Posts made by Arkandel

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

I must be seriously unpopular. Nobody tells me anything about anyone else's personal life.

Careful what you wish for...

@Wretched said in Resume Help:

Okay, so here's the facts, I am both terrible at writing resumes and i've been out of the workforce for over a decade, and dropped out of college after a couple semesters before the turn of the century. I desperately need to get back into the work force, and this is becoming a hurdle.

Is there anyone out there good at writing them that is willing to help me make one? i cannot pay, but could trade for photoshop work or summink.

I don't know if this will help you out at all but here it is.

I'm interview for my team (granted, that's in IT) very regularly. Provided the correct keywords for the job are present then the HR folks will eventually put the candidate in front of me pretty much no matter what, and I've never turned down an interview based on the resume without having at least a chat first.

The contents of the resume - let alone its more superficial aspects such as formating, length, etc - are of relatively little consequence.

I also expect most industries won't care about the same issue but for me degrees are nearly irrelevant; if an applicant has enough knowledge, can can handle the drilling part well (meaning either they can answer enough of my questions and can communicate the answers clearly or have the right attitude about the ones they can't) I don't care at all which school they attended. They'd be useless to me if they graduated from a superb university but can't do the job I need them to fill, and if they can't, they can be highschool dropouts for all I care.

As I said, I'm not sure if that helps you at all, especially for fields other than mine.

@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

Any of you ADHD kids have a klepto phase when you were younger?

My mom was very, very clear regarding her stance on stealing. I'd never lay a hand on property that isn't mine to this day.

@Tinuviel said in How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows:

@skew said in How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows:

If you DL Beip from the Windows Store

...then you have done something very, very wrong.

That's actually how the developer prefers it to be downloaded since it gives them some kind of usage stats and allows it to be auto-updated through some Windows automagic process.

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

The lesser of ten evils, if you include EA.

Heh, and as if the universe wants to have fun at my expense, a recruiter from EA reached out to me.

@Jennkryst said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

Everyone should make werewolves. ESPECIALLY @Rinel and @Ganymede. And they should come to court with my Elodoth. Not like... vampire court. Lawyer-court.
Edit to make @names happen and shit.

"OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR"
<face gets eaten>

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

This discussion happened at work yesterday:

Person A: I'm out of Blizzard.

Person B: Yeah, me too. Look at all this stuff Riot doing!

Person A: Umm...

Ultimately there aren't many successful companies which happen to be ethical at the same time for much the same reason most politicians aren't very nice people; it's because when you're directly competing with others ruthlessness is an advantage. It's not a decisive one but it certainly makes a difference.

Sometimes it's a matter of picking your poison. Games specifically do have an advantage in being crowdfund-able though.

@Auspice said in Which text editor?:

only one is correct.

I want you to be honest here. How bored were you when you made this thread?

@Warma-Sheen said in The Basketball Thread:

But before labeling Morey this lonely soul, remember that the man caused a shitstorm and kept his job. You don't keep your job in that situation against the political and economic pressure of the entire nation of China without having more than a few powerful, decision-swaying people on your side.

I think what made the difference there was the publicity and huge spotlight this entire affair received almost immediately - which is, admittedly, a kind of power and economic pressure altogether. Once that happened and political figures from both side of the fence jumped on it the NBA was put in quite a tough position; if they fired Morey they could stand to lose even more money from endorsements, boycotts, etc... not to mention a potentially dangerous precedent.

Now, granted, if this was some nobody working for the NBA who had tweeted that (the equivalent of that hotel employee you mentioned) I'm really not sure at all he'd not have been fired immediately and without much noise.

My personal opinion is this was a test of sorts by China to see how much their leverage can take them. They played hardball right away and although Adam Silver seemed willing to release a couple of quick statements right away to appease them (in fact two of them, with the US one staying fairly neutral while the Chinese one hilariously condemning Morey, so they conflicted with each other) they kept pushing, and at that point the NBA had to cut their losses and push back.

I'm really interested in seeing where this ends up. The NBA is at such a place these last few years even its off seasons don't really constitute downtime, as there are so many genuine storylines playing themselves out every summer; it's just that it's not often geopolitics end up being one of them.

@Warma-Sheen said in The Basketball Thread:

Or... are you saying that because he spoke up on that issue that's now obligated to speak up on all issues?

He didn't have to speak at all. If he had done nothing I would have been fine with it - there's no reason or way for someone to champion all fights.

But he did, and he spoke against others taking a stand.

@Auspice I'm doing that right now. I'm looking at this post and going... ooh, I better not do anything about it, or anything else. I'm'a gonna sit there and oooh, reddit! Or Netflix! Oooh, nap!

@Warma-Sheen said in The Basketball Thread:

He's not just talking about himself. There are others on both the Nets and the Lakers that don't have his pull or his money. And what about the equipment manager? What about the assistant equipment manager. There are a lot of people in the NBA team wagon who don't have LeBron's money or pull who are also there with him when this goes down who are also targets. And they aren't in Hong Kong where support for the fight for democracy is high. They are in Shenzhen and Shanghai, where the opposite is true.

Everything else aside, don't you think that all these people feeling a sovereign government might lash out at them over a completely different person in sort-of kind-of the same line of work as themselves said something on twitter is a pretty damning thought in and of itself? Fearing for their safety - and despite protections, both diplomatic and physical? Over what someone else said somewhere?

LeBron gave those interviews after he was back in the US. Did you see any comments made about protecting or standing up for all those people who enjoyed none of those protections and didn't get to simply fly away from the problem altogether?

No, of course he's not the only one being hypocritical here. Of course there are vast industries enjoying profitable relationships with China even though the regime is violently suppressing its own people. Of course there are millions of buyers purchasing products made there instead of punishing that regime with their wallets.

But just that's not what this conversation is - not every conversation is about everything. LeBron specifically and publicly wanted to play the role of a man who won't shut up and dribble, and he's failed to live up to that when real money was on the line.

I just think LeBron lost a great deal of respect in many people's eyes, my own included - and I've been a great fan of his work outside of a basketball court for years now - after all this.

For starters he is sending an inconsistent message as well as a wrong one. For example in the interviews he gave lately he suggested people can't be educated and shouldn't criticize situations about far-away places they've not experienced themselves; what about Akron, Ohio? I'm not a black kid being abused by the police there, should I not care? And if I do why wouldn't I care about Chinese kids in Hong Kong openly threatened by a superpower's Head of State with 'shattered bones'?

For another he spoke about the way this affected him and others as if that will draw any sympathy at all. The base salary in the NBA is $898,310 - and rest assured, the vast majority of athletes who might be impacted by any of this are superstars with their own branded shoes being sold in China, and thus have made much more than that.

So what is the worse case scenario here? LeBron got slower than normal room service while he was there? He's in the final few years of his career and has a guaranteed $1B contract with Nike alone - are we supposed to feel bad because he might make less money going forward?

Who's sympathizing with whom here, and why?

To get us back on track (kinda) is there any reason a tablet setup with a physical keyboard wouldn't be a good/great way to MUSH?

And I might be daydreaming here but there wouldn't be any Android clients supporting spawns, would there?

@Roz No, it's Ithil, the new MUSH I uh, started and erm yeah.

No way have I edited my post.

New entry: High Priest Tykalos Alcaldia on Ithir.

I understand there were some... polarizing parts in how the character has been played at times. If there are allies, antagonists, political collaborators, assassins or such who want to maintain and rekindle past RP please contact me and we'll figure something out.

@Auspice According to a random post: "Go into Settings -> Gaming -> Game Bar. Then turn off "record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar"."

@Auspice What's the specific message? I've never seen that one. Did you install through the MS Store?

@Killer-Klown My tablet is an old Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 inch. I quite like it, but typing on touch screens... eh, not fun. Plus the touch keyboard hides half the screen!

@RightMeow said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

cat logic

What?