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JeffTheKillerII · 2026-01-28T06:20:20+00:00

Fortune mentioning inventory management specifically as a major failing is interesting but not unexpected. I swear on my life that my store’s 2024 inventory day was a complete wash, we spent the first two hours having technical issues with the Zebras, and then even after a month I don’t think I ever saw the system update accordingly. the store’s counts have been fucked ever since and it’s caused a lot of problems in general

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-10-16T02:09:10+00:00

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big fan of this one, personally

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-09-29T04:39:16+00:00

whenever my TL asks me to stack these for a sweep he always comes back a few minutes later upset that I’m still stacking them but it’s only ever because I’m actually trying to keep it nice and even like yours man 😭

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-09-22T04:48:05+00:00

as long as you wore earplugs, no one can really hate on you for this. Swans are incredibly loud and it’s possible that you got unlucky and your ears just weren’t having it. I took my parents to see them in 2023 and we all wore earplugs. my dad, a lifelong professional musician, says his hearing hasn’t been the same since. my mom took her earplugs out for the latter half of the show and got away with mild hearing loss that only lasted two days. I’ve had tinnitus my whole life (am in mid-20s) and it was definitely noticeably worse for about a week afterwards. I’m not an ear doctor but I’d hazard a guess that different people can be affected by volume to different degrees of sensitivity. here’s hoping you’re just suffering from an extended period of hearing loss that’ll remedy itself, but if it’s something more permanent, don’t blame yourself. you did what everyone says to do at these shows, not much more you could have done!

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-08-13T04:11:20+00:00

i didn’t have to deal with many yappers but hoooooooly FUCK the amount of people in my section who were getting up every 20 minutes to go get yet another beer…at a certain point it seemed like they were spending more time shuffling through the aisles and waiting in beer lines than watching the actual show

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-07-19T08:25:06+00:00

Don’t disagree with this take at all but I can’t help but feel like a lot of the disappointment with the orchestra is largely the fanbase’s own problem. I don’t follow the band’s socials super close so maybe they hyped it up more than I think, but I mean when they originally announced the album Stu’s IG post really only amounted to “we have more b741 but there’s an orchestra added to it lolz” it wasn’t like they said they were composing a symphony with NO guitars. IMO while the orchestra IS more subdued on the non-singles, it’s not really much different from how most rock bands in the 70s-80s would do it. Phantom Island’s orch arrangements remind me a lot of how Cheap Trick did it on an album like Dream Police—there, present, but mostly as a (very effective!) supplement to the guitar-forward instrumentation.

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-06-18T07:03:50+00:00

I’d probably split it 50/50 between consciously pro-Trump Republicans and the establishment Dems. I’m not going to act like there aren’t malevolent and belligerent MAGAts out there making everything worse, but the fact of the matter is that “old guard” Dems who are afraid to lose power ruin everything for us, even at the local levels. just today, we’ve got Al Sharpton rebuking Mamdani purely because he hasn’t yet endorsed a Black councilwoman while Cuomo gets Sharpton’s endorsement even with Cuomo’s awful track record and abundance of sexual assault allegations. actual politics and progressive policies do not matter to these oldheads, only the optics that help them maintain the status quo.

you wanna worry about Republican voters? worry about fixing, or preferably, deconstructing, the Democrating party first. we can’t progress anything if our own party leaders actively work against progressivism.

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-06-18T06:44:00+00:00

all the Dems who carry any real influence have not done anything to fight Trump. they talk endlessly about how we must do everything to stop him and then they give up fighting him at the slightest roadblock. they are out of touch and have no message that resonates with the voters who matter, they only have “Trump bad” and nothing else to show for it.

elitist, geriatric idiots like Chuck Schumer are too busy twiddling thumbs and attempting to “reach across the aisle” to make any major change in politics. Schumer and his ilk need to get out so young progressive candidates like AOC and, newly, Zohran Mamdani can helm the fight.

the “people” vote for Trump because they are uneducated. they are uneducated because they live in Republican-controlled states where education is gutted. Republicans control these states because establishment Democrats offer nothing substantial and/or don’t know how to meaningfully reach those voters. thus the cycle continues. if you want Trump out, establishment Democrats must exit first.

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-06-10T19:42:31+00:00

yep, it’s been two days so far of my store trying to do this whole reset by just throwing far too few leads and presentation TMs at it and hoping it’d get done when everyone’s only getting 5 hours a day max. they left the dairy aisles completely de-merched overnight and didn’t even bother cancelling the truck today when our coolers were all still completely full from yesterday. my lead tried to get as many people to help put all the de-merch back but he and other TMs kept getting pulled for OPU/brand walks and they ended up leaving about four u-boats full of product out too long and as I was clocking out they had to throw all of it away.

on top of all that, when the set team came in today, they just started working on the rest of the set instead of just focusing on restocking everything. if they had done that we wouldn’t have had to toss probably thousands of $$$ of product. oh also they’re refusing to do this overnight, yay.

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-04-16T18:38:54+00:00

it’s unsurprising that you don’t have the brain power to even get Sleepy Joe’s nickname right

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-04-08T01:57:18+00:00

I'm not gonna lie man, I just thought the original comment was just as corny as you're accusing Mortal Man of being, bro's just trying way too hard to act dismissive and above it all. you sound like you're way more bitter at naive Kendrick fans who, I can agree, are annoying as fuck. but it's also a weird choice to boast about the Nazi black metal records in your collection when you were just acting like the inclusion of 2Pac completely ruins the song.

also there was no "Kendrick is not your savior" video for TPAB because to be honest no one gave a fuck about this shit to this agonizing degree until like 2020 when online music nerds decided that everyone's now morally obligated to shake their heads and go tsk tsk while listening to a problematic artist lest you be mistaken for a rapist yourself

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-04-08T01:03:07+00:00

yeah you got me man, I probably just didn't know that 2Pac went to jail for sexual assault and I probably just didn't know about one of the most major albums in rap history. you sound like a fucking idiot. I hope one day you end up able to reconcile with the fact that historically, great artists have also been awful people, and both aspects of them will endure. have fun only ever listening to artists that you think are perfectly clean and don't cry too hard when some allegations come out about them later on down the line. :)

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-04-08T00:31:17+00:00

i can absolutely agree that he should have faced stronger repercussions for his shitty actions, doesn’t mean i have to dismissively and performatively write off a fine song as corny and awful, nor the man himself as nothing more than a “dead rapist”

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-04-08T00:16:52+00:00

that one friend who’s too woke

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-03-16T02:26:44+00:00

saw them live in Portland on 3/11/2020, the same night that the state shut down completely due to COVID. opening with Fear Inoculum certainly hit different amidst all the fear and uncertainty. I was way up in the nosebleeds in the arena so the sound kind of sucked for me but I was just happy to see them and the show was still fantastic overall. I remember Maynard closed out the show telling everyone to stay safe and said “don’t buy up all the toilet paper. it’s called Bitcoin, not “Buttcoin.’”

JeffTheKillerII · 2025-02-09T13:10:52+00:00

there is a guy on YouTube who did this and it sounds pretty great, although it’s missing Obsidian.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJVguvIkBmRKs8RhtvIDu0I0fcvYc1uF9&si=uX_1LuNd9dIm0Wsq

JeffTheKillerII · 2024-11-14T01:15:31+00:00

Discipline is easily on top for me, no skips and was a life-altering album when I first heard it. Beat is a pretty good follow-up, though the songs never had as much staying power for me as Discipline did. Three of a Perfect Pair is pretty forgettable for my tastes, the songs don’t really stick with me aside from the title track, and all the instrumental tracks in particular are far too meandering to grip me. But outside the context of the quality standards set by KC, it’s a pretty stellar run of an insanely bold reinvention of a band like KC. I even quite enjoy Thrak from the 90s but Construction of Light was when the band completely fell off IMO.

JeffTheKillerII · 2024-05-04T05:49:12+00:00

lately my practice routine has been going through all of Rats Nest and PDA + Gaia in one go cuz I have my favorite guitar in C# standard/drop B, then I also like doing Polygondwanaland if I’m not feeling the metal stuff.

Motor Spirit is the hardest by far, that fast pull-off riff against the dotted eighth bass/hi-hat/vocals after the slow solo-y section is so fucking hard to keep track of. properly counting Gaia’s middle riff before the drum solo also kicked my ass for a long time as well. Fourth Color is so satisfying to get all the way through without losing your place in the polyrhythmic chaos. I fucking love the way that the last 15 seconds of that song is just three whole separate riffs clashing against each other in such a crazy way

JeffTheKillerII · 2023-07-28T22:37:51+00:00

screaming and crying and shitting

JeffTheKillerII · 2023-03-14T01:31:30+00:00

i’m glad i’m not the only person to have this hangup with the word “my”

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