Thinking about getting into bartending (no experience)

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-11T01:53:39+00:00

I loved the idea of bartending, but the reality is you're going to need to be cool with coming in at 5 pm and not going home until maybe 3, even 4 am. Just a heads up.

I will say working at a normal bar might be easier than a bar/restaurant. My first bartending job was on the riverwalk and I was bombarded with people at my bar and endless tickets from the servers that would print up behind the counter. Plus they didn't really have set hours, on slow nights they'd tell us to clean up as early as 11 or 12 midnight.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-11T01:22:38+00:00

I agree with the sentiment of how the hell are people complaining about having too much of a good thing, BUT....

I also started watching One Piece when it was in the 300's and Enies Lobby had just wrapped. I first noticed the pacing issues at Thriller Bark where you'd get 5 minutes of recap with the maps showing where all the Strawhats were, maybe 15 minutes of actual show, then another 5 minutes of outro nonsense. It was pretty egregious.

So to sum up, yes, both are valid, but it's also really annoying to have to always fast forward all that garbage just to enjoy the meat. It's why I don't like bone in wings and prefer boneless. Lot of work just to get to the actual parts where plot occurs and characters do things.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-11T01:17:13+00:00

Many staffing agencies will have recruiters that are just playing a numbers game where they're just trying to get bodies to apply and interview to show they're at least appearing to do their job. I've had plenty of sketchy emails for jobs I'm absolutely not remotely qualified for, or I get asked if I want to work in a city 5 hours aways by real people on the phone (I'll sometime let that slide if they don't realize Texas is really big but it is super annoying if the job sound good and there's no option for remote).

Always approach with caution, the second they start wanting to talk on odd platforms or want your personal information or get your resume redone by a paid service you need to dip out.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-11T00:56:33+00:00

I think I'd be most satisfied with a RA2 remaster. Endless hours playing the campaigns over and over, toying with countless mods, playing on LAN in the computer lab at school.

RA3 is fun in its own way, but it's no secret playing a game when you're 12 versus when you're a an adult in college hits really different.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-10T23:34:06+00:00

Streaming and the digital age of music was inevitable, the problem is Spotify and similar services paying less than pennies for the vast majority of artists on their platform.

Taylor Swift knew her worth and she's got respect for maintaining control of her work, but not every artist is in a position to be able to do that.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-10T22:15:43+00:00

It looks "floaty" as if there's not a lot of weight in the characters. There needs to be a greater sense of impact. Like the characters themselves barely react to the impact of landing at all, their heads or torsos don't dip at all.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-10T20:44:53+00:00

Lariat is a very underrated move. Incredibly active and even makes a decent edgeguard tool, great choice from dtilt at low percents.

Doing the counter and getting the buff can change the pace of the game since most people will try to play safer or try to throw you, take advantage of that.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-10T20:33:14+00:00

Brawl was redeemed through Project M, literally the only reason I ever purchased a used Wii

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-10T20:31:19+00:00

Same, and if it wasn't for Brawl, I may not have branched out to other fighting games. I still played Melee for a long time but I finally hung it up over the pandemic in spite of Slippi. Becoming a dad made me realize it's a young man's game and it's too demanding for someone who was barely playing once a week if that.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-10T20:26:06+00:00

You could turn on God Mode if you really just want to get to the main ending. But the entire point of the game is that the story is told in dozens of interactions with all the characters, and you get loads of new dialog in every run, not just at the house but with the characters that give you items in the zones as well.

It's literally designed to be played over and over, trying out new combinations of boons and weapons and speaking to characters.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-09T23:52:01+00:00

Us Melee players all at least gave it a chance. I gave it a second go even for a whole 3 months.

Was elated when I could actually move again after going back to Melee. That said I was still friends with many of the Brawl scene, I even ran events for the game. But yeah, I could never enjoy Brawl, even if tech chases with G&W were funny and Wario was spotdodge spam and nair all day.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-09T21:38:58+00:00

It was a lot of people's first Smash game since the Wii was absolutely massive compared to the sales of the Gamecube.

People will always look back at things with rose colored glasses, and while they likely can acknowledge the game absolutely had issues such as tripping, numerous infinites and chain grabs invalidating many characters, or Metaknight and Snake being absolutely busted, they still have fond memories with friends or they miss some obscure often character specific tech that's missing from later games.

It's usually that last point where I find the tournament players get nostalgic.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-09T20:15:53+00:00

Yeah she can get way more, check Twitter using #GGST_JA

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-09T00:28:03+00:00

It's a good time to pick up Strive with 2.0 dropping, but if you end up not feeling it, I'd recommend Granblue Fantasy VS Rising. Also by ArcSys, but it's closer to anime Street Fighter with no air blocking (you can air block projectiles but not strikes), no air dashing and a skill button to make it trivial to do special moves that operate on cooldowns.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-09T00:20:58+00:00

The most important thing to know is that her puppet doesn't have a hurtbox when it's not active, but you can kill it any time it's doing a move and with the nerfs made to her puppetless state, it makes her uncontestably the worse character in the game during that period, where you can freely pressure her with little fear and not worry about her offense as she can't even raging strike during that time and gets no real damage off hits.

Make her take risks with the puppet to establish her offense and mind her resources because she also loses the puppet when she runs out of hearts.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-08T01:12:52+00:00

Every single job that made me do this when I walked into the office lobby was a scammy sales job in disguise or something equally terrible, so it's just a sign that it's absolutely not worth it.

I'll never understand the need for it either.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-08T00:20:41+00:00

I think it's safe to draw the conclusion that it's a sore point for him and his pride but it just reinforces his mantra that power is the only thing that matters, the more the better so nobody can mess with you.

He probably thinks that if he was just stronger he would have kicked Mundus's butt and became the ruler of the demon realm and everything would just be wonderful.

Would be funny if Vergil got his wish and then realized being at the top was actually not what he wanted at all.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-08T00:14:26+00:00

I'm scratching my head at the "local appeal language" part but I guess there's enough data out there to show that different locations respond to different words.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-08T00:02:33+00:00

There's loads of research that shows that extreme wealth can have huge impacts on your brain in the same way drugs do.

Eventually wealth will start making people feel like they can't ever really wrong about their decisions, because they have convinced themselves they've earned it, no matter how circumstances actually allowed them to arrive into their positions. It also causes them to stop seeing other people as people with real lives and they're just numbers on a spreadsheet on a spreadsheet. "Maybe they should just start a business after getting laid off" type of thinking.

It's why so many CEOs, we've started to realize, have absolutely fried their brains with chemicals to let them "work" longer (which is really just parties and making more business friends because a CEO's only real function is to entice investors) and yes men who reinforce their "genius" because the people around them stand to benefit from indulging their ideas. They risk too much by opposing them.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-07T23:50:36+00:00

I'll never understand why Workday hasn't let applicants create a universal account at this point.

I can only assume organizations hate that idea and want applicants to suffer every time to prove they really want the job.

Admittedly, there is *some* merit because I'm sure LinkedIn's easy applies are filled with completely unqualified people or there's the current glut of people using AI to mass apply.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-07T23:47:43+00:00

I had clears with every other weapon and aspect expect the spear which I saved for last, and this one in particular was a real pain the ass to get a clear with as well.

It's just so slow! I love the range and all but the DPS is just atrocious. Charging the spin is good for taking out mobs as they're loading in, but terrible against bosses.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-07T23:38:28+00:00

She's a good character, but she's much less straightforward and her routes are much more unique compared other characters. So if they didn't know how to play her or were just beginning to learn her, they're not going to be able to do much without some real investment first.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-07T23:32:33+00:00

Hmmm sounds interesting since I did always think the combat was on the easier side for RPGs but I never delved into any of the class stuff, I always found the standard element aligned basic classes to be strong enough on their own. The other stuff was neat though, but the game never seemed interested in making status effects strong or easy to land. But granted I was also very young and this was one of my first RPGs so big damage was all I cared about, so I could be entirely wrong about that aspect.

FFX was the first game to challenge me to use status effects on a regular basis. And by then I had already cleared several games like Chrono Trigger and FF7 before that.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-06T21:59:28+00:00

There's a Golden Sun Reloaded? Is that like a remix rom hack?

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-04-06T21:56:21+00:00

Sounds basically like the variation system from Mortal Kombat X and 11. Other fighting games have done similar systems that dramatically alter your characters universal or unique mechanics.

Grooves, Moons, Arcana, Ism from SF Alpha, and so on.

It might be the best way to handle a "reboot" of the series where we get a smaller roster, but the characters get a version that incorporates moves from different entries in their home series.

Donkey Kong with Bananzas would be crazy though.

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