@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
But low grade nausea/pain just really sucks when you do not know when its going to end.
I feel you. I can handle pain, but nothing turns me into a whimpering baby faster than nausea.
I literally can’t even.
@ganymede Yup.
"First we were told about a fine of 50 euros per person per match, something that would have landed us a fine of about 4,850 euros," she said.
"We accepted that. However, just before the match we were told that we will be disqualified if we play like that. So we had to go with the bikini bottoms."
Oh, what the flying fuck.
I'm with you, but also I would like to expand this to:
Uniform requirements in general are kind of bullshit.
Especially since the men's only bottoms requirement says :Shorts not too baggy
Well, Activision Blizzard done fucked up. With a major lawsuit in the works, sponsors fleeing after allegations of widely spread sexual misconduct in the workplace start to rise and their own employees coming out to accuse management of trying to deny it, even long-term YouTube and Twitch streamers are fleeing WoW since they risk damaging their own brand by association.
As someone who remembers it being a shining example of a creative behemoth making very high-quality games as of even only a few years ago, this is such a sad turn of events.
And trying to rely on denial tactics now as if in this day and age they had any way of keeping it under wraps is frankly disappointing. By the time they are done playing damage control they'll burn their credibility.
Several people from my WoW guild have already quit over it. With Final Fantasy XIV already being as popular as it is, it's not like players don't have other options either.
@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Several people from my WoW guild have already quit over it. With Final Fantasy XIV already being as popular as it is, it's not like players don't have other options either.
Honestly, I hope that your friends find another place to go. In my opinion, World of Warcraft has been garbage for the past, what, decade or so?
Did you know that flashing your lights at an oncoming car is a method of warning of any road hazard behind you (and thus ahead of them)?
Reasons I have done this:
Deer in the road.
A mattress in the road.
A car accident partially blocking the road.
A half-naked man chasing a German Shepherd puppy down the centre-line of the road.
Kids playing kickball beside the road.
I've never done it to warn of a speed trap, and I certainly wouldn't have tried to warn a frickin' cop car of a speed trap. Yes, ossifer, it means any road hazard, and there are deer in the road about a quarter-mile or less behind me. You got nice U-turn skillz, though.
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
I don't think the streamers who have quit streaming their games did it to keep their own brands from being damaged. Not entirely, at least. I think a lot of them have quit streaming WoW and other Blizz games as a show of solidarity with those who have been victimized by them.
"Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here." - ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
@il-volpe Sounds like someone had a quota to meet.
@greenflashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Sounds like someone had a quota to meet.
I asked a cop friend of mine about it, and he politely told me that he'd prefer it if people signaled speed traps so they would slow down and he could take a nap or something.
@tiredewok said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I don't think the streamers who have quit streaming their games did it to keep their own brands from being damaged. Not entirely, at least. I think a lot of them have quit streaming WoW and other Blizz games as a show of solidarity with those who have been victimized by them.
Yeah maybe. I don't know. I'm pretty jaded about corporate morality when money enters the equation and streamers are very susceptible to being cancelled since all it takes is one click to unsubscribe.
Either way it's a bummer in many ways. An once great company is going down the drain (and has been for years, even aside from what's been revealed lately), the gaming industry has yet another scandal counted against it to show what a toxic niche in the industry it is, and some great games' futures are up in the air.
Although to be honest players are fickle. If Diablo 4 comes out and it's amazing I could see people flocking to buy it.
Well, it wasn't his non-existent speed trap I wasn't warning people about, and I'm pretty sure you can't get a ticket for flashing your lights. He did seem genuinely affronted at the idea that I was rollin' along undermining law enforcement.
The bemusement on his face called to mind some 20-something bitching about how the age of a car shouldn't make it slower so all these old vehicles plodding along at 60 on the highway are broken and need repair or to be trashed. In spite of Sammy Hagar's best efforts, he didn't know about the old 55 mph speed limits and was stunned that my '76 was not designed or built to go 76.
@arkandel The shit about the 'Cosby Room' is fucking stomach churning. If for nothing else, the part about that is just horrendous.
Going to the bathroom to pee and stopping dead in your tracks because you just saw yourself in the mirror and Jesus Christ are those pimples or am I sprouting a pair of devil horns?
I have a Very Important project at work tomorrow that is going to lead to downtime of mission critical systems and having to retrain the entire staff if it goes well, and I'm having a flare-up of every single chronic thing wrong with me because of the stress (That is a lot of things!)
Wheeeeeeeeeeee. I wish it could be 18 hours from now already.
Growing out my hair seemed like such a good idea until August humidity happened.
Oh god, co-signed.
