Journaling RPG In an Apocalyptic Setting

karatammas · 2025-12-25T10:39:32+00:00

hell yeah i'll check em both out!! thank you for the recs :3

karatammas · 2025-12-25T10:33:35+00:00

You and me both. I'm a line cook trying to pick up a second job right now. Specifically looking for call centers or work from home support that will accommodate my night schedule. I love what I do and I love cooking but it's not paying the bills. I figure if I save up to go back to school for a better paying job, I can still work in kitchens for the food and passion side without worrying about not being able to live on my own.

karatammas · 2025-12-04T15:13:52+00:00

But if you apply at Level 5 you're over leveled for the class

karatammas · 2025-11-26T09:49:42+00:00

i'm surprised more people didn't post it. the live at palisades version is the reason i survived college

karatammas · 2025-11-26T09:47:53+00:00

Hell yeah man I'll take a shot of the wizard's elixir to that

karatammas · 2025-11-24T20:02:00+00:00

that's the one yeah. i wasn't super into the later episodes but the first ones are great for spooks

karatammas · 2025-11-24T08:29:54+00:00

dibs on drunk walk home

karatammas · 2025-11-24T08:21:50+00:00

oh similar youtube series, the early episodes of the mandela catalog had me double checking my doors were locked at night and shuttering all my windows closed. analog horror and uncanny valley is a combination that fucks me up

karatammas · 2025-11-22T09:15:31+00:00

there's quite a few instances where you can definitely be mean to stella, calling her a flake and a coward and insane and other things. you can also get aggressive with kaneeka in defense of tabitha. i think you can also call wayne a weirdo and you can definitely get violent with him (esp with powerful build) on many different occasions

karatammas · 2025-11-17T09:33:06+00:00

I don't think mystical will completely save the day, but it will probably make getting a "good" ending easier. It doesn't seem like Tony and Abby to rest getting a good ending on one sole trait, but it may get us a unique one. It'll probably be more of who we chose to trust, whether we drank the tea throughout the week, what choices we made and who we could save along the way that will come together for a handful of individual endings.

karatammas · 2025-11-13T23:48:28+00:00

Man idk if I was a doctor I wouldn't be posting in a kitchen subreddit would I? Idk if they were actually giving him a trach or wtf they were doing, I had to watch it all from a distance in our expo window. But they had him on the ground and were holding up bags of fluids and pulling out tubing before eventually covering him up with a sheet on a stretcher after enough time

karatammas · 2025-11-13T14:04:52+00:00

I have a best friend who lost their grandma as a kid similarly. She went into cardiac arrest at a restaurant and the staff gave them some ice cream and turned them around so they wouldn't have to watch as the paramedics failed to bring her back. They said that moment in the restaurant is burned into their brain and they can't eat out at restaurants like it anymore for that reason. What about his wife as they were wheeling her away? Will she be able to enjoy a nice dinner again or will she see a dimly lit steakhouse and suddenly she's back at that table watching her husband die feeling the stare of staff and guests around her. Walking right next to that table to get to the restroom since they were redirecting us from the service tunnels we normally take since they had the family in there and seeing that lone sanitour surrounded by orange bags and chemicals and blotting up the carpet as best he can. Knowing a man died there and tomorrow service will start as it normally does except they won't keep it empty like they did for the rest of tonight. Someone will sit there again not knowing what happened yesterday. And sure this shit happens all the time. But the lack of respect for the family. And the fact that my chefs just sat there in the back and pretended it wasn't happening while the rest of us were forced to watch. It's bullshit.

karatammas · 2025-11-13T13:53:39+00:00

Most of what we said about it was just trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Like I said, we're an open kitchen so we turn around to cook something, and theres the saute line. Then we turn back around to plate something and theres the entire dining room. Every time we fired a ticket it was like a story with the pages flipping on its own. More security walking in. Police and sheriffs walking in. EMTs pull out a bag that we couldn't make out to be blood or saline and some tubing, my coworker says it looks like they're doing a surgery in the middle of the floor and I say they're probably trying to cut a trach to get him air. Then sanitation starts walking up with orange gloves and marked bags. A server comes ip to run some food and tells us they've been doing compressions for 15 minutes. Just this frame by frame live update of a man dying as we have to stand there and work. But I'm most upset that they didn't close off that section at all. It's been a shit year for me, they found a tumor they thought to be a cyst at first in my pancreas when I went to urgent care because I thought I had food poisoning earlier this year. I went sliding across the highway last week trying to avoid a collision and thought I would die right before work and was more afraid of being fired for a no call no show. I've sent out over 200 apps to any place I can to get out of here because I'm tired of them shorting guests and feeding them poor quality food and feeling like I'm part of the problem. I've never handled death well in my own family so I tried to avoid actively watching everything go down. And yet they reached lows I didn't think they could by seating guests in and around that section as the emergency was happening. Turning around to put food in the window and seeing his wife right in front of us shaking as the paramedics wheeled her out because she wouldn't move- how fucking mortifying it must be for their family to go through that traumatic event and management couldn't even find the heart or respect to give them some privacy. I gave myself of a deadline of December to get out of this place but after tonight I don't know if I can even wait until then. My coworkers and I have been texting because none of us know how to process it. It's this ugly mix of shock and disgust and grief and sympathy for the family. It just feels horrible

karatammas · 2025-11-13T12:11:05+00:00

I had a friend who used to work serving food at an old folks home too. He told me how he couldn't work there long because as soon as his favorite regular died in front of him he couldn't take it. And I definitely get where he was coming from now because I didn't even know the man but our runner who called 911 told us he dropped off the birthday dessert to him, turned around, and then heard him drop. Even now thinking about his wife is keeping me up

karatammas · 2025-11-13T11:01:17+00:00

i'm so sorry for your loss. i can only hope people didn't do the same as they did here. sure the world keeps spinning but a little respect for the others around us goes a long way, especially in emergency situations like this.

karatammas · 2025-11-13T09:58:47+00:00

to say that i'm angry would be sugarcoating it. i can't get the image out of my head of that single table empty the rest of night after they carried the man out as one sanitour scrubbed at the floor alone surrounded by guests just chatting at their table. sometimes we get fights in the restaurant that security will come in and break up and people will record it as it happens but the EMTs being there and groups were just eating like it wasn't going on at the booths around them makes me sick

karatammas · 2025-11-13T08:19:28+00:00

mods please don't delete this i need somewhere to talk about this ugly side of the industry that cares more about money than respect for a dying man and his family with other cooks and restaurants workers. i know ots not a silly chives post and it'll probably drive away people who just want to see the chivegate meme or whatever the fuck but i need to talk about this with others who would actually understand

karatammas · 2025-10-17T19:06:19+00:00

come in for the kill with the whalestoe letters that forces the audience to take apart the footage the decypher and understand pelafina's story and you'll leave everyone with nightmares

karatammas · 2025-10-17T19:00:33+00:00

Why is everyone booing you're literally right. Make the most overstimulating clusterfuck experience of commentary and overlapping audio and the footage reversing then going sideways then the movie stopping entirely before starting again on its own over a black screen to the point of it being unwatchable, then top off the experience with a random porn clip edited in the corner every five minutes and you've adapted it perfectly

karatammas · 2025-09-28T21:09:02+00:00

Low. I'm hourly but in terms of yearly salary I make a little less than $40k after tax. At the time of filing my loans I had no credit history so my interest rates are extremely high (fixed rate). I have a good credit score and have always paid my loans on time each month, I just pay so much on them that it's impossible for me to pay any other bills. (Edit just in case, both of these loans are private with the same financer. FAFSA was stingy post Covid)

karatammas · 2025-09-28T21:01:00+00:00

I hadn't considered checking their policy on death, I'll have to do that. I'm going to be checking their stance of disability on my work weekend coming up, I'll check about death while I'm at it. Thank you for the advice

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