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The chinese pizza we ordered at A U T H E N T I C W E S T E R N R E S T A U R A N T was gross but worth it to see my hosts attempt to pick up the pieces with long slippery chopsticks and drop them into their personal bowls. It was a quiet pleasure but one that I treasure.
when I was young we lived in italy for like 5 years
I remembered we ordered pizza without knowing what was what (i can't remember if this was the same pizza or different times)
one pizza came with fish heads (maybe they were anchovies idk)
the other came with olives but the olives had pits in them
Olives normally have stones in them. It's just chain places that use the tasteless stoned kind.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
I am trying to not think about a world where PewDiePie is rich for yelling nonsensically at games.
well, he's a professional entertainer
he might not entertain you
but entertainment is subjective
at least he's not a Kardashian, who are famous for being famous in a fame ouroboros, rich because they are rich and marrying into more wealth
the dude didn't come from money or fame, he found a way to entertain people and acquired fame and wealth for entertaining people
that's legit
in that way he's no different than a stand-up comedian or an actor or a musician
even if you might think that his thing doesn't require any particular skill or whatever
at the very least it clearly required an opportunity that he seized upon
I always get annoyed when people bring up famous actors and sportsmans making millions of dollars as somehow ridiculous. Of all the people making millions they tend to be the ones who most demonstrably earn it. They make a product, people pay money for that product. It's pretty direct.
Go find some CEO who made 2.5 mil a year to run a company, did it for two years, crashed the stock price, and was fired with a 10 million dollar severance package. There's a mufucker who didn't earn shit.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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TehSlothHit Or MissI Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered Userregular
Okay, so I finally got ahold of someone. My older brother, who has been here longest and actually speaks Portuguese.
Turns out he knows about the lock change. Apparently my other brother, in his time here, hasn't been listening to my older brother and grandmother regarding the key to the house - that he doesn't need to take it with him when he leaves, if someone is gonna be here. So that's what this is about. My grandmother is getting increasingly frightened of my brother because he has some massive anger management issues, getting mad at the slightest thing and freaking out. And that she doesn't have the key to her own house, and he just asserts himself regarding him holding onto it, makes her feel insecure.
So the awkwardness is when everyone is home and he gets lectured about it. Then he'll be depressed and wah wah wah a lot. Man. I thought this was some major subterfuge on my grandma's part.
Though I do have some blame here to take. I didn't know the key situation going on, so the few times I was present for a "hey leave the key here" exchange I just shrugged like whatever, it's convenient for us to get back inside.
Uh...not to touch on the anger issue but couldn't this other part be addressed by like spending twenty bucks at home depot?
huh, that's a neat service, I wonder if they can do double sided car keys -- I want to get another one for a hide-a-key thing because I'm pretty terribad about turning the car off and then setting the keys in my cup holder while I gather things and I'm totally cool with it not being chipped to be able to start the car.
Okay, so I finally got ahold of someone. My older brother, who has been here longest and actually speaks Portuguese.
Turns out he knows about the lock change. Apparently my other brother, in his time here, hasn't been listening to my older brother and grandmother regarding the key to the house - that he doesn't need to take it with him when he leaves, if someone is gonna be here. So that's what this is about. My grandmother is getting increasingly frightened of my brother because he has some massive anger management issues, getting mad at the slightest thing and freaking out. And that she doesn't have the key to her own house, and he just asserts himself regarding him holding onto it, makes her feel insecure.
So the awkwardness is when everyone is home and he gets lectured about it. Then he'll be depressed and wah wah wah a lot. Man. I thought this was some major subterfuge on my grandma's part.
Though I do have some blame here to take. I didn't know the key situation going on, so the few times I was present for a "hey leave the key here" exchange I just shrugged like whatever, it's convenient for us to get back inside.
Uh...not to touch on the anger issue but couldn't this other part be addressed by like spending twenty bucks at home depot?
My older brother was going to change the locks himself tomorrow but my grandmother didn't want to wait, and he's at work right now.
Yea, so it's more the anger/safety issue than "We only have one key" thing.
That link is to a place that will take a photo of a key and make you a key from it. Which sounds incredibly cool. Also so very very shady. Like, do you enter your address along with the geometry of your security device? That seems unwise.
Chinese chopsticks are the worst. They're super long and made from some kind of hydrophobic, oleophobic plastic that makes it impossible to grasp food. Even the natives struggle with them but in true dalek chinese fashion, all troubles are ignored and alternative chopstick designs are deigned uncivilized.
chopsticks are basically just shit
the only advantage they have is for kung fu fight sequences
Also for eating cheetos.
There is no better way.
there are HUGE ARRAYS of better cheeto consumption methods
i use a pestle&mortar plus a rolled up 50 pound note to maximise my serum cheeto level
The chinese pizza we ordered at A U T H E N T I C W E S T E R N R E S T A U R A N T was gross but worth it to see my hosts attempt to pick up the pieces with long slippery chopsticks and drop them into their personal bowls. It was a quiet pleasure but one that I treasure.
when I was young we lived in italy for like 5 years
I remembered we ordered pizza without knowing what was what (i can't remember if this was the same pizza or different times)
one pizza came with fish heads (maybe they were anchovies idk)
the other came with olives but the olives had pits in them
Olives normally have stones in them. It's just chain places that use the tasteless stoned kind.
You... you can take the stones out of the good olives before you serve them.
Like, unless the olives are by themselves as an appetizer, it seems insane to leave the pits in.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The only concern I'd have is what to do if you Twitch for a year and it dries up. Not only is there no job security like you say, but that doesn't exactly fill out a resume well.
Based on what I read here, there's lots of places in the US with no job security, even if you're been working there for years.
A young guy, making over 100K a year, doing something that he enjoys is rocking the dream, even if it's on the knife edge of failure. Most young people don't have any job security anyway, so I'd say he's doing extraordinarily well.
Which, when you think about it, is really fucking depressing.
We shouldn't find it remarkable when someone has a job that pays well that can end at a moment's notice, where the 'job that pays well' part is what we're finding remarkable.
I've heard that Twitch revenue is basically peasant wages these days.
At least, that is what SC2 pros usually say about having 2-3k viewers.
I was reading a thingy that put Phantoml0rd's revenue at 250,000+ before considering donations.
Well if you're streaming with something like 10x as many viewers for more hours per day, then $250k does seem directly proportional to the low-five figures income that your average full-time streamer makes.
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21stCenturyCall me Pixel, or Pix for short![They/Them]Registered Userregular
I am trying to not think about a world where PewDiePie is rich for yelling nonsensically at games.
well, he's a professional entertainer
he might not entertain you
but entertainment is subjective
at least he's not a Kardashian, who are famous for being famous in a fame ouroboros, rich because they are rich and marrying into more wealth
the dude didn't come from money or fame, he found a way to entertain people and acquired fame and wealth for entertaining people
that's legit
in that way he's no different than a stand-up comedian or an actor or a musician
even if you might think that his thing doesn't require any particular skill or whatever
at the very least it clearly required an opportunity that he seized upon
I always get annoyed when people bring up famous actors and sportsmans making millions of dollars as somehow ridiculous. Of all the people making millions they tend to be the ones who most demonstrably earn it. They make a product, people pay money for that product. It's pretty direct.
Go find some CEO who made 2.5 mil a year to run a company, did it for two years, crashed the stock price, and was fired with a 10 million dollar severance package. There's a mufucker who didn't earn shit.
I think for a lot of people its simply ridiculous the value we put on entertainment over things that most people believe have a lot more impact to our everyday lives. I don't think actors or athletes make too much. Hell, they're just getting their cut of an industry that makes exponentially more than they do. They know how much filling those seats at stadiums and theaters is worth, and they get theirs.
But the fact that we spend so much cumulatively on entertainment does seem kind of wild when you have a guy who's job it is put himself in danger for your welfare and yet we pay him as little as possible. But its just the way things work in this society.
Even then, it's more that we don't have a very diverse pool of entertainment, at least compared to every other job in the world. You need hundreds of thousands of guys working risky jobs like roadwork. You only need one leading actor in your film that hundreds of millions of people go see.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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21stCenturyCall me Pixel, or Pix for short![They/Them]Registered Userregular
If a person was delirious from fever, would they know it at the time?
Because I felt fucking awful earlier on today and now that my temperature is back in the realms of the sane I'm realising that I don't have any particularly clear recollection of what was going on
I've had fever to the degree of hallucinating. Can barely remember what they were though.
Lord help me I'm thinking about getting Diablo 3 on PC right now. This is what boredom does. Have they removed the auction house yet?
Have you played Path of Exile? I'd definitely give it a shot before shelling out for D3 -- I've heard it's better since the couple weeks after it came out when I quit playing but PoE is probably the best diablo-clone I've played and free.99 is a pretty good price. I just don't really have an interest in that gameplay anymore.
I've heard that Twitch revenue is basically peasant wages these days.
At least, that is what SC2 pros usually say about having 2-3k viewers.
I was reading a thingy that put Phantoml0rd's revenue at 250,000+ before considering donations.
Well if you're streaming with something like 10x as many viewers for more hours per day, then $250k does seem directly proportional to the low-five figures income that your average full-time streamer makes.
Well if you're pulling in a piddling amount of viewers and not streaming frequently I think it's obvious you aren't going to be making a killing.
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21stCenturyCall me Pixel, or Pix for short![They/Them]Registered Userregular
I can't even imagine how fast I'd put a gun in my mouth if I were a has-been vidya streamer.
Man, If I were a has-been vidya streamer...
I'd use my earnings as toilet paper and declare bankruptcy .
I kid I kid.
Really though, you best best as a game developer is to make one good game and then let a big publisher take over and get the fuck out.
Unless your like a game developer messiah.
I actually really like Diablo 3, but yeah, Path of Exile is probably better. And free-er.
I enjoyed playing each D3 class long enough to get a sense for the flavor of how they play differently from each other, even though the game did not grab me in general.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
Man, imagine if you could fuck yourself forever?
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
The only concern I'd have is what to do if you Twitch for a year and it dries up. Not only is there no job security like you say, but that doesn't exactly fill out a resume well.
Based on what I read here, there's lots of places in the US with no job security, even if you're been working there for years.
A young guy, making over 100K a year, doing something that he enjoys is rocking the dream, even if it's on the knife edge of failure. Most young people don't have any job security anyway, so I'd say he's doing extraordinarily well.
Which, when you think about it, is really fucking depressing.
We shouldn't find it remarkable when someone has a job that pays well that can end at a moment's notice, where the 'job that pays well' part is what we're finding remarkable.
there are plenty of jobs where job security and career progression are a thing. Even absent the security component, a lot of jobs allow you to build skills that are transferable in ways that playing vidya for donations/advertising is not.
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Olives normally have stones in them. It's just chain places that use the tasteless stoned kind.
All that money and he still has that terrible stream overlay that looks like a 14 year old who just got access to photoshop made.
I always get annoyed when people bring up famous actors and sportsmans making millions of dollars as somehow ridiculous. Of all the people making millions they tend to be the ones who most demonstrably earn it. They make a product, people pay money for that product. It's pretty direct.
Go find some CEO who made 2.5 mil a year to run a company, did it for two years, crashed the stock price, and was fired with a 10 million dollar severance package. There's a mufucker who didn't earn shit.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
huh, that's a neat service, I wonder if they can do double sided car keys -- I want to get another one for a hide-a-key thing because I'm pretty terribad about turning the car off and then setting the keys in my cup holder while I gather things and I'm totally cool with it not being chipped to be able to start the car.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
Yea, so it's more the anger/safety issue than "We only have one key" thing.
That link is to a place that will take a photo of a key and make you a key from it. Which sounds incredibly cool. Also so very very shady. Like, do you enter your address along with the geometry of your security device? That seems unwise.
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You... you can take the stones out of the good olives before you serve them.
Like, unless the olives are by themselves as an appetizer, it seems insane to leave the pits in.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Based on what I read here, there's lots of places in the US with no job security, even if you're been working there for years.
A young guy, making over 100K a year, doing something that he enjoys is rocking the dream, even if it's on the knife edge of failure. Most young people don't have any job security anyway, so I'd say he's doing extraordinarily well.
Which, when you think about it, is really fucking depressing.
We shouldn't find it remarkable when someone has a job that pays well that can end at a moment's notice, where the 'job that pays well' part is what we're finding remarkable.
It was nice knowing you, Duna.
Well if you're streaming with something like 10x as many viewers for more hours per day, then $250k does seem directly proportional to the low-five figures income that your average full-time streamer makes.
Let's hope this isn't a Cronenberg movie, then.
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I have heard the PC port is terribad
but I played it on console and it was fantastic
twitch.tv/tehsloth
Would you say it's worth getting at that price?
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Even then, it's more that we don't have a very diverse pool of entertainment, at least compared to every other job in the world. You need hundreds of thousands of guys working risky jobs like roadwork. You only need one leading actor in your film that hundreds of millions of people go see.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Dota 2 is a free thing you can play...
And you can have the immense privilege to play it with me!
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Think about that! :winky:
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Only have room for LoL.
Just get Path of Exile
You sure?
Dota 2 is much superior.
Specifically because I play it.
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I've had fever to the degree of hallucinating. Can barely remember what they were though.
I liked it! Some people really hate it, though.
Have you played Path of Exile? I'd definitely give it a shot before shelling out for D3 -- I've heard it's better since the couple weeks after it came out when I quit playing but PoE is probably the best diablo-clone I've played and free.99 is a pretty good price. I just don't really have an interest in that gameplay anymore.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
Man, If I were a has-been vidya streamer...
I'd use my earnings to finance a game studio.
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Well if you're pulling in a piddling amount of viewers and not streaming frequently I think it's obvious you aren't going to be making a killing.
Path of exile is so free, the devs don't even WANT to force people to give them money! It's nutso!
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doesn't Dota 2 have dumb legacy bullshit like denials
I kid I kid.
Really though, you best best as a game developer is to make one good game and then let a big publisher take over and get the fuck out.
Unless your like a game developer messiah.
I enjoyed playing each D3 class long enough to get a sense for the flavor of how they play differently from each other, even though the game did not grab me in general.
there are plenty of jobs where job security and career progression are a thing. Even absent the security component, a lot of jobs allow you to build skills that are transferable in ways that playing vidya for donations/advertising is not.