Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Get Animal Crossing on the gamecube, two birds with one stone.

@Yosheel
I'm so crazy with ACNL.
4 copies of them.
LOL

I have a copy of the GameCube game, one of City Folk and two of each Wild World and New Leaf.

And I also bought Amiibo Festival, mostly because it was a cheap easy way to get an Amiibo of Isabelle.

Meh. Fixing people's errors this morning. He gets a diagnosis! She gets a diagnosis! Everyone gets a brand new diagnosis!!... Then I've gotta build a report from scratch using similar SQL tables in a different directory as an existing report, but all named and called differently. Today is balls. Pokeballs. At least I brought my DS

I have one copy of every Animal Crossing game that's had an English release. The Gamecube version was the second game I had ever played and I've loved the series ever since.

I also like how I'm only a couple of months older than the first game, it's cool to grow up with such a cool series

@HobbitGamer Ah... people and their problems, always looking at other people to fix it, rather than trying to find the wisdom themselves...

Although unfortunately, a lot of things don't fly anymore in this modern day and age, there's still a lot of wisdom to be found in ancient texts, such as in certain Buddhist parables.

If anything, I might at the very least succeed in bringing a smile to your face again...

The 84th Problem

A man once came to see the Buddha to get help with his problems. After the man had told the Buddha one of his problems and asked for help, the Buddha replied: "I cannot help you get rid of that problem."

The man was surprised that the Buddha could not help him in this regard, but he told the Buddha about another problem; he thought to himself that the Buddha should at least be able to help him with that problem. But the Buddha told him "I cannot help you with that problem either."

The man started to get impatient. He said: "How can it be that you are the perfectly Enlightened Buddha, when you can’t even help people get rid of their problems?" The Buddha answered: "You will always have 83 problems in your life. Sometimes a problem will go, but then another problem will come. I cannot help you with that."

The baffled man asked the Buddha: "But, what can you help me with, then?" The Buddha replied: "I can help you get rid of your 84th problem." The man asked: "But what is my 84th problem?" The Buddha replied: "That you want to get rid of your 83 problems."

@ThanosReXXX
LOL
The Buddha jokes.

@Anti-Matter It's a parable, not a joke. It's ancient, in-your-face wisdom.

EDIT:
In case you don't understand or know what a parable is, then here's the short explanation:
parable = a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson

@ThanosReXXX Yesssss. I've also just placed an auto-reply on my inbound distribution address:

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Approximate wait time for unresolved tickets; [ERROR: UNDEFINED]. Thank you.

@HobbitGamer You're welcome.

And if it ever happens that they are SO grateful to you for having fixed any kind of major problem, and they make the mistake of asking you: "how can we EVER repay you?", then just hand them the deceptively modest request that a Chinese peasant once made to his emperor in ancient times, except change the grains of rice to dollar cents, and you'll be smiling all the way to the bank, by the end of the story:

Ask them to take a chessboard, and then put a single dollar cent on the first square, then double that on the next square, and so on, and so on, for every square in each consecutive row, until they reach the last square on the opposite end of the board.

Just for fun, calculate how many cents that will ultimately result in. I'll guarantee you, that you'll be quite surprised...

EDIT:

Have to correct myself there: it was a story about the emperor of India, not of China. But the result is the same, regardless...

@ThanosReXXX ''Ah... people and their problems, always looking at other people to fix it, rather than trying to find the wisdom themselves...''

I dunno, I've seen plenty of sick people diagnose themselves only for it to get worse

I even knew someone who passed away because she thought some hippie dance and a stone circle were enough to cure her cancer...

That's....That's alot of money. Even as a penny, that is still massive at $11 million. Seems like I need to trick some folks into partaking in this. You've given me a dastardly idea, sir.

@Octane Obviously, I was only partially serious, hence the smiley.
But it does annoy me in general, that a growing amount of people are becoming less self-sufficient and less capable of managing their own lives and problems, and being all too easily prone to relaying their problems to others. Serious illnesses aside, there's quite a lot more we can do ourselves, than a lot of these individuals seem to think or feel confident with...

@HobbitGamer You could start by doing it as a party trick on birthdays, with candy or peanuts, cleaning out people's kitchen cabinets and storage rooms in the process...

Ok we first contact people on Craiglist offering them good job offers, we say we will pay in advance, and send them a dud cheque worth more money than what we offered them.

Then we request they move part of that money to a separate account due to some arbitrary fee.

When the bank realizes the cheque has no funds, they'll take the money off the victims account, but they already sent us part of it.

Erm- I mean, don't do that. Be nice people.

Hm. Maybe I've watching too many scam stories on YouTube.

To be clear, I was entering diagnoses that clinicians documented but didn't properly enter in the EMR. So having to do work that clinicians should have done.

@Yosheel I think you forgot that checks are electronic now, Yosh. Unless you plan on hitting up under developed nations.

I dunno, the person telling that story was either British or American. Can’t remember the accent right now. They sent them the check by mail.

Hmm, yeah, about that...

@Yosheel Hey, is the link in my signature okay? It didn't look like it violated the rules, but I just wanted to get confirmation from a mod.

i love those things. yeah you can tell a fresh batch all right. i know that taste