Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

So I found the console commands for Ark. time to traverse the land with my Littlefoot.

You know it's Christmas when you go to the mall and see a kiosk displaying a video game console like it's a new invention, showcasing SMB3, with a completely genuine looking NES controller..... With 4 face buttons......

Must be a new model, mine only has 2 buttons.

I'd be curious to see a picture of this..er...phenomenon.

@Anti-Matter: You're becoming a master at making me hungry!

About to throw something together with bow tie pasta and turkey meat.
Then it’s back to building my armory supplies up in Ark. I may or may not have started something I don’t have the current supplies to finish...

Asked for extra cheese on my Subway sandwhich, the absolute madman.

There's nothing better than eating quesadillas during a long car trip.

Mmhm.

Did I mention I'm lactose intolerant? I should remember that more often.

Maybe you should try being more tolerant of foods. Nobody likes a foodist.

I love lactose, it hates me.

Craving some churros right now.

I managed to make a baked casserole with everything. But I didn’t have crackers, so I used crushed up kettle potato chips.

Hey, whatever works! I've found that improvising sometimes works...within reason. I ran out of eggs once and ended up using applesauce as a binding agent in a recipe I was making. It turned out well, but I probably used a little too much of it.

I'd be a very sad person if I were lactose intolerant. I love (most) dairy products.

Yeah it was quite tasty. The thing I like about cooking is that once it’s all done, I’m not as hungry so smaller portions seem to last longer.
Now it’s back to Ark! I’m expanding my house for the third time, with stone now. Then I’ll be building a spiked perimeter before I head out to hunt.

Ugh.... 🤕
I still have 7 days left to finish my Calendar 2019 projects. 😣
Until 30 December 2018 I will stay at home, keep busy in front of my PC and finishing my Chibi Boxers 2019. Editing the characters are the Thoughest part. Sometimes, it took 7 hours to completely finished 1 character. 😫

And after editing All the characters, it's not over yet. I still have to design the BG for each characters, editing the Calendar texts, typing the events / holidays on certain months, designing the covers and final checking before i bring to my local digital printing shop to print all my calendars on Art paper.

Btw, a little bit leak of my Calendar 2019 if you want to know...

Note: I use the picture from my Calendar 2017 as my Calendar 2019 Prototype, not the finished model.

Been wanting rimless glasses, but they're kinda fragile, I think...

@Anti-Matter I'd recommend solid colors for backgrounds that will have text or numbers on top. Gradients kinda get in the way of legibility.

Chest pain at work today and needed to cry on my lunch break, where I flat out left the building for an hour.

On Tuesday, another supervisor had a go at me for something that happened on my day off.

Today, said one asked me to do a load of work to ensure he didn't have to do it tomorrow, which my supervisor said no, stuff that, which likely means I'll be blamed for that going forward as well.

Customer complaints, very unwarranted ones at that, keep happening, and its pushing me further away and making me more and more nervous to even move on the shop floor.

All of this combined means I honestly can't keep doing this job. I really feel as though I can't.

Management has to learn to communicate with each other and better communicate with the other staff like myself to ensure the place runs as well as possible, but they consistently fail, and other staff have noted how I'm feeling is getting exponentially worse, and they see the reasons why.

Turns out the company doesnt have a structural blueprint for a store this size. So the only way to get to payroll, HR, whatever...is via my manager. No other member of management can.

My manager isnt the problem. He has to do everything in the store himself. He cant possibly see everything. But everyone from him downwards excluding my supervisor and new floor manager are the problem.

@Knuckles-Fajita The holiday season makes a stressful job even more stressful (happiest time of the year? Yeah right). I think if you were doing okay the past few months then just stick it out for the next couple weeks and things will get back to normal. You got this. 👊

Shameful disclaimer: the only Resident Evil game I've played is RE4 (beat on my Gamecube many years ago).

I want to play the early games, so I've bought Zero for Gamecube and intend to get RE too. Question is, should I play RE first or Zero?

Normally I like to play in the order they were released.

The first game is better received, and generally more newbie friendly. So that's a definite recommendation.

You might want to play them in canonical order though, maybe. There's people that do that.