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This one time in gym class this kid Mark was pissing me off. Mark was one of those semi-popular kids who was dumb as a rock and super annoying, at least to me. I didn't like him but I tried to avoid him mainly but he'd keep coming up to me when he'd see me and just...I don't know. Lean in(possibly with hand on shoulder) and repeat my name to me really exaggerated like, in a way you'd speak to a toddler "AYE EEEEH JAYYY" shit pissed me off.

One time in gym I was in the weight room talking to my friend, also named Mark, when he interrupted us three times to do this whole routine. I hated it, getting up in my space, the whole deal. After the third time I was fuming mad.

So when class was over I ran ahead, waited around a corner and when he came past I cracked him in the face. We scuffled for a little and then he told me to "whoa calm down, maaan" and that was that. I didn't get in trouble thankfully, he didn't give me a beat down, I want to think this shit stopped or just happened a lot less, but I can't remember. I...guess it worked? It's been a while.

This is the only time I've ever started a fight with anybody, but man I was soo mad. Fuck you mark!

Do you guys have any stories from high school? Doesn't have to be about fighting necessarily.

My one friend Steve would walk past the library and open up the book return and do a Sand People call from Star Wars(he was also in choir so this was excellent) then run off. Another time a senior must have let loose a rat on senior day where kids are pranking left and right, but they put it in the bathroom next to the biology labs, so the one teacher found it and took it in her room and was feeding it, studying it etc. Plain failed.

This reminds me of something in my city in the US. For months/weeks on facebook and TV and everywhere there were ads for "The Immersive Van Gogh Experience". I didn't go but I've heard people who did it was a waste of money, just screens all around with Van Gogh, but not really what I'd imagine would be truly immersive. Lots of people felt scammed. I do not know if it used AI or what.

THIS looks like an even worse, lower effort version of that. Yikes.

I voted Gen X because more so than the boomers, they made the punk in the 80s and 90s I like.

It's like a class action lawsuit in a way. Too many people there for the payment to be anything substantial to an individual. I did say I want these people to make money. Yes, having your likeness in the game means you should be entitled to some money. I've said this along, even before NIL. But the vast majority of players add zero value by actually having their real likeness in the game so it is what it is.

I work in retail as the general manager of a liquor store.

I like my job. I get paid decently(and know how to move up to make more should I want to) and the hours are pretty good. But, the main reason I don't mind is because I run a state owned liquor store in a state that is still control. So, I don't have to ask people to sign up for credit cards and memberships, phone numbers, e-mails. I have no real quotas or goals to meet, corporate won't fold and give customers what they want(if I follow policy, I followed policy too bad). It's retail but a better version of it only because it isn't so corporatized and stupid.

I've poached two employees from the Dollar Tree in the plaza because they weren't being treated well over there and at my store they work less and get paid more, and the work is more fulfilling because it isn't the same as general corporate retail.

All this being said, I sympathize with people at their ropes end when they work a retail job making $9 an hour, have to deal with stupid and toxic management(because the company sucks, nobody can be happy at work. managers just can make it somebody elses problem), idiotic asshole customers. I can't blame anybody for snapping or being rude if rudeness is given. I practice good customer service habits in my store, but the foundation is there. I like my job, I like my coworkers, "corporate" isn't so bad, and customers aren't so bad. I can actually enjoy myself and my job as a result, and good customer service follows.

If 85 players on every FBS team(134) opts in, that's over 6 million in NIL money paid out.

There's just too many potential applicants it isn't feasible to give everybody a huge sum of money, especially when most of these players add no value by being in it. I am all for these guys getting paid but realistically the payment amount is what it is.

EA is giving college players that sign up to be in the game $600 and a copy of the game.

If the max of 85 players for all FBS teams that's over 6 million in NIL money. 99% of these players have no future playing football and won't bring any value necessarily by being in the game. I think it is a good deal for the most part. I don't particularly think it is a cheap offer

Only if it's actually good and on PC. This is EA here, so chances are it won't be. Madden is terrible and I'd guess, though I don't have too much familiarity with them, the latest NCAA football games(13, 14) probably aren't great either, but since it was the last one people probably have a soft spot for it.

We've confirmed all 134 FBS teams will be in it. Great, that's actually bare minimum. I'll wait and see because I have zero expectations simply because it is EA and Madden has been trash for so long.

I've done it as a kid. Mainly just immaturity but stress relief also sure

I am going "both sides" because I do feel like that contributes heavily to the downfall of media literacy. It isn't that people have their own thoughts and have chosen a side, it's the sports-like supporter mentality that makes it unhealthy. Our side must win!! and we are, because <sources> say we are!! People don't think about the sources they reference and post, all they care about is they won! the source says so!

And yeah, either side in any COVID debate has sources. Masks work and you're wrong if you don't think so, masks do not work and you're wrong if you think they do. The downfall is, if side X wants to win the debate, all they have to do is find some stupid source from Y going "yeah bud, you're side won!" That doesn't mean they won, of course, but to them it's good enough.

I see debates happen all the time where people reference sources that say "we won! you're wrong" but no critical thought has occured at any point. We get to this point because people have picked sides, but not just that, they've picked sides and THEY HAVE TO WIN. So essentially it just becomes a free for all, everybody has sources, fuck it, we gotta win.

part of the reason media literacy is so bad is because we have two political parties in this country combined with how territorial people have become. When people have chosen a side, and their side must be victorious, it leads to things like decreased media literacy. People are looking for things that proclaim their side correct. It doesn't matter if the article is truthful or accurate, all that matters is they said my side won.

Take a look at COVID. One side will say masks work! The other side will say masks do not work! Both sides have sources backing up their point, likely no critical thought has been applied, but source says my argument wins!

what about the call tones or whatever? My friend had one.

You'd call them, and their "ring tone" instead of the normal ring noise you'd hear, was replaced with a very, very low fidelity version of, in this case an MCR song.

Eugh, awful

why'd ya go all the way there

https://carnegiemnh.org/tyrannosaurs-rex/

The Corner's Dilemma by Free Throw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyXT6dgEHuM

Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely by Husker Du(Green Day cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVi0IxC0yM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vniciBV6D5E

Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault by Jawbreaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUi4r7AMRLo

Leen on Sheena by The Bouncing Souls (Avoid One Thing cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDoqw51G3Do

The Backseat by The Gaslight Anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dh30SQ9A-Y

Ten Minutes by The Get Up Kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrBLWL9XW0M

In the City by The Jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcK5Go8CzRc

That Bug Bit Me by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00c1TCQKB0

Hand Grenades by The Offspring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxywfT2Jmf8

An Idea for a Movie by The Vandals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDI1TpIDQ-0

I don't listen to as much pop punk as I had thought, and some of these entries aren't even from bands that are straight pop punk but yeah

Good Good Things by Descendents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR8Y2hEI_mo

This is one I put on when I am in a good mood to amplify the feeling.

I will get all 3 when they release the trilogy for PC. I assume at some point it'll happen. If not oh well.

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I always loved game guides, but still fuck that final fantasy ix guide.

I remember as a kid one of the sections was incorrect leading me to much confusion. I think it was somewhere in Kuja's desert palace so I couldn't escape. I either looked up an answer on this very website back then or i just kinda wandered around until I was able to make it work.

https://strategyguideshq.com/blog/final-fantasy-ix-official-strategy-guide-a-disastrous-attempt-at-innovation/

Turns out the issue I remember may just be a drop in the bucket. I had no idea at the time or even now this strategy guide is considered one of the worst ever, but it does track.

I want to buy one. The only requirements i have is 2-300 dollars, supports 256gb(or more!) microSD and has tactile buttons.

I do not want to use my phone, or even an old cell phone, so if that's all you came here to say tough potatoes.

I haven't bought one in a while but the last one I had was a Fiio X1 gen 2 which was fairly barebones yet awesome, and then a handful of Cowon ones(D3, M2 are the ones I can recall). I suspect the market may be different than when I was in the game.

There are instances where paying with a check is easier and makes sense at least in the US.

To me, when I bought a car, paying the down payment with a check seemed like the easiest way to do it. If you go onto a bullion website you usually save 4% if you pay by check(thought ACH debit is also a thing and gives you the discount iirc). Sometimes you will encounter a service that paying with a check incurs no fees while paying online does.

Generally though, day to day, there is no reason to use checks to pay for 99% of things. But they can save you if you lose your bank card and do not have any sort of phone app payment thing set up.

I work in retail and we only take checks from business customers but at my store it was one guy but now he mainly uses his debit card. Also at my work, your first pay when you get hired should be direct deposit, but if that isn't set up in time or whatever you may get your first pay as a check. Not really a huge deal, just go to your bank or even the ATM outside to deposit it.

What I failed to notice earlier is that those are star notes, which are always awesome. That doesn't really increase the value any because they made so many 1976 twos(more than any year to date, of which we have 1976, 1995, 2003, 2003a, 2009, 2013 and 2017A). I do not know if the sheets all came in star notes or if it was random or what, but I suspect even so this is common.

BUT we can take it a step further and see how rare these star notes are, by going here:

https://www.mycurrencycollection.com/reference/star-notes/2#1976

So for notes issued to FED bank A(Boston), we have a total of 1.2 million star notes issued. None of these are going to be rare necessarily, even the runs of 640K. Some star notes come in runs of 100K or less, but none here(looking at you 1999 ten dollar notes!!!!).

Looking into it further I see several images of these sheets with star notes, but cool none the less.

So, uhh, what the heck is a star note, anyways?

The star symbol at the end of both serial numbers indicates this is a replacement note for one damaged in production. They don't reprint individual notes on the spot or anything, nor is this an exact replica(sans star) of a note to have been created. They just wait until a run is over and then print these hundreds of thousands or millions of these to replace what was lost.

I collect every star note I see. I have several hundred at this point, including a brand new FED strap of one dollar star notes that are sequential. I have paid exactly face value for every single one.

I had the guides for ff7, 8 and 9. I'm pretty sure I sold them or gave them away because I don't have them. I wish I did.

The ff7 guide made certain when so and so died they were d e a d dead. They stated not even a Phoenix down would save them.

I actually knew the spoiler because I read ahead. I think I cried reading it before I even saw it meh fuck it I was like 10

I don't know the specifics but the sheets arent consecutive notes but are in such a way when the full sheet is cut during production they slot into consecutive order.

I got two mentions!

Uncut sheets are neat. Somebody gave me a 4 note uncut sheet of 1976 twos once in a frame.

Now those serial numbers are recorded as being in a sheet. So if you cut this up to make it appear like an error people will know its cut from a sheet because of the serial numbers. Most modern sheets they reserve the top end of serial numbers. I have found two bills cut out of a sheet(just cut not altered to suggest an error) before. A five and a one. Both begin with 999 which is a good tip off its from a sheet. Some reference out there probably has the exact serial number ranges for the sheets of 1976 twos.

The signature on the left, Francine Neff is one of my favorites. Contrast with William Simon on the right which may be my least favorite of all time aside from Steven Mnuchin(only man or woman to not do a full cursive signature. It looks like an MS word font nobody uses).

But yeah neat

Young Sheldon is just a really, really annoying and stupid show but I don't think somebody is a bad person for watching it.

I sleep in a big bed with my wife.

pastrami, corned beef man idk

I remember I had RPG maker when I was younger, but I never got the hang of it because this was not the kind of thinking game I, as a kid, would enjoy. So I never did anything but basic stuff with it. I did have the official(R) PS2 keyboard to make typing in dialogue easier....cooool. I downloaded this because maybe as a 34 year old who doesn't mind thinking as much it could be fun.

I live in a state far away from the border so whatever happens isn't likely to impact me, however I remember Fox News was calling it a border crisis less than a week into Biden's presidency when obviously there was no crisis under Trump(according to right wing media).

I do wish the border would stop being exploited(like children) for political gain. Is there a border crisis or not? I don't know, but if Trump wins in November, there...I guess suddenly won't be?

Reddit has plenty of angry weirdos, and I was going to expand on my thoughts but everything I had typed out I deleted because I don't know how to actually convey it.

My question is, what was it about Santos that flipped the district red, when it had been blue for a decade(though it was red for 20 years prior if my googling is accurate). I mean, the second he took office it was lie and red flag after another, but HOW did we get to the point in a race where Democrats overachieved in a midterm this district goes red? And I know somebody who isn't TC is going to say "well, Trump voters are dumb as shit" because he is also a liar and a fraudster with red flags a mile long, but that doesn't answer the question I have.

I never thought I'd be the GM of a retail store, but I am and I love it!

So keep it up!

A lot of these jobs people don't stick around. I was watching a video about Dollar General and one commentator said they worked 6 months at one and were the highest tenured employee there by the end of it. They may be constantly hiring for their skeleton crews.

When I worked at wal-mart from 2012 to 2018 the staffing and coverage was okay or good at the start but then after a while something changed. What used to be a decently staffed store then became skeleton crews at most hours of the day.

Corporate has decided that they can save money by having the fewest number of people on at most times of the day and save money.

That's the answer. People do want to work. People work jobs for the same or worse pay that are much crappier than working generic corporate retail, but these companies know they can staff the bare minimum and people will still shop there.

I am the general manager of a liquor store. I have poached two employees from the Dollar Tree in the plaza because I have a union job in a much calmer environment that provides a decent retail wage with a clear path to full time making benefits. The two I have poached have mentioned how much better they like working at my store because the employees are better, the work is easier, and it's not as crazy. And they get paid more!

So once in a while I hear Dollar Tree drama. Oh, Zach is being weird? They had one cashier and 20 customers in line? I...don't really care about dollar tree shit because I don't work there and neither do they.

BUT today some real shit happened.

A few months ago they got a new GM over there. Nobody liked her. I think this may be the reason I ended up with the two I did, because one got fired because they I guess said she could do something then pulled the rug out from under her, and the other I think was looking for a new job because of toxic GM.

However, within the past couple of days it was uncovered that 8 bank deposits are missing, totaling like 20 grand. Now, the aforementioned Zach guy IS a little weird, but the plan, I suspect, was to blame the weird kid about it. However, he didn't do it, and while he is kinda weird, I totally would have been mega pissed off if he got in trouble just because "well he's weird"

Nah turns out that stupid GM took the money and was led out of the store in handcuffs earlier today by the local PD.

I don't know how dollar tree's systems work, but I know where I work at I don't know how I'd hide missing money like this. I'd never even try but I don't see how I would ever succeed since we use a smart safe I cannot open up(outside of the storage compartments or to clear a blocked bill acceptor).

But yeah, this is kinda crazy. I don't normally care for stupid workplace drama but the GM of a store being led out in handcuffs because of missing deposits. I feel bad for the one employee the finger was pointed at first. He doesn't need this kind of anxiety, and in fact I'd encourage him to look for a new job(I have no openings) even if the accuser is essentially fired.

I am lazy as fuck with home maintenance. when my dad passed i really felt like a loser(in a way) for not keeping up with the yardwork as well as he did. I helped him some, but he did a LOT of shit out there.

This year we got actual landscapers to clean it up, and now that I have a good framework I can kind of keep on top of it.

I didn't realize that boiling them was even an option but it is on the back of the package, in addition to stove, oven and air fryer.

I tried a small piece of one and the flavor inside was alright but the outside was kind of slimy and gross. I have the rest cooking on the stove with some butter.

Maybe I am being too hard on 'em but boiled just sounds gross.