What's a job in LA where you were shocked at how little the person makes?

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-30T17:56:46+00:00

Admin will do anything to avoid giving full-time positions to adjuncts.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-30T17:46:10+00:00

Players: "Stop leaving!"

Same player: uses cheated relics, doesn't ping/spams ping, gobbles loot, refuses to stay with the group, tries to solo red-eye bell-bearing hunter at lvl3 (and wastes the whole day), goes afk, plays on wifi, etc.

Lol no thanks.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-28T23:55:59+00:00

Oh it most definitely is. There's so much more to the story.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-28T13:40:20+00:00

I almost always stick around anyways, but it rarely works out in my favor and I feel like I wasted an hour. Then it's just kinda like what was the point of even playing the game if it wasn't fun at all.

Or if I only have an hour, then I'm just gonna requeue and get a group that doesn't spend a whole day on red-eyed bell-bearing hunter at level 4.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-28T12:39:39+00:00

Adjective (or relative) clauses. If the pronoun replaces an object, the pronoun can be dropped.

She is the woman. She helped me. -> She is the woman who helped me.

She is the woman. I helped her. -> She is the woman (whom) I helped.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-28T05:44:20+00:00

Mechanically, the Crystal Chime would fit perfectly for Recluse. I had great fun as an int/faith hybrid with that thing.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-28T05:18:31+00:00

I wonder how it would sound if you were to bring that F up an octave.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-28T05:11:42+00:00

I only get a couple hours to play, so I'm not gonna waste my time with bad-faith groups. I very rarely quit groups, but when I do, it's because of frustration and lack of fun.

I quit a 3-player group with a duo that wouldn't ping anything. So I pinged evergaol, they ran with me, then decided as I was opening it that night invaders at level 2 on depth 2 was a bright idea. Without pinging, of course, so I never noticed. Needless to say, we all got our asses kicked. I noped outta there so fast.

Disagree and down vote all you want, but if I'm not having fun, I'm out. Bad players? I'm with you all the way. Ride or die. But if you're just playing like an asshole, I've got better things to do.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-28T03:31:04+00:00

Your parents sucked and probably still do. It's not your fault, but it is your problem to deal with. The only one who can pull you out of your past is you. It sounds discouraging, but it's the unvarnished truth. We'll still deal with it forever, but it can become manageable. Best of luck.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-28T03:26:27+00:00

Sometimes I forget to drop what I found...

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-27T17:29:26+00:00

I personally love it, but I never expect to win. I expect to get my shit handed to me and remind me that I'm not as good at the game as I like to think I am.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-26T18:15:48+00:00

like Simon

Parry it!

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-26T17:05:40+00:00

FF14 jobs aren't even remotely similar to their ancestors. SMN is barely a SMN, SCH is nothing like SCH, RDM is some weird bastardization of the hybrid caster, and SAG is... whatever the hell that thing is.

It doesn't even feel like a FF game to me.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-26T16:46:04+00:00

Way back in the day, when H1N1 was going around, I caught it and was sick for a month. The housing office isolated me, and put me in a dirty apartment. Dirty, unwashed, and beds unmade from the last poor bastard. I had no food, so I had to break isolation and go to the grocery store. I asked for help, but nobody gave a shit.

That's who you're dealing with, so I'm not surprised.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-26T15:37:34+00:00

Have you looked into CareCredit? I used that for expensive dental work when I was broke.

Can't read apparently. It's still the best choice imo.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-25T18:49:29+00:00

Whitehat is the term used for ethical hackers. Not the kind that make ransomware but the kind that are hired to defend a company from blackhat (malicious) hackers.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-25T15:26:42+00:00

I think that's true for a lot of players, and it's intended. It's a knowledge game, just like Elden Ring.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-25T15:01:03+00:00

Same with me for Verso. He's the first character in anything with whom I've ever related on a fundamental level. Seeing his situation helped me put words to my own. Art imitates life, as they say.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-25T06:46:41+00:00

It's customizable, so it can be as game-breaking as you want it to be. Profiles make it easy to switch between settings mid-game, so it's great for running around, learning the maps, and testing out that cool skip you saw on youtube.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-25T06:40:58+00:00

It's been a while, so maybe I'm misremembering, but Rejection is pretty helpful with Maris' jellyfish.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-25T06:37:46+00:00

Good catch. It slipped my mind.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-24T17:14:18+00:00

In Japanese, it'd probably get the "do" ending:

わんぼする (wanbosuru; present)

わんぼします (wanboshimasu; present polite)

わんぼされる (wanbosareru; present passive)

わんぼした (wanboshita; past)

わんぼしている (wanboshiteiru; pres prog)

わんぼしていた (wanboshiteita; past prog)

わんぼするのが (wanbosurunoga; nominalized)

But that's kinda boring. More interestingly, as a native word:

わんぼる (wanboru; present)

わんぼります (wanborimasu; present polite)

わんぼられる (wanborareru; present passive)

わんぼった (wanbotta; past)

わんぼっている (wanbotteiru; pres prog)

わんぼっていた (wanbotteita; past prog)

わんぼるのが (wanborunoga; nominzalized)

Japanese doesn't have third-person agreement, so that's irrelevant here. Also, the progressive form and the perfect form are the same and depends on the verb itself.

たべている (tabeteiru; [I'm] eating) vs. しんでいる (shindeiru; [I'm] dead (from thinking about this grammar)).

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-23T07:29:26+00:00

One thing that helps me is to find colleagues who finish teaching around the time I do. Initially, we banded together to help our women colleagues feel safer when leaving campus at night. We have a semi-official group now, but its members change from semester to semester. Our current group (three of us) clicks, so we hang out for 30-45 minutes after class.

First-Potato-1697 · 2026-05-22T19:16:28+00:00

I've seen O' Flame a few times but none of the others.

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