As was foretold, we've added advertisements to the forums! If you have questions, or if you encounter any bugs, please visit this thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/240191/forum-advertisement-faq-and-reports-thread/

Crisis on Infinite [Chat]

17810121397

Posts

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    🐊💦👩‍👦

    uh

  • Kid PresentableKid Presentable Registered User regular
    🐊💦👩‍👦

    uh

    take it up with the sign

  • SurfpossumSurfpossum A nonentity trying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    Being around alligators every once in a while has killed my sense of fear of them because I haven't had the luck to see them do anything.

    Looking up alligator deaths on Wikipedia, it looks like it is mostly getting attacked due to having dogs that are about the right size for prey, being a child that is about the right size, or swimming in the water with alligators.
    Ah, yes.

    *takes drag off cigarette*

    la petite mort

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    DZ1GJH3VAAAgLGa?format=jpg&name=small

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • KruiteKruite Registered User regular
    that sign doesn't say what you should do, but what will definitely happen should you hold the baby offering out to lord croc

    ahem, his name is Sobek

  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    🐊💦👩‍👦

    Alligator stepmother porn doesn’t give you the cummies?

  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    Ilpala wrote: »
    Ilpala wrote: »
    One week ago: HR sends email out to everyone asking for t-shirt/polo sizes so they can get company shirts

    Me: *sends size*

    Today: HR sends another email out with a giant list of people asking for shirt sizes again

    Me: "Fucking, okay, guess she never got it" *forwards first email passive-aggressively*

    Today, ten minutes later: "Hey.. I’m getting emails from the people on the list… I HAVE their size… I need the people NOT listed."

    *avface*

    Actual fucking professional team lead (not my own), fifteen minutes later: *breaks the list down into teams for better readability, highlights names of people on HR's list to easily identify who hasn't responded, provides sizes of people on his team, both that have and have not responded*

    This jealousy.

    "I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."

    The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

    Steam: Korvalain
  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    🐊💦👩‍👦

    uh

    take it up with the sign

    https://youtu.be/5FktneT6l6U

    8i1dt37buh2m.png
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    🐊💦👩‍👦

    Alligator stepmother porn doesn’t give you the cummies?
    Alligator cummies knocks up stepmother is how I read that.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Alright, I'm pretty settled on my course of action, which is that I'm going to save for the next few months, then cash out my 401k

    ...

    The only reason I'm so comfortable with cashing out on my 401k, of course, is simply because my actual retirement plan remains what it has always been; inheritance.

    This is a roadmap for failure.

    Define failure. I'm fucking sick of living scared in the shadow of wealth.

    Winky, tanking your financial stability by simultaneously leaving your job for an independent venture, pulling out from your 401k, and tapping your backup inheritance plan for money is way more likely to result in you being stuck in a corporate job "in the shadow of wealth" than going about things in a less risky way.

    Pursue your projects, sure, but don't do so by simultaneously cutting or straining every anchor you have. Leave the 401k alone, set up the independent freelance work before doing the projects, and guarantee the projects with your own cash or family loans instead of your 401k.

    Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.

    But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.

    It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.

    Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.

  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    milski wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Alright, I'm pretty settled on my course of action, which is that I'm going to save for the next few months, then cash out my 401k

    ...

    The only reason I'm so comfortable with cashing out on my 401k, of course, is simply because my actual retirement plan remains what it has always been; inheritance.

    This is a roadmap for failure.

    Define failure. I'm fucking sick of living scared in the shadow of wealth.

    Winky, tanking your financial stability by simultaneously leaving your job for an independent venture, pulling out from your 401k, and tapping your backup inheritance plan for money is way more likely to result in you being stuck in a corporate job "in the shadow of wealth" than going about things in a less risky way.

    Pursue your projects, sure, but don't do so by simultaneously cutting or straining every anchor you have. Leave the 401k alone, set up the independent freelance work before doing the projects, and guarantee the projects with your own cash or family loans instead of your 401k.

    Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.

    But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.

    It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.

    Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.

    Thought Cabinet unlocked: Indirect Modes of Taxation

    Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

    Well the patriots lost, so they are probably still in mourning.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

    Well the patriots lost, so they are probably still in mourning.

    but its 1 pm

  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

    Boston airport is nice, the checkin desk gave us free drink vouchers after intuiting we were on our honeymoon

    Getting there is a bit hell, the elevated highways play hell with GPS

    Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

    Boston airport is nice, the checkin desk gave us free drink vouchers after intuiting we were on our honeymoon

    Getting there is a bit hell, the elevated highways play hell with GPS
    I took a fancy bus so that part was easy. Did wake myself up twice with snoring. I was that passenger.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

    Well the patriots lost, so they are probably still in mourning.

    but its 1 pm

    These are the taeks I appreciate from you jersey.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    edited January 2020
    Winky wrote: »
    milski wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Alright, I'm pretty settled on my course of action, which is that I'm going to save for the next few months, then cash out my 401k

    ...

    The only reason I'm so comfortable with cashing out on my 401k, of course, is simply because my actual retirement plan remains what it has always been; inheritance.

    This is a roadmap for failure.

    Define failure. I'm fucking sick of living scared in the shadow of wealth.

    Winky, tanking your financial stability by simultaneously leaving your job for an independent venture, pulling out from your 401k, and tapping your backup inheritance plan for money is way more likely to result in you being stuck in a corporate job "in the shadow of wealth" than going about things in a less risky way.

    Pursue your projects, sure, but don't do so by simultaneously cutting or straining every anchor you have. Leave the 401k alone, set up the independent freelance work before doing the projects, and guarantee the projects with your own cash or family loans instead of your 401k.

    Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.

    But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.

    It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.

    Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.

    That also raises flags for me honestly.

    If it's such a relatively small amount than it seems like it wouldn't take that much more effort for you to just be patient for a short while and obtain it without kablooeying the money in that 401k that is going to increase multiple times over if it just stays there.

    It just seems like a really rash decision.

    DemonStacey on
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

    Well the patriots lost, so they are probably still in mourning.

    but its 1 pm

    These are the taeks I appreciate from you jersey.

    look we have an image to maintain

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

    Well the patriots lost, so they are probably still in mourning.

    but its 1 pm

    These are the taeks I appreciate from you jersey.

    look we have an image to maintain

    Low bars to clear, high balls to take I gotcha.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    winky one additional thought to consider is that the US may* enter a recession this year and that could impact your job prospects in the near term

    if we're able to move this year we'll probably rent for a year instead of buying a house, for example, as I'm pretty jittery re the possibility of prices tanking etc

    skippydumptruck on
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Everyone at the Boston airport has been super nice and friendly. Pretty sure it's a trap.

    Well the patriots lost, so they are probably still in mourning.

    but its 1 pm

    These are the taeks I appreciate from you jersey.

    look we have an image to maintain

    Low bars to clear, high balls to take I gotcha.

    more high balls than a pantsless rollercoaster

  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    I wonder what it would be like to have a 401k or savings

  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi A point called Z In the complex planeRegistered User regular
    In this video, two grown men role play space alien Gritty, trying to pass as a human, eating a Snickers bar with his asshole. Among other things.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtsNwwg-XTY

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    I wonder what it would be like to have a 401k or savings

    You never have enough of either and constantly look at both as another example of somewhere in your life you've failed.

    Preacher on
    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • TcheldorTcheldor Registered User regular
    I wonder what it would be like to have a 401k or savings

    It's not too bad. Sometimes I think about cashing it all out in pennies and building a swimming pool full of pennies...

    I wonder how much that would weigh.....well some quick googling says 181 pennies per pound, so...

    Oh that gets heavy fast.

    League of Legends: Sorakanmyworld
    FFXIV: Tchel Fay
    Nintendo ID: Tortalius
    Steam: Tortalius
    Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Just go into business for yourself and deplete your savings while trying to get enough people on kickstarter or patreon to fund your idea. That's how it all works in 2020 right?

    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
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    milski wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Alright, I'm pretty settled on my course of action, which is that I'm going to save for the next few months, then cash out my 401k

    ...

    The only reason I'm so comfortable with cashing out on my 401k, of course, is simply because my actual retirement plan remains what it has always been; inheritance.

    This is a roadmap for failure.

    Define failure. I'm fucking sick of living scared in the shadow of wealth.

    Winky, tanking your financial stability by simultaneously leaving your job for an independent venture, pulling out from your 401k, and tapping your backup inheritance plan for money is way more likely to result in you being stuck in a corporate job "in the shadow of wealth" than going about things in a less risky way.

    Pursue your projects, sure, but don't do so by simultaneously cutting or straining every anchor you have. Leave the 401k alone, set up the independent freelance work before doing the projects, and guarantee the projects with your own cash or family loans instead of your 401k.

    Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.

    But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.

    It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.

    Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.

    That also raises flags for me honestly.

    If it's such a relatively small amount than it seems like it wouldn't take that much more effort for you to just be patient for a short while and obtain it without kablooeying the money in that 401k that is going to increase multiple times over if it just stays there.

    It just seems like a really rash decision.

    Yeah, I may just be too eager to get out of here. Waiting an entire six months to a year sounds incredibly unattractive to me, but it may make more sense. I guess I'll see after I've discussed with my dad and my boss.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Just go into business for yourself and deplete your savings while trying to get enough people on kickstarter or patreon to fund your idea. That's how it all works in 2020 right?

    Worked for Star Citizen!

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    edited January 2020
    winky one additional thought to consider is that the US may* enter a recession this year and that could impact your job prospects in the near term

    if we're able to move this year we'll probably rent for a year instead of buying a house, for example, as I'm pretty jittery re the possibility of prices tanking etc

    This is actually something I wanted to get ahead of if I could, but I realize that's absolutely playing Russian roulette. I'm going to be in a much worse situation to be unemployed for a few months and then just get hired back up after the recession hits than I am before it does, but if the recession hits in the middle of me being unemployed I'm fucked either way. Then I'll probably be waiting things out for even longer.

    Winky on
  • HozHoz Cool Cat Registered User regular
    Hello Internet, I am Star Citizen. Please fund.

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Just go into business for yourself and deplete your savings while trying to get enough people on kickstarter or patreon to fund your idea. That's how it all works in 2020 right?

    Yeah but I did this before and it worked.

  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    All of my backup plans can be summed up by "make porn".

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Hoz wrote: »
    Hello Internet, I am Star Citizen. Please fund.

    Can you offer me a bare bones tech demo with a promise of grandiose things later at exorbitant costs?

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    there's quite a lack of furry dudes ni their 30s on onlyfans

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    there's quite a lack of furry dudes ni their 30s on onlyfans

    We're a dying breed nexus. When we lost Robin a huge hit to our fandom went away.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    All of my backup plans can be summed up by "make porn".

    Well, your avatar is hot enough :P

    I ate an engineer
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    there's quite a lack of furry dudes ni their 30s on onlyfans

    the invisible hand of the market beckons to you

  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Because it's on fire, baka

    I ate an engineer
This discussion has been closed.