@solstice YouTube serves widely disliked videos because it counts dislikes as engagement and finds somebody else to show it to. I'm not sure how the dislike button factors in to tailoring your personal feed but the fact that people clicked on the button and/or commented even to say that it's utter shit I'd what makes the video get recommended to the next person.
Posts made by 23quarius
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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RE: Flight of the Golden Crane
@derp The changes to the color scheme
Happen to be WCAG AA compliant most of the time so congratulations on accidentally appeasing me
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RE: Girl Scout Cookies
Minty boys, hands down, I will fight you for some mintyboys. When girl scouts ask me if I want to buy cookies I just translate into my head do I want some mintyboys. There is no other cookie.
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RE: RL things I love
@tinuviel I mean, you can't currently CTRL SHIFT I your way into a copy of my vulva to override their overpaid false sense of ownership though
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RE: The Desired Experience
@tinuviel Big mood. I love it. So you're welcome to do it to me :D. If I really think whatever was posited wouldn't happen, I'd just OOCly say "Hey actually let's change X detail but the rest of it, 10/10"
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RE: The Desired Experience
My desired experience is a collaborative improv experience where the players are comfortable with making shit up on the fly about what's going on and about each other. Running NPCs, confrontations, calling the cops on themselves since they're playing the NPCs which include the lady who calls 911 on their hijinx, the mutual confidence and respect where you can just posit, comfortably, that something behind the scenes happened between your characters that you didn't actually discuss but you know their humor and their character well enough to do it. Like you can just say to them (or they to you) in character, "Hell no, we're not going to that party, the last time you took me anywhere you drained the tequila bottle and dragged me on the dance floor!" without pre-negotiating. It's a space of trust and familiarity and creativity that is my desired experience.
ETA, I also really enjoy when people do dumb, irresponsible shit ICly and look forward to the consequences blowing up in their face. Because that tends to require a mindset of trust in the GM, collaboration, and good sportsmanship, so you're on a good gaming experience when you screw up and go "Whoops oh shiiiit" and are excited to see what happens next, rather than dreading how this is gonna screw over your character.
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RE: Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever
@insomniac7809 You have a point! And I get now that it's, "the current safety standards aren't the issue the fact that they weren't being followed is the issue."
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RE: Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever
I mean honestly when you're running plates it's still your responsibility as a runner to check the ticket against the plate to make sure that the cook didn't screw up. The cook shoulders most of the accountability but if you are negligent in checking the ticket you still get in (not the same amount of) trouble. A visual check of the contents before the act of handing over the thing that could be Not Correct is not really the same as "learn to pack your own parachute."
That said, I agree that in the context of guns and props liability/responsibility falls on the team whose actual job it is to safely prepare these prop weapons. I DO think it is negligent to not teach actors to do a final chamber check before going to town because people make mistakes. These mistakes shouldn't be happening in the first place if there isn't live fucking ammo on the set in the first place but I've never worked a job where I didn't have a slice of accountability in the chain before it was given to the client or customer.
Let's say I'm a runner. I didn't take the order, I'm not in the kitchen, I'm just bringing food. If the waiter wrote on the ticket "allergic to ____, hold the ____" and the chef neglected to follow instructions, I, as a runner, cannot reasonably just be like WELL IT'S THE CHEF'S JOB TO READ THE TICKET when I hand off the plate that has the thing the customer is allergic to in it. It's both of our jobs to read the ticket. There's more accountability on behalf of the chef, but we both share in the accountability.
Yeah, it's the chef's job to read the ticket right. You still check tickets in case the chef fucked up. Yeah, it's the assembly line's job to read the work order right. You still check the product they hand you against the W/O before handing it to the client. This is "visual check that things line up" and does not require dis-assembly or re-assembly and there's no ... Occurence of a slippery slope of scope creep for responsibilities on behalf of the runner or CSR.
So while where the "line" is is not clear to me here, it does fall somewhere along the lines of "If what you are doing poses a threat to people other than yourself". If you're the one who stands to get hurt, no, you should not be expected to know how to guarantee your own safety. If you're part of the chain of potentially posing a danger to someone else who is not yourself, you should be expected some minimal training.
Pointing a gun at a thing (ricochet risk) or person counts as "potentially posing a danger to someone else who is not yourself." I don't think it's unreasonable to posit that actors should be trained to do a chamber check because I don't think it's unreasonable to posit runners must check tickets in the window before handing it to the customer. For all I know, they typically are trained to do a chamber check and this just wasn't happening on Rust.
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RE: Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever
@faraday Thank you for the info.
I still don't understand why you would need dummy rounds for practicing a cross draw. The thing I was reading said he was practicing for a cross draw, not filming for the real deal, so I don't really... understand why the hell the gun needed visually realistic bullets for that purpose, but I get the point overall.
I mean the gun tore THROUGH a person and into somebody else. That sounds like FMJ, which I don't know if it is the case but seems like it because it passed THROUGH somebody and that adds even more what the fuuuuck to me. Like -- what the fuck is live ammo doing there and of all the options what the fuck is FMJ doing there??
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RE: Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever
I am ignorant and dumb, why the hell would live rounds be anywhere on a movie set? Snap caps are so cheap and come in colors and materials that are so obviously fake you can see they're fake from the MOON, do they not use them???
Sure, sure, okay, snap caps are just inert little plastic doohickeys that aren't going to create any special effects magic and you're going to need something else to make the special effect of "that thing/person got shot" but
But why the hell would live rounds be anywhere on a movie set???? That feels so criminally preventable to me, what the hell???
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RE: Recipes and Shit
My sister's idea of a great snack last night:
Ingredients:
One (1) fish tail deep fried in lemon-salt cornmeal batter
One (1) jar of jalapeño jamSteps:
- Dip fish tail into entire jar of jalapeño jam
- Eat fish tail
- Fall off barstool
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RE: Oh, Humanity
@wizz said in Oh, Humanity:
The second week after I began, I shit you not, the same fucking lady came in.
The fear.
Like, the "I need to burn all my IDs, cancel all my credit cards, and buy an emergency supply of amazon gift cards so I can have all my personal belongings strategically mailed on a round robin rotation 10 to separate 7-11s" delete-your-whole-life adrenaline spine drop fear
Of seeing some lady follow you not only out of a statebut to UTAH
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RE: Oh, Humanity
@il-volpe Ohhhh. Okay. I just know Superporn is a Thai name. So Super_____ I thought "mmmaybe it's an unfortunate Thai name?"
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Oh, Humanity
Alright, we gon' have a thread for ... Mostly retail situations, I'm sure, but I have faith in humanity to deliver amazing stories for those who don't or haven't worked in retail but in something else.
I'mma lazily post WineWarrior into here as tale #1.
The woman who stole some wine from the fridge in the Cafe display, opened it and bottoms upped while everyone just watched (I mean what are you going to do, tell her to put it back? Backwash Bordeaux) in one go like a professional kegstander as she strutted outside, threw the bottle straight onto pavement as she marched into traffic across the street and went straight into the gym.
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RE: Goodbye.
Darkwater was my very first MUSH! That was you, right?
GLHF in life!
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RE: Autism and The MU* Community
I am kind of stunned by the idea that someone would tell you to not disclose your status during the hiring process.
Life's not fair and it may very well be that you would rather fly under the radar than make yourself known and immediately cull your prospects for places to apply to.
That said, I have seen someone disclose their diagnosis after being hired and it caused an issue. They said "hey now that I'm a part of the team actually I need to tell you that I'm_____ and I need part time hours."
Our manager gave them such a WTF look and basically said "If you had told us this in the first place, we would have hired you into the part time role you wanted in the first place. We would have accommodated you. We will accommodate you. But you knew this was a full time job. We discussed that you would be hired for a full time position and you didn't say anything about needing part time hours. Now I have to go through the hiring and training process again to find someone to cover the hours that you can't work. Do you understand that this was deceptive and I don't really appreciate being in this position?"
Of course, here we have the dynamic that my ex coworker had a conversation explicitly about the hours and my coworker very well could have just said "I'm not available for full time just part time", and not mentioned any diagnosis things, but where I'm going with this is the decision to withhold information just to get a job, then coming clean, ended up in him starting off with bad will and ultimately quitting anyway. So to read the idea of people encouraging you to NOT disclose, it seems to set you up for getting fucked.
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RE: Drawin' Characters
@derp Oh lol I was like "Fuck I have a bigger problem than I thought"