Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Which? Williamsburg?

Yeah

That one always felt like it acted as the 2nd place visit in that town- like the parents all want to be at Colonial Williamsburg but families go to their Busch Gardens just to keep the kids at bay....meanwhile all the staff wishes they were dressed in period attire getting better pay and tips^^

Pretty much. Would've preferred doing almost anything else there but 5 y/o in tow.

The boys are gathered

Finally!


Not quite as early as I'd have liked, but I guess it's not too far off. Just one more month...
Report on the closed beta is out too.
Giving out a free 5* weapon for Glenn on launch due to the positive reception to the First Soldier story so far. Just gotta hope we meet the preregistration milestones (lol) so we can get the free costume ticket now.

Son of a ***! The Strange New Worlds season finale was awesome, but

Dale Gribble VA died today

New season of King of the Hill comes out in like 6 months

I was really excited for this game then I saw the deeper gacha mechanics with the all to familiar leveling equipment and rolling for 5stars.

It's basically FFRK/FFBE/FFOO: FF7 Only edition. Which I'm down for, but yeah, that's the expectation

My boss called me to review my yearly goals for work.

The thing is even hitting goals arent sufficient for a raise. You still need to compete the scarce resources for it.

Not to mention that 90% of my daily work arent in my goals. Most of them are our department projects that they really want to make it happen, not my daily stuff to sustain our infrastructure. Thats too boring for bosses to think it as a goal.

Even if i get a raise, its something very minor at best. Maybe less than 2% of my net salary.

Finally, all my goals are basically impossible to meet. Ive been this entire year in 2 projects at most, only one so so about to deliver, but the goal wants me to deliver more 3 projects by november end. All three with very low progress.

Yeah, i simply stopped caring at those goals. I will surely fluke in it unless i start overworking every day and weekend till november. For some uncertain minimal raise.

F this.

Regardless, by the end of next year im already dropping every single of this ***and trying to restart in europe.

So whatever anyway. At worst what i will do is giving up my work by next year to finish my uni and learn german.

I could careless about goals and raise at this point.

What i really want is people to stop bothering my work every 30 mins.

Try:

A 10% raise. Avoiding being swamped by extranious projects. Never having to have to drop everything to cover someone else's ***. A transfer to a european branch.

As long as stating goals is a trap there's LOTS of "work goals" you can make up.

P. S. /comfort

I wish i could hit harder in game.

It simply bothers me that i cant deal huge numbers even well buffed.

I always feels like missing something.

Eh, it's not really anything like BE. Definitely closer to RK with characters all obtained via the story and customizable skills obtained through gameplay.
But even then the materia in EC is actually useful and not just completely outclassed by character-specific limit breaks or whatever happened to RK.

I make no distinction between weapon and character gacha since weapons often completely change how a character plays in these games.

Weapons in EC have a single skill; they're not particularly game-changing. Cloud's big 5* gacha weapon on launch just gives him a lightning damage skill. Sure, it hits slightly harder because the weapon boosts lightning damage, but the same thing can be covered with craftable materia.

Disney going to raise their sub price yet again... can't make this up, after all the crap shows they have.

This is cool lol

i think this is also cool!

It's just their ad-free tier. The streamers have caught on that people will pay less for the ad-tier, so they want you to switch over.

Long long ago, before cable, back in the broadcast age, when we were first told about pay TV, it was supposed to be free of advertising.

When you had coin tvs that you had to feed a quarter for 30 mins of airtime?

Hell, most don't even understand that the broadcast airwaves that were used to build the industry didn't even belong to those networks- they belonged to the US Government. They basically were gifted to the networks as long as they agreed to 30 minutes a day of news broadcasting.

Don't laugh. Motels had those. Magic fingers for a quater in the bed too.

RK got insane, and basically had to have constant Full-RR up to fight anything decent. Was stupid.

I don't think any fight outside of Year 1 fights required RR, lol

You pretty much had to rely on super defensive buffs to like Wall + Protect + Shell to stay alive against most things and that became a main stay staple outside of select phases where they used a lot of defense piercing attacks, then you just built around that.

RK was very much a buff-centric game and getting killed wiped all your buffs, thus relying on RR strategies basically made it impossible to progress.

I just recall a lot of some of the later fights had 1 hit kills/1 hit kill AoEs. I'd give an example but they nuked the game, so...

Damage output from bosses definitely grew as the power creep also inclined upwards, but there was always a solution around it. Stoneskin bubbles, debuffing the boss to reduce the damage, increasing your own defensive buffs to reduce the damage to manageable levels, using Guts / Last stand to tank the attack, etc.. Heck, when the power creep got to the point where having 10K+ HP characters was normal, one of the strategies was literally "just have more than 9,999HP and the boss can't one shot you anymore".