I almost wonder if they intentionally screw that sort of thing up so they’re not “ripping off” real soldiers’ customs.

… But I’m being way too optimistic I think LOL.

There’s so much like this in media where I’m like “You could have just asked? Like so many people could have happily walked you through making this authentic!!”

Not gonna lie I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an Eastern European knockoff version where that’s the exact plot. Lol

THIS. And the trope is always about some ultra popular game that the entire world is obsessed with, too.

I mean yeah it might even be like that if knowing the game was the only method of discovery but, pah! Hardcore fans? They do RAM dumps and decompiles and all kinds of wacky analysis to find obscure stuff, and then they post it in the “trivia” section on a wiki and the thing hasn’t even been out a year! Lol

No paper jams ever unless it is funny or plot relevant.

“PC load letter!? Agh!”

“Damn it feels good to be a gangsta…”

I swear this show invented a lot of what we now think of as “analog / internet / creepypasta vibe/aesthetic horror”

It was so unsettling. The farmhouse was unsettling, the relatively few glimpses we got of the outside world in town was unsettling.

And yet it was also hilarious. It was so satisfying when Courage would figure out the monster’s weakness or lore, and go kick the crap out of it, or Muriel would ignorantly just whack it with a rolling pin and call it a day LOL.

Something only brilliant cartooning could achieve.

That show was SO GOOD.

I also remember the intro is absolutely awesome, and only recently learned it was a Beethoven composition. There was a neat Microsoft ad that used it too, and I was like “THAT’S THE STARSHIP TROOPERS INTRO!” lol

I noticed watching the DVDs that it felt oddly toned down in some places and not others, even when the plot would get serious.

Often their rifles sound really silly-space-lasery and they’re aiming weirdly upwards instead of at their targets, for example.

I loved those early CG shows like this though. Heavy Gear, Voltron (before the excellent Netflix one), Beast Wars…I wonder if Max Steele was any good because I never watched that one for some reason…

FL*CL

That was a bizarre one. My friend was obsessed with it and I was so freaking confused…

The airsoft episode was a really fun time though hahaha.

…oh geeze didn’t his grandpa dress as a nazi for that one or something? Man this is going back like 15+ years I just remember guitars getting pulled out of foreheads and flying irons and a weird live-action moped PoV outro…

I always thought it would be so damn fun getting an entire neighborhood in on an airsoft game though.

But I only watched it when that friend was over, because I always had at least one parent home and didn’t feel like trying to answer “what the heck are you watching?” LOL

I most vividly remember the villains, of course.

• The big purple foot fungus mobsters. “eyyeah, see?”
• The evil barber “Nauuughtyyyyy”
• And of course, Rameses. “Returrrrn the slaaab”
• Special mention: Eustice. “Stupid dog!”

Such a good show though. The things he did for love.

I loved that show’s premise and core message about confronting fear. He was always terrified and saved the day anyway.

I just wanted him to finally get a happy little dog existence lol…

What in the world LMAO.

I was like “Alright. It’s about an inanimate (magical?) object to obviously sell a toy…WHY’S IT SPROUTING LIMBS AND A HEAD?!”

EDIT: THERE’S A PLAYLIST WITH FULL EPISODES

Why?! How?! LMAO

Great point. I’m a Savage Worlds fanguy myself, and gotta admit it handles these situations quite smoothly, albeit more generally so you add some specific flavor yourself. It has guidelines for how long things take to heal, or if they’re permanent, all that good stuff, without pages and pages of specifics.

Running a random silly off-the-cuff game to share the system involved an angry monkey bartender who rolled ridiculously high on throwing a poo at one of my players causing a ruckus.

(A “ha-poo-ken!” , if you will…)

This caused a roll on the injury table. Oh did we have a laugh when the “injury location” conferred with the dice and came up “Unmentionables.”

I do like reading through write-ups like these though, because it gives less experienced GMs like me a quick understanding model for gauging levels of severity in specific circumstances, even if I wouldn’t be flipping through something like this during a game.

Lol yeah, there’s no way!

…They already know Agent Krasnov throws a huge fit if he’s told he has to share.

EDIT: argh, I know I didn’t crop it. I gotta put all these on my computer so I can bulk-snip that exact number of pixels from each image lol…

Haha I have folks there! Lived there for a bit too! Between Okie and Cali, I think now I subconsciously adjust my twang to adapt to my surroundings. 😂

Isn’t it insufferable? Agh!

I hope my version was at least sorta funny while making the point and highlighting a lot of those stupid tricks they use.

As evidenced by his preposterously plagiarized company naming schemes that obnoxiously demonstrate to the world how profoundly he missed the point of Lord of the Rings, by going team Mordor and thinking he’s the hero. . .

When above all else, he desires power.

The only reason employers still do shit like this is because individuals either don’t realize that they can sue for it, or don’t realize that lawyers will take their case.

Is this one of those instances where the corporation can/will do stuff like deploy their lawyer army to tie up the victim and wait them out with expensive and time-wasting legal process…before offering them a $50 gift card to shut up and hold the company eternally blameless forevermore?

Yo. That’s pretty extreme!

That’s another human being just like yourself, posting their likely well-intentioned observations on a situation to a public discussion forum. They’re not being actively hostile to anybody. Please try to have a little grace.

If the idea presented is wrong, attack the idea, not the individual.

The internet is savage enough as it is and we can make it better.

I sincerely hope you have a good day. <3

I hope it was at least satirically entertaining and perhaps a touch cathartic! XD

I’m sure you’ve also shared that same experience I have, where you ended up scrolling and scrolling those stupid websites to see what their deal was, even though you knew it was 100% nonsense lol.

Edit: Oh gosh, I had too much fun with it and now it’s 7x as unhinged lmao…

I’m pretty sure…

You’re not gonna believe this but…

I think it all came from web marketing guru funnel-builder-ebook-masterclass-mentor-course types.

And it circlejerked with business types to capitalize on shorter and shorter attention spans.

I was like you. I was a normal guy. And one day I decided to take a guess at where this irritating “writing style” came from…and why it was EVERYWHERE…

…and you won’t believe what I came up with (Or maybe you will, because you’re ultra smart , I can tell just by the way you’re reading this, you’re not like everyone else, you’re special, click the button at the end of this really long pointless babbling)…I think it’s because…

People scroll, and short little paragraphs keep you reading.

In bite-sized little chunks. So you keep scrolling and scrolling waiting for it to get to the point…

…so what are you waiting for? Lame call to action by clicking the button below to get added to my email spam list and an empty ghost town “Master Life Changer” Discord / web forum! Filled to the gills with…

…obvious filler nonsense…for 900 days absolutely risk free…

…I wouldn’t bet my couch and my sister’s angry little chihuahua, Señor Gordito Cabrón if I wasn’t 100% serious about the value in these stupid paragraphs…

If you don’t get any value from this offer, I’ll personally ship that little jerk to Cesar Milan. Just so he learns some respect after stealing my tacos

You can even keep the couch and any change you find in its depths as mygift to you.

I’ll even finally get the sister to therapy, as an Internet marketing family we’ve neglected all the signs and cries for help for far too long.

All you gotta do is keep scrolling until the wheel on your mouse pops out…

…and one day you too can have a Lambo. You deserve it.

Normally, my grift is valued by myself (and nobody else) at an obnoxiously high number that ends in a 7 for some reason…but today is special.

Still here? I knew you were The Chosen One Destined for Greatness .

Time is running out, even though this special offer has been sitting on this static page for months. It’s only like $1234.57 $667.97 now. Just for you. (I’m practically giving it away because you’re so cool. I have to sell one of my boats now just to make ends meet. My wife is so upset she’s taking the kids to her mom’s for a few days, but I believe in you THAT MUCH.)

Still not convinced?? That’s understandable. This can continue saying the same gibberish 18 different ways…

…until you’ve read so far clicking the button is basically sunk cost fallacy at this point…

…Ugh that made me physically sick writing like that even as a joke LOL.

EDIT: In some twisted way I’m so proud of this marketer mockery I keep editing it when I think of a way to make it even stupider lol. I’m gonna touch grass soon I swear…

EDIT EDIT: Oh no, it has formatting now. And got increasingly unhinged. What have I done?!

Hehe, that’s how pathetic things are here.

Retirement accounts? Since we’re talking minimum wage workers here, most of them have probably never even heard of those. I know I don’t have one, because I’ve only held part time employment while self-studying a bunch of other skills. I have just a savings that gets cleaned out whenever the car makes an expensive noise I can’t fix myself.

We pay into “Social Security” that you’re supposed to be able to pull from when you retire, but that’s been an iffy thing for years now and it’s definitely not something that can be lived off of anymore.

Over here by default if we hurt ourselves at work we get workers comp and outside of work we have salary continuance insurance

Yeah I didn’t even mean at work, just y’know, life happening can absolutely tank your finances with medical bills. Insurance is an absolute scam here, where the affordable ones can have a “deductible” in the thousands you need to pay before the company even pays out a dime.

At work? Yeah, “workers comp” is a thing, but to your job that’s like declaring war on your employer, the way I understand it. Often you’ll need a lawyer and they’ll send private investigators to stalk you trying to catch you being “not disabled” so they can kick you to the gutter.

(Allegedly lots of people to try to scam the system, like anything else, but dystopian employer paranoia is comically ridiculous.)

This “salary continuance insurance” sounds interesting but I don’t think we have anything like that here. You either use up your paid sick / vacation leave, or if it’s dire you can use “FMLA” (Family Medical Leave Act) to take time away from work, except that doesn’t support your pay, it only protects your job so they don’t outright fire you for having a serious situation come up.

If you’re curious about the situation here, there’s a book called “On the Clock, what low wage labor did to me and how it drives america insane” or something like that. Super eye opening.

Screw amazon but this is the first link I found because I’m literally rushing out of the house lol.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42779084-on-the-clock

Hope this illuminates things a little. Pray for us plz. :)