Work

Gamer Talk

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I’ve got a few work buddies that I like to swap gaming stories with at work. There’s one that I share a lunch with a few days out of the week; I told him about my adventures through Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night! I even shared a few of my screenshots with him from the comfort of my tablet. I inadvertently introduced him to the series, and after playing Yakuza Kiwami he couldn’t help but buy the entire series on his XBone. He spent the weekend playing Yakuza 6, and even revisited Fallout New Vegas for a time. I also got another one of my co-workers into Yakuza series recently (on PlayStation in his case) — again, not intentionally. I just have really weird influential powers. Still, it is nice to talk about a game with someone and actually have them know what I’m talking about! Even if we all hail from different platforms.

We may come from three different gaming realms, but one thing we can all universally agree on is this:

Goro Majima has to be a Daedric Prince! He’s everywhere and he never fucking ages.

It Was A Friday The 13th Kinda Day

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After today I’m longing for the weekend to start… I had no choice but to work by myself today; we’re experiencing a large COVID spike where I live, and a little over 20 of my co-workers are out sick with a few of them in critical condition (ER and ICU). Oddly enough, all of the people out sick with it are people who didn’t mask and didn’t vaccinate. I had to work alone today because these people refuse to take care of themselves, and have no qualms encouraging others to get just as sick as they are. We’ve already had a couple of local businesses close down temporarily due to spread among the staff, and the exponential increase in cases continues to wear on the few of us who are sane enough to take care of ourselves. It’s not like there’s a vaccine shortage, you could literally walk in and they’ll give you one without an appointment. Hell, some places are even offering money and in some cases even beer to get a fucking jab.

I WAS GOOD WHERE IS MY FUCKING BEER.

The Blackest Of Fridays Approaches

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So, despite there being a pandemic and an escalation in cases, businesses like the one I work for are still going through with Black Friday. All day I had to reassure morons that Black Friday is still a go, and endure complaints from Karens’ and Kens’ alike because we are lacking current gen consoles to sell, or any other bullshit item that is made overseas. I think my favorite conspiracy theory I’ve heard thus far from these eternal virgins is “The damn deepstate is preventing me from buying a PS5!” these people can all go collectively die from COVID in a fire with dildos covered in glue and rolled in glass and salt for all I care. For fucks sake… I want to buy AMD’s new 6800XT and much like NVidia and the console releases it has been rendered nothing more than unobtanium for most on the quest to score one, and I’m not throwing a giant Karenfest for not getting one in my hand. I don’t get what it is about the holidays that brings a person’s inner fuckass out, other than another excuse to just treat people like absolute shit. And after having a Polyester Cockwomble at the helm for the last four years enabling these types of human excrement it’s more than clear to me that’s likely the case. I’m just glad I’m only getting a 50% dose of these douchecanoes with an immediate shower to follow.

I’m dreading this Friday. We’ve had a small handful of people contract COVID at work ever since this all started, and I would be surprised if we followed any social distancing/mask guidelines once everything starts. We already have a No Mask No Entry policy that we pretty much don’t follow despite already being fined more than a few times. I’ve learned from watching others that people are more than likely to bend to your will if you act enough like an asshole. I can’t say I’ve ever been into that kind of mentality, and I don’t understand why so many people cream their jeans to be around what would otherwise be overgrown children or malformed adults. If I had the choice to be alone for the rest of my life or never be alone but only be surrounded by assholes you can sign me up for the former; It’s better to be alone by yourself than be alone in a crowd.

Also… why the fuck are people hording toilet paper again!? We’re not even having a lockdown.

Goodbye Zen, Hello Reality

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I have to say it has been a pretty productive weekend. I finally gained access to the new email server, and I added a few new website features to the main Slacker Site. I’ve also made a few tweaks here, such as removing the text over the banner… on mobile it looked weird, and overall it looked too repetitive. Instead enjoy my unobstructed misadventures.

I’ve packed a helping of breakfast rice (sounds weird but who cares) for tomorrow along with some herbal tea. After three days of being antisocial I can return to listening to asshats yell at us for having to wear masks, make fun of us for wearing them, and the increase of racial dialogue. Ever since COVID broke out I’ve been having to listen to my not as pale co-workers get yelled at by customers for their country mass producing this virus… even though not a fucking one of them is of Chinese descent. Then there’s also one of my co-workers pointing at a crying child and in a sarcastic tone telling me “he’s probably sick with the covid…” all because the kid was Chinese looking enough to merit a poor attempt at humor. If anything the poor kid was showing as much enthusiasm for being there as I mentally was.

Another thing I’ve had to think about lately is my daily attire. We can pretty much wear anything to work, and from time to time I like to wear some of my Oriental or Asian wear to work among the gaming T-Shirts and other stuff I have at my disposal, and with the amount of toxicity going on lately I’ve had to mentally walk down the alleyway of worst case scenarios for the days I decide to wear them. Never thought I would live in a day and age where I’d have to ponder these thoughts… then again I never thought toilet paper would be the first thing to go during an apocalypse.

Mouthwords Cometh

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Sorry for not writing for these last few days. I’ve been fighting allergies, muscle pain and trying to understand this new job I’m being forced to do. So far I’m not really liking it, and I’m not sure if it’s because of my lack of knowledge or the person that I’ve been working with. She’s been guiding me through what I need to take care of, but I have quite a few n00bish questions and I often feel like I’m annoying her; I seem to hear it more and more in her voice as things continue on, and then sometimes she just switches back to being a happy person. I’m thinking it might just be me, though others have been taking notice that she is rather bitchy, and I’m just a fool. I thought working at night with paperwork wouldn’t be a bad gig, but in some ways I’m not sure if this or my daily bustle with the public is more nerve wracking; All I can do is try my best and learn from the inevitable mistakes I’ve been making. I go from moments where I actually figured something out, to not knowing my own ass from a hole in the ground. :assy: :zorak:

I’ve still been crashing not long after getting home, and waking up in the afternoon. So far this is my only favorite aspect of the whole ordeal, waking up and enjoying a breakfast, a shower, whatever I have time for. I haven’t had time to really play any games lately, other than a little bit of AMID EVIL the other day. That one I’ll have to make more time for. It’s like a blend of the original Quake and Heretic (you’re even labeled as a heretic in the game). It runs on Unreal Engine 4, and it’s well optimized to run on even the most fabulous toaster. It runs quite decently under Proton, haven’t played it under Windows yet…. which is funny because I’ve mainly been living under Windows again due to Source Filmmaker on that really ambitious project I’ve been working on.

For almost a month now I’ve been working on this particular video, and I still have a ways to go on it due to the amount of animation I’ve been pouring into it among help from friends in other fields, such as script writing and additional voice work and modelling… Yutram is very talented, we even came up with an idea for one of the worst television shows in history that may someday see actual video form… if I can call it animation. :trollface:

I’m thinking when I pick back up on this again (possibly tomorrow) I’ll still be working on this particular scene. The video is short enough that I want to try and making my own Kojima inspired cutscene, but make it even more ridiculous. I can only describe this as if Kojima worked together with a flamboyant Daedric Prince on drugs provided by Suda51 and the Bleu Cheese olives in my refrigerator.

That is a delightful note to take a nap on. :rick:

Night 1 of 9 complete

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Made it through my first night ok. I still don’t entirely know what I’m doing, but apparently we did ok. I only threw up once, still not entirely sure why. I did make up for it when I woke by having a nice omelet. It isn’t everyday that I make myself a super nice breakfast on a workday. I’ve been sleeping not long after getting home, and waking in the afternoon to enjoy some daylight and other things I wouldn’t enjoy during a workday. I really need to come up with a better lunch plan than PB&J for lunch. We haven’t had time to really cook anything since we got back from our little trip. Perhaps after work I’ll buy some items to make something a little more impressive than a sandwich.

Updated and still minty fresh

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Managed to upgrade my version of Windows 10 without anything hazardous taking place, though I did have to reinstall grub2 to get back into Mint. Leave it to Microsoft to snuff out any operating system that isn’t its own… It didn’t take too long, but between fixing the boot loader and taking care of other things around the homestead I didn’t have time to really do much else. I almost went back into Windows to play some Quantum Break, but ended up zoning out instead.

As expected work has been busier, so busy in fact that I had to wait in line to leave the damned building… I’m going to hate the next couple of days with a passion. I get the feeling I’ll need to load something violent and nonsensical onto my laptop to get through the day(s). It was mellow enough for me to chill in Sonic Mania for my lunch today. Amazing how well it runs, though for some reason on my Desktop the audio has been known to randomly distort itself upon launch.

I’ll have even less time tomorrow, but I’m not entirely too butthurt about it. I have to work on Black Friday at two in the morning, and while some may see that as horrific (which my face can look horrifying at 2am) I’m ok with getting away from there as soon as possible and return home to a sweet leaf.

If you have nothing nice to say, start an Open Thread

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I don’t know what it is, but it seems like the more I work with the public, the more stupidity I seem to see on a regular basis. Today I had to explain to an old woman what “style” meant because she was confused and agitated when she saw two USB flash drives with the same storage capacity that were the same price, but (GASP!) were two different colors! Oooohhhhhhh! When I told her they came in different styles she had to ask me “WHAT DOES STYLE MEAN?!?!?!” which was rather fitting because her clothes suggested that her question reflected her fashion intelligence. She ended up buying one, but wanted to confirm that either one would work… as if color makes all the difference.

I tried going back into Windows to continue working on my video, mainly just extracting particular audio bits… but I got distracted by Halloween shopping on Amazon. I think I have an idea of what I want to wear with my mask this year. Perhaps I’ll try again on my project tomorrow… kinda kicking myself, because everything I did could basically have been handled under Mint these last two days. But that’s fine, I played Doom 2016 on my laptop in Mint during lunch today, it runs perfectly! Now if I could just figure out how to get it to see my mouse on my Desktop I’d be able to actually play it.