What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[marurun]

Just got a text from one of my managers. Guess who just lost their only night off?!

How does your manager know my co-worker has to work tomorrow night?

[REPO Man]

I lost my night off. Thankfully it was only 3½ hours. But still! I was scheduled to have a night off, as in only one. And I didn't even get the decency of 24hrs notice.

[stickem]

I dont see how anybody can live in big cities nowadays and afford to live. Especially new york or any other big city. Example, Nashville where i live, so many people moving here rent is 3000 downtown for 800 square ft. So Repo, good luck. And fuck Atlanta with all your bullshit traffic and construction, everywhere lol.

[REPO Man]

There's almost 19 million people in NYC, as opposed to over 4,000 (unless there's been a substantial change since the 2010 census). Nearly everyone on Hatteras Island is straight, white, cisgender, conservative and Christian, while in NYC folks come from various backgrounds, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, gender identities, and with varying political and religious views.

Here, I'm a square peg surrounded by triangular holes. There'd, I'd have an easier time finding my tribe. The closest I've gotten to "finding my tribe" is talking about retro games and films here and various subreddits. In fact, I recently shared the picture of my top shelf on the Criterion subreddit (given that the top shelf's where I have my Criterion Collection Blu-rays) and had a bit of a conversation with someone who spotted my Gamera box set (with the '90s reboot trilogy) and they DM'ed me an article they wrote about Godzilla.

In NYC, I could probably have such conversations more frequently, not to mention in person for longer time frames. Not to mention having folks over for game and movie nights or going out to film screenings (like the screening of the new 4K restoration of The Doom Generation), live theater (obviously not Broadway), comedy shows, concerts (mostly indie and unsigned artists who I'd offer to shoot music videos for), and various festivals.

[o.pwuaioc]

There's almost 19 million people in NYC, as opposed to over 4,000 (unless there's been a substantial change since the 2010 census). Nearly everyone on Hatteras Island is straight, white, cisgender, conservative and Christian, while in NYC folks come from various backgrounds, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, gender identities, and with varying political and religious views.

NYC proper has less than 9 million. The rest used to commute from Jersey, Yonkers, Long Island, etc., although when I left that had severely dropped.

Still a major city, but a little emptier as of last year.

Here, I'm a square peg surrounded by triangular holes. There'd, I'd have an easier time finding my tribe. The closest I've gotten to "finding my tribe" is talking about retro games and films here and various subreddits. In fact, I recently shared the picture of my top shelf on the Criterion subreddit (given that the top shelf's where I have my Criterion Collection Blu-rays) and had a bit of a conversation with someone who spotted my Gamera box set (with the '90s reboot trilogy) and they DM'ed me an article they wrote about Godzilla.

You don't necessarily need to be in NYC for this, you know. Any decent-sized city will have what you're looking for. If anything, it might be easier in a mid-sized city, since there's just so much going on in NYC all the time.

[PretentiousHipster]

I lost my night off. Thankfully it was only 3½ hours. But still! I was scheduled to have a night off, as in only one. And I didn't even get the decency of 24hrs notice.

Sometimes I get texts at 4:30 pm by my manager telling me to start a 4 pm shift lol

[Ack]

And fuck Atlanta with all your bullshit traffic and construction, everywhere lol.

We do it to keep the folks from Los Angeles from getting homesick.

But also, fuck Nashville, just because. No idea when this rivalry started (I thought we hated New Orleans), but we gotta keep the hate going.

[stickem]

And fuck Atlanta with all your bullshit traffic and construction, everywhere lol.

We do it to keep the folks from Los Angeles from getting homesick.

But also, fuck Nashville, just because. No idea when this rivalry started (I thought we hated New Orleans), but we gotta keep the hate going.

Im just messing around my friend both cities suck in the traffic department. But Atlanta takes the cake lol.

[Ack]

Yeah, it's genuinely awful, and it's just getting worse. I usually plan an extra 30 minutes to an hour on all of my commutes more than a few blocks, and even that can change depending on whether it's rush hour.

[RobertAugustdeMeijer]

Is about dopamine and hype for games. At first, the video says that 72% of voters in a poll were pessimistic about future releases. Which makes sense, because most hyped up games turn out to be hot air. But then the video says that actually 72% of voters were actually hype about future releases. Which just shows how many gamers, even those who watch intellectual videos like this, are still subject to their dopamine rushes.

How often do we need games like Battlecruiser 3000, Daikatana, and Shenmue to make us realize: Don't believe the hype.