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Realpic Gaf |OT| January 2016 edition [Shocking revelation post #11890]

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I know great cruelty exists because I've seen it. That's what I'm so appalled by and why I don't (generally -- again, I am occasionally a hypocrite with certain things) buy animal products.

The gradations of the meat industry -- What's acceptable, what's not -- I haven't parsed all of this yet. I haven't even gotten to some of the secondary or broader questions yet. I just know there's a great moral blight upon us and I am trying not to participate.
Definitely not trying to deny that cruelty exists, it exists everywhere in the world as you pointed out about iPhones.

But to decry people who feed their kids meat as compartmentalizing or even tacitly approving the cruelty to animals is a very broad generalization. There's a lot of facets to "the meat industry", and you're hyper focused on the worst of it.

Honestly, saying "fuck it, I want no part of it" seems like a really lazy approach to it.
 
don't worry, your genitals are save.

You really are bad with threats.


Chickens are fucking idiots.

I just noticed I'm wearing my underwear inside out. :0

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Re. electronics that's a whole other bag of worms, ugh, it's easier to not think about...

Being ignorant can be reaaallly comfortable. come join me guys
I won't judge. We all live with these inconsistencies.

Though, pointing at people who feed their kids meat and making moral judgements on them out of ignorance is a pretty poor platform.
 
Oh god damn it, I just realised it's past mid night and I still don't have my English essay for tomorrow finished. Time to chug coffee, write till 3 am, have a 4 hour panic dream in which I'm late for class, wake up and actually be late for class before handing it in. Night gaf.
 
I won't judge. We all live with these inconsistencies.

Though, pointing at people who feed their kids meat and making moral judgements on them out of ignorance is a pretty poor platform.

I said I feel funny about it. My niece eats a hot dog without having any clue what's in it. I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it first. Makes me feel weird. I'm not trying to be judgmental (even if I am being that), I'm just releasing my amazing and honest thoughts into the ether, such as they are. I see thing, I have reaction to thing, I blurt it out on RPJ. The circle of life.

I got better! but that threat wasn't meant for jobbs!

it sounded like you were rescuing my penis, and I wasn't sure how to respond so I left it alone
 
Oh god damn it, I just realised it's past mid night and I still don't have my English essay for tomorrow finished. Time to chug coffee, write till 3 am, have a 4 hour panic dream in which I'm late for class, wake up and actually be late for class before handing it in. Night gaf.
dont forget to eat protein
I said I feel funny about it. My niece eats a hot dog without having any clue what's in it. I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it first. Makes me feel weird. I'm not trying to be judgmental (even if I am being that), I'm just releasing my amazing and honest thoughts into the ether, such as they are. I see thing, I have reaction to thing, I blurt it out on RPJ. The circle of life.
k.

u moved that goalpost from meat to hot dogs tho
 
I think I do love animals. I consider our pets to be part of the family. I agonize over how to treat them when their health goes bad. I've made a special coffin for burying our rabbit in. But I also eat meat as well.

Could I eat an animal I'd raised? No. But I view pet ownership and meat consumption as a matter of social contracts between two animals. We have the right to eat each other, and we have the right to decide to live together, though it's not like the animals get a lot of choice either way.
 
I think I do love animals. I consider our pets to be part of the family. I agonize over how to treat them when their health goes bad. I've made a special coffin for burying our rabbit in. But I also eat meat as well.

Could I eat an animal I'd raised? No. But I view pet ownership and meat consumption as a matter of social contracts between two animals. We have the right to eat each other, and we have the right to decide to live together, though it's not like the animals get a lot of choice either way.
My life:

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There are 16 legs that sleep in my bed every night, from three different species of animals. We've had 24 legs in there once. It'd be 4 species, but our Ferret passed away before we got our first dog.

It's crazy to think about sometimes.
 
Ok guys, I'll let you know what's happened. Fiction asked for her account to be deleted. Not just permed, but gone. No one else's posts were deleted. Don't know deets and won't pry.
 
I wonder if her personal information was too closely tied to her gaf account and it was causing some sort of privacy issue.

Edit: never mind she just hates you all
 
I've read a little bit of what you've posted about this situation and man....it's a bizarre situation.

Honestly, I was laid off a week ago, but he had some work for me on Monday. We were not able to get in touch until this morning, the day before the project was due. Thing would have been fine if he just told me at the beginning of the week what he needed me to do. Because there's no way in hell I'm learning an entirely new database in 20 minutes, let alone for a project with 100+ assets that needs to be done in 24 hours.

So it was a tense Skype meeting. He opened it by telling me to stop chatting with people online, which I wasn't. Followed by him constantly going away to talk with his other employee. He kept telling me to focus, when I kept telling him all the stuff I needed to do today on my Steamworks account, and that I could gauge if I could even do it if he just gave me an example.

He did not like that.

Basically, it ended with me making a judgement call and, in my head, going "you know, the money would be nice, but the opportunic cost is greater plus he's being a major asshole".

So it ended with me saying sorry and him telling me that he was just trying to throw work my way as if I needed a hand-out.

You know because video games.

I just wanted to make clear that operation Reek is a top secret plan that applies to one person only! so relax your schlongs, guys.

Hear that? It could be any one of us.

Ok guys, I'll let you know what's happened. Fiction asked for her account to be deleted. Not just permed, but gone. No one else's posts were deleted. Don't know deets and won't pry.

She shall be missed.
 
I generally lurk more than post, (yeah, lots of GAF browsing), and I always appreciated her posts in OT. That's a bummer.

RIP Fiction (in GAF form)
 
Neogaf accounts come and go, but, er... shmr shmhr is forever.
I started typing without a definite plan, it didn't pan out

Any of you guys see Straight Outta Compton? General thoughts?
 
I'll get rid of what was said here just incase, I saw the edit HP

I cannot blame you for walking away from that, especially when the other party feels like it's "pity work". It boils my blood, that.

Especially when he's throwing out accusations right out of the gate.

You definitely made the right decision by walking away.

She's okay, guys. The decision had nothing to do with her personal life. It's not my place to say anything further.

Oh good. < phew >
 
I cannot blame you for walking away from that, especially when the other party feels like it's "pity work". It boils my blood, that.

Especially when he's throwing out accusations right out of the gate.

You definitely made the right decision by walking away.

Thanks.

That, combined with the above, makes me very emotional at the moment.

I'm not sure if I'm pissed or sad.
 
Thanks.

That, combined with the above, makes me very emotional at the moment.

I'm not sure if I'm pissed or sad.

I'm going to give a small bit of advice to you and anyone else generally -- I would be careful about airing this kind of stuff publicly. Even if you're in the right, any sign of conflict or things going wrong may look like a red flag to others and somehow hurt you down the road. RPJ is probably safe, but you never know.

I knew these two devs who were working on a game for a while, and they had some kind of massive dispute and the whole thing fell apart. I heard both sides of it and to this day I'm not really sure which one of them was right. Maybe one was totally innocent, maybe both were guilty. I don't know. But I'd never work with either of them after hearing of all that drama.
 
I'm going to give a small bit of advice to you and anyone else generally -- I would be careful about airing this kind of stuff publicly. Even if you're in the right, any sign of conflict or things going wrong may look like a red flag to others and somehow hurt you down the road. RPJ is probably safe, but you never know.

I knew these two devs who were working on a game for a while, and they had some kind of massive dispute and the whole thing fell apart. I heard both sides of it and to this day I'm not really sure which one of them was right. Maybe one was totally innocent, maybe both were guilty. I don't know. But I'd never work with either of them after hearing of all that drama.

This is the number one reason why I don't like working on projects with other people. There's always too much personal drama, especially with the high stress of deliverables and deadlines.
 
Thanks.

That, combined with the above, makes me very emotional at the moment.

I'm not sure if I'm pissed or sad.

Maybe use this day as a "take stock of thing" kind of day and just chill with some books or vidya, bring up your spirits a bit.

I'm going to give a small bit of advice to you and anyone else generally -- I would be careful about airing this kind of stuff publicly. Even if you're in the right, any sign of conflict or things going wrong may look like a red flag to others and somehow hurt you down the road. RPJ is probably safe, but you never know.

I knew these two devs who were working on a game for a while, and they had some kind of massive dispute and the whole thing fell apart. I heard both sides of it and to this day I'm not really sure which one of them was right. Maybe one was totally innocent, maybe both were guilty. I don't know. But I'd never work with either of them after hearing of all that drama.

That's a pretty fair point.

I'm kind of lucky in that regard, I generally will be as upfront and (sometimes brutally) honest with all parties so that everyone is on the same page to avoid internally blowing up things to a huge degree.

I think I've got two personalities; personal where I'm goofy or whatever and just wanting everyone to be happy and work mode, where I'm still unprofessional at times (in the sense of trying to welcome everyone into a safe place to come with ideas) but I'm very very protective of whatever 'thing' I'll work on, so I'll clamp down on egotistical bullshit pretty quickly.

(some of this sounds like gibberish, I'm just having my first coffee of the day, but you all understand what I mean....I think)
 
Oh man. Ohhhh man. Oh man.

I would have liked it better had I not been seeing it with people that just wanted to see it to get their "Talk about blacks" card.

I already have my card. Will I like it?

I'm kind of lucky in that regard, I generally will be as upfront and (sometimes brutally) honest with all parties so that everyone is on the same page to avoid internally blowing up things to a huge degree.

mm the perfect man
 
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