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Happy birthday, Kajehase!
On a completely unrelated note, is getting a cat called Loki a really, really bad idea?
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Hey, can I take an "elfie"? ;) ;) ;)
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Chyna, you hussy! What do you think you're doing?!
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Hussy?! HUSSY?!!?!?! How dare you call me hussy - you, you who cheated on me with a
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It wasn't a real pelican...
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Stop being younger than me!
No.
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People refusing to stop being younger than me.
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Morning.
And poor FHDM if I could stop being younger it would mean I had either invented time travel or otherwise acquired such a device... and since I am not rich all of a sudden you can safely assume I have no access to time travel.
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Eh, I'm still in school. Gotcha all beat.
Of course, some may argue that being this young comes with more cons than pros. Take, for example, puberty...
*shivers*
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People refusing to stop being younger than me.
Hush Grandpa!!!
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I hate that CNN takes an old story, tosses a couple of new lead paragraphs onto it, changes the headline, and redates the posting. Then when you think something new is happening, it's same ol', same ol'.
Get off my lawn!
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Eh, I'm still in school. Gotcha all beat.
Of course, some may argue that being this young comes with more cons than pros. Take, for example, puberty...
*shivers*
I'm actually running a 1-on-1 Blue Rose game for my wife (when she has the chance) where the "problem of youth" came up!
It has to do with an NC ("Narrator Character", in BR terminology):
The situation:
- there is a ghost who passed (and immediately raised) decades ago
- he is* more-or-less benevolent
- he was killed when his almost-but-not-quite lover (a Kernish spy) secretly poisoned him to sleep then gently suffocated him while he was unconscious
- he has been 16 ever since
- he has enough intelligence and charisma to more-or-less hide that fact... but he still (un)lives it... every... day...
So, in other words, despite his best efforts, his (un)life is basically this song, which isn't bad at all... except it's that song over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and ov- you get the idea. It's just stuck on replay and it never stops (because, you know, he's a ghost... and 16 in ghostly neuro-chemistry and appearance, even when he's ~65 in experience and other aspects).
Let me just say that I remember being 16. Sixteen is awesome. It's also an emotional roller coaster with extremely stupid and emotional decisions being the default, even when you know they're stupid and emotional at the time. And, for me, at least, I didn't know they were until years later.
Me at the time: "Yeah, that makes sense."
Me now: "DAGGUMMIT, ME, WHAT WERE YOU THINKI-oh, right."
Ghost: "WHY CAN'T I STOP ALL THE AWKWAAAARRRRRRD."
To be clear: this isn't a knock against sixteen-year-olds. You're awesome, and I hope your life rocks.
What this is a knock against me (and my peers**) at sixteen, and post-thirty analysis. It's one of the reasons I want to be 80: that way I can get huffy and irritable at myself for all new stupid decisions that I still don't realize I'm making yet... or, rather, I would rather just have the understanding that goes with age to the point where I don't have to make the stupid decisions, but, hey, you know, I'll make all new ones if I ever make it to that age, sooooo~ooo...
Anyway, that was a long and needless side-rant.
Point is, being an eternal teenage angst-ghost who was offed just before his hoped-for first engagement with a beautiful lover (who, as it turned out was actually a villain - the very one who murdered him***) sucks big time. It sort-of helps that he realizes that he's an eternally awkward angst-ridden teenager who's brain-chemistry was never permitted to level out before he came back as a spirit, but mostly that just lets him act more confident, paternalistic, and sagaciously than he really is (a feat he pulls off convincingly for most due to high mental scores).
* AS FAR AS SHE KNOWS, MUWAHAHAHAHAH~!
** Most of which were even "worse" in this regards than I. I'm not sure how that's possible. Some, on the other hand, were definitively better, for which I am grateful to and for them.
*** It's even worse because he was killed by her when her sleeper programming took hold. She was imprisoned for being a spy, trial pending, with lots of people who hated her locally... so no chance of a fair trial, if the locals even tried to give her one. Beyond that, the evidence was rocky, at best, as far as he was told. So, being smitten and stupid, he was a hero, rescued her, and helped her escape. CLEARLY THAT WORKED OUT WELL FOR HIM. >:/
EDIT: for ninjas!
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Puts horn to ear Whad doya want you damn ingrates
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I am lucky in that I have friends from high school that I still game with and when we get together and talk about our next game. We still get jazzed about it. It's like that magical summer of 1981 never ended.(The year I started gaming).
Keep on gaming, it keeps you young
I am lucky in that I have friends from high school that I still game with and when we get together and talk about our next game. We still get jazzed about it. It's like that magical summer of 1981 never ended.(The year I started gaming).
Keep on gaming, it keeps you young
I was 2 in the summer of 1981.
But hopefully with a brain that's finished developing, physically.
Man.
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Darkest Hour used as a teaching tool by US Marines...
Darkest Hour was on the Lord Synos list... Wasn't it?
I do indeed have one copy of it on my list.
** spoiler omitted **
No hurry, I already assumed you are busy with kid. I have things to finish before next weekend and a gaming convention on the weekend anyway.
How is potty training going?
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Also, good morning FaWtLers! I hope everyone is well today, and has a good one ahead of them. :) I am wrecked, little one woke at 06:00 this morning, probably perfectly normal waking hour for some, but too early for me.
Recently it is sleep time for me. Again. I might need to take steps to go back to some more... conventional sleep schedule.
Do I have reasons for that, though? Not yet. Unless... That once job application I need to write and send soon will lead to actual results...
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I was 2 in the summer of 1981.I am lucky in that I have friends from high school that I still game with and when we get together and talk about our next game. We still get jazzed about it. It's like that magical summer of 1981 never ended.(The year I started gaming).
Keep on gaming, it keeps you young
Our circle of friends idea of good time was to finish school on a friday and game till 2am(Note the majority of the time, the game went till 5 or 6am)...Yeah I was quite the ladies man
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I was 2 in the summer of 1981.I am lucky in that I have friends from high school that I still game with and when we get together and talk about our next game. We still get jazzed about it. It's like that magical summer of 1981 never ended.(The year I started gaming).
Keep on gaming, it keeps you young
WOW!!! You are so old!!!
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WOW!!! You are so old!!!I was 2 in the summer of 1981.I am lucky in that I have friends from high school that I still game with and when we get together and talk about our next game. We still get jazzed about it. It's like that magical summer of 1981 never ended.(The year I started gaming).
Keep on gaming, it keeps you young
I know, BTW could you help me change my colostomy bag 8>)
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Unfortunately these days getting a job is all about who you know. Sorry manWhy is it so taboo to be brutally honest with someone?
Long story short, NobodysWife didn't get the job, with the standard boilerplate "We have decided not to pursue your candidacy" her only reply.
Needless to say, after nailing the interview, getting no red flags, and with this her only solid prospect, she is left asking, "Why? What did I do wrong?"
Wouldn't it be nice if the rejection letter actually included information such as:
"We had no issues with your interview, but we had a second candidate whose performance was far stronger, so we chose her over you."
"We liked you, but your skill levels are those of a junior designer and we are looking for someone more experienced."
"You asked for far too large of a salary, and we did not feel we could match your expectations."
"You're smelly and your mother dresses you funny."
I don't think people understand just how hurtful getting NO information can be.
NobodysWife sent a follow-up to try to get more information as to what she failed to do, and I'm trying to reconnect with an old recruiter friend of mine who might know some video game designer recruiters, but it's an unfun afternoon.
Ah, well, kids' game tonight. I'll kill a few of their PCs. That always makes me smile...
Too true in too many fields. I'm always amazed that we actually interview people we DON'T know. Seems really novel these days...
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Goofing off because we're doing the same topic, just in a different way that I already know how to do, that we have been doing for the past year in math.
Good lord, I know all of this, they know all of this, so can you please do something else!
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People refusing to stop being younger than me.
I'll be older than you for the rest of your life...
When my older brother turned 40 I sent him a wonderful card that read, "You're 40! Do you know what that means?"
"It means I'll be younger than you for the rest of your life!"
He was nonplussed.
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I was born in the 70sI was born in 1966...so I have a rather interesting b-day coming up this january
Wow... someone older than me on the boards not named Haladir!
Congratulations, fine sir!
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Goofing off because we're doing the same topic, just in a different way that I already know how to do, that we have been doing for the past year in math.
Good lord, I know all of this, they know all of this, so can you please do something else!
Oooooh... don't get me started on Common Core, the "New Maths", and the idea that every year it keeps changing so the kids are re-learning the same thing over and over and over again.
Impus Major is now doing slope-intercept form of a line...
...which he did in 6th grade as part of Common Core...
...which he did in 8th grade as part of the "new" Common Core...
...which he's doing in 9th grade as part of the "new new" Common Core...
At least he's really getting quite good at it...
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Argh. Freaking hell... Yeah, we spend half the year of every year on graphs. Seriously.
All while relearning the same stuff, like NH said.
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Too true in too many fields. I'm always amazed that we actually interview people we DON'T know. Seems really novel these days...Unfortunately these days getting a job is all about who you know. Sorry manWhy is it so taboo to be brutally honest with someone?
Long story short, NobodysWife didn't get the job, with the standard boilerplate "We have decided not to pursue your candidacy" her only reply.
Needless to say, after nailing the interview, getting no red flags, and with this her only solid prospect, she is left asking, "Why? What did I do wrong?"
Wouldn't it be nice if the rejection letter actually included information such as:
"We had no issues with your interview, but we had a second candidate whose performance was far stronger, so we chose her over you."
"We liked you, but your skill levels are those of a junior designer and we are looking for someone more experienced."
"You asked for far too large of a salary, and we did not feel we could match your expectations."
"You're smelly and your mother dresses you funny."
I don't think people understand just how hurtful getting NO information can be.
NobodysWife sent a follow-up to try to get more information as to what she failed to do, and I'm trying to reconnect with an old recruiter friend of mine who might know some video game designer recruiters, but it's an unfun afternoon.
Ah, well, kids' game tonight. I'll kill a few of their PCs. That always makes me smile...
Some reasons that will not (and cannot) show up in rejection letters, but remain reasons...
"I am sorry, but we have a bigot in our office who feels that the fact that you are a pejoratively different individual precludes them from working with you in a professional manner. Rather than rock the boat and insist that they obey the law that they cannot discriminate against you, we will just politely decline to extend an offer."
"Wow, you are probably smarter than the person who can actually make the decision and they feel threatened by your genius. Go be smart somewhere else."
"We thought you knew what you were talking about, but it is clear you don't know shit about shit, so we are not hiring you."
"We checked with your prior employer (sometimes actually a reference) and they confidentially told us you were an assclown, so rather than betray that confidence, we will politely decline to extend an offer."
Not saying that any are applicable to you, but they happen...
As for interviewing people you don't know - smaller firms frequently have to reach out beyond their circle of recommendation to find candidates.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'm so financially ignorant that I couldn't tell you what makes a credit union different from a bank or a credit card company. :ÞI'm sure Orthos or someone else will correct me with the finer details, but:
A bank provides a full suite of financial services (checking account, savings account, loans, etc.) and is a for-profit organization. They have the advantage of being ubiquitous. Everywhere you go in the U.S., you'll find a Bank of America or a Wells Fargo.
A credit union is a nonprofit bank. At least that's my impression. And you have to somehow qualify to join. The advantages are lower fees and better interest rates because they're not so worried about their profit margin. The disadvantages are that branches are few and far between, and most banks will charge you a fee if they have to deal with one, because they don't like them.
A credit card is just a company that will loan you money at a huge interest rate on your honesty alone. They make money two ways: They skim 1.5% of all transactions (paid for by the merchant), and they charge you around 15% annual interest on any money you don't pay back at the end of the month. They can be awesome (we get 1% of our purchases back in "Disney Dollars" from our Chase Disney card), but if you don't pay off the balance each month, it's painful.
I kinda wish I had a credit union, but at the same time Chase has been good to me, and it takes five minutes to walk from my apartment to the bank. I have the College account, so no fees for now. I too have a Chase Disney card, but only as the Debit/Credit combo. I don't have an actual line of credit or monthly bills.
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1975 so before Freehold! and a bunch of other people, but not Sharoth.
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Some reasons that will not (and cannot) show up in rejection letters, but remain reasons...
"I am sorry, but we have a bigot in our office who feels that the fact that you are a pejoratively different individual precludes them from working with you in a professional manner. Rather than rock the boat and insist that they obey the law that they cannot discriminate against you, we will just politely decline to extend an offer."
"Wow, you are probably smarter than the person who can actually make the decision and they feel threatened by your genius. Go be smart somewhere else."
"We thought you knew what you were talking about, but it is clear you don't know s~+~ about s%*!, so we are not hiring you."
"We checked with your prior employer (sometimes actually a reference) and they confidentially told us you were an assclown, so rather than betray that confidence, we will politely decline to extend an offer."
Not saying that any are applicable to you, but they happen...
As for interviewing people you don't know - smaller firms frequently have to reach out beyond their circle of recommendation to find candidates.
I'm pretty sure it's one of three things:
(1) They had another candidate they liked better. But that's easy for them to admit.(2) They were offended to learn that since they'd started interviewing her, she'd left her previous job. Gotta love companies with hiring practices of, "We do not hire the unemployed." But they're out there.
(3) The most insensitive: She noticed she was at least 10 years older than anyone who interviewed her. Ageism is real, and insidious in the gaming industry.
Guess we'll never know...
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Your... your wife is a game designer?
AWESOME. TO. THE. MAX.
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I believe that I am a Genki Girl.
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Goofing off because we're doing the same topic, just in a different way that I already know how to do, that we have been doing for the past year in math.
Good lord, I know all of this, they know all of this, so can you please do something else!
Oooooh... don't get me started on Common Core, the "New Maths", and the idea that every year it keeps changing so the kids are re-learning the same thing over and over and over again.
Impus Major is now doing slope-intercept form of a line...
...which he did in 6th grade as part of Common Core...
...which he did in 8th grade as part of the "new" Common Core...
...which he's doing in 9th grade as part of the "new new" Common Core...At least he's really getting quite good at it...
hm. I find common core interesting in that it works well for a very specific approach to/mindset towards1 math. It reminds me of math before I started to have problems with it. No problem with repeating ideas in math, at least on my end- the "hot potato" approach I endured in school doesn't work for me.
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No, that fed it! Wait, I have an idea....
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Some reasons that will not (and cannot) show up in rejection letters, but remain reasons...
"I am sorry, but we have a bigot in our office who feels that the fact that you are a pejoratively different individual precludes them from working with you in a professional manner. Rather than rock the boat and insist that they obey the law that they cannot discriminate against you, we will just politely decline to extend an offer."
"Wow, you are probably smarter than the person who can actually make the decision and they feel threatened by your genius. Go be smart somewhere else."
"We thought you knew what you were talking about, but it is clear you don't know s~+~ about s%*!, so we are not hiring you."
"We checked with your prior employer (sometimes actually a reference) and they confidentially told us you were an assclown, so rather than betray that confidence, we will politely decline to extend an offer."
Not saying that any are applicable to you, but they happen...
As for interviewing people you don't know - smaller firms frequently have to reach out beyond their circle of recommendation to find candidates.
I'm pretty sure it's one of three things:
(1) They had another candidate they liked better. But that's easy for them to admit.
(2) They were offended to learn that since they'd started interviewing her, she'd left her previous job. Gotta love companies with hiring practices of, "We do not hire the unemployed." But they're out there.
(3) The most insensitive: She noticed she was at least 10 years older than anyone who interviewed her. Ageism is real, and insidious in the gaming industry.Guess we'll never know...
I know about number 3. The desire for eye candy/manic pixie dream girl in the office is pretty bad according to an old acquaintance of mine.
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I, for one, am proud that I have leveled up enough that my Will save has enabled me to avoid clicking any of those links. :D