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[mastahcheese]

For some reason when I tried to cash my check at Walmart yesterday, it wouldn't go through, and kept giving a read error.
It's never done that before; I ended up getting it cashed at Kroger, though.

[MaximumZero]

Can confirm that Walmarts near Detroit are zoos. Thankfully, I've never had to go into one inside Detroit.

[Greiger]

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Kinda had something like that happen with a gaming community.  Though kinda the opposite where the origonal leader was the douche. It started as a PvP guild in Guild Wars 2.  Then the 2 of the founders vanished and we had to remake the guild.  None of the remaining founders wanted to lead so one of the veteran generals were put in charge.  The vanished founders poked their heads in one day, but mentioned they couldn't stay, they were given a special honorary status in the guild.

Time passed and we were one of the best PvP guilds on Jade Quarry.  Then the leader moved us to another server with little notice.  He paid for members to move in ingame gold so most of the veterans went along with it. (apperantly he had been paid in both cash and ingame currency to move the guild, but we did not know at the time)  Other guilds on the new server disbanded and we absorbed them, eventually becoming the only major WvW guild on the server.

Then the old founders came back. And they were instantly promoted without say from anyone else, and they immediately kicked everyone from the guild under the general rank.  Including the people running the website, including the people who owned our guild's teamspeak, including other founders, including the people who were the ones who solved disputes among members.  Then they went around kicking people from the teamspeak and website as well, with instructions to apply to the guild to be reinstated as recruits.

The website and teamspeak were fixed so fast that it made their head spin and they found themselves banned instead.  A new guild was created and the general rank people who survived the purge left the original guild and joined the new one myself included.  Leaving only the 2 founders and the leader that promoted them and a few general rank people from the merge with other guilds that hadn't been seen in weeks in the original guild.

The new guild is now a multi game group playing ESO, Archage, Wildstar, GW2, and FF14.  Of about 20 members.  Members are free to play what they wish, there are no restrictions on playtime or game.  While there is usually focus on one game at a time, and events are planned, attendance is voluntary, and other discussion is welcome, there is no leadership.  We all have equal rank.  The owner of the teamspeak and website are put in as leadership when the guild is made in games, but the first thing done is give everybody the same rights as leader.  No recruitment are made without unanimous approval of all currently active members and vouched for.   That in my opinion is how a gaming guild should be run.

tl;dr Big guilds bad, small close knit guilds good.

@Walmart  I work nights now and always have to visit the walmart after midnight.  Despite general distrust to that wal-mart among the neibors and it being called 'sketchy', I have never seen any kind of crazy at all happen there.  The place is very well maintained, well stocked, the employees are all friendly and not crazy at all.  The parking lots are clean and well lit.  In fact, it is the only wal-mart in the area that has NOT been featured in the news for something crazy happening there.

So clearly it is a front set up for an alien invasion.

[EnigmaticHat]

Internet anonymity doesn't mix well with actual authority it seems.

[hops]

No guild is better than any guild.

* Objective continues to be a lone wolf.

[Lyeos]

No guild is better than any guild.

* Objective continues to be a lone wolf.

* Lyeos salutes Objective.

Solo5Ever.

I want to punch myself for that.

[RedWarrior0]

Can confirm that Walmarts near Detroit are zoos. Thankfully, I've never had to go into one inside Detroit.

The best time to go to Walmart is late at night in my experience. It's practically deserted.

Granted, the only Walmart I've been in more than once or twice is nearby Middle of Nowhere, Michigan. Hell, it's not that bad even when there are people around.

[TD1]

So in America you have to be afraid of your super stores?

[Lyeos]

So in America you have to be afraid of your super stores?

Not really, you just get weird people in there.
Fortunately the one where I live only seems to attract groups of teens who apparently have nothing better to do than sit around outside the building.
You know, the ones you want to backhand just for being there.
Seriously, go play some DnD or something.
Don't sit outside a store for hours on end doing nothing.

[Furtuka]

No guild is better than any guild.

* Objective continues to be a lone wolf.

ok Kirito

[Frumple]

No guild is better than any guild.

* Objective continues to be a lone wolf.

ok Kirito

"Grouping is bad" says the harem anime protagonist. Well, I guess insofar as alimony payments are concerned...

... it's actually pretty hard to find legit soloists in fiction.

[hops]

Well, good thing I'm not in an anime.

It's not that I hate grouping, I love grouping. I'm just too shy to group.

[Orange Wizard]

I hate groups and I'm too shy to approach a group so it all works out in the end.

[Wolfhunter107]

Technically, SAO isn't an anime.

Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン Sōdo Āto Onrain?) is a Japanese light novel series

/nitpick

[hops]

Technically, SAO isn't an anime.

Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン Sōdo Āto Onrain?) is a Japanese light novel series

/nitpick

Oh please, Japanese light novels are just anime that the producer didn't even bother animating.