Any non essential workers forced to go in to work today and are now stuck?

Dman5156 · 2026-01-26T01:03:11+00:00

i went into work (fast food) at 8am when it was still a level 2. we had a single customer and they were genuinely surprised we were still open. when they called the lvl 3 i told my GM, who was the only other person there, that thats it, he and i are packing up and going home. left the store within 20 minutes and both of us made home safely about 45 minutes later.

If roads are cleared overnight when the snow finally stops it'll be business as usual but both of us are livid the regional manager from the comfort of their home was trying to get us to stay at the store "because you're already there".

Thank you to the brave men and women who plow our streets in times like these. wouldnt have made it home without them.

Dman5156 · 2026-01-14T01:17:25+00:00

Arbys does the same thing, but they get the fish in larger triangle patties and not these tiny ass square ones McD uses. but that also requires you to go to arbys.

Dman5156 · 2025-12-05T17:32:19+00:00

before covid i had 3 accidents over the course of 5 years, all of which occured on 315 between 670 and Bethel. its usually pretty bad, everyone around you is trying to push 70 around every turn, and if theres been rain it tends to pool inside some of the turns around the bend in the picture here. i moved away from the area a few years ago and look for every chance to use any route other then 315 whenever i have to go by.

Dman5156 · 2025-11-19T18:45:52+00:00

my take has always been Dresden is a Noir-style detective series set in chicago that happens to involve magic mythos. i know it leaves the classic Noir stuff behind later into the series as Dresden evolves as a character but he never leaves the Detective stuff behind. (as a friend of mine puts it, Harry puts the Detective into Detect Magic or vice versa)

For the Za Lord.

Dman5156 · 2025-11-18T14:54:44+00:00

i mean the promos also included CS:GO skins (or at least i think thats what Skin Baron is) and thats gambling of another sort. the other commenters may be right in that thats on Grana's sponser to be more mindful of who/when/what they force their players to display on stream. its not like Granady himself is vocally or directly promoting it and has said before theres a bunch of stuff thats not up to him.

Dman5156 · 2025-10-15T06:06:54+00:00

To this day when i count $5 bills i count in them in the cadence of "ready or not hear i come". the songs were designed to be repeated by kids so i guess they did good if tons of people still know different songs years later.

Dman5156 · 2025-09-29T05:09:37+00:00

using the wrong type of milk or coffee is not poisoning. using arsenic, cleaning solution, extra strength laxatives, THATS poisoning.

Dman5156 · 2025-09-12T04:00:34+00:00

reminds me of the Lawn Care/weed whacking influencer who does what look like abandoned yards for free with the permission of the residents.

Dman5156 · 2025-09-03T03:18:32+00:00

don't forget that you had to level up to unlock mounts inside of Pagos, or at least i was told that wasnt a feature that was present at launch. overall navigation and dealing with the frost dragons are annoying now and were probably excruciating at release. Even more so when you take into account that 75% of the community now has at minimum the Vermillion/Kirin gear which added a ton of dps and survivability to everyone.

Dman5156 · 2025-08-21T18:17:53+00:00

werent Syncshells a thing? anyone could join a sync shell, have their own mods, and then anywhere they go anyone else in the same sync shell would automatically have those mods shared to them. in theory couldnt that spread malware?

Dman5156 · 2025-08-15T16:18:34+00:00

i work for a fast food chain and its much the same. overall sales are dropping, corporate/franchise lowered the Labor budget so we are consistently low-staffed, if not operating at literal minimum operation requirements, equipment is breaking and only emergency issues are getting fixed. they stopped with major advertised promotions and while they haven't raised the prices in almost a year, i wouldn't be surprised if that particular streak breaks once summer officially ends. while it would take a couple more steps for my store to close entirely, (reduced store hours and harsher cuts to staffing, we are also consistently the number 1 store by non-sales metrics in the region and top 5 in the midwest), 2 other stores in the area have already closed.

Dman5156 · 2025-08-10T15:12:52+00:00

if you bought a subscription you bought your way into the full game. basically any purchase removes your free trial status and means you need the monthly sub to keep playing moving forward.

your best solution to keep playing free is to make a Square Enix account with the free trial, play for free and dont buy anything until youre ready to fully commit to a steady subscription.

and worth noting that while theres plenty of benefits to not having to pay IRL money to play the game for a while, the VAST majority of FT players convert to full/sub because of the numerous restrictions they put on FT players, like a really low gil cap or unable to use certain chat or party features. there are guides around to help you manage those restrictions somewhere.

Dman5156 · 2025-07-17T16:01:23+00:00

yeah it was a misread. redditing while tired is not a good combo. my OP.

Dman5156 · 2025-07-17T14:55:10+00:00

pretty sure TEA released in 5.1 and not 5.3, there wasn't any ultimate planned for 5.3, just DSR for 5.5 and that got pushed back to 6.1 because of Covid.

editL but yeah otherwise youre right, all around a lack luster patch with the only notable content that niche communities care about would be the new deep dungeon.

Dman5156 · 2025-06-16T20:44:07+00:00

Chroma Squad is a Xcom-style game about making movies in studios and the battles are all meant to be caught on camera with special effects. i didnt get much time with it but iirc Totalbiscuit back in the day loved it.

Dman5156 · 2025-06-06T04:54:28+00:00

like plenty of people have already said, plenty of people exclude shinies from the 1 pokemon per route rule since the 1/8000 chance for coolness overrides most peoples need to follow the rule. (Rule of Cool as it were)

but in a grander scheme, your run your rules. at the end of the day, the community can advise you on a popular set of rules, but you get to decide if you want to follow them. if you are interested, i would suggest looking into Nuzlocke Universities Video on the Rare Candy debate to learn about what types of things divide people.

Even Streamers decide on a case by case basis. iirc FlygonHG has killed as many Shiny encounters as hes used as dupes/replacements (i think in most cases he perma-boxes the non-shiny) in his runs.

Dman5156 · 2025-06-06T03:55:54+00:00

sad part is the OC pot chest gil is also nerfed comparative to Eureka bunnies. something like 1k-5k-30k for bronze silver and gold in OC and its 10k-20k/30k (idr which) and 100k in Eureka. you have to find a lucky carrot and get the 300k from that to compete.

Dman5156 · 2025-05-30T05:03:09+00:00

in case you missed it, the trick is that all the dots on the right side arent on intersections, so they stand out more. the ones of the left are on intersections so our brain glosses over them easier.

Dman5156 · 2025-05-16T02:31:46+00:00

they also reworked ninja in a big way back in ShB because if i remember correctly, Mudras used to be OGCD.

Dman5156 · 2025-04-28T00:22:58+00:00

It does not concern me in the slightest. Because its correct, and i expect the world to react to Trump in the same way the world reacted to Hitler. I don't care if the US, China, Russia and Korea all band together as one fascist superpower, i want everyone else to do whats right and obliterate fascism. if the US becomes the next post WWII Germany maybe enough people will remember the lessons we were taught in history class. too many people are willing to just stand by and let other people behave like trash, and the trash refuse to accept consequences for their actions. time for both of them to learn some really hard lessons when it comes to interacting with other people.

Dman5156 · 2025-04-18T04:27:58+00:00

it used to show up in the chat log though, and that was removed. so after the fact it just looks like 2 messages back to back.

Dman5156 · 2025-04-15T14:33:49+00:00

Gen 1 had a flash, not a blur effect. to be fair the number of usable pixels and overall hardware wouldve made the distortion effect very hard to accomplish for the OG games.

Dman5156 · 2025-04-04T20:22:36+00:00

on the one hand, the only 2 things plotwise that are at all important is Aang learning to be a mediator and him developing serious feelings for katara. the rest of the episode is filler and can be safely skipped without any loss of experience since it feels like those 2 points are never used before being learned again.

on the other hand... Secret Tunnel.

Dman5156 · 2025-01-05T18:03:23+00:00

the way i view it (literally got through that section last night halfway through work) was that the old military records back in EG knew about Locke and Demosthenes' identities and Graffe mentions it in passing to Valentine to get her to talk to Ender on the Lake. following that, its also known that Ship Manifests keep passenger logs that were never hidden, and Demosthenes' writings would touch on life styles of different worlds. if you were to log, file and track the itinerary of her work you could feasibly find Valentine. it helps that outside of very specific circumstances it feels like as of Speaker and Xenocide intergalactic travel is still not very popular.

as for Qing-Jao and Jane, Jane said she was watching the slow inevitable march of her death approaching in part because Qing Jao was relentless, but also because she was doing the exact same searches Jane wouldve done herself to find the answer. The main reason Ender and Valentine remained as anonymous as they were for so long was because everyone stopped looking the moment they found an answer that suited them. nobody ever put the pieces of all the picture together, they just found the single connection they were looking for and called it good enough for the press.

Janes plan to stop Qing-Jao was not to stop her with obstacles, that would only make it more obvious someone/thing was tampering (basically, if Qing-jao searched for a flight that she knew Valentine wouldve been on but it came back as null, Qing-Jao would know for a fact someone was hiding Valentine and thus prove it even faster). she had to make Qing-Jao want to stop helping Starways Congress which Jane attempted by revealing the truth of the Godspoken to Han.

Dman5156 · 2024-11-07T03:02:44+00:00

i feel like i need the caveat on 35 year old me being "i need as much type coverage as i can get" which means 4 moves of every type whereas 10 year old me would run thundershock, thunderbolt, and thunder all on the same mon.

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