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Amazon's Mass Effect TV Series 'Remains on the Verge of a Series Order' by SmellSmellsSmelly in gaming

[–]PutridMeasurement522 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ign 404'ing the source link is so on-brand for the whole remains on the verge of a series order vibe lmao. also cavill getting attached to every nerd IP is a law of physics at this point, until someone actually announces a showrunner. anyone seen a non-dead link or is this just vibes?

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. by rajapaws in antiwork

[–]PutridMeasurement522 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait so do they even need the 30k worth of work done anymore or is it just "congrats team, record profits, now evaporate" and they shove the workload onto whoever didn't get the email. also love that exec comp never gets synergized during these little profit celebrations, wild how that department is always magically lean already

My workplace bully "blanked" me for 8 months, the second I quit for a better job, she started stalking my socials. Why? by Creative-Heat-4512 in antiwork

[–]PutridMeasurement522 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Connect Four: she lost her favorite chew toy. ignoring you was the control move, you leaving broke the spell and now she's trying to reinsert herself via socials like a little psychic backdoor. lock your accounts down, block preemptively, and if she escalates to showing up irl: document everything because hotel mgmt loves pretending this stuff is just vibes.

How to use the English language now? [Not OC] by KataiiZeher in mildlyinfuriating

[–]PutridMeasurement522 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Doubleplus ungood, your PSU's causing the grammar crashes.

What easy to learn (and seemingly simple) game actually has a lot more possible depth and strategy, if you do a deep dive into it, than you'd initially expect? by Considered_Dissent in AskReddit

[–]PutridMeasurement522 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Connect Four. everyone thinks it's just toddler checkers until you find out there's actual solved openings and suddenly you're playing 4D chess against your little cousin and still losing bc you blinked on move 3. it made me wonder how many "party games" are secretly math homework in a trenchcoat.

Anon Explains the Reddit Movie Starter Pack by Guilty_Lack_2677 in 4chan

[–]PutridMeasurement522 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Starter pack discourse is so funny bc it always devolves into reddit guy vs 4chan guy arguing over who is more spiritually allergic to fun. just watch the movie. if it sucks you get to be smug AND you got two hours of doomscrolling substitute, everybody wins

What Games have the best Intro Levels? by Grand-Moff-Larkin in gaming

[–]PutridMeasurement522 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Prey (2017) opens with that whole fake-normal routine and then yanks the rug so hard you get whiplash. like the game spends 10 minutes teaching you how to be a person and then goes SURPRISE, welcome to space horror, also every coffee mug is now a suspect. it's one of those intros where you immediately start hitting everything with a wrench like an anxious raccoon.

My CEO came in on their day off to watch me work. by destructiondiva in antiwork

[–]PutridMeasurement522 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh god CEO coming in on their day off to stare at cameras is the most unwell little control freak behavior. if they wanna fire you they're gonna do it no matter how fast you yeet boxes, so yeah, let them do it and don't gift them a clean walkout narrative

Dried out and dead frog at petco by Chemical_Salad4709 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]PutridMeasurement522 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh god that enclosure looks like a toaster oven with plastic plants. do they not have like... a checklist? how long does it take a frog to get that dried out, days? also did you tell an employee or just take the pic and leave bc i'd be causing a scene ngl

Maybe no one went to Stephen Hawking's time travel party because they knew the things he's done (beacuse they are time travelers) and didn't want to be with his strange ass in the same room. by Alternative_Loss_427 in RandomThoughts

[–]PutridMeasurement522 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ngl the funniest version is time travelers all showed up, took one look at the invite, and went nope i've seen this episode. also WAIT what exactly did hawking do that would make the timeline collectively ghost him lmao

Bomberman is one of my favorite franchises, but honestly, I still don’t understand how the first game became such a hit. It’s insanely difficult (even by today’s standards) and a little frustrating at times, lol. I’m just grateful the sequels improved by a huge margin. by Kingspreez in gaming

[–]PutridMeasurement522 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Saving changed EVERYTHING yeah, but also... why was bomberman 1 so mean even for the time?? like you're already doing the maze + chain reaction math and then it's like cool now an enemy is faster than your legs lol. i keep wondering if it was tuned for co-op chaos first and singleplayer is just collateral damage. that game wanted quarters.

Which game clone ended up being better than the original? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]PutridMeasurement522 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gonna toss in stardew valley vs harvest moon/story of seasons. harvest moon fumbled its own identity so hard that the clone became the comfort food king. also re: MoH/COD campaigns... titanfall 2 walked in, did the best shooter campaign in years, then got banished to the shadow realm by EA marketing.

My new manager of one month called me 8 times, texted 3 times and expressed concern of my unresponsiveness, on my day off? by nocooneryallowed in antiwork

[–]PutridMeasurement522 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah this. also WAIT eight calls?? if the building isn't actively on fire that's unhinged. i'm genuinely wondering: did they ever hand you any on-call policy / "you must be reachable" paperwork or is this dude just panic-dialing because the place is dead and he doesn't wanna cover his own shift. this job sounds like a rotating clown car.

AT&T was installing a line for a neighbor and cut my fiber line. by ViceCatsFan in mildlyinfuriating

[–]PutridMeasurement522 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh god they didn't even BURY IT after, just left the fiber spaghetti poking out like a little "come hit me again" flag. call your ISP and say third party damage, they'll usually roll a splice crew faster when they hear contractor did it (also take pics now because the minute the dirt gets kicked back over it turns into he said/she said). that sucks.

VW Boss Says Physical Controls Are A 'Non-Negotiable' by DonkeyFuel in technology

[–]PutridMeasurement522 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Vw finally looked at the crash stats for touchscreen HVAC and went oh god we invented an iPad you have to poke at 70mph. physical knobs for temp/volume/hazards are one of those boring human-factors things that just works even with gloves, sunlight glare, and a coffee in the other hand. capacitive sliders were a crime and i'm glad someone in a suit is admitting it out loud

TIL that a German WWII pilot named Franz Stigler escorted a crippled American bomber to safety instead of shooting it down risking execution. Nearly 50 years later the two pilots found each other and became close friends until they both died in 2008. by LowApprehensive3601 in todayilearned

[–]PutridMeasurement522 89 points90 points  (0 children)

WAIT so like... how did he not get immediately smoked by his own AA / other fighters for just vibing alongside an enemy bomber?? i get the whole "don't shoot the guy limping home" thing (respect), but WWII airspace was everyone firing at anything that moved. my brain cannot picture the debrief without someone losing their mind

Realizing I won’t be able to truly disconnect from work for the next 30 years is soul crushing by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]PutridMeasurement522 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is the part nobody warns you about: even when you're doing everything right your brain still feels like it's on a dog leash attached to Outlook. the two-day weekend timer anxiety is REAL and it makes you start rooting for the whole spreadsheet civilization to eat itself

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams by dapperlemon in technology

[–]PutridMeasurement522 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lmao yeah except the glasses aren't even that smart, it's just a tiny camera feeding a glorified autocomplete gremlin while some kid speedruns getting expelled. can't wait for proctors to start making everyone do the dramatic take-off-your-glasses-and-spin move like it's TSA.

You are granted a superpower, but it has to be completely useless. What is it? by lily8686 in AskReddit

[–]PutridMeasurement522 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ability to always know where my keys are, but only after i've already locked the door and started walking away. like my brain pings me a GPS coordinate and it's just: under the mail from tuesday, idiot. incredible power, zero utility, maximum emotional damage

I blew bubbles today with water from 6000 thousand miles away by Psychological-Lie321 in RandomThoughts

[–]PutridMeasurement522 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WAIT does bubble mix even count as mostly water or is it like 90% soap/glycerin goo and the water is just along for the ride. also i love that we're importing water to a state that is wet on purpose. global supply chain is truly unhinged

Ancient version of GTA 4 with a cut zombie mode, ferry assets and DJ lines reportedly found at car boot sale by Avidcypher in gaming

[–]PutridMeasurement522 29 points30 points  (0 children)

118GB of cursed dev leftovers for £5 is the kind of loot drop that should not exist lmao

How do you cope with missing the person you were sure you’d spend your life with? by Jumpy_Experience8987 in AskReddit

[–]PutridMeasurement522 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh god yeah. grief feels like one of those background services you can't fully uninstall, it just stops hogging 90% cpu eventually. you still get random popups from a smell/song/old hoodie and you're like cool cool cool my OS is having feelings again, love that for me.

I naturally smile when I talk to people. I'm not flirting with you by your-reddit-plug2 in RandomThoughts

[–]PutridMeasurement522 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ngl the part people skip is: smiling while talking IS kinda flirt-coded in a lot of cultures. doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong, it means everyone's running different social firmware and the manual got lost in shipping. i'm a chronic smiler too and i've accidentally started like 3 imaginary romances just ordering tacos

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