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  • Firoaren@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Who's your "Oh no. I don't want to work with this person. It's the worst!!"
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    22 days ago

    I worked as a CAD guy for a cabinetry shop when I met ‘Stewie’ (still am, different place). Stewie was an old dog who started drafting when AutoCAD was in DOS, apparently wrote a lot of LISP routines and made lots of parametric blocks (blocks are a graphic you can copy paste that stretch or change based on options you pick).

    Dude sure as hell wasn’t able to demonstrate any of that capability, nor did he listen when we told him not to use it. Dude would write a routine that didn’t work, then be shocked when after running it it broke the AutoCAD plug-in we use that has it’s own database cuz it doesn’t communicate it’s changes to that database.

    So we’d get broken drawings from this dude we have no idea how to correct, using something he took two hours to write to do something that the system already could do in 10 minutes, which necessitated redoing all of his work from scratch cuz parts wouldn’t come out right. He’d then talk to you for TWO HOURS about his thought process writing it, what it should’ve done, how our plug-in was stupid, how it reminds him of his glory days, how he used to watch hockey in 1982, how he misses hockey, how did you know I saw the clearest ice ever at a hotel bar like two months ago?? How do they make the ice?? The government is putting flouride in the water, which is bad for you, just like lectins in tomatoes - they break holes in your gut lining and cause diabetes

    The most miserable, self-absorbed, unempathetic, conspiracy-minded son of a bitch. I thank God I will never see stewie again

  • Firoaren@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?
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    5 months ago

    Having been a dumb kid growing up in bumrucksville, I’ll add this too: Congnitive load.

    You have to learn to cope with something new. Driving sucks, other drivers suck, you’re telling me I have to drive in a two lane which could become one lane at any moment? I have to watch for faster pedestrians? “Isn’t the sidewalk for bikes, why do they need the road??”, then not realizing sidewalks aren’t properly flat enoigh and mixing bikes with walkers on a 3ft wide space is as stupid as the rest of stroad design to mix pedestrians and cars.

    Nah, sounds like too much work, bikers can drive like the rest of us, “keeps everyone safer” or whatever you wanna tell yourself without thinking further. Too much work to re-evaluate.

  • Firoaren@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•DnD Players: What was the biggest "How the fuck did you pull that off" maneuver in your campaign?
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    1 year ago

    I was running Curse of Strahd, and my players managed to kill the Roc of Mt. Ghakis without even directly interacting with it.

    This was actually on the heels of a major boss encounter where I ran a certain coven of hags as a (https://www.reddit.com/r/monsteraday/comments/90jss4/day_365_hag_covenbiest/)[covenbiest] out for revenge. When the party defeated them before, they decided they wanted to eat part of the hags as revenge, so they cut off some fingers, and each had one. I rolled some force damage (3d8) and on my (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7WbOcl0Q_ZvR21BcUZFMXlMSWc/view?usp=drivesdk&resourcekey=0-pCVKv7KV3DIEnS6sozkX1w)[d10,000 wild magic table] to determine what happened. Some laughes were had but nothing major. Cut to my party of 3 + an NPC half dead on the slopes of Mt. Ghakis, desperately trying to Tiny Hunt through a long rest in the blistering whiteout conditions of Mt. Ghakis with the covenbiest laying just outside, their and the party’s blood everywhere. Happened to roll the Roc on the random encounter table and figured it’d be very interested in the scent of possible fresh carrion near its nest.

    It landed. Immediately, I thought, “Well, its not stupid, it won’t eat the vile-smelling unholy boss monster laying here” and said so. Party wanted to roll for it. I probably said something like “Ugh, fine,” and that it probably wasn’t hungry because there’s only a 10% chance it had an unsuccessful hunt. We roll the d100, fuckin’ 98. Fuck.

    So I guesstimate how many d8s of damage to roll and the party run out and bum-rush the thing to make sure it’s dead. Obviously the bird did not survive.