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None. I always traded up and always liked the new one better than the old one.

Although I will have to say I'm really glad my previous car got a new owner and don't end up on the scrapyard, because I really liked that one even though it is 20 years old now

divot1338 posted...

These two statements seem wildly inconsistent.

Can you explain why they are inconsistent?

I never gave the reason why I'm against it.

In my opinion death is an easier way out than a long prison sentence.

And also why I would pick a fairly gruesome death over being locked up for the rest of my life

The one question I have while reading through all of this is why are people even talking about being 'humane' about it?

Isn't death supposed to be a punishment worse than life imprisonment?

I would honestly pick any of those options, and worse, over spending the rest of my life in a 5 square meter room.

I will add that I am against death penalty btw.

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Of the numbered titles never played 3, 16 or the MMO's, 2 I couldn't get into and only ever got a chance to play 4 for about 2 hours

The one thing on my bucket list I'll never be able to fullfill is going to a Queen concert with Freddy still alive. So yeah, Queen by a mile

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I had a motor accident about 20 years ago where I pretty much did the same thing. For me it was judo that gave me that muscle memory, but I got off with just a minor scraping on my hip and a ruined coat.

The cop that arrived first was beyond surprised I was on my feet and said I could have died judging by the speed it all went down

In earth years roughly 173946251936 years, 3 months and 2 days

The past 2 or so years I got suspended twice after letting myself get a bit carried away, both of which could be considered fair enough depending on your world view.

Other than that over the past 16 years my moderations can be counted on one hand with fingers to spare, all with NKL iirc

2023 Toyota Yaris hybrid. Does about 100km on 4,5 litres

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A few times from smoking too much weed, worst one was me slamming my head into the gravel, ended up with my whole face bleeding. still have a scar above my right eye from it (25+ years later)

Also had a blackout once, for which I was sober, I remember tying my shoes getting ready to go to work, next thing I remember is being at the last traffic light before geting to work. To this day, I have no idea how I got there

Nah, some of my moderations were fair enough, the ones that weren't, well, I know what type of people is doing those those things and all that shows me is i'm a bigger person

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Vicious_Dios posted...

I wish I was that trusting. I have a hard time letting my helpers and workers use my service trucks. Lol They know the rules.

Yeah, well, my employer is kinda cool like that, doesn't seem to care about material damages. I've seen a co worker drive the front end of a forklift into a company car and he was just like '*shrug* shit happens'

Amsterdam-Frankfurt and back the same day, think it's about 500km getting there and another 500 going back. Spent about 14 hours driving that day.

The good news was i got to drive my employers Porsche for the trip

There used to be a snooker bar less than 5 minutes away from my high school.
Spent a lot of time there skipping classes, playing snooker and drinking beer as nobody really cared about age restrictions back then

Seriously? Ybarra wants to be able to tip developers for making good games that don't try to nickel and dime their way into players pockets?

This comes from a guy at the helm of the company responsible for the shitfest that is Diablo 4, that will sell you premium battle passes for 10 bucks, then making it so that completing the batle pass will NOT give you enough coin to buy the next and offer skins and other cosmetinct for 20+ bucks.

And here I was thinking Kotick leaving would be a good thing...

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It might turn into a cold war 2.0, don't see it turning into ww3 for 1 reason:

Nato and mostly the US usually can't wait to invade any country they view as hostile, yet they've always shyed away from Russia. I don't think that has changed

Never was much of a bar or club goer. I prefered going to raves when I was younger, big, small, legal or illegal didn't really matter to me.

Nowadays it's just 1 festival a year for me (raves aren't really a thing anymore in my country and the ones that do still exist start at around 6pm end at 3am at the latest due to laws, whereas before those laws they tended to be from 10pm to 6-8 am) and the odd meet up at a bar every once in a while, but not something that's a habit

Ultimately it's your free will choice whether you decide to go back to smoking or not, but as someone who has smoked 2 packs a day for a long time (now cut back to 1) and has several failed attempts at quitting under his belt, I would say don't do it. You've come this far, you got this.

180 ish km/h on a 100 km/h road.
Had a new car and wanted to test out how fast it could go.

Might have got 190, but unfortunately I had to break

Zero. Cops around here love lasergunning drivers 'speeding' 3km/h over the speed limit or beating up old people protesting, but tend to run and hide when actual criminal stuff is going on

Don't really care about it, never used it.
People should be free to say what they have to say, whether someone else likes it or not.

Probably came close once or twice as a teen, but no. Nowadays I can't even get drunk anymore because I fall asleep before it gets to that point

My reaction: 'You're brave. Marry me'

Diablo 3, I'd just chill in New Tristram with Tyrael and Deckard Cain, only being a few steps away from a healer who can instantly restore me to full health by just talking to him if anything happens

The store brand coffee in a local grocery store here is better than any of the A brands, and 2/3 of the price. Other than that, all the other store brand stuff is complete trash

Work smart not hard

People getting all worked up about sports. I mean seriously, watching a bunch of overpaid kids running after a ball is something I could never understand. Or any sport that doesn't involve a ball for that matter.

Gran Turismo 7. I'd probably get into a normal car and chill while driving laps around my favorite tracks. I should be ok untill I try to drive one of the actual fast cars

Then, I'd say a toss up between Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox.
Current age, Cox by far

Zonbei posted...

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I think you might be underestimating the difficulty and cost of these things, but yes, probably you could help more than 3 people a year.

Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that's probably an almost impossible task that can not be completed in my lifetime, or the lifetime of my great grandchilderen.

Doesn';t take away from the fact that if nobody ever tries it, it will never happen.

But yeah, I'm an idealist dreamer lol :)

Zonbei posted...

Not much? How much money do you think 500k is?

You could definitely save more lives in general, but everybody on the planet? Not quite.

These are also lives that could be saved by many many other people, and the senzu beans are basically able to save lives that cant be saved. Plus, personally Id only be using most of them for other people. The value to myself is worth so much more than the money.

Well, yeah, throwing 500k a year at various charities/medical research things is a drop in an ocean, sure.

But, what if that 500k could partially be invested into something that tuirns it into more than 500k and use the rest to fund or set up an organisation that works on actual solutions for existing problems instead of fighting the sypthoms of said problems?

Not saying i have all the solutions, because I don't, but I'd rather try to help create a better world for all than saving what, 200 people from bad things while billions continue to suffer without hope of improvement

Quite an interesting topic this one.

I see a lot of people choosing the beans to be able to help their loved ones.
While this is at its core a noble approach, 3 senzu beans a year means saving 3 people a year.

Think about what could be done with 500k a year to make the lives of EVERYBODY on the planet better when invested properly

DoubleOSnake posted...

they would not give you that back pay though? was this kinda recent at mcd's ? have to ask for a paper paystub , slip....

I was 18 when I walked out. 42 now, so it was a while ago...

GranTurismo posted...

what? no way. unbelievable. Was there any way to defend that firing though? Heard that like mcd's work is much harder than walmart stuff and they even pay less. No wonder they can't find workers.

You wouldn't believe how hard they screw over their employees.

Yes, it's hard work, especially working the kitchen, even moreso in summer when temperatures in there can get up to 45 degrees Celsius and they do everything in their power to keep you at minimum wage.

My reason for quitting was just that; even for basic workers, they have different paygrades and ranks. When I stared working full time, they, by their own rules, had no choice but to give me a 10% (or something along those lines) raise, but, the catch is, at least back then, they don't send or give you your pay slip, you have to actually ask the manager for it.

Me being naive me at the time, thought it was ok untill I started calculating what I should have earned and comparing that to the money that they put in my bank account. The next day I asked for my pay slips and found out they NEVER gave me the raise I was fully entitled to.

Let's just say I waited until the dinner rush and made a scene big enough for everybody inside to hear it before changing into my normal clothes, dumping my uniform at the front door and walking out

GranTurismo posted...

iirc mcds does not give employees free food anymore. Or like anything even close to free food, very little

They didn't in my time either, you could buy it for purchase price.

Hell, I watched a girl get fired on the spot for eating 1 (!) fucking fry that was about to be tossed anyway, so yeah

JebronLames posted...

yeah kinda. Have heard though like a big company like google microsoft that no degree, might not be possible.

I have no intention of working for a big company :)

Only big company I've ever worked for was McDonald's back in high school and the first few months after dropping out. Never again lol. Never ate that crap again either after quitting

JebronLames posted...

really, is a big company? so your company does not greatly look down on not having one? many do

It's a fairly small company actually, about 40 people total.

And I won't lie, I've worked at this company for 15 years next week and my job requires some very specific skills and knowledge that no school exists for that I have learned on the job as well so I'm not afraid to admit I lucked out hard

Smallville posted...

what do you mean, know when to keep your big mouth shut?

What I mean is not act like you know stuff when you really don't and just listen to the discussions, trying to learn and be able to apply that in the future. It also helps with you not getting in over your head.

I mean, sure, there are times when I feel a bit behind, especially in MT meetings where I'm the only one who doesn't at least have a college degree, when that happens, I tend to just listen and focus on what I can learn from the back and forth between collegues instead of trying to prove myself by potentially saying stupid shit

Smallville posted...

what do you guys think about the subject of lack of a degree though? do you think it really does extremely limit job prospects, earnings potential?

It doesn't if you hgave the right attitude, a big mouth and most importantly, know when to keep that big mouth shut

Smallville posted...

upper management, is this like a big retail store though?

Nope. A company that sells and produces batteries varying from regular alkaline battteries to military stuff.

One really cool project I've been working on is designing and developing a battery for a solar power boat that's being developed by a technical university in my country, which will be used in a race in Monaco come summer.

Another project I've been guiding is the development of a back up battery for a hydrogen powered LMP3 race car which is set to compete with regular LMP race cars in a competition that could ultimately lead them to qualify for Le Mans

Nope. High school drop out who worked his way to upper management here.

School was just a waste of time for me, working full time at 17, owning a house at 22 and neverending partying untill I got to old to keep up seemed like a much better choice. And I still think it was lol

Fluent in Dutch and English. Speak French well enough to get around and a little bit of Polish (speaking, do not ask me to read or write it lol)