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  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    21st aren't you like a giant nerd who does nerdy things that you would like to turn into a way to fund your nerdom

    take jerb

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    I mean, their whole job offer was amateurish, gives no concrete abilities or certs you need, just "We nee a cool person to be administrative assistant. You gotta be dynamic and like video games."

    I wish i had more experience in hiring... then I could school them.

    BUTT ALASS

  • TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    I mean, their whole job offer was amateurish, gives no concrete abilities or certs you need, just "We nee a cool person to be administrative assistant. You gotta be dynamic and like video games."

    I wish i had more experience in hiring... then I could school them.

    BUTT ALASS

    u should just go for it bro

    FC: 1993-7778-8872 PSN: TehSloth Xbox: SlothTeh
    twitch.tv/tehsloth
  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    ChelleYeah wrote: »
    When I met Skippy I carefully refrained from ever actually talking to him, so that I wouldn't have to choose between calling him his internet name or his real name.

    hearing people call each other by their forum names out walking around in boston was one of my favorite things about the PAX trip.

    HEY SKIPPY! WHERE IS PUPPIES? OH HI PUPPIES!

    i work so hard to avoid using internet names in real life

    it kills me when i forget someone's for real name and am forced into fake name

    Wqdwp8l.png
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    21st aren't you like a giant nerd who does nerdy things that you would like to turn into a way to fund your nerdom

    take jerb

    Honestly, I don't really want to be a secretary...

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    i will still send my resume because beggars can't be choosas... you guys are right.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Irond Will wrote: »
    it kills me when i forget someone's for real name and am forced into fake name

    I agree with Mildred.

  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    21st aren't you like a giant nerd who does nerdy things that you would like to turn into a way to fund your nerdom

    take jerb

    Honestly, I don't really want to be a secretary...

    so that's a woman's job, is what you're saying. Well.

    10 demerits.

  • DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Look, people believe false things all the time.

    Like, right now, I more than likely have some false beliefs. It's a side effect of not being omniscient.

    So if someone really earnestly believes that they are a Dragon, then that's fine. As long as that belief doesn't hurt anyone, I don't care...

    But them believing that they are a Dragon doesn't mean that they are a Dragon. Just means that they believe something false. No biggy.

    but that's exactly the point i was trying to make i think.

    we good liberal-minded people accept transgenderism and have trans friends and use the right pronouns and support legal rights etc.

    and we ask those who don't accept that transgenderism is an actual thing to just be tolerant and indulgent even if they don't believe or accept that a translady is a real actuallady.

    i.e., we demand a legal and social framework in which people have the basic right of identity self-determination.

    and i have no idea whether furries are a product of disney movies or otherkin are an internet fad for sad kids or transracial people will be only as long-lived as tumblr or whatever, but the trend has been that people are increasingly demanding broader respect and acceptance of their identity or lifestyle assertions. i don't think they'll just go away after transgender is normalized

    And even if transgendered being normalized is absolutely what should happen (and it is), at what point on the march towards "freedom to be" do we collectively say "nope that is a mental illness or a cry for attention and not a real thing?" Your answer to that question you will find is answered more by feelings than facts most of the time, and that kind of sucks.

    I feel like a pretty solid line can be drawn at "real things that a sentient".

    A human being can be born male, but be female. I'm okay with that.

    A human being can be born human, but believe they are a dragon. That, I'm less okay with.

    Would you say that opinion is based on feeling more than fact?

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    it kills me when i forget someone's for real name and am forced into fake name

    I agree with Mildred.

    Mildred Irond Jr.

    SW-4158-3990-6116
    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
  • ChelleYeahChelleYeah Mrs. Ludious Living it up in Cinderella's CastleRegistered User regular
    I mean, their whole job offer was amateurish, gives no concrete abilities or certs you need, just "We nee a cool person to be administrative assistant. You gotta be dynamic and like video games."

    I wish i had more experience in hiring... then I could school them.

    BUTT ALASS
    i dont know, it seems pretty straight forward to me.

    they want a bitch boy.

    but it has to be a fellow gamer b/c hiring someone who's "cool" is more important than just hiring someone who is qualified.

    I post Makeup stuff and Schnauzers on instagram.

    Ludious wrote: »
    I react like a dyslexic crash test dummy. Hit the wall then the brakes.
  • DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    it kills me when i forget someone's for real name and am forced into fake name

    I agree with Wildred.

  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited July 2014
    neat you can make rull small text by nesting size 0 tags

    Gooey on
    919UOwT.png
  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    I don't understand trans-racial.

    Like, at all.

    When people are sincere about it, it's them identifying with a cultural stereotype and not realizing that race is almost entirely external, how people perceive you.

    So people are like "Hey, I really like rap music and I'm more comfortable with black people than white people, I guess I'm basically black."

    Never mind that they would never have to walk the streets afraid some random racist WASP is going to feel threatened and pull a gun for no reason, they (probably) don't have to worry cops are going to find bullshit excuses to frisk them or search their cars, etc.

  • TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Look, people believe false things all the time.

    Like, right now, I more than likely have some false beliefs. It's a side effect of not being omniscient.

    So if someone really earnestly believes that they are a Dragon, then that's fine. As long as that belief doesn't hurt anyone, I don't care...

    But them believing that they are a Dragon doesn't mean that they are a Dragon. Just means that they believe something false. No biggy.

    but that's exactly the point i was trying to make i think.

    we good liberal-minded people accept transgenderism and have trans friends and use the right pronouns and support legal rights etc.

    and we ask those who don't accept that transgenderism is an actual thing to just be tolerant and indulgent even if they don't believe or accept that a translady is a real actuallady.

    i.e., we demand a legal and social framework in which people have the basic right of identity self-determination.

    and i have no idea whether furries are a product of disney movies or otherkin are an internet fad for sad kids or transracial people will be only as long-lived as tumblr or whatever, but the trend has been that people are increasingly demanding broader respect and acceptance of their identity or lifestyle assertions. i don't think they'll just go away after transgender is normalized

    And even if transgendered being normalized is absolutely what should happen (and it is), at what point on the march towards "freedom to be" do we collectively say "nope that is a mental illness or a cry for attention and not a real thing?" Your answer to that question you will find is answered more by feelings than facts most of the time, and that kind of sucks.

    I feel like a pretty solid line can be drawn at "real things that a sentient".

    A human being can be born male, but be female. I'm okay with that.

    A human being can be born human, but believe they are a dragon. That, I'm less okay with.

    Would you say that opinion is based on feeling more than fact?

    Do you not believe that I'm a dragon :(

    FC: 1993-7778-8872 PSN: TehSloth Xbox: SlothTeh
    twitch.tv/tehsloth
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    I have more than once pulled Chelle aside and asked what Ludious's real name is.

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Deez nerds and their terrible job offers.

    "Bonus points if you like badgers".

    I was genuinely considering working for you before that sentence.

    Those are the fucking worst.

    AWESOME JOB FOR COOL DUDES IN A NEATO FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT.
    LOOKING FOR ROCKSTAR NINJA CODERS ONLY.
    GURU IN C++ REQUIRED, MYSQL BLACK BELT A PLUS.
    DRESS CODE IS CLOTHES ARE OPTIONAL BECAUSE WE ARE QUIRKY TECH PEOPLE LOL

    Location: San Francisco
    Compensation: 40k, 60-hour weeks, and the owners only pay it begrudgingly.
    Prospects:
    Worst case, owners sell the company in a year and you're out on your ass while they make money hats.
    Best case, company is bankrupt in a year and you're all out on your asses.

    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
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    When I met Skippy I carefully refrained from ever actually talking to him, so that I wouldn't have to choose between calling him his internet name or his real name.

    lots of people have called me skippy IRL

    it must be a fitting handle idk

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    Delmain wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Look, people believe false things all the time.

    Like, right now, I more than likely have some false beliefs. It's a side effect of not being omniscient.

    So if someone really earnestly believes that they are a Dragon, then that's fine. As long as that belief doesn't hurt anyone, I don't care...

    But them believing that they are a Dragon doesn't mean that they are a Dragon. Just means that they believe something false. No biggy.

    but that's exactly the point i was trying to make i think.

    we good liberal-minded people accept transgenderism and have trans friends and use the right pronouns and support legal rights etc.

    and we ask those who don't accept that transgenderism is an actual thing to just be tolerant and indulgent even if they don't believe or accept that a translady is a real actuallady.

    i.e., we demand a legal and social framework in which people have the basic right of identity self-determination.

    and i have no idea whether furries are a product of disney movies or otherkin are an internet fad for sad kids or transracial people will be only as long-lived as tumblr or whatever, but the trend has been that people are increasingly demanding broader respect and acceptance of their identity or lifestyle assertions. i don't think they'll just go away after transgender is normalized

    And even if transgendered being normalized is absolutely what should happen (and it is), at what point on the march towards "freedom to be" do we collectively say "nope that is a mental illness or a cry for attention and not a real thing?" Your answer to that question you will find is answered more by feelings than facts most of the time, and that kind of sucks.

    I feel like a pretty solid line can be drawn at "real things that a sentient".

    A human being can be born male, but be female. I'm okay with that.

    A human being can be born human, but believe they are a dragon. That, I'm less okay with.

    Would you say that opinion is based on feeling more than fact?

    Do you not believe that I'm a dragon :(

    no you are a sloth

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    Gooey wrote: »
    neat you can make rull small text by nesting size 0 tags
    neat you can make rull small big text by nesting size 7 tags

    FC: 1993-7778-8872 PSN: TehSloth Xbox: SlothTeh
    twitch.tv/tehsloth
  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    layoffz layoffz layoffz rite

    poo
  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    Delmain wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Look, people believe false things all the time.

    Like, right now, I more than likely have some false beliefs. It's a side effect of not being omniscient.

    So if someone really earnestly believes that they are a Dragon, then that's fine. As long as that belief doesn't hurt anyone, I don't care...

    But them believing that they are a Dragon doesn't mean that they are a Dragon. Just means that they believe something false. No biggy.

    but that's exactly the point i was trying to make i think.

    we good liberal-minded people accept transgenderism and have trans friends and use the right pronouns and support legal rights etc.

    and we ask those who don't accept that transgenderism is an actual thing to just be tolerant and indulgent even if they don't believe or accept that a translady is a real actuallady.

    i.e., we demand a legal and social framework in which people have the basic right of identity self-determination.

    and i have no idea whether furries are a product of disney movies or otherkin are an internet fad for sad kids or transracial people will be only as long-lived as tumblr or whatever, but the trend has been that people are increasingly demanding broader respect and acceptance of their identity or lifestyle assertions. i don't think they'll just go away after transgender is normalized

    And even if transgendered being normalized is absolutely what should happen (and it is), at what point on the march towards "freedom to be" do we collectively say "nope that is a mental illness or a cry for attention and not a real thing?" Your answer to that question you will find is answered more by feelings than facts most of the time, and that kind of sucks.

    I feel like a pretty solid line can be drawn at "real things that a sentient".

    A human being can be born male, but be female. I'm okay with that.

    A human being can be born human, but believe they are a dragon. That, I'm less okay with.

    Would you say that opinion is based on feeling more than fact?

    Do you not believe that I'm a dragon :(

    no you are a sloth

    i know for a FACT that you are not a gorilla

    919UOwT.png
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Per 90s talk earlier:

    I am at lunch and the radio has played, in quick succession,

    - "All That She Wants"
    - "It's All For You"
    - "Mr. Jones"

    ffffffffffffffffffffff

  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    Gooey wrote: »
    neat you can make rull small text by nesting size 0 tags

    Oh that's cool.

    Can you likewise nest size=6s?

    Hmm

  • DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    ChelleYeah wrote: »
    When I met Skippy I carefully refrained from ever actually talking to him, so that I wouldn't have to choose between calling him his internet name or his real name.

    hearing people call each other by their forum names out walking around in boston was one of my favorite things about the PAX trip.

    HEY SKIPPY! WHERE IS PUPPIES? OH HI PUPPIES!

    i work so hard to avoid using internet names in real life

    it kills me when i forget someone's for real name and am forced into fake name

    I was like 50/50 in Boston. For some (like you and simon) it was easy. mya and a few others I had met before and were friends with on facebook so I had time to get them stuck in my head. But I'm awful at names. The only new name I remember from this year is Smrtnik because his name is awesome.

  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I mean, their whole job offer was amateurish, gives no concrete abilities or certs you need, just "We nee a cool person to be administrative assistant. You gotta be dynamic and like video games."

    I wish i had more experience in hiring... then I could school them.

    BUTT ALASS

    No offense, but that job isn't going to be hard or need much in the way of abilities and certs. Can you use a computer? Do you like video games? that's about it. Sure, it will be thankless, but they're not going to be like, "tell me how to beat the last boss in Super Mario 3 or you aren't a real nerd."

  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    Deez nerds and their terrible job offers.

    "Bonus points if you like badgers".

    I was genuinely considering working for you before that sentence.

    Those are the fucking worst.

    AWESOME JOB FOR COOL DUDES IN A NEATO FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT.
    LOOKING FOR ROCKSTAR NINJA CODERS ONLY.
    GURU IN C++ REQUIRED, MYSQL BLACK BELT A PLUS.
    DRESS CODE IS CLOTHES ARE OPTIONAL BECAUSE WE ARE QUIRKY TECH PEOPLE LOL

    Location: San Francisco
    Compensation: 40k, 60-hour weeks, and the owners only pay it begrudgingly.
    Prospects:
    Worst case, owners sell the company in a year and you're out on your ass while they make money hats.
    Best case, company is bankrupt in a year and you're all out on your asses.

    That's okay, though, because they throw in buzzwords like "BIG DATA" and therefore are awesome and trendy and with it.

    Worst case is really that they you continue working for 60 hour weeks while the owner pays you solely in company stock sharing, and then it goes under anyway.

  • ChelleYeahChelleYeah Mrs. Ludious Living it up in Cinderella's CastleRegistered User regular
    I have more than once pulled Chelle aside and asked what Ludious's real name is.

    and i will say again, you can call him ass face!

    i do!

    I post Makeup stuff and Schnauzers on instagram.

    Ludious wrote: »
    I react like a dyslexic crash test dummy. Hit the wall then the brakes.
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    As far a social discourse is concerned, the "War on Women" is becoming more of a myth while the War on Men is reality. Why is it that since women characters can't compete with their male counterparts, women have to leech on to the male characters in order to be successful? There's already been "Thor Girl" and that didn’t do very well. Lady Sif had her run and those sales were dismal. Does making Thor a woman really lend credibility to gender neutrality? No. This is caving in to political correctness that treats the male gender with contempt. There is no valid reason to make Thor a woman other than all women characters modeled after Thor have failed. So making Thor a woman will compensate for those previous failures. Why not make Wonder Woman a man? Oh wait, that would be sexist.

    leeches, man

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    OH GOD NOW IT'S THAT ONE SANTANA SONG.

    I AM SO SORRY ACE OF BASE PLS COME BACK

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    As far a social discourse is concerned, the "War on Women" is becoming more of a myth while the War on Men is reality. Why is it that since women characters can't compete with their male counterparts, women have to leech on to the male characters in order to be successful? There's already been "Thor Girl" and that didn’t do very well. Lady Sif had her run and those sales were dismal. Does making Thor a woman really lend credibility to gender neutrality? No. This is caving in to political correctness that treats the male gender with contempt. There is no valid reason to make Thor a woman other than all women characters modeled after Thor have failed. So making Thor a woman will compensate for those previous failures. Why not make Wonder Woman a man? Oh wait, that would be sexist.

    leeches, man

    why not make wonder woman a man

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • ChelleYeahChelleYeah Mrs. Ludious Living it up in Cinderella's CastleRegistered User regular
    ChelleYeah wrote: »
    I mean, their whole job offer was amateurish, gives no concrete abilities or certs you need, just "We nee a cool person to be administrative assistant. You gotta be dynamic and like video games."

    I wish i had more experience in hiring... then I could school them.

    BUTT ALASS
    i dont know, it seems pretty straight forward to me.

    they want a bitch boy.

    but it has to be a fellow gamer b/c hiring someone who's "cool" is more important than just hiring someone who is qualified.

    but in all seriousness i think its worth at least applying for. applying for a job doesnt cost you anything but the time spent looking in to it.

    I post Makeup stuff and Schnauzers on instagram.

    Ludious wrote: »
    I react like a dyslexic crash test dummy. Hit the wall then the brakes.
  • TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    OH GOD NOW IT'S THAT ONE SANTANA SONG.

    I AM SO SORRY ACE OF BASE PLS COME BACK

    Dishwalla in 3...2...1...

    FC: 1993-7778-8872 PSN: TehSloth Xbox: SlothTeh
    twitch.tv/tehsloth
  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    A lot of my old frat bros still call me by my brother name, and it's super galling.

    I wouldn't mind people calling me "Solo" in real life, because even though it's a dumb name, at least I got to choose it.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    OH GOD NOW IT'S THAT ONE SANTANA SONG.

    I AM SO SORRY ACE OF BASE PLS COME BACK

    On that note, today I read that whatshisface that one guy in Ace of Base got evicted.

    The article referred to him as the "pop superstar".

    Well, maybe 20 years ago. 8->

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    ChelleYeah wrote: »

    but it has to be a fellow gamer b/c hiring someone who's "cool" is more important than just hiring someone who is qualified.

    such is the way of the world

    embrace it!

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    OH GOD NOW IT'S THAT ONE SANTANA SONG.

    I AM SO SORRY ACE OF BASE PLS COME BACK

    Still better than los lonely boys.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    When I met Skippy I carefully refrained from ever actually talking to him, so that I wouldn't have to choose between calling him his internet name or his real name.

    lots of people have called me skippy IRL

    it must be a fitting handle idk

    "That's Dumplesworth to you."

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    OH GOD NOW IT'S THAT ONE SANTANA SONG.

    I AM SO SORRY ACE OF BASE PLS COME BACK

    Dishwalla in 3...2...1...

    I get knocked down
    but I get up again

  • RonTheDMRonTheDM Yes, yes Registered User regular
    As far a social discourse is concerned, the "War on Women" is becoming more of a myth while the War on Men is reality. Why is it that since women characters can't compete with their male counterparts, women have to leech on to the male characters in order to be successful? There's already been "Thor Girl" and that didn’t do very well. Lady Sif had her run and those sales were dismal. Does making Thor a woman really lend credibility to gender neutrality? No. This is caving in to political correctness that treats the male gender with contempt. There is no valid reason to make Thor a woman other than all women characters modeled after Thor have failed. So making Thor a woman will compensate for those previous failures. Why not make Wonder Woman a man? Oh wait, that would be sexist.

    leeches, man

    why not make wonder woman a man

    why not make wonder woman a bread

    wondershot.png

    WHAT HAVE THESE CARELESS HANDS WROUGHT?

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