NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

ForTheHoard said:
They decorated their home as an homage to the company they work for... That might be the most consoomer shit I ever heard. Since they're on Era it's probably a tech company, too.
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Peaches the Wonder Cat said:
Microsoft? His home would be covered in xbox shit, especially their pride month merchandise.
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ForTheHoard said:
I was thinking Blizzard. That's one of those industry jobs a lot of people dream to get but are wildly disappointed once they're in it. If it's not tech, my 2nd guess would be Funko.
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It's Universal Studios theme park:
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He really fucking loves theme parks:
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He has an account on a Disney World fan board that says he's 25 so this might be like his first job ever since he says he's been there 7 years.
 
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AirdropShitposts said:
It's Universal Studios theme park:
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What the fuck, he's some low-level manager at an amusement park and he's breaking down in tears? I'm surprised he hasn't offered to commit honorable ritual suicide yet.

A "team captain"'s job description according to Universal:

SUMMARY: Oversees the daily operation and is the first point of contact for team members, guests, and interdepartmental partners in the absence of a Lead or Supervisor. Monitors the operation to ensure guest and team member safety, positive guest interactions, capacity goals and maintains the daily labor budgets. Accountable for training related functions including: scheduling new hire on-the-job training, re-certification and compliance training.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Performs all operational duties related to the daily opening and closing of venues in the absence of the Lead. Completes opening and closing checklists for operational readiness, inspects the work environment including: equipment, loading gates, lap bars, vehicle or rides and ensures operational safety. Evacuates the venue when necessary.
  • Responsible for overseeing new hire training and is the first point of contact for new team members. Schedules on-the-job training, works closely with Leads and Trainers to ensure that team members have successfully completed their training plan. Monitors trainees throughout their on-boarding and training to ensure operational proficiency. Meets with team members to review their training progress, addresses concerns, documents training related issues, administers testing and signs off on the successful completion of training and testing.
  • Responsible for the consistent execution of guest service, operational standards and motivating team members to safely deliver ride capacity. Coaches performance, conducts daily shift meetings and safety spot talks and documents performance utilizing the Lead Observation Report. Orders and maintains operating supplies, tracks attendance infractions, reviewing and/or edits Kronos to ensure that time is properly entered based on job code and functional area. In the absence of a Supervisor will approve daily scheduling request changes.
  • Ensure daily staffing levels and rotation schedules are adjusted according to park attendance. Maintains daily Ride & Show reports, overtime reports, and safety checklists. Monitors and reports deficiencies in show quality and facilities. Aids in the dissemination of general company and venue or area specific forms of communication. Effectively applies the UO service model of Look, Focus, Act to satisfy and resolve the needs of the guests and the team members.
  • Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established Universal Orlando policy, procedures, training and Team Member involvement activities.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
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EDIT: and he's borderline, of course
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AnOminous said:
God what a weeping fag. These people need a pep talk from Blake from Glengarry Glen Ross.
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What is even worse is that this total faggot don't even realize that

Oh, the company is in trouble and hard times ahead. Maybe what they need is someone that can man-up and soldier through the hard times and push things in the right direction and righten the ship, survive the storm? But instead they get a faggot that is just crying all the time about how bad things are.

Man the fuck up faggot. This is time for leaders to step up and take charge. Not for faggots to sit and cry.
What kind of company even thinks about sending this loser to a leadership path?

EDIT: Oh, so he is kind of "leader" for the fucking meth-heads that operate the rides at some fucking carneval? Yeah, don't use leadership program to describe your job. Just start smoking meth like all your work colleguages do. Also you should seriously consider the benefits of SRS. No one will bully you once you cut off the penis and you will be so much happier.
 
EmpGulcasa said:
Jesus. My job in fintech also sucks ass but I don't break down sobbing about it in front of people who are ostensibly depending on me. People like that shouldn't be getting leadership positions.
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Worked in that industry for many years. When I started I was in a call center and people would cry because some of the clients/advisors were assholes, but I can't imagine doing that at a fucking theme park.
 
AirdropShitposts said:
This is the funniest thread she's made for an endless number of reasons:

Let's Talk About How Amazing Need For Speed: Heat's Story Is [Huge Open Spoilers]

I spent some time with my brother a couple of Saturdays ago watching him play games. After a few hilariously frustrating matches of Modern Warfare he booted up Need For Speed Heat. After a bit of playing, The Player and Ana are celebrating a win against the Speed Boys crew (lol), only to end...
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Wow, that really is an amazing thread.

Let's Talk About How Amazing Need For Speed: Heat's Story Is [Huge Open Spoilers]
Nov 16, 2019

I spent some time with my brother a couple of Saturdays ago watching him play games. After a few hilariously frustrating matches of Modern Warfare he booted up Need For Speed Heat. After a bit of playing, The Player and Ana are celebrating a win against the Speed Boys crew (lol), only to end with Ana's car being impounded by Officer Shaw....

I have never been so thoroughly angry at such a brazen abuse of police power in a video game before.

It wasn't just the impounding, because it's feasible he'd have gotten reports of her car during the race and thus have probable cause. But then Homeboy comes at The Player demanding ID, to which I said aloud "You don't owe him shit." But The Player complies. Upon answering some inquiry with "yes," he screams to correct you: "YES OFFICER!" before leveling a shit-eating grin at you. Coupled with his mocking attitude and the insults, it became unbearable.

"I hope he dies. Yo, Schultz--" My friend is also playing on another rig, "Does this dude die?"

"I don't know; I'm not that far into it."

"He literally needs to die."

My brother chimed in: "I am so...MAD."

This scene is eerily effective- from the establishment and abuse of power dynamics, to the naturalistic voice acting, to the low underscore- in a way that threw me off guard, like it was written by people with direct experience with bullshit police, and I needed to know the rest immediately. Once I got home I YouTubed the rest of the cutscenes and oh my god, I loved it.

First off, give it up to the Rivera siblings for being awesome. The first time you enter the garage and Lucas is setting up an appointment you are hit with their sense of history and personality: the driving awards, the decorative graffiti, and most importantly the family picture with a yellow Camaro on the table. When they're together, there's an appealing duality of love and conflict: Lucas is a passive dude who rebukes racing to run the garage while Ana is a feisty college dropout who wishes to uphold the family racing legacy (this dynamic is made all the more interesting because of the flipped gender representation in ostensibly traditional roles.) If they're not prodding each other over their life decisions, Lucas is probably smothering her with tempered, big-brother guardianship or embarrassing shows of affection in Spanish. It's adorable. However, things come to a tense head when she crashes the aforementioned Camaro trying to escape Shaw after a race, with Lucas insisting she needs to go back to school and Ana dismissing his advice as a cowardly has-been who is willing to throw away his talent and their legacy.

This is another scene that took me by surprise, because I didn't land squarely on Lucas' side despite understanding he was right. "He built this car to be raced!" asserts Ana. The awards on the counter and the town talk of the Riveras makes it clear that the father was as much a gearhead as the daughter, to say nothing of Lucas' previous guarantee into The League. So I could easily sympathize with Ana and her desire to not only race for her own self-fulfillment but to try and continue upholding their father's legacy, and Lucas' inability to recognize that spark in her. However, Lucas' retirement comes back to the front after the police chief Mercer realizes you and Ana were tipped off to the police's chop-shop operation. Mercer roughs up Lucas to try and exploit info out of him, only for you and Ana to run up on the scene and get arrested. Lucas breaks free and saves you from being murdered, seeking refuge in a secret garage he built up over the years as a safe space from his father, the broken relationship implied over the course of the game to have resulted from his own racing antics. It turns out their father had a heart attack the night he was jailed, and Lucas puts this on himself, believing the stress of his youth got to the old man and killed him.

"Well, that was...legitimately rough to get through— Why the fuck am I feeling this way over a Need For Speed Game?" Again, is this normal?

Anyway, things naturally get reconciled over the course of an adventurous series of races throughout Miami where the police are led by the street racers directly onto Mercer's operations, causing an unavoidable chain of backstabbing and clean-up.

Let's go back to the police. It's a given that NFS would not have a particularly darling view of cops, but the relationship between the police force, the street racers, and the public doesn't even seem at all exaggerated in an era of increased knowledge of police misconduct (civil forfeiture is a good comparison here) and the lack of ethical standards police are beholden to. While I wanted Shaw to die, and still kind of do, his behavior is emboldened from the top. As aforementioned, the police are running a chop shop by impounding the cars of any unlucky street racers who get busted. And yes, I know- street racing is dangerous, illegal, and not to be condoned- but the nature of the crime outstrips the punishment, which include racers being extorted for exorbitant amounts of money, run out of town, and threatened with murder. Contrast with Mercer's public persona, where practically every other day he's giving press conferences about "winning" in the "fight" to end street racing, wartime language that really only gets play with demographics least likely to suffer under the bootheel of police corruption. It's simultaneously disgusting and banal, with Ana hammering it home after her car is taken: "When I'm in my car, I got power — it's right there at my feet... But as soon as they say "step out of the vehicle, ma'am," THEY got the power, and I ain't got nothin'."

It also isn't lost on me that the two main villains as police, the ones who are thoroughly irredeemable, are white men beset in a town full of Hispanic/Latino and black residents. Hammering home American racial dynamics is the fact that your initial delve into the conspiracy is facilitated in part by Officer Torres, a Latina officer who watches the abuse from afar and does her best to temper the corruption before finally throwing her hands up. Heat doesn't just dislike cops. It states outright that once corruption is allowed to run wild, good cops and systemic channels of accountability are pretty much useless which- again- anyone with a hint of melanin in America should be aware of. It's also of note that only a minority on the force decides to break rank. Torres leaks information to you and, in the end, kills Mercer before assuming a newfound rank as police chief with the promise of continuing to crack down on street racing, just without all the stealing and extortion on top of it. You're also further assisted by Roshni, a black woman who is the sole developer of the police scanning app you've been using for communication and forewarning throughout the entire game. She shows up later and not only helps get you some Camaro parts, but is vital in unlocking a computer that stores the data concerning all of the stolen cars. Neat!

All in all, Need For Speed: Heat should not be slept on. It wasn't just it's ability to tell a fun adventure story with appealing characters, but to do so while skillfully weaving in themes regarding police corruption, race, and power into the workings of an arcade racing game that is relatable and worth commending. I was pleasantly surprised, I remain enthralled weeks after the fact, and I'm hoping like hell we return to Miami in the next installment with these same characters to see how Torres will lead the fight and how the Rivera siblings will respond to her department.

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Also there's no microtransactions. The game can't get anymore perfect.

I went on YouTube to watch the first scene she's talking about. So it starts with the Player and Ana chatting after a race. Ana says she lost a headlight after hitting something, maybe a mailbox or a trash can (or a dog or a small child?). The Player's like, oh well, it's all trash now lol. These are the good guys?? And the cop who impounds their car is the one who needs to literally die?
 
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Something Awful said:
Wow, that really is an amazing thread.
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It's hard to tell what's the best part. That she was entranced watching someone else play from the cutscenes. That she didn't bother to play the game just went to watch all the cutscenes on YouTube. That she thinks it's this groundbreaking anti-cop thing when it's like every trope from shows and movies with corrupt cops ever. All of this combined to where she felt she needed to make the thread to inform everyone.

Considering how she talks about Black Panther being the first movie ever for Black people I can't wait for her to see Blue Streak on TNT sometime:

Maybe she will since she's "On Break" (still posting though, like bitching about Overwatch 2) after all that antisemitic posting:
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Also, they hid the Israel-Palestine thread in the have to be logged in section now.
 
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Akashic Retard said:
Never in my life have I cried at work or because of work.
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I did once, well not AT work but due to work.
35 years ago. Small startup. We had worked so hard and then we had a long string of setbacks. Financiers backing out, partners quitting, customers refusing to pay for our services.
All of us where worked to the bone to try to make things work but it seemed the universe was against us. Lack of sleep from working round the clock and finally something broke and I had a breakdown.
I went on an unnanouced walk "don't know when I will be back", walked through a few parks and sat on a bench and cried about what we were about to lose and all work would have been in vane.
An hour later I got it out of my system and walked back to the office and brought the whole development team into a room and "things are really fucking grim right now, but I refuse to give up. I understand that everyone is shaken about the uncertainty and all our setbacks, but this is not the time to quit. I am going to work twice as hard, I refuse to give up because this is such a good product. Anyone want to leave the company, no hard feelings and I will give you a great reference but I am not giving up. I will fight until we succeed. Anyone with me?"

It was the most harsh and painful next 6-12 months but we turned it around. I don't want to do this again but it was VERY SATISFYING once we were across the crisis.
 
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jallsballs said:
It appears they set the Israel thread to private, did they ban their one Israeli user that was pointing out that Hamas probably isn't very good?
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About like a week ago or so they temporarily thread banned him for arguing with others who they also banned saying Hamas is based as a sort of BOTH SIDES ban but there was outcry about banning someone actually from Israel so he got a reprieve. I imagine it's not for long, though maybe Nepenthe's "voluntary break" indicates the jannies are a bit leery about openly calling for genocide of Israelis.
 
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On Twitter, Nepenthe was a little more clear about her belief in pushing all the Jews into the sea and establishing an Islamic dictatorship as well as demanding white (and only white but unclear on how this will be decided) Americans also "go back where they belong" like everyone in Israel:
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If you're concerned about this ethnocentric worldview of hers, don't worry she's not a shitheel:
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Yes, this is Nepenthe but since we always want proof:
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Death to capitalism btw:
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