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if you use the phrase "be normal" as if it's something to aspire to, kindly take a long walk off a short plank. or block me. whichever is easier for you.

 


 

child of the 80s

 


 

i escaped a cult.
all of the content warnings.
all of them.
tag: exerian's tragic backstory

 


 

                                 
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rotsharp
@rotsharp

what is elden ring multiplayer like rn? it actually never occurred to me before... the fact that it sold so many copies means that its got to have been more active online than previous games. i know the other games still also all have more serious scenes with mods and things but im not involved in any of them. i dont uh. i dont know what it is like for most people in the most common multiplayer mode because i never dont opt in to all the multiplayer i can because comical chance encounters between sessions of tryhard casual pvp where, by restricting myself to gimmicks like only weapon arts or jumping and spinning before i cast spells, i roleplay a weird npc invader ai 🤔 this is the closest contact with an unfamiliar intelligence my delicate hikikomori constitution can withstand because i have the soul of a blade that will shatter if handled by any force other than a strapping trans lad. i want to kill you but i either want to earn it by responding proportionately to whatever you pull or doing something stupid that catches you off guard because you were laughing at me.

above all, a hunter must hunt.

maybe if i want to escape the clutches of the government i could start selling time slots to be your pvp bodyguard in whatever souls game. it really is the only up to date skill i have. its not tremendous but its enough to wanna try more whenever my life feels like it wants to stop exploding.


exerian
@exerian

if you summon a player in co-op then you can be reasonably certain that at least one bloody finger will show up. most of the summons are close enough to the boss zone that simply running straight for the boss zone pretty much guarantees you don't have to PvP. If you're summoning for a world boss like the stupid ents whatever they're called then you need to be prepared to take on at least one bloody finger AND the boss or you'll certainly die.

that is to say, git gud or play with yourself.



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

a thing I learned a long time ago about Patron Hygiene is to Never complain about something you don't like at a business unless you actually intend to lodge a formal complaint (which of course you better not be doing unless you found a roach in your hamburger or something.)

By this I mean that if you don't like something that you chose and want to replace it, you need to blame yourself immediately, because otherwise you are about to give that employee a heart attack. Unfortunately there are so many varied ways in which customers can be awful that you can stumble on one without even realizing it.

This stems from the time I was at a restaurant about 6 years ago and they had a whole bunch of beers on tap, and I got one that really sucked by the standards of my palate. I drank about half of it before I realized I didn't like it, then when the bartender came by I said "yeah this one just isn't doing it for me, I'd like to try tap 11," and for about 5 very weird seconds, she had the strangest look on her face.

Then she says, "Just so you know, once you've had that much, you can't send it back."

It took me a moment to process what she was saying. My jaw literally dropped, I gasped. She was saying that there are people who think that if you order a craft beer - famously one of the most varied and individual products in basically the entire world - and then decide you don't like it, the bar should give you a refund.

I told her I was incredibly sorry for giving that impression and that I thought anybody who would demand that was a monster, and then filed this experience in my memory banks. The correct presentation should have been some shit like, "My tongue isn't liking me today so I'm having trouble finishing this one, but I'd like to try tap 11", or some other nonsense that makes it clear up front that I consider this a personal failing and not, through some inconceivably batshit line of reasoning, the fault of the establishment, who simply gave me exactly the thing that I ordered, sight unseen, without ever having tasted it. Why should they pay??? It makes no sense??



RatBaby
@RatBaby

If everyone had to spend atleast 1 year working in food service


YuushaRuby
@YuushaRuby

I like the person who left a lengthy bad review about me in particular at the coffee shop/deli I was working at for a while saying, among many other things,(like I was rude, I wasn’t chipper, found out my great grandmother had Alzheimer’s the night prior) “I didn’t know the menu very well” when the conversation went like this for a WHILE

Customer: can I get seasonal item, clearly marked seasonal

Me: sorry we don’t have that at the moment as it’s not in season recommends something

Customer: no thank you can I get seasonal item, clearly marked seasonal

Me: sorry we don’t have that at the moment, as it’s not in season 🙂

Repeat until customer gives up and orders some concoction they made up that’s not even on the menu whatsoever which I then make and they hate it


RatBaby
@RatBaby

Complainging about how their cheese platter didnt have fancy enough cheese, and one of the cheeses smelled terrible and had clearly gone bad so they had to throw it out.

That cheese was an imported cave-aged blue. It was probably about $150 worth of cheese, it was meant as the highlight of the platter.


exerian
@exerian

cheese doesn't go bad.
it just gets more expensive.
how do people not understand this?