My mother signed me up for so many of those when I was younger because they offered immediate employment and then when I was placed on the call it was the shadiest sounding shit, then there were the non-scam but also scam sales rep things where they called you a manager, offered intense executive training to fast track you to the top of the org but you were just going door to door trying to sell some shitty product.

How do people remember which white car is theirs?

I love how for the first time since I started this job I have a 2 day span off in the middle of the week timed perfectly to let me jump right in, but the bastards had to set it for the evening. Guess I’ll just play Rimworld and pick it up on my next weekend off.

I remember looking it up online and I believe the actual capsaicin levels were like 8000 for the regular but that there was just some funky chemistry that made them feel more spicy. Though I do feel like I might have made them spicier by forgoing making any broth and treating them more like an instant yakisoba.

Oh hey it’s that company that protected abusers for years.

I have very little hope for this actually being any good. Studios are made of people that make games and the people that were around to make the previous titles really aren’t around any more. The spotlight of Inquisition for me was the excellent weaving of previous world building into the current plot in a way that felt organic and exciting. Now after going through the nightmare of Anthem and then clearly some development hell with this game I have to wonder how many people ended up sticking around and how that will reflect on the final product.

The stories I’ve read on how Arkane lost a lot of talent often line up with how Bioware has gone. Making a game in a genre the team wasn’t interested in with an overall goal to just make more money jumping in on a live service which led to major staff departures means that even should they try again, the studio isn’t made of the same people anymore and that expecting another great game is shaky at best and should be approached with at least some realism.

I want it to be good because I’ve enjoyed the series but it’s been 9 years since the last game and the people that made that game good did it despite everything. When they put out cinematic trailers and in-engine screenshots not even 6 months before the announced release, I’m left wondering why they can’t show actual stuff from the game. They should be done with the most major systems by now, environments should be made. I’ve seen this song and dance one too many times in the games industry and until I see people actually playing it I’ll temper my expectations.

The nursing home I used to work in had cameras everywhere and I always thought it was standard for the industry for monitoring potential elder abuse. Nope. They used it to micromanage, get a call randomly one day “the door can’t be propped open with a chair” on a day when the AC wasn’t working and it was ungodly hot inside and that was the only moving air in the place. Or the time they tracked people going into the kitchen to accuse them of stealing food and fire people that had been there over a decade. Or now from what I’ve heard from people still there, using it to monitor people on their phones and a single time you’re caught it’s termination on the spot.

Healthcare sucks but it can always be worse.

I hate those N95s, the straps are uncovered and they tangle and rip your hair out, and you’ll be swapping masks frequently these days since you’re gonna go from COVID+ to COVID- and back and forth. The ones at my current workplace are better except for the fact that they press hard on the bridge of your nose and gradually breaking the skin down. And before anyone says, yes I’ve been fit tested, it’s the most comfortable one they offer at my workplace, the circular ones are even worse.

Saw the original and thought how much it sucked since the guy probably had medical shit to deal with. Having that on top of some shitty court stuff leading to him just making a crappy choice in the face of only crappy choices to where he got humiliated. This just makes it even worse that they just went public humiliation mode on this dude when they couldn’t even do their own jobs correctly.

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I vaguely remember people mentioning that it was through literature like Uncle Tom’s Cabin that set the war off which seemed silly on its face. There’s even a story of Lincoln meeting the author and going “So this is the little lady who started this great war.” Then again US history in schools is just an absolute joke compared to the material reality of history so when people have no real frame of understanding the blowback from history, it starts in school stories like books setting it off rather than the South being terrified of further slave revolts akin to Haiti and John Brown’s uprising showed just how easily it might actually happen amongst a lot more.

Who do I run up to and scream in their face “You’re a grand pricks”

I think Subnautica really did that loop really well. Starting out you needed to grab fish to stay alive, a bit of an investment but not super tedious, exploring gave you some farming options, more exploration let you recharge batteries, and you kinda kept going and going. It’s the game that made me enjoy the genre under very specific circumstances. It gave you the feeling of needing to survive while also not tugging at your coat asking you to eat another dozen potatoes or something.

I agree with early access, I got burned a fair few times getting in on hype and the pitch when I was younger. If I’m hearing good stuff I might pirate early access stuff to see if it’s really for me, but I have a hard rule of passing on early access. Shit like Towns and Godus made sure I’ll never really trust early access despite the success stories. (Hell even Stonehearth was a disappointment despite it actually getting a 1.0)

Add in a full playthrough of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, took me like 150+ hours but it did have change the way I look at the world and how I interpret stories in a rather significant way.

A year later quietly admitted in a way nobody will really notice and the next time you try to tell people that the US kills innocent people they’ll just pretend this never happened or it’s just a rare event rather than the norm.

We had one of these at my previous job, it was great, no more needing to look around the unit for batteries, and if we’re getting low, it’s easy to tell.

Saw part of this blowup yesterday and was debating if it was weird video essayist bait or something just terrible.

It wasn’t marked by Shinigami eyes so I was honestly confused because it popped up on the account I use to watch minecraft LPs and skit comedy stuff. Clicked on it, looked at the comments and got my answer pretty fast and then just made sure to do some marking so that maybe someone else in the future doesn’t have to wade into such a shithole.

I think it’s hilarious that he thought that if he just went there and asked, that they’d have sold him a totem of significant spiritual and cultural importance, and then he got got. Though the story of how the story even came out of the cannibalism is why you shouldn’t ever trust white anthropologists that promise to never share what you tell them because after the dude got the trust of the tribe and someone told him “the true story” he immediately used it to sell his book.