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at least compared to retail, service, community/government, labor, trade, etc. jobs I've had --

is that everything is a tug of war for liability. Someone is always trying to divert blame elsewhere, or find something to snitch on to make themselves look better/more competent at the expense of someone else's mistake.

I get that catching mistakes is important to avoid patient harm - but literally it can be the most minuscule mistake, and people are rewarded for catching it. Usually when you receive some sort of accolades it's from finding something someone else did wrong -- it's never something like, "wow, you really made me feel comfortable about ___ and helped me cope with the situation," or "wow, you really went out of your way to make sure I'm informed," or "wow, you really give excellent service!" In retail if you'd receive accolades it was usually for one of those reasons, like someone would tell corporate that you really helped out by special ordering x item or knowing a lot about products, you helped someone locate something that wasn't at that particular store by letting them know where else to go or contacting other stores, just being friendly, etc.

In retail it was about what YOU did, not about what someone else DIDN'T do.
I know you could say that's just the nature of capitalism and blah blah "dog eat dog," but I literally never felt this mentality at any retail or service job, or any contracting company I've worked for, at any factory or warehouse, at WIC, etc.

I recently received some congrats for catching a mistake someone made, and it feels cheap getting thanks at the expense of someone else's mistake. Catching a mistake should just be your job, not an accomplishment -- and someone's mistake shouldn't be brought to light anymore than it needs to be for liability purposes.

BlingBling22947 posted...

bobbaaay posted...

This is really embarrassing
It was like a Kashi eggo thing with some chunky peanut butter

never heard of it

What's the last thing you drank?

I'm drinking a diet Vernors right now

Favorite horror movie from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s?
Favorite romcom?
Favorite non-English language film?
Do you think games like dodgeball, mat ball, "smear the queer/kill the carrier" (sorry for the slur, but that's its name!), etc. encourage violence and don't belong on school grounds? Any moreso than football, wrestling, etc.?

BlingBling22947 posted...

Hulu or Netflix?

I haven't had Hulu in a minute - so I don't know what its current state is like. Same with Netflix.
But in the past Hulu was miles ahead of Netflix with its Criterion collection and Full Moon collection -- plus they've always had a better selection of independent/lower-budget horror films (and not the straight to DVD stuff that there's like hundreds of on Amazon Prime). Hulu also has a much wider variety of television shows.
Also never been a fan of most of the Netflix exclusives.

Dragon Quest/Warrior or Final Fantasy?
Fire, Earth, or Water starters in Pokemon -- like overall, not answering for each individual generation?
Cardamom, cinnamon, or mint?
What ethnicity makes the best desserts?
North Indian or South Indian food?
Thoughts on cheesecake?

RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

I have a very important question and will use meme arrows
>nurse
>at work
>bored

'splain please

I literally watch nurses shop for lingerie or watch Youtube videos at work

Veggeta X posted...

What is your opinion on the Google Stadia?

No idea what that is

BlingBling22947 posted...

What's the last thing you ate?

This is really embarrassing
It was like a Kashi eggo thing with some chunky peanut butter

A combination of two of the following:

Cheesy gordita crunch with beans instead of beef
Crunchwrap supreme with beans instead of beef
Cheese Quesadilla
Potato soft taco
Shredded chicken burrito

Veggeta X posted...

What is your opinion on the new Pokmon S&S and the drama surrounding it?

I think the Dexxit thing is dumb as fuck. It's been explained that the majority of the Pokemon taken out either 1.) dominated competitive play and ruined diversity, 2.) were starters or legendaries, or 3.) are Pokemon nobody gives a fuck about anyways like Luvdisc and Nosepass.
I think THAT part is total overreaction.

As for the rest, though. I don't know how I feel about the exp share. I think it's cool they're getting rid of EVs, because those were so tedious.
BUT I don't think it's cool that the game is so short, that you can't capture higher level Pokemon, and a few other things.

So I'm torn.

I think it looks pretty, despite popular opinion. I think the Pokemon designs are the coolest since Gen 5. I LOVE the starters. I like Switch

Gafemage posted...

Same except for the tall & hairy part.

Whats the worst U.S. city iyo?

I haven't been enough places to make a judgement.
I like most rust belt cities, because a good portion of them have a lot of counterculture and personality. I'm sure a lot of Southern cities have some amazing food -- and certain parts of the South have some really beautiful architecture and nature.

It'd probably be like - some city in Kansas or the Dakotas or something.

It can be anything. concepts, movies, words, people, places, things

Gafemage posted...

L7 might take the title tbh

Cold weather or warm?

Cold easily.
I know it's a cliche - but I can put on more clothing, I can't take more off.
I'm overweight, hairy, tall, broad, and have a fast metabolism. I give off tons of heat and get hot very easily. In the summer I basically need a fan on me or AC up high to even have sex.

Gafemage posted...

Which posters do you think are more deserving of the "Peak CEman" title?

I don't pay attention to user names for the most part.
The only names I know off the top of my head are matcha, darkroast, veggy, L7, and ppp.
Of those - L7 is probably most deserving, but he's only 50% of the equation.

Veggeta X posted...

What is your opinion on the state of CE right now?

It's kind of boring compared to previous years. For once at least a good portion of the users aren't totally classist asshats. I actually can read posts from at least 60% of the users without getting angry like I used to coming here.

King_Hutton posted...

Why do they call you Peak CEman?

Because they found out I hate what some of the users here, especially in previous years, stand for. I let someone know that comparing me to classist, fat-shaming misogynists was the biggest insult to me - so people tried to bank on it.

Veggeta X posted...

What is your opinion on the mod Alpha and Error?

I don't even know who any of the mods are, other than Shotgunnova - only because I used to use his FAQs for different games, and I get nostalgia whenever I see him post.

pls

I'm so sad I don't get Ekans, Luvdisc, and the "G' Unown

My girlfriend is half Indian. She's made me watch some of the classic romantic comedies from I think the early '90s?
They're really corny and flashy. They're not bad - but it's definitely not my style. I want nihilism and pessimism - not dance routines

graduated with would be posting, "pffft global warming? look at how much snow there is!"

Woof @ this thread.

I dropped the screw in the tuna

Lol lamest movie.
But that part is hilarious

inloveanddeath0 posted...

ThyCorndog posted...

is there anything to make besides dessert? or should I just make a giant pumpkin pie then?

Soup maybe
Pancakes

Came to say pancakes.

Duncanwii posted...

ProfessorKukui posted...

Don't want to dirty her sheets

When we tried doing it before we used the pull out bed. She said her bed is too narrow for two people and I've seen it and I agree.

The bed doesn't need two people on it. It literally just needs room for her knees and her hands

Butterfiles posted...

I've literally never heard anyone say anything good about Ohio

Because you're probably surrounding yourself with basic people.

People who have negative things to say about Cleveland are just boring. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Cleveland, and it has more personality than most mid-large sized cities.

But I can admit now being in Michigan that the rest of the Ohio is kind of bad outside of Cleveland. Akron is trashy but somewhat tolerable. Columbus sucks. Toledo and Youngstown are gross. Cincinatti is the south.

PowerOats posted...

FF7
Mario 64
Zelda OoT
Halo 1&2
RE4

How was FF7 revolutionary?

And to respond to the thread:

Monster Rancher

Ugh, now he's complaining about the randomness of rolls in D3 compared to D2, and talking about trading again.

The randomness is LITERALLY what the genre is built upon! He keeps comparing D3 to WoW, but then on the same token is complaining about the randomness and wanting trading so there's more interaction with strangers online? It sounds like he's the one who wanted an MMO

How were the mechanics in D3 similar to WoW, like the guy who made this video is claiming?
Why is he bringing up the real money auction house, when that got taken out and fixed in due time and made the game tremendously better? He's also saying there were no endgame challenges? That also changed big time - there's WAY more endgame content than D2 EVER had.

Why is he saying that no skill resets are a good thing, in a game where you literally kill Pindleskin and Mephisto for hundreds of hours on the same character - and the genre's sole purpose is to replay endlessly to find better loot? Why is that good for novice players to realize once it's too late that they made poor decisions?

He's also saying that there's less creativity in the skill optimization in D3? You literally choose between all the abilities, as well as the runes attached to each one. You're not forced to min/max anymore in D3 than you are in D2. Honestly I was LESS creative in D2 when I was a preteen making 1001 different Zealadins or Meteorb sorceresses. There was also a huge imbalance in D2 - like who the hell played Druids or Assassins, or Necromancers without gimmicks and very specific, difficult to attain gear?

He's also defending trading in games, as if it's EVER implemented well? You'd literally just have people give you free good shit in D1 and D2 -- and the fact that the drops were shared made it so you literally fought over who would click faster. That was NEVER a good system. D3 did everything SO much better, and made me actually want to play with my greedy-ass friends.

I'm getting so mad at this video.

Following the incident the axe was put to sleep

Amenadeel posted...

I heard that it's difficult to cook the beans with the chili, how are you making them?

I'm just putting them in last. that's what my girlfriend told me to do.
I honestly never ate chili growing up. I had it the first time maybe like two years ago?
It was always one of those super generic white people things that my parents didn't do, since we didn't have cookouts or family get-togethers, or celebrate most picnic holidays? Same with baked beans. I never had baked beans until like 4 or 5 years ago?

VanananaHeyHey posted...

That sounds all right. Let us know how it is. What are cousa and mitch peppers?

cousa is just a short, fat summer squash that's basically like a sweeter zucchini. It's used in a lot of middle eastern cooking.

mitch is what my girlfriend says Indians call most skinny green chili peppers, lol.
They're basically just finger hot peppers

sondast posted...

bobbaaay posted...

omg
and kidney and pinto beans
LOL

Well then it's not chili, but it sounds delicious.

Why is it not chili?
That sounds like some meatbro type logic stuff. I just Googled it, and I guess it is a common argument?
Still think that's some lame meatbro logic.

omg
and kidney and pinto beans
LOL

CE would hate it.

I used:
ground turkey
green onion
spanish onion
green bell pepper
mitch peppers
cousa
fresh grape tomatoes
crushed tomato
celery salt
cumin
smoked paprika
red pepper flakes
Hungarian sweet paprika
crushed black pepper
chicken stock
garlic
chili powder

I think that's it?

Right is cuter, but they're both way too skinny

I watched a guy grab a pallet jack from a woman in the hospital basement and talk about his muscle and helping her out, etc.
It was a pallet of like toilet paper that probably weighed less than poops I've taken.
Then he went into the room the wrong way, when he needed to push the pallet into its spot and he was trying to pull it.

WizardPowers posted...

Didn't Obama also say this?

Does CE's leftists hate Obama now too? He alt right as well lol?

I love Obama and always will.
People don't like Obama because they don't believe in actual progress, education, rehabilitation, discourse, reasonable solutions, etc. they'd rather just destroy people and create us vs. them rhetoric.

wtf is this? I didn't even know they were still active -- and when did they become corny Kia commercial music?

she's hot - but she's still not Tomi Lahren dressing up as her hot

Jiggy101011 posted...

Not sure thats a good look for him. Beard looks unkempt.

You chinstrap, bro?

Why are cemen so dorky about tattoos? They're like ok, super saiyan boomer

Wonder how it'll compare to other current works of cinema, like mcu films

She's ridiculously cute. Even moreso with the tattoos

i know the copypaste isn't meant to be taken seriously, but I think the funniest part is that whoever originally wrote it is calling Cap'n Jazz POWERFUL and HATEFUL.

Delirious_Beard posted...

"Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE

A+ for knowing this "copypasta"

EDIT:
This thread isn't meant to sound like that quote - it's meant to emphasize less the misuse of the term, and more the fact that even the misuse isn't even relevant anymore, so people who still misuse it are fucking cringy cringy cavemen.

DuranOfForcena posted...

there are 0 things cringier than being elitist about emo music

I'm not being elitist about it. I don't even listen to much music anymore. I sold all my records about a year and a half ago.
I just like the idea of, you know, using words correctly -- especially a word that was so notoriously misused at one point, and the confusion that people are still misusing it when it's not even relevant to misuse anymore.

I don't currently play, but my two favorite characters were:

A Gnoll Barbarian who was abandoned as a pup in front of a coliseum, and was raised to be a pit fighter and eventually won his freedom. Interesting facts would be he's fucked a goat, my main inspiration for his bravado and showboating was LeBron James, and he doesn't know women well because he was raised by tons of macho males in the coliseum.

A Human Shaman who was basically a voodoo woman. She had a spirit animal that was a giant white vulture that had a soul of an Eladrin banker inside of it. The vulture was bound to her, but absolutely hated her because it was a classist, racist Eladrin. Interesting facts about her were that she carried tons of human body parts in her satchels - including eyes and ears, and she got into necromancy trying to revive an old love of hers?