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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

stone cold posted:

......aren’t you a teacher

training to become one so technically i'm paying to teach

also my previous job was a computer toucher at a small engineering firm

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Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

I respect our computer touchers. They put up with jackasses like me who put in tickets about SPC charts not displaying properly.

They run off Java and my version was outdated. :downs:

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Randler posted:

I just learned about the British two-child policy and the inclusion of the so-called rape clause. :psyduck:

I really hope that stupid island gets scuttled post Brexit.
What the hell is this

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Ghost Leviathan posted:

What the hell is this

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/04/10/the_u_k_two_child_tax_credit_policy_is_nonsensical_and_cruel.html

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

stone cold posted:

......aren’t you a teacher

Yes, he’s Cameron Diaz.


Is this what “slow TV” is

Multilake
Dec 11, 2016

If you're in a jam, a crayon scrunched under your nose makes a good pretend moustache.

Raskolnikov38 posted:


also my previous job was a computer toucher at a small engineering firm

Praise the computer touchers :one:

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

Raskolnikov38 posted:

its awesome the amount of bullshit i have to go through to get a job that barely pays better than the one i literally spent all day being stoned at did

this, only what i'm looking for pays less

pangstrom
Jan 25, 2003

Wedge Regret
Battletech, hope it doesn't suck!

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


ya'll are climbing the ladder wrong if work gets harder

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Submarine Sandpaper posted:

ya'll are climbing the ladder wrong if work gets harder

depends if you find it easy or difficult to argue with managers for days on end

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

A reminder that the rape clause was a compromise after it was previously "2 kids, full stop"

now it's "2 kids unless you suffer a horrific trauma, in which case you can still eat poo poo unless we get to invade your privacy again"

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


cinci zoo sniper posted:

depends if you find it easy or difficult to argue with managers for days on end

i find it odd that people give a gently caress enough to argue with a manager. They're paid to make the decisions and there's no reason to add stress to your life.

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




Submarine Sandpaper posted:

i find it odd that people give a gently caress enough to argue with a manager. They're paid to make the decisions and there's no reason to add stress to your life.

Managers are not infallible. In fact, its quite the opposite since their job relies entirely on the feedback from others. If they make bad decisions poo poo always rolls down hill so of course people are going to argue if they think the manager is going to do something that could make their job worse or even end up with the loss of their job.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Raskolnikov38 posted:

its awesome the amount of bullshit i have to go through to get a job that barely pays better than the one i literally spent all day being stoned at did

Well, at least I'm sure your students will all be grateful for the hard work and sacrifice that you put into improving their lives.

:haw:

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




Also the more info that comes out about this guy that killed 10 people in Toronto the more Im convinced we do in fact live in the dumbest possible timeline.

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


Furnaceface posted:

Managers are not infallible. In fact, its quite the opposite since their job relies entirely on the feedback from others. If they make bad decisions poo poo always rolls down hill so of course people are going to argue if they think the manager is going to do something that could make their job worse or even end up with the loss of their job.
odd this has never been my experience.
If you make suggestions that are not implemented it's on the manager
if you make suggestions that are implemented it's on the manager
if you act on your suggestions without manager approval it's on you

The first two preclude the poo poo from rolling on down. It also involves a spine but without one you'll never have job satisfaction.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Submarine Sandpaper posted:

i find it odd that people give a gently caress enough to argue with a manager. They're paid to make the decisions and there's no reason to add stress to your life.

im arguing with fellow managers because they attempt to portray busy work in my area of responsibility

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
Somebody confirm new Battletech is super bad. I'm in shopping kinda mood. :ohdear:

pangstrom
Jan 25, 2003

Wedge Regret

Randler posted:

Somebody confirm new Battletech is super bad. I'm in shopping kinda mood. :ohdear:
I will try it tonight. I'm kind of a battletech fanboy so I will probably enjoy it even if it's objectively mediocre, though.

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




Randler posted:

Somebody confirm new Battletech is super bad. I'm in shopping kinda mood. :ohdear:

Im trying to avoid buying a new game but everyone keeps gushing over it.

The last game in that series I played was Mech 2 Mercenaries and this is being compared to that a lot.

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
gently caress it, I got two video games worth of utility refunds in the mail today.

I'll just buy the freaking game to calm my lizard brain into not plotting to devour certain managers at work.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Furnaceface posted:

Im trying to avoid buying a new game but everyone keeps gushing over it.

The last game in that series I played was Mech 2 Mercenaries and this is being compared to that a lot.

everyone was gushing over mechwarrior online and in the end i was lucky to find a permanbanned russian hacker who bought my $120 preorder for $90 since it had neglible amount of games/bad stats on it

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
Looking at the holiday calender I remembered that Loyalty Day is a thing in the US. :allears:

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


cinci zoo sniper posted:

everyone was gushing over mechwarrior online and in the end i was lucky to find a permanbanned russian hacker who bought my $120 preorder for $90 since it had neglible amount of games/bad stats on it

that game went down a dark f2p path and although I don't follow the genre anymore helped develop a lot of red flags

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Submarine Sandpaper posted:

that game went down a dark f2p path and although I don't follow the genre anymore helped develop a lot of red flags

i checked out rather early since i didnt find it particularly fun

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
According to the Games threads it's currently in one of its good phases again now.

I actually reinstalled it a few weeks ago, but couldn't really get into it. I have to say, though, that from the few matches I played, it seemed to be one of the few games where a lot of people are on voice while at the same time not being annoying. Also, able to calibrate their mic input unlike those idiot kiddies in Euro CS:GO.

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound

Randler posted:

Somebody confirm new Battletech is super bad. I'm in shopping kinda mood. :ohdear:

Oh poo poo that is out now? I backed it!

Was distracted by pillars of eternity hype

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
i took off work early to play it and it's real good so far

though as with all things hbs most of the excitement is for mind blowing sequels that apparently is their stock in trade

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Majorian posted:

Well, at least I'm sure your students will all be grateful for the hard work and sacrifice that you put into improving their lives.

:haw:

no they hated the EdTPA lesson sequence too

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Tesseraction posted:

A reminder that the rape clause was a compromise after it was previously "2 kids, full stop"

now it's "2 kids unless you suffer a horrific trauma, in which case you can still eat poo poo unless we get to invade your privacy again"

:staredog:

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Randler posted:

Looking at the holiday calender I remembered that Loyalty Day is a thing in the US. :allears:

is it

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich
https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/765568413385170944

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
I’m playing it now yeah, it’s good. A bit slow (as in, each move->fire sequence involves a couple of animations) but I understand it’s battletech and the mechs are supposed to feel a bit slow and plodding.

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
Battletech report: I got promoted to management and have to do something about the cash flow. I now understand the true horrors of war.

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
the amount of mwo goon references they put in the game is a bit suprising

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

the amount of mwo goon references they put in the game is a bit suprising

is it, after fallout new vegas?

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

youtube was full of horse porn????

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y_4i3QGZso

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
agreed, it was a lovely bookstore

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Zisky
May 6, 2003

PM me and I will show you my tits

I loving love Estonia. Don't anybody dare call them Eastern European.

Also there was a torrent thread of old Soviet commercials here in like...2006? Maybe?

This was one of my favorite commercials of the bunch.

Edit:
IIRC this was one of those commercials that was made because Western TV stations were available by antenna in some of the Eastern Bloc, where local stations without the need for commercials in the capitalistic sense were trying to counter the popularity of Western culture.

Zisky fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Apr 25, 2018

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