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[Putnam]

And lesser rage: Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption, trying to play GC mode as the Empire. Half the Rebel heroes are either A) already dead at this point in the saga(Ben and Reyus. Yoda might count since he dies during the timeline), B) never really a significant part of the Rebellion(Ben and Yoda), or C) goddamned Jedi(Ben, Luke, Yoda). Their ground units are more powerful or faster than their Imperial counterparts, and most of the time the natives hate the Empire. The Consortium has an entire army of overpowered units, and can corrupt worlds, the cleaning up of which is more expensive than it costs to corrupt them. You can't even stop the corruption, either. And the Empire? A central position that's constantly sniped by Consortium Defilers or Rebel raid forces consisting of artillery and tanks than can kill off any of your defenses outside of line-of-sight. The Death Star II which can be instakilled by the Consortium if you leave it anywhere for more than a second. Useless heroes, including one his is not only already dead(Tarkin), but actually hurts you if you use him(he prevents retreating).

Yeah, Forces of Corruption completely borks the game. Not that it was very balanced to begin with. That game needed some serious work to balance it all out, which is a shame because it had so much potential.

I'd like to see a strategy game of asymmetrical warfare like that remade, only maybe without the star wars thing holding it back, just generic scifi might work better.

I've got a few ideas about how it could have been done better.

Universe at War by the same company pretty much is EaW without space combat or star wars

[penguinofhonor]

Me: "Hey, are you hiring?"
Him: "I don't know, they handle all that at our other location. Here, I'll get you the number."
He put the phone down for twenty minutes and then hung up.

[Tellemurius]

Me: "Hey, are you hiring?"
Him: "I don't know, they handle all that at our other location. Here, I'll get you the number."
He put the phone down for twenty minutes and then hung up.

usually then i give them 10 seconds and hang, they'll call back if they really want a job.

[Lord Dullard]

Protip: Calling and asking somewhere 'are you hiring?' is usually really poor form. Just go there and get an application or (better yet) drop off a resume. It looks supremely lazy to call to ask if someone's hiring.

[nenjin]

I will never, ever go through Sprint again. For that matter I will never get another phone plan with a stipulation that having a smartphone requires me to use some kind of bullshit 'everything' plan. I would rather use a blocky POS phone from the 90's than get screwed by smartphone rates again.

*pats his Katana flip phone*

They still forced me into a buying a text messaging plan. (Sprint as well.) I was half way through signing up for the non-text messaging plan when the saleswoman glanced at her computer and went "Oh, sorry, I guess we don't offer that one anymore. You'll have to get the silver plan."

Me: "Really? You don't offer it anymore? Even when the plan is clearly stated in the massive display that's part of your fucking kiosk?"

But whatever. I took the absolute bare minimum data plan, and then had them disable GPS, text messaging and the internet. I'm dreading the day when I have to get a new phone, because I'll probably have to go to some skeezy low-end dealer to get a phone that does nothing but call people. And I'll probably pay out the ass for that privilege.

[Flying Dice]

I will never, ever go through Sprint again. For that matter I will never get another phone plan with a stipulation that having a smartphone requires me to use some kind of bullshit 'everything' plan. I would rather use a blocky POS phone from the 90's than get screwed by smartphone rates again.

*pats his Katana flip phone*

They still forced me into a buying a text messaging plan. (Sprint as well.) I was half way through signing up for the non-text messaging plan when the saleswoman glanced at her computer and went "Oh, sorry, I guess we don't offer that one anymore. You'll have to get the silver plan."

Me: "Really? You don't offer it anymore? Even when the plan is clearly stated in the massive display that's part of your fucking kiosk?"

But whatever. I took the absolute bare minimum data plan, and then had them disable GPS, text messaging and the internet. I'm dreading the day when I have to get a new phone, because I'll probably have to go to some skeezy low-end dealer to get a phone that does nothing but call people. And I'll probably pay out the ass for that privilege.

Tracphones haven't done poorly for me. No plan at all, the cards aren't terribly expensive, and the phones themselves are $10-$15. Best option if you're as lazy as me and hardly ever use a cell. They still have text and (shitty) browser capability, but you can easily ignore that.

[Aklyon]

You don't even have to buy the cards if you're willing to take a few cents in fee. They sell minutes (and more importantly, days of service) on the Tracfone website now.

[nenjin]

Sweet, I'll definitely try it out. The only way I'll get a smart phone is if my company forces me to.

[Valid_Dark]

I'm using a hacked android right now,
Don't pay a monthly fee and can text and make calls while I'm in wifi,
but ONLY while I'm in wifi

so it's like a house phone,  but FREE

[penguinofhonor]

Protip: Calling and asking somewhere 'are you hiring?' is usually really poor form. Just go there and get an application or (better yet) drop off a resume. It looks supremely lazy to call to ask if someone's hiring.

I lack the discipline to drive 1.5 hours to Louisville unless I get an interview or something.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

So sorry but....most places require a valid driver's license, or at least a state-issued ID. While it sucks you're being denied your right to vote, you didn't exactly meet your end of the bargain either.

At least in my state, no ID is required to vote except for in the very specific circumstances I found myself in (which the link I posted earlier details). And if you're really going to argue who didn't meet who's end of the bargain (which voting is not), the county is supposed to notify everyone who needs an ID beforehand. No such notification was given to me.

This is only even an issue because the Republicans in my state are so afraid of dem 'llegals possibly voting that they're trying to make the process of voting ever more difficult, turnout consequences be dammed.

[kaenneth]

Me: "Really? You don't offer it anymore? Even when the plan is clearly stated in the massive display that's part of your fucking kiosk?"

That's when you write a letter to your state attorney general, and the New York one. Bait and Switch is illegal.

[Bauglir]

Ugh, the guy who was going to rent the apartment has dropped off the face of the earth with less than a week before we need him to sign the papers, and I keep getting nothing but scam replies to the reposted ad. I'm not even going to bother emailing a response when the email address it's reportedly "from" doesn't match the one the reply is directed to, if the name on the account doesn't match the name given in the email, or when the email is literally identical to another except for the address.

[nenjin]

And if you're really going to argue who didn't meet who's end of the bargain (which voting is not), the county is supposed to notify everyone who needs an ID beforehand. No such notification was given to me.

Call it your compact as a citizen, whatever terminology you want to use. If it was your first time voting, it's on you to know the rules. Particularly because you know you live in a state that endorses dickery like this:

In addition, your eligibility to vote based on residency can be challenged when you are at the polls by any other voter who is registered in your precinct; if the challenge is upheld by poll workers, you will have to vote a challenged ballot, but you can appeal to court to have your ballot counted.[12]

Your duty is to be an informed citizen. Here we had classes in high school civics about how to vote when we turned 18. Maybe you didn't have the benefit of that. And I'm not arguing those are some stupid rules. But, had you read the rules, you would have been prepared. And now I'll stop preaching.

That's when you write a letter to your state attorney general, and the New York one. Bait and Switch is illegal.

I really should have. At that point I was sick of dealing with getting a new cellphone and just accepted the higher plan.

[Euld]

I so hate my life right now.  I met up with my group members today about the game we're working on, and it's like they went totally insane.  I was working with a partner on things like time period, setting, and stuff like that, and as we started to explain what we came up with everyone else flipped out.  I honestly couldn't figure out what they were trying to say, or what was wrong.  The best I could figure out is they already had an idea of what they wanted the game to be like.  And they lost it because we came up with something slightly different.  Add in the usual ADHD our group suffers from, and our meeting went very bad fast.

To make things worse, the bill for next quarter's tuition came in, and my tuition has tripled.  If my financial aid got turned off by the government, then this might be my last quarter at this school.