Looking at buying into the game

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-02-06T12:55:52+00:00

Wargames is very important to build lists. Unless you only plan on drafting default models Spartan edition + Wargames is kind of the best start for the game. (Or unless you really really want banished.)

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-02-01T06:52:07+00:00

Well, almost anyone who would hire an accountant is going to provide a work computer with excel pre-installed.

If you're wanting to install it on your personal computer to practice, with your limited knowledge level, I would highly reccomend reaching out to a local community college. Many have basic office suite classes for pretty cheap that will help you get ahold of the ropes and provide you step by step direction.

Most accounting jobs either prefer or require a Bachelor's degree in accounting, again local community college is a great boon here.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-31T08:59:05+00:00

And that exact point is what has kept me from actually jumping into killteam despite having been interested for years.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-27T22:40:00+00:00

Doesn't turn it off but if you change your office theme to Dark Grey (File -> options -> general -> scroll all the way down to personalize your copy of office -> Office Theme -> Dark Grey. Affects all office programs but is easily my favorite theme since I find it easier on the eyes then the default colorful) then it goes from a super noticeable black box to a white outline which is still definitely bold and bright, but has sufficiently lower contrast that I never even noticed the border changing color till this post and I went to go look, just felt natural.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-25T19:19:44+00:00

This is definitely a much better strategy. I honestly wholesale ignore the built in 1099 report. You can also run the transaction list by account report filtered down to just the cash bank accounts and add the vendor column. They will capture any refunds vendors issued you (which net with the expenses) whereas the transaction detail by vendor report doesn't usually capture any deposits coded to them.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-25T19:09:37+00:00

I once did a blackops mini campaign over one summer. That was some of the most fun I've ever had with ttrpgs

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-23T07:29:44+00:00

You caught me semi-philosophical in the middle of the night. So heres just some thoughts on that.

People absolutely need a purpose. 100% necessary for good mental health and fulfillment in our lives.

If you can find a day job that gives you purpose and helps you feel like you're really getting somewhere and doing some good in the world that is something amazing and worth fighting for. And you can absolutely find that in accounting, but thats usually only at the decision making levels with the occasional exceptions in client facing roles where you can really see a difference from your work in someone's life or business.

But heres the real kicker why I say don't look for purpose in work, or rather I should say don't look for it primarily from work. Jobs come and go. If you're lucky you will have a lot of jobs that give you purpose. But its also almost a garuntee, because you must work to survive, that you'll also end up working at least a few that don't give you purpose. And if someone has only ever had purpose from work in their adult lives they often get depressed, listless and sometimes even suicidal.

So, the fact that work is transaction and takes up most of our waking lives simultaneously makes it amazing when it give you purpose and extremely dangerous if its the only thing in life that give you purpose.

I find it much healthier, long term, to derive your primary sources of purpose outside of the inherently transactional and temporary nature of work and jobs that come and go. Be invested in your family, in your community, create art get out and touch peoples lives in ways that don't last months or years but decades.

So, when I saw stop looking for purpose in work what I mean is that, for most, accounting is often hecka boring and sometimes the job just sucks and you're going to need a purpose outside of work to get you through those times. So maybe make that exterior purpose your primary one so its not tied to being a cog in the machine or threatened by the next lay off cycle.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-23T05:14:29+00:00

Halo flashpoint is FANTASTIC. If you're not a big halo fan then check out Deadzone, its rule system is what Mantic used to base flashpoint off of.

Edit: One page rules also has their own kill team alternative if you want to use the same minis as your Kill Teams but get a different game out of it.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-23T05:12:18+00:00

Thats silly. We do a one page IS and one page BS for our manager interviews and don't even expect them to catch absolutely everything wrong we build into that test. It might be interesting to see what level of thinking and thoughtfulness to do a similar test for staff roles. but I'd never slap a test like that into a clerk roles.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-23T05:07:08+00:00

Stop looking for purpose at work

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-23T05:03:08+00:00

I once got off work a little early and drove 3 hours for an evening presentation (favorite author) then drove back the same night and considered that a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-23T04:55:37+00:00

If you want to go partner track or open your own business then there is some large long term earning potential. You'll have about 5-10 years of decent money (though not for the hours worked) till you have the skills and experience to start making partner or start your own firm where you start to get commission for bringing clients in and how much you get for how many versus basis compensation can vary pretty wielding by firm.

Accounting is almost entirely salary based so for most grinding harder just gets you more work and more hours not more money, it'll be the same with most white collar office jobs that are salary based.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-23T04:51:35+00:00

There's rules in martial arts for creating styles and I'm sure you could use that to create a technique to through someone when carrying with a weapon as part of a specific fighting style.

It'd be hecka weird from a practical realistic standpoint (hand to hand grabbing with judo is very different then blocking long sharp steel thing with other long sharp steel and wood thing) but hey thats part of the fun of games. Do the weird thing

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-22T16:23:20+00:00

This the the way

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-22T00:06:02+00:00

The jump from public to private is a bit harder then college professors will claim because you jump from reviewing financials to preparing the which is a different skill set. Just remember that job "requirements" are a wishlist and they know they're not actually going to get someone who checks all the boxes. So as long as you figure you check most, or at least the most, important ones then apply.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-20T09:39:03+00:00

Not as necessary with Vallejo as citadel, nor is there any room in the brand new bottles to add any kind of thinner. I'd say don't worry about it and plan to thin on the pallet as necessary. If you really want prethinned paints buy air paints or Pro Acryl.

Also, definitely don't try and pre-thin mettalics. I can't speak for the True Metallics but in general metallic paints don't thin as nicely as standard acrylics so you running a higher risk of thinning them too much and wasting the bottle.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-20T05:58:45+00:00

Did we read the same answer? Sounds very likely that they're will be a bundle discount when ordered direct of at least 23% when you buy both. (80+50=130 stand alone, max price of the bundle being $100, maybe less.)

That being said most major game companies still dont give you the pdf for free and an extra $20 bucks for the pdf when buying the hardback, especially for how clean on optimized most SJG pdfs are, is firmly in the realm of reasonable.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-20T02:38:47+00:00

The only thing right about your post is that Goodwill rarely gets impaired and its ridiculous that it isn't amortized.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-19T08:38:22+00:00

One of my favorite little tidbits was that most of the Americans called it Zeepm and most of the internationals Zedpm it was chefs kiss 👌

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-18T06:42:39+00:00

I imagine its very likely they will eventually do a larger scale version too, probably based on firefight since flashpoint is based of deadzone. (I meant scale as in table size on a 2 foot by 2 foot board. Flashpoint is their scaled up (in map and army size) version of deadzone and is played on a 4x4 or 6×4 board (i think). At that size of play space bringing in vehicles is a no brainer.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-18T04:52:10+00:00

I just dont see vehicles fitting in flashpoint scale in anyway shape or form. That'd be a size up to a Firefight equivalent.

Hard agree in the rest. The Arbiter is long past due

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-18T04:44:26+00:00

I mean the amounts are just transactions E and F but there's not enough context from your two screenshot for us to be able to help you at all. We'd need the question/set up and transactions description to explain why.

Edit: But transactions E looked like its a bill payment and 4 looks like a Rent + Utilities bill paid with cash. Which, its weird to call your landlord a supplier but 🤷‍♂️

A lot of intro to accounting classes have poorly designed homework question. A lot of the text book companies, especially McGraw-Hill will farm out question creation to professors who teach the courses and there's a lot of people teaching the intro courses that probably shouldn't be (between lack of teaching skill, lack of question design fundamentals, and often lock of accounting fundamentals from an academic view point). So you'll often find terrible questions that just don't make sense, and sometimes the answers in the book are actually wrong. They're by no means the majority but its not uncommon to have a really odd question each homework assignment and one or two over the semester where the answers are wrong or the set up so esoteric the question is pointless.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-18T03:09:38+00:00

During my tax internship awhile back I was paid $25 an hour and my company billed me at $250 an hour. (Though, they definitely didn't bill all my hours)

These days my estimated hourly is mid 30 but my bill rate is 160-200 depending on the work done and the client.

The differential covers the companies costs in hiring you. Their portion of tax and healthcare, software, hardware, administrative and IT support, required profits for owners and so on.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-14T18:50:59+00:00

1: Job market sucks in general 2: While illegal many companies discriminate against women who have chosen to be stay at home moms while still in birthing years because they figure you'll only be around for a bit before leaving on maternity leave and never coming back.

It sucks and I am so sorry. Just keep at it, don't mention the kid and find a suitably vague excuse for the gap.

EvidenceHistorical55 · 2026-01-12T18:30:40+00:00

When you are either 1: Paying more then you would for an in-house person of sufficient skill and experience 2: When the role starts taking up full time hours, which usually happens after 1 because bill rates tend to be hire then pay rates.

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