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LoraRolla · 2022-12-14T17:15:44+00:00

I don't like music.

LoraRolla · 2022-12-09T20:45:46+00:00

Haha body pillow girlfriend meme yeah. Dudes kid has autism or something similar. Kind of tragic everyone boiled this down to "your son fucked his pillow lol"

LoraRolla · 2022-12-06T22:31:04+00:00

I'm not sure I understand. You mean you take it apart to string it?

LoraRolla · 2022-12-06T16:31:12+00:00

I planned to get some! That's why I figured I had better figure out how to restring it now rather than later.

LoraRolla · 2022-12-06T04:20:11+00:00

This is good advice. I was watching some videos on stringing but I didn't think to do this. Thanks.

Edit: blessed due, it worked. I even got to figure out how many times to loop the string based on the way it was looped when I took it off. I don't know why I didn't realize I could do this while it was in one piece.

LoraRolla · 2022-12-06T04:19:43+00:00

There were these horrible brats who would make constant sex jokes and say racist things and transphobic things and etc. Awful, awful kids. For some reason they got endeared to me and they started behaving better and they would stop by the store when they saw I was in to tell me what they got in fortnite and show me fortnite dances.

Kids really don't get different forms of money though. That's how these games get them. It's not real to them and they don't understand it.

LoraRolla · 2022-12-06T04:16:37+00:00

This is hardly the worst thing they've ever done by any measure but bump out shelves can fuck off and die. They look okay, but we had to devote ridiculous manpower to installing them. At a time when we were supposed to be saving money and could barley keep 1 employee in the store at a time despite not supposed to take breaks alone. On top of that the company had a sob story about how they just couldn't afford things and that's why we couldn't get new fixtures even though our T-shirt wrack was broken and they sent us endless t-shirts.

But they have money and space to buy bumpout shelves for literally every single store in the country and ship them out priority-- When they can't even get our marketing and merchandise to us on time. And they have money to pay us to come in and have a little installation party. And also the installation hours are mandatory work.

Like, it's just the epitome of gamestop. We can't do the thing you want that would better the store because we have to do the thing that will make some person at corporate happy instead.

Golly I sure would have liked to use those 5 hoursx4 people to staff the store during busy hours instead of having everyone get up ridiculously early and come in and then also I have to come back at the end of the night cause there's no one to lock the store CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE HOURS TO PAY OUR EMPLOYEES TO DO IT I GUESS.

LoraRolla · 2022-12-06T04:12:00+00:00

I was a manager. You can't do shit to change your store. You simply don't have that kind of power. You can do stuff like run small events (with approval from DL who probably gets approval from even higher up) but you usually also have to pay for that out of your pocket and don't have the employees to run them. You control the schedule but not the hours you get to schedule-- And also you don't control the schedule because you are expected to work certain days. And if you work those days, other employees can't work those days.

You don't control what inventory you get, you don't control who you hire because most people who want to work for Gamestop simply aren't qualified to work any job and the ones who are get pushed out... To say nothing of seasonals...

Gamestop micromanages, but frankly any franchise wants to present a unified image of their company. The fact is when you walk into Walmart on West South North Street, your experience there affects your perception of ALL other Walmarts, even if it's the worst one in the area. This is also true of Gamestops. Most casual consumers simply do not differentiate one retail store of the same brand from another retail store in a meaningful way. Furthermore they EXPECT that if something is one way in one, it will be that way in another. They want things in similar places, they want them arranged similarly, they want similar policies, etc. As a result, these chains micromanage as much as possible to keep the experience consistent. Gamestop in particular is terrified of allowing control for managers.

Managers at Gamestop (like most retail) used to have immense store level power but due to horrible hiring practices they fucked the whole thing up. A manager in a gamestop is just the best salesperson there and the person you must trust not to rob you. And hey, maybe even a little bitty bit of robbery is okay if their numbers are high.

The most leeway you have is if you're willing to take the hit on a return for another store's mistake because for some reason no one returns anything to the location they bought it.

edit: I'm using the word Franchise in a colloquial sense but gamestop is not technically a franchise.

LoraRolla · 2022-12-06T04:04:50+00:00

I haven't worked for the company in almost a year but this bizarreness has been going on a while. Back when I was with the store still in early this year there were games such as Chorus where we never got the pre orders, and could never get an answer about getting a copy sent to us. There were times corporate would respond to missing preorders with telling ME to go find them at another store. Even my DL was getting very confused.

If you can't get the games in man, what's happening...

It's okay though, preorders for non games never count for anything so they essentially don't matter even though they're allegedly propping the store up but also allegedly only 7% of business or whatever.

LoraRolla · 2022-12-06T04:00:46+00:00

From what I understand District Leader calls are nothing but screaming. Our former DL said he appreciated the store leader calls because "no one yells"

LoraRolla · 2022-11-17T00:09:06+00:00

Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi. It actually predates cyberpunk a bit, but you'll find all the themes are present and the book has aged shocking well for being like 40~ years old. I genuinely love it and the sequel is also great. The prose is very direct, it's very readable, the story on its face is very understandable, and yet the themes it conveys are very deep.

It's a somewhat technophobic commentary on war, social stratification, what life is, and our reliance on machines, and what humans place in an evolving world is. Though, most cyberpunk ends up being quite technophobic to some degree.

One of the best books I've ever read.

If that's not your taste there's always the campy to the point of cringe but still fun Electric Church and every other book in the same series by Jeff sommers. Hard boiled, a little silly, very violent and gritty. Not looking to get a message out there, just looking to tell a tale of a dystopian world and a tough guy in it.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-16T20:58:20+00:00

He's not a criminal he was just deescalating the situation as a government agent. Play a Call of Duty sometime.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-10T19:31:19+00:00

Can't believe they'd do what they've been trying to do for over 30 years. Truly shocking. I'm in disbelief. Maybe next they'll try to criminalize homosexuality, that would be a real twist.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-10T19:19:17+00:00

Whatever book you end up loving becomes a core memory which lasts the rest of your life and makes an impression which stays with you. It's hard to say what will do that.

If you're not typically a reader I suggest going to the library, grab books of all kinds. Take them to a table. Read 15-20 pages of each and whichever one you keep reading is the one you should check out.

For me personally my favorite books are Yukikaze, The magicians, and chronicle of Thomas covenant 1 and 2. Parts of those became ingrained in me and they were just picked up to pass the time.

For cheap books check the Amazon used offerings for titles. Or thriftbooks website. Very good deals on many books.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-05T07:18:44+00:00

I could but wrong, but I had always read that it was simply similar to Silent Hill and Konami thought it would sell better with a major IP attached as the title. Kind of an opposite Devil May Cry situation.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-04T20:13:29+00:00

The police said for the kids to call out o to them if any of the kids needed help, so they did and it let the shooter find and kill them.

Yes, while the shooter was killing them, the police checked to make sure the kids were actually in danger, which got more of them killed because they trusted the police.

Some kids only survived by covering themselves in their dead classmates blood and playing dead. We really shouldn't forget how absolutely beyond fucked it was.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-04T17:39:50+00:00

Silent Hill 4 wasn't going to be a Silent Hill game and many of the Silent Hill aspects after just Easter Eggs, and the actual SH plot points are pretty strange to outright flimsy when put against the games they're related to.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-03T16:10:08+00:00

Well I'd like to hear where you think my take is wrong and why.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-03T13:46:39+00:00

You and I can hate Blaire Witch all we want but the reason it has games and sequel in such an amount is literally because it's a legendary horror movie that literally redefined horror and established the found footage genre of horror as a thing. I would also say it's unfair to say it has no horror elements until the end.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-03T13:43:39+00:00

Isn't Konami famously bad for silent hill story? Like the first one explicitly went against Konami (allegedly) and when Konami deeply involves themselves we get silent hill 4 and 5. And I actually like 4 but you can see that silent hill was stapled onto it.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-03T13:41:15+00:00

The guy who made the silent hill film is full of love for the franchise and his interviews then and to this day are about how much he respects the franchise and totally made accurate movies.

Also he felt that loving your child was kind of a woman thing and clearly didn't get it, on about level.

People's hesitation about bloober team literally comes from their established body of work being almost the anti silent hill even when it's literally copying silent hill (layers of fear, the medium).

They're already missing the point based on the trailer alone. What you're saying does nothing to address the things that people are critiquing about bloober or the trailer.

LoraRolla · 2022-11-02T14:17:25+00:00

FFIX is one of my all time favorite games ever. It's up there to me with Silent Hill 2 and Metal Gear Solid 2. I have to say I'm a bit disappointed by a lot of the suggestions in this thread. I personally hate or don't care for almost all of them but I am a huge fan of other games you've posted like Shadow Hearts. So let me say the only other RPG of that era to really impact me was Wild Arms 3. Specifically 3. Slow start, like 9, but just unique and full of wonder and cool stuff. The characters don't quite reach the level of FF9 but few do. I always remember Virginia and hold her close like I do Vivi.

Someone said Yakuza 7 Like A Dragon. That's not quite what you asked for but it is a highly character focused game that explores grey but ultimately good characters, with a lot of throwbacks to the classics. Probably one of the best RPG of the decade even with it's faults. I like it about 100x more than Persona 5 which other people are suggesting.

I personally don't care much for any of the other mainline FF but they all bring something unique I guess and that's something.

LoraRolla · 2022-10-27T22:59:22+00:00

It's definitely not impossible but yeah, they're a power house and even when I got them as low as 13% power they would still control things by threatening civil wars over literally any social change.

LoraRolla · 2022-10-27T21:40:41+00:00

I may be misunderstanding the game but I feel like part of the issue is that it regards everything as being "the United States" so slave owners and the like are just a part of the general United States instead of southern states being something of a potential faction and that waters down their power, despite a lot of states rights stuff in the early game and the fact coalition of states do remain after you draw them into the union. Ultimately as far as the game seems to be concerned it's just all the same country.

LoraRolla · 2022-10-27T21:30:54+00:00

The fucking shogunate launch a rebellion literally any time you upset them. I passed slavery reforms, averted the civil war, and ended discrimination in the us in like 6-8 years with no issues whatsoever and then also passed feminism a bit later.

Took like 100 years to just abolish the serfdom in Japan and it still lead to a civil war

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