TheAlbatross

The debate was a shit show.

Both candidates belong in a nursing home and no where near public life. One looks like they're hardly awake the other can't form a sentence that makes any sense.

"May you live in interesting times" eh?

Streaming is just cable

P sure the original devs want you to pirate this one as the company pushed them out and tried to capitalize on the game in some bizarre ways, very antithetical to the games message.

Steal this game.

Ahhh, General "Cobalt Collar" MacArthur.

Dude was a fucking monstrosity of a human being with an utter disregard for morality.

I'll save you a click, the game was ArcheAge and the article doesn't go into detail about their dispute, but does mention that they flew from Newark NJ to Jacksonville FL to try and attack em.

I think the Dark Souls games have kinda earned an undue reputation for being unapproachably hard. They're really not all that tricky once you learn that death isn't a huge loss condition, just a step in the journey. I initially found them frustrating, but once I learned to not be bothered by dying and simply try again, I found an immense joy in exploring the worlds and challenges within.

Some bosses I beat first try, others will take me an afternoon or a few days to beat, but I have fun with it either way. Different strokes for different folks and all that, but I think Dark Souls and it's like are good lessons on how to get over feeling bad about "losing" and just enjoy the game.

Plus, you can always explore areas to gather up whatever you need to level up and slowly get marginally stronger as you become more familiar with your character and tweak it to your liking.

I think AI can take far fewer jobs than people will try to replace with AI, that's kind of the issue

I drink a lot of Seltzer, so it seems economical for me to get one, but they're an Israeli company and I can't purchase from them in good conscious.

I made that kind of mistake often early on in my sales career. The product I sold had a specific use in a specific field by specific disciplines, and was required by law in certain regions.

I always felt like such a dick when I'd get to the purchasing agent, make my hurried nervous pitch because I'm so excited to get through to someone and they'd (often kindly) explain that they literally never have any use case for my product.

After a few of those, I became more aware of how to prune my "leads" (read: list of phone numbers) to make sure I was only reaching out to people who could even use the dang thing and inserted a few exploratory questions into the opening salvo to double check.

I'm glad I don't have to do this via email, though. At least with the phone, I can hear tone and get quick, definite answers instead of just waiting on a reply.

Lmao there's some truth to that, but it helps

The response that it's too hard has been weird to me. I'm not very good at these sorts of games but it hasn't been terribly tricky compared to other parts of the base game. And I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I do think the advice of taking advantage of the balancing mechanics they literally put in the DLC to make it challenging and help mitigate that is solid.

Oh, one hundred percent. The way I treat people who have zero decision making ability differed greatly from purchasing agents or decision makers. They were largely in the same spot as me. It's important to understand that the sales agents are also wage slaves, the tasks are just different.

Dealing with people like me was one of the stupid things they gotta do at work to make their pay and go home, just like me making 80+ calls an hour at some points was one of my stupid things. I wanted to get them off the phone as soon as possible, be that either by ending the call or getting passed onto someone who could buy. You can use that to build rapport and speed up the process. You can even make it jovial. The goal is to make the sales process as painless as possible while recognizing that being a pest is effective.

Sales agents who put the big pitch on the second they get someone to talk to em are not thinking straight and hindering themselves. Though, sometimes there's parts of a service that simplifies their lives, which I'd mention while waiting for a decision maker or during another break.