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Talks about punching people for minor things and then suggests other people need to “act like a fucking adult.” Cute.

I’d rather work with the Gen Z kids any day over someone like you. They sound fun and quirky. You sound like a dick.

Donaldson has (at least) two different series involving rape as a form of main plot progression. It makes me wonder about the man, and his books make me uncomfortable (and not in a good, reader tension kind of way).

One of my favorite anime, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve watched it over the years.

The gif alone got me wanting to watch it again.

Same.

Oh shit, isn’t that GIF from Parasyte: the Maxim? Outstanding show.

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I have time, it’s just that I can think of much better things to do with it. I spend my free time generally either reading, gaming solo and with my spouse, and exercising. TV is fine occasionally, but it’s such a passive activity.

You could step on a LEGO for every step the rest of your life.

Damn, I’ll have to keep not subscribing!

Game looks really good, but totally not my thing. Happy for the folks that’ll enjoy it though.

Here’s the original text (hopefully autocorrect doesn’t screw it up, I’m posting on mobile):

It is the 41st millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, a master of a million worlds by the might of His inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that He may never truly die.

Yet even in His deathless state, the Emperor continues His eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor’s will. Vast armies give battle in His name on uncounted worlds. Greatest among His soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Astra Militarum and countless planetary defense forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat of aliens, heretics, mutants — and worse.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

It’s the intro on pretty much every 40k book there is (Edit - not on A Thousand Sons, that has a different intro, so probably not Horus Heresy and the like, anything occurring in the 30k era).

I just checked my copy of the first Ciaphas Cain novel as well as Wreck and Ruin (Sister of battle novel) and it’s copied essentially word for word.

It’s literally just the intro to most Warhammer 40k books, just with McConnell swapped for the emperor and a few words changed.

It’s copypasta.

Starbucks coffee is hot garbage, it’s not hard to boycott them. I don’t think I’ve set foot in one of their shops in over a decade.

Same. I loved the PS1 and PS2.

It’s been easy enough to set up a gaming PC in the living room for both desk and couch gaming (my gaming rig automatically switches to the TV if the TV and receiver inputs are on). Sony exclusives just aren’t what they used to be, and I haven’t really cared much since the PS2/PS3 era. I sold my consoles in 2012 and haven’t looked back, still more games than I’ll ever have time to play.

In the early 00s I made a fair bit of money as a side hustle fixing stuff that the Geek Squad had messed up.

I did this for a bit in the late 90’s and early 2000s. Didn’t really do many jobs (I had two jobs and college to deal with already). Eventually quit altogether after a pastor gave me a computer to fix that was riddled with porn and malware. I cleaned it up, gave it back in good shape, and a few days later he wanted his money back because it had viruses again and said I hadn’t fixed it.

I told him I’d give him his money back if I could look at it right then and there and confirm he didn’t download a bunch of porn again. He took the machine and left without another word. It was small change stuff that was more hassle than it was worth, and that was the end of it for me. I do not need to know this stuff about people.

Also IT since the mid-2000s. I “need” AI for my job now… because my company went in for it, told us to use it, and cut our support staff by 40% over the past year so there’s not enough time to actually work and investigate case issues properly anymore and we’re all completely overloaded. We’re basically a skeleton crew now. It can only be an effort to increase perceived value for a sell-off, or the company is in a death spiral. Probably both.

I’ve had it with this.

Who exactly do you think is voting for people like El-Sayed? Venezuelans perhaps?

What kind of take even is this?

I’m in an IT role, similar happened. My team previously had 12 people on it, now there’s 7 with 1-2 out of office on any given day. I think I’ve gone from an average of 15-18 cases with 5-7 active at any time to around 40+ cases with 15-25 active on any given day. This means my quality of work has dropped as I no longer have time for deeper investigation of issues, and I’ve gotten to the point I really don’t care. We’re not adding back staffing and this is the status quo now.

It’s even more brutal because the latest staffing cuts came pretty close before our busiest quarter normally, and after we were told there wouldn’t be any more cuts after the previous round several months before.

Honestly… I’m tired of it. I was already fighting burnout in March before the cuts, and now I just don’t have the energy to care, I’m just going through the motions and taking care of my mental and physical health outside work hours. I’ll probably quit soon, and I expect it’ll be a few months at least before I go job hunting, I badly need a break.

Fuck. Yet another company I donate to behaving like shitheels. Fuck. No more donations I guess.