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[The_Explorer]

Got my friends playing The Forest.

Tell one rather particular friend that it has a katana in it. Which is like his "thing." His "bit" that he likes to do. Any game that has a katana he will use it and only it, even if it completely sucks. Because he's taken the edgy memelord weeb thing and built a whole annoying persona around it.

So he gets the game. And the first thing he does is read the wiki to find out where the katana is, and disappear for 45 minutes after hot dropping into the game to go look for it.

It's always annoyed me, ever since we were kids, how he cannot think past his own self-gratification when it comes to gaming. He has to have the best thing immediately or he won't have fun. It's so juvenile and it's the reason I quit playing most kinds of games with him, particularly table top roleplaying. But we still play video games together. And his personal ethic on video games never fails to get under my skin too. He will look at an entire game, boil it down to one thing, obsess about that one thing and then make a meme out of that one thing until he bores himself out of playing.

And god help us if the Katana is underpowered.

Similar but very different game experience with a good friend of mine. He is fun to play with and I've known him decades in real life. But...when we play games like Terraria or Starbound. He'll literally rush to the loot and take it all and get all the materials to craft stuff for himself then throws his old junk out and says "you can have the handydowns". Very annoying, but then 50% of the time he works as an actual team and its a lot of fun lol.

[JoshuaFH]

I think he's intelligent, but only in certain areas. That combined with a horde of nerds inflating his ego to the size of a balloon (And a lot of narcissism) seems to have made him think that he knows literally everything.

Every Lord needs capable advisors to guide them and capable officers to execute their orders; but look at how Elon Musk treated his personal assistant - he fired her and took on the personal workload himself; noticeably appearing more tired after doing so. It's rather akin to Napoleon Bonaparte taking on such a heavy workload himself that he ended up getting burned out to the point where he struggled to see the full picture anymore. A mediocre man who has this capable team around them will be able to do wondrous things, a talented man who is surrounded by yesmen cannot achieve very much at all

*EDIT
My suspicions are this; when you get rid of all the employees who've known you for a long time, you end up left with opportunists and people too scared of jeopardising their own career to give honest criticism when the big boss is talking about doing something foolish

It's really sickening that bastards like Elon are allowed to exist. His firing spree to try to 'cut costs' seems plausible on its surface, but he's undoubtedly made his life much harder in the long run by getting rid of people he knows and knows he can trust. Moreover, it's just such a simplistic, brain-dead thing to do; every position is meant to generate more 'value' than cost, and if they aren't, then it really behooves you to find out why, NOT just start pulling the trigger on people until number go up. The article you've linked ends with Elon congratulating himself on a job well done, sitting atop a pile of corpses, as he stares at the profit figures for his company; but I'd bet anything that all that 'profit' is accounting trickery to fluff up his supposed success. Tricks like that don't work year after year, so I'm hoping to see Elon shrivel up and fade into obscurity in the near future.

[Loud Whispers]

It's really sickening that bastards like Elon are allowed to exist. His firing spree to try to 'cut costs' seems plausible on its surface, but he's undoubtedly made his life much harder in the long run by getting rid of people he knows and knows he can trust. Moreover, it's just such a simplistic, brain-dead thing to do; every position is meant to generate more 'value' than cost, and if they aren't, then it really behooves you to find out why, NOT just start pulling the trigger on people until number go up. The article you've linked ends with Elon congratulating himself on a job well done, sitting atop a pile of corpses, as he stares at the profit figures for his company; but I'd bet anything that all that 'profit' is accounting trickery to fluff up his supposed success. Tricks like that don't work year after year, so I'm hoping to see Elon shrivel up and fade into obscurity in the near future.

The lunacy of it all is that everyone else knows it is counter-productive in the long-run but we are all held hostage by a cult of greed that devours its own tail. I've seen so many MBAs and investment bankers who used to be decent people once, but they all got chucked out the press-mould as all the exact same pieces of shit. Stuff like bragging in front of me how much money they make off of tobacco after I tell them a patient's just lost their husband to lung cancer or ordering every expensive menu on an item and asking to split the bill equal with everyone else who got the tap water with a side of dust lmao
My doctor friend turned red with rage when he was complaining about how much debt his career had put him in and this guy genuinely said if you're worried about money so much why don't you just become a banker. Managers who smile at you and say they're your friend when you just saw them chew out a Canadian for failing at a job they got no training in; HR whose only purpose is to coverup when the managers are being rapey or racist again, directors who don't have money for salaries but do for mandatory aerobics or extra personal leave, and at the end of the day all you get is used and chewed and spat out when you can't give anymore. And everywhere is the same. The only good bosses I've ever had, one was a charity boss who took no salary, the other was too busy to bother me. Neither were MBAs, and I'll be fucked if I have to listen to another dickhead droning on about growth mentality, SWOTs or soft leadership style instead of acknowleding they just got rid of all our skilled specialists we'll never be able to replace
It's why I say rich people don't know they're rich. It's just something special when even the "good" and "kind" ones will complain that they're only making six figures and don't get why everyone else is complaining about the way things are

[Kagus]

I somehow managed to shame myself awake this morning.

While sleeping, I apparently managed to wake up just enough so that I could vaguely hear/sense that I was snoring. Not like the "one loud snore that jolts you awake" thing, just lying there and listening to the steady rhythm for a while before it clicked as to what that sensation was.

And then the embarrassment of the realization flung my eyes open.

[Il Palazzo]

I'm not sure about 'mildly' in this upset. I've been reading (well, ok, listening to) Snyder's 'Bloodlands'. The accounts of the holodomor in Ukraine are too hard to get through in one go.

[McTraveller]

Some person in my neighborhood almost ran into my car as I backing into my driveway.  As in, I had already signaled, braked, put my car in reverse, started backing up so was already taking up more than 1 lane... they had slowed and then sped up as I was backing in, got probably within a meter of my car - which feels really close.  I had started my turn before they even turned onto my street, and the intersection is 3 houses from my driveway...

I just can't understand people any more...

[nenjin]

It's just borderline road rage. They got close to you to let you know how annoyed they were with you making them slow down. I wouldn't take it personally.

[Frumple]

Folks get way to goddamn close to each other in cars, just in general. I just assume they have forgotten the face of their physics teachers and try to not let them kill me

... though the slow, then sped up thing sounds a fair amount like a foot fumble, where they tried to break and then the foot slipped. It's far more common than it should be, especially among older/impaired drivers.

[McTraveller]

The look they gave me when I was glaring at them in astonishment leads me to believe it was more anger that I dared to impede their progress than a mistake.

[JoshuaFH]

The people on the r/Fuckcars subreddit call this mental condition "Carbrain", a special kind of entitlement centered around the irrational love of cars and the belief that one should never be impeded while driving, and anyone who does impede them simply deserves whatever happens to them.

[Great Order]

Oh yeah, reversing out seems to induce incredible amounts of idiocy. The number of people who've just ignored me being across their lane is way higher than it should be, but I find the worst are generally those reversing out. I'm borderline paranoid of them because, while most are sane, some 10% of them won't think to look and will just reverse straight out. Hell, one almost reversed into my mum while she was stopped on the street behind them because of traffic lights. The person didn't even think to look behind them and got a shock when my mum honked at them.

EDIT: 4am. Yowling, hissing, growling. I figure two of our neighbour's cats are fighting. Wait a bit, head downstairs and my cat comes shooting up, bottlebrush tail and everything.

Judging by the fur and what I'm pretty sure is piss in the kitchen, a neighbour's cat decided to come in the catflap. Don't know if it was lost, being nosy, looking for a fight or what. Pretty sure one of the cats wet themselves, hence the urine.

Unfortunately our girl's already anxious enough as is, the last thing she needs is her safe space being invaded. This isn't going to do her mental state any good.

[dragdeler]

Foxtrap behind the catflap while your cat is in, then pee on the offender and release it. That should be abundantly clear in cat tongue.

[Great Order]

Honestly it looks like the fur came from the other cat, so I'm hoping she fought off the intruder and it thinks twice about invading the house.

Cat's been hiding upstairs almost the entire time since then though. She was coaxed down for food and water, then went back up. She's got a limp too, but we reckon that's her arthritis flaring up after the scrap, she doesn't look injured.

[Eric Blank]

Don't pee on the other cat, just smack him around (gently) and chase him off. Peeing on them would leave evidence of your abuse, and probably not actually dissuade them

Your cats not injured right?

[Great Order]

Nah, she seems fine now. It's like it never happened. Spent a good bit of yesterday upstairs before working up the nerve to come down for more than food and water though.