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That's probably just because it's Taco Bell though (not trying to be a snob here because yes, I do eat Taco Bell too)

I like dairy but I've realized it really makes me fart a lot

I think I could pretty easily cut out red meat and maybe pork, but everything else would be hard

Just to be clear, that was because it's the only one I've been to. Though I don't think I've ever heard anyone say Coors isn't a good park

The idea of touring all the stadiums in a sport is neat, but I think it's less cool nowadays when teams seem to get new stadiums more often. I'd probably do it anyway if I had the money and time

Coors is the best ballpark I've ever been to

Twitter and Facebook have definitely made it a lot worse. Everything that used to just be part of niche web communities has gone mainstream, including bad things. I remember for the first few years I came here the concepts of trolls and memes were interesting to me because I'd never hear anybody IRL talk about those, I thought it was just for super-nerds who go to 4chan and gaming forums

Does anybody else ever come across forum posts from only like 2014, and even when the vaguest political allusions are made, it feels palpably different? Maybe that's just confirmation bias on my part, knowing it was a more innocent time, but everyone seems much more relaxed, right and left. Now everyone is just miserable. This is what I really hate about the alt-right. They may be horrible and racist, but I'm not sure they're horrible and racist in service of anything tangibly useful to them. It's purely spite-based politics, but not just against marginalized groups, but against anyone and everyone they can drag down to their level of misery. And they pretend to enjoy what they've created, but it's obvious that they're still extremely sad and miserable people.

I mean is that your daily meal though? Or is that a meal you eat on occasion, but still all you eat on those days?

Looking at the reactions it sounds like he's a hero to incels... but not like in the Elliot Rodger way, so he has that going for him, I guess

All the interesting players on the Seahawks were already gone anyway

TBH I don't really know who that is. From what I can tell he's a PhD-holder who literally uses the phrase "social justice warriors" unironically

We had 8 class periods, lunch did not count in that. One day each week we had all 8 periods for about 45 minutes each, then the other four days were odds or evens for about 90 minutes each. Of course, after I think freshman (or maybe sophomore) year we could have off periods and I took full advantage of that. Well, maybe not totally full because I'm pretty sure I took more science classes than I needed to. I can't remember if you just had to meet all your credit requirements or if they also had a limit on how many off periods you were allowed.

Warriors because of course they're going to win

Yellow posted...

I'll eat one big mac and a multi-vitamin + snacks in a day.

What the fuck

Berating posted...

energy drinks

about 120 euros a month

that's 84 cans of monster

I'm worried about your heart

Yeah, I've been reading about things people do and I see a lot of mentions of hardware monitoring, but I don't know if I really need that, seeing as I've gotten by without it before. Another one I see a lot is various types of web scraping, which is something I was already interested in but thought it would be too hard, but most of the posts I saw made it sound pretty easy.

And wait a minute, isn't the point of Tinder to be anonymous about liking somebody until you both like each other? But if you swipe left on somebody and the number drops, wouldn't that just give them away?

This sounds like a new feature, I don't remember that

Maybe you can convince one to go on a date at Del Taco

Can I automate my shitposting on GameFAQs

Are you checking Tinder at the end of the trip? Sounds like a missed opportunity

How come like all of the Canadian PotDers are in Alberta

What are some cool things you can do with them? Right now I'm just using them to back up some files from a network drive to my main computer

Cell phones are still a thing

It's "reliable" in the limited space where you can actually use it, and strictly for making calls. I'd rather take a phone that's a little less reliable but that I can use in many more places and do several other useful things with. It can also be used when the power is out because it has batteries. I mean, there's a reason everybody has cell phones now and younger people are skipping the home phone. But whatever you say gramps

Get the fish tacos because I've yet to find anything else on their menu that isn't awful

What? We have Del Taco here.

Isn't the "secret sauce" just thousand island? Bleh. I'm not a big thousand island fan, but I did get animal style when I went there

Cell phone reception can be pretty shitty, I'll give you that, but I feel like your priorities are completely backwards. Or at least the landline phone should be at the bottom... internet and cell phone, I could see cases for putting them 1-2 in either order.

I can get email on my phone's data plan, and I'd need some kind of phone anyway if I wanted them to call me. So unless you only have a landline, which I'm not sure is even any cheaper, or you'll only pay for a $15 flip phone but not a $50 low-end smartphone, I don't really see how needing internet would be a problem here. Also there's a Starbucks or McDonald's with free wifi on like every other block.

Jesus Christ I swear at least half of PotD enjoys making their lives as hard as possible for themselves

mooreandrew58 posted...

yeah well to each their own, I prefer an old fashioned phone call. its just better all the way around for me, like if i'm not available when they want me to come in its easier to negotiate a better time for me.

I don't think I've gone through a single online app where you can leave off your email, and you rarely have a say in how they'll choose to contact you. It's pretty silly to take yourself out of a potentially great opportunity because you're too lazy to take care of your email/"prefer a phone call".

Well I don't know what you're doing, but I have a dedicated email for applying to jobs, and I apply to dozens each month, but I hardly ever get spammed. It's not that hard.

GanglyKhan posted...

Show up in person, if possible.
No offense, TC, but if you're able to show up in person to ask about the interview and you aren't, you really have no excuses.

Lots of companies don't like when you do this. It isn't the 1970s

You seem to be missing the point here... who is emailing you? This shouldn't be a problem unless you give out your email really indiscriminately and/or have an extremely poor spam filter. I don't understand how that inbox could get to 50k emails, checking often or not. That's like 140 a day if you let it go for a year.

Then make another email. That sounds like a really shitty service if you're getting that much spam into your inbox

I don't know what kind of spam you get, but you can just unsub all that, if you're talking about official marketing email-type spam. If that's not what you're talking about, shouldn't it be getting filtered anyway and not an issue for your inbox? But there's no reason why you should be getting so much spam, regardless.

Plus you can make a new email for applying to jobs, it's not hard to make email addresses. I'd recommend Gmail, at least over stuff like AOL and Yahoo... those seem to get way more spam than Gmail inboxes, in my experience.

Is that a Sophie joke? Cause I was totally thinking earlier this poster reminds me of Sophie

Blightzkrieg posted...

I don't know why they don't just fucking email though this isn't 1987

I had a rude response prepared because I misread this at first as you asking why I don't email them. But yeah, this is my thought exactly. If they have such a hard time answering the phone, they could just use my email which they have. I can't even email them instead since I don't have their email.

Yes, I'm definitely calling back the right number. This is stuff I purposefully applied to, to be clear. Sometimes I get calls from unknown, scammy-sounding companies, but I don't bother with those.

Nobody else?

Rockies reliever Mike Dunn has an ERA over 10. More like... wait for it... Mike Done.

Also I realize I'm just opening myself up for ridicule making this topic but can you blame me for not having a job when even companies that are interested don't talk to me? What a bunch of bullshit

schedule an interview, but you can never get ahold of them again? This has happened to me like at least a half a dozen times. I don't get it, like am I doing something wrong? I'll usually leave a voicemail by the second attempt, and then give it maybe one or two more tries at most, but they never answer or call me back.

Do any of you guys make budgets and track this shit? I've always been a little scared to do it, but that probably means I should be doing it. Or at least I could probably track all my food purchases and see how much I'm wasting.

LinkPizza posted...

Food, probably. I usually use all of it. But in the occasional stuff I have to throw away.

Oh, I meant more like eating a lot of fast food is how I consider it a waste. I don't like throwing away food, of course, but I think everybody ends up having to do it.

Far-Queue posted...

Video games, for sure. I buy games almost every week.

Do you play them, though? I wouldn't consider them a waste if that was the case. But I guess it's up to each person to decide what is a waste. From my perspective, I'd consider cigarettes to be a waste, but maybe certain people who smoke just view them as another thing they enjoy, just as people enjoy video games.

So not like a single purchase that you wasted a lot of money, but something like a subscription or a disposable habit.

I'd have to say food. Obviously I need food, so I justify it to myself that way, but I spend way more than I need to buying crap food. Soda in particular is a big waste, it's like $2 or more from most restaurants nowadays. At least I don't smoke, I guess.

Overall I don't think I have many other wastes. I stopped subscribing to stuff I barely use (XBL, Amazon Prime), and I don't drink as much beer or buy as many games that I'll probably never play just because they're on sale.

The fucking Mets batted out of order lmao

This is more embarrassing than Kapler sending out a reliever before he warmed up. Keep an eye on the NL East for crazy managerial blunders this year

Can you, like, go back to CE and stay there please

Ferarri619 posted...

The people who are playing Everquest right now have been there since 1999. I know because I'm familiar with the community.

Yeah, well, not everybody plays games that much or for that long. Some people can put tens of thousands of hours into one game, but I'm not sure I've put even 1,000 into any game. Maybe Minecraft, but only if you include a lot of passive hours.

I'm aware of that but am yet to lick one

And actually, if I had to answer, it probably wouldn't even be a game I love to constantly play. I'd say something like Mario Maker or Minecraft, since I know I can squeeze a lot of hours out of them, but I don't care about playing them anymore as of now.

LinkPizza posted...

It's possible. That's why I would choose a Rogue like game. It could last longer. And you can stop when you get tired of it and pick it up again later when you're ready to play a game again...

Yeah but I'm not attached to any one game so strongly that I'd feel a reason to bother continuing with it. Or rather, maybe I'm attached to much more than one game, so rather than having to make that choice, I'd just give up the hobby entirely and do something better with my life.

pedro45 posted...

Way to break down the question...

It's a fun discussion on what games people love to constantly play.

Somebody makes this topic like every other week, it gets old. And if that's the point, why not just ask it that way? I know I'm taking it a bit too literal, but it's a flawed concept.

Man, I'm kind of sick of this question. I mean, realistically I'd probably just stop playing video games entirely if I was faced with this possibility. I think there are two main schools of thought for this - either you pick a game with "infinite" content, or something that you can replay over and over, but that doesn't mean you can't get tired of them. If that's all that you have, I imagine most people would get tired of it rather quickly.