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turgon

@turgon@dosgame.club

ex nihilo something something. he/him

mi toki e toki pona. nimi mi li Niku!

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having pals over for a mario kart competition which i intend to win at any cost, what kart and driver should i destroy my family and friends with?

turgon,
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@kboyd YES now I know your advice is trustworthy

turgon,
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@kboyd this is the way

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Once, years and years ago, the company fired a coworker of mine with 2 weeks to go before their deadline with Keller Williams, a massive realtor in the USA. (I'm pretty sure at this point it's the largest.)

We had a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with them.

The company fired the developer, leaving us in the lurch and came to me to save the day.

No, we couldn't ask for more time. Sorry, two weeks was all we had, we'd made promises, and if we didn't deliver, we were fucked.

So I killed myself for that project. Even though they'd fired my friend, I felt like saving a multi-million dollar contract would lead to some kind of reward. Like even if they dropped ten grand on me! That's nothing in the scope of a big multi-million dollar contract, right?

So I slept in the office, worked weekends, you name it, and we made our deadline.

I'm called into the office later by my boss, who hands me an envelope and has a gleam in his eye.

"You did a great job, so we wanted to send you some appreciation."

I opened up the envelope.

It was a $50 Target card.

I was kind of stupefied for a moment. They'd asked me to do something impossible. No one else could have possibly pulled that off, even with 80 hour work weeks and sleeping at the office, it was impossible, and I'd somehow done it.

Tens of millions of dollars annually, guaranteed for five years, and I'd saved the contract.

I looked up at my boss with the card in my hand.

The gleam was still in his eye as he said, "Don't spend it all in one place."

I almost committed horrible violence that day.

But that day I also aggressively began sending out resumes to other companies.

And I gained a piece of wisdom:

The company will never love you back.

Never.

Edit: Yes, I did get out of there and get a better job a couple weeks later.

turgon,
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@oliphant same thing happened to me, so weird, but instead of a gift card I received a round of forced applause in the next staff meeting

juliancday, to random
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I've had my second running injury in under a month. Last time I was pulling the dogs away from a fence, not watching where I was going, and hit a fire hydrant, hard; this time, I just stepped wrong, and wiped out on the pavement. Feeling a bit despondent, and unlucky. I've run for twenty years now, with barely a tweak. And then twice in three weeks?!

turgon,
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@juliancday this happened to me last year. big fall, big sad

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In a jira comment I wrote that one number was "an order of magnitude" more concerning than another, but in fact the numbers were TWO orders of magnitude apart. Oh no.

Wait, it's just a jira comment, and it's friday afternoon. > CLOSE TAB

turgon,
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@kboyd nothing wrong with base 💯

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Time for my annual playthrough on the .

turgon,
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@juliancday why do you play this game every year? this rules and I wish to know the truth

turgon,
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@juliancday I'd have to watch my friend play zelda NES for hours about that age. it was terrible. after school he'd be like, come over, we'll play nintendo, and I'd be like not zelda? he'd say no. we'd walk to his house and switch off playing punch out for 10 minutes then zelda would come out. awful.

I never watched twitch until ~2020 b/c the thought of watching someone else play made me deeply uncomfortable

therefore I have no similar tradition

(I'm fine now, don't worry, definitely cured)

turgon,
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@juliancday those are great games for 2p, especially contra

I'd play those with my brothers when we got an NES finally, and other stuff too

the healing power of cooperative multi-player sidescrollers

turgon,
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@juliancday maybe my tradition should be playing contra while yelling at my bro to slow down I'm gonna fall in whyyyyyyyy did you do that

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@juliancday haha that was always me

if everything we do is as hard as possible, everything will become easy

bro: you FOOL

turgon,
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@juliancday when the game is over you have to put it in the garbage can and start saving allowance to repurchase

juliancday, to random
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Salvia's up! #flowers #salvia #plantstodon

turgon,
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@juliancday cool safflina

turgon,
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@juliancday I'll apologize for the confusion if you apologize for not saving Hyrule

turgon,
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@juliancday I will coach u

juliancday, to random
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100 hits on my small web site in the last day? uhhhhh hope that's not a bad thing

turgon,
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@juliancday its just me hitting refresh go back to bed

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Wally has a pocket dimension where he finds things outside we can't see, hides them in his mouth, brings them inside, then drops whatever he has so he can play with it. Gravel, bits of plastic, little pieces of wood.

And today, a still-feathered sparrow skeleton.

turgon,
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@juliancday yum!

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Last week or so I talked about learning Baghdad, from Domeniconi's "Sinbad: A Fairy Tale". The good news is, I found the score! The bad news is, I'll be busy for a while.

turgon,
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@juliancday it'll keep you out of trouble

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when i see the podiatrist tomorrow should i tell him feet are just less popular hands

turgon,
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@kboyd "be ready to transfer me to a different department"

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Unexpectedly artsy selfie

turgon,
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@juliancday do you... look way younger now

turgon,
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@juliancday it never happens to me anymore, I'm just too grizzlewizened

turgon,
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@juliancday not even once!

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actively thinking about how to wean off google at this point

turgon,
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@kboyd the thought of changing my email address just makes me sad. I'll have to fiddle with so many things

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