Management are some combination of malicious and stupid.
The boss at my old job is pushing to make people go in. It’s like a 2 hour commute for half the team. He doesn’t care. He wants people working on the weekend, too
He’s an Iranian immigrant that loves musk. No one should be abducted and sent to a death camp but if they got him it would feel almost karmic.
I do feel like sometimes players have a sort of laid back, “we should just win without too much trouble” attitude. Sometimes this manifests as “we take a long rest after every fight”. And that’s a fine way to play, so long as everyone’s on board.
It can be kind of bad when half the group is kick-in-the-door-lol and the DM is expecting more tactical depth.
I think because D&D is many people’s first RPG, you’ll find a lot of bad habits there as new players rediscover them.
If someone is made to feel like an evil person, even if I explicitly never said anything close to that, their rage metre goes to 100%.
This is extremely common with people. All of us are susceptible to it. But some people just let that emotional response run the whole show. Most people would rather lash out at you than consider anything that harms their sense of self worth. Cowards, frankly.
The oatmeal did a comic about it https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
A couple months ago I ran into a guy collecting signatures for Cuomo by Atlantic center (a major transit hub in Brooklyn). I was just like “why?? Why are you doing this??” But sadly I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to engage with him very long
Are there vaccines or they illegal now?
This should be obvious to anyone paying any attention, but a lot of maga hats live in a world of lies, and a lot of people live in a world of shallow media. All those “did biden drop out?” searches right before the last election are haunting.
Cuomo is not a good candidate.
My parents, who thankfully can’t vote in the NYC election, don’t really like Zohran. One because she’s terrified of “communism” (whatever that means to her). The other is skeptical, but I feel like could be convinced. I think that’s a lot of older people.
Conservatives typically don’t want to talk about blame because it is their fault.
I eat lunch mostly alone. Dinners maybe about half or 2/3rds with someone. But I’m well older than 18-24 :(
At my local bars, I tell them I’m (still) unemployed and then ask for the saddest, cheapest, beer. Usually it’s High Life or a sad little green can I can’t remember the name of. $4 or $5. One of them’s a local enough bar that I know most of the bartenders now, at least.
The whole “return to office” thing is a cocktail of like… “Feelings Driven Leadership” and “The Cruelty is the Point”. Oh, and “I’m incompetent so everyone else must be incompetent in the same way, too.”
Many managers make decisions based purely on feelings. You can show them data but they don’t care. They feel like being in-office is better. And maybe, maybe, it is, on some metrics. Are those metrics better for workers? Probably not.
And the cruelty? Well, as others have said, some people get off on having power over others.
The last point, there are some people who just can’t manage themselves so they seem to think no one else can, either. Like someone the other day was saying he can’t work from home because he’ll just play xbox. To which I respond, from the depths of my soul, fuck off. Grow up and stop making everyone else around you suffer because you’re an incompetent, unmedicated, shit. You can go into the office if you have to. Don’t make everyone else suffer a pay cut too because you’re trash tier at self control.
Online meetings are largely useless
Oh! Oh! This is where people say “skill issue”, isn’t it?
If you can’t run a productive meeting over zoom you probably can’t do one in person, either.
Because people keep asking like LLMs are a magical solution to every problem. This is an effective way to show that that’s false
Companies demanding return to office is such a twist of the knife. It’s a pay cut, making someone spend an hour or two commuting without paying them for it. But the boss doesn’t care
Is the lesson that conservatives are idiots and scum, and under no circumstances should they be allowed to make decisions of import?
People aren’t paid enough. The rich have too large a portion of the resources.
Eat the rich. Bury their collaborators.
They’re stupid and corrupt.
Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they’ve never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they’ve had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.
One of the things I bring up if someone says “we should run the government like a business”
I don’t think anyone credible sincerely thought the cyber truck was going to do well