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[ChairmanPoo]

Fucking degenerates. If you're a spritely young person wondering if frat/sorority life is for them, remember how often shit like this happens.

I read the article, and it really gripped my heart. He and his parents looked so happy on that picture, and he had to die because a bunch of fucking morons couldn't face their responsibilities. It makes me want to punch them in the face, hard. Although this is probably human nature, my classmates did the same on a school trip, albeit to a lesser intent. One of the girls got alcohol poisoning and they told no one. Nothing really happened, but things could have gone much worse.

Anyway, what I came here to say. About a week ago, just when I was falling asleep, I heard my father's voice saying "he didn't want to eat lion-pizza". It was kind of funny, but I thought nothing. Two days ago I had a a dream involving the lion-pizza. Sadly I only remember that it was a big wooden disc, and it probably had some image on it. Why are you haunting me, mysterious lion-pizza?

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[SpottedWobbegong]

Sorry, that's not the lion-pizza I'm looking for

[Greiger]

Started playing a fairly old MMO called Neverwinter.  Liked it so I spent a bit on premium currency.  Game is F2P and when I play a F2P game, if I like it I'll drop some cash on it that comes out to about as much as I would have been willing to spend on a new game at the time.

I had gotten a steam card for my birthday so I used my steam wallet, because there's a convenient ingame button for it.  Bam, immediately I'm on probation like I'm some kind of hacker, I don't get any of the supporter rewards, and while I do get the premium currency, I can't convert it to ingame currency (which I had intended to do with most of it, either not knowing what most store items do, and not having much interest in what I do see) because again, I can't be trusted.

Turns out that the game had problems with people cheating them via steam, so you buy currency via steam, you get an account strike and while you can use the currency, you are limited in what you can use that currency on.   I would be fine with this explanation... if they would have put any kind of warning about that on the otherwise empty little window where it asks you if you want to use your steam wallet funds.  Hell they don't even indicate that there are other ways you can pay.  I had a dropdown that was just 1 item 'steam wallet'.  Didn't even tell me I had the option to go to their site to buy it.  Asking about it in zone chat just got me a 'Yea it sucks, just don't use your steam wallet again, the exchange ban should pass in a week.'

WTF game devs, If yer going to punish people for buying currency a certain way because you had a problem in the past fekkin warn people about it on the confirmation screen.

[Ultimuh]

Thanks for the heads up. Now I know not to play that game again.
(I didn't intend to any way. :p I lost interest years ago.)

[Greiger]

Yea I'm going to continue playing for a little bit (not like I can cancel the transaction without contributing to the problem in the first place) but that's certainly going to be on my mind from here on.

I see why they did that. You gotta do what you gotta do when people exploit your systems.  But there is no reason why they can't put a big warning up on the ingame screen that is completely under their control that buying via steam will have all these effects and encourage to buy via their site, or hell if it's that bad, remove the option entirely.  It's clear veteran players consider that option a joke now.   I didn't need to use my steam funds, it was just presented as the most convenient option.

[AzyWng]

We did a simulation in class where we ate Chex Mix to represent spending wealth.

The person who spent the most wealth was declared the leader.

Is that the American political system in a nutshell?

EDIT: I forgot to mention, but apparently the classmate who came up with this said that it came from someone else who observed a tradition that a Native American tribe held at the end of each year.

Basically, the idea of "he who spends the most wins" is all-American - Native American!

[Arx]

Speaking of, I entertained myself in Systems Analysis today by replacing "increase profits" and related phrases with "(praise/serve) Mammon" and "decrease profits" etc. with "angers Mammon". It's mildly concerning, when you put it like that, how much of everything seems to be about praising Mammon.

[AzyWng]

Speaking of, I entertained myself in Systems Analysis today by replacing "increase profits" and related phrases with "(praise/serve) Mammon" and "decrease profits" etc. with "angers Mammon". It's mildly concerning, when you put it like that, how much of everything seems to be about praising Mammon.

I'm going to start saying this now. I need the practice so I can say hilariously outlandish things without laughing in the middle of the telling.

[Helgoland]

"What in Satan's glorious name is going on here?" works great too.

[Descan]

Yea I'm going to continue playing for a little bit (not like I can cancel the transaction without contributing to the problem in the first place) but that's certainly going to be on my mind from here on.

I see why they did that. You gotta do what you gotta do when people exploit your systems.  But there is no reason why they can't put a big warning up on the ingame screen that is completely under their control that buying via steam will have all these effects and encourage to buy via their site, or hell if it's that bad, remove the option entirely.  It's clear veteran players consider that option a joke now.   I didn't need to use my steam funds, it was just presented as the most convenient option.

Actually, I *would* cancel the transaction if I could, along with a note saying "Fucking idiots, if you're gonna punish people for using this, *warn* them first." Steam Refund?

[Rolan7]

Speaking of, I entertained myself in Systems Analysis today by replacing "increase profits" and related phrases with "(praise/serve) Mammon" and "decrease profits" etc. with "angers Mammon". It's mildly concerning, when you put it like that, how much of everything seems to be about praising Mammon.

Interesting how the phrasing apparently makes it worse...  It's concerning that we create and encourage algorithms (such as corporations) which maximize profit without considering important "side effects".  Calling profit by the Biblical name, which sounds like some demon, just encourages a reevaluation of the situation.

That said (playing SM Alpha Centauri again recently) I'd probably replace Mammon with Morgan

[AzyWng]

Speaking of, I entertained myself in Systems Analysis today by replacing "increase profits" and related phrases with "(praise/serve) Mammon" and "decrease profits" etc. with "angers Mammon". It's mildly concerning, when you put it like that, how much of everything seems to be about praising Mammon.

Interesting how the phrasing apparently makes it worse...  It's concerning that we create and encourage algorithms (such as corporations) which maximize profit without considering important "side effects".  Calling profit by the Biblical name, which sounds like some demon, just encourages a reevaluation of the situation.

That said (playing SM Alpha Centauri again recently) I'd probably replace Mammon with Morgan

I guess financial advisers are prophets of Profit?

Warframe anyone?

[Egan_BW]

Praise the Morgan!

[BlackFlyme]

Growth! Profit!

Grofit!

[Yoink]

I'm actually excited in a small way for my appointment at my job agency later, 'cause they have free packets of biscuits for customers in the lobby. Planning on stuffing a bunch of those in my pockets if I can work up the nerve, in the hopes of supplementing my diet- which looks like it will consist mostly of luxury noodles and eggs for at least a couple of weeks.   

Feels like I'm embracing the pov lyfe.
'Tis the sort of thing that seems like it would normally be way too embarrassing for me to seriously consider, but I've been feeling less anxious lately. Really not sure how to even begin disentangling these feelings to figure out if they're good or bad overall. *shrug*