all that funny
Saturday, 21-Oct-23 17:56:21 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I think it would be funny if I actually got a job at this GameStop and then showed up two hours late on my first day because the godrotten morons couldn't accurately advertise the hours of their job faire
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So is it just me, or does the word "ret*rd" seem to be coming back around on the ol' euphemism/dysphemism treadmill?
Wednesday, 18-Oct-23 15:47:13 UTC from web-
@scribus i noticed not only this but also the usage (or implied/cut off usage) of offensive words for shock comedy has also been back on the rise since wound 2021 or 2022, and very little complaints about it unlike before. Not certain what the cause of he change in attitudes was.
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Cool. Cool. Another bomb from WW2 has been found in my city and the planned defusing of that bomb is in a few weeks. Need to prepare for an evacuation, mostly for my mother as she lives in the evacuation zone. At the edge of it but everyone has to leave that zone for the whole time (about 6 hours).
Wednesday, 18-Oct-23 09:18:23 UTC from web -
Oh boy I hope the Thai place doesn’t racially profile me again
Monday, 16-Oct-23 22:05:13 UTC from web -
Man I haven’t seen Beetlejuice since I was like 12 and back then the whole “Beetlejuice is a pedophile” aspect of the movie kind of flew over my head
Monday, 16-Oct-23 00:47:01 UTC from web -
In Yakuza 7, there’s a particular endgame boss with a one-hit KO move that you need to prep for in advance by using one of Ichiban’s defense moves to tank the hit. I did not know this until after the fight was over, because he attempted it once on my healer, missed, and then apparently got embarrassed because he never tried to use it again after that.
Sunday, 15-Oct-23 00:42:07 UTC from web-
@zeldatra You were so lucky. I had to fight that boss probably a dozen times. I had to switch up my whole party because of him. Without I couldn't get over that difficulty spike.
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@adiwan with that longass dungeon just before the fight, if I had to go back and change ANYTHING about my party I’d have probably just rage quit and not come back to the game for a couple of days.
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A longtime cashier at my new store just gifted me a hand-crafted Dominican cigar to welcome me to the store. Is this normal? Is that a thing old people do?
Thursday, 12-Oct-23 16:24:46 UTC from web-
@zeldatra People were always handing out cigars on TV back in the 80s, but it was usually for a new baby or some kind of class warfare power play thing.
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“Don’t look away” nah man, that batcave’s horrifying, I’m gonna look away just a bit
Wednesday, 11-Oct-23 23:54:35 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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Read a story on CNN about how they’ve nearly doubled the price of Japanese rail tickets for foreigners, up to ¥50,000 from ¥29,000. Is it bananaed up that my first thought was “well, the yen is falling in value so quickly that by next week it’ll be like nothing even changed?”
Sunday, 08-Oct-23 15:38:52 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Not any more bananaed up than that King of the Hill where Peggy mentioned going down to Mexico "every time they de-valued the Peso," and Hank says "It got old quick," I suppose
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aww damn Dick Butkus died
Friday, 06-Oct-23 00:58:58 UTC from web-
@scribus I know it's disrespectful to laugh about other people's names and dead ones but I've read that as "Dick Buttkiss".
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@adiwan Yeah; I'm sure it had nothing to do with his reputation as a "mean" player on the field....
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@scribus not that I really followed his career, but “probably deserved it” is one of my all time favorite replies to any angry tweet ever
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Somebody at Sega is going to hell for designing UFO Catcher
Tuesday, 03-Oct-23 04:57:38 UTC from web -
this site needs to get about 20% cooler
Sunday, 01-Oct-23 03:51:09 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira ah, that should be fine then, i guess
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@scribus scriiiiiibusssss
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Silksong Never
Monday, 25-Sep-23 01:07:20 UTC from web-
@scribus boo
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@liquidusmira the real silk song is the friends we made along the way
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@mushi that's the FAKE silksong
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just got accused of racism at the store because “you look like a Hispanic”, which I’m pretty sure is the most racist way you can accuse somebody of being racist
Tuesday, 26-Sep-23 15:05:50 UTC from web -
Whoa, activity!!
Sunday, 24-Sep-23 01:22:40 UTC from web-
@scribus We are simple mare enjoyers! http://rainbowdash.net/url/876445
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@maresandsnowpity It has been some time since I've partook in poni proper, but I did recently start putting Friendship is Witchcraft songs on ye olde playliste
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@scribus Pony Music is so good. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876446
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Soo... how 'bout that Unity blowup? !vgp
Sunday, 17-Sep-23 00:44:43 UTC from web-
@scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.
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@adiwan their president also sold 2000 shares just before the install thing was announced, adding up to about 50k in the preceding year. seems bad
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@zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.
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Very cool and normal that you need to limit your game to only use two CPU cores in order to do the fishing minigame, SEGA.
Friday, 15-Sep-23 02:50:56 UTC from web-
@scribus game crashes if it has access to too many resources on this one minigame in this one version of the game so I have to throttle it to keep from going insane while I’m fishing.
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Weird thought I just had: do you think someone who doesn't know sign language would have an easier time understanding ASL or something improvised by another non-ASL-knower?
Thursday, 14-Sep-23 04:43:53 UTC from web-
@scribus Typed an entire response about how ASL would probably be the harder one only to realize that my reasoning applies to braille, not ASL. I found ASL somewhat easy to learn (could not use it today, though) and I’m crazy bad with foreign languages so maybe the answer’s in there somewhere?
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@zeldatra According to 2 people on a discord server I'm on, one of whom has a non-verbal child, improvised is easier (and the ASL sign for "Hallway" and "Focus" are the same except for the eyebrows)
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If you played all the Yakuzas as they were coming out, starting from Yakuza PS2, by the time you get to Yakuza 0 it probably starts to look like Kiryu actually died and the games that followed (in order, a samurai spin-off starring a real life historical figure with Kiryu’s face grafted on where he meets other real life historical figures who look like his friends and enemies, a prequel set in the 80s, and a remake of the first game with stuff that didn’t happen in the original release) are just his brain coming to terms with death
Wednesday, 13-Sep-23 19:54:28 UTC from web -
There are no restrooms in Washington DC metro stations. I had to venture into the city on Saturday to find a bathroom. Found a Macy’s. It was close enough. What I’m mad about is that in DC you get charged your fare when you leave the station rather than the way it works in Europe where you pay for a distance up front, so I basically paid $2 to use the bathroom.
Tuesday, 12-Sep-23 13:35:35 UTC from web-
@scribus In my city there are some but you have really look for them, as most of them are hidden. I used google maps today to look up where they are and I'm surprised that there are more than I thought. Even a place I regularly drove by had one and I didn't know until now. There are no big signs or like that. Most of them are near parks and they are hidden behind bushes.
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@scribus Haha. Nah. I think they are there to reduce the eye sore of the out of place looking buildings.
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First time posting on this site, how's it going everyone?
Saturday, 09-Sep-23 04:27:37 UTC from web-
@1033forest i hate my life and wish it was 2011 again.
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@barcom 2011 was a great year of my life. Wish I can go back too.
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@barcom @1033forest Not my best year :-T
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