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Post by Weasel on Sept 20, 2011 16:45:37 GMT -5
Yeah, mostly when adjusting to change. I sympathize completely - I've had trouble adjusting to sudden and frequent changes in my routine since the start of high school. I'd frequently end up going to the wrong classes, bring the wrong books, go to "B-day" classes instead of "A-day" classes...damn, I was such a wreck in my freshman year. Also didn't help much that I literally switched schools every year. |
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Post by Ryzuki on Sept 20, 2011 16:48:10 GMT -5
Smile and wave, see what they do. ;D Otherwise i could always try to go over there myself. I've been needing to kill somebody for a while, and they seem like a good choice. Eh, if you're gonna throw your life away killing someone, at least make it worthwhile. Take out a high-profile ambulance chaser. But do it real tasty, like plant CP on them. I'm not afraid of death or anything, but it's not like i plan on dieing. I'm smart enough to not just rush the guy the moment i see him. That where strategy comes in. And unless i REALLY hate them, i could care less how they die. Best do it quick and get the hell out. |
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Post by Jave on Sept 21, 2011 16:35:25 GMT -5
That makes sense, and it's something I can sympathize with. I like to think I'm pretty good at my job, so I'm always paranoid when someone seems to imply that I'm not taking my work seriously, or that I've made some kind of mistake. I sympathize completely - I've had trouble adjusting to sudden and frequent changes in my routine since the start of high school. I'd frequently end up going to the wrong classes, bring the wrong books, go to "B-day" classes instead of "A-day" classes...damn, I was such a wreck in my freshman year. Also didn't help much that I literally switched schools every year. Thanks for the support, guys. Today was completely different, they kept talking about how far I've come in a few weeks, so I asked them about yesterday, and I guess everyone else was also having a shit day. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2011 19:21:21 GMT -5
Tim Rogers. Tim Rogers Tim Rogers Tim Rogers Tim Rogers. The little assnugget has a new "article" up on Kotaku. I'd link it here, but I don't want to explode the Kontek servers with pure shitheadedness.
Jesus F Christ in a sidecar. He's really outdone himself this time.
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Post by Wildcat on Sept 26, 2011 19:40:08 GMT -5
Wow - I've never heard of this person, but it's been quite a while since I've seen someone that into themselves AND given the opportunity to shove their ego down people's throats from such a lofty website. Then again, I don't really care for Kotaku, so perhaps this is my good fortune that Tim Rogers is now a thing to me...to forget.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2011 19:46:56 GMT -5
Look up the word "vainglorious", and you'll find a 10,000 word wall of text where Tim describes the vegan burrito he ate while playing the original Pikmin.
And did he mention that he has a lot of money and has met famous people?
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Post by Ryzuki on Sept 26, 2011 23:19:48 GMT -5
Look up the word "vainglorious", and you'll find a 10,000 word wall of text where Tim describes the vegan burrito he ate while playing the original Pikmin. And did he mention that he has a lot of money and has met famous people? Wha? Why would he or anybody do such a pointless thing? Or a better question... who'd wanna read it? Something for the 80 year old people to read as they sit on their rocker? |
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Post by ldorado on Sept 26, 2011 23:24:58 GMT -5
The very real possibility that Amanda Knox will get life in prison. Hate to get political, but I just think the Italian prosecution was out-of-the-ballpark stupid and arrogant.
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Post by Ike on Sept 26, 2011 23:58:34 GMT -5
Tim Rogers. Tim Rogers Tim Rogers Tim Rogers Tim Rogers. The little assnugget has a new "article" up on Kotaku. I'd link it here, but I don't want to explode the Kontek servers with pure shitheadedness. Jesus F Christ in a sidecar. He's really outdone himself this time. If I had Tim Rogers and Hitler tied up in a room and only one bullet, I would shoot Tim Rogers. In the balls. |
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Post by Ryzuki on Sept 27, 2011 23:06:36 GMT -5
Heh... funny picturing Tim Rodgers and Hitler in the same time. Would love to see them try to have a conversation.
Course maybe that's just me.
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Post by Ike on Sept 28, 2011 0:00:31 GMT -5
If they had a conversation, it would be about which of them had a greater impact on society as we know it. Tim would hold that he did.
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Post by kyouki on Sept 28, 2011 3:32:31 GMT -5
Just got a new job and started last week. So far I enjoy it and it's the best job I've had yet in this heathen land.
However, last night I was told, "tomorrow instead of showing up at the office like we planned, just go to this customer site, I'll meet you there."
So this morning we met there and I asked what I'm supposed to be doing. "Just hang around and if they ask you to do something help out." That's really the last thing I want to hear... give me a project with a clear goal and I can handle it, but just tell me "do whatever" and I panic. Don't like suprises.
So we walk in the door, set up, and it's just a disaster. My company laptop is late so we had to ask if they had a spare I could use. They weren't expecting that so it took them a couple of hours to find one and get it operational.
Shortly after that, one of the managers of the place came up to me and asked me to put together an estimate for a project they want to get done. Estimate has to be done today. I dutifully took notes and said okay, seems like a project I could handle. Then I went to present all that to the salesguy that came with me, but he took off and had left me an email saying he'd be in Nagoya all day so call if I need anything and he'd come back around 4:00pm.
Now, I am not a salesguy, so I can't even write an estimate if I wanted to. I wasn't trained about any of this stuff... what vendor we use to purchase stuff, what we charge per hour or per day for work... don't even have a template for writing an estimate! My "new hire training" was a half a day of learning how to use the workflow/scheduling system.
So I wasted all morning going back and forth with a handful of coworkers and bosses. My boss assumed the salesguy was going to be there all day (like I had assumed) and so he scrambled to get all the information I needed. Then it was three hours of frantic searching for products that will work that we can order, getting prices from vendors, etc. I was able to get all the info together just in time but I haven't heard back from anyone so who knows what's going on.
I actually really like meeting people and whatnot, so I don't mind consulting work, but you can't just drop a guy that started a week ago into a situation and expect him to just write estimates and stuff without having received any kind of training or guidance on what the company policies are on writing estimates!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 9:03:38 GMT -5
Tim Rogers. Tim Rogers Tim Rogers Tim Rogers Tim Rogers. The little assnugget has a new "article" up on Kotaku. I'd link it here, but I don't want to explode the Kontek servers with pure shitheadedness. Jesus F Christ in a sidecar. He's really outdone himself this time. If I had Tim Rogers and Hitler tied up in a room and only one bullet, I would shoot Tim Rogers. In the balls. It would be a wasted shot, he has no balls. At least Hitler still had one left over after he got Tupac'ed in WWI. EDIT: I realize this is the pot calling the kettle black on account of me bitching about use/disuse of the Self-Promotion Thread but fuck it:  BTW, there is a picture of young, morbidly obese Tim Rogers posing with Chuck Norris somewhere out there, probably at his parents' house. It was taken at a promotion for the movie "Sidekicks" at a Lowe's Theater in Indianapolis. If anyone lives in Indy and wants to pull a B&E, you could solve the world's Tim Rogers problem. I'm sure we could get a collection here going to fund your operation. I always wondered how he had money for his designer glasses, clothes and shit that he's always prattling on about (much less how he survived in Japan), though, it's not like journalism pays a lot. His parents are working class too, so it's not like he's a trust fund kid. And aside from the fact that he's an annoying, pompous twat, I hate him because he's living the dream that you and I probably would want to live if we didn't have to worry about shit like rent or vodka or whatever. Haters of the world, unite! |
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Post by robertagilmour on Sept 28, 2011 15:16:30 GMT -5
What was the article about?
I used to read his articles in GamesTM and there was nothing braggery or unusual about them, maybe the magazine reigned him in and maybe there is a reason he was replaced. From those articles he seemed quite normal.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 16:02:33 GMT -5
What was the article about? I used to read his articles in GamesTM and there was nothing braggery or unusual about them, maybe the magazine reigned him in and maybe there is a reason he was replaced. From those articles he seemed quite normal. He might have been reigned in like you said. Unfortunately, most of the stuff he writes is A) overblown to comic proportions (100k words on an article about Kingdom Hearts, about 1000 of those dedicated to the game), B) narcissistic, C) pretentious hipster bullshit, and D) some sort of archetype for why we need to hold lynching parties for video game journalists. To his credit he is knowledgeable about games and seems to have at least at one time had a genuine passion for games. But the problem is that by getting published he's helped enable every douchebag blogger or whatever to write a fucking novella about the bolus of feces they left behind that morning instead of actually talking about the games they're supposedly reviewing. |
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