it's a conversation the only exists to obfuscate the real issues with the job market rn. recruiters who spend their time ghosting candidates after 4 rounds of interviews are now pretending that a latte is hurting your chances of getting a job. so unserious
Re-watching Malcolm in The Middle and there are several jokes about how their two-bedroom house with a backyard is supposed to be this horrible dump that is only affordable to poor people
Bringing an iced coffee is “unprofessional” I GUESS but so is ghosting your fucking candidates so I don’t think it’s fair to just point fingers at frustrated unemployed people
Growing up I thought video games where going to be crazy with like a thousand players battling it out taking over whole city blocks and stuff but naaa it’s all 3v3v3vPve extraction slop bullshit. Like trying to pass off a single gamemode that people don’t like as a new genre.
Me going back in time to stop whoever started the “your frontal lobe develops at 25” bc it’s lead to a bunch of 20-somethings who either infantilize themselves or act as if their lives are over after 25
My sad prediction is that, when millennials are old, the common line will be “well boomers screwed us over, so at least we should get our bag in retirement” and the cycle will just repeat.
I tried getting a job at a local supermarket and when I said I was just looking for a summer job they said “that wasnt going to work because our training period is 3 months.”
The job was to be a cashier and stock selves. Three months training period.
the coining of the term "ludonarrative dissonance" was the closest our mainstream gaming conscience ever got to finally understanding that the gameplay *is* the story too, but now we're doomed to talk like this forever
twitter cracking down on engagement farmers means we will have no one to remind us that a 97 year old diner still serves their coke the old fashioned way