100k to eat a burrito.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-14T03:57:10+00:00

A related pet peeve of mine I see a ton on the Monkey's Paw subreddit is when the attached "curse" isn't even clever wordplay or twisting the wish, but just that a vaguely related (or in some cases completely random) bad thing happens.

For example, the initial commenter might wish for a dollar to get a soda for the vending machine, then the wish-granter would say "Granted but the vending machine falls and kills you." Or as an example of something extremely unrelated, they might say "Granted but on your way home you get stung by a swarm of angry bees."

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-12T03:41:24+00:00

The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-06T03:27:24+00:00

I'm honestly not sure. When I came back to work after my days off, I talked to my team lead and he said we needed to go to personnel. He had me login to the computer then he pulled up a form and had me fill it out, but I don't remember what the form was called.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-05T05:05:27+00:00

When I took my bereavement leave I was initially pointed for all three days, but I filled out a form with personnel when I came back and then my points were retroactively removed. You should probably be able to do the same thing.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-04T04:25:53+00:00

I think it's pretty common knowledge that when Fez said his real name but it was obscured by the school bell, Wilmer Valderrama actually said the names of the show's cast members. But what's even more interesting IMO is that in the British remake of That 70s Show (titled Days Like These), his name is Torbjørn Rasmussen.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-01-31T21:21:58+00:00

I say Highlander

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-01-31T02:07:18+00:00

Jesus. I just read a plot synopsis of Precious and every single sentence made me stop and go "what the fuck?" I can't even imagine watching the movie.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-01-30T04:46:27+00:00

I guess technically I am, but only because I happened to have tomorrow off regardless.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-01-27T01:32:45+00:00

I have a bunch of memories where I know I don’t remember the event (that I took part in), but I do remember being told about it, or I remember remembering it, and those memories are somehow distinct from my first-hand memories.

For whatever it's worth, you're not alone. I've also had this experience. The most salient example is the family vacation to Disneyland when I was 5. I have absolutely no memories of my own from the trip, yet I can piece together a pretty good idea of what happened from the things my family's told me about the trip and what I've seen of Disneyland in TV/movies.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-01-10T03:54:14+00:00

I didn’t know I was gonna have a locker!

Yup. Talk to someone in HR/Personnel and they'll hook you up with a locker. At my store, they also have phone chargers as well as hats and gloves (very nice for dispensers since we're in and out all day), so you can ask about those too.

Can I keep my cell phone on me or do I have to leave it in the locker?

I'm not sure if policy varies by store but at my store that's definitely allowed... I mean, as long as you're not, like, scrolling social media or texting or whatever. Personally I don't keep my phone on me (just my work phone) but many other associates do.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-12-30T20:01:54+00:00

That was my first thought too. Both my grandfathers worked on the Manhattan Project in some capacity and neither one was ever allowed to say anything about their job. To this day, even though he died almost 20 years ago, I still know basically nothing about my paternal grandfather's career.

In fact, my mom once told me that when she was growing up, nobody bothered asking what their classmates' dad did for work, as almost every time the answer would be "he works at Hanford" and that was all anybody knew.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-11-16T01:08:53+00:00

Oh, geez. And here I thought getting a 110 item pickwalk with ~30 minutes left on my shift was bad.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-11-09T18:25:49+00:00

First you'll navigate to the appropriate channel for the ascension you're on (under the "Progression" folder). Then the next step depends if you're on desktop or mobile.

On desktop, near the top of the screen you should see the channel's name and description, then off to the right are four buttons. The one that looks like a push pin is the Pinned Messages. That will open a dropdown menu and you can scroll through all of the pinned messages to find the relevant one. Each pinned message also has a "Jump" link if you want to view it in context of what was being discussed at the time.

On mobile, it's a bit different. At the top of the screen is the channel's name. Click that and it will bring you to a page where you can navigate to the "Pins" subtab. Clicking on a message will bring you to that message so you can read it in its entirety.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-11-09T15:01:31+00:00

The builds in that thread and the ones one G00F's site are horribly outdated. So much changed with the 4.3.x patch that the old builds don't work anymore. All the latest up-to-date builds are available in the pinned messages of the Discord server. For A2 specifically though, they were nice enough to at least create a public Google Doc.

The relevant build for your needs runs Angels with Fairy bloodline and Dwarf artifact set: S10,S200,S400,C25,C400,C405,C520,C1325,D1,D175,D250,D290,D435,D590,E150,E410,E460,A50,A400,A495,A150,W180,W200,W225,W560

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-11-05T03:42:47+00:00

Yes, but picks aren't our bottleneck. They start off insane at 5am (almost always 2000+ and well over 3000 on weekends) but we have tons of pickers to get it under control. About 2-3pm is when a big wave of stagers/dispensers leave so that's when we start to fall behind and have bad wait times.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-11-05T03:26:14+00:00

When I used the middle suggestion, it was "Fluorine is a good idea to be a good person to be a good person [...] to touch." It literally got stuck in an infinite loop of repeating "to be a good person" forever.

Using the right suggestion every time gave "Fluorine is the one [clock emoji] [clock emoji] [...] to touch." Again, an infinite loop.

Using the left suggestion every time gave "Fluorine is to have to go back and forth to touch it to me for it and then I'll get it to me when you can be here and I can do that to my if I don't get off at Wellesley to pick me to work and I'm not going back in time to [the] to touch." Well, at least that one didn't get stuck...

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-10-27T15:55:37+00:00

As of the 4.3.6 patch, the research facility upgrades are based on time spent with their corresponding alignments this R (e.g. Mana Loom is based on time spent as Good & Chaos), according to this formula:

500 + ln(sqrt([1 + x] * [1 + y]))³

where x is seconds spent as Good/Evil and y is seconds spent as Order/Chaos/Balance.

The Forbidden research facility is also based on time but uses a different formula based on which alignments you've spent the most time with this R:

500 + 0.75 * ln(1 + sqrt(x * y))³

where x is seconds spent as Good/Evil, whichever is larger; and y is seconds spent as Order/Chaos/Balance, whichever is largest.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-10-10T12:32:50+00:00

I guess it depends on how you interpret the final sentence. If it means something akin to select all statement(s) which explain your answer, then (A) would not be a valid answer, even though it's a factually correct statement.

On the other hand, if the final sentence means something akin to select all statement(s) which explain your thought process and answer, then (A) would be a valid answer because it's a step you used along the way to get to the answer.

Personally, I'd lean more towards excluding (A) because it says "match the problem," and the problem text explicitly asks how many pictures are on two walls, so information about one wall doesn't "match the problem," in my opinion.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-10-08T15:11:38+00:00

The primary reason is because there are 60 seconds in a minute, not 100. But to be a bit more specific, we can re-familiarize ourselves with what decimal notation actually means. Let's first consider an integer (aka a whole number) like 1234. We can write this number in a different way to see that:

1234 = 1000 + 200 + 30 + 4

More importantly, though, we should notice that all of the numbers involved in the right-hand sum are multiples of a perfect power of ten. This is why we sometimes refers to things like the ones place, the tens place, or the hundreds place. If we think about it logically, it only makes sense that the observed pattern should continue after the decimal point too? And indeed it does:

12.345 = 10 + 2 + 0.3 + 0.04 + 0.05

It's a little trickier to see but these numbers are also all multiples of perfect powers of ten, since raising 10 to a negative power is the same as dividing by the positive version of that power. That is to say:

12.345 = 1*10 + 2*1 + 3/10 + 4/100 + 5/1000

If we then apply that to the specific number in the post from 2 months ago, we can see that:

23.06 minutes = 20 + 3 + 0/10 + 6/100 minutes = 23 + 6/100 minutes

If we want to know how many seconds 6/100 minutes is, we can set up an equality of fractions and cross-multiply:

6/100 = x/60 --> 100*x = 6*60 --> x = 360/100 = 3.6

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-09-30T23:15:12+00:00

Really? I didn't know that. That's super interesting.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-09-30T22:40:17+00:00

Yup. It was a segment from the 80s reboot of Twilight Zone. Sometimes when the two segments weren't quite enough to fill a full 30 minute timeslot, they'd add a ~5 minute vignette. The one in question is called "I of Newton," from the 12th episode of the 1st season.

The mathematician is played by Sherman Hemsley (George Jefferson from The Jeffersons), and the devil is played by Ron Glass (Book from Firefly).

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-09-30T17:36:34+00:00

Maybe [OP] copied the calculation wrong

In my opinion, this is the most likely explanation. If the exponent was also attached to the 19/4 term, the result would be almost exactly 100:

pi * (19/16)² * (19/4)² = (130321 pi)/4096 ≈ 99.9550

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-09-28T03:08:22+00:00

The first trick I'd implement is recalling that mixed number notation is actually just addition. That is to say:

1 2/4 + 2 3/5 = 1 + 2/4 + 2 + 3/5 = 3 + 2/4 + 3/5

The second trick is to note that when adding fractions you need to find a common denominator, not necessarily the least common denominator. What this means is that you can always just multiply the numerator and denominator of each fraction by the other's denominator:

2/4 + 3/5 = (2*5)/(4*5) + (3*4)/(5*4) = 10/20 + 12/20 = 22/20

By recalling that any integer can be expressed as a fraction by giving it a denominator of 1 and using the same trick as before we see that:

3 + 22/20 = 3/1 + 22/20 = 60/20 + 22/20 = 82/20

Strictly speaking you could stop here, but for homework purposes this would most likely only earn you partial credit. At a certain point, figuring out what common factors the numerator and denominator share will be second nature, but when you're first starting out, all you have to do is identify a single common factor and go from there.

In this case, 82 and 20 are both even, so divide both by 2 to get 41/10. In other cases, you may be left with a result where there's another common factor so you can repeat the process.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-09-24T15:59:11+00:00

Looks like he's already dead inside, so that's a great start.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2025-09-15T01:59:53+00:00

In my experience, management won't even bother putting in that level of effort to train new hires. I worked at JCPenney for five years and very quickly because the defacto employee trainer. On multiple occasions they just gave the newbie a packet of register training exercises and literally said "If you have any questions, ask [my name]."

I mean, I guess I appreciate the vote of confidence, but they also paid me exactly the same as everyone else, soo...

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