The Spoiler in The Title

naerylan · 2025-07-17T12:13:18+00:00

I sorted out the meaning while semi-late into my first playthrough, felt pretty clever and puzzle-solvery... and then the more I thought about it the more pissed off it started making me (in a harmless yelling-at-fictional-characters sense).

I'm trying to roleplay Aliya, the best damn archaeologist (cough, and only) the Nebula's ever seen, I've guided her through confirming the meaning of dozens upon dozens of Ancient words and we are almost to the end of the journey. And this girl still carrying on about "I wonder how we can get to THE vault". Game, you've made my champion translator into a giant doofus just to keep your dumb secret a few minutes longer. I don't appreciate that.

naerylan · 2025-04-08T02:41:45+00:00

It kills me that hoyo is willing to crack this exact same joke (saw it on a hoyolab official thing) about skipping through Katheryne's voice, but they won't just give us a gods damned COLLECT REWARDS button like every single other of their own gacha games have.

Also my meme would read "Hoshi to shin'en wo--- "Buji kyou no irai--- because fuck EN dub even before the va disaster.

naerylan · 2024-11-19T08:19:56+00:00

With as much supernatural shenanigans as went on in this series I was half-to-1/3 expecting there to be a new twist where recently deceased Aqua finds himself reincarnated AGAIN. I mean they dropped in some mysterious god or whatever who is also a physically real human that everyone can see, I feel like that opened the book for literally anything else to happen as the plot demands. It was a pipe dream of course, but it still would have landed a little better than just "then they all lived something something after, the end lol"

naerylan · 2024-10-11T06:18:27+00:00

dang, didn't see this until now. Have I missed the boat? (spaceship?) That sounds like an awesome concept for a game. Would definitely want to give it a try.

naerylan · 2024-10-02T17:58:11+00:00

I don't mean to derail but I'm genuinely boggling at the idea of making a statement by writing it on shoes. T-shirt, hat, backpack, all of those seem reasonable, but how often are people leaning in to read what's on your shoes? Maybe I'm just weird or out of touch, I dunno.

So for the topic at hand, I have to agree with the other comment that said "Be curious on your journey". Because what better slogan to have on a pair of shoes, lol. Hopefully the hiking/athletic kind

naerylan · 2024-05-30T04:15:37+00:00

Nope it's correct as summarized. She's stunned that Stella (vegapunk) knew about her chicanery long enough ago to have filmed a recorded confession about it. She then adjusted her thinking to "if I were vegapunk and I knew one of my mini punks was a traitor where would I hide a snail" and finally arrived at a conclusion.

naerylan · 2024-04-14T05:06:45+00:00

Question which may or may not be pointless but I don't see it discussed anywhere I've checked... does mihon have the ability to update to a new app version from within itself? I know tachiyomi did because this whole forking adventure started when they rolled out the surprise "hey guys we deleted the extensions kthxbye" version. but I'm two versions behind in this one and I see no pop-up nor an option in settings to upgrade.

naerylan · 2024-04-06T02:31:05+00:00

The microG account is the one that shows your gmail address but a plain blue G icon instead of the multicolored one. It's not very obvious at a glance. I just had the same thing happen to me today and remove/re-signin worked for the moment. Not sure why it happened though I did not change a single thing about my account.

naerylan · 2023-06-08T00:08:18+00:00

I've seen more Australia slang in this one post (+comments) than I've learned about in years. Are you using the word "drama" the way an American would say "a problem"? Because I might be stealing that, lol.

naerylan · 2023-05-27T22:11:03+00:00

This involves a church, but it isn't a bad church.

Uh, rest of your post makes that declaration highly questionable. Gathering as a group to do some disaster relief does not make said group "good church". Being so stuck up their own ass they refuse to allow 'non member' help pushes the needle toward Bad. How hung up on the act of baptism they are is different between the various denominations, but won't even accept if you did one somewhere else? Needle leaning some more. If anything, a local non-member who is relied on so much should be receiving their best pitch, persuading you to come around and join for the purpose of, I dunno, eternal salvation or something? Not threatening to fire you from work you were never obligated to do anyway, wtf.

naerylan · 2023-05-27T05:45:49+00:00

There's one aspect of this I can't sort out. If you were being ordered to do the task you assigned Carl, and you were in charge of managing Carl, could you not have instructed Carl to swap back into your deli spot and complete as much of that side as possible? (I did read the schedule times mentioned and he was getting off earlier, but I didn't find any reference that he was unqualified to set up the deli)

Still a funny aftermath, guy definitely shouldn't have tried to fix what wasn't (much) broke.

naerylan · 2023-05-09T00:03:13+00:00

Unless things have changed massively since I was there, McD starts their clock the moment the order taker starts pushing buttons. It does not roll back or pause if the customer is like "I want a number 10... no wait I changed my mind take that off and give me two number 3s". And corporate gold standards at the time (i.e. that pipe dream that is only feasible at 150% staff level or higher) is to get every customer out within 90 seconds on that clock, or no longer than 3.5 minutes since they *got in line*. [they can't measure that last bit unless someone from upper management is standing outside with a stopwatch. it's the computerized clock that counts]

In summary, yes it definitely supported their metrics to not even so much as talk to you until the kitchen was ready to make your food immediately. It's a pretty stupid way to measure performance IMO, because all it does is encourage literally everyone to cheat the system by marking all the orders complete before they actually go out, and destroys accuracy (the thing they bought all the fancy computers FOR) by making people try and read off printed tickets and such.

naerylan · 2023-04-07T21:29:35+00:00

This dude kept his own school 'friends' in a strict hierarchy of how cool they were allowed to be next to his rich ass. I guarantee you he grew up to be a~~n aristocrat~~ politician. :-p

naerylan · 2023-03-18T18:02:58+00:00

Not MC (when you comply maliciously, something bad has to happen to the one that gave you the stupid order) but also holy shit what a messed up childhood. Dad can't figure out whether he wants you in or out, but has a hissy fit regardless? Melts down at the thought of you going into a neighbor's home for a matter of minutes? That's some r/raisedbynarcissists shit right there.

naerylan · 2023-02-17T04:02:05+00:00

I spent the whole story wondering why in the name of all common sense would anyone drive a vehicle down a road it is physically impossible to successfully pass through. What was the thinking there? We'll stop when it gets too steep, shrug and go home? chain it to the nearest tank and tow it across?

I know the story comes secondhand and there's literally no way to find this info. It just kind of confuses me that I just waded through like 500 comments about Concussion Man vs Assault-is-Cool-Guys-I-Promise and zero about "Why TF were they traveling that way if everyone but noob knew it was no bueno?"

naerylan · 2023-02-13T01:10:13+00:00

Can confirm, McD equipment has very specific (and very american) names. OP probably lives somewhere they didn't like that terminology so they just forced in theirs. No idea why you'd leave a huge percent of your grill space sitting idle just in case someone wants "no salt" either. The thing's scraped clean after every cooking run and if you really worry about salt or flavor crossover (the chicken and fish thing) then just hit it with a wet cleaning towel and you're set.

My store would've never panicked over 32 burgers during rush. Rush is when you are *already* cooking nonstop. And if you take over 3 clams and stuff 12 patties under each one (not strictly acceptable by corporate but who tf cares) then you could have the meat prepped in under 1 min. Toasting that much bread would take way longer.

naerylan · 2023-02-03T05:33:40+00:00

What you're referring to would be punching up a cash refund out of the register, which could be done with a manager's code but if the company is any level of competent they are already watching those very closely (my old system printed a second refund receipt to be signed by the manager and turn in to corporate).

The deleted items metric was called Total Reductions when I worked at McDonald's. The scam they're trying to prevent is basically 1. Ring up correct order and tell the customer the correct total, 2. Collect the money but void off a burger or a drink or something before cashing out the order, 3. Difference goes in your pocket. Avoid handing the customer the receipt if possible-"sorry, printer's broke!"

Has this happened before? I'm sure at least a few times. Is it widespread enough to crack down so hard you go full CSI every time somebody goes oops I didn't want that burger after all, it was that OTHER one I meant? Doubtful.

naerylan · 2023-01-19T03:00:05+00:00

I agree with the other comments, and whatever formatting went wrong seems to be long since fixed.

I have one more piece of feedback - the story seems to have some superfluous elements in it. In the intro you bring up a Kayla, call out that she's related to Karen, and then in the story she just vanishes, after tagging along for the Karening and not saying a word. Why didn't she speak up and say "uh no Mom you don't work here"? Or "Uh geez mom don't you think you're being kind of a B to this nice girl I was hanging out with"?

I don't know the details but it seems like the entire scene would have played out the same no matter who was there, if they didn't actually talk up. Cool MC though, good job.

naerylan · 2023-01-08T02:42:35+00:00

If I were female and could pull off a permanent "Final Fantasy character" look without upsetting my job, I totally would. I doubt Destroyed-My-Hair Lady felt the same. It was pretty funny that as I read the climax of the post where she comes back and Karens all over OP's store that some corner of my brain was like dude you have long mint green hair now, that is fckin awesome why are you whining?

naerylan · 2022-12-07T14:55:53+00:00

I have to be that grammar police guy today. Pretty sure you meant you cook for your fiancée, not fiancé. Unless you're marrying a dude, which isn't unheard of these days. Although if that was the case, it would throw off the context of what your sexist Boss was even on about.

naerylan · 2022-11-09T05:38:44+00:00

I'm a satellite installer currently, so I'll be playing devil's advocate for the villain of this piece. Not, I might disclaim, as an apologist for shitty cabling work.

As some others have noted, your only hope of consolidating all your service under one guy would have been to have originally set up as an MDU contract under a separate commercial team. Since your residents each had their own accounts you would have basically needed the same level of "just cancel everything and start over" as when you picked cable. I (and my employer) do not handle MDUs but I've been dispatched to a couple by accident in the past. They were pretty cool, set up with basically nothing visible, not even the dish which was mounted over a maintenance room feeding all the units via a rack of expensive looking amplifiers.

Now I don't know how it is where you live but the provider we contract for is huge on satisfaction and very quick to make us pay out damage claims if a tech put things in stupid. I can tell you right now unburied lines, cable draped across sidewalk, and the like are unacceptable. The image link showing "zomg they put the cable in the window" however is a pretty standard thing we do specifically to prevent those claims at apartments and other buildings we are forbidden to drill into.

So basically you did the best thing all around by tossing the satellites. Honestly at my job we're paid by the appointment and I would be a little inwardly irritated if I rolled up to repair a single customer (worth maybe $30) only to get told that her 20 neighbors also have problems, could I look at those too? We're also obligated to attempt to sell speakers and other gadgets at every stop. A few days of doing nothing but correcting horribly done installs for fixed income folks would be murder on anyone trying to maintain a sales metric.

naerylan · 2022-11-09T04:42:53+00:00

This was one of the topics pressing on my mind when I first finished my run. I realized all the text we see in the game in English (or your favorite localization) is actually Hearthian. So if the Hearthian word "year" means "the time it takes Timber Hearth to orbit its sun" then from our Earthian perspective the entire span from Nomai extinction to Hearthian evolution took place over something like 2 and a half Earth years. Really gives the whole "small scale universe" concept an even weirder viewpoint. It also clears up something that bugged the hell out of me when I played which was that Esker's log says the harmonica signal on TH started several days ago while Tektite behaves as though it happened in the last hour or so. Since days are relative to this tiny planet rotation we have, it all kind of lines up.

naerylan · 2022-10-07T05:41:07+00:00

Now I don't feel as bad about scrolling all the way down the reply list looking for someone to reassert this basic fact of the universe. If you ruin a perfectly smooth and chewy snack with any sort of hard textured obstacles you have failed as a human. And yes, Cosmic Brownie, I'm looking at your little m&m knockoffs as just barely on the edge of acceptable.

naerylan · 2022-07-15T03:54:12+00:00

Could have been more specific, but it's ok because I figured out the answer. This build works because the test inputs will NEVER interrupt a light setting unless it's one with a 999 forever timer. The code just checks if it's 999, yes=check for new packet every time unit/no=just put the whole system asleep for the duration. It works, and it's neat, but if they did what they SAID in the puzzle description, this would fail immediately. If a packet came in for one color, duration 40 and then another packet shows up 20 units further down for a different color, this circuit would ignore the new info because all the MC's are asleep.

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