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Koalas March posted:I feel this deeply. Hell I got into the DGA a year ago and I've seriously considered applying at least once since then. The work pays great when you actually work, a mantra repeated constantly by all the 3rd Area ADs struggling in California. Edit:  Edit 2: vvvvvvvv I know guys that have been struggling like that since Civ 3. Zisky fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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FizFashizzle posted:Almost all PAs trying to break into film in Atlanta are. All the PAs I've known here in Baltimore are the same way, it's literally a feast or famine kind of career. An old roommate of mine would either be working 20 hour days on set or spending a solid month depressedly playing Civ waiting for the phone to ring, with very little in between. House of Cards being up in the air really hosed over some people I know this year, and right before the holidays to boot. So gently caress Kevin Spacey for that, too.
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Wark Say posted:Dude, Tacos. Taco Bell is delicious. I hesitate to call it food (more of a food substitute) and real mexican food for real mexicans is on an entirely different scale of awesome, but Taco Bell has its place (mainly at 2 AM when they're still open)
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Also in Atlanta being a PA is absolutely all about who you know. There's no union for them like there is in LA, and the sweetheart georgia movie deal says nothing about taking care of the grunts. Piss off one person and you're done.
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Mustached Demon posted:Taco trucks aren't Mexican restaurants. They're taco trucks. There's a big difference that totally ruins my methods of power ranking eateries.
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Alkydere posted:Taco Bell is delicious. But then they went and stopped offering lava sauce and now they're dead to me.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So evidently January is going to be Infrastructure Month. I find it impossible to imagine that Trump this GOP congress is going to work on some bi-partisan infrastructure bill with the Democratic wing after all the blithering and not even letting them have any say in governing and legislation for an entire year. I simply don't believe, it's not gonna happen and Trump is just going to get bogged down in some personal beef with the media again. On the maybe 5% chance it actually happens it'd certainly be a first though.
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FizFashizzle posted:Also in Atlanta being a PA is absolutely all about who you know. There's no union for them like there is in LA, and the sweetheart georgia movie deal says nothing about taking care of the grunts. There's no PA union in the United States, in LA or elsewhere. In Canada PAs are considered a part of the Director's Guild of Canada and as such can collectively bargain. In the US, you have to work 600 days as a PA on union projects with the paperwork to prove it before you get to join the DGA as an Assistant Director. And even then you can only work outside of LA or New York for an additional 600 days, at which point you can become "First Area" (Los Angeles) or "Second Area" (New York). In the meantime, PAs in the US make absolute minimum wage 99% of the time and only get employer benefits when they staff the entire season of a (scripted, union, major network or cable) TV show. Most shows have 2-3 staff set PAs. I leave the math on the number of insurance-covered set PAs to you. A vast majority of PAs typically day-play, depending on the additional needs of any given production. Movies tend to have better rates, but you only work a few months and then you're back on unemployment. TV is more consistent, but generally pays the minimum. I've worked on shows with better rates, but that's extremely rare and only happens on hyper successful shows with less-than-total-rear end in a top hat producers. Of which there are very, very few. Zisky fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Kale posted:I find it impossible to imagine that Trump this GOP congress is going to work on some bi-partisan infrastructure bill with the Democratic wing after all the blithering and not even letting them have any say in governing and legislation for an entire year. I simply don't believe, it's not gonna happen and Trump is just going to get bogged down in some personal beef with the media again. On the maybe 5% chance it actually happens it'd certainly be a first though. I mean, hell, infrastructure probably is the one major legislative area where there is potential for widespread bipartisan agreement in this Congress... but if Trump tries to use this opportunity to push The Wall then poo poo's gonna get hairy.
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Republicans posted:But then they went and stopped offering lava sauce and now they're dead to me. Why would they do that? Just throwing away the entire Republicans demographic like that!  In all seriousness that sucks, their lava sauce was tasty. The might as well not exist for me since I work night shift. When I go in better stuff's open, when I come out everyone's offering breakfast food or Wataburger. Say what you will about Wataburger: I can get a loving patty melt at 6 AM.
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PhazonLink posted:A hotel in SoHo removed his name recently, not sure why he hasn't had a bird poo poo about it. That's the one his kids almost went down for fraud on until they bought off witnesses and potentially also the prosecutor's office. I don't think he makes too many statements about the actual known crimes that he / his spawn commit. ie: doj consent order about his racist tenancy policies, the polish workers he exploited, raping his ex-wife, any of the felons or literal mob people he's employed / been associated with under suspicious circumstances while conducting his casino businesses, etc etc
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FizFashizzle posted:Also in Atlanta being a PA is absolutely all about who you know. There's no union for them like there is in LA, and the sweetheart georgia movie deal says nothing about taking care of the grunts. Also you spend a loooot of time together both on set and off, there are a lot of opportunities to piss each other off or just rub each other the wrong way. And the parties are insane, I'm pretty sure I've seen three careers ruined over the course of one evening before.
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Alkydere posted:Taco Bell is delicious. I will never forgive these fuckers for doing away with Mexi-fries. What a dumb bullshit decision.
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Yeah that national security advisor of mine that I picked? He's totally untrustworthy. Basically an enemy. Cool. KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Defense team's plan is to impeach the credibility of a cooperating witness. extra extra hot off the presses, also see: water wet, outside (currently) cold
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terrorist ambulance posted:That's the one his kids almost went down for fraud on until they bought off witnesses and potentially also the prosecutor's office. I don't think he makes too many statements about the actual known crimes that he / his spawn commit. ie: doj consent order about his racist tenancy policies, the polish workers he exploited, raping his ex-wife, any of the felons or literal mob people he's employed / been associated with under suspicious circumstances while conducting his casino businesses, etc etc LOL! No it's not! You're not even referencing the SAME CHILDREN'S CHARITY TRUMP SCAMMED! The President of the United States has MULTIPLE children's charity scams on his record! The one Phazon is referencing was for children with AIDs, the one you're referencing is for children with cancer. HAHA EXCELLENT!
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Pakled posted:I mean, hell, infrastructure probably is the one major legislative area where there is potential for widespread bipartisan agreement in this Congress... but if Trump tries to use this opportunity to push The Wall then poo poo's gonna get hairy. in a sane world the fed would expand block grants and subsidies for state and local infrastructure projects what trump is going to do is privatize infrastructure projects and seek private partnerships who want to collect rent on public infrastructure
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Duke Igthorn posted:LOL! No it's not! You're not even referencing the SAME CHILDREN'S CHARITY TRUMP SCAMMED! The President of the United States has MULTIPLE children's charity scams on his record! No I was talking about the Soho thing. the one where one of the trumplets was literally caught saying "no one will ever find out about our fraudulent plot" in group emails
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It still stuns me that anyone stands by Trump when stories like this come out. I mean, they're evil but they aren't stupid, they must know that Trump will turn on them the instant he doesn't personally profit from their presence. So what's their end-game? Pre-emptively backstab the backstabber? Grab your slightly smaller piece of the pie and disappear? Why not both?
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:they're evil but they aren't stupid Yes they are
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:It still stuns me that anyone stands by Trump when stories like this come out. I mean, they're evil but they aren't stupid, they must know that Trump will turn on them the instant he doesn't personally profit from their presence. So what's their end-game? Pre-emptively backstab the backstabber? Grab your slightly smaller piece of the pie and disappear? Why not both? Really confused about where you get the idea that they're not stupid.
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:It still stuns me that anyone stands by Trump when stories like this come out. I mean, they're evil but they aren't stupid, they must know that Trump will turn on them the instant he doesn't personally profit from their presence. So what's their end-game? Pre-emptively backstab the backstabber? Grab your slightly smaller piece of the pie and disappear? Why not both? these are all the people who couldn't read the signs or decided to roll the dice think of all the crooks who stayed far away from trump to begin with, sensing him as a liability. this is why trump has a c-list bench of reject sonic the hedgehog villains for a legal team
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Alkydere posted:Taco Bell is delicious.
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empty whippet box posted:Really confused about where you get the idea that they're not stupid. Well he is the president and he's not in jail(yet). Sooo....
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WaPo posted:“He’s said it himself: He’s a liar,” said one person helping craft the strategy who was granted anonymity to describe private conversations. Does anyone else find this as funny as I do?
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terrorist ambulance posted:No I was talking about the Soho thing. the one where one of the trumplets was literally caught saying "no one will ever find out about our fraudulent plot" in group emails Wait REALLY? NOT the cancer charity Trump jr was hosting at Trump properties and then charging MUCH more than normal for? The one his father made a huge deal about making sure they were charged? Christ.
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Alkydere posted:Taco Bell is delicious. 2am is Filiberto's time, never Taco Bell.  DrNutt posted:Mexi-fries.  "We have always been at war with Michael Flynn."
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empty whippet box posted:Really confused about where you get the idea that they're not stupid. "I never thought leopards would eat my face!" - Other leopards, apparently
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:It still stuns me that anyone stands by Trump when stories like this come out. I mean, they're evil but they aren't stupid, they must know that Trump will turn on them the instant he doesn't personally profit from their presence. So what's their end-game? Pre-emptively backstab the backstabber? Grab your slightly smaller piece of the pie and disappear? Why not both? Which means for all the failure stories we've heard there's got to be a few success stories we haven't heard about right? Like cold calling or Nigerian emails: they wouldn't be doing that if it didn't work every once in awhile. Somewhere out there is a single millionaire living on a beach after been in a Trump scam while a thousand wannabes look on drooling.
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Hoping we make it to the day when Don jr. is indicted and his own father throws him under the bus.
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Duke Igthorn posted:Wait REALLY? NOT the cancer charity Trump jr was hosting at Trump properties and then charging MUCH more than normal for? The one his father made a huge deal about making sure they were charged? http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-soho-criminal-fraud-case-ivanka-don-jr-dropped-after-campaign-donation-2017-10
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Duke Igthorn posted:Which means for all the failure stories we've heard there's got to be a few success stories we haven't heard about right? Like cold calling or Nigerian emails: they wouldn't be doing that if it didn't work every once in awhile. Somewhere out there is a single millionaire living on a beach after been in a Trump scam while a thousand wannabes look on drooling. Normally that's Trump Jr
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empty whippet box posted:I'm the angry old man weirdly bragging about being alone on christmas because he's so obnoxious about his MAGA-ing "Keep her happy, because I've emphatically failed at that" PhyrexianLibrarian posted:It still stuns me that anyone stands by Trump when stories like this come out. I mean, they're evil but they aren't stupid, they must know that Trump will turn on them the instant he doesn't personally profit from their presence. So what's their end-game? Pre-emptively backstab the backstabber? Grab your slightly smaller piece of the pie and disappear? Why not both? Look at all the Russian Oligarchs sticking around, even as they all cannibalise each other over the rapidly shrinking pie. No one thinks they'll be the one left on the outside.
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Seph posted:It's a framing thing. If you say "this money is for food" and people buy video games, it's pretty easy for them to get upset. If instead you say "this money is to provide a basic quality of life" they either have to argue "I don't want to provide people a basic quality of life" or shut up. Yeah, uh, my conservative dad got mad at me for getting unemployment after I got out of the military because I didn’t need it. He’s right, but it was money on the table and I took that poo poo. Basically people only deserve the standard of living they earn.
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DrNutt posted:I don't think I can trust someone whose reaction to deep fried tater tots with taco seasoning is to barf. Taco John's Potato Oles were better.
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