KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on get it Mildred 1 day ago:
At least the job comes with perks. Closers get coffee, or so I hear.
- Comment on Is there a place you can gamble on if it rains tomorrow? 2 days ago:
Closest thing you’ll find is likely to be prediction markets, but “whether it rains tomorrow” isn’t something that would be available unless it’s in the form of “Will X event be rescheduled due to rain?” or similar more boolean things.
- Comment on Makes sense 2 days ago:
Spend the year making yourself indispensable (even if that involves writing code no one else can maintain, keeping your reports and files in an organization structure only you understand, making sure clients value you over the company, whatever’s appropriate for your position). Also, beef up your resume, get it out there, start ‘passively’ job searching. Then, when review time comes up, you quantify all of the lost perks, and demand that amount as a minimum raise. If they don’t agree, you quit on the spot.
If you followed step 1 closely enough, they may want to prevent you from leaving (ideal) or try to hire you back, at which point you can start making salary demands.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
He might have felt pressure to keep up with your dad due to just meeting them / wanting to make a good impression, and not realized how drunk he was getting. Doesn’t excuse his actions in the least, but might help contextualize them… given it doesn’t sound like this is something he would normally do.
- Comment on The REAL news 6 days ago:
Maybe they’re trying to. They aren’t fighting, they’re just trying to tear it in two so they can both take it to their respective families.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 1 week ago:
Maybe AI isn’t so bad after all. In fact, they should implement this in more locations.
- Comment on I'm losing. 1 week ago:
Would have !the_pack@lemmy.world vibes IF IT WASN’T SO QUIET.
- Comment on I'm not even gay 1 week ago:
If what Jesus did or did not say is different depending on what religion you subscribe to, you’d think we could then make the logical conclusion that some portion of what we ascribe to Jesus was not actually what he said, and vice versa…
- Comment on Do what one must! 1 week ago:
Please do not the gators. :(
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 1 week ago:
The word ‘intelligence’ doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 weeks ago:
The cargo company should be prosecuted for littering. Unless they can convince some benevolent locals to go help them clean up the spill.
- Comment on I feel like I will want to live completely alone in the nature at a future time in my life 3 weeks ago:
Some people definitely do want to, and in fact do.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 weeks ago:
The NFL just needs to invent a peace prize and present it to Trump, then he’ll immediately change his tune and start insisting that FIFA changes their terminology to Soccer.
- Comment on Still looking for the right community for this meme 3 weeks ago:
All complaints about the message aside, you’re misusing the meme format.
It should be ‘uneducated people making vaccine policy’ on the red pill and ‘big pharma making vaccine policy’ on the blue pill on the first image; uneducated people making gun policy on the red pill and gun industry making gun policy on the blue pill on the second. You’re supposed to put opposing choices on opposing pills. It makes no sense the way you have it.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 3 weeks ago:
Whether they’re surprised or not, going public with it was a good marketing ploy because I never would have known about the game if they hadn’t, and I bought it. I’m sure many more of their sales can be attributed to the same.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 3 weeks ago:
Coincidentally, I have two earlobes that I’m not using for anything - how much are you offering?
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 3 weeks ago:
I have played the game. There’s far more pornographic games on Steam. All of the nudity is censored, there are no kids or even characters that could be mistaken for kids in the game, and it’s obvious in its intent - there’s nothing that I’d describe as even approaching titillating; the whole experience is clearly just intended to - and successfully so - make you feel uncomfortable and unsettled. The scene in question - the one that previously had the young girl - is particularly unsettling specifically because of how it normalizes everything else that’s going on, and I agree with them that the scene works better with a grown woman than it would have with a kid. There’s no reason for this to be banned on Steam.
- Comment on Marathon Art Controversy Resolved As Artist Reaches Agreement With Bungie And Sony 3 weeks ago:
I’d bet some significant amount of the hype was from people thinking “Oh, sick! The Marathon franchise is getting a revival!” without realizing that the new game had essentially no relation to the Marathon franchise they remembered. I don’t know who they think is sitting around thinking, “You know what I want? Another live service extraction shooter.”
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 3 weeks ago:
If you earned 100,000 bits every day since the first day the Earth existed, you wouldn’t even be half way there today!
- Comment on Corvid-19 3 weeks ago:
He looks perfectly gentlemanly. Bet those chest feathers are nice and soft to lay against, too.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but that isn’t as impressive sounding.
Did you know the wayback machine saves 150,000,000,000,000 bytes worth of webpages every day?! If you stacked 150,000,000,000,000 bytes end to end, they would reach from earth to the moon and back SEVEN TIMES! That’s enough bytes to fill 18 American football stadiums!
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 3 weeks ago:
Is the implication, then, that people with money are never dangerous individuals?
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 3 weeks ago:
In some cases she’d be better off approaching a bear, but she won’t know it until it’s too late.
Sometimes he’d be better off approaching a bear, too, and also won’t know it until it’s too late. This isn’t a gender thing, this is just a “some people are shitty” thing.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 3 weeks ago:
A better approach would be to try to pick up a woman who’s alone, offer her a drink*,
A bit of a tangent, but I really hate this. Not meaning to call you out, this is a really common recommendation for an icebreaker and it’s also reinforced by popular media and the like, but it always feels to me like the implication is that if a man wants to approach a woman, they must buy something for them as part of that process. Like it’s a transaction fee to be given a chance.
- Comment on I heard that this offer applies to more than just turkeys 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Forever young 4 weeks ago:
That’s funny - MW2, BF: Bad Company 2 and BF3 were the last competitive shooters I really enjoyed, too. I had a good time playing Apex Legends for a while, but not because I was good at it… more because I could have fun playing my own version of The Running Man until someone inevitably found me.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
You’re welcome! It’s a topic I find intriguing, and it’s always interesting to discuss the different ways people experience these things, now that I realize we’re not all the same. :)
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 4 weeks ago:
He was a politician who was caught having accepted a bribe, basically, which seems bizarrely mundane today.He said something to the effect of “Don’t look, this will affect you” before he did it, too… petty self-aware for someone who’s about to kill themselves in front of a crowd.
- Comment on Forever young 4 weeks ago:
When I was a kid, I had this fantasy that gaming 10s of years later would be fantastic… Schooling all the kids with my 20+ years of experience they lack, running circles around them.
Turns out dulled reflexes are a bitch and it’s exactly the opposite.
Competitive multiplayer games are nowhere near as much fun as they used to be. I do still feel good about being able to complete (non-dexterity-based) puzzles and make complex deductions a lot faster than them, though.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
It’s possible that you’re a 3 or a 4. My understanding is that people who are 1s can see the apple as though it was there in front of them. They can rotate the image in their minds, break it in half and examine the insides, see the seeds and the veins on the leaf and the discoloration near the stem. Zooming in or out isn’t problematic at all.
If you’re a 5, you can certainly be aware of these things - that they’re features of an apple - but if you really focus on seeing the apple - as though with your eyes, rather than just thinking about the features of the apple as qualitative properties - you can’t do it. It’s just blackness.