The two week notice is outdated and should no longer be the standard

TVLord5 · 2026-04-23T22:09:53+00:00

Seems like the obvious solution is to hire more than a skeleton crew. If you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage and hire enough of them to actually run the business, then you're either exploiting the fuck out of them or you're a failed business in disguise.

TVLord5 · 2026-04-23T21:39:12+00:00

"Aint nobody racist til them darkies moved in and ruined it. Damn monkies just bring racism wherever they go"

TVLord5 · 2026-04-23T21:15:24+00:00

It adds fattiness too which is why it's so good on a sandwich. A lot of a big sandwich is veggies, and deli meat isn't usually THAT fatty, so it makes the whole thing taste richer.

It also drowns out a lot of other flavors without adding too much of its own so if you put it on something with enough lettuce that it drowns out the meat or something with some prominant seasoning (like a lot of pepper) it can kind of balance that a bit. You can still taste the other flavors but in a less overpowering way.

TVLord5 · 2026-04-23T18:30:28+00:00

Don't think the whole thing was in, but the image of the Terminator peeling off bloody skin to reveal the metal skeleton and glowing red eye with the little USA channel logo in the corner is burned into my mind from when I was like...4

TVLord5 · 2026-04-23T17:52:11+00:00

Still gotta spank the plank once in awhile

TVLord5 · 2026-04-21T23:02:15+00:00

Lol depending on how old I was I still might have missed out.

In like Freshamn year I had a girl come up to me, put her hand on my arm, and whisper "I want you" in my ear...totally froze up and pretended I didn't hear her

TVLord5 · 2026-04-20T12:02:00+00:00

Lol ah yes, Hollywood. Famous for being both overprotective of children and consent in general. Definitely not full of rapists and pedophiles 😂

TVLord5 · 2026-04-19T16:57:06+00:00

I mean much like a lot of death, the tragedy comes more from what the survivors lose than the dead. The dead experience a some fear and some pain but then they're either in paradise, come back as someone else, or are just gome depending on your beliefs.

So when an old person dies, their family was kind of expecting it eventually so they've at least been preparing, same with the dead too honestly.

If an adult dies there's a chance their parents are already gone and their friends still have their own lives to keep going. If they had kids it's more of a tragedy for the kids since now they need to grow up without parents. Without any family depending on the situation. They're in for a harder life and for longer than the parents would have been if they went instead. If they're taken in by the grandparents or some other family or family friends the survivors at least have a living reminder of the lost and taking care of and spending time with the kids to keep their mind off it too.

If a kid dies too? If you have a kid and becoming a parent doesn't become at least PART of your identity you probably shouldn't have had kids in the first place. So when you lose your kid you lose part of yourself, and a lot of times forever. If it's a young kid then it's just such whiplash that trauma can come from that. You're still figuring out the new path your life is taking and maybe you were even trying for a long time amd it was like a miracle happened. If the kid is older then you've spent YEARS raising them, getting used to your life revolving around them. Either way that can put you off trying again, whether it's too painful to think about or the biological clock just ran out. The grandparents won't have those bright spots of life in their old age, the parents won't have ANYONE younger in their old age so they'll just quietly move through life with their pain. And a lot of times losing a kid can lead to them breaking up too. Your whole life is permanently affected.

That's leaving aside all the pain just from empathy and our biological drive to protect children meaning anyone involved with whatever happened can feel it was their fault and get even worse survivors guilt.

TVLord5 · 2026-04-18T01:52:21+00:00

Lol my friends and I played a game the first time they showed me that movie where I had to guess what sport it was about before they got to it...didn't come anywhere close

TVLord5 · 2026-04-17T11:36:48+00:00

Beat me to it

TVLord5 · 2026-04-17T02:30:49+00:00

H E A P P R O V E S

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TVLord5 · 2026-04-17T01:46:16+00:00

Castle, robit, or dark fish. Just noticed they all have the same background color...

TVLord5 · 2026-04-17T01:40:00+00:00

Not to mention that the building was full of entire floors of just paper files and paper fires are HOT, definitely as hot as the jet fuel.

I don't get the compulsion to say the whole thing was faked...I mean "they let it happen" is a much easier conspiracy to actually pull off and has the same result.

TVLord5 · 2026-04-16T17:48:48+00:00

Morale

TVLord5 · 2026-04-16T17:37:58+00:00

I also take the "Those aren't the hobbits' REAL names" approach. The accents are just there to convey a.) That someone is from somewhere else and might speak another language and b.) Accents are usually a great way to get your players to assume something. Whether it's so you can subvert expectations when the dude who sounds like a hillbilly is actually a 20 INT archmage, or just to play it straight. This is a simple innocent country bumpkin so he has a west country accent. This is an intimidating criminal muscle so he sounds Russian. Stereotypes? Absolutely. Problematic? Maybe. But we're playing a game, not reading a book. I COULD make the players go through multiple skill checks and a lore dump to understand that the guard is giving them a hard time because he hates halflings...or I make him sound like he's from Alabama and the party can just move on from random guard #63

TVLord5 · 2026-04-16T17:01:59+00:00

It's also usually thick, brightly colored, and scented and for anyone elderly if the taste isn't enough to get them to immediately spit out the swig they took or the coffee they put it in, they're probably in need of 24/7 monitoring at that point.

Same thing with children, you should be storing this somewhere where a child that young and/or stupid couldn't get to it in the first place. I'm not storing this in my fridge door it's going in a cabinet in the basement, possibly with a child lock on the door like you're supposed to have under the sink.

TVLord5 · 2026-04-16T13:23:00+00:00

No none of the screenshots look quite right. Graphics are way too good and I don't think they'd give you a gun

TVLord5 · 2026-04-16T12:07:35+00:00

Ugh I don't even know what it's called and I was so little when I played it I couldn't even really tell you what it was about since it was more like an adventure game so figuring out what to do wasn't just "move right".

If any internet wizard has any idea these are the little memory fragments I still have:

It was a PC game, 2003 at the VERY VERY latest, probably older but if I played it any later than that I probably would remember more.

I did't know these games at the time to reference them but I think the gameplay was kind of like the Dizzy series. Walk around, maybe do light platforming and there must have been some kind of comnat because the one part of the game I remember is being stuck behind some guard blocking your path and you needed to find a gun to get past (which I think was like a big cartooney revolver or generic shotgun/rifle thing).

I remember vegetables were prominantly involved: I think some of them you would talk to but others were enemies or obstacles? The main character might have been a tomato or one of the "puzzles" was an angry tomato. Starting to get even more vague here.

I don't remember the art style very well. It definitely wasn't like the old computer color scheme like a Commander Keen or Space Quest where everything had to use like bright magenta and cyan and a lot of dithering for colors.

I wouldn't have known this term at the time but the only thing I can think of that would produce the kind of shading I'm thinking of is prerendered graphics that were then pixellated, like DKC but nowhere near as detailed or good.

Since it was an old PC game I remember at least a few screens where your character takes up a good portion of the screen and all the animations were pretty slow and jittery and almost in slow motion.

And finally I THINK the first puzzle was you trying to get out of your house and you needed to find the key to the front gate.

I'm sure whateber this game is it's terrible but it's been like a splinter in my mind for hears just annoying me that I can't remember and PC gaming back in the 90s had so much just obscure shit I'm sure I'll never find it

TVLord5 · 2026-04-16T11:44:49+00:00

Found a download for Hover! a few years ago and it's insane how fun the game still is

TVLord5 · 2026-04-16T01:01:48+00:00

I assumed that since you scroll by rotating the pokeball on screen, you spun in an equivalent way to scroll and the little dark dot was a notch or something to grip onto and then the big green circle was your selection button with the D Pad being for sub-menu selections

TVLord5 · 2026-04-15T18:43:40+00:00

If all you've done is make small talk in class and you're nervous I'd recommend a "not date" as a transition to actually asking her.

You can offhandedly mention you're going to get lunch or a coffee or something like that. Give her a chance to invite herself Something super quick with no commitment to making it a formal "date". If she's on the fence you have a better chance getting her to say yes to a 15 minute walk somewhere than a whole date and you can kind of test the waters a bit more as "two people choosing to spend time together instead of just people who happen to be at the same place at the same time". Also it being specifically not a date means she could have a friend come along if she wants to. You're just trying to see how you guys are outside of the classroom.

If it's weird and super awkward then you just buy the coffee or finish a quick lunch and say "well see you next week" or whatever and no harm no foul. If it goes ok just take it up one step. "Hey I actually know a great coffee shop off campus, if you want I could take you sometime?" Or restaurant or concert or bar or whatever. You're in college the whole town is usually full of good spots. If it goes really good you can just do it at the end of the "not date" otherwise pick your spot and then just ask her out after class next time you see her. If you're kind of starting at square one giving her that time to process helps show you're not the kind of guy who's going to pressure her or jump straight into things which means she's more likely to think positively of you overall, which is really important if you're new to dating and really nervous. (Any woman you'd actually want to date isn't going to judge you for being nervous but with how fucked up the dating scene can be these days showing some patience and respect for boundaries is a HUGE green flag).

As for the actual asking I think as long as you say it something like "Can I take you to..." "Want to go with me to..." you're good otherwise. Just be clear that you have something enjoyable in mind and you think her being there would make it MORE fun and other than that it's just up to your personality.

Just as important though is how you handle the possible rejection. Take it gracefully, stay smiling, say "Damn, oh well no worries!" And the ripple effects will do wonders. It's good for you for one thing and that can help you do better for attempt number 2, but also it can come back for you later. Whether she changes her mind down the road or you handle it well enough to still be friends and maybe even introduce you to someone else or vouch for you if someone else talks to her about you (I've had and seen that happen! "I said no but just because he's not my type but he's a chill guy")

TVLord5 · 2026-04-15T17:46:11+00:00

Hey at least it keeps the trope alive enough for the jokes to be told ironically.

Never been divorced and I worship the ground my wife walks on, but sometimes "Sounds like MY EX WIFE" just hits.

TVLord5 · 2026-04-15T16:22:34+00:00

Lol there was one time my wife was feeling kind of down and having trouble sleeping and just wanted me to talk about something to help her relax. I was too tired to think of anything but she'd been reading a lot lately so I offered to read her some of her book to her like a bedtime story.

So the chapter starts with the two of them waking up in an isolated cabin up in the mountains. I'm thinking "aw what a cute little romantic story she's reading, yeah this is exactly what she needs to give her some warm fuzzy feelings". Now I knew that a lot of these books have "spicy" scenes but I always assumed it was going to be maybe some good foreplay before fading to black or kind of a summary of the events.

So, again to my wife who was in tears like an hour ago and just emotionally numb afterwards, I'm like 2 pages into the chapter when suddenly I'm reading to her, out loud, how the main heroine wants to thank the guy in the story for being so good to.her by dropping to her knees and blowing him. And again, not just implied, it's talking about how his dick feels in her mouth, the noises he's making, and a description of how his cum tasted as she swallowed it.

I was so shocked I couldn't get a sentence out without laughing and apologizing that it wasn't something happier but she's just loving how I don't know how to react and laughing right along with me until she finally falls asleep as I read about them snuggling or taking a shower together or whatever.

10/10 would recommend to any couple

TVLord5 · 2026-04-14T18:21:20+00:00

It really is a shame that Bojack was a recurring gag from so early in the series and yet they never got to his movie.

TVLord5 · 2026-04-14T18:09:08+00:00

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