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employers/managers capitulating to troublesome clients rather than risk losing their business.
qfnt
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Quoted for NAKED truth
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Oh, we watched the first episode of Norsemen last night.
Our best description? "Game of Thrones meets Sean of the Dead".
It was really just utterly charming and bizarre. It doesn't seem to have much of a plot, not much happened, and it's a lot like taking a bunch of modern-day, uber polite, uber laid back Swedes and saying, "Now you're vikings! This is what you do!" and having them say, "OK. Whatever," and not particularly changing their attitudes.
I mean yeah, it has a bunch of NSFW warnings because vikings, but some seriously laid-back, polite, "Sorry I scratched your Volvo" vikings.
Oh, there's a plot. I haven't watched Season 3 yet. I consider it similar to "What We Do in the Shadows" in tone with a Viking theme.
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employers/managers capitulating to troublesome clients rather than risk losing their business.qft
man, nudity is getting weird...
I have revolved the sun again today.
My family made it a good day yesterday (they work today) despite our horrible prelude events.
Mom took us out to eat. Good family times.
Happy birthday! Wooooo
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Oh, we watched the first episode of Norsemen last night.
Our best description? "Game of Thrones meets Sean of the Dead".
It was really just utterly charming and bizarre. It doesn't seem to have much of a plot, not much happened, and it's a lot like taking a bunch of modern-day, uber polite, uber laid back Swedes and saying, "Now you're vikings! This is what you do!" and having them say, "OK. Whatever," and not particularly changing their attitudes.
I mean yeah, it has a bunch of NSFW warnings because vikings, but some seriously laid-back, polite, "Sorry I scratched your Volvo" vikings.
If this is the one I’m thinking of this sounds like how I started with it.
I started out really liking it and kind of being intrigued and enjoying myself despite the NSFW-type contents. It slowly became a misery fest with terrible people who I didn’t like and I was glad to be finished by the end of the season so I didn’t have to watch it anymore.I hope it’s more enjoyable for you from beginning to end!
Oh, there's a plot. I haven't watched Season 3 yet. I consider it similar to "What We Do in the Shadows" in tone with a Viking theme.Oh, we watched the first episode of Norsemen last night.
Our best description? "Game of Thrones meets Sean of the Dead".
It was really just utterly charming and bizarre. It doesn't seem to have much of a plot, not much happened, and it's a lot like taking a bunch of modern-day, uber polite, uber laid back Swedes and saying, "Now you're vikings! This is what you do!" and having them say, "OK. Whatever," and not particularly changing their attitudes.
I mean yeah, it has a bunch of NSFW warnings because vikings, but some seriously laid-back, polite, "Sorry I scratched your Volvo" vikings.
Is there a plot? I don’t think I was aware there was more than just the one season.
I mean, okay, there is a plot, though it’s not really all that important, and though there are actually great moments, but the over-all experience was just... not pleasant for me.Kind of like the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the Norsemen was better.
Anyone want to critique my newest abomination of a PrC?
I’m aware of how scattershot and messy it is at present, check out he linked post and the one below for some of my thoughts (those I could get down before forgetting because kids and ADD).
Thanks!
EDIT: unfortunate accidental button press by finger slide
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Project moved off my desk and is now someone else's problem for a day or three. New project will start tomorrow. So...this afternoon - a whole lot of not much. May break out the paints and try to finish a miniature or three. Or talk smack on the DF kickstarter.
My relief is here. Have a good evening, everyone.
Good evening!
Project moved off my desk and is now someone else's problem for a day or three. New project will start tomorrow. So...this afternoon - a whole lot of not much. May break out the paints and try to finish a miniature or three. Or talk smack on the DF kickstarter.
Or critique a horrible abomination of a prestige class!
Better than literally watching paint dry?
(This is a joke about painting minis because I am jealou and lack artistic talent whatsoever. Hope you enjoy those minis, it’s so cool that people can do that. XD)
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It would probably help if we paid our workers enough to care about enforcing such things and backed them up when they confront a customer, rather than run employees on a shoestring paycheck so there's little investment beyond needing the job for survival and employers/managers capitulating to troublesome clients rather than risk losing their business.Two In One Day: Following Instructions:
Having traveled in Europe multiple times, I know 100% that this isn't a uniquely American thing, but holy carp why is it so d**ned impossible for most people to follow even the simplest instructions?
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Grr...
Yeah, the only reason I lasted even 8 months in retail was because the owner had a "NobodysHome" test: If a customer is being rude to NobodysHome and insists on seeing the manager, then I'm better off without that customer.
He threw out a *LOT* of customers and perma-banned them from his store.
Plus the ever-hilarious:
"I'm going to tell all my friends about you!"
"Good! I don't want them in my store, either!"
The saddest thing? Decades later, the Fake Russian developed the same exact test.
So what does it say about you when the managers around you use you as a litmus test for whether or not a customer deserves to be thrown out?
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For the Farcry 5 crowd: MrT now has a trained cougar as a pet/follower.
Fun Fact: The cougar in Far Cry 5 has the same name as our beagle.
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It would probably help if we paid our workers enough to care about enforcing such things and backed them up when they confront a customer, rather than run employees on a shoestring paycheck so there's little investment beyond needing the job for survival and employers/managers capitulating to troublesome clients rather than risk losing their business.Two In One Day: Following Instructions:
Having traveled in Europe multiple times, I know 100% that this isn't a uniquely American thing, but holy carp why is it so d**ned impossible for most people to follow even the simplest instructions?
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Grr...
Yeah, the only reason I lasted even 8 months in retail was because the owner had a "NobodysHome" test: If a customer is being rude to NobodysHome and insists on seeing the manager, then I'm better off without that customer.
He threw out a *LOT* of customers and perma-banned them from his store.
Plus the ever-hilarious:
"I'm going to tell all my friends about you!"
"Good! I don't want them in my store, either!"The saddest thing? Decades later, the Fake Russian developed the same exact test.
So what does it say about you when the managers around you use you as a litmus test for whether or not a customer deserves to be thrown out?
I lasted nearly seven years in retail (saint Vincent DePaul and Toys R Us) because both my boss at Toys R Us straight up said I'd never go on a register.
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Project moved off my desk and is now someone else's problem for a day or three. New project will start tomorrow. So...this afternoon - a whole lot of not much. May break out the paints and try to finish a miniature or three. Or talk smack on the DF kickstarter.
The DF what now?
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So, anyone know how to unload a vehicle that's too broke to fix if you can't find the title docs? Asking for a friend... (I'm so freaking embarrassed right now)
In California you can request a duplicate title really easily; there's an online PDF you fill out. But you have to actually know all the information from the old title, and I'm sure there are a bunch of lines to stand in and a nominal fee (which of course I can't find on the site).
So if you're willing to have the junk heap lying around for a few weeks to donate it, you can do that.
As far as I can recall, when I was trading in my junked car for a new one the car dealership threw in "dealing with all the title nonsense" for free. But that did involve the price of a new car...
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So, anyone know how to unload a vehicle that's too broke to fix if you can't find the title docs? Asking for a friend... (I'm so freaking embarrassed right now)
I had an old Pontiac Sunbird that we used as a trade-in for a used Corolla. They acted like they were doing me a favor by taking it off my hands, and they totally were. About two weeks later, I randomly saw it ditched by the side of the highway in the next county over. (It had a custom iridescent glitter paint job and a red shop rag taped over the tail light, there was no mistaking it. The paint job was not my doing... I bought the car that way.)
The freaking dealership dumped my car in the next county.
I could have just done that myself and saved them the trouble, but technically, I'd signed it over to them, so it was their headache with the State.
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate my boss.
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I have revolved the sun again today.
My family made it a good day yesterday (they work today) despite our horrible prelude events.
Mom took us out to eat. Good family times.
Brother took me to his house and let me play his PlayStation 4 with a "smoke all you want from my stash while you're here but take none home" offer. It was a video game and weed buffet.
Of course drama didn't stop. But f%+& that s~#$. We can hit ignore now.
Happy Birthday, V.E.!
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate my boss.
Yes! Feel your hate! Let it flow through you!
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Happy B-Day, V.E.!
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So, anyone know how to unload a vehicle that's too broke to fix if you can't find the title docs? Asking for a friend... (I'm so freaking embarrassed right now)I had an old Pontiac Sunbird that we used as a trade-in for a used Corolla. They acted like they were doing me a favor by taking it off my hands, and they totally were. About two weeks later, I randomly saw it ditched by the side of the highway in the next county over. (It had a custom iridescent glitter paint job and a red shop rag taped over the tail light, there was no mistaking it. The paint job was not my doing... I bought the car that way.)
The freaking dealership dumped my car in the next county.
I could have just done that myself and saved them the trouble, but technically, I'd signed it over to them, so it was their headache with the State.
Yep. That's the "big" part of it. Dealerships aren't exactly shining beacons of paladinhood, so more than likely your old junker'll end up in a lakebed or a ditch or whatnot. *BUT* if you have the paperwork proving the dealership took it off your hands, it's *their* problem, not yours.
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DF = dwarven forge. I am a dwarven forge junkie. Like have been buying since 1999. Their seventh kickstarter is going on.
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Electrician (looking at the tools clustered in a circle around my workspace, all within reach): You like to everything handy huh?
Me: Yes, they're easier to lose that way.
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Oh, we watched the first episode of Norsemen last night.
Our best description? "Game of Thrones meets Sean of the Dead".
It was really just utterly charming and bizarre. It doesn't seem to have much of a plot, not much happened, and it's a lot like taking a bunch of modern-day, uber polite, uber laid back Swedes and saying, "Now you're vikings! This is what you do!" and having them say, "OK. Whatever," and not particularly changing their attitudes.
I mean yeah, it has a bunch of NSFW warnings because vikings, but some seriously laid-back, polite, "Sorry I scratched your Volvo" vikings.
Really, how do we know that the Norse didn't behave like that most of the time, once the pillaging was out of the way?
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Want kill boss now.
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So what does it say about you when the managers around you use you as a litmus test for whether or not a customer deserves to be thrown out?
That we need more of you around.
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So what does it say about you when the managers around you use you as a litmus test for whether or not a customer deserves to be thrown out?That we need more of you around.
She turned into one of our most-loyal customers, coming by to rent 2-3 movies a day, 5 days a week. And she recommended the place to all her friends.
The owner's response? "Good job, NobodysHome. That was really impressive. Now never do that again. We don't need the business that badly."
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Yup, pretty sore tonight, but that's because I kicked ass today, so it's a good sore.
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So, anyone know how to unload a vehicle that's too broke to fix if you can't find the title docs? Asking for a friend... (I'm so freaking embarrassed right now)
Fire?
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What about just selling it to a junker? I got a hundred or two for that before.
It boggles the mind that the dealerships don't just do that themselves.
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Want kill boss now.
Hey, did you know that if you're at Home Depot buying fingerprint-blocking work gloves, a new shovel, and a 50lb bag of quick lime, you can also rent a top-end wood chipper too?
Just putting that out there.
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Oh yeah I forgot to give Vagrant the birthday wishes. Wishes the birthday VE (I like to try and say it more and more bizaree every time if anyone was curious.)
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... poor bird...
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Hmm maybe your end game should be the reincarnate spell.
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Or learn Baleful Polymorph and cast it on myself.
I like the concept for the character but he does sound like a bit of a bird brain.
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Poor me. My character realized a dream he never knew he had, to be a bird, and then fell out of a tree while sleeping. He flies a lot, casts Overland Flight every morning, but it's not the same as being a bird.
I'm sure 2nd edition fixed this but I don't have the books handy to verify.
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I usually make sure my characters have great perception, which is why I always roll a 1 or 2 on perception checks.
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I usually make sure my characters have great perception, which is why I always roll a 1 or 2 on perception checks.I typically put a good amount in Perception, but decided to go a different route with this guy.
Because not taking perception is for the birds.
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I usually make sure my characters have great perception, which is why I always roll a 1 or 2 on perception checks.I typically put a good amount in Perception, but decided to go a different route with this guy.
I'll have to try it with my next character.