it was only like two years ago that i realized i had included my email address in my email signature
My company requires it as part of our greeting. I was told at the time it made it easier to copy and paste in to another email, but that seemed like a hollow thing.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
it was only like two years ago that i realized i had included my email address in my email signature
My company requires it as part of our greeting. I was told at the time it made it easier to copy and paste in to another email, but that seemed like a hollow thing.
much easier than copying and pasting it from a different spot in the email window
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weak- nesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out—since our self-image is untenable—their false notions of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gift for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course we will play Francesca to Paolo, Brett Ashley to Jake, Helen Keller to anyone's Annie Sullivan: no expectation is too misplaced, no role too ludicrous. At the mercy of those we can not but hold in contempt, we play rôles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the necessity of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us."
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
My signature block is mandated by my office. It has both my office number and cell number, the location, the office I work at, our website, and a stupid tagline. Also marks I am a contractor.
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I know two people who play it and I gave it a serious whirl for like two weeks
I joined a guild at random and a guy in guild chat was expressing dismay that it wasn't his paycheck week because otherwise he could buy a $99.99 hero pack (I went and looked it up in the in-game store)
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I'm addicted to an awful Skinner box mobile game. But if I leave it I'll just get stuck on another one.
No money shelled out though. I'd hate to be addicted to a pay2win game.
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I'm bulletproof for typical f2p mobile games, it's like their soul actively repulses me.
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I'm very pleased not to be playing marvel match-3 anymore.
GB was talking about some weird live quiz app that sounds kinda fun but sounds like an iphone only thing. Also some sort of competitive tetris where you could win money by beating people in tetris?
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I know two people who play it and I gave it a serious whirl for like two weeks
I joined a guild at random and a guy in guild chat was expressing dismay that it wasn't his paycheck week because otherwise he could buy a $99.99 hero pack (I went and looked it up in the in-game store)
And I felt great trepidation then
That's alarming.
I've noped out of mobile gaming entirely because it's all the same bullshit and there's almost no good games in a sea of absolute junk, but there are people paying hundreds of dollars for those packs? Like, there is not a single way that value proposition makes it past even the most cursory thought in my head.
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I know two people who play it and I gave it a serious whirl for like two weeks
I joined a guild at random and a guy in guild chat was expressing dismay that it wasn't his paycheck week because otherwise he could buy a $99.99 hero pack (I went and looked it up in the in-game store)
And I felt great trepidation then
I mean I was those guys. I played that game for like a year and a half and was as deep in the sunk cost fallacy as the rest of them. But I just found myself ignoring actual fun games that weren't a pay to win treadmill and then I tapped out. I want to help them, but I don't think I can reach them.
I imagine this is probably a very small super small like almost unfair to compare version of what people feel like post scientology or other cult "Dude I was you, let me help you!"
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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Like, how I used to approach it before I gave up on that game space, was, if I played a F2P game for more than a few hours, I would buy something from the store for, like, $5, so the dev gets paid. The most I spent was buying stuff for Fairway Solitaire because I actually still play that now and then, and I think all I spent there was $25 or so.
I cannot fathom buying those in game currency packs that are, like, $100. That just boggles.
The final track on the album, "The Overload," was Talking Heads' attempt to emulate the sound of British post-punk band Joy Division. The song was made despite no band member having heard the music of Joy Division; rather, it was based on an idea of what the British quartet might sound like based on descriptions in the music press. The track features "tribal-cum-industrial" beats created primarily by Harrison and Byrne.[40]
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I know two people who play it and I gave it a serious whirl for like two weeks
I joined a guild at random and a guy in guild chat was expressing dismay that it wasn't his paycheck week because otherwise he could buy a $99.99 hero pack (I went and looked it up in the in-game store)
And I felt great trepidation then
I mean I was those guys. I played that game for like a year and a half and was as deep in the sunk cost fallacy as the rest of them. But I just found myself ignoring actual fun games that weren't a pay to win treadmill and then I tapped out. I want to help them, but I don't think I can reach them.
I imagine this is probably a very small super small like almost unfair to compare version of what people feel like post scientology or other cult "Dude I was you, let me help you!"
I have a pet theory* that the experience of monetary cost in some games actually increases the sense of investment and payoff -- whether it's stuff like these iPhone games or like, say, magic: the gathering
I feel like there's a sense of ontological heft in putting down a card that cost $40 onto the table that is more compelling than the sense of annoyance at a hobby being expensive
The game anchors itself to the wallet and seems heavier as a result
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I know two people who play it and I gave it a serious whirl for like two weeks
I joined a guild at random and a guy in guild chat was expressing dismay that it wasn't his paycheck week because otherwise he could buy a $99.99 hero pack (I went and looked it up in the in-game store)
And I felt great trepidation then
That's alarming.
I've noped out of mobile gaming entirely because it's all the same bullshit and there's almost no good games in a sea of absolute junk, but there are people paying hundreds of dollars for those packs? Like, there is not a single way that value proposition makes it past even the most cursory thought in my head.
There are stories of people spending thousands literal thousands of dollars to gain competitive edge.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Every time I read the star wars galaxy of war thread I see people like myself locked in a shitty cell phone game treadmill and I want to help them, but I don't want to be that guy in a game thread saying "stop playing this awful game, its terrible and its bad for you."
I know two people who play it and I gave it a serious whirl for like two weeks
I joined a guild at random and a guy in guild chat was expressing dismay that it wasn't his paycheck week because otherwise he could buy a $99.99 hero pack (I went and looked it up in the in-game store)
And I felt great trepidation then
That's alarming.
I've noped out of mobile gaming entirely because it's all the same bullshit and there's almost no good games in a sea of absolute junk, but there are people paying hundreds of dollars for those packs? Like, there is not a single way that value proposition makes it past even the most cursory thought in my head.
There are stories of people spending thousands literal thousands of dollars to gain competitive edge.
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Growing up, I had a Hot Wheels like that.
My company requires it as part of our greeting. I was told at the time it made it easier to copy and paste in to another email, but that seemed like a hollow thing.
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I do that too because it's part of our signature template. But I've never considered why.
I guess if someone prints my emails?
much easier than copying and pasting it from a different spot in the email window
do they even consider the environment honk
https://www.gq.com/story/taika-waititi-thor-ragnarok-profile
Leave some for me. Not the rest of us, me specifically.
You can easily copy / paste it that way
I'm leaving that autocorrect whatever
Edit: see, prescher's company agrees with me
Handsome people are basically unsporting
And yet you have a forum signature. I CALL BULLSHIT!
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Also here is a leaf I walked by this morning with probably the most collected water on it that I have seen on a leaf.
NO
People are very bad at turning off the lights at the office for instance :-(
Psh that's hardly the same thing.
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@So It Goes where is this supposed to go then
Do you have short term disability plan? Long term?
Because the no income might not help with depression.
I've got about two weeks' worth of PTO
I should reread Joan Didion once per year
https://www.vogue.com/article/joan-didion-self-respect-essay-1961
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I thought she said it was a wrap.
They are now, because they didn't leave the room so Bel and I had to regulate
Burning vacation hours is better than nothing. Sorry
I know two people who play it and I gave it a serious whirl for like two weeks
I joined a guild at random and a guy in guild chat was expressing dismay that it wasn't his paycheck week because otherwise he could buy a $99.99 hero pack (I went and looked it up in the in-game store)
And I felt great trepidation then
I'm addicted to an awful Skinner box mobile game. But if I leave it I'll just get stuck on another one.
No money shelled out though. I'd hate to be addicted to a pay2win game.
I'm very pleased not to be playing marvel match-3 anymore.
No but I must if such a thing exists
That's alarming.
I've noped out of mobile gaming entirely because it's all the same bullshit and there's almost no good games in a sea of absolute junk, but there are people paying hundreds of dollars for those packs? Like, there is not a single way that value proposition makes it past even the most cursory thought in my head.
I mean I was those guys. I played that game for like a year and a half and was as deep in the sunk cost fallacy as the rest of them. But I just found myself ignoring actual fun games that weren't a pay to win treadmill and then I tapped out. I want to help them, but I don't think I can reach them.
I imagine this is probably a very small super small like almost unfair to compare version of what people feel like post scientology or other cult "Dude I was you, let me help you!"
pleasepaypreacher.net
I cannot fathom buying those in game currency packs that are, like, $100. That just boggles.
I have a pet theory* that the experience of monetary cost in some games actually increases the sense of investment and payoff -- whether it's stuff like these iPhone games or like, say, magic: the gathering
I feel like there's a sense of ontological heft in putting down a card that cost $40 onto the table that is more compelling than the sense of annoyance at a hobby being expensive
The game anchors itself to the wallet and seems heavier as a result
* https://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/6w/ppr4nogd57xg.png
Seriously, this is the best.
There are stories of people spending thousands literal thousands of dollars to gain competitive edge.
pleasepaypreacher.net
You don't even get free drinks like at Vegas ...