Rants and Movie Rentals

[matrixrefugee]

To the bitch cashier who was talking to a friend and dared to say her (the cashier) job was not a real job:

You punch a time card in the time clock. The Frenchman makes up your work schedule. You get a paycheck every Thursday. You get W2 forms once a year, in the first week or two of January. You file income tax forms. The company is incorporated and I think it's listed on the Boston Stock Exchange. If that's not proof enough that this is a "real job", I don't know what would be. Do you really want to be some career woman and have less time for your family, more responsibilties and probably way more stress? Or would you rather be A). On the street, selling yourself to strange men and having some pimp take most of whatever cash the johns give you, or B). Living in a cardboard box, scrounging your meals from the garbage, or C). Working in an Peruvian mine, where the work conditions are beyond dangerous since there's no industry standards there (Okay, yeah, I hear you mention the Pennsylvania mining disaster back around Christmas; that really doesn't count as an argument in the discussion, since the standards were there, the cheap-ass mine owners just didn't try to meet those standards, and look what happened.), and the bosses are physically abusive, up to and including gang-raping you for daring to object to anything they throw at you. When's the last time you saw Mr. Silverberg, the Frenchman and "Mike the Angel" (Not their real names, of course) haul one of the teenagers out back and violate her for mouthing off at them?!

No Love,

Your Bagger

Yes, it's true, I may yark about my job and the evil customers, but if someone attacks my job, I will defend it.

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To Walrus and company,

Never heard of "If it ain't broken, don't fix it"?! What was wrong with the old combat system that you had to go and change it and (according to Lit) make it more like WoW's combat system? Has it occurred to you that there might be some players who came to this as utter and complete n00bz who'd never played a computer game before in their whole life, and thus it took them the better part of the first two months of gameplay to really get the hang of the combat system that we had? Thanks for closing the test server before I got a chance to at least familiarize myself with the new system and the new interface before it goes live tomorrow. 25 minutes of headscratching and teeth-gnashing last night was not enough. I would have done more with it earlier, but it seemed like every time I went to log into the test server, there was anOTHer patch to download (and these were not little patches, either. The last one reminded me eeriely of when I first installed the game and I had that massive patch come through. Ever thought maybe of mailing the patches on disks to the people who run this over dial-up?!).

But I have to thank "Rarebit" for posting the work-around instructions for us dial-up folks. That will be a life-saver come tomorrow, so I really can't stay mad at you. I just wish you hadn't gone and changed everything.

"Sieges", aka. IRL, the Matrix Refugee

Thank God I've got Nox watching my back, so that I won't have to spend the better part of another two months figuring out how to fight off the increasingly nasty hoodlums I've had to deal with (Not just the gang spawn, but those bloody Commandoes, though us Merv operatives now have a secret weapon to deal with *those*...)

And as I'm waiting for the next patch to download tomorrow, I have some good movies to watch: On my way back from the bank where I'd deposited my State tax refund check, I nipped into Blockbuster Video. My therapist had given me some movie rental cards for Christmas, so I figured I'd put them to good use. Bought the widescreen version of "The Exorcism of Emily Rose", and I rented both "Batman Begins" and "Mirrormask". I'd been hoping that they'd have "Mirrormask", since I wanted to see that one so much, and I was a little concerned that Blockbuster might not carry it, since it had such a limited release (If I remember correctly, the movie was originally going to have a direct-to-DVD release). But they left me happily surprised!

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[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Sorry if I came off sounding like an utter nut: I just get tired of hearing cashiers whine and gripe about their job, when they really don't have it that bad; I guess instead of blowing off steam, I sounded like I was blowing a fuse. Sorry about that!

I'll be posting a review of "Mirrormask" in a bit, but I'll let you in on my opinion of it: It is definately worth the rental fee! The story is a little thin in places (Dave McKean got the idea for it from a dream he'd had and Neil Gaiman helped him flesh out the storyline, as well as write the script), but the imagery and the acting really help drive the story. I'm actually going to buy the copy of the DVD that I rented: Blockbuster lets you do that now, which I think is really cool on their part, but I digress...