Ruining It For Everyone Else Since 2004
I don’t like posting too many open threads within a certain period, but I’m lacking necessary brain power to put together a proper post. Most of that was placed towards real life, and animation… doesn’t really leave me with much to talk about.
Open Thread in session!
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.
As usual, Bethesda doesn’t disappoint with disappointments.
Update: Fallout 76 players who have signed up for Fallout 1st report that Private Worlds have dead NPCs and looted areas in them and can get invaded by other players Also, some say that the Scrapbox has eaten up all their materials, removing them forever
Just think… they could have bought a couple games with that money, ones that actually work properly and don’t have more Fallout 4 content than Fallout 4. :trollface:
My first day back to work, and I only got 4 hours of sleep… I tried to take a nap but there was too much fucking noise, and now I’ve stayed up late enough that I’m going to get short changed on sleep again, way for me to undo two weeks of Vacay….
If I hear any noise tonight I’m clubbing a baby seal.
I’ve been busy these last few days. Yesterday I came home from work and decided to do some dusting around the room. I dusted everything but the computer area, as that was cleaned off already. Eventually I’ll have to pull everything apart to do a deeper cleaning though like I did everything else. I enjoyed listening to some oldies while tidying up. I picked random shoutcast stations on my Roku and listened with my new wireless headphones that I purchased for the TV (to enjoy streaming music and quietly enjoy my programming while in bed). They’re a Sennheiser RS-120, basic but I like them.
It’s a good thing I decided to do some cleaning up too… I went out to lunch after work today to a new Japanese/Chinese/Korean restaurant, and my former work friend gave me some late birthday presents from last year. One was a miniature shopping cart, a jewelry box with a necklace inside, and a sign. Here are some pictures:
I decided to put the sign and the cart on the bookshelf. Fits most of my hot sauce collection quite nicely.
I decided to put the jewelry box next to my jewelry box because why not have some redundancy? I have a total of 4 jewelry boxes, and only one is full… Maybe on one of my days off I’ll sit down and sort out what should go between these two. See if I can properly fill it. ๐ Some might use this as an excuse to buy more jewelry, but I’m not so sure…
I’m not sure what it is, but my last couple of work days have been a bit more interesting than usual. On Sunday I had a lady that didn’t know what the word “simplistic” meant, and yesterday I had another lady that didn’t know what a “commercial” was. Both ladies were at least in their mid to late 50’s, and native English speakers.
Here’s what happened on Sunday: I helped a lady who wanted to find a Windows 10 compatible mouse, and I told her that all the mice we sold were simplistic to install, she interrupts me and asks me “What does simplistic mean? Does it mean it’s simple?” I wanted to pull a mirror out of my pocket, have her look into it and tell her “No, I’m talking about you…” But other than that she was a nice person, but strange… She wanted to know if I knew the tax rates of all other 49 states because, you know, that’s something that I should know right? Turns out she lived in California and wanted to buy a steam gift card to get Stardew Valley for herself. More power to her, but she kept asking me math questions to try and get me to confirm answers for her…
Of course that was much more pleasant than the other lady. She was an all out total bitchface. She wanted to buy a TV, and she was looking at the commercials playing on all the TV’s assuming that what was on the TV had something to do with it… it was a commercial for Uncharted 4. I explained that to her and then she said “WHAT IS A COMMERCIAL?” Which threw me the fuck off because how can you not know? Especially since I’m pretty sure she was around when the first commercial was invented… So I explained it to her, telling her that it’s an advertisement for a Playstation 4 game “Oh, well I don’t want that.”. Already I was missing the Stardew lady… When did words like “Simplistic” and “Commercial” become too scary and confusing for people? Son of a bitch… No wonder Donald Trump won the GOP. I’m a fucking thesaurus compared to Mr “I’m good at words”.
Oh well, on the same day Stardew lady needed help I did help a friendly gay couple choose between Star Wars Battlefront and Fallout 4 by telling them that it was “Skyrim With Guns”, and we all laughed. So maybe there is still some hope for humanity…
Apparently while I was minding my own business today Microsoft released an AI on twitter targeted at teens, young adults etc as an experiment. After not even a full 24 hours they had to shut the bot down after it became a racist, sexist asshat. The last thing it uttered was:
There are many more examples that you can find here, here and here.
I can’t fault Microsoft for this, after all this was an experiment. An experiment that shows how corrupt asshats can corrupt a machine. Brought upon by racists, sexists and anything else you could think of. I also find it interesting that you don’t really see much from the other side of the spectrum. The bot had plenty of love of Trump, Hitler, Gamergate etc but nothing much about teh ebil feminists, Hillary, gay pride etc. I mean, they say feminists and gay people are ruining our world, you’d think they would have control of Microsoft’s chatbot within seconds! ๐
Sending someone your nudes doesn’t seem like the best way to test someones eyesight while you’re working on getting their glasses fixed.
While the woman was waiting for her glasses to be fixed, she received a text message containing an image of a nude, fully aroused man. A short time later, a second text arrived, with the message, โDid you like that?โ
Genius… This is right up there with these subway guys who froze their urine and put their privates between some subway bread. How do these wanks think they’ll keep their jobs after doing this shit? If they even do…
Someone told me that I should write or put something up so that when they come to the blog they’ll see something besides John Romero’s mug. I don’t have anything to write right now, so this is all I can come up with.
Nightmares really do come true.
Cosplay can be fun, cross dressing cosplay can be fun and funny too.
I totally dig this Chun Li. He has the right legs for the costume. ๐