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[Xivii]

i would play with you guys in like the December/Jan range.

Please do!

 

[ranmaru]

So what's up

 

[#HBC | marshy]

chillin dawg hbu?

got a runny nose and irritation in the throat due to the changing of the season hope its over with soon

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I’m being hired in full time with benefits. Been super busy as a result.

 

[#HBC | Gorf]

yall should read the bible. its a pretty good book

 

[Maven89]

Just quit my job. Didn't give them two weeks, which makes me feel like ****, but I haven't worked a real shift in half a month. When I showed up today to work, the owners sent me home after 3 hours and had the manager do the rest of the work. I felt like they were taking advantage of my dependability to have me show up whenever they needed then send me home whenever they could, no other employee would do that for them, so they kept feeding me bull**** about advancement and scheduling me for shifts I'd never work, when it's obvious that they were just using me. So I walked in, handed my key, and told them my resignation was immediate. I'm not the only employee to quit over lack of hours, but I am the most senior to quit. I still feel bad about not giving them two weeks, I know that technically it's just out of respect and not required, and I was not feeling any respect from them, but it's not how I operate. But for my own well being I needed to not feel like I was being taken advantage of anymore.

Either way, back to the job market with no skills or strong experience other than home health care, which I did for 6 years but will never do again. Anyone in the dallas area looking for a slave?

 

[#HBC | marshy]

swag track of the week

im currently trying to learn guitar...hopefully i stick with it. i hear songs like the above and get motivated to stay the course. gorf and i gonna start a band n call it the hbc

i hate when the best/hardest worker gets used as a mule to dump all the menial/bull**** tasks on cuz "oh hell do it." seen it in several workplaces its ****ed up like bein punished for striving for more

 

[ranmaru]

Also trying to learn an instrument. Deff talk to me about the guitar. I want to make music yo.

Also maven don't feel bad **** that job for taking advantage of you like that

 

[BarDulL]

Just quit my job. Didn't give them two weeks, which makes me feel like ****, but I haven't worked a real shift in half a month. When I showed up today to work, the owners sent me home after 3 hours and had the manager do the rest of the work. I felt like they were taking advantage of my dependability to have me show up whenever they needed then send me home whenever they could, no other employee would do that for them, so they kept feeding me bull**** about advancement and scheduling me for shifts I'd never work, when it's obvious that they were just using me. So I walked in, handed my key, and told them my resignation was immediate. I'm not the only employee to quit over lack of hours, but I am the most senior to quit. I still feel bad about not giving them two weeks, I know that technically it's just out of respect and not required, and I was not feeling any respect from them, but it's not how I operate. But for my own well being I needed to not feel like I was being taken advantage of anymore.

Either way, back to the job market with no skills or strong experience other than home health care, which I did for 6 years but will never do again. Anyone in the dallas area looking for a slave?

I'd try to utilize those 6 years by putting it on your resume and applying to a ton of jobs on linkedin/glassdoor/etc. for health care related positions, unless you REALLY want a career switch. It's kinda hard to switch though if you don't have a relevant degree for a different career path.

Best of luck though man. I'm rootin' for ya.

 

[Xivii]

If you ever have the inkling to move to Colorado, we're always looking for good slaves... to free.

#breakerofchains

((f'real doe))

 

[Thingyman]

Quick Mafia Championship Update

For those who didn't follow the Mafia Championship to the end, Dels from GameFAQs ended up winning the fourth season. He will be receiving a winner's certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of Mafia.

Hydra Event 2017 - Interested?

As some of you may recall, last year 220 players from dozens of different communities participated in the first ever cross-community Hydra Event. It was a big success and people have been wanting another one, so... It's finally here!

If you don't know what "hydra" means, it's when two people share the same account (two heads). So the concept is that each participating community can send multiple hydras if they want, each consisting of two players, which tends to make the game more fun in addition to making it easier to be active since two players are playing on the same account.

Sign-ups will be open for next couple of weeks.

If you'd like to play, just find a partner and lemme know either here or in the thread below.

More info here: http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/12461-Hydra-Event-2017

 

[#HBC | marshy]

yo idk whos interested in the above but good luck to whoever throws their hat into the ring. mafiauniverse is a great site /endorsement

SWAG TRACK OF THA WEEK YALL!

 

[Thingyman]

yo idk whos interested in the above but good luck to whoever throws their hat into the ring. mafiauniverse is a great site /endorsement

SWAG TRACK OF THA WEEK YALL!

<3

Already 150 players signed up in just a few days. Sign-ups close Nov 19

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

In 100,000 BC, a flying saucer flies towards Earth, landing in Antarctica. In 1982 in Antarctica, a Norwegian helicopter pursues an Alaskan Malamute to an American research station. Upon landing, a Norwegian accidentally drops a thermite charge, destroying the helicopter. The surviving Norwegian raises a rifle at the station personnel and is shot dead by Garry, the station commander. The Americans send a helicopter pilot, R.J. MacReady, and Dr. Copper to the Norwegian camp for answers, but they find only a charred ruin containing corpses. Outside, they discover the burned remains of a humanoid corpse with two faces, which they bring back along with some video tapes. Their biologist, Blair, performs an autopsy on the corpse, finding a normal set of human internal organs.

Clark kennels the Malamute with the station's sled dogs; it soon metamorphoses and attacks them. When he hears the commotion, MacReady pulls the fire alarm, and Childs incinerates the creature. Blair performs another autopsy which leads him to believe the creature perfectly imitates other organisms. The Norwegians' records lead the Americans to the now-buried flying saucer. Blair becomes increasingly paranoid and withdraws, calculating that if the alien escapes to a civilized area, all life on Earth will be assimilated within a few years. Fuchs tells MacReady that he is worried about Blair, and according to Blair's journal, the creature's "dead" remains are still active on a cellular level. The camp enacts safety measures designed to reduce risk of assimilation.

The creature assimilates Bennings, but Windows catches him outside before his metamorphosis is complete and MacReady burns the creature. They discover Blair has wrecked all the transports and killed the remaining sled dogs. The team subdue Blair as he is destroying the radio and lock him in an isolated tool shed. Copper recommends a blood-serum test to determine who is assimilated, but the paranoid men turn on each other when they find the blood stores have been sabotaged.

MacReady takes charge and orders Fuchs to continue Blair's work, but Fuchs disappears; MacReady, Windows, and Nauls find his burnt corpse outside. Windows returns to warn the others while MacReady and Nauls investigate MacReady's shack, noticing that the lights were on even though MacReady states he turned them off earlier. On the way back, Nauls cuts MacReady loose from the tow line, assuming that he has been assimilated when he finds a torn shirt with MacReady's name on it when they were at his shack. As the team debate MacReady's fate, he breaks in and threatens to destroy the station with a bundle of dynamite if they attack him. Norris appears to suffer a heart attack after he and Nauls unsuccessfully attack MacReady from behind.

When Copper attempts to revive him, Norris transforms and kills Copper by biting his arms off. MacReady incinerates the creature and orders Windows to tie up everyone for a new test. Clark attacks MacReady, but is killed. MacReady explains his theory that every piece of the alien is an individual organism with its own survival instinct. One by one, MacReady tests everyone's blood with a heated piece of copper wire. Everyone is still human except Palmer, whose blood flees from the hot wire. Exposed, Palmer transforms and infects Windows, forcing MacReady to burn them both.

Leaving Childs on guard, the others head out to test Blair, only to find that he has tunneled out of the tool shed. They realize that Blair is assimilated and has been scavenging equipment to build a small escape craft. Discovering that Childs is missing and the station's power generator is destroyed, MacReady speculates that the Thing now intends to hibernate until a rescue team arrives. MacReady, Garry, and Nauls decide to dynamite the complex, hoping to destroy the Thing. As they set the explosives, Blair kills Garry and Nauls disappears. Blair transforms into a much larger monster and attacks, destroying the detonator, but MacReady still triggers the blast with a stick of dynamite, destroying the base.

MacReady sits nearby as the camp burns, and Childs reappears, claiming he was lost in the storm, pursuing Blair. Exhausted and with no hope of survival, they acknowledge the futility of their distrust and share a bottle of scotch.

 

[ranmaru]

#HBC | marshy yo I want to be in that HBC band you were talking about but I have to learn my instrument more yo but really I need to *jam* or w/e with other people and we should do it. Im still learning though.

 

[#HBC | marshy]

the hardbody crew shall emerge musically in the future and it will b a legendary day for us all

 

[ranmaru]

I met this random guy and basically he's gonna be teaching me lessons for free once a week shhh

 

[JayTheUnseen]

My mom keeps telling me I'm going to go to college as if it's not my decision. Sorry Mom, I don't think I can hang around this screwed up joint for an extra four years while also juggling difficult studies that will consume all my time. I'd sooner work at a McDonalds and live in a crappy apartment for the next ten years. I probably sound edgy, but screw that. I'm not blowing hot air here, this place sucks. Like, objectively so.

 

[Maven89]

My mom keeps telling me I'm going to go to college as if it's not my decision. Sorry Mom, I don't think I can hang around this screwed up joint for an extra four years while also juggling difficult studies that will consume all my time. I'd sooner work at a McDonalds and live in a crappy apartment for the next ten years. I probably sound edgy, but screw that. I'm not blowing hot air here, this place sucks. Like, objectively so.

I did that route. I'm 28 and let me tell you, I ****ing wish I graduated college. I'd never recommend someone to skip it. I have to bus my ass constantly just to stay afloat. I wish I could sit at a desk and do some menial but esoteric job and get 40k a year for it, but I can't. Life without a college degree sucks.

Or if you're in america you can join the military, but that was never an option for me. If you're not college or military, you're making a mistake.

 

[BarDulL]

I did that route. I'm 28 and let me tell you, I ****ing wish I graduated college. I'd never recommend someone to skip it. I have to bus my *** constantly just to stay afloat. I wish I could sit at a desk and do some menial but esoteric job and get 40k a year for it, but I can't. Life without a college degree sucks.

Or if you're in america you can join the military, but that was never an option for me. If you're not college or military, you're making a mistake.

It's not too late tbh. I highly recommend filling out FASFA forms and filing independent; the government will generally give you optional loans alongside (hopefully) a lot of FREE state funded grant money for when you're in school full-time. If you feel uncomfortable being around a younger crowd (I'm 27 and just don't click with the average college kid anymore) then getting the degree online is efficient and pretty easy since almost all classes are more or less open-book. I.E. Foothill college in California is a very easy accredited university with online classes that are pretty straightforward and can be used to get a degree. It'll take a while but better late than never. Strongly recommend talking to a counselor if you get the chance.

Alternatively there are things like coding bootcamps that will actually get you a pretty high paying job as a software engineer after around 6 months. It's a huge thing in SF right now...I have a couple friends that went to coding bootcamps after getting an irrelevant degree (psychology and foreign language), and now they make a staggering amount working at Twitch. Granted, the SF bay area is pretty much the tech capital of the world, but basically every big city needs people to code software.

JayTheUnseen I don't think a Bachelors degree is necessary in the sense that my Mother did not get a Bachelors degree and still gets paid fairly well as an accountant, but she should honestly be getting paid like twice as much. Bosses/recruiters etc. tend to take advantage of people without degrees and keep the pay low because they know it's competitive out there. To top it off, companies generally filter out resumes with no degrees, so people feel even more inclined to subject themselves to low pay in order to keep their job. That being said, your Mom might be bugging your **** right now (as did mine for ages, I feel you on that), but it's definitely something to consider.

There are plenty of people in the world that manage without one. One of the more classic examples of people that succeeded without a degree, IMO one of the best ones, would have to be Richard Branson. However, this is rare and not everyone is able to take off and make billions with their own business in the absence of a degree. But, if you manage to pull it off, more power to you. Still, just to be safe, I recommend getting the degree.

 

[#HBC | marshy]

another option is the air force. i did marines partly cuz i didnt want to go to college but that changed overtime as i figured out what interested me. in the air force you really dont do **** live nicely and it sets up your future. even if trumps dumbass gets us into war you probably wont see combat unlike other branches

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

My mom keeps telling me I'm going to go to college as if it's not my decision. Sorry Mom, I don't think I can hang around this screwed up joint for an extra four years while also juggling difficult studies that will consume all my time. I'd sooner work at a McDonalds and live in a crappy apartment for the next ten years. I probably sound edgy, but screw that. I'm not blowing hot air here, this place sucks. Like, objectively so.

My young friend, I do not know your life story but I can ensure you that you do NOT want to go into retail for a prolonged period of time. I ACTUALLY worked at McDonald's for 4+ years and I can tell you that I wish I got out sooner. Besides from the pay just being low, it also lacks benefits, is either stressful/boring, and if your "nerdy" like me than your coworkers are probably not going to be the most relatable people on the planet (they can still be good people though). Recently got an IT job at a small web hosting company and I have since never looked back. Literally every individual aspect of work life is improved upon in the office.

Perhaps it's okay to work the retail life for awhile if you're really young (less than 22) and literally have nothing better to fill your time out with but ALWAYS be on the lookout for better opportunities. As for knowing what you want to do with your life, honestly the only way to find out is to just do things. If you're like most people, it's going to be a balancing act between what you like and what's realistic/reliable. Like others have mentioned, if you're dead set on not going to college there are other options:

• Army
• Trade School
• Programming Boot Camps

Please just do yourself a favor and don't settle on dead end retail.

Also hey guys. Nice to see that some of you still exist.

 

[JayTheUnseen]

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm not gonna delve into my life story, but all you need to know is that I'm not comfortable living here and have to actively avoid being myself to even remain here. My family are highly opinionated and religious, to the point where they would kick me out based upon my sexuality. Actually forget that complex topic; I'd probably be kicked out for looking at straight porn. Besides, I have little respect for my dad and he has told me before that if I don't respect him I can take my ass elsewhere. I feel that I am robbing my family of money daily; I sure as hell don't want to cost them college fees, especially when my older sibling hasn't even done college yet.

To be honest, I'm pretty bizarre in that I've always been very curious to see what it felt like to live a hard life and have a mundane job. Naive as hell obviously. But even something mundane like a retail/fast food job would be interesting for me considering my complete lack of social interaction. I've considered the military before and it's a very real possibility I'll do it (thanks for reminding me about it). I've also considered joining the police force or search and rescue work, which do not require college education as far as I know. I've also considered something in the art industry, since many jobs for that don't need a degree either. But art is stressful as hell and it doesn't seem like even successful ones ever get past that.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm very interested in hearing the viewpoints of a down to earth community such as this one.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I stopped going to a 4 year college to go to a 2 year college since trade school appealed to me more. Took me way longer to get a degree but I found a field I liked a lot more, IT support over programming.

I want to do programming again at some point along with art but overtime on my own terms instead of a job.

I’d say if you attempt retail just like what dancer said, look for higher opportunities. Don’t make McDonald’s a main job. Try things out and figure out a potential direction, think of a plan. There are always options.

 

[ranmaru]

Side comment: I am in Providence, Rhode Island for thanksgiving. How is everyones holidays?

 

[#HBC | marshy]

hey jay another idea is to find something youre passionate about and take steps to make money off of it. youre young tho so you may not have found something that appeals to you in that sense but its worth holding onto that approach

ay ran i kicked it with my parents then copped some clothes so ya boy can look fly as ****. i gotta stay fresh to death boi

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

JayTheUnseen I don't care what you do because I see so many students go into college not knowing why they are even there. In a way college itself to them is just something they have to do like "here i am mom and dad i hope you are proud of me" and they end up getting blind sided like a deer getting impaled by a MACK truck in the middle of the night by the first class that won't hold their hand. Meanwhile, anyone who graduated from school before 2013 is laughing their ass off at this whole safe space culture in which campuses like NYU are attempting to hold schools responsible for labeling their classes with trigger warnings so students won't be offended by learning offensive material.

The lower wage classes own nothing, that McDonald's salary you earn won't ever amount to the money you could earn by selling your body parts on the black market. In fact, the diet you will likely adopt living on cheap, unskilled, lower class labor will devalue your worth as a human being. Epidemiological diseases show that a disproportionate amount of the population that suffers from conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease come from individuals with lower income. Why is that? It's because eating conscientious, healthy food requires you to either spend time to meal prep accordingly, research accordingly, and invest accordingly. What won't you have as someone in the lower wage class? Energy, knowledge, and time. This is because you are earning less and therefore need to work longer to compensate. In the mean time, if you were to compare yourself to a machine you would be the equivalent of running an engine, but not putting oil into the system in order to make it run efficiently.

Considering the fact that people who work 50-60 hours at McDonald's and another job might earn around $30,000-$40,000 a year is what a litigation attorney earns in a month. That means that somewhere in the world, someone else is earning income potential that is twelve times what you earn and will continue to earn even more by spending even less time working because they are investing in wealth based enterprises like real estate which require little direct involvement, but net them a subsidiary income. For instance, I know people in the upper middle class who invest in real estate around a college campus and make a significant amount through subleasing. In all honesty, the amount they make from having other people pay rent to them for them to do relatively little nets a higher profit than you working a year at McDonald's or some retail job like Hobby Lobby or Pet Smart.

The system is unfair. Tuition has risen drastically, federal loan debt has become less forgiving, and student debt is become more of a pervasive cancer that is a nondischargeable debt. This year alone NCES projects that 1.9 million students will graduate with a bachelor's degree and that based on census data on college/university students this amount will increase to 2 million students by next year. Let me tell you why some of the people here wasted their time to tell you to still go to school. It's because it's a ladder pulling mechanism. You know it's a bad deal and you are being cheated, but it's only going to get worse.

The cost of tuition at Rutgers has more than doubled comparing the cost per credit in 2005 ($219.00) with the cost per credit for my term bill in 2017 ($514.75). Tuition prices are unhinged and compared to annualized increases in the commodity price index (CPI) they appear to be exponentially increasing. The answer isn't to push postsecondary education away, but to jump on the ladder before administrations decide that the method to purge lower socioeconomic classes from receiving an education is to ramp up the prices so that poorer people will never be able to pay off their debt for their entire life. Instead, they will live in a state of educated indentured servitude in which they are highly educated, but forced to pay off premium interest on their loans without being able to absolve themselves of the loan itself.

Robert Reich has referred to private loan providers and credit card debt as being the last frontier that we have breached. Historically, Americans are now working on average longer hours and both couples now have some form of work force employment for double income. However, despite these measures, Americans still are not able to meet the raises in commodity prices as a result of globalized industrialization resulting in a need for them to exhaust credit cards and utilize loan providers. Everyone is in debt or will be in debt to somebody, this is going to be true of a majority of Americans aside from a very small minority who are the ones who have some stake in contributing to the increase of income inequality in this country. So whether you owe your mommy and daddy a solid, it is far better to owe money to someone who is loaning money to you out of concern for your future than some shmuck who only sees you as a piece of A-grade debt allowance that could be dead tomorrow for all they cared.

You are being given advice that comes from collective hindsight of people who have worked the jobs that you are thinking might be cool or neat to try out. The consensus of the information given isn't to be undermined. I don't care if you are enamored with the notion of being the starving free spirit artist who paints sexually liberating art on the buildings of New York City and gets arrested by NYPD for being a misunderstood lost soul. I don't care if your feelings are offended by this ridiculous caricature. Nor do I care if you decide to wake up one morning and tell your parents of your sexual nature and give them the middle finger while walking out the door with a back pack and end up traveling the world Forrest Gump style. This life is nasty, brutish, and short. It is callous and unforgiving and the higher you climb the dirtier your hands become. However, as long as I have some platform to tell people what a miserable life it is and to be prepared to go to war every morning whether you work white collar or blue collar or student or professional that you should at least be told what is actually going on with education in this country before you deposit your first check to **** ME IN THE ANUS UNIVERSITY.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

Tl;dr Acrostic I think you posed some great points, but I still want to smoke weed and become a professional rapper like Lil Wayne who only reached the peak of their rap flow by suffering from the turmoils of blue class labor like I saw that one time in the autobiographical movie 50 Mile.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

JayTheUnseen I grew up in a household where I wasn't told how to think, I was told what to think. As a child, I had been expelled from a private school for being an immoral plagiarist who ought to be arrested for not citing a quotation from Ellison, although it was the first quote in the first chapter of the book in middle school. I have been misidentified due to racial profiling and suspended from public school for "brandishing" a knife when it was my friend of different ethnicity but same race who was the one who committed the act in elementary school. My childhood was one in which I was informed systematically that I shouldn't be entitled to live and that my current existence is only by conditional grace whether at home, at school, or at church. I am still alive like a tumor that won't go away and every day I am so grateful that despite life itself apparently making its mission to inform me what a vile, disgusting, piece of garbage I am to set forth foot on this earth on a daily basis that I am still here to poison the Earth one more day at a time.

 

[Xivii]

I've also considered joining the police force, which does not require college education as far as I know.

Believe me, it doesn't.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

JayTheUnseen I grew up in a household where I wasn't told how to think, I was told what to think. As a child, I had been expelled from a private school for being an immoral plagiarist who ought to be arrested for not citing a quotation from Ellison, although it was the first quote in the first chapter of the book in middle school. I have been misidentified due to racial profiling and suspended from public school for "brandishing" a knife when it was my friend of different ethnicity but same race who was the one who committed the act in elementary school. My childhood was one in which I was informed systematically that I shouldn't be entitled to live and that my current existence is only by conditional grace whether at home, at school, or at church. I am still alive like a tumor that won't go away and every day I am so grateful that despite life itself apparently making its mission to inform me what a vile, disgusting, piece of garbage I am to set forth foot on this earth on a daily basis that I am still here to poison the Earth one more day at a time.

I’d say talking to you is good medicine.

Doesn’t sound like poison to me.

 

[#HBC | Gorf]

yo @Dabuz im watching smash 4 bootcamp werewolf tonight specifically to watch you rep the #hbc, better kill it tonight! if you see this you should lowkey throw in some dgames references lol

 

[ranmaru]

Believe me, it doesn't.

Hey you. You should talk to me about writing and books and stuff. I'm trying to write again. and read books.

 

[Xivii]

Ran, a book I think you will really find fascinating is The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. It's one of my favorite books that I've read this year. I recommend consuming it in its audio form. Also, if you haven't yet listed to Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari -- it is a must! (It is also a great sleep aid if you are ever having difficulty going to sleep!)

In the realm of fiction, I am always an advocate of The Golden Compass series. The first book is my favorite fantasy novel of all time. Though, the best fiction book I have read this year, and probably my favorite science fiction book of all time, is The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin. It is a sequel, so you would need to read its predecessor first (The Three-Body Problem). The series may not be down your ally though. It is very sci-fi and can be strenuous to get into because most of the characters have Chinese names, which can be difficult to keep track of.

A book that I can say you will enjoy with almost certainty is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. If you haven't read it yet, it is a good time to, because the movie version is being released this year.

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

I'll second Xivii's recommendation of The Golden Compass and its sequels The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, collectively His Dark Materials. Excellent series. Read them all when I was in middle school but I could still see myself really enjoying them now as an adult. They're basically the "athiestic" counterpart to the Narnia series. Where Narnia glorifies creationism and monotheism, His Dark Materials has an overarching motif of questioning religion/religious authority. It's obviously not quite so one dimensional, but thats the idea.

A good friend of mine also just finished Ready Player One and she said it was a very enjoyable read. Not sure if I'm going to read it myself as I do so much goddamn reading in my line of work that reading for pleasure doesn't come very easily to me anymore, but I'll almost certainly see the film.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I saw the trailer for that movie and I’m not sure if it will ride too much on that over having other qualities.

 

[ranmaru]

Thanks dudes

Happy New Year

What are you guys up to

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Working overtime while trying to move out.

 

[ranmaru]

I want to play mafia and host mafia

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I do as well but I am a but more limited timewise these days.