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[Aklyon]

If you want to revive old names, you get the fans and the expectations with it. Completely ignoring them and the entire previous canon for a group of gamers that doesn't care about XCOM and already has its favorite FPSes to play is not how good revivals work. If 2k wanted people to be less scathing of it, they should just drop the XCOM title, because while it doesn't look horrible on its own, as a XCOM game it is crap. This post sums up your reason.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm disappointed in the new X-COM because I can really see how they could have taken this concept in a good direction: The Life of a single X-COM solider.

You're an expendable fool sent off to fight monsters from beyond the veil of human comprehension with nearly useless weapons and no idea what you're getting yourself into. It could have expanded upon the subtle Lovecraftian feel that exists in X-COM but never really gets to you, as you're just commanding the ground troops.

But instead we get a branch of the FBI re-named X-COM. Still, the Geometric Things are interesting, but I don't think that will save the game.

[Vector]

Dear UC Berkeley "Operation Excellence" people:

I fucking hate you right now.  You are trying to manipulate me into purchasing school-based health insurance.  You are doing it badly, and obviously, and all you're succeeding at is really pissing me off.  I hate you for using stupid psychological techniques on me.  I hate you for thinking you'll succeed.  I hate you for making my life harder.  I hate you for making this damn thing opt-out rather than opt-in, and I hate you for trying to scare me into giving the school $800 more.  I hate you for making the form three times longer than necessary and behind walls of "explanatory text" on how good the school coverage is, so that then you can ask questions to make us compare our coverage and the school-offered stuff.  I know very well you don't actually need that information.

Forget it.  You didn't get me.  You'll never get me.

[RedKing]

I have to admit, NCSU's health insurance beat the crap out of my personal coverage when I was there. Same benefits, for like a third of the rate.

[Vector]

I have to admit, NCSU's health insurance beat the crap out of my personal coverage when I was there. Same benefits, for like a third of the rate.

I'm covered under my father's workplace, plus I'm in good enough condition nowadays that the only help I'd need would likely be psychiatric; not going off to the nearby city for that, but also not opting in to the tune of $820 for it.  I figger I can take care of it myself, for all the help those bastards were last time.  I.e. none.  "Hurr durr why don't you come in for the five free sessions and we'll tell you you're autistic (no doy, but the important thing was that it locked me out of the proffered social skills group for being "too disabled") and that you need to come in twice a week for the next Long Time to help you with the serious psychological ailments you theoretically have but which we can't understand."

That, and I really hate being manipulated like that.

[Flying Dice]

Fuck my job. I just had to spend close to an hour and a half pulling shards and splinters of fiberglass out of my hands and arms, and I ended up having to soak my hands in really strong smelling paint primer, as it was the only thing on hand that would take the tiny little bits that I couldn't see when I flaked it off after it dried.  So now I'm typing (for who knows what reason -- oh yeah, because I need to bitch about this  ) with dozens of tiny little cuts and scratches on my fingers.

*facedesk*

[Akura]

Remember how I said the other day how the rough day didn't affect me? Now it came back with double force.

All day, I'm taking shit from people for no reason, most of all from my manager. We've got this one guy who, for the past three weeks, has only come in at most three days, including today, and one of the first things he did today was make a plate of fried chicken. And the manager starts chewing me out for not being given something to do(which he's supposed to give me something to do). At one point, I'm pulling a whole skid of sour cream out of the fridge, and it starts sliding against the ground. He starts yelling at me to lift it higher. I'm trying to push the thing to a stop so I can lift it, and either it's too heavy to stop that fast or he's pushing it into me. Then he tells me to move it a few inches to the side. I start to do so, and he immediately yanks the handle of the jack away from me in the opposite direction, almost jacknifing it as he spins it around.

I also found out more reliable information about the operations manager who was fired a few weeks ago. Apparently, the boss did make some offensive comments about gay marriage on Facebook, something that was probably very offensive towards Geico, one of our larger benefactors, and I guess she removed it or something. Part of what really pisses me off about that was that he made very little mention of it, especially to the "volunteer" workers, most of whom(including me) had her as a contact with the Department of Labor(who fucking really would have needed to know if she was fired). She stopped by today, in fact, and later when the boss(who is out for the week) found out about it, he sent a message that if she came back again, she was "strictly forbidden" from going anywhere but the front window. And this is a woman who worked there for many years.

Further rage, I found the exact part of the Bible that biblically "justifies" trampling women's rights(starting at 1 Timothy 2:9, if you want to read it yourself). On the whole, I can agree with most of the morality and "good living" parts of the New Testament, but some of the other parts, they... they just don't make any sense. I can't really describe it any other way. The Old Testament is more like entertaining semi-historic records.

And finally, some asshole on the bus, as he gets up to get off, throws an empty drink bottle on the floor as he leaves. What the hell is with that? He was holding on to it just to do that? Surely he couldn't have simply held on to it for a few more minutes? Of course, not one to leave trash laying around on the bus, I pick it up to throw away at the nearest available trash recepticle. If the bus driver had left the door open for just a second longer, I'd have thrown it at the guy's head instead.

[Tellemurius]

If anything, Timothy is considered a knucklehead in my church (catholics) and is mostly used by those crazed baptists *cough*westboro*cough*

[Greiger]

Coworker complained to my supervisor about me being too loud so that she can't hear her radio.  I spoke maybe 4 times prior, each time regarding the work I was doing.  Once asking questions regarding a new memo that was not very clear about a new way to process specific parts of my job(turns out it wasn't even meant for my department, it was meant for farther down the process), and the other three times assisting a newer employee with her computer system.  She blares her radio so loud that it can be heard across the room, and I can hear it clearly while I have my headphones on because all I have between me and her is a crummy cubicle partition.  Yet nothing ever comes of folks complaining about her.

Probably the only reason she could tell I was talking was because I had to speak up each time to be heard over her radio.

[nenjin]

It was like that when I worked at the DoT in an office that was 1:10 males to females. Noise boundaries were like WWII nation boundaries, someone was always invading someone else's. Offices are funny like that, battle lines get drawn in weird places over even odder things.

[Akura]

I just noticed a spilt along the bottom of one of my good pairs of pants. FUUUCK.
Looks like I'll have to try to fix it with the crappy sewing kit I have, although the last time I tried to fix my own clothes, I got help from my mother. Only her method of helping is doing it herself, breaking most of the tools, and telling you how to do in a language I can only describe as "not English", while talking over your head.

[Willfor]

Further rage, I found the exact part of the Bible that biblically "justifies" trampling women's rights(starting at 1 Timothy 2:9, if you want to read it yourself). On the whole, I can agree with most of the morality and "good living" parts of the New Testament, but some of the other parts, they... they just don't make any sense. I can't really describe it any other way. The Old Testament is more like entertaining semi-historic records.

Contextual guide to women leadership topics found in 1 Timothy, etc. This particular topic is one I have some additional bias on, since my father is staunchly pro-women leadership in the church, and I've grown up in a circle where women pastors are embraced.

[Dsarker]

If anything, Timothy is considered a knucklehead in my church (catholics) and is mostly used by those crazed baptists *cough*westboro*cough*

Westboro aren't Christians, though. They're in it purely so they can sue peoples' ass off when they get angry for them desecrating a funeral.



Now Timothy is a funny letter. It's not from Paul, which is obvious from the introduction.

[SalmonGod]

Office environments seem to make people bitter, passive-aggressive, and desperate to remind themselves that they exist (constant existential crisis), which they do by testing their boundaries against others.

It's a product of spending the majority of one's time in an environment that is bland, sterile, and strictly controlled... where individuality is slowly and subtly suffocated and people are made into simple conduits for information without opportunity for critical thought or decision making.

It's kind of like solitary confinement, except you're not literally solitary.  You are expected to be a machine -- a thing separated from yourself -- and surrounded by others in exactly the same situation.

The people I know who have been working in environments like this for decades are deeply troubled and petty people, and I can see how I could eventually become one of them if I'm not careful.  Hanging out on forums like this is what keeps me sane.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

If anything, Timothy is considered a knucklehead in my church (catholics) and is mostly used by those crazed baptists *cough*westboro*cough*

Westboro aren't Christians, though. They're in it purely so they can sue peoples' ass off when they get angry for them desecrating a funeral.

No, they're genuine, as you can see from the children they ousted from the church. The lawsuits are just a bonus to being insane hateful lunatics.