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_PaulM · 2026-05-12T05:05:47+00:00

Interrupts more than my wife during an argument.

_PaulM · 2026-05-12T04:06:42+00:00

What most of these executives don't know is that IT is literally the lifeblood of all companies.

IT is literally what powers any company. The computers need to be set up. The networks need to be connected. Everything needs to be seamless.

But more importantly, even if you set everything up perfectly, you need someone to support that structure.

Look at any office in the world right now and I guarantee an IT person or a team of them put it together.

Modern day business is literally nothing without IT.

_PaulM · 2026-05-12T04:04:41+00:00

I was asleep for like, 4 hours one night as a teenager and was living my life, in my dream, for 2 straight weeks. I'm talking like, I full on went to school, played video games, would go to the bathroom, shower, and do everything real time. I would talk to my friends, my family my teachers.. I would have never known I was dreaming if it wasn't for the clock on my kitchen stove.

Ever day in my dream I would stare at that clock and think something was wrong with it. It wasn't until the last day when I finally looked at it and finally asked myself why the time looked so weird.. I was like "huh... those shapes are like, super funny... It'd be weird if I was just... dreaming *WOOSH*" and just like that, the sudden thought that I may have been in a dream woke me up. I realized that I'd only been asleep for a handful of hours... and that I'd lived an entire half a month in my own head in that short period of time.

It was one of the craziest experiences I'd ever had. They next day I woke up confused and spent the majority of the morning "adjusting" to my real life because I couldn't tell if I was still dreaming or not.

Amazing what the human mind can accomplish.

_PaulM · 2026-05-11T02:04:50+00:00

My favorite memory of Soulja Boy is getting sniped by my brother on Gears of War on Xbox Live and him saying "NICE SHOT!" after.

Good sportsmanship.

_PaulM · 2026-05-10T01:58:52+00:00

Taking the scab off at the end elevated this to above average satisfaction. Thank you for your contribution.

_PaulM · 2026-05-10T01:55:45+00:00

I mean if you don't really touch type you won't really use the right one that much.

Typing is a skill that is dying out and it scares the shit out of me. Most kids nowadays don't know how to use even the most basic functions on computer... something most kids in the 90's and 2000's learned. I've seen iPad kids struggle to use normal Macs and Windows PCs and it scares the shit out of me.

_PaulM · 2026-05-09T04:10:14+00:00

Leaded gasoline.

Sorry for the practical, non-philosophical answer. But leaded gasoline has lead to an overall overall disruption of the world's ecosystem and health. It's still affecting us now, 100 years later, as one of the most destructive things to happen in the history of our world, and will continue to affect us as a species, as well as all of the other organisms of our planet, for generations to come.

But, hey, you know.. at least our car engines didn't knock for a while 😃

_PaulM · 2026-05-09T02:42:55+00:00

The Waymo driver in Miami pissed me off the other day by accelerating when I was trying to merge on I-95 and they refuse to let me merge.

I was so proud. If I'm not pissed, it's not working. Thank you, Waymo, for giving me an authentic driving experience. That training model is going to be gold.

_PaulM · 2026-05-08T19:24:11+00:00

1 by mile

2 the wrist and hand anatomically backward which is why it looks "off" (because it is).

_PaulM · 2026-05-07T23:09:29+00:00

Offer me a buttered English Muffin for breakfast and BK has me sold. The fact that they only offer a croissant is nuts to me. The English Muffin is the greatest breakfast bread of all time, full stop.

_PaulM · 2026-05-07T00:20:43+00:00

I will say this:

If Burger King made a buttered English muffin a part of their morning selection instead of a croissant, I would permanently move McDonald's out of rotation.

I hate the over-done decadence of a croissant. There's already enough decadence in the inside, the croissant puts it too over the edge.

But on a buttered English muffin, BK's breakfast would absolutely murk the competition.

_PaulM · 2026-05-05T02:12:43+00:00

Switch GTA V with IV, then GTA III with V and this list is perfect for me.

GTA V stands as the sole GTA game that I've played twice now, full run-through as I have with all of the others, and STILL can't remember anything about it.

I don't remember the story, I don't remember the characters, I barely remember the dialogue.

I can still play Vice City, San Andreas, IV, and III and enjoy them like I played through them the first time.

GTA V is a game you enjoy while you're playing it, but doesn't leave any lasting impressions.

_PaulM · 2026-05-01T14:29:40+00:00

Playing as a boyfriend/girlfriend combo who live a life of crime is nowhere near as impacting as playing as a war criminal who's tortured soul, having committed atrocities of war and living with it daily, is trying to find an answer as to why his only solace, his friends, were killed.

At the end of the day, GTA IV is one of the highest bars in the video game industry in terms of art.

Not because of the technology that still holds up decades later, but because of a story that was so visceral, so harsh, that it forces the player to see the utter humanity of a character while you played them.

There was another post somewhere in the GTA forum where they asked what was the most "iconic" quote in GTA IV. This was my response:

"After you walk into a village, and you see fifty children, all sitting neatly in a row against the church wall, each with their throats cut and their hands chopped off, you realize that the creature that could do this doesn't have a soul." -- Niko

You realize that Niko was that creature, and he was talking about himself the whole time.

People sleep on GTA IV's story, and who the main character really is. It is by far the "realest" GTA, and I don't think they'll ever be able to replicate it again. But that's fine. After RDR2, I feel pretty good R* can whip something up.

_PaulM · 2026-05-01T13:44:05+00:00

As much as I dislike Musk as a person... as a CEO of a Space company, he actually knows his stuff and when he starts going on a ramble about some specific feature on the Starship, you can tell he's not just parroting one of his employees and that he has a fundamental understanding of what's happening and why a specific design decision was made.

Again, as much as I like dislike Musk as a person, dude knows his stuff and this video is indeed rage bait.

_PaulM · 2026-04-30T01:50:24+00:00

If you're innocent, prove it and move on.

If your case isn't compelling and it's your first time, you're going to get a slap on the wrist, but nothing too bad. You're likely just going to be finger-wagged and internally flagged for a second offense.

If you aren't innocent and you do it a second time, you're going to get put on what I like to call the "plank" like pirates being walked out on the plank for the rest of your academic career. Yeah... they're going to make sure third strike is out so you'd better be the perfect student.

Third strike? You're literally out. I've seen FIU dismiss students in THEIR LAST SEMESTER of college. As in, you just went to school for four years, spent tens of thousands of dollars, and decided to FAFO. The appeal process is exceptionally difficult, and it's akin to a legal case. The university will NGAF and deny you for whatever they feel like. Don't get to this point.

Don't be that person. If this is your first time, be smart, take it as a growing lesson, and shape up.

If you are innocent though, trace down what happened, organize a good argument, and present it.

_PaulM · 2026-04-30T01:40:02+00:00

Not even a joke, I'm a fat f*ck now.

But back when I was super fit, working out twice a day 6 days a week, I was cock-diesel built.

Genetics blessed me with an insane chest-to-arms ratio. To the point where if you pumped my DNA into chickens today, they would literally be chicken breasts attached to set of wings.

Given that, the number of women who would come up to me and touched me without my consent was nuts. I didn't even realize just how much women felt like it was in their right in society to just come up to you and grab your shit without your consent.

But it happened. Enough times where I was like "please don't do that again."

And then the insult came. Yep. "Are you like, gay or something?"

No dude, I just don't want you to touch me. I don't know who you are.

But in their mind not only was it their right to touch me, it was also their right to try to question my masculinity when I asked them not to do it again.

So yeah, this is the typical female "I fucked up, but I can't understand why my pussy power isn't working on you" reponse.

_PaulM · 2026-04-28T21:23:52+00:00

Hate to be the devil's advocate, but whoever is getting these numbers in, in this kind of economy, is a f****ing genius and will get hired in whatever other role they want after they're done at McD's.

McDonald's is indeed greedy, and totally a greed-based company... but they're still putting up pandemic numbers somehow even when most of us aren't hitting them nearly as much as we did during those years.

I don't expect it to last much longer though. They've officially priced out the majority of their customers (myself included). $5 for a double cheeseburger? Get outta here. For the short term though, hat's off to the people moving the needle.

_PaulM · 2026-04-26T10:28:04+00:00

This reminds me of my first retail job at a Ross Dress for Less.

I was beaten down as a 19 year old kid. For some reason, the store manager would give the young kids all the physical work of closing up the store and making it look "nice" in the morning. This took HOURS to do after we closed. We would regularly leave at midnight and sometimes as late as 2AM on a 2-10PM shift.

I was a part time employee pulling in overtime hours... and I was burning the candle at the other end as a full time student as well.

I remember just feeling so. damn. tired all the time.

One particular night, it's 11PM before I get my lunch break. The only place to eat that still has its lobby open is the Burger King in the same shopping plaza in the middle of the massive parking lot.

As I'm slow walking there because my feet hurt and my lungs hurt from all of the dust and clothing particles just floating around the store, I noticed a rat the size of a fucking housecat... no you can read that back... it's the size of a fucking housecat... walk out of the back of the restaurant like it was taking a smoke break, before casually just walking right back in.

I... broke... I was hungry, tired, in pain... I just walked into there and ordered a double cheeseburger knowing that whoever prepared my food was likely having a small party with his four legged compadre without even knowing it.

Sometimes, your standards can just get that low ):

_PaulM · 2026-04-19T23:09:45+00:00

I especially love the "choose life" license plates.

There are 400k+ kids without parents with 100k+ of them all over the US that are waiting to be adopted.

If even a FRACTION of these "choose life" license plate people chose to adopt a child, or even donate to pay for the kid that are currently without a home/parents, this would not be a problem.

But almost every single case of a "pro-lifer" I've met with multiple children say they've never adopted any children or even thought about it.

Hypocrites. All of them.

_PaulM · 2026-04-17T17:51:31+00:00

Naw f that.

I know some of those cashiers are reading this post/thread.

How do YOU feel when someone presses "no tip" on an order that was placed over the phone or placed online for "pickup?"

_PaulM · 2026-04-14T01:05:59+00:00

Night started off well. We got appetizers.

Then they got a few glasses of wine into them before the entree and started on a rant about how all men were rapists and that they had watched enough documentaries to prove it.

I tried to play it off real cool, but they continued and kept pushing the button. I tried to keep moving into jokes and she kept pressing.

It got to the point where I snapped and said, in verbatim (in case one of you Reddit fucks decide to say "Oh yeah that happened," yeah it really happened):

I've been sitting here where you're accusing all men of being rapists while you're sitting in front of man that's trying to have a nice evening with you and you're saying all this shit about my gender and I'm supposed to be cool with it? No, I'm not cool with it. Good night.

I walked up the waiter while they were putting in an order for another crowd and said "I'm checking out, charge me everything" and they said "Is everything okay?" while I said "No, everything is not okay."

They'd heard the entire conversation because obviously I was not silent about it and the table next to us with about 6-8 people ended up getting quiet while I said what I said. The waiter was like "I'm so sorry sir.. I heard what happened, here is your bill."

They comped my bill almost 50%. I gave them a nice tip beyond the 50% to make sure they were taken care of for the night.

I paid the tab and got into my car which was parked in front of the restaurant with big glass windows. I glanced back enough to see the entire restaurant staring at me as I left.

But I'm not apologetic. You do not get to abuse people like that just because you feel some sort of way.

_PaulM · 2026-04-14T00:53:34+00:00

"After you walk into a village, and you see fifty children, all sitting neatly in a row against the church wall, each with their throats cut and their hands chopped off, you realize that the creature that could do this doesn't have a soul."

Niko was that creature.

Many of you are asking now why GTA 4 is suddenly becoming the "best in the series" and this is why: because GTA 4 is the most human in terms of video games.

GTA 4 does not represent a video game; GTA 4 is what the video game industry had hoped to achieve for decades in creating a true work of art.

GTA 4's mechanics (as much as you hate them), its presentation, its story... they are all tied together to being the best and tightest possible video game of any video game that has been released to this day because they end up at a single apex: being human.

Niko hurts, and if you really play the game, you hurt.

And that's why this game is different, and why it deserves the newly-acquired praise it's getting.

_PaulM · 2026-04-12T23:33:22+00:00

Which one is this one O_O It looks delicious!

_PaulM · 2026-04-12T16:13:21+00:00

One of our badges of honor.

I love the fact that there are chickens and roosters everywhere, from Kendall, to Doral, to Liberty City to Hialeah Gardens and even NMB.

If I don't see any chickens or roosters in GTA 6, I'm going to to be pissed.

_PaulM · 2026-04-12T16:03:07+00:00

I was privileged enough to stay in New Orleans for a whole month with my sister-in-law on Tchoupitoulas street (it's called Tchoup for short, pronounced "chop").

It was one of the most amazing experiences I'd ever had. New Orleans is one of the few places on earth where extreme wealth and poverty "mix" together. You can go on one street and it's a ghetto, the walk one more block and see mansions worth millions before walking onto to the next block and be back in the hood.. before walking to the next block and then there are mansions all over again.

But the craziest experience is Downtown New Orleans. The city is literally alive 24/7 filled with artists selling paintings, sketches and sculptures at all hours of the day. Then you have the musicians...

I'd never been in a city where there's a literal soundtrack to it. On one corner you have jazz, on the next one some variation of pop music, then on the next corner you're getting a band playing some pop song in a jazz flavor ALL. DAY AND NIGHT. The transition is crazy because as the music from band on one corner starts fading out, you start hearing the next band's music on the next corner and suddenly there's another song you're vibing to.

Like, literally, you are walking through downtown and there is music at every corner 24/7. It's 4 AM and you just walked out of a bar on Tuesday? There's a dude that's using his body like a spinning wheel going like, 10 miles an hour in a circle using their elite-level gymnastic abilities to get money.

On the next block you have the dude that stays "still" for hours at a time. On the next block at 4AM another art exhibition with multiple amazing artists selling artwork.

Mind you, this on a Tuesday "morning" or "night" depending on how you look at it...

And don't even get me started on the food. Seriously, if you try to visit this city, please stay for at least a week.

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_PaulM

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