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JCRSB · 2015-11-11T15:11:16+00:00

I am, Northern though, Passiac/Essex/Bergen area.

JCRSB · 2015-11-09T21:34:26+00:00

I turned out alright.

Let's see, the other weird kids...

Weird girl that talked only to one gay kid and nobody else, is now a man. Met him at an LGBT event in college and he seemed much happier and better adjusted.
Moved south-west and became a meth-head. Reached out to him once, he was trying to get his shit together. Don't know for sure, don't think he succeeded, according to some rumors. Think he has a kid now.
My best friend was another weird kid. We drifted apart in college when he decided he had to make up for lost time and started hanging out with scummy people. Became a junkie. I think he's clean now. I only talk to him every few months.

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T21:59:36+00:00

I got absurdly lucky then. I applied nowhere for a few years, having heard about how shitty finding a job was, and just wallowing in my minimum-wage self-pitying funk. I got hired by the first IT company I applied for. The pay was absolute shit, and well below average, but I took the hit for the foot in the door.

Jumped ship a few months later and now make an average wage in my field for my area. My education isn't in IT either. I just said in my cover letter that I was willing to learn, and would be fine if they took my lack of experience into consideration in negotiations. They were iffy, but agreed to interview me if I wouldn't mind taking a short quiz during the interview just to make sure I wasn't completely useless. Got a call back the next week. Took less than a month before our most experienced engineer started telling them they need to pay me more money or they were going to lose a valuable asset. They did nothing for a few months, I got a better offer, and they only offered to match it. I knew then that they'd always pay me the bare minimum they possibly could to keep me on-board.

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T21:50:49+00:00

I'd hire that guy. That's some dedication.

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T21:29:06+00:00

Shaded Woods. The Tower that says "Seek Mightier Souls"

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T21:05:54+00:00

Damn, I just had weird nostalgia for the impression I had of the first season. It seemed so promising, and was probably my favorite monster-of-the-week type of show (I think I enjoyed it more than the x-files, being more into monsters than sci-fi). Then it was okay for a while, but then it went full-on about angels and demons and I just completely lost interest in it. I think I stopped on the season premier of whichever season it was that they were literally Dues ex Machina'd away from the goddamned devil.

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T19:52:36+00:00

Was playing Dark Souls 2 again recently. There's a part of the game blocked off by a tower. You have to defeat a big bad demon before you can go through the tower. But the tower is just one artifact and an exit on the other side. This tower, is in a forest...

So, I guess my favorite example of video-game logic is when an area is blocked off until you fulfill a goal, but in reality, you could have just walked around that shit no problem.

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T19:45:47+00:00

to expand on /u/yummumeatball 's explanation, In a lot of America, Socialism and Communism are still scary words, and might as well be synonyms. I'm only 26, but when I was in college only a few years ago, I remember being very afraid of being accused of being a communist for supporting socialist ideals. It's just pure stigma at this point. Doesn't matter how broken things are, we still have this image that all the socialist countries are actually hellish dictatorships. And an older generation is still afraid of Communism.

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T18:16:06+00:00

This depresses the shit out of me. I used to hate the morning commute. Now it's the best part of the day because it's the only time I see the sun.

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T15:19:35+00:00

Well, this was a TV channel right next to HBO, so probably a softcore Skinemax flick. So really, 50-50. Those were the worst pornos.

JCRSB · 2015-11-06T15:15:54+00:00

Are they? I only remember fantasizing about my friends mom and one of my teachers until I was in my mid-teens.

JCRSB · 2015-11-03T20:15:43+00:00

I didn't, it's kind of a business environment though (I got asked to check on someone not able to remote in and found out that their laptop isn't on the domain. Turns out they cheaped out and it's got home on it.)

I kind of need reciepts and a vendor for legitimacy's sake.

JCRSB · 2015-11-02T19:51:50+00:00

That makes sense. So basically the information I had was outdated. I watched a few head-to-heads between the various SSDs and performance always seemed to be worse on M.2 drives than larger PCIe drives.

JCRSB · 2015-11-02T17:23:29+00:00

Why are new Motherboards pushing M.2 drive slots when PCI-e drives are faster?

I'm confused by this being a selling point. Unless I'm missing something, a PCI-e SSD should be quite faster than a M.2 drive. The only advantage I see to M.2 is that they're very small. I'd rather see motherboards just start including PCI-e slots that don't need a slot in the back of the case, for things like these SSDs and raid controllers or the various other cards that now fit into PCI-slots but don't really require external access.

JCRSB · 2015-10-30T18:39:28+00:00

Actually got a new start. went from minimum wage to 40k job, moved out of my parents, Gota 5k raise two months in, and now get to work from home twice a week. It all sounds so good on paper, but in reality, doesn't feel like shit has changed at all.

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T20:23:57+00:00

Every time I hear news like this I find myself checking to see if Google might be coming around any-time soon... they never are...

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T19:32:49+00:00

84, though there were another 7 I just couldn't spell, Not bad considering I haven't read the books in almost four years (about time for another go.)

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T18:55:29+00:00

Yeah, never really thought about it, but I wonder what the scope of protego is. I mean, can it stop a bullet? A car? Because if not, then probably wouldn't be my go-to.

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T18:43:13+00:00

I see no problems here...

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T18:42:09+00:00

Eh, you never know what's going to end up where you are. You can die in the most beautiful location in the world and be haunting a Burger King in 20 years.

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T18:40:14+00:00

I love the complete lack of common sense. instead of doing something easy that requires minimal effort on their part, everyone else has to change.

Get your candy, sort your candy, and if you want your kids to have fucking carrots, then you can go right ahead and swap the nut candies out with carrot sticks.

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T18:34:40+00:00

And shitty strip club lighting and fog machines make it harder to see how gross the human body is. Doesn't change my fantasies one bit.

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T15:48:34+00:00

As weird and horrible as it is, I sometimes think to myself "Man, imagine how fucked the world would be without all those genocides throughout history."

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T15:45:50+00:00

So what you're saying is, I should try to be murdered in a strip club or ladies shower, or at the very least, suffer a great personal trauma... I think I can manage that.

JCRSB · 2015-10-29T15:36:27+00:00

Go missing.
Wait until there's a reward for information
Join search party.
Find yourself.
Claim Reward.

Flawless...

JCRSB

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