Funny, we just got to the point we can open windows and not run the AC 24-7.
OT: THE OT Thread: Grass mowing szn is here
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Funny, we just got to the point we can open windows and not run the AC 24-7.
ValJamesDuex
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I seen the shovels and snow blower in the garage today and gave them a dirty look!
Dubi Doo
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Heh, when youre knee deep in the game- the crazy ones are bound to come around.
There are times I miss the single life, then I remember that one chick I brought home to my mom's house at 2AM who bit me and told me she'd sleep outside my mom's bedroom naked if I didn't come back upto my bed with her. I called her bluff.
Part of me wanted to see what would've happened if she followed through. That'd be a story my family would talk about around the fire for years. What could've been.
Of course the crazy broad told her mom I forced her to drive home drunk even though I offered her my bed while I slept downstairs. The real kicker is she used to live in the same neighborhood as me when we were kids. I saw her mom the next day at a golf charity event. Man, I was ducking and weaving through the crowd looking like a crack head trying to avoid her.
I've seen the mom a few times since. She's always been nice to me, but Im sure she has some negative thoughts about me.
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Mike McDermott
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Shit today sucked ass. Layoffs occurred country wide at my company. Having to watch people I’ve worked closely with being told they are being let go and then escorted from the building ****ing sucks.
I have a friend who we dubbed "man whore" for his antics and I will say that story reminded me of some of his mis-adventures. Granted, he probably would've made a play for the mom just to be that guy. Because I know he's done that.
Make sure you take care of your mental well-being in all of that. Having been through it, repeatedly, seemingly endlessly for about 8 years, it can leave you with survivor's guilt among other things. Take care of yourself.
Mike McDermott
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Thanks. Yea, lots of conversations around survivors guilt and how to deal with it. Thankfully my immediate surrounding staff and bosses and amazing people and we’ve leaned on each other hard today and will continue to do so.
Dubi Doo
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I definitely whored out in my early to mid twenties. It wasn't all that satisfying.
Old Navy Goat
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I have a good time doing that but it's hard work. Makes me think about a committed relationship so I can get some rest. My fruit vendor's granddaughter is looking better and better as a Mia chow
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Mike McDermott
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Jim Bob
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So, I got a really awesome text message from Nate this morning. But, I am afraid to share it because I don't want to jinx it.
brian_griffin
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That happened where I live within the past 2 weeks. AC has kicked on a couple times. We've had a couple nightly lows dropping into the upper 40s.
Ocean temp has now dropped to 70-71F which is the 25th percentile (slightly cooler than typical) for this date in the nearby annual ocean temperature record. ~150 days / year with the avg. ocean temp >75F, late May through mid-October.
Ironman triathlon tomorrow (I avoid at all costs). Allegedly, an influx of 7,000 people this w/e.
I'm sure that feeling was mutual...
MarkusKetterer
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So my daughter was elected as the trustee for the Indigenous student council at her school. This means she’s the go between for the school board and the schools in my district (similar to counties for you Americans). She had her swearing in the other night and had to give a speech to all of the board members. I have no idea where she gets her work ethic from, because I’m a lazy SoB.
KeyserSoze81
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NHL '94 for the Genesis has a strong online community. They release romhacks with current rosters and have online tournaments (of a sort). As for actual hardware, I am slowly downsizing from my 800+ games that I picked up prior to the collectability of these things going through the roof. I am going to have a hard time getting myself to sell the Genesis, Sega CD, and 32x monstrosity.
As for LaserDisc, there is something so very satisfying about having to turn that giant disc in the middle of a movie. I still have a player that I picked up for $5 with a copy of Princess Bride.
MOGlLNY
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Been actively job hunting for 6-7 months now (while still employed) had my third interview today (after my second one was yesterday) for a great tech company with awesome benefits, culture and office. Would be as a HR / Office management role.
Guy told me the next steps would be in office meeting, they’d like to have me in there next week to ask some more questions, see the office, etc.
Seemed really positive but after all the interviews I’ve done I’m very jaded. Until I have the Google Invite in my mailbox I don’t buy it.
People saying they really enjoyed the interview and they see no reason to not move to the next stage (then not pushing me through), ghostings, etc. I’ve gone through, I just don’t buy anything these people tell me anymore.
Fully expecting not to get the role even though everything I’ve been told says the opposite lol
Guy told me the next steps would be in office meeting, they’d like to have me in there next week to ask some more questions, see the office, etc.
Seemed really positive but after all the interviews I’ve done I’m very jaded. Until I have the Google Invite in my mailbox I don’t buy it.
People saying they really enjoyed the interview and they see no reason to not move to the next stage (then not pushing me through), ghostings, etc. I’ve gone through, I just don’t buy anything these people tell me anymore.
Fully expecting not to get the role even though everything I’ve been told says the opposite lol
brian_griffin
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Dubi Doo
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Heh, I meant more the lifestyle. A lot of the women I met were pretty cool, actually, especially in college. College was actually a really fun time to be single. There were definitely some crazy women sprinkled in, though. And, to be fair, I wasn't exactly someone they'd bring home to their mom, either.
That lifestyle wore on me even in my 20s. A lot of late night benders surrounded by selfish people (myself included). There were nights where I couldn't tell you much of what happened after midnight. Just not a sustainable lifestyle.
I'm just glad I found a good woman, and Im out of the fast life.
HaNotsri
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I'm mostly hoing to collect horror, sci-fi and music laserdiscs. I find low resolution to be better when it comes to horror, watching horror in 4k sucks since everything is so clear and less scary.
I read an interview with Bryan Eno about his porn collection and he argues that blurry porn was better since it activates your imagination. Think the same thing goes when it comes to being scared.
When I have friends over I allow myself to jump from game to game. My favourites so far are streets of rage 2 and toejam and earl. Dumbest game so far is Michael Jackson's moonwalker. Worst is super kick off - a pretty much unplayable european soccer game.
Do you have any recommendations? I like co op the most.
TheMistyStranger
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If you like side scrolling beat em ups, Golden Axe is a good choice.
For multiplayer fun, Mega Bomberman
I have to go through that for the first time as a leader next week. Not looking forward to the conversations.
I just bought myself this old classic. I’m not going down the slippery slope of retro gaming collector but I’ll keep an eye out for Zelda games.
Also, just got back from the equivalent of our youth national dance troupe champs. It’s not officially called Nationals, but it’s what it is. Troupes from round the whole country. Top 58 teams across all ages ranges. My daughter and her group qualified (as maybe the youngest entrant by average age). They split the qualifiers into four sections. I only watched hers and thought “they’re in with a chance”. They didn’t make the finalists and only two of their section made it. Then I watched the finals and saw the calibre of some of the other teams and damn. My little girls and her group weren’t out of place being in the comp, but the finalists were a whole other league. The eventual winner had about fifty kids on stage and just immaculate timing and synchronisation. It was incredible. They got a cheer like no one else and it was almost a standing ovation.
Sorry to drag this OT from old school systems, but if you have one of the many platforms it's available on, "It Takes Two" is unrivaled for modern couch co-op. Brilliant story telling and level design with lots of replayability, and it's easy to pick up and play in groups once the (very worthwhile) story is advanced/completed
Mike McDermott
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Layoff conversations: Sorry to hear you have to be on that end of the conversation. My department manager is amazing, both as a person and as a boss. The layoff decisions came from way above his head but he was stuck having the conversations with the people who were being let go. He was visibly shaken by it and you can tell it affected him. The way Thursday was approached by company execs was an absolute shit show.
Since I changed career paths and joined my current company 4.5ish years ago, I always felt like I could be there for the long haul, work my way up and make it a true career versus a job. Things have been changing for the last few months with some things and then Thursday happened. For the first time I'm questioning the feasibility of that now. More because of how Thursday was approached than other things. I still like my job, my immediate coworkers and two immediate managers and the money is good, certainly better than anything I've made in the past, by a long shot. But yeah, the safe feeling, and knowing as long as I don't F-UP that I have a stable, well paying job, is now shattered. Am I going to turn around and look for a job? No, but I am also going to be much more diligent on observing what goes on outside my immediate "bubble" at work.
Zelda: Totally jealous. Amazing find!
I started at my old company that way. By about year 3 they started offshoring my department and a bunch of us scrambled higher up the mast of the sinking ship. And we all more or less kept doing that until we (my teammates) all either retired, got let go, or sadly died. Everyone I knew and liked is gone from there. But it was a steady, well-paying job with benefits while my ex was faffing around with her millionth attempt at her own business so someone needed to buy the groceries and pay the mortgage and dress the kids so that was me. I held onto that job for years with a growing sense of dread and it was a self-feeding anxiety loop. At the end, it was such a relief.
Granted, since then, my flawed marriage imploded and I have had a hell of a time dealing with the anxiety. Employment has not come nearly as easily nor do I think of myself as being that good of an employee. I certainly wouldn't hire me.
One of the things at my old company that was an annual thing - checking the HR manual. When they were planning a lot of cuts, the severance package variables for years of service to weeks of pay would change. In non-cut years IIRC, it was 2 weeks of severance for every year of employment. For cut years? Flip that... 1 week for 2 years of service. Whenever we found that, we knew the axe was falling.
The job market is absolutely balls unless you:
A) Live in a major metro and can commute easily
B) Willing to take a 30% paycut on what you made previously.
I've been working 100% remote for a decade now. Occasionally I'd sprinkle in a hybrid role, but vast majority of time, WFH. The tech layoffs combined with the return to office crap has made even people with a ton of experience and a strong resume struggle.
Its particularly frustrating because I see a concerted effort for tech companies to clawback salary growth since the pandemic. But flooding the market with people and taking away WFH, any well paying WFH job has become a struggle. Where I had recruiters begging at my door 2 years ago, now I'm being ghosted or shut down when I ask for what I was making before I got laid off.
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