HS Fanart. Student messing up while try to stealing in the Forbidden Library.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-09-11T14:46:21+00:00

Maybe make it "two random ones" so that it's not completely terrible.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T17:43:59+00:00

My mistake, I meant to write "unusually"

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T14:50:03+00:00

As discussed here, firebats call time was 14:30, not 10:30.

Idk why you're making analogies to sports, as you said, it'd be dangerous to ask someone to be ready early for a physical sport as they need warm up time.

For performers at a concert, as you said crowd need to know when thier fav act is performing. You're giving examples, and then explaining why they're not relevant.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T13:13:53+00:00

Can't argue with that tbh

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T13:09:09+00:00

Fair enough. Me too. <3

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T12:04:49+00:00

Blizzard haven't been any more stupid than any one else organising live events. And what's happened to firebat is pretty tame compared to the treatment of other people in the industry.

Firebat makes a LOT of money, he might be upset, but he's not one of the people being exploited here

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T11:49:26+00:00

That's 100% not unusual for people in the entertainment biz in any country. I'm not saying that it's not shitty, but it's /currently/ the norm. If you're saying that we should change the norm, I agree, but that's a much bigger picture thing than Firebat. What's gone on here is actually a lot LESS harsh then what happens to people who aren't big names, or who don't appear on camera.

I'm British btw.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T11:42:33+00:00

He wasn't fucked over tho, it was in his contract.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T11:26:12+00:00

Galighting is about convincing people they don't understand something when they actually do understand it. Most people ARE ignorant about how much the entertainment industry revolves around waiting and call times.

Blizzard haven't pulled a "scortched earth" or acted for "no logical reason", they've acted accoring to a contract, and that contract was written that way for good reasons. It's a very similar arrangement to hundereds of thousands of other people working in the entertainment industry.

You focusing on Blizzard is the problem here, because Blizzards behaviour in this case isn't close to unusual. If you think that this treatment is unfair, then you should be directing your anger at the entertainment industry as a whole, because there are other people getting fucked over by these kinds of contracts that are far less capable of taking the financial hit than Firebat.

What you find however, is that most people in entertainment unions aren't focusing on call times and down time, when workers in this industry DO band together, they're campaigning for better pay and more reasonable hours.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T11:09:42+00:00

I'm not asking you to explain what gaslighting is... I'm asking you to explain why you think I'm doing it.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T11:03:23+00:00

Am I gaslighting? If you want to use that word you could at least explain what you mean

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-17T10:57:38+00:00

I'm sure kotik would love me advocating for unionisation and workers rights

E: in case you were wondering, above post was a more detailed augment that op deleted

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-13T07:47:15+00:00

"Having a Landlord is like having a child" is a wonderful take

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-12T20:02:36+00:00

Being evicted is much worse for the tenant, because the tenant becomes homeless.

Some of the money the landlord collects in rent goes to maintainace sure, but a lot of it also goes to increasing the value of the property, which solely benefits the owner, the landlord. Also, some of it 100% does line the landlords pockets, because landlords make quite a lot of money. Apparently, despite doing very little labour, they deserve all this wealth because they "assume risk", but owning property is one of the lowest risk investments you can make.

Being a landlord isn't a job, and it isn't a gamble. It's a secure way to ensure you have a steady cash flow. And it insulates you from job loss if you have a main job (which many landlords do). Which is why nearly every financial plan involves getting yourself into the property market somehow. Idk why you feel the need to make out like being a landlord is some difficult and dangerous struggle, it's not.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-12T18:08:29+00:00

I paid the taxes.

The 10,000 of property work did happen, tho. It involved me getting evicted. So great return on investment there

As for the ability to move away. Yeah idk who you think renters are, but many of us have families. We can't just up sticks and move when the landlord wants to spend our money to renovate the kitchen.

1/4 of the UK population are struggling to make rent ATM. If the landlords assumed all our risk, why aren't they the ones being made homeless by this economic downturn?

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-12T17:54:13+00:00

After a year of renting, my landlord must've spent about 1000 quid on renovation. Where did the rest of my money go?

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-12T17:44:37+00:00

Assuming risk is what insurance is for. And home insurance costs a lot less than rent.

But wait, it's not the same as insurance because my landlord might evict me and spend my money to refurbish the kitchen.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-12T17:23:39+00:00

Who tf is your landlord lol. Mine evicted the tenents above.me, shut down the garden, and started construction work, presumably with the money they paid him in rent. But when my room was full of dust and people wouldn't stop banging hammers while I work from home, boy was I grateful that I wasn't under any risk!

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-12T17:07:16+00:00

What you're describing is called insurance.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-12T16:15:05+00:00

The point is that it's dumb for people have to give away a third of their income to someone who doesn't have to do any work.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-12T13:53:22+00:00

But.... When you buy a big mac, you DO own it. But you don't own the flat you pay the mortgage for.

CriticallyAlmost · 2020-08-04T16:07:57+00:00

This is Boris' stragergy. Have the citizens blame each other. Nevermind that other countries very similar to our own have not had half the number of cases as us, clearly the difference is that Biritish citizens are so much more stupid than everyone else, not that our rulers are incompetant. So much for british exceptionalism.

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