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BTW Smash still isn't a fighting game.

hmnut7 posted...

A friend you made at work is a real friend.

A work colleague who you are friendly with is not necessarily a real friend

I get that but I feel like the whole "work friends are not real friends" statement is meant to be taken as a black-and-white categorization.

Like never expect anything to go beyond "hey, how was your weekend," if it's a coworker saying it sort of thing. As if it's an encouragement to put energy into fostering relationships that aren't tied down to your workplace.

I got one of my coworkers a PS3 as a Christmas gift. To me that's a lot more than a simple token gesture of amicability that supposedly comes from being in a workplace.

kirbymuncher posted...

a certain amount of gatekeeping is good, actually

Even if it is the counterargument would be that no one knows where the line should be drawn between maintaining community standards and being arbitrarily exclusive.

If you can't trust people to be fair-minded then they shouldn't get a say in who is "good enough" to be in the conversation at all.

Not saying I feel this way myself, I'm just looking at it from the other side.

crayola555 posted...

Nothing against casuals, but some are just awful with their opinions. I once had an argument with a guy who thinks the iphone is a better gaming system than the DS cause the games are cheaper and he thinks they have "quality"

Well in all fairness that last point is kind of ambiguous. If he can give thoughtful and considered reasons as to why that's not an invalid thing to say.

But if it's just "I had more fun," and can't explain what actual value he took away from the experience then, yeah, screw that noise.

Prestoff posted...

Depending on your job and position, of course. I'm not trying to bag on you or anything, but have you ever had to grow up in a collectivist environment before? If not, than I can understand why you don't get the concept.

I'm just tired of thinking that I'm always under scrutiny and that maintaining civility trumps how I actually feel.

Even now I'm coping with that sensation one feels the following morning when they went to bed with the weight of something pissing them off. I'm interacting with everyone around me in a calm and adult manner yet I feel like something inside is teetering on the verge of being rude and agitated.

This isn't about her specifically, it's about the fact I always have to keep considering what the ramifications of my actions will be if I encounter someone out in the world who pushes me to the point of a raised volume tongue lashing.

Prestoff posted...

It's just another version of gatekeeping.

Maybe it is but wouldn't the idea be to get people to not try to buck the trend with their untempered views on a subject?

Someone being narked upon hearing Unreal's graphics be called "ugly" by a person who only got into gaming in 2015 is perfectly fair, I think. What the hell do they know? Even I admit they didn't exactly age gracefully and the impressiveness of them is lost on me in the here and now but I would never begrudge a game of the era for my modern sensibilities.

NoMeLx22x posted...

Do you wanna explain what this is actually about or are you gonna just make us guess?

Uh...inferred context from a news story I never actually watched but decided to get upset about because I have a problem with society holding me responsible for my actions outside of the immediate relation to what I did.

https://youtu.be/5Qzz6m5HIwI?si=plWuU_WEj1dmGP4C

I feel like school is an easier place to breed friendships because everyone's there because they have to be.

"Misery loves company," and all that. But in the working world people are trying to get ahead and have their talents be recognized so it's easy to see the people you encounter as just transient as you and they work their way up to through the ladder.

Umbreon posted...

Knowing you?

Yes.

Excuse me but I have never been arrested for causing a scene in public.

At some point I expect it will happen, though.

I've got a lot of reasons, mostly due to lack of self-awareness (or even their defiance when confronted about the things that they're saying).

Don't close yourself off but don't be surprised if it's what ends up happening either.

If I lose my temper in public and start ranting and someone captures it on video and puts it on YouTube it's PERFECTLY FINE if my job decides to suspend me in response.

...would you grow sick of your signature?

adjl posted...

There's plenty of feedback. He's outright said they're ignoring it.

How much are the ignoring?

s0nicfan posted...

Could you be a bit more specific? If you're talking something like an artist that works for an advertisement company that makes and sells billboard space that's one thing. If you're talking about someone on social media who is constantly posting videos that are effectively product advertisements for the free things they get shipped to their house that's another. Or are you talking about people in a sales position that more or less only make money on commissions?

I just think people equate the advertising industry as on par with being a lawyer whose only role in society is to offer a function that no one actually likes.

Is it a legitimate field in which to make money?

OhhhJa posted...

At the end of the day who cares really? Every member of GnR is obscenely overrated in regard to their technical ability. Slash is an average guitarist who is treated like some kind of guitar god. Axl rose is a complete hack like many of the singers of that era. Duff mckagan is nothing special. Steven adler is the best member but still nothing amazing

Sounds like someone is harboring resentment towards success through mediocrity...

Charged151 posted...

Did you mine it or just buy it?

I just buy it. I use it as actual currency. That's just what's leftover from the last time I spent some.

Am I part of the problem?

Like you try to hold your tongue but people keep praising this thing that you think has got glaring flaws that only you seem to notice and eventually it hits a point where you can't keep hearing it without speaking your peace.

I feel like being able to swear openly on GameFAQs cost me the last vestige of my compunction towards swearing in general.

Aressar posted...

I bet the people who actually tell themselves they get 'upset' at hornyposting are the same kind of people who make a fuss of nothingburgers like 'necrobumping'. Touch grass already, friend. There's actually a lot of stuff in the world to get upset about, but those two things are objectively not among them.

I don't care for posts that try to compare a specific microcosm to the "great many injustices of our broken society" and try to render the debate irrelevant.

It's a relevant subject for the place we are in right now. Getting uppity about how ineffectual the debate is misses the point. It's about what goes on here, not out there.

I don't exactly...care because I felt like I wasn't really that interested in it myself.

But it just feels bothersome that I don't feel like anything that I as a user would want for this place matters. That all this is serving some other end that doesn't factor in the userbase. What else could cause issues that would make them be like "that's gotta go too" and not tell anyone that's what's going on.

Maybe it's the lack of transparency and consideration?

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Seems pretty terminally online in here.

Brb, heading to Staples.

Sounds to me like the couple that was divorced was already getting divorced but the error triggered it prematurely and the court refused to reverse it when they brought it to their attention.

Every purchase comes with a mostly-nonrefundable "processing fee" that's a percentage of the purchase price.

:/

Uh...

I...don't really know. I feel like the first one I owned was Nigel Mansell's World Championship.

Like if they lose their opponent kicks them out of their home?

Strider102 posted...

In it's place will be a giant video ad that is immune to ad block and you can't get rid of it.

That's how it is on IMFDB. There's an autoplay video at the top of every page that follows you down as you scroll and I've never been able to block it.

At least pausing it causes it to leave my screen as I scroll.

Corporations are great, they do the stuff that makes my life function.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

destroying someone elses mail is a felony

Yeah, well, so is insider trading and I think we all want to do that in some capacity...

They used to be known as "Wikia", that site full of various subject wikis.

???

I mean I live a pretty hygienic lifestyle as is so I don't consider it a chore to stay clean.

Hornezz posted...

The poll is private now because it was deemed too dangerous for this site.

I actually had some thought like that when I saw it was broken.

Mistakes happen but why did the judge decline the request to rescind...?

Oh, I guess they do explain it, although that is a rather "it says we can't so we can't, mistake or no," response.

Don't know how to reply...

Chat rooms, I think. First community I ever felt "a part of" was the Dragon Ball/Z/GT Information Site's (I think that's what it was) Indeed (and not the employment site, lol) chat.

EDIT: Yeah, it was (the "ULTIMATE Dragon Ball/Z/GT Information Site", actually). It was eventually renamed "The Grand Line" but the original site is still underneath.

When it comes to erotic stuff I live in a weird limbo.

I don't want to join a community entirely driven by thirst because it would get exhausting and run out of steam real quick (being surrounded by people who just want stimulation has nothing to offer longterm) but rarely are there communities out there where you can just post stuff like that off the cuff. Either it's softbanned ("Bro, we don't do that shit here, take it somewhere else.") or just disallowed by policy (here). So I never feel at home.

LeoLions posted...

Ya, from Subway.

Lub it.

Melty?

Is that something you ever had to endure as an adult?

ssjevot posted...

It's incredibly difficult to get fired in Japan.

Given their tendency to work themselves into misery I would think it's the opposite (companies don't invest in employees who aren't willing to chain themselves to their desks).

Though I do think they're starting to turn a corner in concepts like work-life balance.

I had that problem on the Modern Warfare subs. Couldn't start a thread ever and no one explained what the autofilter is looking for so all my attempts would fail.

jsb0714 posted...

And nothing of value was lost

This site can't even crack 1100 users at any given time.

Frankly I think GameFAQs just needs to close the boards at this point.

I sent TimmyQuivy a PM to delete me from this board.

inTaCtfuL posted...

for some people it's hard to have self control so if you still have access to CE you're going to be compelled to still post here

It's a little more than just a compulsion since CE topics I've posted in the past have drifted to the top of my Active Messages list periodically even when I tried to stop coming here. So I look at the replies, go back to the topic list, and I'm back into it. It's not even an intent, it's just the normal flow of how I use these boards. But it just happens that every time I come back here I'm often frustrated by the community.

Vicious_Dios posted...

Bro lowkey was looking for sympathy posts and instead was met with the complete opposite.

All I'm asking for is to have my access from CE be revoked. It's not that hard to understand. Whoever has the power to do it just take me off the roster. I hate this board.

I took it out of my favorites years ago but I keep coming back here just because of the activity. So screw this place, if this is a private board then exclude me.