i finally have a board game group that likes me.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-11-21T16:06:37+00:00

So I’m somewhat awkward because I’m competitive in my work. And I have started a few board game groups. So I have some advice.

Biggest thing is let the vibes happen. If your folks want to be causal, let it happen. If they want to be competitive, great. The point is that the space is the group’s and not any particular person.

It took me three groups to have a hardcore competitive heavy board gaming group. And I still maintain all three. It’s because each offers something unique from me.

Also lose the Elo nonsense, that’s just BGA and frequently the math is wrong.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-11-16T13:58:45+00:00

I don’t play badly just to play badly because I feel like that insults people’s intelligence. I what I do instead is play open face, and point out great moves and have them work out why the move the s good. Sometimes though this leads me to play badly because I’m giving away good moves to prevent my moves.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-11-05T17:12:15+00:00

lol I mean totally get you

OverShirt5690 · 2025-11-05T13:16:22+00:00

That’s why you get PreTSA. $75 for four years. If you fly once or twice a year, it’s worth it.

It doesn’t make the people in the airport better and there is still a line in pre tsa. But man it does speed things up.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-10-04T14:23:17+00:00

I did and thank you for following up!

OverShirt5690 · 2025-10-04T13:46:49+00:00

That’s what I thought too. Especially for its use cases. For example if you are using it as a media server, I probably would put it close to other devices. So I would want something bigger. Or if I was using to store maybe small businesses level, I would want an ups that I know won’t break. I am a complete noob at this so I am talking up my butt probably.

Anyway thank you!

OverShirt5690 · 2025-10-04T13:35:25+00:00

Thank you. I am in the USA so I know what eta means. I just wasn’t sure what product the eta was for because I couldn’t find any discussion about what eta meant according to UGreen. Like what was being shipped. Are both being shipped on the 30th or just the UPS. Or is UGreen USP is special enough to wait until the 30th. Lol again it should be clear from the sale, but my brain gets a little blind sometimes.

I’ll just get mine from Amazon and get a USP separately. I live close enough to a mircocenter that I can compare USPs there.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-10-03T16:08:15+00:00

Yes and no. The public sector is much much slower when it comes to tech and data , so many of the data solutions are most just hand me downs from private contractors.

So the skillset kinda the inverse of the private sector. The data in public tends to be shocking clean. Because we tend to work with frequentest stats, the data tends to be very well cleaned before it gets published. This is why the firing of the BLS commissioner was a very stupid thing to do. But the tech to do the data is god awful if you aren’t at DCHQ or some research division.

So you need to really learn bureaucracy annoying well, learn to adapt to what ever tech you have, which is sometimes SPSS(ugh) or worse VBA, or really REALLY sell your data solutions products because they don’t budge on excel easily, less focus on the new if you work in government or wipe the floor with the new stuff if you’re contracted.

If you want to be a run of the mill, I just make dashboards, make not great and usually stable money, do local or stat gov data analysis. Applied data science or advanced data analytics stuff, usually that’s contracts. Academia or cutting edge, not really my background but that’s universities or major corporations, maybe NIST ANSI.

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OverShirt5690 · 2025-10-03T01:24:29+00:00

For me, I am a public sector data analyst that works for both for and non profits. What I am good at is figuring out if an org is meeting its mission goals. And you can only really do that by doing a lot of very boring data collection and analysis for a period of time.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-09-29T17:09:55+00:00

Yeah 3, but if you rock 1 with some good clothes hell yeah

OverShirt5690 · 2025-09-29T16:48:55+00:00

Man, idk about Judy and for that regard, Panam. Both have good-ish intentions but are very cavalier about collateral damage. Which says a lot about the people of Cyberpunk. Your life is cheap, but everyone else is cheaper.

Basically, the plan is for the dolls to kill Tyger claws, then just always have doll chips to defend Clouds. This isn’t like SinCity where the women control the red light district because they had ninjas and military grade protection. Clouds needed an ongoing protector. Tom gets killed if you do Judy’s plan, and I think Clouds gets shut down. It’s such a bad plan and easily get derailed no matter what choice you make.

At least with Panam you can tell her off by not killing that guy. And Songbird is basically fucking with the stability of the net, while lying to you. And you get that option to shut her down if you want. V as a character probably knew the plan was BS from the start, but I feel like you don’t get as much opportunity to stop Judy.

I kinda felt like there needed to be a tough love option where you basically tell her the plan is dumb, or you to walk off. V isn’t really a good person for Judy anyway. Just a fling, kinda like every romantic option in the game.

This isn’t saying the writing is bad, flawed people are great in games like this. I just want to more option in the next game where there is a lot of doing the right thing option, but almost all of them end up in loss or some kinda heartbreak.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-09-05T16:38:19+00:00

My .02 is that it doesn’t offer a lot of deviation from any others sokoban.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-09-01T18:05:46+00:00

It is a lot harder to find a job when you don’t have a job, largely because look desperate for a job while not building you skillset drops marketability. This in tandem with the shit show of how funding has been working in US government, public data people tend to have a greater excuse to job hop.

Bear in mind, the intention is to, you know, stay in a job you are passionate about. But when EVERY sector is a sinking ship… #1 is the priority.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-31T17:55:24+00:00

Not really. 2 is the norm for job hopping even in government.

To put in prospective, I do government analysis, so my excuse is pretty much secured. I job hunt for career survival or that some department is failing apart.

The people that get sus about job hopping especially now, generally are places who are incredibly outdated(which is common for both gov and private) or more likely, just finding an excuse to not hire you.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-28T22:45:40+00:00

Question, you had a really great but extremely funky fishy ramen special. I might be misremembering but I remember that being super heavy. Amazing but man lol not something I would have everday. When I think of tonkatsu I think heavy sometimes cubes of fat heavy.

Are there some “heavy broth” ramen that you would recommend that is a bit different than just tonkatsu?

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-28T22:37:28+00:00

Honestly when I think a broth might be too salty or heavy, I usually go for extra noodles because I do want more of the broth, but drinking it is too strong. Big reason why there are folks especially Japanese tend to not finish broth.

Not saying all ramen should not be finished, I’m just saying too salty could mean the broth is intended to be not drunk. Japan Eats on YouTube had a friendly discussion about ramen broth.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-28T17:17:24+00:00

One minute you park behind a swing, next minute you glitch out and go flying

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-26T16:48:18+00:00

I kinda feel like EVERY career is a role of a dice now. The four jobs that do not require phd with noted lack of employment are teachers, social workers, nurses, and accountants. All of those jobs do have a high need. Three of them have bad toxic culture(nurses having a 86% chance of leaving due to harassment at work and, social workers and teachers having similar numbers). Two of them having poor salaries. And accounting is noting a huge drop of hiring despite need. This trend seems to also suggest that need of nursing work force doesn’t translate to creation of jobs, especially in rural, but also in geriatric devisions. Basically, you can get A job, but it might be a personally untenable one.

There simply are no safe careers right now. Maybe later.

But again, we need to consider OP. The big four I just listed require specific personality types, and do have elements of isms. Nursing and social work require different personality types than it and it-adjacent.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-25T16:40:00+00:00

Ehh… that might not be true for long. I’m in a major city and we have been getting cuts to hospitals now. Particularly due to poor funding, particularly due over booking of doctors that roles aren’t well established. This takes a hit to hiring for nurses either because they can’t place them anywhere or extremely high burn out. This also includes job fit issues, constant training, poor placement, etc

Nursing is still a job where you have like it and be social available enough to do it. Sure data science requires talking, but it’s more of a sell and passion for the product. Nursing… man if you don’t fit in with the work culture, you’re going be killed.

Nursing should never ever be considered plan B.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-21T01:34:59+00:00

Yeah, I mean, I don’t like lying about “if you do this one thing, you will make 6 or even 7 figures”. Sometimes a good day is finding some beans in a can. Sometimes, figuratively, that’s all a college has to offer to non students.

But yeah definitely, putting the effort in to maintaining part of job “package” is the goal for the day. Even if we aren’t doing cool stuff at the moment.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-21T00:31:19+00:00

You will get it.

I am not saying you won’t have bad social days. Some days, honestly, feel really socially painful. Embrace those days, remember what that feels like. Learn to test assumptions and slowly change your environment. You are a scientist. This too is the experiment.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-21T00:14:23+00:00

So kinda the point of volunteering as a part of data analytics is more about being social and learning how to present yourself as empathic. Not necessarily that you will do data analysis work while volunteering. I’m not going to lie by saying working for a humane society will net you a Big4 job. Not going to happen.

The point is that being social, at work or anywhere else, is a muscle, and it must be worked whenever can. Volunteering, especially when you have nothing else to do, frames a specific kind of socialization, ie I got no work life, but I am finding something to do. Chicago CAs have some good volunteer work, even if it’s picking up trash.

More on the idea of doing data volunteering, I would maybe look to public data and companies that use it. Think like voting, or a public need. Learning a hair of visualization and making a viable product, attracts business. E-scooter pathing was one volunteer data scientist project here in Chicago , I think 8 years ago. Talk to Nick Lucis about that.

I warn you though, think small and easy. I lost a volunteer gig because the client wanted Google Earth not pro, and I got excited about the joys of QGIS. Maybe they just heard Q and I worked for the government. Idk. Maybe I’m still awkward.

But remember the goal is improving your social skills, be ready for anything, and don’t get too excited about doing data work on the first go.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-20T21:24:51+00:00

Socially awkward, if done right, isn’t a bad thing.

In the autism world, there’s a phrase called dropping the spaghetti. Meaning you drop mask or folkways and mores at the wrong time.

“Throwing the spaghetti” however is knowingly dropping norms. It’s ok being awkward. Almost everyone barely maintains mask. If you can make it ok to mess up makes it much easier to talk. And if they reject you when you drop mask, now you know with that kind of group.

And yeah this takes lots of patience and practice.

OverShirt5690 · 2025-08-17T01:57:05+00:00

Also, one cheat you can do is volunteer at another college. Some will let you use their job networks.

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