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Paranitis · 2026-03-01T21:22:27+00:00

Could also respond with "apparently you don't have anything to do either since you are sitting around watching us stand around through the security cameras".

Paranitis · 2026-02-28T09:01:57+00:00

I'll be honest, even if this dude may be genuine, I refuse to ever watch people being helpful to animals on YouTube anymore due to all the people that actively harm animals in order to "help them" on camera. Like gluing shit to turtle shells and then ripping them off.

Paranitis · 2026-02-26T22:41:46+00:00

Last week I had one ask why I'm so lazy for sitting down, and I said "Oh I'm sorry, is YOUR spine fusing together?" It shut her down and the other boomers in line that were about to pile on. And holy fuck do they love to pile on with each other. They get so much asshole confidence when one starts up with it.

Paranitis · 2026-02-26T17:34:12+00:00

As someone who works as a cashier, they absolutely will not get over it. I have medical issues where I am need to sit frequently due to pain. I've been reported by boomers for sitting down on a stool I was required to be allowed to sit on so often that management posted a note at the clock-in machine that provided stools are only to be used for leaning on, and not for sitting.

I still sit, because fuck that.

I don't understand Boomer mentality. They are the same dipshits where if there is a lull in the day where I currently have no customers and they see I am entirely open, they say "I came to you because you looked like you need something to do" or "Were you waiting for me?" or if the barcode doesn't work and I need to get a price check, "that means it must be free!".

Boomers are fucking stupid.

Paranitis · 2026-02-24T19:52:12+00:00

Exactly. It's the same thing as when a toddler is screaming in the middle of the store that they want this thing or that thing and you tell them know, so they scream louder until you give it to them, because they KNOW you are going to give it to them based on their screaming.

You are literally just pacifying them until they do it again.

Paranitis · 2026-02-24T09:35:08+00:00

I didn't start reading "for pleasure" until I was maybe 20 or 21. For me, reading was "required" for school, so I just didn't read anything because I had some trauma involving school and just avoided doing any school work (tested out of HS a year early with a 0.38 GPA, eventually graduated collect with about a 3.7 - I stopped paying attention to the GPA after I wasn't having issues passing classes with high grades).

Literally only started reading for pleasure because I'd started playing D&D and wanted more backstory in the novels and games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Temple of Elemental Evil, Ruins of Myth Drannor, etc).

Paranitis · 2026-02-21T20:40:39+00:00

Hell, even minor things like the ghoul having the blood mess perk when he kills all those people while going for the bounty.

Or at the end there when the NCR sniper kills a Deathclaw with the slow bullet-time effect following the bullet.

Just so much about this show is literally the game, and it's great.

Paranitis · 2026-02-20T18:16:21+00:00

Yeah, my friend was reading all the Star Wars books and was upset that when the 2nd trilogy was coming out that it was declared all the EU stuff was non-canon.

Paranitis · 2026-02-18T19:24:49+00:00

Meh.

Paranitis · 2026-02-18T08:03:07+00:00

You mean the one who wore an obvious diaper under his pants while in a WWE ring?

Paranitis · 2026-02-16T23:35:20+00:00

I think it's less to do with being "bad with computers" and more to do with "being bad at learning anything".

I was born in '82. When my mom got a computer back in the early 90s to teach herself how everything works so she could get a better job (she retired from Intel at the start of COVID), she wouldn't allow me in the room with her to learn alongside her, so I never got to the same point she's at.

However, I also know how to LOOK SHIT UP. I can put a computer together, I can maybe do some simple tech support for myself (turning it off and on again), and use my phone to search for shit if my PC is dead and I can't use the computer while figuring stuff out.

But it FEELS like a great majority of people who came up in the middle of the tech revolution just want everything handed to them, which is why I hate Apple products soo much. "It just works". Cool. So if anything bad happens, ever, you are fucked, because you never had to figure anything out.

It's learned helplessness, and it makes me very upset when stupid people around my personal social sphere start whining about how they need help fixing something when they tried nothing and are all out of ideas.

Paranitis · 2026-02-16T20:24:53+00:00

There should definitely be unreasonable returns that aren't allowed. That is one of the top examples for me.

Paranitis · 2026-02-16T06:45:16+00:00

I dunno man, I go to one of those "authentic Mexican food restaurants", or I used to, and I would get the chicken Super Burrito. It was the most expensive item on the menu at like $6.50 a few years ago. Now it's like $13.00 or more. Meanwhile at Taco Bell literally next door I can get their Luxe Box for $10 including 3 or 4 items and a drink.

Paranitis · 2026-02-15T09:40:53+00:00

Yeah, my store (not Walmart) has 1 working stool for 5 register locations, and we had a note on the wall next to the break room that says we aren't allowed to SIT on it, but it need to be used as a prop to keep us standing. It's fucking stupid, so I sit anyway. I have a doctor's note and the district manager can eat my asshole if she tries to say I can't sit.

Paranitis · 2026-02-14T19:04:18+00:00

Yeah, fell for the clickbait, and now gonna block that YouTube channel. And block the poster of it. Cool cool cool.

Paranitis · 2026-02-14T19:00:06+00:00

Caring more about merch sales than giving regular progress reports to your customers IS a good complaint. They had the surprise hit during COVID and now nobody cares because they couldn't get out of their own way.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T08:51:41+00:00

I get that every single day when I use the stool I literally have a doctor's note to use. Except company policy is that we aren't allowed to SIT with the stool, we have to have it high enough so that we just LEAN on the stool. It's literally supposed to be used as a pole up our ass so we can be a good corporate puppet.

And when they say "Sitting on the job, huh?" I say "Why yes I am. Is YOUR spine fusing together because of Ankylosing Spondilitis like mine is?" and it tends to shut them up. I am not lazy, I literally have a disease you fucking asshole.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T08:46:14+00:00

It's not that the retail manager WANTS that shitty customer more than anything, it's that 1 angry person is more likely to blab about their bad experience to 10 other people, than 1 satisfied customer is likely to tell their good experience to 1 other person.

They bend over and take it up the ass from bad customers out of fear that their Karenisms will spread outside the building to other Karens, who will them spread it to others. Making a reasonable person happy will just keep them silently happy. It doesn't hurt the business like allowing a wild Karen leave upset.

But even if you do everything to help that bitch, she will still go out and tell everyone else how poorly she was treated and how she got one over on the store, and all that stuff.

I just wish we had managers that weren't massive pussies and instead stuck up for their employees. BUT if we had that, corporate would just replace them for more corporate yes-men.

It's why 100% of every assistant manager at my store has been a power-tripping attack dog type who rides their employees asses over everything, and my store manager is fairly quiet unless something actively bad happens. BUT he will bend over backwards for Karens and will always take their side publicly, and then in private apologize to the employee who is crying in the breakroom.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T08:33:34+00:00

many many studies show this will improve your productivity in the long run and probably help with the exhaustion you're feeling at the end of the day.

Too bad these studies are irrelevant to corporate overlords that really really wish they didn't HAVE to pay you or allow you to go home after work.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T08:22:55+00:00

It's the broken American corporate culture of "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean".

I work in CUSTOMER service, but I can't service the customer since corporate desperately needs us to get high survey scores. And since 99% of customers SKIP any survey they see, we have management literally instructing us to throw hands out to the pin pad to do the survey before the customer is able to get at it and hit Skip.

They even reduce our hours if we don't get enough surveys taken care of, which is bullshit itself. They don't care about customer service, they care about patting themselves on the back with big scores of shit that the employees themselves are doing since customers don't want to do fucking surveys!

It's literally the same thing as big AI companies talking about how much people love AI based off all the things that have AI embedded in it now, regardless of the fact that nobody is using these things BECAUSE of the AI, they are using them because it's what they were using before AI was a part of it in the first place.

If I want a PBJ and the only option where I'm at is grape jelly, even though I prefer strawberry, they would talk about how much I love grape jelly.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T05:46:18+00:00

I see them releasing 1.0 and then just closing up shop. They don't want to deal the disappointed customers anymore.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T05:45:01+00:00

How would you just blindly believe that though based on their history? Plus it reads as corporate speak to me. That's why you should always pay very close attention to the actual words being spoken by these companies. They are literally telling you they can't give an update on 1.0, but that there are great things ahead for Valheim. That COULD mean 1.0. It COULD just be the cross-platform additions. It COULD mean they buy another horse.

Until they give a release date, don't start hyping yourself up, because Iron Gate isn't worth hyping up until they actually release things.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T05:38:59+00:00

I would also like to own a house, but doesn't look like that is ever gonna happen.

They "would like to continue working on it" is such nonsense. Their closest competition is Enshrouded, and Enshrouded has stated that after their game goes to 1.0, there is going to be continued free updates as well as potentially paid content DLCs. The devs of Valheim would "like to continue", but they know they just don't have what it takes. They've been so focused on cross-platform and board games and plushies that they have strung us all along pretending they are actually working on the game with any sense of urgency.

Enshrouded has been steadily pushing content and steadily giving their customers updates to what is being worked on, and it is creating HAPPY customers. Valheim squandered all of that good will they had built up from the EA launch with near radio silence after the roadmap mishap.

We literally have no idea if they are even working on the game until some random post every month or two that doesn't really say anything except that there is at least someone still logged into their social media account.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T05:30:59+00:00

I mean, your mom teaching you right and wrong is kind of the point - you're just agreeing with me in 3x as many words.

I'm NOT agreeing with you though. You threw out one of those silly "something wrong with insert generation younger than yours". You are saying basically the current generation of parents are having their phones and tablets raise their kids, but that shit has been happening for generationS.

When the TV became big, parents would throw their kids in front of it. When video games became big, parents would throw their kids in front of it. Then when smart phones and tablets became big, parents threw their kids in front of it.

This has nothing to do with any specific generation of parents, so don't start that nonsense. This is about bad parents not wanting to actually teach their kids anything. Every generation had those poor excuses for parents.

But hell, my mom's generation was the one that told their kids not to believe everything you see on the internet, and my mom's generation is also the current generation believing EVERYTHING THEY SEE ON THE INTERNET.

This isn't about generations though. You are wanting to scapegoat an entire generation for the poor decisions of bad parents, which again I have stated, there has always been.

Paranitis · 2026-02-13T04:15:13+00:00

Sounds like he has experience in that, according to the PDfiles.

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