YOUR DAILY EXPLOITS!

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Lol, the computerized testing system just rejected me as a candidate for the job I've been working at for the past six years.

I don't think this actually means I'm fired, jeez I hope not, but I'm going to have to talk to my boss about this.

My mom's going to take the test tonight, I bet the same thing will happen.

PS I love the way the test makes it sound like they're looking for the best of the best when it's an essentially zero training part time job that mostly consists of handing out food samples. Also it seems to me like an attitude test measuring whether somebody thinks they're awesome is likely to be more of a test of how big your ego is than how good you actually are.
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Happy Halloween, guise! :mrgreen:
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Oh shi-

Our dorm puts together a haunted house every halloween, with each floor doing their own theme. I was co-director for our floor, and so we went with an Aliens theme (with Slenderman thrown in). Since I had a Ghost costume from Modern Warfare 2, I ended up as one of the space marines being a tour guide. It was basically an excuse for me to scream lines from Aliens. "Marines, we - are - leeeeeaving!" and shit like that. I had the time of my life, but I forgot to grab pictures of my costume. I know some pictures were taken, so I'll have to track them down. If nothing else, I need a new FB profile pic - I've had my current one for three years.
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shroomz you seem to have a costume and the trick'or'treaters don't.

You've doing this the wrong way round!


Damn vagrant beggars. what will happen to the markets if we give sweets away for free?! you should have given them white phosphorous. Lit white phosphorous!
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then again, I got to meet REAL AMERICAN HEROES


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Some drunk asshole broke into our apartment building tonight by scaling the fire escape, jumping down into our communal garden in the dark (small miracle the fucker didn't break his goddamn neck), and kicking in part of the glass back door right next to my apartment. By the time I (and half the rest of the building) got out of bed, the idiot had found his way to a shared storage room, locked the door, and gone to sleep on the floor. Where he was promptly discovered by us, who'd already called the police. Cops arrived some ten minutes later and escorted him out. They were very nice, although I suppose this is the first time I kinda wished a cop would pepperspray someone who isn't resisting.

Interesting night. Thing is though, I'm a tall guy, and I'm reasonably confident (maybe optimistically, but even so) I know how to hit some boozed-out-of-his-mind asshole where it hurts. This never happened before, and it doesn't bother me all that much. But some of my neighbours, 'specially a couple of younger girls, were pretty freaked out, and I can't blame them. What if nobody heard and someone runs into that asshole in the hall the following morning? I'm guessing they might not sleep so well the coming days. Fucking asshole. I hope the cops throw the book at him.

Anyway.

I guess you could say the perp was... Sleeping on the job.

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My exploit last Thursday

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Guess who is this fine upstanding gentlemang with me!


AND IN THE NEXT EXCITING FEATURE:

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AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH BLAAAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHHH UUUURGGGHHHH
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Protip: That guy with me is Vic. International OZmeet, baby!
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That bulb picture is amazing.

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My HEAD should've had a glass canopy.
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So yesterday I went to my local hobby/comics store and bought Dust Tactics Revised Core Set for 79.99. I think it was originally a creation of Paolo Parente, who then gave the license to Fantasy Flight Games to create a commercial board game. The first one was Dust, which played like a cool Eurogame/card game/RISK where you go around trying to find a crashed saucer and gain its technology. Dust Tactics is set a few years after that, where the Germans are the first harness the alien VK material to create mechas.

The Dust Tactics universe is filled with heroes, mechas of all sorts, wunderwaffen like apes with power fists and zombies, and the coolest of designs!
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Because I live in Western Washington, I experienced a big snowstorm and had power go out in the house since Thursday. With my internet and power out, I looked out the window and saw my neighbors. My initial reaction was "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!" having been on the global community for so long.

Nevertheless, I went out and shoveled snow and talked to some people. Strange specimens, never quite understood why they do what they do. Going to swap/borrow a few video games from a neighbor I know from school two doors down.
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Some few hundred meters from where I live, in the center of town, a new shop opened up recently. Now, this happens fairly regularly since it is after all the center of town, and that's where shops open up (and close up) with an odd regularity that's almost enough to make you think that economics could be an actual science. But this isn't the typical clothes / jewelery / beautification shop. No, it's located in a kind of out-of-the-way alley, next to a bike repair business in what I think used to be a hair salon before it turned into a beautification shop before it was empty for a few months. And now a pair of weird Russians have taken possession, and they've opened a Russian-slash-Eastern European hole in the wall in said small-ish space.

I freaking love it. They have everything, from weird Russian sweets that taste vaguely like soap to Russian cookies to the obvious gazillion exotic but weirdly excellent vodkas to wine from Crimea, candies, pastries, utterly outrageous sweatshirts with gigantic Russian flags and double-headed eagles on them and just about everything you could possibly hope to find in a semi-Russian shop short of AK-47s and T-60 battle tanks. And, weirdly but excellently, beers. I confess I didn't really know they made beers behind the Iron Curtain until I attended this Polish wedding last year, but I readily took a liking to the stuff, and then discovered there was precisely nowhere I could buy it 'round these parts... Until now. 'Cause these folks sell that stuff with reckless abandon.

The best part of it though is that I don't understand a single thing it says on these bottles. Like, seriously, it's all cyrillic and very fancy-looking, and it tastes excellently... But I've no idea what's in it. There's a bottle in front of me right now and of all the stuff on the lable, and on the top, and stamped on the bottle itself and all that there's exactly one word I can make out, and that's "premium". Well, yeah. All the rest is written in Russian, and I don't speak Russian. And the greatest thing is, it doesn't really matter because... Well let's face it. Who reads what's in any product anyway, unless one is deeply allergic? So I've taken a liking to it, to the apparent bemusement of the folks running the outlet. First they looked at me with this bemused expression like I was a confused local who'd wandered into the wrong shop. Then when I kept coming back looked at me like maybe I was the resident FSB agent come to check up on them. Now I seem to be tolerated as a kind of weirdo who should know better than to buy their stuff but somehow doesn't.

I don't seem to be in their target demographic. But all the same, I think I'm going to get one of those t-shirts one of these days.

God, I love Europe.
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Siege wrote:weird Russian sweets that taste vaguely like soap
How distinctively Soviet lol

Is that the HG Strike, Moby?
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The real grade. I haven't finished with the stickers - there's a ridiculous amount of tiny stickers to be put places nobody will ever see, but I'm still impressed with the overall model. I bought the RG RX-78-2 last year, and the thing was so fragile as to be ridiculous - moreover, the small internal frame wasn't the sturdiest thing and broke in several places. I've been playing around with poses for the RG Strike and it's so much better to be in a whole 'nother class. I've been wishing they'd do a RG Gundam Wing model or, if they insist on staying in UC, at least give Unicorn Gundam a try. I have the 1/144 HG Unicorn model and it'd be interesting to see what differences would exist in the RG.
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You'd think that given the size difference replicating the MG's Destroy Mode would be immensely fiddly, but SD Gundams now have working hips, so ...
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I've seen the MG and it's pretty wild to me that it can transform back and forth. My 1/144 is destroy mode only, but to get the ability to change modes in a RG would be insane.
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First post of my new agenda, which is a tablet... Works pretty good. And it's nog even an Apple!
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this is what i've been working on for the last few months
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Oh shit Shroomy Jaa. Well okay wrong martial art but you know :v
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Now if only I can figure out the transformation...

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No, wait, I got it. This baby had to have gained a few inches and it's about a zillion times more fragile, but it was worth it.

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So my mom is watching The Phantom of the Opera on TV right now, and a thought struck me.

The Phantom is a fatty nerd.

Think about it:

Lives in attic/basement
Has no social life
Crippling shame over unattractive appearance
Obsessed with relatively solitary personal interests/hobby
Creepy passive-aggressive crush on girl he likes

Sound familiar?
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If it's the '04 version, then I refuse to put Gerard Butler in the same room as the idea of a fatty nerd.
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