Nitrox posted:

For anyone familiar with DOTA2 game, this game may be rather amusing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRkGz3ySDJQ

What happened is that top tier players decided to troll a random pub game. They've picked powerful casting characters and waited for opponents to pick counter casters, spell stealers and silencers. However, once the game began, the troll team never used a single spell, nothing active that could be stolen or countered. They just punched the opposing team until someone died. The end result may surprise you.

Weatherman posted:

Got a timestamp? No way I'm sitting through 35 minutes of streamed mouthbreathing for "one weird trick that video game players use to troll other video game players! The end result will surprise you!"

Fake edit: or just tell us what happened, either way

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

A wild cheetah climbs into a jeep on a safari. That dude is making GBS threads himself.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

A wild cheetah climbs into a jeep on a safari. That dude is making GBS threads himself.

ElGroucho posted:

People defending apple in the thread, delicious

Rondette posted:

out of all the big cats, aren't Cheetahs the most chill and not as likely to attack? Not that I would be calm about having a massive wild cat with me in an enclosed space.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Even when they do attack, they're not overly vicious. They're not the strongest cat around, all their muscle goes to speed, not strength. I think there's a few vids out there of people being attacked by a cheetah, but they basically give it a few smacks and it runs off.

dirksteadfast posted:

On top of that their rating system for customer surveys was built so that if you weren't given 5/5 on every category (even if it was a 4/5 or based on a completely unrelated thing like their car got scratched in the parking lot), it was considered an automatic fail and they would be written up for it. I hope they go down in flames.

Chichevache posted:

Cheetahs are such pussies they can't even rip the throat out of a gazelle. They suffocate them, like a bad mom with a pillow. Also they don't even have sharp claws since theirs don't retract. They're more like cleats on a running shoe. Cheetahs are as dangerous as a 12 year old black lab with nubs for teeth.

Werong Bustope posted:

Lions and leopards suffocate their prey too. Possibly tigers as well, but I'm not sure. It's pretty standard for big cats.

Random Hajile posted:

Jaguars sometimes just bite right into their prey's skull and drive a fang directly into the brain.

Werong Bustope posted:

Lions and leopards suffocate their prey too. Possibly tigers as well, but I'm not sure. It's pretty standard for big cats.

Zernach posted:

Rough Lobster posted:

I'm pretty sure I could gently caress a cheetah up, but they're adorable and endangered and I realize this sounds scarily close to the Great Goon Debate on whether a guy with a samurai sword could kill a gorilla.

ekuNNN posted:

cyberia posted:

This is depressingly common in everything from customer satisfaction surveys to eBay and Uber rating systems. Anything less than a 5/5 in every category is considered a complete failure which leads to this weird situation where you can't give an honest rating because even a 4/5 can affect someone's bonuses or costs. Everything becomes either a 5/5 (99% of transactions even if something about it wasn't great or could use improvement) or 1/5 (my Uber driver literally tried to murder me / the customer service rep I spoke to called me a oval office).

cyberia posted:

This is depressingly common in everything from customer satisfaction surveys to eBay and Uber rating systems. Anything less than a 5/5 in every category is considered a complete failure which leads to this weird situation where you can't give an honest rating because even a 4/5 can affect someone's bonuses or costs. Everything becomes either a 5/5 (99% of transactions even if something about it wasn't great or could use improvement) or 1/5 (my Uber driver literally tried to murder me / the customer service rep I spoke to called me a oval office).

chitoryu12 posted:

I was pretty miffed when I heard Uber does this. A driver who maintains a consistent 4/5 rating is likely to get fired, even though most people would consider a 4/5 pretty good. Giving 3 stars automatically pulls up a "What went wrong?" prompt on your app where you can explain why you're giving such a low rating, and Uber loves to give refunds or ride credits for drivers making illegal U-turns or missing your suburb if you tell them. Which means it's possible that some good, reliable drivers are getting warnings or being let go because well-meaning people who misunderstood the rating system gave them a lot of 4 star ratings.

Weatherman posted:

birds uber alles

Shillary posted:

That's every ratings system. Look at video games, where the only acceptable ratings are eight to ten. Hell even then eight is considered a critical failure.

Rough Lobster posted:

I'm pretty sure I could gently caress a cheetah up, but they're adorable and endangered and I realize this sounds scarily close to the Great Goon Debate on whether a guy with a samurai sword could kill a gorilla.

Shillary posted:

That's every ratings system. Look at video games, where the only acceptable ratings are eight to ten. Hell even then eight is considered a critical failure.

cyberia posted:

This is depressingly common in everything from customer satisfaction surveys to eBay and Uber rating systems. Anything less than a 5/5 in every category is considered a complete failure which leads to this weird situation where you can't give an honest rating because even a 4/5 can affect someone's bonuses or costs. Everything becomes either a 5/5 (99% of transactions even if something about it wasn't great or could use improvement) or 1/5 (my Uber driver literally tried to murder me / the customer service rep I spoke to called me a oval office).

Shillary posted:

That's every ratings system. Look at video games, where the only acceptable ratings are eight to ten. Hell even then eight is considered a critical failure.

RareAcumen posted:

Yo, check this out:

8/10 = 4/5

dirksteadfast posted:

It's the dumbest way to implement the system because it does absolutely nothing. The ratings systems are typically outsourced to other companies to create and compile the information, but it just becomes a game of "subtly hint to the customer that you need all 5s". And the ratings companies know this very well, considering the one phone survey I ever had to take I cut them off towards the beginning and just said "all 5s" and they laughed and thanked me for my time. So companies are paying millions of dollars to contract survey systems that are only ever utilized if they're self-congratulatory nonsense.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

And here's an article for reference.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/09/mirac...tonio-facebook/

quote:

Our intentions were not to hurt anyone at all. Our staff is full of military and some relatives have passed away due to 9/11

Kaiju15 posted:

Yeah, I totally know someone who "passed away due to 9/11"

dirksteadfast posted:

Things Wells Fargo managers used to yell at my wife:

"If you don't come in with 20 new accounts ready to go on January 1, you might as well not come in at all."

"Why didn't you try to open an account for her dying husband?"

"You are a worthless human being."

On top of that their rating system for customer surveys was built so that if you weren't given 5/5 on every category (even if it was a 4/5 or based on a completely unrelated thing like their car got scratched in the parking lot), it was considered an automatic fail and they would be written up for it. I hope they go down in flames.

(Come to think of it, my wife also worked under a manager who got over half of an entire department fired from a major department store because she convinced her employees to attempt to pull up customers' store credit cards (which counted towards a goal of trying to sign people up) by punching in 123-45-6789 for the SSN...which of course counts as fraud and affects whoever actual has that SSN. Man, she had some lovely managers.)

quote:

Prior to his October firing, Wells Fargo business specialist Estrada worked at the Canoga Park branch at Roscoe and Topanga Canyon boulevards. He said the manager would greet the staff each morning with a daily quota for products such as credit cards or direct-deposit accounts. To fail meant staying after hours, begging friends and family to sign up for services, Estrada said.

"He would say: 'I don't care how you do it — but do it, or else you're not going home,'" Estrada recalled.

He said branch and district managers told him to falsify the phone numbers of angry customers so they couldn't be reached for the bank's satisfaction surveys.

Estrada said employees would open premium checking accounts for Latino immigrants, enabling them to send money across the border at no charge. Those accounts could be opened with just $50, but customers were supposed to have at least $25,000 on deposit at Wells Fargo within three months or pay a $30 monthly charge.

To get around those requirements — and keep earning credit toward their quotas — Estrada said employees would downgrade the original accounts and open new premium ones for the customers before the fees kicked in.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Just saw this pop up in my newsfeed. I guess this is one way to let daddy know you want to get out of the family business.
I have a hard time parsing the thought process that leads to this getting created and aired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmM-2gj5Gc
And here's an article for reference.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/09/mirac...tonio-facebook/

The schadenfreude comes in the form of "management" trying to save face without firing his own daughter (which would be the only way to come close to salvaging the situation)