Random Thoughts XI: Listen to the Whispers

[Lohrenswald]

Lowtax's dead
wish this didn't like effect me as much as it does
Don't know what to think. There's personal rubbish in how I sometimes feel I'm kinda like him, but I haven't done any of the most agregious things he's apparantly done
also briefly "talked" with him on twitter once where I think I annoyed him lol

 

[The_J]

If you notice that the lyrics about a song are (at least partially) about Instagram stories, it's a pretty good sign that it's trash.
(and Germany is producing some of it, sadly)

 

[Samson]

I just started on a new computer. I searched google for civfanatics ('cos that is easier than typing .com?), and the 10th hit was the norway tag. I searched youtube for history, out of the top 6 hits there were 2 about one direction and on about ancient aliens.

 

[The_J]

Tried it, since my browser always clears the history, and got basically the same for history on youtube lol.

 

[Kyriakos]

Lowtax's dead
wish this didn't like effect me as much as it does
Don't know what to think. There's personal rubbish in how I sometimes feel I'm kinda like him, but I haven't done any of the most agregious things he's apparantly done
also briefly "talked" with him on twitter once where I think I annoyed him lol

I haven't really used the Something Awful forums. Google tells me he was 45, so relatively young...

I just started on a new computer. I searched google for civfanatics ('cos that is easier than typing .com?), and the 10th hit was the norway tag. I searched youtube for history, out of the top 6 hits there were 2 about one direction and on about ancient aliens.

CivFanatics just isn't that big a site. Then again, iirc it is massively larger than Total War Center.

 

[amadeus]

I searched youtube for history, out of the top 6 hits there were 2 about one direction and on about ancient aliens.

I’m very careful about what I watch while I’m logged in. You click one link about something and then your homepage is Ben Shapiro EVISCERATES Donkey Kong Jr. With FACTS and LOGIC.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I just started on a new computer. I searched google for civfanatics ('cos that is easier than typing .com?), and the 10th hit was the norway tag. I searched youtube for history, out of the top 6 hits there were 2 about one direction and on about ancient aliens.

It's a little weird to do a general search and discover one of your own posts or threads are among the first half-dozen hits.

Google still thinks I have a blog from when the forum was vBulletin. The blog feature was one that admins decided not to enable, so I actually never had a blog here - I just asked about it once.

 

[Kyriakos]

Some person tipped an indie game maker 95 dollars (or similar), and she made a tweet to announce that. So I congratulated her on this and 1 min later he bought one of my creations and left a 46 dollar tip.
Now, it is Itchio, so the person can cancel the purchase in the following days (roughly has a week to do so), so maybe it is a stunt and they will. But it's still rather bizarre, non?
Maybe he is an eccentric millionaire

 

[warpus]

There are people out there who got lucky investing in whatever and don't mind sharing the wealth a bit. Could be an eccentric hundredthousandaire. Or somebody who tips a lot even though they're not much better off than you or me.. I'm sure those people exist too

 

[Kyriakos]

There are people out there who got lucky investing in whatever and don't mind sharing the wealth a bit. Could be an eccentric hundredthousandaire. Or somebody who tips a lot even though they're not much better off than you or me.. I'm sure those people exist too

Sure, if I had 100.000 dollars, I'd also tip random people 50 or 100 dollars.
But only once or twice

Itchio sucks, btw. I doubt I will be getting more than 20-23 dollars out of the total of $50. Maybe he is a relative of the clerk I saved the other day
Maybe this is a benevolent version of The Monkey's Paw.

 

[Kyriakos]

There are people out there who got lucky investing in whatever and don't mind sharing the wealth a bit. Could be an eccentric hundredthousandaire. Or somebody who tips a lot even though they're not much better off than you or me.. I'm sure those people exist too

Sorry for re-quoting, but there has been a development. Which made me think how well this would work as a scam.
The person who made the announcement (and got the 95 dollar tip) then bought some stuff from me, for $4. I didn't ask for it. But then had to offer to send her $4 too. And ultimately I did, through paypal.
Now it would have been a nicely disgusting scam, if in the end the 45$ tip gets cancelled, no?
Meh.

 

[amadeus]

I don't follow. Why would you have to send anything to anyone?

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't follow. Why would you have to send anything to anyone?

Due to ethics, I suppose. There was the sense I got the tip only because I randomly posted on her thread. It's why I think this would work as a scam.
Now they do have a page at Itchio, and 1000 followers on Twitter, but this doesn't mean they are legit.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Or it could just be someone having a "pay it forward" moment.

One of my typing clients tipped me $30 once. That would have been enough to pay for an entire term paper (as the pricing was back then; I'm told I wasn't charging enough, but my view was that it was better to charge a bit less and have more clients than try to "make the rent" on a single client - and word of mouth advertising eventually led to me having entire classes of nursing students as clients, over a 4-year program).

 

[Kyriakos]

Or it could just be someone having a "pay it forward" moment.

One of my typing clients tipped me $30 once. That would have been enough to pay for an entire term paper (as the pricing was back then; I'm told I wasn't charging enough, but my view was that it was better to charge a bit less and have more clients than try to "make the rent" on a single client - and word of mouth advertising eventually led to me having entire classes of nursing students as clients, over a 4-year program).

I really doubt this is the case here. That said, it probably isn't a scam (though it would be a cool angle for a scam, no?)
Anyway, I now cancelled the paypal payment (first time I did such a thing), because the other person said they gave me the wrong email by mistake. Ok. Bizzare ^_^
It's 4 dollars, so I don't care. But I am likely way too kindhearted and if it was something like a hacker this could lead to more serious issues (not that I ever have much money on Paypal).

 

[Valka D'Ur]

As long as you're not out any money, I guess it works.

Tips are nice, though. The weirdest tip I ever got was a Peanut Buster Parfait, which I couldn't eat because at that time I had an intolerance to peanuts/peanut butter, ice cream, and chocolate (the 3 main ingredients of these things).

So I thanked the client graciously and as soon as she and her kids left, I hustled over to my dad's place and handed it to him. He was confused at first:

My dad: "What's this?"

Me: "My tip from the client who just picked up her term paper."

My dad: "Did you want me to put it in the freezer for you?"

Me: "No, I can't eat anything in it, so I brought it out here."

My dad: "Well, what do you want me to do with it?"

Me: "Eat it!"

My dad: "Oh! Okay!"


This is what my tip was:

And I couldn't have even a bite of it.

But my dad enjoyed it.

 

[amadeus]

I didn’t know they had Dairy Queen in Canada! They had them here in Japan, but pulled its franchises over 20 years ago. The last one standing changed its name to Dairy King and stayed in business until about two years ago, which I sadly never got to go to (it was in Mie, about an hour and a half from here.)

Edit: Bashar al-Assad is an anagram of “a brash salsa ad”

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I didn’t know they had Dairy Queen in Canada! They had them here in Japan, but pulled its franchises over 20 years ago. The last one standing changed its name to Dairy King and stayed in business until about two years ago, which I sadly never got to go to (it was in Mie, about an hour and a half from here.)

We've had Dairy Queen here since before I was born. According to a quick Google search, the first one opened in Saskatchewan in 1953.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Did it have a spinning sign?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Did it have a spinning sign?

I don't remember. They don't now, of course.

I do remember that the Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket used to spin.