Random Talk

[Rendle]

I had some time to kill and was looking for something to do and saw there was an arcade near me. It was 10 am and they just opened up. It was $15 for unlimited play. I asked the employee if they had any pinball machines. He points down the arcade to a small side room. I asked if I can see how many pins they have and what kind. He tells me... no, I have to buy a wristband if I want walk around the arcade.

BTW, the mother fucking arcade is completely empty except for the two of us. If there were people in there I'd understand but it's not like I'm gonna hide in the crowd or some shit.

I wanted so bad to say some snarky shit but my therapist told me I got to stop being such an asshole when I don't need to be. So I just looked at his face to make sure he wasn't joking then said "Cool" and walked out. 

I don't know why that pissed me off so much. I'd like to blame my crankiness on old age, but I think I've always been like this. 

You should have just taken the high road and left a review and gotten them fired.

[Besticus Maximus]

I was quite committed to being solid snake on Halloween but the missus has decided she is too going to be misato katsuragi and I am going to be evangelion unit 1.

[Nintex]

[Polident]

I was quite committed to being solid snake on Halloween but the missus has decided she is too going to be misato katsuragi and I am going to be evangelion unit 1.

You’re missing out. Best part about going as Solid Snake is having conversations where you just repeat the last thing the other person says as a question.

[Eric Cartman]

Repeat the last thing as a Question?!?!?!

[Nintex]

My brother send me this:

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Repeat the last thing as a Question?!?!?!

No. Just "...a question?"

[Polident]

Honestly a great strategy in general. You’ll have a half an hour conversation with a guy you’ve just met and all you’ve said is: “…aging?” “…ed?” “…tadalafil?” “…thebire?”

[Nintex]

[who is ted danson?]

Start a new company red head and felon as the first hires.

[Nintex]

[Rendle]

I drink them for the flavor because I am depraved.

I would be an energy-free energy drink’s number one fan.

I can only speak to Red Bull but it tasted like blueberry and citrus cleaning spray. Both tasty on their own. Together? Noxious.

I only drink it occasionally and only for the caffeine. You should try the Pear & Cinnamon or Fig Apple ones if they are ever available in your region, they don't have that sharp metallic taste of ordinary Redbull, or the thick syrupy taste of the watermelon Redbull.

They outdid themselves again somehow

[Besticus Maximus]

One of the shittest things about england is you can't get real mountain dew 

[Eric Cartman]

is the one they sell in co-op not the same? I know we use sugar not corn syrup

[Nintex]

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

One of the shittest things about england is you can't get real mountain dew 

No mountains to lick?

[Eric Cartman]

ok fellas here is the deal for tommorow.

Option #1 - End the rebellion
End the rebellion, return to being a wagie, hope that the boss in his time will increase my share and payout (3 - 5 years?) and his lack of decision making won't bankrupt us all before then. The company remains steady. Some day I will take it over. 

Option #2 - Show them the Path to Victory
Let me double the AI business every year -> 20% -> 40%, so we hit 50% in 2028. Demand a free reign and a higher pay out to do this or I walk or join the business guy in 3 months. However I will step down from my "COO" role and give up my claim to the throne. The head of development can one day take over the "old business" when the boss retires.

Option 1 means I keep slowly building the thing I have been building for 13-something years and work is just going through the motions.
Option 2 means going all in. High risk / high reward.

But they all have to admit after I rocked the boat it started to get into motion again.

Option 3: Death by snu snu

[Besticus Maximus]

ok fellas here is the deal for tommorow.

Option #1 - End the rebellion
End the rebellion, return to being a wagie, hope that the boss in his time will increase my share and payout (3 - 5 years?) and his lack of decision making won't bankrupt us all before then. The company remains steady. Some day I will take it over. 

Option #2 - Show them the Path to Victory
Let me double the AI business every year -> 20% -> 40%, so we hit 50% in 2028. Demand a free reign and a higher pay out to do this or I walk or join the business guy in 3 months. However I will step down from my "COO" role and give up my claim to the throne. The head of development can one day take over the "old business" when the boss retires.

Option 1 means I keep slowly building the thing I have been building for 13-something years and work is just going through the motions.
Option 2 means going all in. High risk / high reward.

But they all have to admit after I rocked the boat it started to get into motion again.

The problem with this foolhardy mutiny is you don't know what you want from it all.

Is it more money? More power?

Unilaterally blowing up in the office with nowhere else to go or no actual irons in the fire is not the best plan overall, and might actually be mental behaviour depending on the outcome

[Nintex]

[Uncle]

what are the chances all this has been classic nintex fanfiction and all along he was the felon imagining what his corpo buddy was up to

[Nintex]

[nachobro]

In those 13 years I took out about 7 or 8 competitors, I honestly lost count. One came to me for help during COVID and I just took all his best clients and made him pay me for it.

ok now im convinced this is the president posting as nintex

[Nintex]

Meanwhile the gym gains have started to show and it certainly has an effect.
I'm not as buff as I want to be yet but you can now tell I don't sit inside and play videogames all day.

People move out of the way quicker now and we went from: "hello" to "hiiiiiii " out and about.

Not to mention all the health gains. Lifting heavier stuff is way easier, a lot more stamina and more flexible too. 

Now I'm getting all sorts of questions about what's it like having a personal trainer, do I recommend it, what does he actually do etc. 

Last week I did a bar hanging thing for the first time 1m 45s the record at the gym is 2min 45s. 
I was kind of dissapointed but he trains another guy and his record after 2 years is 30s. A kinda cute but also fat girl there is still as fat as she was when I first met her. Another fat dude has to step on a crate 10 times and can hardly walk after. The PT usually texts me that I can train earlier because someone else dropped out or cancelled.

So the answer is this is not for everyone. Both your mind and body need to be strong and you have to push yourself to your limit in every possible way. 
Keeping your head down and playing video games is a much simpler and more peaceful life. I understand why some guys just give up or drop out.

[Uncle]

I heard an old lady say "duh" earlier (in reference to herself, forgetting something)

I have this theory that even though "duh" was supposedly a 90s kid thing, all over TV shows and movies of the time, somehow it resonated more strongly with the boomers, who chuckled and adopted it en masse and still have not given it up

just something about the attitude of someone who would say duh appears to be fully within the realm of the boomer mentality, a slang term that arrived too late for its core audience

[Nintex]

Duh is older actually. Lots of old british shows and comedies have "duh" in it like Blackadder. Hugh Laurie (Dr. House) used it alot

[Uncle]

oh really? used in the same condescending sense and everything?

what about it's cousins, a-doyyy and derp-de-derp?

[Nintex]

[Besticus Maximus]

Had a chat with the therapist very cute.

Overall this is backfiring hard on my boss. She also thinks my environment is holding me back and I don't have a burnout.

Apart from that she thinks it would be interesting to explore how I deal with emotions. And how I operate at a deeper level. Unless I think that's bullshit and don't want to entertain her. 

Insight comes from within, padawan

[Nintex]

[Uncle]

jane goodall's death reminded me of the film gorillas in the mist about dian fossey, I always confused the two

they showed it to us as an educational film in school and I was minorly traumatized by it, I forget the exact grade it was shown but it was a little too young

I hadn't watched any horror films or anything like that so the ending with her murderer's POV, the shadow of the machete, the blood dripping down her fingers, and just the idea of it being something that actually happened and was still an unsolved mystery really stuck with me