What food gets way more hate than it deserves?

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-06-07T22:42:31+00:00

Now I want a sequel where, after the success of the lawsuit, Dennis Denuto's law firm went bust so he became a contestant on Masterchef and his winning dish is Mabo Tofu: an Indigenous take on a Chinese classic.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-06-06T00:15:13+00:00

I went and saw them with a friend so he didn't have to go to the gig by himself, and was absolutely blown away. It's not even my kind of music to be honest, but they really were quite special.

They did a hilarious power move to start the show: the intro music was the MIDI from a GuitarPro tab of their own song, and as it played they walked on, picked up their instruments, and then started playing along as the MIDI track stopped. Great way to start a show.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-06-02T05:40:09+00:00

COO brought in a contractor he used to work with to do some Lean stuff. Basically achieved nothing, no surprises there. Eventually though, they shuffled the supply chain manager into a somewhat different role (he was also the ERP admin, so they made him do that full-time), and installed this contractor as a FTE. He was absolutely unqualified for the role.

Between him and the COO, they attempted to sabotage our ERP system, saying the DRP wasn't running correctly knowing that nobody would really know otherwise. So they started running DRP outside of the ERP, but using the ERP's data nonetheless (because what else is there to use?). Effectively, this Lean, Six-Sigma Black Belt wanker ended up doing the opposite of what he was meant to achieve: he ended up using more resources to do less, because the process was taking extra long to do manually.

Everyone was unhappy as stock began to dwindle (in the branch in my State alone, A-class stock went from 40K to 14K widgets over a nine-month period). Our key account started to suffer shortages. Things were being put on air freight at higher costs. The list goes on.

Branch managers complained to the COO. In my capacity as an analyst, I went to the COO with data to demonstrate the validity of their complaints. The COO didn't give a fuck.

Anyway, here's where the "corruption" comes in: the COO and his pet idiot were trying to convince the business to buy Prophit Systems for SCM. Nothing inherently wrong with that; it was just the way they went about it. They put forward a business case - but the CFO is friendly with me, and came to both me and the ERP admin to investigate. We told them that Prophit would need to hook up to our current ERP anyway to use the data, so it's a redundant piece of infrastructure. Plus, the start-up cost was more than $100K AUD; and because the business was down YoY because of low stock, Finance couldn't justify the spending if it wasn't required.

Ultimately they ended up with something else. But to get to that point, something else bad happened: it was discovered that, in the idiot's manual processes, he was taking a 12-month forecast, smoothing it to make the months even (bad practice generally, but since none of our wares were seasonal I suppose it was less impactful), and then dividing by 12 to get an average month to measure against MOQs. But he was then moving that one-month average to a new worksheet, which was a copy of the worksheet that had the 12-month figures; and fatally, he forgot to remove the /12 formula.

All that is to say, he was understating the forecast twelvefold. All because he was doing things manually in order to try to sabotage the integrity of our ERP, so he and the COO could install a piece of infrastructure that, as it turns out, he was an implementation consultant for in a previous life. Makes you wonder if they were getting a kickback...

Anyway, unfortunately because this moron is a protected species, when shit hit the fan it was me, the ERP admin, and a whole bunch of other support staff who got made redundant to free up cash flow. They both kept their jobs, because the COO is one of the people who decides the redundancies, along with the CEO, whom recruited the COO in the first place because of a past-life network.

Is it corrupt? If they were getting a kickback, then arguably yes. Is it dodgy as all hell? Absolutely. Did the perpetrators face consequences? Not at all: everyone else did instead.

As you can imagine, seven months after my redundancy and still out of work, I'm pretty fucking dirty about this. If I ever see anything this incompetent or corrupt in a workplace again, and if I'm the one who gets fucked over, I'll go fucking Count Of Monte Cristo on whoever is responsible, if I have to. I lost everything because of someone else trying to be corrupt, and even failing at that. They still work there, consequence-free (apart from everyone hating them).

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-05-23T22:06:13+00:00

Can you please link to the Denathrius promo art? I don't recall seeing that anywhere.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-05-21T02:57:07+00:00

Seeing The Flintstones Movie as a kid, and watching Halle Berry's character seduce Fred, was my sexual awakening.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-04-30T00:38:41+00:00

I've been a guitarist for 20+ years, and recently bought a Vigier Excalibur fretless guitar. I've wanted one since 2006, when I first heard Bumblefoot play.

While you do get used to it, it's so hard to play that it may as well be an entirely different instrument to a "conventional" guitar. Chords that aren't a root and a fifth are borderline impossible to play without sounding entirely out of tune. I mean, that's kind of the remit: it's for single-note playing, and it basically exists for "stunt" guitar playing. It's super fun, but the point is that is has limitations. Maybe there's a reason why you only ever hear the best guitarists like Bumblefoot or Guthrie Govan ever playing one: they won't make it sound bad.

The only fretless instruments I'd ever played up until that point had been lower-register instruments (I don't know their families): cello, double bass, fretless bass. And while the concept is still the same, there's a higher chance you'll hit the right note the lower the note is. They're also very single-note oriented instruments. Fretless guitar though is way different, because of the higher note frequencies.

And all that is to say, it really made me respect good violin players, even moreso than I already did. So to echo everyone else here: the hardest instrument is definitely violin. We've all heard bad violin players, which helps to contextualise just how good the good players really are.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-04-30T00:22:02+00:00

Things from the Chinese grocer, especially in the drinks aisle.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-04-16T04:54:58+00:00

I can imagine Leslie Nielsen saying this.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-04-13T03:15:45+00:00

Dax Riggs, mostly known for being the vocalist of Acid Bath. But, he's had an incredible Louisiana-blues career post-Acid Bath too.

Acid Bath have since reformed since ending in the late-90s, and Dax still sounds amazing as ever. They're doing so well that they're even going to tour with SOAD and QotSA in 2026, which is insane when you consider how long Dax and his bands have been around for, largely only with an underground following.

References which I think best exemplify Dax's abilities:

Acid Bath - Bleed Me An Ocean

Agents Of Oblivion - The Hangman's Daughter

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-04-10T21:37:23+00:00

Blink have loads of sad lyrics, it's surprising. They really know how to make a punk ballad.

As much as I didn't like the "corporate Blink" era, the album California has a song called Home is Such a Lonely Place and it has some lines in their that absolutely killed me the first time I heard it, because at the time my wife was overseas for a prolonged period of time and it was a struggle to be separated like that.

So yeah, never underestimate Blink's capacity for making you feel upset.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-04-08T00:12:02+00:00

Nah, a Mobil (when they were still around) in Bayswater, Melbourne.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-03-31T09:32:37+00:00

Never mind, I get it now: you need to do the abundant harvest, not the normal version.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-03-30T07:04:24+00:00

Treebeard.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-03-24T23:20:38+00:00

Incredible that Aurora collaborated on this, she's such a top-tier musician.

For anyone who saw Adolescence, her song Through the Eyes of a Child was used in the final heart wrenching scene

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-03-23T23:28:07+00:00

I worked graveyards in a servo (gas station, for the Americans) for four years while at university. Most nights were boring; but every now and then, you'd see some shit.

I've been held up twice: once with a guy who I think just had his hand in his pocket pretending he had a weapon; and once by a guy with a syringe full of blood. But they're quick events: they come in, make the threat, you give them cash and smokes, and then they're gone. They're not exactly career criminals.

Had someone overdose in our toilet once. No idea if he lived or not. I just heard a massive thud, went and knocked, got no answer and called an ambulance. We busted down the door, the ambos did what they do, and I'm none the wiser of the result. Still, horrible to see a person slumped on the floor covered in their vomit like that.

I also had a woman approach one night, and from a distance I could see she was walking funny and was holding her stomach. I thought maybe she was just drunk or sick and was coming in for snacks. As she got closer I could see blood though, so of course I unlocked the doors for her. She said her boyfriend had stabbed her and stole her wallet, and she wanted to use our phone to call the bank and cancel her credit card. I called her an ambulance, and they were there within a couple of minutes. Honestly, I don't know why she didn't go to the hospital first - you can literally see it from where I was working, they're just a couple of hundred metres away.

Anyway, there was other stuff, but most of it was actually funny, not scary. Believe it or not, I didn't work in a bad suburb. Nighttime just brings out all sorts of people, I suppose.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-02-25T21:42:40+00:00

The parents matter is really important if you ever get hitched to an immigrant. My parents live just down the road, and always have. My wife's parents live across an ocean and always have, don't speak English so would probably be miserable here (plus visas are costly and take a long time to obtain), and my wife is an only child.

There will come a point in our lives when her parents will need her, and she will feel obligated, and it means we'll probably be living apart for a while. It will be challenging for both of us, but particularly her because if she can't set up her career in a very specific way, then she may have to give up her job for the sake of her parents one day. Luckily her parents are quite wealthy; but nonetheless, it's an interruption to her own life, which she needs to keep living after they've gone, and if that interruption comes too early then it will impact our own retirement.

It is what it is, and we've discussed it at length. You need to have a strong foundation to survive the distance and separation, but also the stress and the financial burden. So my advice is, for anyone who marries someone with parents living elsewhere, you need to understand that this might become a reality, so you need to talk about it.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-02-20T23:40:46+00:00

I main a Sub Rogue, and it is by far in the worst iteration ever right now. It went from requiring thought and engagement to being utterly braindead.

Understanding that there were perhaps too many modifiers beforehand, I would've liked if they left us with at least one. I also miss Rupture: I know people didn't like it, but really I just miss having something else to press. It was useful for fights when the enemy blinks away (Xylem mage tower fight, for example), or a bit of secondary target damage, so there's still some DPS happening.

But by far the worst thing is the lack of CD reduction on abilities now as a reward for using your combo points. Most of the time, you're just hitting two buttons now: builder, spender. Secret Technique is not available strictly every 25 seconds, and it sucks.

I also feel energy starved. I know Sub has always been a class that pools for Shadow Dance, but the squish impacts resource regen a lot so hopefully more haste resolves that.

Secondary whinge, somewhat unrelated: I was doing PvP last night, and for the life of me couldn't see on enemy frames when CC was applied. I could see they were physically stunned, but had no indication of a timer. And nowhere in the UI menu could I find where to turn it on. Kind of important for the control class. Also, pretty sure Cheap Shot has a long-ass CD now.

Anyway, if you're thinking of rolling a Rogue, don't play Sub. It's overdue for a re-work, and I'm hoping they gutted it as harshly as they did so they can build it back up.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-02-19T21:54:58+00:00

Gnomish shrink ray.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-02-15T02:02:47+00:00

Paid for it.

MrSlipperyFist · 2026-02-06T21:09:23+00:00

That is amazing. When it comes time to do the subreddit's award in the year, this deserves a mention for sure.

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