Posts made by Wizz

@solstice

I'm really sorry, that would drive my anxiety through the roof.

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

@wizz I can not tell you all the questionable names I have seen in the last few years.

Still a classic, imo:

@macha

Oh my god.

Strong Idiocracy vibes from both of those, for sure, hahaha.

Utah's infamous for (among other things) new parents spelling their children's otherwise common names like they just suffered a severe head injury, and I wanted to present my new favorite that I saw today: Jaush. JAUSH. I think you're legally obligated to pronounce it with a nasally twang, like that Tiger King guy would?

It also must be short, one can reasonably assume, for Jaushooah.

"JAUSH! GO UNLOAD THE GAT DANG LAWNDRY!!"

He was 78 and had cancer and a slew of other illnesses. If getting to walk away from at least three murders for over thirty years while living a ridiculously luxurious life thanks to a massive inheritance and then dying of natural causes at an age when most people die anyway, good or bad, is somehow the universe's way of balancing things, then the universe is incredibly shitty at it.

@too-old-for-this said in 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities:

Pour one out for the Dirty Dad of Full House and AFHV fame. Bob Saget, dead at 65.

This one made me really sad. We watched AFHV as a family all the time when I was little and my parents are about his age, so it hit close to home.

The answer to this question is always yes, haha. My two cents is that almost every time we've seen an OC supers game recently though, people go a little too niche with the setting. If activity is your biggest concern, cast a wide net.

If you've got something super specific and wild and detailed, you're probably better off running it as an OTT.

@ganymede

I highly doubt the average consumer knows about these practices, so I am not sure that tracks. I certainly didn't know the extent of it before I started working for them, though I have always liked to think of myself as fairly savvy.

They're exploiting a market that they created and choking out any potential ethically-minded competition in the process in extremely underhanded ways. When you have absolutely insane amounts of money to just throw around from other billionaire vulture capitalists, capitalism has this mysterious way of working however you want it to? ‍️

Yeah, I mean. Individual people can be incredibly shitty in the brief time you're obligated to deal with them as customers, but these corporations are willing to literally ruin their driver's lives for a quick buck. (See Uber and their car loans. Predatory does not even begin to describe it, they basically create indentured servants.) Human life is appallingly cheap to them, there's really no comparison.

@mietze

A cash grab is absolutely what it is. I have absolutely no idea how to deal with a company whose entire business model is deliberately tricking the people that work for them into losing money on a job. They're so blatantly awful, just like Uber and tons of other "gig" companies, and have reaped tons of profit from it, it is mind boggling.

Doordash has suddenly started offering customers the option for delivery for tons of small grocery and department stores that don't have dedicated online order packers.

How, you ask?? TRULY A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE oh right we are the order packers now.

FUCK. OFF.

I wish I could find the miserable little corporate bastard who had this idea and put my fist into his face.

It sucks, so much. People barely offer decent tips on these anyway to begin with, it takes like half a goddamn hour to fulfill since the stores are almost guaranteed to be unfamiliar to you, and Doordash's inventory system is so fucking broken that you wind up having to cancel half the order because none of the options the customer picked are even carried and the app doesn't recognize a single UPC code for substitutions despite that being an option, so your payout drops by half or even 3/4ths when you check out.

It is so fucking insulting, AAAAAAAHHHHHH.

Kay, swear jar full.

I have NO IDEA how, but this little punk has figured out how to open my kitchen cabinets and drawers and it's practically all she does now. She finds it especially funny to climb into them at 3 AM and startle me awake by knocking shit out of them, and then loudly complain when I try to take her out.

@mr-johnson said in New Project: Cyberpunk:Chrome Is The New Black:

If you guys have any particular gangs you'd like to see players able to join let me know.

It'd be cool to see some gangs with different goals and methods, like the Back Alley Brawlers, Voodoo Boys, Brainiacs, or the Philharmonic Vampyres!

Also, you're using CP2020 system-wise, but when is the game set on the timeline?

Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to say it was bad-awful garbage or whatever, it was a fun watch! It just was an incredibly loose interpretation and adaptation of the end of this book that sorta fumbled when RL complications came up and I maybe get the feeling like the writers either didn't understand the metaphysics of the setting or just aren't that invested in portraying them strictly in line with the text.

Also, I know it's linked somewhere here on the boards years and years ago, but just as an early X-mas present for anyone who hasn't seen it, here's the hilarious faux-pilot produced by and starring Billy Zane.

Oh, what we could have had!!

Yeah, this finale was...something. Can't say I agree with or understand some of the choices, but the production value was high and there were some great character moments.

***General thoughts***

I am interested to see where the series goes. They've changed a lot already and I think it will be a very different beast from the books by the end.

I recently started playing this and holy crap is it fun, and atmospheric! Sort of occult world/Weird West shenanigans in Louisiana in battle royale form.

Does anyone else play?? It'd be fun to get a group together for trios!

@arkandel

Just that you were expressing a sentiment that was similar to some degree, that the stuff you were looking for specifically was thin on the ground is the kind of thing I imagine a lot of fans have been saying with a lot more volume and a lot less politeness.

You are a talented and smart person, and you'll be missed!

@arkandel said in The Wheel of Time:

One thing I don't yet trust the series to do yet is showcase politics and the Great Game. So far they haven't been able to create much of a three-dimensional world at all; compare it to Westeros in the first season and this is very, very shallow. Even the dynamics between the Ajahs are underwhelming up to now.

I don't mean this as a personal attack but like, it really doesn't surprise me that the first season plot has been so stitched together and rushed because I imagine the fan pressure to get to the popular parts of the setting and plot in the series after so many years in production limbo must be just like overwhelmingly insane.

Eye of the World is a pretty standard fantasy plot in a lot of ways and the reason the elements you want feel thin is they're just not that present until the end. I personally kind of don't like that they're rushing through it, because the first three books are my favorite, but I understand I'm probably among the minority there.