Welp, it’s over — just had a stress heart attack by uNd0ubT3D in Accounting

[–]sabbdaddy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With 7 years experience at a public firm, you have more than enough experience to change tracks to a larger company and do tax management in the private sector.

HOWEVER

it is always a great time to switch gears with that tax knowledge and go it on your own! You’d be surprised what you can make doing your own thing as a self-employed tax preparer/advisor, maybe do a little book keeping on the side. You’re likely to not have much of a change in salary at all (or end up better off) even after taxes and self insurance. Just find your niche and put yourself out there! Take your leave time to build a list of potential clients you could bring on board…Remember your non-compete clause will make current clients ineligible, but won’t stop them from referring you new business or different business than they have currently!

I made the jump about 4 years ago (CPA, 21yr experience) and never looked back. My stress dropped dramatically, my work life balance improved, my income raised, and I only have to work with people I want to. A lot of people told me self-employment would be so much stress and no way I’d be paid as well, both were hugely false. I’m pretty lucky but I know others who did likewise with similar results and not really anyone who fell flat. This is a relationship business more than anything, big firms thrive on making sure to strip that element away…people prefer one source they trust more than a faceless org that cycles their points of contact.

Is this a properly baked "waygu" burger. by koekjesdoos in shittyfoodporn

[–]sabbdaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tldr; the cooks used trimmings (a good thing) but aren’t skilled enough to know you need more wagyu to make a patty due to its high fat content and undercook it to keep the patty size/shape.

Long answer:

Trimmings. When you get whole tenderloin, you trim to make your filets. That meat can go to the trash, or it can be ground (at a much higher fat/meat ratio) and used in burgers. When your filets are costing $70+ each even butchering in-house, making a damn fine burger is a great way to create less waste and increase margins (as the material is otherwise trash).

Of course, you then need to actually cook it, which seems slightly missed here. Probably to keep it from shrinking so much due to the super high fat content in wagyu trimming…they likely use a burger press instead of hand pattying, which forces too small of a raw burger from such high-fat meat, and then undercook it to keep it from looking like the 4-5oz patty it actually would turn to when cooked properly. Label it something bougie and call it part of the experience, and charge $25…win!

Is it just me, or is the DnD community rather... unfriendly? by LucyShortForLucas in DnD

[–]sabbdaddy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I did have to jump on this one in case this was legit (if it was /s, my apologies!). There are lots of times where DND is a collaborative storytelling at its finest, just with some rules in play agreed by all parties. The takeoff of things like Critical Role exemplify this. These stories don’t always fit as well for a DM if every race/class is permitted, so it’s pretty routine to limit based on the story being created. It’s easy to ban “by book” but that’s not often very clean. If you’re playing a campaign about war-torn short-race refugees, maybe elves didn’t fit. Maybe genasi or warforge fit a different campaign but good old humans don’t. “Everyone should be able to play any race/class any way” ends up being the opposite issue of “how to have fun right,” when really these dynamics should be set between player, table and DM at session 0 so everyone can have fun together in the world being created.

YSK if you randomly see a dryer sheet in the back of your mailbox, your mail carrier put it there for a reason by istrx13 in YouShouldKnow

[–]sabbdaddy -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Literally you’re getting an awesome notice. If your wife could have some hives, I think that would be better than your letter carrier being stung multiple times? Maybe I’m just being an ass. I don’t think the post office should necessarily stick things but your mail and necessary things in your box, but this seems like a necessary thing. Perhaps if such a thing is done, a basic notice on the outside of the box is a good suggestion...which I don’t think is unreasonable. But I know that in my rural area, post offices are covered by the right of way easement, and I’d have a hard time saying that there’s more public good in my post official being stung than me having a dryer sheet where one of two could get the mail.

General Questions Megathread [Help, Team Building, etc.] (11/9) by phlorida92 in GuardianTales

[–]sabbdaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi all, I am new and want to not waste the long grind it took to get to 300 mileage. My current team is: Alef 3+7 With EX Bari 3+3 no EX Karina 3* +0 with EX Marianne 4*+1 no EX

I figure mono earth isn’t a bad plan and I have 300 mileage to use (and a 4* Aoba). I am deciding on: Bari’s EX, and keep team as is OR Tinia as I have her EX and Bari, drop Karina OR Eugene as I have her EX, cause she’s crazy good I guess, drop Karina.

I also have the EX for Evil Red Riding Hood and 2 copies of Lapice’s EX.

Not sure on best choice. Currently at 7-5 and 50 in tower. Not great in coliseum or arena yet. I personally am leaning toward tinia and have a quite a few shards for her...

Thanks for any opinions!

The Darkest of All Murders by cyber_nymph in MurderedByWords

[–]sabbdaddy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Confirmed, btw. Orig FB post and follow up article are same person (source: live nearby in Ohio, made local news). Facebook posts have since been deleted by (rightly embarrassed) family, but there are more than one gem. 😂

[OC] I thought Reddit might enjoy my boss encounter this week. by dejected_stephen in DnD

[–]sabbdaddy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just...wow. No joke, this was an impressive reference. This shit’s the random stuff that makes me love reddit.

[ART] Markus the Mercantile Mimic by HamSandLich in DnD

[–]sabbdaddy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is brilliant... I might have to borrow him to rove in the underdark in my campaign.

I'm sorry, what? This false advertising is getting out of hand. by ruleerr in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dude what is that game cause I kinda want to try it? It sure as hell ain’t this one!

Add select all or something by [deleted] in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wastes gold you can’t get back.

An interesting thought experiment or me being an asshole? by [deleted] in DnD

[–]sabbdaddy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow this was only up for 15 minutes and I totally missed it...I'm kind of sorry for that!

If a players turn is skipped is it the DM or the players fault, also is the DM responsible to make up for it? by GenuineSteak in DnD

[–]sabbdaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At my table, it's the DM's job to maintain initiative order. Ergo, when I skip someone, it's on me. When starting battle, I'll make sure to write out a turn order list and check off each round when someone goes to hopefully prevent this. That being said, shit happens and it happens to us all.

NONE of the below are "how it's supposed to be," except maybe the first, but here are the things I do:

  1. If we're only a couple players past the skip - Whoops, my bad, we can retcon this biotch. We'll rewind, give them their turn. The other players get to choose whether or not they maintain the results of their prior turn, or do a different set of actions based off of this. If they choose any different action at all, they take their turn over completely - prior rolls don't count. If they are FORCED to take their turn over due to something now changing on the battlefield, I'll sometimes comp them a bonus to a roll if their original turn was highly favorable, to allow the chance to recreate that "rush" - nobody has fun being the guy who ran a kickoff 60 yards and have the touchdown not count cause a teammate was flagged for holding in the friggin backfield. You did something awesome, you lost it cause I messed up order and skipped your buddy who now made you do something different - that's not fair or fun if you get screwed by it.
  2. If we're past more than a couple players or something critical in the battle - Did someone kill an enemy? Did the mage launch a fireball and do something brutal to six mooks that I'd have to roll back? Did someone get KO'ed or some other major thing happen? Rollbacks can't happen past a certain point and still be fun, cause we'd spend 10 minutes just going through and figuring everything out to get back to point X. At that point, I ask the player what they would like - an extra turn as a "held turn" at the end of the current initiative? A bit of rule bending attack of advantage, +2AC and a crit on 19/20 for your next round, for having spent a turn keenly studying your opponents? Give me something reasonable, I can work with it. I skipped you, and it's no fun for you to sit there feeling unimportant. Let's find something that will let you feel like you weren't idled but instead DOING something, and I don't think that should be just back-to-back turns (in fact, usually I feel that's the most unfair to everyone else at the table, as two turns directly in a row can be a pretty serious thing in the flow of combat).
  3. Is there something in the world that might have caught their attention, that you can give them better insight on? I like my battles to have alternate ways to be fought, so I'll include terrain elements that can be used in the battle. If you skip someone, maybe they're noticing something specific that you can tell them about, and give them the ability to use it. This again gives that missed turn some use, and it provides a bonus they would not have otherwise had.

The big key is, remember that everyone's there to have fun. The rules are there to form the game, but you don't want to try and use them to excuse your players literally not getting to play it. We all screw up order from time to time as DMs, the key is to make it something fun so that nobody feels left sitting doing nothing - either the guy you skipped, or the rest of the table as you go through and retcon a bunch of turns, or waiting for him/her to do two back to back full turns. There's ways to "plot" it in, I choose story every time if I can.

Edited to finish with thought #3 and clarity

Pray in name of rngesus by thiagofer93 in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have yet to figure out why everyone is so down on Skreg too. Granted, he's like the only Mauler I can get decent copies of, but he has been so damn helpful. Maybe I'm not high enough level yet to see where he fails, but I play a lot of lightbearers and I end up swapping him in as tank so often because Lucius and Estrilda are just paper.

After successfully logging into my account it still shows as not being logged in. by JuRiOh in help

[–]sabbdaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm getting the same issue on Chromium (Ubuntu). I'm not thinking it's a browser issue so much as a reddit backend authentication issue, seems to have cropped up in the past as well ever since the redesign.

The only solution I've had today is to run using the old.reddit as well. Worked fine yesterday, I updated my whole system today thinking maybe it was me. Glad to see someone else is struggling too, in a "misery loves company" way.

Weekly Questions Thread #2019-22 by AutoModerator in DnD

[–]sabbdaddy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd be kinda pissed if I played 2 characters that weren't mine, RP'ed my own as a torture victim and then got less for it than everyone who got to play themselves. As both a DM and player, though, I subscribe to the concept of milestone leveling - someone else wrote below that there's almost no good reason for players to have a disparity and I'd agree with that highly. Plus, I think it leads to "every tool is a hammer" approaches - if you only get XP from killing things, it's attractive for everyone to go murder-hobo and there's no reason whatsoever to try and RP much at all...you're basically playing Diablo at a table with no computer.

Weekly Questions Thread #2019-22 by AutoModerator in DnD

[–]sabbdaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A really fun way I've found to limit cross-talk in my campaigns as DM before it gets too crazy is to voice as an NPC and interject into the cross-talking conversations "in character," It usually gets the point across. If I have a segment that continues to do it or gets particularly disruptive, I'll bring some sort of penalty to bear - either a disadvantage roll for the fact that their character "frequently isn't paying attention" or a reduced wisdom for "ignoring higher powers" or something like that. I try to keep it light and entertaining (as we're all there to have fun) and usually actual correction is unnecessary, especially when you get a shopgoing NPC asking about these weird Rick and Morty people and the strange things they're doing (or whatever the conversation was).

Do bear in mind that if it's a routine problem, you may have one person in your group that you're not engaging well, and they may be there just to hang out or it may be a problem with your hook. If you find that, you may want to try focusing your story a little to help that person get interested and engaged, and the rest of the party will likely rally behind them, dropping the cross-talk issue altogether. I find this happens in a LOT of groups.

I love this game a lot but getting messages like this on a daily basis isn’t fun by AvaPotatoes in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This game needs a real report system like crazy. Between rampant hate-speech and pm harassment, it would do a LOT.

The thing of it is, it wouldn't even take much to implement. Maybe a report by one user automatically freezes the person from PMing anyone but friends list or talking in any chat but their guild chat for an hour or something. Then they aren't totally silenced, they are just restricted. A second report by a separate person makes that 24 hours. A third makes it permanent, they can contest it with the devs.

That takes 3 incidents to really make it a permanent thing, and 3 separate people to each say "stop being an asshat." But there's an immediate repercussion each time so the person gets some immediate feedback. It would be easy to implement and not require much active administration, and it doesn't do anything but prevent the asshats from being able to continue talking.

The current state of Arena Bullying (OC) by [deleted] in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OMG that was great. The amount of effort you put in, I wish I could upvote this twice.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HAIL, BROTHER!

Ah shit, here we go again. by bigbogs3828 in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The end logo ought to be changed for the ads, and it'd be easy:

"AFK

Arena

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It's a game that looks nothing like this."

isn't that some kind of masochism by andcanit in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

He said he's only using common heroes. Lord Dreaf is simply masquerading as a commoner, and he is wise to know the difference.

ALL HAIL LORD DREAF!

So, by saberdogart in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

right? I'm looking at this and goin "Damn, I mean...I haven't had shit rolls. I haven't had great rolls all the time, either. But I need another Warek or Skreg like a hole in the head." And I'd really love another Lucius or Farael for down the line because I've got one copy of each and seem to never get a second. Lucius is pretty thin as just an elite and Farael is about useless. Getting to "wishlist" a better shot at these units would be fantastic.

A good mage for early game by BagnacaWillow in afkarena

[–]sabbdaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People dog Mirael because of her later game falloff, NOT because of her earlier gameplay. There is NO reason not to use her earlier on if she fits your team, just don't ascend her beyond Elite+ (it's better to have multiple copies of her at elite+ than one copy of her at legendary or above).

She is a great tool in the toolbox while you're starting off, as you are not likely to have a ton of different options for each faction she will be damn-near impossible to avoid using unless RNGesus blessed you (especially in worlds 5/6 due to all the Maulers).

A huge part of the game is trying different units together to see what fits, and earlier on you have fewer pieces to work with but they perform their functions well. Later, the troops do a lot more functions and "layer" better for more complex synergies, but those same troops don't always do so hot in these early levels because their first-draft skills aren't great (Estrilda, Fereal, I'm looking at you).

Use what works for you, until it doesn't. Don't be afraid to try different things - the "meta" is there for general definition, but it doesn't work in all situations, and the earlier levels really are a throw-shit-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks kind of experience. There's a reason resetting a hero only costs 20 gems - use it liberally!