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u/daphoenix720 ยท 1 pointr/OneNote
  • What seriously pisses me off a lot is when people overcomplicate things, or use fancy fucking jargon, to make something thats simple complicated. Or use tools that should never have been used in the first place Dealt with this fucking shit all the time when i wrote my gaming guides growing up. That reminds me, I used to write my own wiki builds in gw1, they were all rated poorly though (fucking hell i knew my builds were the best in gw1 in certain areas, benchmarked the fucknig shit out of them, guild wars 2 and me being famous proves that), I think that's when I realize not all opinions are rated equally too, that some people are actually incompetent as fucking hell, and you need to be able to discern what is stupid and what is not.

  • Which goes back to my 33% , 33%, 33% rule when i got my surgeon comment in guild wars 2.

  • Also that reminds me. I do indeed believe liberal art majors are really fucking pointless, in terms of generating RoI for businesses (no useful technical skill sets learned), but I do understand why its necessary. Because history is only remembered when people actually remember it (usually written by the victors) and its important to understand the past , to understand the present, and predict the future. Granted you don't need a history degree to understand that, that's just one point, you don't need to go any further. That's just my personal opinion though. Liberal arts majors really don't generate any specifc skill set for making money, just "people skills, management skills, etc", which can be taught anywhere in any aspect of life, even video games as I taught myself.

  • also I totally lied, I did read "A little book about the history of the world" like 90% of it 2 years ago. Had to get a history refresher after 8 years. http://www.amazon.com/Little-History-World-Illustrated-Edition/dp/0300197187

    7:21 PM, 3/28/16

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  • I have some serious gaming addiction problems sometimes.

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    Hiring for low labor pool set blows

  • Fucking hell hiring is so fucking boring. I wish people in a low level labor pool would get their shit together. Every fucking person who answers the phone has the most - boring ass attitude and tone when receiving an interview call. "ohhhkayyy" "Dis is FirstName_LastName speak. Who dis be? Who be talking? My bae be on the other line" or "SPEAKING" or "This is FirstName's Mommy. Hold on" or "What's your payrate and hours (i don't want gold digger hoppers thanks, no its not minimum wage)". At least show some fucking enthusiasm, jesus fucking shit man. I guess you really want that unemployment status. Christ, I don't know how people deal with this for a living, I hate hiring low level skilled people, its boring. So boring that I just browse reddit during the downtime and read some fun articles while calling

  • Seriously, the selection pool isn't very big unless you are a fortune 500 company with XXXXX marketing resources at your disposal , and huge budgets to toss around for fun. Even though I have to screen a shit number of applicants, a ton don't show up (For unemployment checks), many don't pick up the phone even after voicemail, many can't follow a paragraphs worth of instructions on the email confirmation either. Like I don't even make it complicated, I do all the hard lifting for you, compared to other companies (who make you go through stupid fucking hoops, pre-questionaires, etc)

  • When people show up, there's a huge number of no shows. 50% on average. I am not sure if this is normal for low labor skill level pool sets, I do not know. I imagine it is.

  • Hiring for me is, which one of these candidates do I dislike the least? Can they please fucking for fucking hell, explain one concept, with at least 5 minutes of conversation? I don't care if its the latest and great marvel comic, anime, TV show, knitting, football, favorite video game or anything else - I can almost carry a conversation in almost all of these topics to vet how deep their explanation skill set. And I am a very fucking easy conversation goer, I tutored half my fucking life, I know how to poke and prod people to help them out. Because, if you can't fucking casually explain a hobby of yours or work experience, IDC what it is, then you have some really fucking poor listening and learning skills and cannot adapt. IDC how old you are, just not old enough to be my grandpa. And fucking hell, I only ask one open-ended question, that is "Tell me about yourself". That's fucking it!

  • Next major criteria: Which fucking candidate, brings the least bag of problems and liability?

  • Then, I select the candidate with the least bag of problems, and the best explanation skill set while still meeting physical requirements (are they strong enough to do the job?). There you are fucking hired. Not fucking rocket science. I don't care about your past employment, I just want to see you don't jump fucking jobs every fucking month. If you don't we're good, I hate hiring and retraining. I don't give a shit about your previous supervisor either, yes I could go on your facebook, but I don't fucking care, don't ask don't tell.

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  • EDIT: I also find on average, for low level labor pool sets, people who do watch anime & comics & thriller TV shows on average have better explanation skill sets and easier to talk to (generally more intelligent too). People who play video games (Sports games - FIFA,Madden, PGA golf, [who play only these games] ETC are generally not nearly as intelligent as those that play Call of Duty, and then more advanced games like League of Legends, Fallout4, skyrim, GTA5, MMOs and then even more advanced games - Dota 2, Starcraft, EvE). This is just my purely ancedotal observations though, I do not have enough statistical data or correlations to verify any of it. Certain games require a bare minimal intelligence level to play, I would know, I grew up learning from video games.

    END 10:41 AM, 3/29/16. I am done with all my thoughts I think. My idea taper rate has generally shot down, I do not get any random thoughts anymore as of now. I wander, if doing 1,000,000 char notes, influences my idea generation rate, by actually making it worse, like how Stephen King stated he lets his ideas battle off in his brain to determine which ones to write down the road. Others propose to write down every idea. This post, is a case study, in of itself

  • So far, my conclusions indicated that I do not get as many VMT / random thoughts anymore after writing this post. I don't know if that's a bad or good thing though, good in the sense I can meditate- almost, bad in the sense that my creativity has probably gone downhill since writing this post. That I can go on longer frames of time without even thinking of anything. There's a reason, I think, why most writers who write a trilogy, the 2nd or 3rd book is generally fucking shit, because people run out of ideas to write about.

  • I recall reading about Pierce Brown (author of one of the best trilogy series IMO, I think Game of Thrones is overrated as fuck as a book - I read 4 of them too[TV is different story]), he said he had ideas about writing his book for several years, and let those ideas manifest over VERY VERY long time spans, where he'd just make up characters in his head and storyboard snippets here and there, mostly for roleplaying, not for writing a book.
    http://blog.vromans.com/an-interview-with-pierce-brown-author-of-red-rising. I read about 50 science fiction novels in my life, a lot of them go WAY into fancy jargon and shit that over-complicates the story as a whole, and does not really add to the story

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    Book Writing Fiction


  • Even really well aspired authors, I had problems understanding childrens book like the Lightning Thief, and its later book series. Some of its environmental descriptions weren't all that memorable to me, and some-what hard to follow. The hobbit, I read that when i was 8 around there, I couldn't actually understand anything J.R.R. tolkien wrote back then, the diction was way too old school. Books like Harry Potter, there's a reason why J.K. Rowling was so successful, her writing is simple, straight to the point, no stupid-ass complicated diction, every term is thoroughly eased in before used later on

  • Other books I've read. The hunger game series, and the divergent series (all but the last book) and I've read twilight up to the last book (ashamed that I read this actually). OF all 3 , the hunger games was the most memorable, although the last book was shit. I just don't understand, what defines a good book anyways?

  • Why does twilight and the divergent (which, actually has similar audiences IMO), pick up so quickly? Its not that great of a book, in terms of book writing style, in terms of plot build up, in terms of storytelling elements as a whole, from an almost science-data way of looking at it. It applies mostly to tweens, and girly tweens in particular, since the there's always some tween romance in it, and the lead character is female-ish.