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R-9 · « **Reply #120 on:** September 17, 2008, 03:47:34 pm »

I got my first writing credit yesterday.

Granted, it's as a contributor to rather obscure tabletop mecha game from a small-time publisher, but some of my cranial byproduct is now in honest-to-God, wood-pulp print.

I'm sure I would be able to appreciate it more if I wasn't ill.

Hyperguy · « **Reply #121 on:** September 17, 2008, 04:45:44 pm »

What ailment and what obscure tabletop mecha game?

R-9 · « **Reply #122 on:** September 17, 2008, 06:02:23 pm »

Stomach problems, mostly.

The game is Wardogs, by MJ12 games. I'm the Unit Designer that's not Todd Pote. The game borrows more in terms of aesthetics from Battletech and Heavy Gear than anime series out there. Of course, Mecha games that have their design informed by anime stylings tend to be RPGs, such as Mekton Zeta, while the more western-derived ones seem to be mostly pure wargames, such as the ones mentioned above, but that's neither here nor there.

I go by RiflemanIII on the mj12 forums. Was my name back when I was a big regular of the Classic Battletech boards.

bfg00 · « **Reply #123 on:** September 17, 2008, 10:46:10 pm »

Hope you get better soon.

ROMate · « **Reply #124 on:** September 20, 2008, 10:33:24 pm »

I have a gorgeous melody stuck in my head.

prominence · « **Reply #125 on:** September 21, 2008, 06:55:58 pm »

awesome. first radio show of the year went off without a hitch. most excelent. and maybe next week i'll be able to actually get a good mix instead of randomly thrown together songs.

BubblegumCake · « **Reply #126 on:** September 26, 2008, 07:39:08 pm »

::Sighs:: Looks like another lonely Friday night for me.... Already in my PJs, I should be sewing.... But I think I'm just going to watch the debate and bum around the house. I'm such a loser.

MMX · « **Reply #127 on:** September 26, 2008, 07:54:23 pm »

You should sew your PJs together. Because then you'd be doing two things at once. Wearing PJs and sewing PJs!

bfg00 · « **Reply #128 on:** September 27, 2008, 12:54:55 pm »

I hate you, 403 errors.

JG · « **Reply #129 on:** September 28, 2008, 07:47:55 pm »

Nearby stations are out of gas again. That's the second time in less than a week - and no hurricane this time.

BubblegumCake · « **Reply #130 on:** September 29, 2008, 06:36:43 pm »

I'm sick.... I feel like crap... And my back is killing me, I really need it rubbed, or cracked or something. ::Sneezes and rolls over:: Ughhhhh....

BubblegumCake · « **Reply #131 on:** October 09, 2008, 07:18:27 pm »

I. want. to. ...
... So... my boyfriend dumped me... Because he's selfish and doesn't want to even try to do small things that would benefit him, and myself. Or have my best interests at heart. I always had is. Always. ... And I am not very social.. So.. Now that I'm out of college.. Finding guys won't be really easy... especially one that is of the type I like, and need to have...
So, as if I wasn't already on the breaking point already... All of my friends are not in the area. 2 are in Japan, one is back home in Indiana, and I don't have a huge group of friends, those were the best and closest and pretty much who I hung out with. So... The social interaction and fun I had was with my boyfriend's friends... Yeah... I can't do that anymore...
And so there's that. Then work. It would take like 10 pages for me to type out the whole damn situation but yesterday there was a meeting in the department... And said they were going to higher an extra person, just part time, and take away some of my jobs and give them to the new person, since the new guy (I've been there longer than him and I've only been there 5 months) will be busy working on the website so much o fthe time (when most of the time he's bored out of his mind with nothing to do, this company is ass backwards and knows nothing about technology, are mostly fairly old, and 90% women, so they think, even though I told them I know about computer things and shit, that was half of my major, they just assume I don't know and he does.. so they give him the website to do, the new website, he got to have meetings with all of the executives his 3rd week in. Is told stuff none of th rest of the graphics department is.. and shit. I found out he makes more than me, And he's like 2 years older than me, but graduated this year.) when he doesn't do anything in the graphics department! And they go over my work with tooth and comb, and then again with a flea comb, and talk to me lik eI have no clue what I'm doing, When I do, and I have my portfolio to prove it. They NEVER question anything he does, (my boss especially). When she leaves early, she always asks what I have to do... NEVER HIM. He's done a few faxes and the newsletter, and I've seen plenty of mistakes, which they would have sat down and talked to me about but they just let it go with him. He got to move desks to the comfy one with a chair on the ground, mine is a high up desk with like a bar stool chair, and I'm so short my legs don't reach anywhere and it kills my back. They moved him because he was going to be working (was hired to) on the core catalogs (as well as web), since the other person who does it sits in front of him. But no, Now they decided he's not going to. And now I get shifted around even more! And the girl who i took over for, Did tons of shit and didn't do a lot of things which now loom over ME and I have had to fix everything. Not only that, but because she didn't listen and follow directions... Yet they didn't fire her, she just got married nd left, I now today had one of the other members of the graphics team have to sit and watch me layout 10 dumb catalog pages, doing the same damn 5 actions over and over again. Because, yeah, I'm 12 and don't know how to do SHIT. I have my degree. I graduated from a tough college with a good GPA, Even if I didn't, I already have proven myself. My first catalog that I did was printed and arrived Monday, and yet now they are second guessing everything I do, but not Evan. I know it's because he's a guy. And I never take a lunch break, or a regular break, which are paid for, so I don't get more money for not taking them, and work 9 hours straight, and only get paid $10 an hour, which is crap compared to other jobs for college degrees. It sucks because other than this whole drama I like working there. I love working with the product we have, it's my passion. But yeah. Everything .. Everything is falling apart and I am so confused and devistated and lost I cannot for the life of me seem to find any of the pieces....

MMX · « **Reply #132 on:** October 09, 2008, 09:58:21 pm »

That's one thing I always pitied the graphics guys at my job. I do a site completely half-assed and as long as it works even my technical manager might let it slide or say "hey here's a mistake" and then fix it on his own. Graphics guys however get the client all in a huff and they come down and have to have a meeting and of course our manager has to let them 'cuz you know they're the client. Goddamn client is like some completely unappeasable master looming over their heads.

Also I feel bad for some of the female employees at work because some of the female managers and especially female clients are rougher on them than on the men. I never understood why

cake you should do exactly like your predecessor did. they're treating you like her so you might as well give them what they're expecting they'd have only themselves to blame.

... damnit i've posted in the rnadom thought thread. now I have to commit seppuku to retain my honor.

JG · « **Reply #133 on:** October 09, 2008, 11:13:05 pm »

Work is like that sometimes. Competant people are often given jobs not befitting their skills while other projects go to knuckleheads who can't dig themselves out of the holes they create. You'd be surprised how much "experience" means to managers. You get two years of doing anything and suddenly you're an expert while people fresh out of college, who are possibly better equipped, are completely ignored. I had the same uphill battle for my first year as well. You just have to deal with it until you've been around long enough to have proved you can do the work without having to explain yourself.

Be careful what you wish for though. If you get to be too good you get all the work. That's how I've ended up with four times as many projects as anyone else in my department. I could go into a similar rant but I won't. But I am available to give advice for all of you just entering the workforce though, seeing as I have quite a few more years under my belt but I'm not quite old enough to have forgotten what you're going through right now.

Sorry to hear about your break-up, too. You got friends here though.

BubblegumCake · « **Reply #134 on:** October 09, 2008, 11:26:09 pm »

Thanks guys for being sympathetic to my situation and on the advice. ^^ I appreciate it..

Hyperguy · « **Reply #135 on:** October 10, 2008, 10:29:20 am »

"You won't have a chance to get bored, with so much level grinding, chatting, PKing and leveling-up to do. " - Conquer Online

Do people even read what they write? Level grinding and leveling up are essentially the same thing, and chatting is what people in MMOs do when they're bored. So how the hell am I not having a chance to get bored if two of the things in MMOs most heavily associated with boredom are being mentioned as features? That's stupid.

prominence · « **Reply #136 on:** October 11, 2008, 10:45:19 pm »

Tomorrow i've got a radio show. me and a friend play trance and electronic music, so you guys should listen. it's from 4:00 to 6:00 eastern time on 91.5 wnmh. or go to wnmh website and stream it over the internet. so, yeah. listen and let me know how we do.

YunaChou · « **Reply #137 on:** October 14, 2008, 12:13:09 pm »

Ex-boyfriend-chan can suck my phantom cock

Hyperguy · « **Reply #138 on:** October 14, 2008, 06:02:50 pm »

Phantom cock sounds like a super power that'd make lesbians envious.

ROMate · « **Reply #139 on:** October 14, 2008, 08:43:20 pm »

Quote from: YunaChou on October 14, 2008, 12:13:09 pm

Ex-boyfriend-chan can suck my phantom cock

D= GASP

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