Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Skivvy]

Even that one cat paw at the corner of the pic has vibes of disappointment.

Lol. He's our super nosey one, and as you can see, has no respect for counter rules.

If that ever happens to me with a tub of Moose Tracks I think I'll implode.

Never tried, but that stuff looks tasty! I wish I could branch out more with flavors but my son is kinda picky with desserts. Cookie dough is always a safe choice here.

[Rannie]

Almost reminds me of the time my mom opened a green patch can of boiled peanuts and there was a dead cricket in it. She called the company from the number on the can and they sent her a box of four new cans and apologized over the phone about it.

[Cincierta]

So one of our coworkers posted a customer return on the subreddit for a company I currently work for. Apparently the customer brought back two tubs of ice cream, one is a half gallon and the other is the super-sized 2 gallon. Both of them were the mint chocolate chip flavor. It's green, it's minty, and it's got chocolate shavings in it. What's not to love?

The customer said the half-gallon had way too much chocolate in it, and the other one had way too little in it. The kicker?

Both of the containers of ice cream had been 90% eaten. The customer got a return on both of them.

Sometimes I wonder about the company I work for.

[Raoabolic]

So one of our coworkers posted a customer return on the subreddit for a company I currently work for. Apparently the customer brought back two tubs of ice cream, one is a half gallon and the other is the super-sized 2 gallon. Both of them were the mint chocolate chip flavor. It's green, it's minty, and it's got chocolate shavings in it. What's not to love?

The customer said the half-gallon had way too much chocolate in it, and the other one had way too little in it. The kicker?

Both of the containers of ice cream had been 90% eaten. The customer got a return on both of them.

Sometimes I wonder about the company I work for.

That's just dealing w/ people, lol. As someone who works in HR, I get to see all types and it's not that uncommon to see someone trying to get one over on "the company" even when it will screw over their co-workers since "the company" generally gives no you know what when it comes to it's employees. That's my job. ;A;
On a related note, I made some homemade Horchata flavored ice cream. The recipe said not to add that much heavy whipping cream but I did anyway. It was ten times smoother than if I followed the recipe. Too bad I jacked up the calorie count, lol.

[TheMightyMollusk]

So one of our coworkers posted a customer return on the subreddit for a company I currently work for. Apparently the customer brought back two tubs of ice cream, one is a half gallon and the other is the super-sized 2 gallon. Both of them were the mint chocolate chip flavor. It's green, it's minty, and it's got chocolate shavings in it. What's not to love?

The customer said the half-gallon had way too much chocolate in it, and the other one had way too little in it. The kicker?

Both of the containers of ice cream had been 90% eaten. The customer got a return on both of them.

Sometimes I wonder about the company I work for.

When I worked at Target, I once saw someone returning a Transformers toy. Except, it wasn't a toy in the box. It was a block of wood painted blue. The manager still made us give him the refund. Management does not care about anything but processing as many customers as they can as quickly as possible, because the raw numbers in the computers are all the bigwigs up in corporate will ever see.

Then I almost got yelled at for refusing to put the box back on the shelf. Almost, because I told him exactly where I'd put the block if he didn't think twice before speaking, and he was one-third my size.

Yes, I was actively trying to get fired towards the end there. Still didn't work, I had to leave on my own initiative.

[RyuDragnier]

Staying at the 2nd hotel. If it weren't for the money being non-refundable, we would have left this hotel immediately. No handicap accessible rooms, the beds are super high up, the elevators are on the other side of the hotel, they put us ON THE FOURTH FLOOR, and there is no entrance but the main entrance. My mother hurt her leg years ago in the military, and can't walk for very far or lift her legs up high. To say I'm angry is an understatement, as we put down for a handicap accessible room. Again, if not for the money being non-refundable, we'd have turned right around and gone to a different hotel.

[RobynDaBank]

The Path of Exile forums broke me. I'm never visiting that place again after one attempt.

[SturmChurro]

The Path of Exile forums broke me. I'm never visiting that place again after one attempt.

I don't know your exact experience, but a lot of other forums are way more "toxic" that what a lot of people say these are like. It's why I always disagree with them on that point.

Space Coke (Zero) is now impossible to find, having been supplanted by the far inferior Marshmello collaboration Coke (Zero).

I never figured out what flavor the Space Coke was supposed to be exactly, but I grew to quite like the taste, and my disappointment it is no more is immesurable.

Soda? I don't really know how people can drink that stuff, to be honest. I have been given a root beer float in the relatively recent past (1 or 2 years ago), and it was way too sweet.

[RobynDaBank]

I don't know your exact experience, but a lot of other forums are way more "toxic" that what a lot of people say these are like. It's why I always disagree with them on that point.

I haunted forums of Blizzard games mostly, and while WoW and OW had "bearable" forum communities - there was at least a healthier mix of differing opinions - D2R and D3 were insufferable in some way. Full of rigid, cynical people who thought their opinion was king and were content with keeping things as they were whether for good or bad (D2R especially). I browsed New World forums as well when the game was new, and that was simply a laugh. So much uproar, so many things going wrong. Lost Ark for a while as well, but that place was a bit bad for my sanity so I stopped pretty quickly.

I've started playing PoE a bunch nowadays, and I didn't expect players thought how they said they do there even though I'm an avid reader of the in-game global chat. There's a massive divide between disillusioned people and those who lap up literally anything the developers put out. New league is on its way and some big balance changes were revealed in the "manifesto", and it's funny how they seem to backpedal on literally anything fun they create. The game has monsters and bosses that can come off like a bullet hell game - heck, one of the pinnacle bosses has a mechanic with that same name - and yet they also want to "slow down" players by nerfing their defensive and offensive power as much as possible. They created a problem in how overtuned their monsters have become expansion after expansion, but the only thing they see going wrong is some "power creep" (when players were much more powerful before). And for some reason, a big, big chunk of the players just want to be beat down. They want the game to numb their mind, they want it to make them log on day after day for hours on end. It's kinda pathetic.

[SturmChurro]

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I've been posting on forums since I was a kid, so I've seen all kinds. SWTOR, ESO with my beta account, Warframe with my beta account, Nexon, Steam community, Cdpr (Cyberpunk made me mad), etc.. etc..

There was this one thread in the SWTOR forums, I still remember to this day, some guy would post his like skimpy outfit (photoshopped?) male character. The thread was entirely about that. Just various screenshots of his male character and other male characters like this.

I posted on the Lost Ark forums as well, during the early month(s). I was mostly in skin threads or talking about artist class or something though, so you may have missed me. Also, I did get suspended at one point for disagreeing with their moderation - which I have posted about here. Now that place was something else, in terms of negativity.

PoE, I might have played that in beta as well; it was very early on, that's for sure. Never could get into the game. As for a fast paced or slow paced ARPG, I suppose Diablo players would prefer it more fast paced, and I think I have seen people say Diablo combat is better. I don't have a strong opinion on this subject, and lack the knowledge of PoE gameplay. I think I might have gotten past the prison boss (?) or something, a little after that. That's how much experience I have in that game. Also, always sorceress, or whatever that class is called.