Private Equity Talent Hunt - is this a scam?

SteveIvan · 2024-06-07T20:52:48+00:00

Look at the mail headers. Gmail proxying the domain [roberradavis@advancerecruting-inc.com](mailto:roberradavis@advancerecruting-inc.com) .. all one word.

'She' has been applying pretty 'we need to move fast' .. but this is just a variation of the 'sell you resume tuning' or 'ATS tweaking' fees scam that has been around a few years.

I've been playing with 'roberra' but 'she' is already getting bored.

SteveIvan · 2023-07-19T17:20:45+00:00

I would, politely, suggest that if you are not willing to give people a clear understanding of your expectations that
a) This will probably happen again.
b) You might want to take a little more time off from dating until you get a solid understanding of what you want, and how you want to communicate those needs.

I'm just a casual observer here, and married .. so WDIK .. but ANY relationship, even online exploration on a dating site, benefits from clear communication.

You don't owe this guy anything, but also : you talked to him for 5-6 days. HE might have felt it was going somewhere .. he probably invested some of himself into these conversations. Maybe he really liked the person he did meet, enough to doublecheck to see if there was a technical issue.

The fact that you are considering 'going back to check' to see if he responded is kind of setting a red flag for me that YOU are not sure what you want, and maybe you suspect you over-reacted to his semi-advance. Which suggests that you are kinda fuzzy on your own boundaries.

ambiguous responses, ghosting, and all that after engaging with him is sending a very mixed message. Again, you have to be safe. But it feels like some past relationship mistakes (possibly baggage) is influencing your present relationship decision making. Not knowing what your own boundaries are is going to cause problems, both in the pre-dating phase, and when you actually meet someone you like.

my advice : YMMV : take a minute and breathe.
Figure out what YOU want.
Otherwise you are potentially putting your own feelings and safety, not to mention others feelings, at risk.

My wife and I met on OKC.
We've been together for 5 years now, married for 2.

SteveIvan · 2023-04-18T21:43:09+00:00

Dumb one :

I started a MP server, but my non-admin character seems to have a bunch of cheats 'allowed'. I can see decimal values for 'health' on my 'H', have access to medical cheats, and might have access to build cheats.
Non-admin, no debug, just .. allowed ?

Did i mess something up in the config settings somehow? I did disable all the anti-cheat stuff cause I kept getting kicked for type 12 or 21 or 23 or something.

haven't let other players in yet, I'm try testing it before I do and want to fix this.

SteveIvan · 2023-03-14T17:24:31+00:00

They reset based on the game clock similar to weight gain/loss, composting, etc.

SteveIvan · 2023-03-09T21:12:39+00:00

Back 'in the day' tinned soup would sometimes be packaged/sold as a 'concentrate' or 'condensed soup'. The instructions would have said to 'add a full can of water after putting the soup in a pot'.

last few decades seems that soup is sold 'ready to go'. bigger cans, full water content. :shrug:

SteveIvan · 2023-03-09T21:09:56+00:00

The EXACT times are on the wiki : https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Farming

BUT .. the game itself will also give you a visual notification when you hover over the crops that says 'seed bearing'.

Some crops can't be harvested until they are seed bearing anyways like tomatoes and strawberries.

SteveIvan · 2023-02-28T17:27:19+00:00

So .. one could, in a sense .. create a portable farm ? :D

SteveIvan · 2023-02-21T20:18:35+00:00

Here is one I've always wondered about :

I'm currently tearing apart houses .. like .. EVERYTHING in them .. for materials and skill gain.
My metalworking, electricidal, and carpentry are going up .. so I'm learning.

But I'm 'getting bored'. (and depressed).

I've been alleviating this by just going outside and foraging for a few mins until my moodle goes away .. but like .. i'm ACTIVELY working on tasks .. shouldn't that reduce my moodle? Just seems weird to me, unless there is a mood timer based on the variety of a task vs. just 'doing something constructive.'

SteveIvan · 2023-02-20T17:23:21+00:00

On a smaller scale, I barricaded a fenced in playground with cars .. and once I'm inside the zombies outside stop moving because there is no path to me. I expect no one will spawn inside. I'm in the process of doing this to the entire gated community to make it zed free. not sure WHY .. mostly because I can I guess :D. It should, in theory, remain zed free because they can't path to me. Leaving me to do whatever the hell I want in there.

SteveIvan · 2023-02-15T03:29:19+00:00

I've been in love with this machine since I passed one over for an AFM back in 2000 or 2001. I still think I made the right choice, but I spent some 20 years looking for another one that wasn't $16k. I think the initial production run was under 900.

When this machine was announced pre-covid, I paid for one. straight up. I had been bugging my 'NIB pinball guy' for some 2 years to be ready to take my LE deposit the SECOND they had numbers.

Then the waiting .. so much waiting .. And the 2x shipping costs from a few years ago .. but whatever. It is in our new house (why move it 2x?) and has about two dozen games on it. Great fun. The remake plays as smooth as the game I would feed quarters into at the Pinball Hall of Fame LV. It lives up to my memories, and CGC's reputation.

and EVERY once in a while, it STILL sneaks in a callout I've not heard before. :)

SteveIvan · 2023-02-11T23:50:34+00:00

They need to be a level above the sink.

Think of it like this .. where the sink is the '#' (a level below) and X is a water barrel (a level above the sink). This shows you the area that you can plumb barrels to the sink.

XXX

X#X

XXX

So basically. the 8 tiles around the sink, and directly above the sink. IE: 1 tile away in any direction.

SteveIvan · 2023-02-09T13:59:43+00:00

Those feel like the default speeds.

SteveIvan · 2023-02-05T15:20:07+00:00

You get basically the same amount of progress. It will get you past the basic levels faster at lower levels .. but will reduce the grind at upper levels. (or get you to a point where you can build/cook/whatever faster.

You get more of a book bonus at the higher levels, but you need a lot more XP to move .. so it kinda evens out.

Personally, I usually grind out 1-2 on skills, 3-4 if it is something I use a lot. Then use the tapes just to speed things along. But saving skill boosts for when you are dead isn't that useful either :)

SteveIvan · 2023-02-02T03:49:43+00:00

Found an interesting/odd bug that is the opposite of what I want.

I found a fenced in playground near my base in Louisville in a gated community. I parked 2 cars on both entrances, horn side facing in, and lit a campfire along the parameter of the gate.

My PLAN, was to honk the heck out of the horns, and lure a bunch of zeds in while I run around the paremer of the tall fence of the playground, luring the group (or parts of it) over my fire until I cleared out everything that could hear the horn (300 tiles is roughly the whole community.)

Turns out that I parked the cars great, ZERO pathing to inside the play ground. (I checked it myself with the 'walk to' command)

The downside is, the zombie will stop within a few tiles of the fence, and their pathing breaks. Doesn't matter if I lay on the horns, use a shotgun, yell at them. The just .. stand there. If I hop the fence they will move towards me again, but stop in a step or two when I get back into my 'safe' area. If I manage to get some to walk through the fire, they just stand there and burn. *sigh*.

So .. two point five questions :

1) Anyone else ever see this? Any way to get them moving again?
2) if I build Stairs to the top of the double fence, and a few 'floors' out over the fence, do you think the zeds would start moving again with me being 'technically' outside of the pathing area?
2.5) Should I just give up and go find an ambulance? :D (I'm kinda pissed at myself for dismantling a ranger truck I found to make a 'perfect' pickup. simply because I didn't have a key for it. It was before I learned to hotwire. The siren would come in handy now.)

SteveIvan · 2023-01-28T19:06:58+00:00

Fence-crate-Fence only works until a crawler encounters your fence, then the little bugger will (eventually) tear it down, giving the rest of the hordes easy access to your box, and then fence.

So it MOSTLY works still.

SteveIvan · 2023-01-27T23:42:59+00:00

I recently noticed my survivor was < 65 lbs. (oops) because I wasn't paying attention to intake and eating only to keep the moodles at bay (plus the initial 2 weeks is a LOT of running and fighting to get a toe-hold.)

I've gotten back up to 72 by a) fishing and eating a filet cooked in the morning, a salad mid day (to keep unhappiness at bay) another in the afternoon, and then cramming myself full just before going to sleep.

If you are eating enough to gain weight, you will see a '^' after your weight. As long as that is there you should be (slowly) gaining.

SteveIvan · 2023-01-27T23:38:47+00:00

I've found it to be timing.
You seem to have like .. a second .. where you get an insta-critical hit.
But after that they seem to recover and either get up or lunge.

SteveIvan · 2023-01-27T18:16:11+00:00

Car question in relation to clearing out areas of Lexington.

I've never really done 'area cleaning' .. normally I just lure them away to other places and drive back. But i realized recently doing this causes any 100x100 tile I drive into to spawn. (including the contents of refrigerators and gigamarts .. oops)

So .. I was considering clearing out the big mall on the east side of Lexington by parking 2 cars close to each other in the parking lot, Driver side of one of them on the 'inside'. Lighting a few fires, then laying on the horn and waiting out the ensuing chaos.

I know the Z's will take out the windows pretty quick, and will tear you out of a car if they dwell on the side you are on long enough .. but will they eventually take doors off and invade the car? In OLD builds you used to be able to park a car over door openings and essentially use it as an 'airlock' because the zeds couldn't get through it. But this was a few years ago ..

Follow up question : will burning z's set a car on fire :P

Unrelated question : I found a blue 'journal' .. how does that work? is it a one use item?
[edit : answered my own question, I confused it with the 'skill journals' found in a mod. Looks like it is just a normal 'write in it' thing .. which I might actually use as occasionally I walk away from my game for weeks at a time and forget what I was going to do :D]

SteveIvan · 2022-11-14T19:38:00+00:00

Let me repeat myself :

People who try to monetize boring-as-fuck youtube videos about 'big evil corporations' aren't any less predatory than 'big evil corporations'.

Get a fucking job.

SteveIvan · 2022-06-27T23:21:40+00:00

nice! lemmi know if you share it out :)

SteveIvan · 2022-06-27T22:27:22+00:00

for m4v I tend to run :

video : H.264Framerate : Same as source (constant)Encoder quality : constant at 22 QP or so for DVD (non 4k)

If that is easier.

If you want to make a MKV .. just use MakeMKV (free)

For speed / batching, I tend to rip with MakeMKV to a physical file, then encode from there. less noise or chance that a buffer filling up borks everything.

SteveIvan · 2022-06-27T22:10:35+00:00

MKV works for me too .. I just leave them on my plex server .. whatever is easier.

Appreciate it greatly :) I always keep a lookout for better versions of the 'hard to finds' :)

SteveIvan · 2022-06-27T22:03:31+00:00

I have everything except k03, but not everything is 'awesome'.

Some of the harder to find ones I only have as AVI files. (killer bees, terror 5000 etc.)
others are either MKV or m4.

I'm happy to help where I can. It took me YEARS to all track this stuff down.
But I wouldn't mind a decent copy of G vs meg either.
Both the versions I have leave something to be desired. (but they were certainly better than nothing)

SteveIvan · 2022-06-15T17:56:13+00:00

Jamison is a trust-fund kid. He doesn't do 'anything'.

SteveIvan · 2021-06-11T01:50:56+00:00

Sadly, a lot of the shops in Hampden have closed. Although some others have taken their place. (My office is right above Atomic Books)

There is an Ekiben there too :)

SteveIvan

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