RL Anger

Thenomain · Feb 8, 2016, 9:02 PM

@Thenomain

I really didn't like the last battle in the first Shadowrun Returns game. Actually, I just didn't like the ending at all. It was like they were struggle for UGH MEEEEEANING beyond the run itself, and that was lame.

Come on, folks. You don't need to have earth-shattering ramifications to make a game interesting.

Well sure, but the game was a huge gamble from Hare-Brained Schemes and an untested idea coming out of Kickstarter. If they wanted to jam as much stuff in there as possible (so many cameos, and I do not care for the jester elf) I can't say I'm surprised nor do I blame them.

Ganymede · Feb 8, 2016, 9:05 PM

@Thenomain said:

Well sure, but the game was a huge gamble from Hare-Brained Schemes and an untested idea coming out of Kickstarter. If they wanted to jam as much stuff in there as possible (so many cameos, and I do not care for the jester elf) I can't say I'm surprised nor do I blame them.

I'm not surprised, but I can and will blame them. The entire last chapter of the game was so WTF that it kind of broke theme for me, and was unpalatable.

Duntada · Feb 8, 2016, 10:10 PM

@Ganymede

I dunno it kind of fit theme to me at least, the way my friends and I usually went about finishing a story.

I mean sure we supposedly helped stop an invasion of monsters from beyond space and time. Only we didn't. The bugs still got through, no one listened to a damn thing we said and Chicago is going to pay the price in a few months. One of my friends is dead, and while he got revenge, I got nothing. I'm ending the same way I'm starting; poor, alone, and on the run. Only now I have a dragon watching me. Not just any dragon but Lofwyr. THE dragon that is the reason all runners know not to make deals with dragons.

(Needless to say in Dragonfall I did not take him up on his offer.)

surreality · Feb 9, 2016, 4:23 AM

Rare is the morning you wake up to a phone call to inform you that a friend of yours has been murdered in a particularly heartbreaking way.

Rarer, I suspect, is the day that gets steadily worse from there, with a steady stream of 'Really?' and 'Well, that happened,' and all the rest.

Seriously, this day can fuck itself.

Sonder · Feb 9, 2016, 4:54 AM

@surreality said:

Rare is the morning you wake up to a phone call to inform you that a friend of yours has been murdered in a particularly heartbreaking way.

Rarer, I suspect, is the day that gets steadily worse from there, with a steady stream of 'Really?' and 'Well, that happened,' and all the rest.

Seriously, this day can fuck itself.

That's awful. I'm sorry for your loss. Let me know if you need to talk, I'm up all night.

mietze · Feb 9, 2016, 4:48 PM

Still no landline or Internet. I do amusingly have a message on the landline voicemail from the phone company congratulating themselves on fixing the issue and if they haven't to give them a call.

However finally we did get a call from the local management yesterday (day 11) which is the first fucking update ever, apologizing and telling that we are now a "priority" since things were "scheduled to be fixed last Friday" (but probably because they just got notice that we and our small neighborhood have filed a complaint with the utilities commission so they are now on a state timeline as well.

But. Is anything repaired and has there been any estimate? Nope. At least in a 3rd world country I could bribe someone.

Ganymede · Feb 9, 2016, 4:54 PM

@mietze said:

But. Is anything repaired and has there been any estimate? Nope. At least in a 3rd world country I could bribe someone.

Where the hell do you live? Ohio has better service than this. And it is Ohio.

mietze · Feb 9, 2016, 4:55 PM

Redmond, WA. Ironic, no?

Ganymede · Feb 9, 2016, 5:01 PM

@mietze

tragedyjones · Feb 9, 2016, 6:04 PM

Pretty sure I have the flu, so that's cool.

Miss Demeanor · Feb 9, 2016, 7:04 PM

@tragedyjones Congratulations on becoming an incubator of viral plague! Please enjoy your complimentary mucus while your brain floats around the hemisphere thanks to the drugs this will force you to take.

Deleted · Feb 10, 2016, 10:08 AM

Driver: I'm going to X location.

Me: X location is loading over at the yard. You'll need to wait until daylight.

Driver: I go load at Y.

Me. No, sir. You can't load there. That's a different product. You'll need to wait until daylight.

Driver: Is okay. I go load at Y. If none I go wait.

Me: No, sir. You won't. That's a different, more expensive product.

Driver: Is okay. I load at Y.

So I call. There's a big goddamn kerfuffle over it. They let the driver load.

I get the call an hour later chewing me out for not stopping him from loading with my magical fucking powers to override the people who do the loading.

...You speak English, you piece of shit. I want to punch you in your stupid fucking frog-face every time you mispronounce your Vs as Bs and refuse to understand me.

Fuck my job, fuck the company I'm subcontracted out to, and fuck everyone I have to deal with. Fuck all of you reading this too.

HorrorHound · Feb 10, 2016, 2:24 PM

Fuck those mornings on your day off where you get up and go look at your sexy-self in the mirror right after morning-piss, right before morning-shower and your boss calls you telling you you're promoted, better pay, more responsibility, and that you have to come in today.

Fuck the days where you purposefully drop your phone into the toilet without thinking about the consequences.

Lisse24 · Feb 10, 2016, 3:59 PM

As always, my anger is induced by my extremely dysfunctional workplace. Specifically, the new vp, who has absolutely zero respect for my professional judgment, training, or experience. He likes to tout that he has so much respect for his workers and that he gives them so much autonomy. Not being able to send an email without his say so is pretty much the opposite of autonomy.

So, I sit twiddling my thumbs all day because 6 years of schooling and 15 years in the workplace is work jackshit.

Warma Sheen · Feb 10, 2016, 6:37 PM

Fuck people who take out their anger on you instead of manning up and dealing with the problems in their own life.

Ganymede · Feb 10, 2016, 7:02 PM

@Warma-Sheen said:

Fuck people who take out their anger on you instead of manning up and dealing with the problems in their own life.

Yeah. Fuck those guys. And fuck my kids for doing the exact thing.

mietze · Feb 10, 2016, 7:28 PM

Gany, that's what the kennel is for.

Ganymede · Feb 10, 2016, 7:28 PM

@mietze said:

Gany, that's what the kennel is for.

You think I have money for a kennel? I'm a lawyer, not a doctor.

Jaded · Feb 10, 2016, 8:48 PM

@Ganymede

This is pretty cheap, better than a kennel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_nfazQaek

SG · Feb 10, 2016, 8:59 PM

Someone licked the filling from all of the office oreos and put the cookie parts back in the bag. WTF.