40k-lore-chat

[storm jungle]

"little"

[vagrant fox]

Camel spiders are just little boys they don't mean no harm

[daring creek]

See that's another super cute thing I love about them. Despite how deadly they look they aren't dangerous.

Unless you have some kind of allergy or immuno issue.

[remote wadi]

If she traspasses she dead

[storm jungle]

Bruh idgaf

kill em

[daring creek]

THEY WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE

[storm jungle]

also a rule i can respect

[humble shoal]

I like nudibranchs

They have a... funny way of mating

[daring creek]

Why am I not surprised you are one of those spider kill people

[crystal forum]

i like watching videos of people who casually grab scary bugs

[daring creek]

Evil...

[crystal forum]

it makes me feel less grossed out

[daring creek]

Dilara I promise you once you actually start looking at spiders for fun you'll learn to love them

[humble shoal]

Yoink

[daring creek]

;;

[crystal forum]

have you guys ever had an egg sack burst above your head and thousands of baby spiders in your hair

i have

[daring creek]

What the fuck

[remote wadi]

As someone that used spiders as anti mosquito animals

No you wont

[daring creek]

mf got spider birth in their hair

jfc

[crystal forum]

above

[dark moon]

Spiders scare the shit out of me, doesn’t matter the size of the spider.

[storm jungle]

what in the unholy fuck

[remote wadi]

You learn to see their usefull

They never get lovely

[crystal forum]

i have never taken a shower as quickly in my life

[vagrant fox]

coward, you were a mother

[humble shoal]

Ever had a wolf spiders nest hatch right by your feet

[crystal forum]

no i have thankfully never seen a wolf spider

[humble shoal]

Ive never hated spiders more than that moment

[remote wadi]

Never and that is nightmare fuel

But the spider I had didn't put a lot of eggs

[dark moon]

I remember way back when, I was driving to my uni class, and a spider was just slowly crawling up my leg.

[rose thorn]

IDAHO WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[crystal forum]

im pretty ok with bugs usually but i have my limits

[remote wadi]

Mostly cause their territory was awful for it

[daring creek]

Fun fact wolf spiders kind of look like wolves!

[humble shoal]

Imagine 1000 spiders all burstingnout and running all over you as the mother is pissed at you for existing

[remote wadi]

I made sure to put them in a corner where I can control their population

[wintry cloud]

Dog i would be traumatized

[crystal forum]

i probably am

[wintry cloud]

Iike that’s from a horror movie

Straight up

[dark moon]

Thanks, I hate it.

[remote wadi]

The insect I can't stand is the roaches

[humble shoal]

No problem

[remote wadi]

I have them on spray them on sight

[daring creek]

I think some spiders have cat like behavior

[humble shoal]

Anyways sea slugs do penis fencing to mate

Its funny to watch

[remote wadi]

That's kinda sluggish

[crystal forum]

i would keep a flamethrower if i was australian

[remote wadi]

[daring creek]

⚔️

[humble shoal]

Loser becomes the bottom

[crystal forum]

ayo?

[remote wadi]

Most Australians own a machete

[humble shoal]

Look it up, its the scientific term for their mating practices

[remote wadi]

But tbh Australia best kick boxer of all times is quite literally just a random kangaroo

[daring creek]

Wait till you learn about spider sex

[humble shoal]

Blue whales also have 3 ways where the hotel chair whale props up the female

[daring creek]

shit is intense

[remote wadi]

So Australians will accept the weirdest stuff

[prime seal]

why are you always on some bullshit

[crystal forum]

kangaroos are scary to me

the fact that they can actually kill you

[daring creek]

Spider girls have it hard

[remote wadi]

They are pure muscle

And no rationality

[crystal forum]

also claws

sharp

[remote wadi]

If you touch a small one

You're dead

[prime seal]

y'all are glazing kangaroos too much

[daring creek]

Kangys

[vagrant fox]

bet I could box a 'roo to a stalemate for real for real I know an australian

[crystal forum]

real answer is would you win against a gorilla

[prime seal]

this dude doesnt even know a kangaroo he knows an australian

[prime seal]

👎

[crystal forum]

ive been thinking about the gorilla question more

[prime seal]

barehanded 1 on 1 if the gorilla is trying to kill you it will

[daring creek]

The fact that kanga mamas can terminate their pregancy whenever they want proves that god approves of abortion

[crystal forum]

what if you knock out the gorilla with a solid blow to the head

[daring creek]

Don't need the bible

[prime seal]

lmfao

[daring creek]

With your...hands?

They'll bite off your fingers

[wintry cloud]

You think this is dragon ball z or something?

[vagrant fox]

no gorillas are lame they can barely move trust me on this one

[prime seal]

to knock someone out you'd need to move the gorilla's brain

[wintry cloud]

Their skull is thick as hell

[prime seal]

physically impossible, youd need to be in the top 1% of fighters to even get to punch him like that

[crystal forum]

okok hear me out

gorillas are pretty peaceful creatures compared to other primates like chimpanzees

they prefer to scare off predators with their size

[arctic talon]

https://tenor.com/view/tekken-akuma-gorilla-raging-demon-rage-art-gif-27255698

[prime seal]

if you give jon jones 5kg of coke im sure he could take 2 gorillas

unfortunately i think he reformed

[crystal forum]

so im saying a gorilla prob doesnt know how to fight very well

like yeah if it hits you you're done

but do gorillas even punch

i bet they try to grab

so if you hit a really good blow to their nose then they could be rocked really hard

[prime seal]

it doesnt need to it has higher mass and a higher proportion of fast twitch muscle

[crystal forum]

but i bet it doesnt get punched very often!!!

[prime seal]

lmfaooooo

[crystal forum]

even a huge professional fighter can be killed by a solid blow to the face

even more with a kick

a gorilla prob wont know to block

so im saying it's possible

not likely

[prime seal]

"the second i try punching him he can grab my face with 2 fingers and tear it off"
"but i bet he doesnt get punched very often!!!"

[storm jungle]

Kinda why I wish they let Mike Tyson fight a gorilla when he asked a few years ago

[crystal forum]

i dont think a boxer would survive

[storm jungle]

nah lmao

but uh

entertainment for all of us so idk

[crystal forum]

true

[storm jungle]

guess he preferred jake paul instead

[crystal forum]

also that was like decades ago lol

back in his coke era

[storm jungle]

even better

let them fight

[rose thorn]

hey what was that killteams release abotu

[arctic talon]

Which one

[crystal forum]

a chimpanzee would destroy you though

[rose thorn]

the one released yesterday

[crystal forum]

those guys fight to kill

[arctic talon]

FAQ stuff

[rose thorn]

ah

[daring creek]

Erm. I'm not sure about peaceful. Since maintaining eye contact with them is actually taken as a challenge

Or I'm confusing them

[humble shoal]

Spray em with cold water

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-gorilla-monke-stinkpookie-mulatto-gif-22617856

[prime seal]

rip Harambe

[daring creek]

They will put you in a wheel chair

[crystal forum]

and now im watching the harambe video

[daring creek]

Aw

[crystal forum]

i never actually watched the footage

[humble shoal]

Another one of my jokaero brothers slain

[crystal forum]

it's hard to even find the unedited footage with youtube's dog shit search

it just gives me shorts

the fact that people were just yelling at it and throwing rocks lmao

[humble shoal]

Yeah

Especially when you realize the history of kids in gorilla cages, and that the kid was likely safe

[crystal forum]

the fact that it dragged the kid through water looks scary but i guess if rocks were being thrown at it then ofc it would start panicking

[humble shoal]

It also was likely trying to get the kid away from the rocks

[crystal forum]

kinda wild that it's basically the base instinct of both species on display

[dark moon]

A daemonhost? I believe you mean, heretical piñata. — Average thammer zealot.

[crystal forum]

us humans immediately want to protect children by instinct by any means necessary

and the gorilla prob was trying to protect it too

[daring creek]

Ngl unless I'm playing martyrdom I can't be assed to kill a daemonhost.

[dark moon]

Faith issue.

[daring creek]

The person above me had their soul extracted from their body^

[dark moon]

Fury goes brrr, simple as.

[daring creek]

No you need shroudfield

[dark moon]

Nope.

Fury works just fine.

[daring creek]

Kill it in oneshot

Hmmm

I could

[crystal forum]

i imagine that before civilization, if a large animal were to grab a child in a caveman tribe then everybody would also start trying to yell at it to scare it off and grab rocks to throw

[prime seal]

who do you play

[dark moon]

Oh, yeah no one taps with fury. Still funny to 2-3 shot it.

[daring creek]

Play martyrdom shroud knife zealot

[prime seal]

im on a sob campaign

[daring creek]

Wdym

[prime seal]

oh shit i confused it for the dclone

[daring creek]

Does your mom

[prime seal]

hand over your legs

https://tenor.com/view/likeyocut-likeyocutg-likeyo-likeyou-likeyour-gif-18706516

[daring creek]

What are you doing with my legs

Deep fry?

[prime seal]

taking away your right to walk

[prime seal]

racist

[daring creek]

How does it even become racist...

[prime seal]

just because youre black doesnt mean i wanna deep fry you

[daring creek]

Many cultures deep fry their food Fashion

Like India. Korea. China

And that racism doesn't even make sense

[prime seal]

it's a JOKE

https://tenor.com/view/the-slop-purple-slop-delicious-food-gif-3070719723010032275

[vagrant fox]

dubious

[prime seal]

i'll put them there

you'll become an ultramarine

[humble shoal]

Yuba

[humble shoal]

Salamander

[daring creek]

Oh my god. What have you done to my people

You're adding me to the blueberry fudge pot...

[prime seal]

https://tenor.com/view/великий-суп-вархаммер-warhammer-great-soup-ультрамарины-gif-7377023911524266824

[daring creek]

What the fuck even is this

Is that just beans and rice

[prime seal]

mcragge cuisine

[humble shoal]

Ultra macragge ultramarine

[prime seal]

@languid meadow is jungletrox any good or is riot just giving the trox a random buff to farming toplane

[dark moon]

It is finally soup time!

[prime seal]

The pot of soup never truly fades titus

[daring creek]

Is it normal for the peacemaker season 2 opening to play in your head endlessly

[vagrant fox]

it seems so

[prime seal]

its a catchy song

[daring creek]

Im on the bus and I feel like I'm hearing the start of the ghost buster intro over and over again

This engine might be haunted

Can anyone tell me how to capture a machine spirit

[prime seal]

let me tag the expert

@arctic talon

[arctic talon]

💀

If it’s a soul imprint

You can just drain the soul stuff

If it’s an AI fragment or a dumb AI you can transport it another way

[plush mason]

ear worms be like that

[humble shoal]

You have to make mazes of magic rocks to keep the spirit sealed

[arctic talon]

If it’s an actual AI you’ll be cooked on god

[arctic talon]

You forgot the sacred incense smh

[daring creek]

How do I do it on a moving vehicle

[plush mason]

dumb AI, huh i didnt know Sora 2 and ChatGBT where in 40k :P

[arctic talon]

Those don’t even classify as dumb AI lol

[daring creek]

Hey speaking of which

I'd like to remind everyone

Chatgbt has a kill count.

[plush mason]

true

[prime seal]

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Age_of_Strife

[daring creek]

Aos and...ai...

Oops

Nvm

Im silly

[prime seal]

lol

[plush mason]

dumb near useless shit tends to get people killed when relied upon so yeah

[daring creek]

Imagine if I said everything I say underneath my breath at full volume

I swear to god I have ticks. Atleast ones driven by excitement. Not like the happy kind more like the energetic annoying kind sometimes.

[storm jungle]

Everyone started off saying it its not as good as the S1 intro

then it instantly took over like a parasite

[daring creek]

Literally yes. I liked it even before I saw the show. Just from one gif

[opaque coyote]

Sludge mining ain't much

[daring creek]

I liked the moves..

[storm jungle]

the worst part is i was LITERALLY just listening to it 2m ago

[opaque coyote]

But it's honest work

https://tenor.com/view/as-a-child-i-yearned-for-the-sludge-the-sludge-minecraft-movie-steve-gif-7555306000655129487

[daring creek]

Dudes copying me

[storm jungle]

:)

[daring creek]

[storm jungle]

Julian, its a hungry world 🥀

[prime seal]

https://tenor.com/view/the-sludge-sludge-ooze-pocketing-the-ooze-tasty-tasty-yummy-yummy-gif-2214608247861379750

[opaque coyote]

No STOP STEALING MY SLUDHE!!!

NOOO

[daring creek]

It's gonna eat you alive

[near wasp]

What the hell

[daring creek]

Me at home depo for literally no reason

.

[opaque coyote]

Why is the home depot theme actually catchy

However had the idea of like

Making hammering against nails, sawing, etc. as a song should've been given a raise

[daring creek]

The most effective sales theme

[opaque coyote]

It has like

The power of a montage

[daring creek]

Since then we've only had soul deprived garbage:p

[daring creek]

Yeah it sums up a sequence of hardwork involving carpentry/construction work

[prime seal]

hungry

[daring creek]

Especially the hammering

[rose thorn]

me at the null oil factory

[daring creek]

Like it encapsulates almost all labor work involving tools

[languid meadow]

idk I haven't tried him yet

[daring creek]

Me eating a girls grapes infront of everyone

[rose thorn]

lmao

[prime seal]

idk i think its cool

i can steal the junglers shit more efficiently

[daring creek]

We should outlaw heterosexuality

Hm

One of the things that bother me in peacemaker is the sudden romance between peacemaker and Emilia. Idk. Doesn't feel right to me.

Like its immediately displayed in the intro

[prime seal]

are you a lesbian mizzuz

[daring creek]

Idk. I still think back to the scene where he literally went up to her and asked her for sex as a way to relax

[daring creek]

I'm a wanted bisexual

[prime seal]

thoughts on these homophobic ducks?

[humble shoal]

You cha ge the maze to make the demon do certain things. Electrical engineering is just alchemy.

[vagrant fox]

13 ghosts is how you capture machine spirits

[daring creek]

Can a car machine spirit go inside my 3ds

[dapper gyro]

If you try hard enough.

Also 3ds, that's some dark age tech stuff.

[humble shoal]

No, cant fit

You literally use a magic rock to summon a demon who you trap in a maze to make the demon perform tasks for you

You cant put bigger demons in too small mazes or they escape

[near wasp]

Bros been in prison for years, can you really blame him for losing some social skill

[arctic talon]

Jungletrox is viable, 48% WR day 1

Ornngle and riven jungle are both awful

[near wasp]

Ew lol

[remote wadi]

Riven jungle is actually doable

They buffed her DMG against monsters

Ornnjgl is always been shitty

Jungletrox is just a weaker cc bot jgl

J4 or vi are way better

[proven needle]

Is this some kind of cypher or just gibberish?

[remote wadi]

It's league of stats

[prime seal]

instead of nerfing riven top they gave her a jungle buff

W riot

[humble shoal]

Poor souls

Stuck in hell

[prime seal]

nah i like the changes done this season

games are faster

[humble shoal]

You are still playing league though, a true hell

[prime seal]

https://tenor.com/view/drake-yachty-censored-not-drake-tech-support-gif-8658410013845332703

[opaque coyote]

Skidibi Ohio rizzler sigma

Skidibi Ohio rizzler sigma

Gyatt fanum tax

6 7

I summon thee, Daemon of Tzeentch...

[near wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/gun-db-shotgun-gif-21597283

[vagrant fox]

Before I knew it, winter madness struck again

Winter, except for my cool birthday, sucks so bad dog

[near wasp]

Love winter

Hate summer

[winged jacinth]

I love never seeing the sun on a busy day!!!

I prefer the conditions really but god leaving the house before sunrise and coming home after suuucks

I've had a lot of windowless work too unfortunately

[near wasp]

I work in a windowless reinforced concrete box

I know the feel

[lament shoal]

A brainrot daemon would be from tzeentch 😭

[winged jacinth]

My dad was almost hired to do cost accounting for the b-2 bomber and the recruiter was like "yeah you'll do all your work in a secure windowless building and you cant talk about anything you see inside, ever" lol

He did not take that job

[near wasp]

Tbh you have to be a crazy person for thid

[lament shoal]

I think we had a family friend who had a job like that

[winged jacinth]

They also wouldn't tell him what his job would be he only found out when they offered him a different position later, post reveal lmao

"We need you to do math in a bunker" "can i ask-" "no"

[arctic talon]

I think game pace is in a good space now tbh

[winged jacinth]

My grandpa did cold war skunkworks engineering so i didn't know most of his career until we went through his files after he died

Designed the afterburners for the damn blackbird never said a thing

[opaque coyote]

Brain rot unironically sounds like something Tzeentch would do

[humble shoal]

My grandfather definitely had a lover and possibly a child in vietnam

[wet sandal]

Holy shit

[winged jacinth]

Afaik they're still using his fuel injector design for the R2 engines on the vulcan heavy lifter

[wet sandal]

Thinking about it, my grandpa designed black boxes for soviet planes

[winged jacinth]

He worked for aerojet before they merged with rocketdyne among other places

[opaque coyote]

Sometimes the sign of doing your job correctly is having nobody notice fucking anything

[near wasp]

Bros life work is falling outta the sky left and right

[winged jacinth]

I think it was so classified at the time he got in the habit of never even thinking about talking about it lol

[wet sandal]

There's a conspiracy of grandpas and the aeronautics indistry

[wet sandal]

I actually heard a recording from one of them

Bleak stuff

[opaque coyote]

Might also have been under an NDA and by the time it expired, he didn't really care about it

[winged jacinth]

I need to find my ultimate memorabilia flex picture one sec

[opaque coyote]

He probably just thought of it as a job

Like any other

[winged jacinth]

Im sure he was for a lot of it he worked on a lot of things

[opaque coyote]

Your grandpa after building a component for one of the most advanced stealth planes in one of the most uncertain times in history:

[opaque coyote]

That looks like a fucking lightsaber

[winged jacinth]

I have a viking lander component 🙂

[wet sandal]

Btw if someone breaks into your house it was me

[winged jacinth]

They made 10 of these 3 are in the smithsonian 6 are on mars

Unequivocally the coolest thing i own

[wet sandal]

Thats pretty fucking close to the coolest thing anyone owns

[humble shoal]

Yeah

[humble shoal]

Probably should cover the whole name though

[winged jacinth]

Good point im not sure if this id actually doxxable

[humble shoal]

I likely found your grandfather

[winged jacinth]

Yeah honestly i think i put a bunch of this in his obituary

[humble shoal]

Wasnt even that

But I do see them

[winged jacinth]

I'd be more careful if i wasnt like 30 now

[humble shoal]

Fair

[winged jacinth]

Ive probably said enough about my work history to find my linkedin

[humble shoal]

Possibly if I cared to look

[winged jacinth]

It is there for people to find me and offer me jobs they don't intend to give me

Shoutout to recruiters sending me emails about jobs im not qualified for in a field my linkedin says im moving out of definitely real humans doing that actively

[humble shoal]

I feel sad I dont eben get those

Since all linkeidn accounts made in the last 7 years are already in the spam folder

[outer wave]

My LinkedIn was made years ago, never used it, then I deleted it a few years later

[tulip shale]

I get those too, and theyre always for jobs id rather die than take up. like money is money but at the same time i wont get anything done at a job that bores me to death or feels completely unrelated to what im interested in

[winged jacinth]

mine are all like "senior position tangentially related to your listed skills"

stuff i'd never make it past round 1 for

[tulip shale]

oh same, its like "i have no experience in any of this" and im sure its AI sending it to me based off a warehouse job i had five years ago

ive even read some companies put up job listings for jobs they've already filled

i forget the reason why but its bullshit altogether

[winged jacinth]

yeah thats basically just fraud lol

[humble shoal]

Sell data

[winged jacinth]

they get subsidies for "creating jobs"

it was super bad during the PPP loan stuff maybe half of positions just didnt exist

[humble shoal]

I applied to 1k jobs before I got my current job which is 100% in person and underpaid for role

[winged jacinth]

but yeah i get emails for stuff like "senior Rust developer" and its like... i dont even have Rust listed as a language i know i've never worked in it and my profile says im not working in CS anymore

[tulip shale]

oh yeah that too. like what the actual fuck??? there aren't any laws guarding against that?

[winged jacinth]

🙂

[humble shoal]

Nope

I mean you know about walmarts side hustle right?

Get massive life insurance policies on their sick employees

[celest dome]

Neat, if you own TWW1 or 2 you'll get the 3rd for free

[tulip shale]

oh same. i was applying for jobs around the same time as my sister and i was applying for hundreds of jobs and my dad and sister were like "you need to put out like thirty applications a week" or some nonsense like that

[humble shoal]

And hope they die in 3 years

[winged jacinth]

most fake job listings are unrelated fraud related to job numbers though, often they'll do stuff like pretend they're looking outside for a job they're already comitted to an internal promotion for

[tulip shale]

ugh thats so gross and exploitative

[winged jacinth]

did you ever get "just walk in with a resume" lmao

[near wasp]

Oh dead peasant insurance

[winged jacinth]

yeah i love being escorted out by security

[humble shoal]

Actual phrase used btw

[tulip shale]

i got a lot of "call them back after you sent out the resume to follow up" and i did that one time and it led nowhere

[near wasp]

Job market is fucked

[humble shoal]

Yeah thankfully I have a job

[humble shoal]

Not thqt it pays above subsistence

[tulip shale]

HR people are actual ghouls. so many people dont get their job is to protect the company and not its employees

[surreal nest]

I waited months for a sale, finally saw a sale when I had like 30 dollars in my bank account so I sold a precious TF2 item because I was down bad. Next month its on humble choice for 12 bucks and the only part i wanted was free

I STAY LOSING

still only have an hour in it

[near wasp]

Why is posting fake job openings not prosecuted as the fraud it is

[winged jacinth]

a bunch of legislatiors made a ton of money off PPP fraud 🙂

[tulip shale]

yeah exactly this

[surreal nest]

It's really hard to prove as well

They get questioned they can just be like "oh they werent a good fit"

[winged jacinth]

its all public data you can just look at how much PPP money any given person got

[near wasp]

I just can't wait for the bubble to fucking pop

[tulip shale]

i also have been told about autistic people losing their jobs just for bringing up they have autism. my brother might be on the spectrum (i cant tell 100%) but its been enough where hes researched all of this and found people who were fully qualified, did well at their jobs, had a godo work performance, etc., would be fired suddenly after mentioning they had autism. and its exactly shit like "oh we felt you weren't a good fit"

thats why if they ever ask about disabilities on applications, i never mention adhd or any of that. i know they'll treat me like a liability

[winged jacinth]

this is the fatal flaw with "holistic college admissions" too the image is "oh we arent judging based on just your grades and test scores isnt that egalitarian" but in practice its "never mention mental health issues that might get in the way of graduation and hurt the college's metrics" and the like

[near wasp]

That's turbo illegal

[winged jacinth]

knowing when to bring up disabilities is an art

sometimes neurodivergence is desirable for PR/quota reasons

sometimes its poison

[tulip shale]

it is, but they get around it by saying it was something else like "you aren't a good fit" "you aren't living up to our expectations" "we felt your performance wasn't good enough"

[crystal forum]

it's wild because a company actually contacted ME for once the other day and it wasnt a scam

[tulip shale]

they pretty much outright do everything they can to make it look like something other than the person being autistic

[winged jacinth]

yeah the only way you can build a case really is establishing a pattern of them firing autistic employees which is not easy

[surreal nest]

Yeah its genuinely insane. And yet you have dumbasses saying "um corporations can't fire you or discriminate you LEGALLY...." like THAT DOESNT MEAN IT DOESNT HAPPEN

[lament shoal]

This has already happened to me twice this year

[arctic talon]

Most companies are fire at will

In the US

Which means they hold all the cards

[crystal forum]

i can say with 100% confidence that being neurodivergent will never help you in an office setting

[arctic talon]

Which is bullshit

[tulip shale]

very much so, same thing with stuff like if you were in rehab or had a previous addiction. i struggled with alcohol before and i never bring it up if they ask about gaps in resumes or if im on a date or something

[arctic talon]

But whatever

[winged jacinth]

in practice it's "companies cant discriminate systematically enough that it can be definitively separated from the noise:

[surreal nest]

Thats how I got my current job its surprising

[near wasp]

It's funny when companies complain about labor shortages but they'll never fucking hire a person

[crystal forum]

thats because unemployment statistics are completely made up

[surreal nest]

Or they'll try to hire these old fucks who think they're too good for labor

[winged jacinth]

i have a gap from a period where i was just super sick for like 2 years and i literally lie and say "yeah NDA freelance web dev"

[near wasp]

I've very lucky got my job six years ago, first application I filled out after high school and I'm still here driving myself insane

[crystal forum]

thats what i say too with modelling freelance and technically it's not lying

[winged jacinth]

true!

[crystal forum]

sometimes you have to show proof though

like projects

[tulip shale]

yeah like i have a friend who works at a microchip company who believes because they, to his perception, treat their employees well, that it doesnt happen at other companies and its like dude they all do this. all corporations care about is profit

[crystal forum]

because ofc they wont just trust you

[surreal nest]

The co-worker archetype I cannot stand is the 66 year old who insists that they will never retire because they love their job but they make everybody cover up their weaknesses and do their job 😭

[winged jacinth]

i've already bracketed it with other stuff so it stands out a lot less

plus, in my case, field switch

[arctic talon]

They want to hire people for Pennies

[surreal nest]

Thats insane to come to the conclusion of "never happens" because you have a good job

[arctic talon]

Not an actual wage

Or salary

[crystal forum]

mine is the 40 year old who thinks you are mentally incapable of doing any job because they needed 20 years of experience to understand how to tie their shoes

[lament shoal]

I honestly regret not taking the job a restaurant/bakery I like offered me a while back after I quit my last job

[surreal nest]

Coulda stopped at 40 year olds and now im double on board with undying hatred

[winged jacinth]

my least favorite coworkers are help vampires but thats at its worst in IT

people who just need "a little" help which ends up being every step

[tulip shale]

i was trying to explain to him how companies basically have an incentive to treat their employees like shit, a company's purpose is for creating profit and they will cut whatever corners they can because if they don't, they lose to a bigger company who very likely is where they are due to cutting said corners. the only way to win that race is to be exploitative for your company to survive

[opaque coyote]

It is time...

For slander ]

[winged jacinth]

the only reason a microchip company treats its workers well is because there's limited supply basically lol

[crystal forum]

the system will never reward you for following the rules

thats just how bad it is

[opaque coyote]

Companies need profit now, it is unfortunately very human to not really think about the long term very well

[winged jacinth]

they need specialists that arent easy to find and replace so retention becomes worth money

though like laati says that doesnt always win against immediate profit lol

[surreal nest]

Yeah like if you got lucky and you feel represented and safe at your job that's awesome but why tf why would you plug your ears and act like this isnt true

[valid needle]

Leave muh Rogal alone.

[crystal forum]

that's why i went into niche specialty. way harder to get fired when you're doing a job that a handful of people know how to do, but hey never under estimate the stupidity of management

[lament shoal]

💀

[crystal forum]

the only workers that chatGPT could replace is upper management

[winged jacinth]

theres a lot of people whos world is basically limited to their personal experience which is both saddening and embarrassing

[tulip shale]

exactly, like i had a coworker at my past job who would show up late and not get in trouble because she'd buy or shift supervisor starbucks. that and everyone else was working their asses off while barely being paid anything while our district leader would constantly go on leave and barely do anything to help us

[opaque coyote]

Remember children

Cheating always wins

If you failed, you haven't cheated enough

[tulip shale]

to put it this way...he comes from a family that only buys american cars because they want to support american-made products. that kind of guy

[winged jacinth]

yeah back in CS i was a fringe specialist (SQL integration) and now that im over in biochem its all fringe specialties unless you just get a bachelors and do big pharma lab teching

[surreal nest]

https://tenor.com/view/paolumu-odogaron-monster-hunter-world-destroy-mhw-gif-12955710175627893233

[wet sandal]

That's true, but only because like 65% of them could also be replaced by an empty chair

[winged jacinth]

not a lot of competition in the synthetic biology or comparative transcriptomics spaces

[opaque coyote]

to play devil's advocate, middle management CAN be hard

But when it's actually difficult, usually the asshole ones are fewer

[tulip shale]

yeah like when my friends told me that about his family i lost my shit. like literally something so god damn fucking stupid it enraged me

[opaque coyote]

If there's a lot of assholes, then it isn't

[crystal forum]

a bachelors on its own is just useless in the job market, hate to say

no wonder engineers keep complaining that they cant find a job

[wet sandal]

Middle management is definitely hard, were talking about upper

[winged jacinth]

FUCKING
this reminds me of about a decade ago working my first job at a movie theater
the managers all smoked so people who smoked all got a bunch of extra smoke breaks it was dogshit

[arctic talon]

It’s stupid that it’s useless but that’s just the world now

lol

[opaque coyote]

My dad had a phd and apparently he had a hard time finding a job

[arctic talon]

Unsurprising

Lol

[opaque coyote]

In that a bachelor's is too low or too high?

[arctic talon]

Companies aren’t hiring rn

[arctic talon]

Too low

[tulip shale]

i guess thats how they reinforce exploitation, its like a ladder. treat your employees well? your upper management isn't pleased with how company peformance. try to give your employees breathing room so they dont lose their minds at a job that pays them shit? you lose your job

[winged jacinth]

in biochem a bachelors will let you do synthesis in some big pharma lab and thats the only job

[opaque coyote]

yeah this was back in the 2000s

[crystal forum]

it makes sense though. there's a ton of engineers with the exact same degree and a bunch who have way more experience

[tulip shale]

its a heirarchy of exploitation

[arctic talon]

Yeah it doesn’t mean it doesn’t fucking suck

lol

[storm jungle]

reminds me of that insurance company scenes from The Incredibles

"You dont want me to help people?"

"WE ARE SUPPOSE TO HELP OUR PEOPLE BOB"

aka execs and suits

[crystal forum]

i meant only the bachelors by itself. you're basically a blank generic slate with no specialty

[opaque coyote]

Ah shit I'm working for a bachelor's for computer engineering

[arctic talon]

I have been lucky enough to have gotten multiple internships

lol

So my resume isn’t a blank fucking slate

[winged jacinth]

well you need the bachelors to get an advanced degree its not useless

[arctic talon]

On the otherhand still sucks ass

[opaque coyote]

ah shit

[arctic talon]

I need to get a masters

Anyways

💀

[crystal forum]

yeah that's a tough one

[winged jacinth]

you cant go into postgrad without graduating

[opaque coyote]

I think my resume is basically a blank slate

[surreal nest]

There is an alarming amount of darktide heads who think the arbites are like patrol officers and insist that hive scum would be arrested on sight

[arctic talon]

I hate test taking so much

[crystal forum]

comp engineering is not in a good spot rn

[arctic talon]

I fucking hate test taking

Literally the worst part

[opaque coyote]

FUCK

Should I switch majors

[arctic talon]

Yeah you’re fucking cooked

[arctic talon]

If you don’t enjoy it yes

[winged jacinth]

the whole computers field sucks shit thats why i bailed

[crystal forum]

this is the best answer yeah

[arctic talon]

If you want easy money comp sci and engineering is cooked

[opaque coyote]

I don't even know what I want

[near wasp]

College is a scam most the time

[arctic talon]

Unfortunately I enjoy it

[winged jacinth]

ironically i write more code and enjoy doing it more now than i did working in the field

[tulip shale]

facts. that scene in that movie is so fucking real and as a kid i was always confused as to what was going on, because it didn't make sense to me people could be that shitty. knowing everything i know now about insurance companies (and the times ive seen them deny coverage for medications that a person basically needs to survive) has taught me thats one of the most honest scenes in disney movies

[winged jacinth]

no more VBA scripting now i get to write FASTC analysis algorithms

[opaque coyote]

I wanted to do art but that's even more cooked

and also I'm not confident

in my skills

[storm jungle]

Its been like over 20 years and nothing has aged about it, its one of the best "reality" scenes in the movie i think

[winged jacinth]

the "learn to code" wave followed by AI basically ruined the job market for anyone who actually has passion or talent for the field

[storm jungle]

https://tenor.com/view/incredibles-incredibles-boss-incredibles-boss-throw-mr-incredible-mr-incredibles-throws-boss-gif-25367396

[arctic talon]

Wasn’t a scam for my parents or cousins

[storm jungle]

If only you could do this IRL lol

[arctic talon]

Assault and battery

[tulip shale]

facts

[winged jacinth]

insurance companies especially have the LITERAL business model of making money by not providing their services

[arctic talon]

Insurance companies are literally the worst

lol

[opaque coyote]

I think there was a deleted scene where the agent dude had to erase the manager's memory so that Bob didn't get charged with any crimes

[lament shoal]

I wish I could've done that to my first boss, god she was such a bitch

[near wasp]

Well yeah that was then. Shits changed a bit

[arctic talon]

Actually I guess that would classify as aggravated assault

Anyways doesn’t matter

[arctic talon]

I got into a good college like they wanted 💀

[winged jacinth]

what are you gonna do arrest mr incredible

[arctic talon]

lol

[storm jungle]

Yeah in the movie Bob literally has to discreetly tell the people hes denying insurance coverage loopholes in the shit they sign so they can exploit to actually get their money

[arctic talon]

I mean yea

[crystal forum]

it's not even that AI replaced software specialists, it's that companies had to make it seem like that was happening which really is backfiring since companies are rehiring specialists everywhere

[near wasp]

It's strangulation which is a whole other charge

[winged jacinth]

they made him retire but hes still like a demigod

[arctic talon]

Is that a specific crime lol?

[near wasp]

Yes

[arctic talon]

I feel like chucking someone through a wall would be battery

[winged jacinth]

oh yeah no it doesnt replace any of the actual work but it makes doing the work annoying and makes getting hired a fucking nightmare lol

[tulip shale]

ive worked in a pharmacy before and seen an old man have his blood-thinning medication denied coverage by his insurane company. ive also seen medications for like newborns denied as well. its like i dont know how people who work at insurance companies sleep at night or don't develop suicidal thoughts because i would hate myself if my job involved screwing people like that

[arctic talon]

So he’d get charged for strangulation and assault and battery lmao

[near wasp]

Nah it's attempted homicide in this context

[crystal forum]

should have been a doctor and made your parents satisfied smh

[near wasp]

Probably

[opaque coyote]

I think it's ironically a heartwarming scene in some manner.

Even when he's basically become a cog in the machine, he's still trying his best to help people. Despite Insurance companies generally being worst.

[surreal nest]

It's also criminal that non-medical associated white collar workers can decide if your treatment is medically necessary

[winged jacinth]

they cant but the doctor they pay to rubber stamp denials will

[storm jungle]

wdym "ironically", hes literally helping people

[crystal forum]

one of my jobs had amazing insurance. all my meds were covered 100%

[winged jacinth]

my insurance is pretty good rn actually im buying obamacare

[opaque coyote]

Because it's still somewhat depressing that a once superhero is working in an insurance company

[tulip shale]

i think they meant like the irony in the positino hes in vs what he actually wants to do

[arctic talon]

Doctor, scientist, engineer, business or beating

[surreal nest]

They 100% can, doctors can and will fight them on it

[arctic talon]

[storm jungle]

well yeah thats the point of the scene

[near wasp]

I have Luigi insurance

[tulip shale]

united healthcare?

[near wasp]

Yes

[tulip shale]

aw jeez

[arctic talon]

United healthcare are actually scum among scum

For health insurance in the US

Literally have the highest denial rate

[opaque coyote]

I know. I know.

It just gives me a smile tbh

[winged jacinth]

my dad's currently working for a startup that sells software to hospitals that automatically appeals automatic claim rejections its a very cool arms race we have going

[arctic talon]

It’s like 70% or some shit

[surreal nest]

unironically the hardest to work with too as part of my job

[near wasp]

They denied my acid reducers

[lament shoal]

Depends. The court would have to determine the defendant's intent at the time of the crime to say for sure.

[arctic talon]

UHC unironically would deny everything if they could

They’re so far above the industry standard

In an industry that already is fueled by human suffering

lol

[surreal nest]

You cant strangle your boss and not have the intent to maim

[opaque coyote]

Healthcare shouldn't be like this

But it is.

UHC is the worst of the worst, but the others aren't far behind.

[winged jacinth]

my insurance (a local BCBS) pays for a medication i cant believe they do, it's like $1200 a bottle and i copay like $2

[lament shoal]

Intent to simply harm and intent to murder are two separate things

[winged jacinth]

maybe i've tried enough meds i unlocked the secret approval cheat

[near wasp]

I'm lucky I don't have to deal with a lot medically

[opaque coyote]

Considering that the Agent literally erased the memory of the victim

He ironically doesn't remember how he got injured

[arctic talon]

A lot of the medication prices

[surreal nest]

I think you don't realize how serious strangling somebody is

[arctic talon]

Are fake tbf

Like

[crystal forum]

im surprised business is one now

[arctic talon]

They up the cost of shit intentionally

[opaque coyote]

and funnily enough, cannot file insurance since he can't remember how he got injured or what the cause is

[arctic talon]

Jensen Huang moment

They said if I end up like him it’s okay

/hj

My dad did rather

[winged jacinth]

this is "recoup R&D cost from insurance companies" pricing it was approved early 2024

[arctic talon]

LOL

[opaque coyote]

Insulin moment

[crystal forum]

oh so even asian parents are buying into the rich people cope now

[arctic talon]

Idk

[opaque coyote]

Asian parents always bought into it

That's why they work their sons and daughters so hard

IT's the innate belief that if you work hard, you get something good

[arctic talon]

My dad just likes him because he went to the same college as him in Taiwan

[crystal forum]

yeah to be shit like doctors which makes sense

being a doctor is garanteed money

[arctic talon]

Not close to the same age though

lol

My dads a good bit younger then Jensen Huang lmao

[surreal nest]

at the least strangulation is like higher tier assault charges

[crystal forum]

jensen is a pos anyways

[arctic talon]

I mean obviously

[crystal forum]

his name is cool though

[arctic talon]

He’s rich as fuck

[winged jacinth]

combo of immigrant mindset (in terms of wanting the best), brutal work cultures in asia, and a toxic parenting culture that's developed in asian-american communities i think

[arctic talon]

He also didn’t get born with a golden spoon

He’s a self made asshole

💀

So I think my parents think that’s a good thing

[lament shoal]

Look man I'm just looking at this from an objective standpoint. This is how it works in the courts. The defense could come up with plenty of reasons why the defendant didn't intend to actually kill the victim

[crystal forum]

he got lucky with the .com bubble

[winged jacinth]

like no one should have looked at "tiger mom" stuff and gone "this is good for a child"

[arctic talon]

Yeah

[crystal forum]

like literally all current tech billionaires

[arctic talon]

My parents aren’t that toxic

They never beat me

[crystal forum]

except a tiny few more recent ones

[languid meadow]

reminds me of that one guy begging people to invest in bitcoin

[arctic talon]

They were just demanding on my grades and academics

lol

[languid meadow]

if only I owned a home and invested in bitcoin instead of being a child

[crystal forum]

tech industry hasnt been making people rich in two decades

it's still riding the hype of the early 2000's

[winged jacinth]

besides scammers at least

[daring creek]

Group mental health session went well. I killed everyone. I feel a lot more sane now.

[winged jacinth]

no one is making money on real products

[crystal forum]

that's what i meant it's just scams now

[opaque coyote]

Not really, there's a limited amount of people that are allowed to become a doctor in the USA. You have to complete a residency at a hospital to become a physician, but the funds for hiring residents are provided by the US government.

So the number of avaliable residency programs (thus doctors), is decided by congress's budget.

...and guess who's cutting like every government program ever.

[crystal forum]

it's ALL overselling

i saw it firsthand in the tech industry myself

so much bullshit

[lament shoal]

With a good lawyer I could see the charge being brought down to manslaughter tbh

[winged jacinth]

being a doctor pays well after school and med school and residency

[crystal forum]

but investors are dumb as rocks so they buy into the hype

[arctic talon]

[opaque coyote]

So becoming a doctor also isn't very good money.

[tulip shale]

Oh I remember all of that back in the late 00’s. Some mom wrote a whole book about it and it’s like “isn’t this just child abuse??”

[winged jacinth]

did you see sam altman saying the barrier to improving AI is that they need "more electrons"

[crystal forum]

if you can get through school i still think it is

[winged jacinth]

hes even stupider than i thought maybe?

[arctic talon]

I mean yeah

but its accepted in East Asian/Asian American households generally

lol

[opaque coyote]

It is all underneath the mindset that they will have a solid foundation for having a good life as an adult.

A ""little"" pain now for much gain later.

[arctic talon]

my parents weren't that controlling though

[crystal forum]

though my own opinion about medical school is it's all a racket to intentionally limit how many doctors can be educated so doctors can still keep their high salaries

[winged jacinth]

once you break even doctors do make a bunch of money but getting there is insanely hard and you'll build up a lot of debt without generational wealth

[lament shoal]

This is still very much a part of asian parenting culture in many families unfortunately. I can't wait for it to die out, if it ever does

[arctic talon]

Well I'd say my grandparents on both sides caused a lot of bane

[winged jacinth]

dentistry is objectively this

[arctic talon]

it won't, not really

Not in a

easy way rather

Strictness/respecting your elders is pretty ingrained

[surreal nest]

maybe the doctor programs but medical stuff in of itself would be a crazy theory

[arctic talon]

traditionally

[surreal nest]

kinda need that shit

[arctic talon]

Adhering to high standards matters imo

[crystal forum]

i just need to look at how elon musk became rich. he just conned the US goverment and then bought tesla and told the upper middle class in california that electric cars are cool now

[winged jacinth]

we're finally starting to create integrated 6 year medical degrees that dont require undergrad which maybe will help

[tulip shale]

My parents were def tough on me and the academic culture of my hs was toxic af, but thank god they at least reminded me how much they loved me and didn’t try to punish me for struggling when I needed help

[arctic talon]

not going to beat my kid if I ever have one, but I'm still likely to hold them up to high standards grade wise

and make sure they have an actual good work ethic

lol

[winged jacinth]

he also took his dad's blood emerald money, invested in paypal, then sucked so much shit peter thiel paid him a bunch of money to fuck off

[opaque coyote]

Yeah, it's a rather simplistic way of thinking.

Sometimes it can work, but the psychological damage can have a lot of kids basically become depressed (if you over do it).

Y'know the kids that were like "Oh no I got a 97% instead of 100%". Sometimes it's just attention calling and sometimes it's them actually being scared.

[lament shoal]

Holding your kid to high standards isn't a bad thing so long as those standards aren't unreasonable

[arctic talon]

All A's moment

pretty reasonable imo

lol

but my perspective is skewed

[opaque coyote]

And during middle school, I sometimes wondered which was which when that ever happened

[surreal nest]

Also making sure to not victimize your kid if something does go wrong

[lament shoal]

Yeah

[arctic talon]

my parents only ever got upset at me if I got a D on shit

LOL

[crystal forum]

i think there could be way more medical schools and more genuinely certified doctors in the world. never under estimate the power that doctors, lawyers and engineers hold. they pretty much form cartels in some areas to keep their status as highly paid proffesionals

[surreal nest]

high school teachers suck, all A's is cruel

[lament shoal]

I wasn't allowed anything lower than a B lol

[opaque coyote]

Each child is their own person with their own academic ability and understanding.

My ADHD ass could probably get all As.

But...

y'know

ADHD doesn't exactly give you the best focus.

[arctic talon]

everything else was fine but they wanted me to have A's by the end of every semester in high and middle school

[tulip shale]

Like encourage the kids to do well but also love them when they fail. Show them they are more than performance and have a support for when they struggle

[arctic talon]

[lament shoal]

But ik I got off easy compared to other people my age

[surreal nest]

I'm not disagreeing on the doctor end but medical school isnt just doctors

[arctic talon]

I did it and I took the stupid ass honor/AP classes

lol

[winged jacinth]

honestly all As is manageable for most students i think unless they have pressures from parents or health or whatever interfering

[arctic talon]

Torment nexus

I had depression and I did it

💀

[opaque coyote]

I fucking hated AP english.

[arctic talon]

AP English was awful

lol

[winged jacinth]

AP classes at least give you college credit

thats money

[surreal nest]

wait is it

[crystal forum]

like isn't it kinda weird that the people who dictate the requirements to become a doctor, is doctors themselves. same for engineers and especially lawyers

[arctic talon]

AP physics was hellish for me

[surreal nest]

am i tweaking

[arctic talon]

on what

[surreal nest]

im tweaking kill all doctors

[opaque coyote]

The worst part is that ALL of the fucking speeches that I had to analyze the rhetoric over were all speeches from like

Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher

[winged jacinth]

OTOH who else am i going to trust to say who's a good doctor

[arctic talon]

https://tenor.com/view/siegfried-gbvs-gbvsr-die-verdrängen-gif-17943989853454082534

[surreal nest]

I thought medical school wasnt just doctors but i am deeply mistaken

[lament shoal]

Oh apparently there's a 17 year old in law school here in Cali. For some fucking reason

[opaque coyote]

It wasn't even the teacher's fault, it was apparently part of the fucking base curriculum

[arctic talon]

Yeah have you considered he's built better

[crystal forum]

alright maybe less with doctors but it's certainly fucking suspicious with engineers and lawyers

[arctic talon]

would hate to be related to him

LOL

[winged jacinth]

publicity and tv characters

[arctic talon]

I already get used as an example by some of my Aunts and uncles as to what

"hard work can accomplish" to my cousins

thank fuck I was never on the other end

[opaque coyote]

I was.

Fucking hell.

[surreal nest]

we need to ban this statement unironically from human language

[arctic talon]

too bad

[surreal nest]

I am voting for violating free speech rn

[arctic talon]

[winged jacinth]

eh they're all kinda fields where you need an expert to understand if someone else is an expert

engineering fukin hard

[opaque coyote]

I still like my cousin, but if I hear one more thing about how he "Always went to sleep at 8 pm and woke up a 5 am"

[winged jacinth]

the lawyer politician complex i think theres something to

[opaque coyote]

I am going to go fucking ballistic

[crystal forum]

i think learning engineering is leagues harder than actually working as one

[surreal nest]

I think we should hurt people with 9-5's

[lament shoal]

Her parents are asian and my bf who's Korean expressed his concern at just how much pressure they might be putting on their daughter lol

[opaque coyote]

...

[arctic talon]

thats a 9 hour sleep cycle

[opaque coyote]

that and the US government

[arctic talon]

bro sleeps longer then I did

weak

pathetic

undiscplined

/j

[winged jacinth]

similar to tax prep companies lobbying for more complicated tax law

[near wasp]

Lol

[winged jacinth]

i've never seen hadron do that before lmao

[arctic talon]

fuck you Hadron

[near wasp]

Hadron no likey

[crystal forum]

literally never seen that shit outside the US

[lament shoal]

No burst messaging for wolf

[crystal forum]

how do you people even type that fast

[winged jacinth]

yeah because in a sane country you'd stop that shit instantly

[arctic talon]

my depression not even coming from academic pressure was the funniest shit ever in retrospect

[winged jacinth]

complete regulatory capture in the US

[opaque coyote]

idk maybe it works differently in canada but the USA also has a say for how many people can become doctors. engineers, etc.

Especially doctors, again, residencies are dependant on Congress's budget. @crystal forum

[near wasp]

I work 5 to 4 like a creature

[arctic talon]

because my parents thought it was

lol

though my Dad called me a bitch and to suck it up because as we all know Depression is fake

and not real

[opaque coyote]

And that's why ALL OF OUR FUCKING HOSPITALS ARE UNDERSTAFFED

[arctic talon]

and is a communist myth

[winged jacinth]

doctors, engineers, lawyers, accountants, chemists, all sorts of fields have internal boards that manage qualifications

[crystal forum]

no i can tell you it's the same in many places in the west. doctors like keeping their prestigious titles, same for engineers and all the others

[opaque coyote]

My depression partially came from my ADHD and partially from an existential crisis

[lament shoal]

The hairstyle?

[winged jacinth]

once i graduate i'll probably register with the american chemical society unless i get headhunted out of country

[surreal nest]

Sure why not

[near wasp]

I've been depressed for years, came free with my tramua

[opaque coyote]

I still have it

yippee

[winged jacinth]

has anyone else tried TMS for depression

[crystal forum]

the fact that all those internal boards are themselves affected by the things they preside over is just wacky

[near wasp]

Nope I paint miniatures

[crystal forum]

it's like how a politician shouldn't own stock in the company they're making laws about

[winged jacinth]

i tried essentially every class of medication but MAOIs and transcranial magnetic stimulation worked better than any of them

[arctic talon]

nope, I just took medication for it

[lament shoal]

Idk, aren't overworked 9-5 workers the exact people being exploited by the greedy higher ups?

Unless 9-5 means something different now

[crystal forum]

the company that contacted me is a medical company that expects some overtime so idk if i'll actually take it

when companies expect overtime that's not good

[lament shoal]

Is it a hospital

[near wasp]

If you need a job take it

[lament shoal]

If its a hospital I'd avoid it unless you're desperate for a job

[near wasp]

Look for something else while you are employees

[winged jacinth]

now a bit of a story, i've been having crazy anxiety issues for like a year now that have been getting worse and worse
i started passing a kidney stone last monday
abdominal CT picks up a benign but possibly functional tumor on my left adrenal gland that might be cranking out stress hormones 24/7
trying to see an endocrinologist to check my midnight cortisol levels

[near wasp]

Damn man

I hope you get that resolved

[crystal forum]

biotech company that makes lots of medical equipment

[languid meadow]

after passing a kidney stone yeah they fucking suck hopefully whatever they picked up isn't harmful to you best of luck man

[crystal forum]

which i have 0 experience in

[arctic talon]

rough

[crystal forum]

but hey i wanna try biotech

god i love having a weird degree

[winged jacinth]

this is kidney stone 2 for me, last one was a decade ago which is a time frame i can live with

[near wasp]

It's probably a scam or shell company

[arctic talon]

biotech is cool

tbh

[near wasp]

Take the job

[lament shoal]

If they're willing to hire you then go for it

[crystal forum]

boston scientific

[winged jacinth]

but if i can fix my anxiety problems with a surgery that would be huge, a game changer

[young pecan]

I stopped drinking mountain dew after a childhood full of drinking it because the idea of a kidney stone frightens me

[arctic talon]

oh thats def not a scam or shell company lmao

[crystal forum]

idk i never looked into biotech

[near wasp]

Yeahhh they real

[crystal forum]

i did want to get into it a few years ago but never knew where to start

i guess it's time i start

[winged jacinth]

For whatever reason they mostly blame colas specifically idk the chemistry

[crystal forum]

again, the benefits of a niche degree

[arctic talon]

I'd assume its acid?

[winged jacinth]

But yeah nice silver lining to what's probably the worst few days of the year for me

[arctic talon]

yeah its phosphoric acid

[winged jacinth]

It might be the phosphate groups off phosphoric acid yeah

Usually the calcium's anion will be oxalate but it can be orthophosphate

[daring creek]

You don't want to piss rocks?

Thats awesome though

[winged jacinth]

I have to catch my stone if i want to know what its made of but i uh, don't bring my pee seive out of the house, so the odds arent great

[crystal forum]

i drink a ton of water every day by choice so im guessing i prob wont get a kidney stone

[arctic talon]

I drink too much water

[crystal forum]

im a very thirsty person

in many ways

[winged jacinth]

That's the biggest preventative but its not foolproof

I drink probably 80oz just in water every day

[near wasp]

I don't drink enough water

[winged jacinth]

But you can't make dietary modifications unless you know what stones your body is prone to forming if any so its really the only thing to do

We also don't really know what the best diet for the most common kind of stone is lol

Neither limiting calcium or oxalate intake has an observed effect on calcium oxalate stone formation

[dapper gyro]

What is 80oz?

[winged jacinth]

2.35L

[wet sandal]

Burger units

[winged jacinth]

The ounce is funny because we have like 4 kinds of ounce

[dapper gyro]

There was one summer that I drink 10L a day for a week, it was just that hot.

A lot of outdoor actitivies, too.

[winged jacinth]

Gotta keep your electrolytes up drinking that much

[wet sandal]

Don't tell me this stuff right before bed, I'm gonna have nightmares about non decimalized measurement systems

[dapper gyro]

Oz is a weight unit, L is volume, I always have hard time to convert them.

For lengths, I can do because of the dumb Canadian dual system.

[near wasp]

Ever hear of a troy ounce

Or a troy pound

[dapper gyro]

You have Long ton, short ton, Imperial ton, all 3 are different from the metric ton.

[near wasp]

Don't forget a butt ton

126 gallons

[wet sandal]

My favorite unit is horsepower, because it has 4 values different by an actual order of magnitude

[winged jacinth]

ounce comes from the root for "twelfth" so it got used as the smaller unit for a bunch of stuff including fluid ounces
then sometimes we decided to make things have 16 ounces in them

[wet sandal]

Also that one joke about the triple C system

[languid meadow]

Rhaast isn't a piss baby Darkin anymore holy shit

[valid needle]

If you have long and short ton do you also have skinny ton and obese ton?

[dapper gyro]

Also, don't drink electrolyte if you don't do heavy activities or in need of replacement, it could also create kidney stone.

[dapper gyro]

I don't know, mate. I just know that the imperial system has a shit ton of non sense.

[arctic talon]

They made him almost kill Zaahen

This is a rhaast upscale

[languid meadow]

That's my goat

[arctic talon]

Lowkey want a kayn skin where he never fully transforms into rhaast or shadow assassin voice line wise

[languid meadow]

yeah the lore team really pushed Rhasst oh wait fuck it's gonna be an gacha skin

lore skins are usually thrown in there now

but yeah they seem to be focusing on rhaast a ton when it came to Zaahen so I wouldn't be surprised if Kayn gets a skin about that

hopefully not a gacha skin but idk who will voice Rhaast considering his VA passed away

[arctic talon]

Might recast him

[arctic talon]

The lore team likes darkin

Which is unsurprising

lol

The Lore team def plays favorites with regions

Shurima, Ionia and Noxus

[languid meadow]

next season is supposedly Demacia

which is cool

hopefully we get radiant Freljord stuff

[arctic talon]

Shyvana rework finally

lol

[rose thorn]

Mfs are getting desperate for anything lmao in terms of leaks lmao

Take a guess what ‘leakers’ said the left image is

Hint it’s AOS

[arctic talon]

Why are AoS leakers so ass at leaking/j

[near wasp]

Bro that's worse image quality an the cameras I watch

[young pecan]

Ionia deserved, Noxus deserved, Shurima I sleep

[tulip shale]

That shit is like the same quality as every photo of a cryptid or UFO attempting to prove they exist

[arctic talon]

Shittier then the 140p angron leak

Lmao

[burnt maple]

Bro, it clearly is a space marine.

[wintry cloud]

Im crying 😭

[rose thorn]

It’s 2 guys on the forms everyone is putting all their faith into, one of them who’s correct like 40% of the time and another who does RP in the forums as ‘the story teller’

[wet sandal]

Schizophrenic people on forums are wellsprings of knowledge, you just gotta figure out what parts of what they're saying are true

[wintry scarab]

Is that a vox? Why would you give an ogryn a vox? lol

[crystal forum]

to sound louder

[wintry scarab]

That way, if you cant hear the orders being given because an ogryn is shouting through a vox. Probably, nor can your enemy lol.

[surreal nest]

Everybody in the squad gets one and ogryn felt left out so they just quickly attached it to the helmet but left it off

[wintry scarab]

Also, what are these drop troopers? Like paratroopers or just like a shocktroop deployed from aircrafts?

[vagrant fox]

More paratroopers

[lament shoal]

Daft Punk: Grimdark Edition

[wintry scarab]

An ogryn having a vox for paratrooping stuff makes more sense

[rustic patrol]

it's almost as ugly as the HS reveal trailer

[wintry scarab]

Ima defend fatshark a tiny bit. I think the ganger trailer kinda sucks. When compared to the arbites one, it really does show its flaws. But still, the trailer isnt as bad as ive seen people make it out to be. Its still made with quality. Especially when compared to some of the other stuff that games companies put out and pretend that its acceptable.

But yeah. Overall it kidna sucks.

[vagrant fox]

It's nothing special but it's not the worst thing I've ever seen

[wintry scarab]

Its super bland but competent.

[rustic patrol]

it's all relative

[surreal nest]

Im really confident that the gameplay for Hive Scum is going to be a new standard for satisfying fatshark combat

Trailer definitely underwhelming but I feel like they are cooking rn

[lament shoal]

Yeah let em cook

[rustic patrol]

I think the reason they had to delay was because marketing went, "We CaN't hAVe DruGs In ViDYA GaMeZ!" and pulling the plug, hence the almost invisible stim thing in the trailer while using stims and making custom stims is like an entirely new part of the DLC

[surreal nest]

I agree. I really feel like the OG trailer might have been gutted and they made what they did in a week

[lament shoal]

The original trailer likely got Games Workshopped

[rustic patrol]

DT is an 18 game. Drugs shouldn't even be an issue.

if GTA can have you smoking weed and snorting crack... I just don't get PR and Marketing

[surreal nest]

Its very weird but I assume GW just doesnt want to be associated with drug use. For some reason mass murder is cool though

I dont think very many mainstream GW products touch on the drug aspect of warhammer

[lament shoal]

It's because killing in media is more normalized in society

[rustic patrol]

another reason why the Drukhari have so few models lol

the fact that their entire model line has the same number as the 500 Ultramarine release alone makes me laugh

[wet sandal]

Dawn of war had that one shipmistress that was constantly on meth

[lament shoal]

Also why slaanesh doesn't get any attention outside of the EC

[rustic patrol]

?!

I don't remember that being in the campaign.

[surreal nest]

Where are my turn based game fans at

I gotta plug the coolest shit ever

[wet sandal]

Wait I meant Dawn of Fire

[lament shoal]

Here

[rustic patrol]

I have Gladius, Mecahincum, Chaos Gate, and Battle Sector

[rustic patrol]

lmfao

[wet sandal]

Always get those 2 mixed up

[surreal nest]

You gotta check out Phantom Brigade

[lament shoal]

Sounds familiar

[surreal nest]

Turn based mech game but the turns are like seconds and you take turns in seconds and build a timeline of actions

Coolest shit I've ever played

[lament shoal]

When did it come out?

[surreal nest]

Like 2 years ago

But the 2.0 just dropped

Highly recommend

[lament shoal]

I'll check it out, but if its not on mac I unfortunately won't be able to play it until I grab a steam machine next year

Thank you for the recommendation!

[surreal nest]

NOOOO

[lament shoal]

It looks cool tho lol

[plush mason]

reminds me of those other drop troops

the something hawks or something

[wintry cloud]

I think the cicatrix maledictum is the coolest thing ever. I am (unfortunately) starting to like abaddon a little

[wintry scarab]

GTA is a bad example lol. GTA online no longer has any mentions of suicide and you cannot curse when typing lol.

[wintry cloud]

Does abaddon have any good books?

[wintry scarab]

Also, i just googled these guys and theyre jetpack guys. I didnt know that

[rustic patrol]

QQ

[storm jungle]

Black Legion series by ADB

hes excellent in it

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Black_Legion_(Novel_Series)

[rose thorn]

It looks sick but does not seem like a 30 dollar videogame lmao

[rustic patrol]

it's on sale for me

got it and invisible just now for under 12 dollars

[rose thorn]

Ye I see it’s on sale too

I just actually don’t have 15 dollars

[surreal nest]

You really wouldn't have a good judge on that without playing it

[rustic patrol]

you play Battletech?

[surreal nest]

Not yet

my next game to get

[rustic patrol]

ah, was gonna ask how good this was compared to that cuz they look similar

[rose thorn]

THATS THE FIRST LITERAL BARRIER OF THE GAME WTF ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO 😭

[surreal nest]

But how do you look at a turn based game and think "this doesnt seem worth 30 dollars" when you have no knowledge of it or how long it is

i can imagine you just gazed the store page