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AsucaHayashi posted...

if you're not up for the challenges your job sometimes requires then you shouldn't have applied

lol

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

gee, pinky is making up stories again

great question pinky, i wonder what you should do in this situation

You ok hun

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Annnd...any particular reason she acts this way with you?

I genuinely have no idea.

Squall28 posted...

Her

I can't stress enough how not attractive an option this is. You guys are running wild with the fantasies but let's just say she's about 20 years my senior and more like jabba than leia.

R1masher posted...

She probably knows no one likes or trusts her and shes trying to create an alignment with you by buying you

The weird part is that she makes a public display of it. If she wanted to buy my allegiance with gifts, surely it'd be a secretive thing?

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It's golf, of course it's sexist

Sexypwnstar posted...

Lol gaslighting now

No, it's hyperbole.

The reality is that slacktivism on social media is completely ineffective and people should direct their energy towards things that matter and are effective. If someone's only torch to carry is that they hurled abuse on twitter at people who played a game, they need better hobbies.

Were_Wyrm posted...

If only companies had some sort of "human resources" department.

1) we actually don't, not really
2) the goal of these departments is to protect the company, not the worker. Who do you think they will favour, the director of the entire client services team, or a lowly account manager?

Important to note: no one in this office likes this particular director. Or at least, they don't trust her.

She comes into the office and in front of everyone is like "hey [pinky], I bought you something". And just hands me a present. Singles me out in front of the entire office, not out of a performance reward or anything but just because she was...thinking about me?

It's usually some weird trinket or something, but today really takes the cake. She bought me a coffee drip system that would probably be like 150 new, and she was like "don't worry I got it on facebook marketplace. It was advertised for 50 but I didn't pay that much. Probably paid 20 more than I should have, haha!"

The awkwardness is unbearable at this point. In a way I feel like my job is safe as houses but it just means everyone else is going to like me a lot less.

Wtf do I do?

The boycott was like 5 people on twitter. Such is the internet these days. People make so much fucking noise you'd think that the sky was falling down.

I just don't have the real estate in my kitchen to justify a rice cooker when I know a pot method that results in perfect rice nearly every time.

Sorry, asian friends :(

Easy to be mad at law enforcement for not acknowledging a likely hate crime but suggest an alternative.

They can't walk up to a mic and say "well we don't know what happened but considering the victim was trans we reckon it was a hate crime"

There's irresponsible and then there's absurd

I know doctors. I've dated doctors. They are just people, with biases and flaws and opinions.

You go to a GP with your specialist issue and you may as well be asking a very expensive and busy receptionist what number you should be calling. Or worse, you get an egomaniac who just can't say the words "I don't know much about that" and instead says "you shouldn't be doing that".

Not sure what the purpose of this rant was, fyi

BEAST RAGE
UNLEASH THE INNER DEMON

my dude i just want some straps so my hands aren't sore

electricbugs2 posted...

Touch screens became a thing because cars had too many buttons.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/4/AAJqhIAAEMEe.jpg

^This was the interior of the Panamera in the 2010's. Touch screens allow that ridiculous amount of buttons next to the shifter to be consolidated.

It's a huge part of the reason Audi became the most popular of the German brands the last few years. Everything was controlled through the center screen and steering wheel buttons and it gave the cars a more minimalist look.

Personally I like a mixture of buttons and screens rather then what Tesla is trying to do, but to each there own.

Alright fair but I don't like touch screen everything. There are like two buttons I press several times every journey, keep those as buttons >:/

pigs

Forget how it looks. Who decided that touch screens were a better solution than tactile buttons when you are driving a fucking car?

Be realistic. No one is pulling over or leaving the highway just to change channel or adjust the air con. So all these things do is create more situations for people to look away from the road. Really genius.

I go through more demeaning shit every day for like $100

R1masher posted...

Creeper?

No I mean a word for the sad feeling you get when a person you don't know is no longer there

Like that person you see on the bus every morning, or at the gym, or in the store. You don't know them, but you're slightly fascinated by them.

One day they just stop showing up and there's an inexplicable sad feeling

The "rowling supports ethnic genocide because goblins" thing is such a stretch, wild to me that people are trying to squint that hard

How the fuck did Asriel manage to assemble the multiverse's greatest warforce of all time in like, a couple of months?

Did he have some kind of power? One of the witches or angels (can't quite remember) alluded to him having the ability to summon things at will...

I hate this topic. I am now consciously aware of my tongue.

It's certainly made me hate the internet more, so there is that

The part that gets me most about this is the level of outrage, which feels genuinely incongruent with literally everything else that people do.

Jagr_68 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/8/AAUQbgAAELtG.jpg

Assfucking AND loves the Quartering whoooooooa Jaysus take the wheel here

I was gonna say "that's such a braindead take by the quartering" but I guess that's a redundant sentence

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I'm assuming that. In reality, I think she would be great.

Past experiences are colouring my feelings here. I vividly remember (like I was still there) the times I opened up to two ex girlfriends (separately) and our relationship dynamic almost immediately changed. Suddenly I wasn't a protector or a rock but a little bitch of a man who had annoying and not useful feelings - that was the shift. It was hurtful, and now I just have my guard up.

*The expectations some people have on men sometimes, since nuance isn't topic title friendly.

Maybe some guys can relate. This is not a "women have it so easy" topic.

Finding myself in this situation where I've become a "shoulder to cry" on for several people all at once, and a punching bag for some in other cases. When people do this they sort of just expect you to understand that their fears and reactions might be heavy and irrational but you're the rock in the situation so that's ok, you'll figure it out. Not much thought or care given to you being affected by this.

When it happens in reverse, ever feel like the person listening to you wants to co-opt your feelings for them? Like now it's your responsibility to make sure you don't make them anxious with whatever you're saying.

People want me to open up to them, but why can't I shake the feeling that how they want me to open up is in a very specific way? Like my girlfriend wants me to share more of my feelings, maybe cry in a manly way at something cute or adorable, tell her about the time I shed a tear at something moving. What nobody wants is to see you show real fear, real anxiety, real "rocking back and forth in the corner in a fetal position because you're scared" feelings. Like she doesn't want to hear about how you felt ineffective and insecure in your position at work, that kind of thing.

Ever feel like your version of opening up to people is just another mask where you just show another fake version of yourself for someone else's benefit?

It feels like society has made a lot of ground on the discussion of how men should be more open with their feelings and talk to people, while at the same time not making any ground on how people actually feel about or react to that.

I told my girlfriend all of this and her counter argument was that she really moved at the time her dad broke down in tears when he saw his grandson for the first time. All I could think was...yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Another example of "man allowing himself to be emotional (but in a heroic way)" is being portrayed.

The resentful part I have is when people talk about toxic masculinity in the contexts of how men don't talk about their feelings and this inevitably hurts them and others, they rarely address the elephant in the room: men are scared to talk about their feelings because at some point in their life they did exactly that and a woman (yes, almost always a woman) visibly and instantly lost respect for them.

You guys have a time like that right? The time you cried or showed real fear or insecurity, maybe you were jealous or not confident about something - and your mother, wife, girlfriend, female friend - the admiration just died in her eyes in real time.

Not sure what the point of this blogfaqs topic was, just wanted to write some shit down.

dj1200 posted...

I wont burn out!

*cries single tear*

Im gonna make it!

*ff to June when Im going to the club and eating a bbq bacon cheeseburger and large shake after downing enough vodka to kill an 8 year old*

Ain't nothing wrong with that

My advice is try and find the sweet spot of effort that is interesting enough to keep going, but never so taxing that you have to have a mental battle about going. That's the most important thing for the first few months, way more important than chasing optimal growth.

lmao

peak dunkey

Weird country.

Like can't you guys just take the odd mental health day? There's no doctors note for "I'm just a bit sad and stressed out and won't be any good in the office, give me a day to sort my life shit out">

Can't wait to read the comments in this thread. Since we are only talking about how video games should be fun, no doubt the comments will be lighthearted and fun and not toxic at all, with no one taking their videogame fun too seriously

After all it would be completely ridiculous if people were getting noticeably angry and bent out of shape because someone else had some ideas about how to have fun playing videogames that they didn't personally share, haha!

I realise it has a huge cult following and in many people's memories it's a timeless, immortal classic

That's not how I remember it. I remember platforming in a 3d space where you're running towards the camer trying to make lazer tight jumps over areas that are not clearly defined and you have these janky ass controls with the tiniest of margins of error

That game felt like trying to cut cake with a wooden spoon and expecting every slice to turn out perfectly

COVxy posted...

How do people usually use the term? You decide:
https://fortune.com/2023/01/30/more-high-earning-americans-stretching-paycheck-inflation/

If we're going to have a semantical discussion, I guess when people use the term "paycheck to paycheck" I take that to mean their budget is stretched so thin that have no room to save.

Maybe I'm wrong about that, but in any case that would be a different thing from "I've accounted for every penny and don't end up with any leftover at the end of the month".

the weirdest timeline

COVxy posted...

This is called living "paycheck to paycheck", so I'm not sure why it's given a different name.

I've always understood that term to mean "I don't have the means to increase my wealth or standard of living at all", which is not what this is

Old you: so, flying cars?
New you: No. We sort of have self driving cars but you still have to drive them otherwise they crash.
Old you: Ah well that can't be the work of that all encompassing genius and likeable self made entrepreneur, elon musk?
New you: Haha, yeaaaaah.
Old you: Well do we still have jobs? or like have robots taken over and now we all live for the joie de vivre?
New you: Well kinda but you still have to work and now you just make less
Old you: What else should I know?
New you: Kanye west is a republican anti-Semite, Donald Trump was president of the united states, there's like 3 school shootings every day now and the biggest controversy facing our times is a harry potter game
Old you: Why, was it not very good?
New you: No it was really good, that's the problem.
Old you: None of this makes any sense
New you: Also you're going to spend 2 years in your underpants making bread
Old you: Why is that?
New you: Because every zombie apocalypse movie you ever saw actually managed to undersell the "humans are stupid" part of the exposition

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Sunhawk Topic.

Even if it wasn't in his signature there's just something about the sunhawk prose style that is unmistakeable

It tastes about the same as regular instant.

Basic idea is income minus expenses equals zero every month. So if you make 2k a month, then you calculate everything you need to spend on (including savings and entertainment) and you make sure it equals zero every month.

I guess this means you aren't sitting there with a random $300 every month that you spend on whatever.

Seems like a good idea and I might try it, but wondering if anyone does this already.

I wonder how it'll run on ps4

It's good to be able to record form videos but like everything else nice there's always some assholes who ruin it for everyone else

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Yeah, gloating is weird. Like I'm happy that the game turned out good because I wanted it to be good, but rubbing its success in people's face is lame as fuck lol

Yep

But also people acting like this is the most important social issue of our times is lame

"Deflecting"

By bringing up relevant comparisons in the same space that apply the same logic but are worse

Got it

My bet is that link tries to stab Ganandorf as he revives, this happens to the sword and also his arm in the process.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

Most pot heads I knew where of average build or skinny.

For me I never got munchies till I actually decided to eat something that tasted good while high. After that yeah I started getting them.

Yeah, the trick is not to start.

I for one will be shocked if this outlandish cartoon manga series does not work well in the live action medium that has been consistently proven to suck at adaptions almost universally

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I think the logic of that argument is sound but in practise its kinda bullshit tbh. There's nothing essential about an amazon prime subscription, or an H&M T Shirt, or an iphone. I try to be a little more ethical in my choices these days and nearly all of my clothes are second hand, most of my shopping is local. My partner hasn't shopped from amazon or any retailers like that in a decade, she even gets her toothpaste from the local market. She has a fairphone.

It's possible for most people to live a normal, slightly less convenient life by not supporting these sorts of businesses. But I also totally understand why most people don't and I'm not gonna be a cock about it because really, it's a privilege to have that choice, and it's not up to me to tell people what they should do.

And in reality with so many of these things there's always a dozen more that are harmful to someone somewhere. Best you can do is try and be a little better.

Which is why I find this whole debacle so weird, because it's like suddenly making this one ethical consumption choice is the most important social issue to some people.

xGhostchantx posted...

I mean it may just be a dog whistle. I dunno enough about JK to determine that. But I do know enough about social media to not trust a god damn thing anyone posts on it.

Even if it's a dog whistle and even if JK Rowling meant it, I find it very hard to believe that the developers sat down in a meeting together and said "You know what really sells games these days? Anti-semitism. Let's write that into the lore". Call me naive.

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lol true

The dungeons thing seems like an easy fix. Well, easy in concept, hard in execution.

What I'm really curious about is what they'll decide to do about weapon durability. I don't agree with a lot of the community that just removing it altogether without any payoff is wise. All people will do is find the one OP sword and ignore everything else if that happens.

pegusus123456 posted...

Hopefully consoles having SSDs now means we get slightly fewer squeeze-through-this-crack loading screens.

That was one of those gimmicks thats was brilliant at the time and is now annoying as fuck.

Another example: the wind blowing as a guide in ghost of tsushima. This was a neat way to handle a GPS system but maybe even having a GPS system is the problem.