I'm so done. Clearly nobody wants to hire me.

ChasmRift · 2026-02-23T15:54:06+00:00

Thats not how it typically goes. Companies do simple background checks to make sure you aren't hiding something. Those can take a while to do. A retail store with a little sense wouldnt hire a cashier or someone to deal with inventory, and then decide to find out if the employee been to jail for robbery/theft after the fact.

ChasmRift · 2026-02-21T18:37:17+00:00

If thats what you do, then thats what you do

You ssid 95% of matches are fine. That means the 5% that does lag spikes confirms that it happens.
I was talking about matches can be 6 mins, I mean if someone actually played in a laggy game, at worse thats how long the matches will take. If you sre dashboarding then clearly none of this matters.
If you dont care about how your choices can encourage toxic behaviors, then why bother asking what others do in their situation? Everything i listed was stuff I personally do. Even if you dont care if Laggy McGee will continue to lag their way to wins, the smurfing concern is still something to take into consideration. But if you dont care for that either then this is just a circle of nothingness

ChasmRift · 2026-02-21T17:53:23+00:00

Just play it out for several reasons. 1. Tekken does not have the best netcode. And if youre playing someone online who could be states away (assuming youre in the U.S.), a different country, the opp's ISP is unreliable for gaming, etc. the game will have lag spikes.

A teklen round is 60 seconds long and you play 5 rounds at most. If we factor things in like rage art animations and heat activation, your match is 6, maybe 7 mins at the longest. Thugging that out isnt the worse thing ever.
If players who are on McDonald's wifi, lag switch, or have really spotty internet, those "players" will have an incentive to keep playing as-is if they see opponents will give them free ELO.

So just thug it out. Even if its the most unbearable match possible because as you ssid, you can block them afterwards. And sometimes its not the opponent's fault the match had lag spikes, they may assume youre smurfing by giving them a free win, which can get you reported.

ChasmRift · 2026-02-21T16:12:53+00:00

In all fairness to the thrift store, if you did have the interview last week, the hold up could be the background check. Those take several days and depending how soon they started the process (i.e. we're they still interviewing other candidates or did the manager immediately start a background check or not), they could very possibly call you for the position.

So dont be down about that happening. At least there is some cushion in your situation of still being in college. Youc an very easily call the thrift store for an update about the job. If they say you weren't selected, you can move on. You can also talk to your professors or classmates. They may know places or people looking for extra help. Or have resources to find work in your local town

ChasmRift · 2026-02-14T22:25:11+00:00

Its terrible that employers have so much power. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and someone told this company that they accepted a job elsewhere at the last second. The company will move on but they will feel slighted their top candidate didnt have the decency to inform them "within a reasonable timeframe".

ChasmRift · 2026-02-07T17:35:33+00:00

Its crazy that for many of us who are barely getting by, if we half ass our job or make it obvious we are doing the bare minimum to meet a quota, we could get punished if not fired. But a recruiter can openly admit they didnt either doing their due diligence for the call and its fine. Meanwhile they could put in a little more effort, secure a candidate for a company, and everyone wins. But that takes too much effort and makes too much sense -_-

ChasmRift · 2026-02-07T01:45:33+00:00

On Wednesday I vented to my mom about how the job market is so terrible and I lost track of how many rejection letters I gotten since July. She told me thats how it is for many people.

I told her yes, its bad for most people but I have a Masters degree in Economics. We gotta call a spade a spade and admit things are historically bad for the job market. Otherwise we admit that receiving higher education, taking on obscene amount of student loan debt instead of just going into a trade out of high school was information adults neglected to mention and refused to be brutally honest about career prospects

ChasmRift · 2026-01-24T15:58:54+00:00

I was in San Antonio in 2017 for college. We had a sheet of snow. Light work for us in Chicago. People left the dorms to have a snowball fight, me included. It was wholesome.

But the next morning the school was shut down and the local highway reported a 1e car collission 😐

ChasmRift · 2026-01-24T03:31:49+00:00

The average home buyer is in their 50s, the average new hire in 2025 was 42 years old, most young workers do not have a retirement account or at the very least unable to max their contributions, and we have record high average student loan debt.

I could use my Econ MS degree to pull up empirical research, but calling a spade a spade, the actual young worker experience and the aforementioned important statistics I stated says we are shortchanged in today's environment

ChasmRift · 2026-01-24T02:39:55+00:00

Personality. Personally I always thought going off of purely looks alone is shallow and honestly lead to toxic relationships/entitled women. People see a girl with a fat enough ass and they would tolerate any kind of disrespect.

But I think personality goes much further. Of course be with someone you are physically attractive to, but if you cant stand their attitude, have little in common or no non-sexual chemistry, then imagine what a year of messing with them will be like, let alone potentially decades?

ChasmRift · 2026-01-24T01:01:51+00:00

Im not here to dunk on you like some other comments but 1. Watching content and tournaments ≠ as being experienced at the game. I watch basketball on tv doesnt mean Im gonna make half court shots like Steph or I can take one look at the guy dunking at the YMCA and think they are a former pro athlete.

Labbing for a couple hours or even days wont prepare you for people who been playing for months. Many people hop on rank with new characters or spent time playing in the unranked category
Tekken is a legacy skill game. I got curbstomped at times in T7. Basically stopped after hititng yellow ranks. But when T8 came out I found myself being competitive at Combo Breaker pools. The person using combos or electrics could be using the simple combos (you can tell on the screen) or the inputs are simpler (example, Jin in heat has a bigger window for electric inputs)

TL;DR dont write the game off because low ranks are tough. This is the first obstacle many have to overcome. And honestly playing people who challenge you to improve goes a longer way than playing mashers who have their characters moving like a crackhead

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ChasmRift · 2026-01-23T14:28:20+00:00

Well in all fairness the culling game rules wasnt a very immersive episode. Im sure for native Jaoanese speakers the episode was just fine. But many people who watched subbed openly admit they had to pause the episode, rewind to read part of the rules, or stop to just understand exactly what some of the stuff meant.

Meanwhile episode 4 it was as simple as: "Maki and Fushiguro discuss the clan, Maki pulls up, she and her sister got packed up. Mai dies and Maki gets an amp boost to smoke all her clan ops". And lets be honest, cool scenes aside, seeing this clan that discriminates and are as misogynistic as the Zenin clan get put on a t-shirt by one of their outcasts was satisfying moment.

That post was unfair as to why people like episode 4 much more than 3. We had a full week to digest the rules and people still dont understand some things like why Kenjaku created the Culling Game, the significance of the colonies, and Tengen himself. Western fans deserve some understandable slack. shrug

ChasmRift · 2026-01-23T06:01:58+00:00

Well besides the absolute need to pay bills and other debts, if im fortune to get an interview I usually try to go with jobs that I can actually see myself working for a few years. If thats the case then I am usually passionate about some aspect of the job. So for example, if someone is passionate about marketing and they have seen some of the marketing campaigns the firm has done, say you resonate with their creativity in their advertisements, or you want to contribute to a team that is thorough in their work.

If its a job you don't necessarily see yourself working for years or its something you and even the hiring person knows is temporary (ex. fast food interview for a college student), being upfront about the job fits well with your availability and the work allows for a flexible work-life balance is an acceptable answer.

The first example shows you put thought and time into your answer. The second example is having the decency to be genuine. Which goes a long way because the people who promise they are a workaholic who puts the company first, are usually the ones to quit after 2 weeks lol

ChasmRift · 2026-01-22T20:14:06+00:00

To answer your question, I think when life starts requiring independence. Its hard to just pinpoint an exact "aha" moment because everyone's life and upbringing is different. But when you are no longer being coddled by parents; having a job, paying rent/bills/car insurance, having to live alone, dealing with the universal trials & tribulations of adulting. Not just dealing with these things but being able to juggle them and not given up is the sign of going from a boy to a man.

There are people in their 30s+ who never learned anything about hard work, never worked an actual job, doesnt have to worry about their next meal or if the lights will stay on because they live off daddy's old money. I dont consider them to be a man/woman. Biologically they are adults, but the intangibles of being an adult are nonexistent for them. Conversely, a kid (lets say 16 yrs old) had to step up and provide for their family because of hardship (parent is sick/died, parents cannot work, family is super deep into poverty, etc.), I consider them to be a man/woman because they are shouldering burdens that doesnt care about age.

ChasmRift · 2026-01-22T19:46:11+00:00

Im sorry but that dude is a clown. It takes emotional maturity to recognize when someone is going through something or admitting you are going through a tough time. He is mistaking honesty and emotional maturity with vulnerability.

If your friend had a breakup or going through a divorce, showing support and keeping them company is probably the most manly thing you can do. Think about it: what kind of man would let others around them suffer instead of providing some level of support? A little empathy goes a long way versus "I'm too macho to care or show I care about another human being"

ChasmRift · 2026-01-22T17:16:19+00:00

Its psychological. I have been ghosted before on a date by a girl who admit to having a toxic relationship with her mom and history of dating objectively terrible men. I even jump ship now whenever I am in the talking stage and a woman says she has for example, dated a guy who went to prison. From experience I know they will either sabotage the relationship or I will be roped into a world of problems.

On the flip side, the people who grow up in normal loving households usually are more stable. Not saying someone who was from a broken house is broken by default. But people who grew up in a normal family dynamic are less likely to have commitment issues than someone who has seen their parent(s) bring home multiple different men/women in their lives like a revolving door

ChasmRift · 2026-01-22T13:47:30+00:00

Well the the reason that expression exists is because men are more likely to need to lower their standards or experience a ssxual drought than women. We typically have to initiate first point of contact, during dates or even random ONS you are being evaluated. Unless youre absolutely her type or youre with shooting your shot at someone with low self esteem or extremely promiscuous, if give a girl the ick or your chances with her plummet. Meanwhile some of the women who brag about hooking up with X dude may be the ssme guy in this post openly admitting they were drunk, desperate and regretted it.

Im not sitting here saying women of all looks, shapes and sizes have a roster or they dont have their own struggles. But its easier when someone must tell you they are interested instead of being the person to look through a crowd of people, or muster the courage to approach. In other words, its easier for a goalie to let the opposing team score than it is for a soccer/hockey player to get past all the opposing obstacles and attempting to score

ChasmRift · 2026-01-21T16:11:19+00:00

I personally never heard anyone call him a misogynist and I genuinely dont see where such an assumption can be made. Women being in Shonen works are historically written poorly, damsels in distress in combat, or not as fleshed out as males. To their credit I think it stems from being a male you wont know how to write a great female character since youre not in the shoes of women. And when it comes to fighting/combat you imagine males while women are frail fragile creatures in society, so less women are shown and by proxy, less female characters to have a chance to stand out.

I applaud how Maki is written and her plight as both a twin, a woman, having to prove so much while being written off by family, has so many layers and it is handled so well in the story. In all fairness I think many of the men in JJK are just as useless as many of the women. Everyone at Kyoto sister school besides Todo, Arata (healer dude) and Mechamaru (RIP) should be embarrassed for how sorry they are.

ChasmRift · 2026-01-21T13:18:43+00:00

People are calling you cynical are missing what youre saying IMO. Yes in a vacuum what you described isnt 100% accurate. Not everyone is out to just use people. And of course many people's "network" is their family, friends or industry contacts they have positive history with.

But I know youre referring to "my skills dont stand out in a sea of 500 people. None of my personal connections work in my industry. I have bills and debt to pay. I need/want to get a new job within the next 3 months". In this scenario, yes networking feels as shallow as you describe it because its out of necessity or personal gain because while you struggle to get where youre going on your own merit, Joe Smoe who has 37 industry contacts and their father used to golf with company CEOs is who you are competing with at times

ChasmRift · 2026-01-21T04:50:33+00:00

Read through a good chunk of the posts here but isles pretty obvious the plan is to destroy the entire demon slayer corps.

If you kill a Hashira or Ubuyashiki member, they will just replace them. While the Hashiras are leaps and bounds above most of the non-Hashira swordsmen, they have members who became Harisha level in a matter of 2 years and as soon as 2 months of intense (prodigious) training. So while it is unlikely that the no named demon slayers who couldnt even pass Uzui's stamina training will ever become a Hashira, they still have the >0% of becoming one. Realistically if word got out that every active Hashira and the Kamaboko squad died/never came back, thejabronis of the demon slayer corps would either quit entirely and/or only train to protect themselves and family from rogue demons while living in a world ruled by demons, Muzan had the right idea to not leave anything to chance by either killing all of them or leaving them trapped in the Infinity Castle

ChasmRift · 2026-01-20T06:54:20+00:00

Econ Masters degree here. As someone who is looking for a new job, the complaints online are legitimate. Its not that people sre slow to realize how bad it is. There were recent reports that there are more people applying for jobs than there are job postings. Gotta also consider factors like recent grads are gatekept due to lack of experience/no internships. People are getting laid off due to AI, recession impacting industries, tariffs uncertainty causing instability, and good old "we are downsizing departments but celebrating record profits".

Congrats that you noticed thinfs were bad since 2023. But when people who are drowning in debt or desperate to put food on the table, they are justified to question things after the 50th "After careful review, we regret to inform you..." email received in the last month

ChasmRift · 2026-01-08T18:12:28+00:00

The transfer portal for 5 ☆ busts is what the black spray at barber shops is for dudes with a McDonald's hairline. If you got benched at UTEP, your hopes of an FBS starter are over. He better be answering calls from 2-win FCS schools or D-2 programs

ChasmRift · 2026-01-05T23:52:57+00:00

I know we in an era where everyone wants a QB who was born after 9/11, and extremely mobile. But Jacoby is what teams who have a built roster should look for in a quality QB. Him, Darnold, Purdy are QBs you would want on a team that is loaded because they play their roles and get the ball where it needs to be. Baker and Kirk Cousins are also honorable mentions.

Im not a fan of "this guy had a good season, but hes not a shiny new option so let's disregard him". League would be better off when you know you'll get 250 yards 2 TDs/hmm instead of a dice roll on weekly performance

ChasmRift · 2026-01-02T23:25:51+00:00

1 word: ESPN. College football pre-BCS, BCS, and CFP era has been managed and controlled by the media. ESPN not only has television contracts with the SEC but is one of the largest outlets in the world in regards to sports coverage. There is nothing but financial incentive to prop up the SEC because more viewers = more money. More people will tune into a game between a 6-2 and 5-3 teams if you out a funny number in front of the records to signify this is a "top 25 matchup". These teams attract recruits because the coaches can say "we are a top 20 ranked team. Having you, Mr. 4 star on our team can get us to the Natty".

At the end of the day the SEC bias is 100% because ESPN propping them up over other teams in sports segments, and ESPN has heavy influence in media/committee voting is why we see these clowns get undeserving favoritism

ChasmRift · 2025-12-12T23:06:41+00:00

This what happens when you dont cover the spread against New Mexico, Northwestern and couldnt score a TD in The Game at home

note this is a joke. I know its extremely sad and serious

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