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[Mero]

"Life is a story told by a fool, full of sound and furry, signifying nothing"

 

Shane, I have to agree with you. Life is a precious thing but it's not directed at any thing. It is inherently chaotic and unfair. The only way to appreciate it is love. Love it even though it sucks really hard sometimes. The point of life isn't to be happy. It's to be alive and being alive isn't sitting in a dark room or indulging in hedonistic pleasures: being alive is being totally, unapologetically yourself.

 

The question is... who are we? : )

 

That's the question we'll be answering all our lives.

 

We'll all unique. Every atom of the universe is horrifyingly individual, every person astounding. I think that's the only thing we really need to know about ourselves. It makes us valuable. We're not worthless.

 

That's what I need to tell myself. But it doesn't really work : )

 

I could answer this question with an enigma of information, but I'll spare thee... Actually I won't.

 

It is my belief that the year is somewhere in the distant future probably 62415 or so. And the Apocalypse has already happened. To save humankind our consciences where uploaded as programs onto the greatest super computer ever built deep underground in case of another Apocalypse. Now it just sits their emulating what we know as the present till the apocalypse happens again over and over again.

 

Fucked up ain't it, or and no. I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

[KingPridenia]

Well, yesterday at work, I just proved myself again. The manager of this Japanese restaurant came over to complain about the associates at my store throwing their cigarette butts all over the patch of tanbark where they have their plants at. The front end monitor Doris asked Kent to do it but he never did. She then turned to Tim and, given how lazy and worthless he is, what do you think happened? So then, with the manager of the restaurant at the point he was going to say something to our store manager, Doris was lucky that I was doing morning shift yesterday (8am to 4pm) and asked me to do it. Itching for something to break the monotony of my tasks, I jumped on it and cleaned up around 60-70 cigarette butts people left behind. I also entered the restaurant to tell the hostess I had done it with proof.

 

Thing is, I feel weird because here am I doing what I'm told (and doing things people "should" do without being asked) and everyone else laughs at the thought of doing that. With only three guys on carts, myself, a guy that's been their for years and a guy a little older than me that is frankly useless, I look like an S-Tier employee when if everyone was doing their jobs, I would simply be an A-Tier employee. Here are some things I do the other two cart guys won't do:

1. Get customer service's trash
2. Empty the plastic bins by the baler
3. Actively approach customers in line and ask if they would like assistance loading their car
4. Clean the break room without being asked
5. Put back the returns and deliver items to receiving
6. Do the watering for the floral department
7. Actively escort customers to the item they're looking for
8. Take things such as people's keys and personal stuff to customer service if found
9. Stock the dairy cooler in the evening

There are more things, but that alone is a pretty good sized list. It's just odd because to me, that's "normal". But everyone else, especially the sales monitor Doris, acts like I'm doing things like climbing an electric pole during a lightning storm to save someone's cat or that I pushed a customer out of the way to protect them from being hit by a car. Perhaps I'm not seeing things correctly, but I really don't see the big deal. I'm doing what any respectable associate should do, nothing more. Am I too modest?

[TK8305]

Well, your versatility in all the tasks you do is certainly standing out it seems.  Keep it up man!

[ZeldaPlayer]

My mom might take me to the salon on Friday to dye my hair blue. When she told me, I said that would be cool and I would have style.

[strike]

Guess who's in another production? It's me! Strike! yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh (Peanut butter gamer)

I'm in Les Miserables. I am:
Convict 5
The foreman
French Revolutionary (I don't know my own name, I'm sorry!)
A wedding guest
Master of the House ensemble

Yeah. It's going okay

-Strike

[Shane]

I lost faith in Google, alongside humanity. I'm trying to search for my favorite video game characters (on safe search mind you) and I find some weird crap I don't want to see. Why does this stuff evade the safe search filter? *sigh*

[HavoX]

My parents spoke with me a while ago, and... well, it turns out we aren't going to be moving after all.

It was a very difficult decision for them, but I understood very well.

 

UPDATE: Disregard what I've said earlier, it appears they've changed their minds and that we ARE indeed moving.

I won't be making any more posts on this until this situation is cleared up.

Edited by HavoX, 14 January 2015 - 02:03 PM.

[ZeldaPlayer]

Moosh's Troll Game Level 1 Boss Forever Alone, when I hit it, it said, "You're tearing me apart Lisa!" When I heard that, I couldn't stop laughing and laughing. xD

[KingPridenia]

Don't you just love it when a cheater gets crunched? I was watching a Runescape video where someone was staking 100m against his opponent's Armadyl Godsword and 45m and the opponent cheated by changing the rules at the last second to enable shields so he could have an unfair advantage against his opponent. It's a shame even near maxed and maxed level players give the rules the middle finger. Anyway, the awesome part was that the cheater lost miserably, getting his opponent down to only 63/99 Hitpoints. That'll teach him not to cheat again.

 

But yeah, that made my day seeing that. I love when cheaters and stuff get owned by karma. I think there was a Rocket Power episode Otto kept changing the rules in a game he and his friends were playing, only to lose anyway.

 

On another note, the store manager got canned and now we have a new guy running the show. Hopefully things will go better with him and hopefully he'll see the effort and quality of my work and be able to do something for me. I can only hope. Going in with a Negative Nancy attitude won't work.

[Eddy]

Just got a letter from another college I applied to, and it seems like I'm going for another interview. I'm hoping this will go as great as the last one. I'm not too worried this time round since I know exactly what to expect and all that.

[Ventus]

Well I still have not gotten my broken tooth removed yet... still need the money for it I wish I could just rip this tooth outta of my mouth and be done with it... Getting tired of it sitting in my mouth making it hard to eat anything. (Dentist are so fucking stupid... why do they charge so much for one damn tooth... over $180 shit)

[KingPridenia]

^On a related note, it costs more to have a partial plate made than it does to have a full denture. How does a thing that is for having a few false teeth more expensive than a full set of false teeth?

 

Anyway, reviewed my finished LP videos and the clips. Somehow, the finished products have double the total filesize of all of the clips combined. About 2 GB of raw footage saved directly from Screencast-O-Matic becomes 4+ GB when trimmed and edited together in Windows MovieMaker? How does that work? Also, I actually compared my LPs and their combined filesizes and durations. They are as follows, denoted by LP, the final video size and duration (raw footage size and duration):

 

The Guardian Legend - 1.56 GB for 2:29:34 of footage over 11 videos (863 MB for 2:33:37 of footage over 12 videos)

Faxanadu - 560 MB for 1:27:11 of footage over 5 videos (301 MB raw size for 1:37:37 of footage over 15 videos)

Adam's Quest - 1.03 GB for 4:09:56 of footage over 14 videos (629 MB raw size for 4:20:01 of footage over 23 videos)

 

Keep in mind the finished videos had bits trimmed out, had some parts sped up or outright cut out. So how comes the finished products had nearly twice the file size of their clips? For the record, they are ALL in the MP4 format. On another question, do you guys think I should keep my raw clips and/or finished videos on my hard drive in case something happens or I need to reference them?

[Moonbread]

I had to have a tooth removed and it was a horrible experience.  Even though the dentist and nurses I had was super nice and I didn't have to pay a dime because my low income level qualified for their free services, they just had to chisel an entire cracked tooth out of there, and re-align one of my molars because it was growing in wrong.  It was the worst couple weeks of my life afterward, just so much bleeding, pain, and lack of sleep.  Honestly, I'm surprised I got through it.  I was so miserable.  At least when it was over, I gorged myself on ridiculous amounts of pizza and chicken.

 

Anyway, in the complete polar opposite of the worst news ever, check out my new cat, a seal point ragdoll!  I haven't formally adopted it or anything, it just started following me to work, and back home from work, and is making my other cat, Scratchy, jealous.  It's super friendly and loves to walk right alongside me, and apparently is fond of climbing up my back when I stoop down (so I'm sorta forced to wear that thick jacket that I normally wear anyway).  I've named it Sakurai, because much like the Japanese developer, it's gorgeous.

 

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[Eddy]

Pretty nice cat Scootaloo, looks really cute lol

 

I've had quite a lot of experiences with getting teeth removed. I believe I had 15 teeth removed in my life time (which thankfully they were all milk teeth, so my adult teeth just took their place), but I gotta say, I'm pretty amazed that I didn't feel any pain after getting them removed. I also chipped my front tooth a few years back and I had to put a cap on it, which surprisingly is still intact.

 

In other news, I just got my results from these practice exams I did last month. These exams are basically "mock exams" which kinda make you aware as to where you currently are in a specific subject and what you can improve on before the real final exam come May/June. I gotta say, I'm pretty happy with my results, which are below:

 

English - A

English Literature - D

Maths - A

Science (Chemistry) - A

Business Studies - A

History - A*

RE - B+

Spanish - A

 

I really need to work on my English Literature, as you can see, mostly because my analytical skills of extracts from texts. I also think I did pretty badly because of this one question at the back of the paper which is worth 46 marks (aka 75% of the paper) and I just wrote so much bullshit which I don't think made any sense, but whatever lol.

 

All I'm hoping for is to get A* in Chemistry, Physics and Maths, everything else I won't mind if I get an A.

[Magi_Hero]

Does your cat have someone voicing over its life with sassy humor?

Your cat makes me think of Homeward Bound.