My pizza cutter broke, so I used my old Bryan Adams CD. Cuts like a knife.
Now it cuts like a knife
But it feels so rightYeah, it cuts like a knife
Oh, but it feels so right
My wife asked if I know all the songs to the Shrek soundtrack. I said "No, just some...♫ BODY once told me ♫"
I'm gonna roll ya!
♫ He's not as sharp as that righteous CD ♫
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Battlefield earth book was good anyways.
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Battlefield earth book was good anyways.Uh...
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yes hubbard started to believe his own fantasy but before that he wrote battlefield earth which was a half decent sci-fi book. The movie was awful though.
yes hubbard started to believe his own fantasy but before that he wrote battlefield earth which was a half decent sci-fi book. The movie was awful though.Battlefield earth book was good anyways.Uh...
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That book was so terrible that its movie—crappy as it was—was better than the book.
It read like a thirteen year old fanfic powerfantasy with its attrocious writing and poorly executed plot... In the movie you at least have John Travolta and Forest Whittaker in those hillarious hairdos.
Hmm disagree.
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C'mon body it's been 5 years adjust to night shift!
(for real though)
Ugh fire alarm. Wish it would of waited another hour. well except its the new guys second day ever. poor him. False alarm. I suspect what it is but nothing I can do but silence it.
Ha I have won! I figured it out! No more flashing lights!
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A guy I used to know said this about Battlefield Earth:
I would claw out my eyes to avoid watching it any further, but I had to chew off my hands to escape the manacles.
I have finished X-Com Vs Fungi Of Yuggoth Pheonix Point.
It was probably the best X-Com based game, and that is a high threshold to pass.
I barely remember reading Battlefield Earth, but I recall that it wasn't great. The movie, on the other hand, was so bad that it will be forever trapped, fighting for the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel alongside the likes of The Revenant, The Convent, and That Thing That Disney Did.
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I read Battlefield Earth as a 13 year old on a car ride across the US. KY to CA. Lots of boring roads. I remember selecting the book because of its thickness (about 1000 pages in the paperback edition I found). Finished it before we got to the Grand Canyon. It was good for that sort of trip.
I reread as an adult. I can now recognize come of the conventions of that era of pulp writing. It is not unreadable, but in the bottom 40%. IMO. By way of comparison, I have not been able to reread as an adult some of the ERB Mars books, Narnia, Mack Bolan, or many other pulp era/pulp style books.
So, not the worst, but far from the best.
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Somehow, I have never been one to say, "Wow! Everyone talks about how terrible this movie is! But my tastes are different, so I'm going to go see it anyway in the hopes that I have a different experience!"
Thus, I've never seen Showgirls, nor Gigli, nor Battlefield Earth, nor many, many other films considered among the worst of all time.
Yet somehow, despite this dearth of movie-watching experience, I do not feel I've missed anything...
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I barely remember reading Battlefield Earth, but I recall that it wasn't great. The movie, on the other hand, was so bad that it will be forever trapped, fighting for the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel alongside the likes of The Revenant, The Convent, and That Thing That Disney Did.
I haven't seen any of those movies.
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Somewhere in your body a heroic white blood cell is doing battle with a germ that causes acne in a single hair follicle that is home to dozens of hair producing cells. It is very much like a gang of toughs moving into a town and raising hell on the innocent townsfolk until a PC comes in and puts a stop to it.
C'mon body. Start adjusting to daylights savings time already.
Light exposure stops the release of your body's natural melatonin, which is what signals your body's systems that it's night time. Exposure to stress-inducing individuals releases extra cortisol into your bloodstream, increasing your allostatic load and keeping your brain extra active.
Thus, logically, you should expose yourself to bright light and remove social stressors. As a doctor, I recommend you set an a!shole (or a!sholes) on fire and enjoy the warm rosy glow. Repeat as necessary until you are sleeping better.
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When someone leaving the company emails the entire 2800-person division on the To: line to say goodbye, I always think of it as a giant middle finger to all of us remaining.
Yep. I'm in a "Reply All" storm of well-wishes.
I hate people.
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Mine Pappenheimer rapier did arriveth, whythen which I did hope to doeth Hotte Pappenheimer Schitte, but alack, 'tis too heavy in ye blade to do much withe. 'Tis possible to remedy ye diffycultie, and what dost thou expecte fore £80, but stille mildly vexynge.
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C'mon body. Start adjusting to daylights savings time already.Light exposure stops the release of your body's natural melatonin, which is what signals your body's systems that it's night time. Exposure to stress-inducing individuals releases extra cortisol into your bloodstream, increasing your allostatic load and keeping your brain extra active.
Thus, logically, you should expose yourself to bright light and remove social stressors. As a doctor, I recommend you set an a!shole (or a!sholes) on fire and enjoy the warm rosy glow. Repeat as necessary until you are sleeping better.
All I heard was "Quit IT and practice wish-fulfillment on your way out the door."
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Sometimes you find gold among the s***.
Long story as short as possible: Millenia of studies have shown that hands-on, in-person learning is the most effective way to teach someone something. Modern corporations don't want to pay employees to attend training, so that model is no longer feasible. I've basically been told, "Sure, what you produce is awesome, but if nobody uses it it's not particularly valuable to anyone."
We're adapting, but as part of that adaptation we're supposed to review service requests in our various areas and determine whether our training would have resolved the service requests.
My first area? 100% hits. If the people had taken my training (and remembered it, which is another issue entirely), ALL of the SRs would have been resolved.
At least I know what I wrote was useful, if ignored.
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It's 79°F, the cats are melting on the deck, and there's a pleasant breeze blowing through the house.
Must be Spring.
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Yesterday was 60, mostly sunny, with a light breeze.
Today was 35 with minimal sun peaking weakly through the clouds with 25 mph winds.
F!**ing spring.
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It's just one of those days.
Brought up a customer-facing doc that says, "Here are all the tools you should be migrating to".
And we already had all of those recommendations and all of those tools in our training.
So yeah. We're on message. Our training is complete. Our training would satisfy our customer requirements without them having to file service requests.
And nobody presents it. And nobody takes it.
We produce a lot of wonderful, on-target stuff that goes nowhere but Partner Training. And yeah, they take it, slap their names on it, and get amazing reviews from partners. But very few people are aware that we develop that content.
Should be interesting when I get laid off for being "useless".
Of course, laying anyone off for being dead weight is so contrary to Global Megacorporation's corporate culture I suspect I'll still be producing great content that no one ever sees in another 12 years when I retire...
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Should be interesting when I get laid off for being "useless".
Of course, laying anyone off for being dead weight is so contrary to Global Megacorporation's corporate culture I suspect I'll still be producing great content that no one ever sees in another 12 years when I retire...
From the department that brought you "uncomfortable employee separation" and "catastrophic termination of employment", there is no such thing as useless employees. Global Megacorporation is a mighty ship; such employees are officially known as "lead ballast."
Also, we are coming up on the Suez Canal, and our CFO has always wanted to Tokyo drift the corp...
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The wall is finished and I'm also probably going to get sued by Marvel/Disney before I even start the patio, which is now going to be a sunrise instead of the X-Men insignia.
I'm a little disappointed but the boss explicitly told me to take my time building it so it looks especially nice, so that pretty much gets rid of any disappointment.
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Last night's game was what I love about freeform roleplaying with my family (or Shiro and Hi back when we were doing RotRL): A "throwaway" moment turned into an entire evening.
It's definitely red-hot political and possibly triggering because it deals with patriarchal societies and their treatment of women, so I'll be polite and spoiler it:
So I revised it a bit: The women were victims of horrific abuse: Former wives of men who'd been killed in the many revolutions, claimed by the victors as "spoils of war". Or simply abused wives who couldn't escape town. It made a LOT more sense for these women to turn to Gyronna to give them some degree of power to exact revenge against the men who tormented them and the women who sat silently by and condoned this behavior. People turn to evil gods for power or revenge or from mental anguish; not because they sleep with other women's husbands.
Unfortunately, yeah...
...not being the murderhobo types, the party took HUGE pains not to kill a single cultist (except one unfortunate crit from a ladder where even the nonlethal damage was enough to kill one). They questioned the leader and learned she'd come to the town specifically to corrupt the unhappy women, then they questioned the women and it was pretty much over.
The rest of the session was primarily roleplayed out by GothBard chewing out the sheriff, chewing out the townsfolk, asking them whether they even understood where vengeful undead came from, chewing out the NPC cleric who was traveling with them but who wasn't supportive enough, and threatening that if things hadn't changed by the time the party next came through town there would be Hell to Pay.
Then they took the cultists with them and I have no idea how they're going to keep five commoner-2s alive in the epic army battle they're riding towards, but they bought them horses and they insisted on spending the last 20 minutes of the session describing how they were training them. And they named them all.
So, yeah. Pretty happy with the whole thing, overall.
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And for those wondering where the heck a "crit from a ladder" came from in the spoiler, Impus Minor is playing his most-hilarious build ever: A Wisdom 5 catfolk cad who fights with ladders and sand. He's got a dirty trick build where he blinds the enemy with sand and entangles them in a ladder one round, then beats them with another ladder the next round.
There are very few nights we don't have to pause because we're laughing too hard at something else "Chent" did. (My favorite still being when a kid asked him what he was doing and because he couldn't think of an answer he pocket sanded the kid, then kicked him over, then ran away and hid. We still discuss the "kid incident" at length.)
I barely remember reading Battlefield Earth, but I recall that it wasn't great. The movie, on the other hand, was so bad that it will be forever trapped, fighting for the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel alongside the likes of The Revenant, The Convent, and That Thing That Disney Did.I raise you one Jupiter Ascending
An excellent point. I had successfully repressed the memory.
Until now, anyway.
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C'mon body. Start adjusting to daylights savings time already.Light exposure stops the release of your body's natural melatonin, which is what signals your body's systems that it's night time. Exposure to stress-inducing individuals releases extra cortisol into your bloodstream, increasing your allostatic load and keeping your brain extra active.
Thus, logically, you should expose yourself to bright light and remove social stressors. As a doctor, I recommend you set an a!shole (or a!sholes) on fire and enjoy the warm rosy glow. Repeat as necessary until you are sleeping better.
See, now this is docters advice I can get behind.