Posts made by Auspice

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Auspice

How corporate execs use synergy...

An actual, decent use of the word synergy...

(SIDEBAR: About 4 months of me exclusively using Mac gifs remain. Cherish this time.)

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

When corporate types call layoffs by a different term: synergies

Aaaaaaaaaaaand go fuck yourself with that.

(Didn't get laid off, but someone was asked about potential layoffs and the exec referred to them as synergies)

Calling a layoff a synergy is like saying that OJ Simpson ended his relationship with his wife.

look it was on his 'Word-a-Day for Cookie Cutter Executives' calendar. He was required by the agency to utilize it or they would have sent the Suits (#1876 & #9067 who just completed a seminar on 'Team Building: Actualizing in the Workplace') to return him to the cube farm upstate.

Interview lined up for tomorrow and one for Friday.

I doubt either will pan out but at least it's some momentum.

@Too-Old-For-This said in RL things I love:

@Auspice I'm positive they don't. Because every time, I mention 'oh the directions are on the notes' they immediately go 'oh' and hang up. AND LO AND BEHOLD, my food arrives like 90 seconds later.

It's been a sort of experiment for quite a while. See, Google Maps will point you at the 'sister' complex to mine. So if you opt to ignore the big STREET NUMBERS at the road and just bobble along following the GPS it'll send you to the wrong one. And then if you meander around for a while, you may so happen to find an apartment with the same number.

...I direct people, in the directions, by the color of the sign. And then give the exact turns. If I talk to them by phone, I even tell them 'It's the apartment facing...' (the wrong one in the other complex faces an entirely different direction)

I had one Uber Eats guy come to my door and say: 'You gave the most useful directions anyone ever has.'

So those that DO read them find my place no problem. I've had other drivers / delivery people end up at the wrong place and then try to insist I walk over there (there's no quick/easy route to walk over; I have to walk further back in my complex, then around).

But what makes it worse, what really makes it worse (though maybe hilarious) is I've had RL friends (and unsurprisingly my father) visit me and I've told them: 'Hey, just so you know, it's a bit difficult to find. Don't trust the GPS. I'll text you the exact thing you need to do.'

They've all, to a man (woman in one case) bragged about how good they are at figuring these things out. And only two have not yet fucked it up.

So let this be a lesson to you all: if someone tells you 'don't trust your GPS and use my directions instead' it'd be a good idea to listen to them!

@Too-Old-For-This

Oh, I'm convinced that's because they just don't read those notes. I'm in an apartment so I give those notes to my specific building and I get those same calls.

I've wanted to pick up Divinity for quite a while, but it's never on sale at the same time I have spare cash to spend. It's like they plan it that way or something.

OTOH we don't wanna lump in 'Janet said something I didn't like two years ago so fuck that bitch I want to ruin her experience on every game ever' with those people.

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

Why haven't people been crowing about Divinity more? I've been playing this with @EmmahSue and the level of consideration and interaction of bits of plot and environment is amazing, and chasing one plot can get anyone involved in five others.

I can't wait to start Divinity 2 with friends.

Because it's almost never on sale?

Everyone is terrible and everything is bad.

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

More certs. DO ALL THE CERTS.

Buy some Hackathon packages, do mixtapes of OSHA Certs and IS Certs! Do them all. Feed the bees.

Can't do those on the clock. These I can.

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

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

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

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

I hate my ADD days.

Today is one.

Yesterday just sort of flew by at work. I felt like crap. I had nothing to do. But I was able to focus and go and get it done.

Today? I'm jittery and frustrated and even though I'm striving to just.do.things.....nothing is scratching the unfocused itch and I look at the clock after what feels like an eternity and it's.......fifteen minutes.

It feels like a literal ache, like noise at the base of my skull.

The Buzzing Bees, yeah. Use music. Rhythm. Find what makes you get all achey and wanna dance, get up, jump around, get your heart beating hard and then headbutt your job again.

Unfortunately, at my job I can't really. We finally got music approved but it's got to be kept quiet, no lyrics, and stay pretty chill. I do security work in an ops center. I need to listen out for phones and radios.

Overall all the monitors and cameras and such were great for me but I'm still so all over the place that when it's quiet I just sort of still jitter like okay okay okay okay okay okay.....what now??

I used to do ViPSEC. I feel you. I left, I couldn't take the buzz anymore, as well as guarding shitty rich kids.

Bring a pad and start writing, mang.

I actually do just this. I've got about five sheets in front of me right now, lol.

My boss also has about twenty certifications from the training program the company has that I've completed just since the weekend waiting on her desk.

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

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

I hate my ADD days.

Today is one.

Yesterday just sort of flew by at work. I felt like crap. I had nothing to do. But I was able to focus and go and get it done.

Today? I'm jittery and frustrated and even though I'm striving to just.do.things.....nothing is scratching the unfocused itch and I look at the clock after what feels like an eternity and it's.......fifteen minutes.

It feels like a literal ache, like noise at the base of my skull.

The Buzzing Bees, yeah. Use music. Rhythm. Find what makes you get all achey and wanna dance, get up, jump around, get your heart beating hard and then headbutt your job again.

Unfortunately, at my job I can't really. We finally got music approved but it's got to be kept quiet, no lyrics, and stay pretty chill. I do security work in an ops center. I need to listen out for phones and radios.

Overall all the monitors and cameras and such were great for me but I'm still so all over the place that when it's quiet I just sort of still jitter like okay okay okay okay okay okay.....what now??

I hate my ADD days.

Today is one.

Yesterday just sort of flew by at work. I felt like crap. I had nothing to do. But I was able to focus and go and get it done.

Today? I'm jittery and frustrated and even though I'm striving to just.do.things.....nothing is scratching the unfocused itch and I look at the clock after what feels like an eternity and it's.......fifteen minutes.

It feels like a literal ache, like noise at the base of my skull.

I sometimes get so annoyed at clients flashing and showing notifications and and and and and....

I just shut it all the fuck down. I close everything. I don't put it on DND. I don't ask people to leave me alone. I shut it all down. I log out. I close the programs. I silence it or disable notifications etcetcetc. I don't give a shit if 'Oh but what if that one person....'

Nope. If they're important enough they have my phone number.

I shut it the fuck down when I'm in that mood because I know I will go off on someone and it's best I don't risk it.

@Lotherio said in Good Music:

@Auspice said in Good Music:

@Wretched said in Good Music:

For the like 3 hiphop heads in this hobby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTDb0ebFh8E

Joyner and Logic, fire emoji'

One time for them prayin' on my downfall (Yeah)
Two times for the homies in the chow hall (Whoa)
Three times for them hoes on the internet
Shittin' on niggas when they really should get out more
Four times for the days that were all bad (Woo!)
Five times for the bitches who ain't called back (Yeah)
Six times for the kids like me who got ADHD just to— (Brap, brap, brap)

Someone remind me to listen to this tonight.

Give this a listen tonight.

gdi not right now!

@Wretched said in Good Music:

For the like 3 hiphop heads in this hobby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTDb0ebFh8E

Joyner and Logic, fire emoji'

One time for them prayin' on my downfall (Yeah)
Two times for the homies in the chow hall (Whoa)
Three times for them hoes on the internet
Shittin' on niggas when they really should get out more
Four times for the days that were all bad (Woo!)
Five times for the bitches who ain't called back (Yeah)
Six times for the kids like me who got ADHD just to— (Brap, brap, brap)

Someone remind me to listen to this tonight.

Fuuuuuuck.

Got an email about an advanced screening for Godzilla tonight.

But my new schedule means I can't go.

I'mma flip all the tables. Every single one.

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

Anyone playing Dauntless?

Someone recommended it to me because it's cross-platform. It's...not bad, but TBH it's coming across to me as a "highly repetitive Fortnite-styled overgrown microtransaction cell phone game version of Monster Hunter: World".

I mean...does Dauntless currently go anywhere beyond running around a town then queueing up for a hunt (on a small map) and then returning to town? Wash, rinse, repeat?

I had it recommended to me also. I was gonna check it out last night but I got in the door and just sort of fell into bed to stare at Netflix until I fell asleep.

There's a big issue:

Humans crave connection.

A large part of why many of us are in this hobby as much / as long as we are is that circumstances keep us from being able to connect IRL as much as we'd like. Be it health issues, anxiety, or even schedule (look at people on 2nd or 3rd shifts where the world caters to 1st shift). This hobby provides a way to connect.

Your method essentially negates that connection and puts up a wall that says 'no, you cannot know me.'

I believe you yourself would fumble after a while. All it'd take is a conversation or a person really into horror movies and you'd want to start to chatter your head off also. Remaining the distanced, stand-offish person who gives nothing of themselves only works to an extent. And that extent is: people stop interacting with you in return. Because you're weird. You're sterile. You're suspect. You feel wrong and awkward and untrustworthy.

It may seem a bright and gleaming idea in theory and a good way to hide from the mean and terrible people that have hurt you (general 'you') in the past or might hurt you (general 'you') in the future, but... I think it's just a way to feel isolated.