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.

I’m always taken a bit aback when people at work just go wild with slurs. You have the r-slur getting used just kinda flippantly for so much stuff where they could easily just pick another word, only had one person at my previous job really say it so this new job with like 4 people that use it is kinda disheartening. Also had a coworker use the f-slur when talking to me, they were quoting one of their children saying something along the lines of “X is for …” but I’m kinda visibly queer so the sheer gall to just go with it anyway was something new.

Then the conversations I overhear about politics every so often make me just never want to hear them since I’d rather just not know how terrible everyone I work with is, it’s easier to just maintain that professional friendliness when I don’t have the back of my mind screaming ‘THEY’RE HOGS BRAYING FOR THEIR TREATS OVER ALL ELSE’

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.

This sounds like a fucking parody

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.

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.

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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.

If you have like 3 hours, Bobby Broccoli’s 2 part documentary on Nortel does kinda go into the absolute madness that telecoms were back then. It was a race to buy up every last little startup with the biggest amounts of money. Dude claims that his new startup does some miraculous thing that it doesn’t really do, doesn’t matter, here’s a bunch of money. Once they kinda faltered and didn’t meet dividend projections by like a cent or two the bubble burst for them.

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.

The spectacle of these shows is wild. Parking Wars, watch as people struggle to get their car back from a byzantine bureaucracy that they need to go to work the next day or their entire life might just spiral out of control. Dog the Bounty Hunter, watch as this coked up dude hunts poor people for sport in sanctioned bounties. Operation Repo, watch as we film a 100% fake show of people screaming and getting violent over repo workers gleefully stealing their stuff they need. Storage Wars, let’s see how much money I can make selling someone’s loss. Most trash reality that’s gotten popular on A&E is predicated on just someone’s suffering and exploitation and it’s just normal to watch and be like “hehe, sucks to suck, I’ll never be like that” when they’re a paycheck away from being homeless themselves.

The one thing I learned from all the sappy Christmas movies from when I was a kid is that nobody will ever remember how great you were doing double overtime shifts, nobody will remember your personal sacrifice to make sure a report was finished, but your family will remember every event you miss. As a nurse it’s easy to lose the barrier between “work” and just being nice. You’re working with real humans that have real needs and going out of your way to be nice to them is fine and dandy, but the entire healthcare industry is built on that where you’ll do a little here and there of unpaid labor or bringing in something from home. To think there’s a person so atomized that they developed these kinds of feelings for a fucking car manufacturer.

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.

Can confirm, in high school I was a classic American conspiracy theorist, came to the conclusion that the US government was the largest terrorist organization in the world and then didn’t know what to do from there. But also maybe aliens are involved.

Why is Stanley Kubrick’s comedy about mutually assured destruction called Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? Because he was a cocky secret fascist who was getting us to stop worrying and love the bomb. Why did he make A Clockwork Orange? So we’d rejoice at ultra-violence designed to desensitize us to the horrors of the world.

I love this new trend of ignoring the majority of the work and just kinda going off vibes from the title or first 5 minutes.