OT: The OT Thread: At least it's not cold out (Warning in post 368)

[MarkusKetterer]

I hate technology. So my neighbours kids want to play Fortnite on their Xbox, but they want to play as a team. So I’ve been trying to set it up so they can. To do this, they each need a f***ing Xbox account so they can do this, both need to have an Epic Games account, both need to sign in to the Xbox, and then finally they need to find a game that supports it.

What the f*** happened to just turning on a second controller and playing as a guest? Why do they constantly have to do this bullshit that makes this more frustrating? I’ve been trying to do this for 3 hours today, and tried for 3 last night. I’m ready to just launch this thing out the window.

 

[Chainshot]

I hate technology. So my neighbours kids want to play Fortnite on their Xbox, but they want to play as a team. So I’ve been trying to set it up so they can. To do this, they each need a f***ing Xbox account so they can do this, both need to have an Epic Games account, both need to sign in to the Xbox, and then finally they need to find a game that supports it.

What the f*** happened to just turning on a second controller and playing as a guest? Why do they constantly have to do this bullshit that makes this more frustrating? I’ve been trying to do this for 3 hours today, and tried for 3 last night. I’m ready to just launch this thing out the window.

Because every individual instance you mentioned gets to wet their beak - they all make money off each one of those things.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Because every individual instance you mentioned gets to wet their beak - they all make money off each one of those things.

I finally got it. Now I’m going to buy a 25 year old bottle of scotch to celebrate

 

[TheMistyStranger]

I have many videos on my channel where I pine for the days of couch co-op

 

[Gras]

I have many videos on my channel where I pine for the days of couch co-op

I miss the LAN party days, kids won't understand what it was lime setting up a network for a hundred PCs and hauling around CRT monitors.

 

[TheMistyStranger]

I miss the LAN party days, kids won't understand what it was lime setting up a network for a hundred PCs and hauling around CRT monitors.

I never did that, though I was a big fan of the application Direct Connect and its ability to get me spanned .rar files of Dreamcast games....

 

[Chainshot]

Making dog food tonight and we have aging frozen fish and a package of broccoli. My dogs may kill me if the toots are as strong as the smell from the cook pot.

 

[Chainshot]

I miss the LAN party days, kids won't understand what it was lime setting up a network for a hundred PCs and hauling around CRT monitors.

I worked somewhere that our IT dept. would set up a Quake game for folks on certain terminals in the building. It was funny that the head of HR was one of them and he tended to be loud when he'd get killed in-game.

That was 25 years ago. F.

 

[Gras]

I had a class in HS where we refurbished old PCs, mostly Pentium 1 and some Pentium 2, but we built pur own LAN in the lab seperate from the schools computer network and we loaded up Counterstrike 1.0 on everything, along with getting electrocuted by the random AT power supplies and their exposed ground wires.

 

[whiplash]

I hate technology. So my neighbours kids want to play Fortnite on their Xbox, but they want to play as a team. So I’ve been trying to set it up so they can. To do this, they each need a f***ing Xbox account so they can do this, both need to have an Epic Games account, both need to sign in to the Xbox, and then finally they need to find a game that supports it.

What the f*** happened to just turning on a second controller and playing as a guest? Why do they constantly have to do this bullshit that makes this more frustrating? I’ve been trying to do this for 3 hours today, and tried for 3 last night. I’m ready to just launch this thing out the window.

Infinite growth isn't actually possible but shareholders can't gain value if that's true, so functional things just get broken, resold, semi fixed and sold again. Especially in tech. See: journalism, social media, streaming services, games industry (esp GaaS), and coming soon, the AI churn

I have many videos on my channel where I pine for the days of couch co-op

They're ever so slightly coming back... One of the reasons I stuck with gaming laptops is the ease of taking it out to the living room and firing up some local Steam co-op. Mostly still works like things used to

I miss the LAN party days, kids won't understand what it was lime setting up a network for a hundred PCs and hauling around CRT monitors.

And having to f***ing monitor everyone with a can of pop or Arizona leaning over shoulders

Making dog food tonight and we have aging frozen fish and a package of broccoli. My dogs may kill me if the toots are as strong as the smell from the cook pot.

Our aging guy is at the "water soften the meals" phase of chewability. When we have to switch him to soft food or real chicken and rice, our apt building will register on methane monitoring satellites

 

[Chainshot]

I had a class in HS where we refurbished old PCs, mostly Pentium 1 and some Pentium 2, but we built pur own LAN in the lab seperate from the schools computer network and we loaded up Counterstrike 1.0 on everything, along with getting electrocuted by the random AT power supplies and their exposed ground wires.

For some reason, this reminds me of some arcane lore. Back in the early days of HF, there was someone trolling via a PC in one of the computer labs on the UofT campus. Buff actually called the lab because he knew someone who was working there and then posted something like "you are in the third row at the back of the right side of the room by the window" -- this was just after we moved from the 250-post scrolling feed style for the entire board. Talk about flexing. He had asked the proctor who he knew if there was someone in the lab. Anyway... that was one of many trolls who got stomped over the years.

 

[Jim Bob]

So, the whole church mess will drag on for at least another week.

As I prepare for a council meeting where I will not be surprised if I am the only dissenting voice against only working to address future hiring efforts and trying to ensure a conflict of interest of this manner doesn't happen again, I am scaring my mom and my wife.

My moral character will not allow me to stand by and let this get ignored and swept under the rug. That is not the person my single mom raised me to be.

But, the potential damage to my future in ministry that could come from taking the moral stand scares both of them. But, I will not play scared.

 

[TheMistyStranger]

So, the whole church mess will drag on for at least another week.

As I prepare for a council meeting where I will not be surprised if I am the only dissenting voice against only working to address future hiring efforts and trying to ensure a conflict of interest of this manner doesn't happen again, I am scaring my mom and my wife.

My moral character will not allow me to stand by and let this get ignored and swept under the rug. That is not the person my single mom raised me to be.

But, the potential damage to my future in ministry that could come from taking the moral stand scares both of them. But, I will not play scared.

If doing the right thing is viewed as wrong by the council, that tells you a lot about their priorities. Good luck to you, JB.

 

[Dubi Doo]

So, the whole church mess will drag on for at least another week.

As I prepare for a council meeting where I will not be surprised if I am the only dissenting voice against only working to address future hiring efforts and trying to ensure a conflict of interest of this manner doesn't happen again, I am scaring my mom and my wife.

My moral character will not allow me to stand by and let this get ignored and swept under the rug. That is not the person my single mom raised me to be.

But, the potential damage to my future in ministry that could come from taking the moral stand scares both of them. But, I will not play scared.

Keep up the good fight, my man.

As my man Frankie once sang

'For what is a man what has he got
If not himself then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way'

 

[Jim Bob]

If doing the right thing is viewed as wrong by the council, that tells you a lot about their priorities. Good luck to you, JB.

I think there concerns are more about retaliation if I remain in the denomination and continue in the path to ordination. Our pastor is a big voice in our region and is on our region's ordination board.

He has also talked to the executive pastor of our region about this and is still moving forward like the hiring process was fair, that the best candidate for the job was hired, and looking to work to help him when he starts the job on July 1.

The executive pastor is also on the ordination review board.

So, those are the complicating factors for me as I am wearing four different hats in this whole mess: a member of the church, a member of church council, an applicant for this job, and an ordination candidate.

It's tough. But, quite honestly, getting through the messy, painful, ugly portion of my divorce was harder than this will ever be.

They put the wrong guy on council if they wanted a group of yes people that will fall in line.

 

[Jim Bob]

Keep up the good fight, my man.

As my man Frankie once sang

'For what is a man what has he got
If not himself then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way'

I am sure that I will listen to "Live Like That" by Sidewalk Prophets a few times over the next week.

[Verse 1]
Sometimes I think
What will people say of me
When I'm only just a memory?
When I'm home where my soul belongs?
Was I love when no one else would show up?
Was I Jesus to the least of us?
Was my worship more than just a song?

[Chorus]
I want to live like that
And give it all I have
So that everything I say and do points to You
If love is who I am, then this is where I'll stand
Recklessly abandoned, never to hold it back
I want to live like that
I want to live like that

 

[MarkusKetterer]

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Happy Father’s Day everyone!

 

[sabremike]

 

[Chainshot]

Wow.

There is the moral aspect of doing the right thing even when no one is watching that has no benefit to you other than in doing what is right. Returning the cart to the corral is the right thing to do.

 

[Jim Bob]

Wow.

There is the moral aspect of doing the right thing even when no one is watching that has no benefit to you other than in doing what is right. Returning the cart to the corral is the right thing to do.

If you have not heard of Cart Narcs, I would check out their YT channel.