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Bismuth
Jun 11, 2010

by Azathoth
Hell Gem
This is why I love hobbies where half the poo poo you use is cobbled together from goodwill garbage, hot glue, and duct tape

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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Bismuth posted:

This is why I love hobbies where half the poo poo you use is cobbled together from goodwill garbage, hot glue, and duct tape

Being a government contractor isn't a hobby.

e: on-topic I just realized I know the guy who painted this advertisement:

3D Megadoodoo has issued a correction as of 18:56 on Sep 12, 2020

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Being a government contractor isn't a hobby.

e: on-topic I just realized I know the guy who painted this advertisement:



Advertisement, deviantart slash fiction comic, same diff.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Shame Boy posted:

Advertisement, deviantart slash fiction comic, same diff.

Does Burger King pay people to make deviantart slash fiction comics? This is important.

bag em and tag em
Nov 4, 2008
https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/1305125847414829057?s=19

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


You are own

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Inceltown posted:

You are own

Also it's only available at the house of a family named Hampton

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Just in case you need more people to hate. Here is someone who is working from home thanks to roni who still puts on a shirt and tie and drives around the block for a while to pretend to commute.

quote:

For all the headaches commuting can trigger – from dealing with bumper-to-bumper traffic jams to being squashed into a train after near-inevitable delays – it does, in truth, bring certain benefits.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

i could really see the status symbol of a gig economy bodyguard, and then you find out that the client is just the wife of a dentist not a politician

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 217 days!

Inceltown posted:

Just in case you need more people to hate. Here is someone who is working from home thanks to roni who still puts on a shirt and tie and drives around the block for a while to pretend to commute.

i wasn't fond of cuck (lol my eight year old asked me what "c u c k" spells the other day), but even though i kind of get the sense that it has roots in misogyny i'm sort of fond of "simp"

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


any time someone uses cuck or simp or similar terms in a conversation I act all confused like "what is simp? is that short for simpleton or simpsons? is that slang now?" and make them overexplain it

in other news I am less annoyed by my gaming friends than ever before but there are certainly less of them to group with

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

blatman posted:

any time someone uses cuck or simp or similar terms in a conversation I act all confused like "what is simp? is that short for simpleton or simpsons? is that slang now?" and make them overexplain it

in other news I am less annoyed by my gaming friends than ever before but there are certainly less of them to group with

I do the same thing but with poggers, except I still actually don't understand what's poggers

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



blatman posted:

any time someone uses cuck or simp or similar terms in a conversation I act all confused like "what is simp? is that short for simpleton or simpsons? is that slang now?" and make them overexplain it

Ex opposition leader called the Australian Prime Minister a Simp on TV recently, he didn't waste time over explaining (last 10-15 sec).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2230778/Video-Bill-Shorten-calls-Scott-Morrison-simp-Donald-Trump.html

necroid
May 14, 2009

Inceltown posted:

Just in case you need more people to hate. Here is someone who is working from home thanks to roni who still puts on a shirt and tie and drives around the block for a while to pretend to commute.

lol

quote:

"While it's lovely sometimes to let go, people can pretty quickly spiral into feeling a sense of inertia or apathy or struggling to get going," she says.

"[Routine] gives us a framework to operate within … a sense of safety and control over our lives."

yeah you know that long-forgotten feeling you sometimes get when you aren't locked in a routine? when you feel almost human again, you question your choices and you feel the urge to explore because you feel that what you have right now isn't what you want?

forget it with a fake commute!

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


Shame Boy posted:

I do the same thing but with poggers, except I still actually don't understand what's poggers

i've researched this extensively and this is what i've concluded, it's a lady or gentleman who is proficient in these:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

quote:

Associate Professor Terry Bowles, a University of Melbourne psychologist, says commuting provides an opportunity to adjust to a different role, for example from parent to worker, and the habit gives the brain a bit of a break.

Clinical psychologist Jo Mitchell, co-founder of Melbourne's The Mind Room centre, agrees.

"It's a physical pause in the day. That's the benefit we're missing," Dr Mitchell says.

Just take a 10 minute break to sit quietly and meditate or stretch or something? No gently caress that, I need my metal safety box and fossil fuels

grate deceiver
Jul 10, 2009

Just a funny av. Not a redtext or an own ok.
What if I take physical pauses by opening my work laptop in the morning and then doing fuckall for the entire day and playing biddyagames.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Posting is self care

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

grate deceiver posted:

What if I take physical pauses by opening my work laptop in the morning and then doing fuckall for the entire day and playing biddyagames.

Pro level strat imo

Alobar
Jun 21, 2011

Are you proud of me?

Are you proud of what I do?

I'll try to be a better man than the one that you knew.

bump_fn posted:

cool post no one will read, nerd

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

i wouldn't have read that post if i hadn't read this post, honestly

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


grate deceiver posted:

What if I take physical pauses by opening my work laptop in the morning and then doing fuckall for the entire day and playing biddyagames.

As someone getting ready to leave for their 8-430 right now, you're a bastard and may your save get deleted

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

Inceltown posted:

Just in case you need more people to hate. Here is someone who is working from home thanks to roni who still puts on a shirt and tie and drives around the block for a while to pretend to commute.

ive been happier working from home when i take a little outside time before and after work, so that there's a sense of start and completion of that part of the day, and also at least wearing casual clothes and not always just pajamas or whatever. but loving lol at putting on office wear and driving your gas box is circles as a liturgical sacrament to capitalism

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Breakfast All Day posted:

ive been happier working from home when i take a little outside time before and after work, so that there's a sense of start and completion of that part of the day, and also at least wearing casual clothes and not always just pajamas or whatever. but loving lol at putting on office wear and driving your gas box is circles as a liturgical sacrament to capitalism

tbh I think part of the problem is that people are so broken that they've lost sense of where the line is between legitimate self-care and routine

like putting on clothes, in general, is a good thing to do because it feels miserable to just lie around in your underwear for days straight. that's good. if you need to wear office wear just to feel normal then that is maybe much less good and something deserving of some self-reflection.

ShadowHawk
Jun 25, 2000

CERTIFIED PRE OWNED TESLA OWNER
If you wear something just slightly uncomfortable that makes the ritual of changing out of it to finish work that much more satisfying

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Paradoxish posted:

like putting on clothes, in general, is a good thing to do because it feels miserable to just lie around in your underwear for days straight.

Speak for yourself :colbert:

Serf
May 5, 2011


i have not put on anything besides basketball shorts since april. i keep a polo shirt next to my computer to throw on before video calls. this is my best life

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Shame Boy posted:

I do the same thing but with poggers, except I still actually don't understand what's poggers

Nothing much, what's poggers with you?

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Oh my god, it's Guard-O-Ped.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


I still wear business casual 5 days a week because my job is a hell that I can't escape. But at least the safety officer stopped sending his weekly emails and making jokes like "when this is over we're all going to have quarantine beards" despite over 90% of the company still going to work daily

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

blatman posted:

any time someone uses cuck or simp or similar terms in a conversation I act all confused like "what is simp? is that short for simpleton or simpsons? is that slang now?" and make them overexplain it

in other news I am less annoyed by my gaming friends than ever before but there are certainly less of them to group with

just direct them to the subreddit r/simps

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
https://twitter.com/cfarivar/status/1305504885404704778?s=20

if apple/google had any morals at all this poo poo would be capped so people can only dump a limited amount of money in per month

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

quote:

The app offers a variety of typical casino games to play, including their favorite, called Reel Rivals, a game in which players accrue points by playing a virtual slot machine. As in a real casino, players exchange money for coins to bet.

Unlike in a real casino, there is no way to win money back or earn a payout on coins.

But that has not stopped Shellz and her husband from spending about $150,000 in the game in just two years. She asked to use her in-game username so her family does not find out how much money they have spent on the game.

There's some kinda interesting psychology thesis in here, cuz they seem to have figured out that you can operate a casino where people pay in and receive absolutely nothing at all ever and it still somehow works.

I mean I know mobile games basically do the same thing but those at least have some kind of nominal gameplay, it's interesting that people are willing to play loving slot machines for nothing

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Cold on a Cob posted:

if apple/google had any morals

:kiddo:

Remulak
Jun 8, 2001
I can't count to four.
Yams Fan

Cold on a Cob posted:

https://twitter.com/cfarivar/status/1305504885404704778?s=20

if apple/google had any morals at all this poo poo would be capped so people can only dump a limited amount of money in per month

Apple gets 30% of all of the money that's lost. This is probably a single-digit percentage of App Store revenue, enough so that dropping this income would require multiple executives to lose their bonus, and probably their jobs.

Perverse incentives for the win!

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

One lesson it's loving amazing that people haven't learned yet is that no matter how much :mitt: says corporations are people (and being charitable he meant that corporations are made up of people) they range from amoral to immoral

Only regulation and oversight and vigorous punishment keeps them from loving over literally everyone at every turn

They can still be useful, like a nuclear reaction, but you can't just leave them unattended and assume they'll do no harm, it's literally insane

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

The Bloop posted:

One lesson it's loving amazing that people haven't learned yet is that no matter how much :mitt: says corporations are people (and being charitable he meant that corporations are made up of people) they range from amoral to immoral

Only regulation and oversight and vigorous punishment keeps them from loving over literally everyone at every turn

They can still be useful, like a nuclear reaction, but you can't just leave them unattended and assume they'll do no harm, it's literally insane

Every regulation ever imposed on corporations was a response to a worker or workers getting killed. (Or the relatives of the regulators being COMPETED AGAINST but that's not the point.)

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


Cold on a Cob posted:

https://twitter.com/cfarivar/status/1305504885404704778?s=20

if apple/google had any morals at all this poo poo would be capped so people can only dump a limited amount of money in per month

and since it said up front that you cannot win anything in it, this is not technically gambling?

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

e-wishing well but it's addictive

fat bossy gerbil
Jul 1, 2007

Those morons deserve to be parted from their money. Who the gently caress would gamble without the possibility of winning? These idiots apparently will, and if you’re dumb enough to do that you deserve to lose your money. It’s not gambling if there’s nothing on the line, they are paying to press digital buttons and there’s not excuse for it because they know they’re doing it. If these people had any brains they’d go and actually gamble with the money.

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Ham Equity
Apr 16, 2013

The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.
Grimey Drawer

fat bossy gerbil posted:

Those morons deserve to be parted from their money. Who the gently caress would gamble without the possibility of winning? These idiots apparently will, and if you’re dumb enough to do that you deserve to lose your money. It’s not gambling if there’s nothing on the line, they are paying to press digital buttons and there’s not excuse for it because they know they’re doing it. If these people had any brains they’d go and actually gamble with the money.
These are games designed by psychologists to be addictive. This is like saying the real problem with obesity in America is a lack of willpower, as if somehow people today just have less willpower than people 30 years ago did.

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