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@Lotherio said in MSB Peeves:

@Ghost said in MSB Peeves:

Sadly, the amount of time I lived in Nebraska is now less than the amount of time I have lived in <REDACTED BOILY AS FUCK SW AMERICAN STATE>. This leads me to question if I still qualify as a Midwesterner.

It's over after this, we in Nebraska are gonna sign the separation papers after you questioned it.

I'm sobbing uncontrollably knowing that I will no longer be allowed into Hy-Vee, Runza, or Big Fred's.

Good stuff. So good. I miss the last 2 so, so much.

@Auspice Right. This is one of the things that sucks about corporate work.

If an employee is legitimately having stress issues due to company-executive drama AND is just as productive working from home, then working from home for a bit should be no issue so long as they come in for meetings that cannot be remote (clients, audits). 99% of IT employees are not customer-facing.

However, my company has this imablanced view on working from home. Even though plenty of work is done from home and people are getting shit done, we have managers who are forced to be on-site so they bitch about WFH people as if they're being slackers.

If a company has telecommuting available as an option, then this should be a viable approach for IT employees.

So in this case, this 100% due to drama guy is partaking in something the company supports but will suffer reputational consequences for it. For all I know he has heart problems and the stress is putting him at risk.

Meh.

I just overheard 2 managers talking.

My company is currently going through some stressful times, and they were talking about how an IT employee got OK'd for working from home 100% until the tension dies down.

Hrmmmmmmmmmmmm.

HRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMM.

Not gonna lie. This place fuckin sucks right now. Everyone is in either "omg fear" mode or constantly throwing people under busses to talk up their own personal usefulness just in case. It's probably a lot of "much ado about nothing" but the tension is palpable to the point that I'm kinda dreading every day I am not working from home, too.

Dont blame the guy, but the managers were being sarcastic about it.

I read that Englund is down for another Freddy appearance.

@Auspice Sadly, the amount of time I lived in Nebraska is now less than the amount of time I have lived in <REDACTED BOILY AS FUCK SW AMERICAN STATE>. This leads me to question if I still qualify as a Midwesterner.

I grew up calling it 'pop' and have successfully rehabilitated myself out of that silly habit.

I suppose like most people I'll be a local guy or a Midwesterner based on which sport I'm supporting at that moment. Kind of like how everyone is 1/55th Australian during the World Cup.

@Thenomain @Auspice

Fun facts:

POP is an onomatopoeia, but is also what people in the American Midwestern states incorrectly call soda.

Will Arnett believes that he has "made a huge mistake".

Ganymede and Alamias have posted a gif of two street pimps, one portrayed by Dave Chappelle and the other from a movie named "I'm Gonna Git U Sucka", respectively.

Ganymede's gif has Dave Chappelle's character (from the Player Hater's Ball episode) repeating that he hates people, where Alamias' has their 70s style street pimp wearing all yellow and placing what appears to be a Blaxploitation sombrero on his head.

(Disclaimer: I'm totally not doing this to cheekily note that anti-gif filters don't block text. I am, obviously, doing this to cater to MSB viewers with eyesight problems who need text descriptions of gifs)

^^^^

Scrapped from your view due to plugins is an animated GIF taken from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Rob McElhenney is wearing a cream-colored sleeveless tee shirt with what appears to be blood on it. He's playing a tiger-striped electric guitar and is doing air kicks. Glenn Howerton, who plays Dennis, is gyrating and singing in front of a microphone wearing a David-Bowie themed silver bodysuit and a wine-colored jockstrap. Behind them, Danny Devito is playing drums while wearing a white shirt, black tie, and a blue blazer.

You're missing everything by blocking these gifs.

I liked him in Dune, and I really like that "It's Probably Me" song.

New funny: People who write real estate descriptions are the same breed of people who write band descriptions or movie descriptions on the back of the DVD/VHS case.

A long while ago I did some writing/editing for DVD case backsides and/or slicker sheets for B-movie "boobs and blood" horror titles. It all started one day with the film producer coming to me and saying: "* We need help, we have used HOT in the last 6 or 7 descriptions and need to come up with new stuff...*"

"Jenny is a HOT college senior on a road trip..."
"Four HOT coeds lost in the woods..."
"...they summoned a HOT, deadly demon from the depths of Hell..."

And then you have when bands write their own descriptions. It's always the same shit for metal/punk bands:

"Led by the AIR RAID vocals of Jimmy Spank, the THUNDERING drum lines of Chaz McChaz, the SYMPHONIC guitar solos of brand new guitars Squeegy Jackson..."

So I'm reading these descriptions of houses on the MLS sheets my realtor is showing me and I just crack the fuck up:

"Boasts a QUAINT backyard with lots of potential..."

"Wake up in the morning directly to FRENCH DOORS and MAJESTIC VIEWS..."

So then I think, what if you put them all together?

"CERBERUS LANE is a movie about a haunted house with a bar-top kitchen and GREAT POTENTIAL FOR GUESTS. Guests such as the HEART POUNDING bass-lines by Kevin McDarkness and the SHRIEKING EAR BLEEDING VENOM of HOT vocalist Brittany Roxx. Schedule your tour today! This movie is HOT."

@Auspice Yanno what holiday I like? Boxing Day.

The holiday where everyone who fucking worked on Christmas gets a day because we needed them on Xmas.

America should have a "Labor Day Two" for those people.

Irony.

Having to work on a holiday dedicated to recognizing the hard labor people do by giving them a day off of work.

Rick Loomis was a local here in the game scene. Probably going to be some board game bar gatherings in honor of him.

Sad news.

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

I mean, I'd be out just because of the algebra aspect.

I'd be out over the algebra, too.

Granted, GMs who use that "Escape Room" style of roleplay (The key in a book in the library but unless I properly understand some nuanced riddle the GM thinks is so fucking obvious the GM will literally let me spend 45 minutes guessing which book it's in) is bad enough, but the moment you add linear algebra to it? NOOOPENOPENOPE.

RPGs should be about "Texas Whoopass" not "Texas Instruments".

^^^
I just made that up on the fly. It's mine. Dont steal it or I'll sue.

@Arkandel Uff. I dunno. D&D culture is kinda split down the middle between people who like RP and people who want hack-n-slash. In fact, Gygax original gangsta D&D was just dungeon crawls with very little RP. So...you may just be playing with a guy who interprets D&D as monster fights with riddles.

Frankly? Its hard to change someone's GM style, so the best you can do is mention that you really love the RP aspect of D&D and try to encourage it. But... wtflinearalgebra???

We see in MU* a lot the GM/ST/DM often interprets problem solving by generating a scenario with ONE SUCCESSFUL SOLUTION, and then the whole night of gaming is either trying to guess what their pass/fail solution is. This (IMO) is weaksauce GMing but also something that can be hard to break a GM of, too.

tl;dr "Gaming is a lot like dating. Best you can do is try to encourage what you want. If you cant find what you want, it's better to move on."

@Rinel Check out this article. Here.

If this is Wi-Fi it could be attributed to channel congestion, but may also be attributed to windows processes. That link may help diagnose or rule out your router. There is a good phone app (WiFiAnalyzer) for Wi-Fi Analytics that will help you diagnose channel congestion, as well.

Wi-Fi operates similar to radio in the sense that the more devices using the same channel in a frequency range can cause a sort of "static" that will interrupt transmission between your wireless router and devices.

One fast way to diagnose this is to Cat-6 hardline into your router and run similar ping tests. If they do not persist over Ethernet, then the likelihood that it's channel congestion is high. If it STILL persists over Ethernet, then you can rule out Wi-Fi and focus on Windows processes or other possibilities.

Also, log into your router and enable logging if it isnt currently enabled. Make sure the logs catch as much as possible because there is a chance that you may be getting hit with regular packets scanning your IP range for vulnerabilities.