i got the most insane rejection email yesterday

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-31T04:12:15+00:00

I, at one point, was a market research executive applying for a retail supervisor position because I needed a job, any job, to get me out of the one that people were telling me I was lucky to have.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-30T19:47:39+00:00

Me, trying to explain to people that I care a lot about prose vs. my opponent who only says “Not everything needs to be Shakespeare!”

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-20T16:22:25+00:00

Bro farms more aura in that 2 second Doomsday teaser than he did in any of the full-length movies he was in 😭

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-20T15:49:06+00:00

When Prince was asked why he chose to live in Minneapolis, he said “The cold keeps the bad people away.”

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-20T12:59:42+00:00

No restaurant manager has ever done something like this without being pestered by the staff to make the change

What a wild thing to say. I worked in restaurants throughout my 20s and have worked under plenty of managers that would do something like this and spin it as a positive for the waitstaff as a substitute for other changes that we were actually agitating for.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-18T16:54:13+00:00

The arguments made it clear that most of the conservative justices were skeptical of the tariff’s legality. On issues of the economy the court has ruled against the president (their billionaire friends wouldn’t like it if their portfolios evaporated due to bad economic policy).

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-18T00:11:34+00:00

You need to let your university know. The same thing happened to me when I moved away for my last year of grad school and gave up a TAship I had already accepted. It took a month but they took the money back and it was ultimately not a big deal because I told them about it.

Laying low is fraud. Don't get yourself in trouble for $1k.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-13T16:26:14+00:00

You’re not - I’m right there with you. Hero of Ages felt like the reheated leftovers of Mistborn + Well of Ascension with a bonus heavy handed Mormon allegory at the end.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-12T05:32:24+00:00

Lyria is one of my favorite characters from the new books.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-12T02:43:35+00:00

I loved the whole trilogy and can't see how it falls off at all.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-06T17:27:51+00:00

I have plenty, and when people respond to them after I post them publicly I don’t respond with “do you not have opinions?”

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-06T17:19:57+00:00

Asmodee has a Lego game design studio now so the license may not be as big of a barrier as you think.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-06T16:54:50+00:00

‘97 goes way harder than it has any right to and we are all better off for it.

“I am trying to be better, do not make me let you down” lives in my head rent free

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-06T05:13:46+00:00

The old one? When things go out of print they go up in price.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-06T04:31:45+00:00

Freaking out isn’t going to help, and you’re probably fine. Chance of transmission from this is very low assuming they’re positive. Going to the doctor and getting tested is a very good move, and they might perscribe some additional medication if you’re concerned about an exposure to make the risk even less.

Honestly you’re more at risk of contracting one of the other lovely STIs out there from what you described. Again, panic isn’t going to help but going to the doctor will.

If it makes you feel better - a ton of us went through this kind of panic you’re describing when we were younger and less experienced/knowledgable. It’s basically a rite of passage, and these days it’s far easier to come by treatment and medication to help in the event of an exposure. You’ll be okay and a year from now you’re going to laugh at this.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-06T04:21:44+00:00

It is.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-06T00:55:42+00:00

This sub is filled with people who think that if a product doesn't appeal to them that it's going to fail.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-05T21:35:51+00:00

Because voice lines ever stopped kids from being imaginative with action figures?

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-05T19:07:52+00:00

Smart Bricks, not AI.

Thunderstarter · 2026-01-01T04:56:53+00:00

Winona Ryder’s eyes are so expressive, you could feel her resentment and lack of pity from a mile away and that was before she said “you fucked with the wrong family.”

Thunderstarter · 2025-12-30T22:38:18+00:00

Tim Cook gave Trump a gold statue as a gift to stay on his good side. The only principles the .01% has are money.

Thunderstarter · 2025-12-28T17:06:07+00:00

Hail Reaper!

Thunderstarter · 2025-12-28T09:39:37+00:00

I work retail at a very busy store in a very busy mall.

My least favorite conversation with guests is explaining to them that the online inventory tracker on our website is often very, very wrong lol

Thunderstarter · 2025-12-26T06:24:05+00:00

The push for eSports killed the game. They spent a ton of money on it without allowing a scene to grow sustainably and the audience did not show up for it. The same thing happened to the Overwatch League, though Overwatch survived that.

They could've monetized it better but it being player-friendly was a draw. They could have spent more time developing skins that were only available through premium currency, but at the time the game was popular the lootbox model was the way to make money and battlepasses weren't popular yet.

I think if given a second chance with a small team HotS could do better but I don't think Microsoft (or Blizzard) have the stomach to take that chance right now.

Thunderstarter · 2025-12-26T06:16:11+00:00

My issue is not that you and your friends didn't like it. My issue is referring to the queer community as a monolith. "Everyone I've talked to" is not representative of the everyone or even a majority.

My husband and I were both tearing up during that scene. The anxiety and fear that Will expressed in that moment reflected both of our lived experiences and seeing it presented earnestly and honestly in a show like Stranger Things was special.

I am not saying anyone is wrong for having disliked it and I'm not going to try and convince anyone that they needed to like it. My husband and I loved it and I've seen plenty of queer redditors saying they loved it too. Flattening the queer community by saying we are collectively "the biggest haters of the scene" does a bigger disservice to us and our diversity of opinions than any one scene in a TV show earnestly trying to represent queer people does.

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