My name is Mike Tee (yes I know Mr. T :D). I rule this stretch of darkness with an iron fist (occasionally). I basically spend all my time gaming or listening to music, and occasionally pick up my guitar when I feel creative.
being a manager sucks balls half the time but the cashier kids im in charge of trust me enough to dick around in front of me so ive been keeping a running list of the shit they say that makes me laugh randomly:
-"guys, is it cheating if you play fortnite with your ex" [4 seperate others, immediately]: "YES"
-"there must be likeā¦ infinite sentences"
-"bro what bro what the fuck bro what's that mean bro why'd you say that bro what" <distraught response to a girl randomly greeting him with 'hey there big boy' in an old timey transatlantic news reporter accent
[a ticket reads that a customer wants their burger cut in half]
-"What the hell why are they so picky??? That's like for kids. That's like something my DAD would-- wait i don't have a dad-- that's like something my MOM would do"
-"BRO WHY ARE YOU CUSSING ME OUT IN SPANISH???" for some reason shouted so loudly that customers still in line all start laughing
-i open the restaurant and notice the kitchen is still kind of dirty and try to glean who closed last night, and i overhear two of the boys talking about yesterdaay
me: "so, you helped in the kitchen last night?"
IMMEDIATELY: "IT WASNT ME I JUST DID THE FRYERS LAST NIGHT"
i accidentally tripped over a gas line while trying to clean behind the stove and made a loud fear noise and the kid helping me clean the kitchen goes "dude your screams scare me. They remind me of when i accidentally step on my dog's tail"
the Real Adult in charge went to go give someone a break in another store and I'm chilling in ours for a bit and 5 mins one of the girls rushes up to me like "DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN ATTIC?"
I did. I have never seen the attic so I go check it out and there's already like three of them up there
me: the fuck are you guys doing???
clerk: they wanna do the grimace challenge up there
Explained to the two boys helping me in the kitchen why we submerge our lettuce at night to help it keep. They proceed to have a conversation where one is absolutely messing with the other by trying to convince him that both lettuce and reptiles are living things that need to be soaked to survive, and are therefore related. he speaks with so much conviction and just keeps doubling down and the other one just gets increasingly angrier and I'm just trying not to crack up over the fryers
and then the exasperated kid whirls around at me and goes "IS LETTUCE REPTILES???" and I lose my fucking mind
I run this place with one other person who i Do Not Like and the kids are well aware of our stupid restaurant manager beef and love to gossip
They keep moving shit to inconvenient locations and I hate it and keep having to move shit back, then once on my day off they decided to call in help and move my Entire Fucking Kitchen around and I was real fucking pressed about it for like the rest of the week (put off opening the next morning to move all the big ass machines and fryers back my damned self to establish territory or whatever)
A week later one of the really sweet girls who helps me in the kitchen goes "hey I have a confession. me and (other kid) were there while they were moving your kitchen and we knew you'd hate it. I was going to say something"
"Oh no worries, it's not really your responsibility to go between us like that"
"no no, I was going to tell her to at least ask you about it first but then I was like 'hmmm....let's see how this plays out'. for the drama."
"...ok I guess I should probably be mad but that's actually really fucking funny"
There's not a highlight button??? Other games I've played in the "D&D Videogame" (+Pathfinder Kingmaker) have a keyboard binding you can set to hold down and highlight all interactable objects on the screen. It saved my sanity a ton in those older games... it'd suck if they removed it in BG3
One of the only thing the 2000s had going for it was the mythbusters. Those dudes ruled, nobody hated the mythbusters, I mean they hated each other but nobody else hated the mythbusters
hanzo and genji have haunted their hodgepodge of a narrative since 2016 with unambiguously magic powers in a soft-SF setting that went out of its way to conceptualise bogus technology like hard-light and biotics in order to fit its weirdness into some kind of "science" category. the fact they then didn't extend that consideration to hanzo and genji? they just left them as is? as witches? as fate-touched human vessels of ancient dragon spirits?? if genji wasn't a cyborg they could feasibly be minor sekiro bosses and that's weird dude!! and then kiriko gets released?? and these people had all the years in between ow1 and ow2 to find a way to hand-wave whatever weird shamanistic magic they accidentally let get into the game, and instead they make the only other japanese character a fucking spirit vessel as well. they doubled down. magic IS REAL in overwatch but ONLY on the BEAUTIFUL ISLANDS OF JAPAN, and no it's never ever going to be addressed because overwatch has as much coherent story as a themed puzzle page on the back of a kids cereal box. hysterical.
All the talk about "oh Elon Musk's buying twitter now all the people who fled from tumblr to twitter are gonna come back here" and gotta say. I'm on edge. SOMETHING happened to tumblr between 2018 and 2020 that turned it from a warzone to a tolerable shitposting website and my one best guess has always been that the p/orn ban sent so many people packing to twitter that we ended up exporting all our native-grown gremlins to the bird site. I back this theory up by the fact that all batshit fandom drama I hear about these days comes from twitter.
So for most people coming back, happy to see you welcome have some tea or coffee over on the table to the left but if the shit-stirrers come back for me it's on sight. It's on sight. First time around I was nice I was like "oh I shouldn't engage if I'm the Bigger Blog that's a bad move to put smaller blogs on blast :(" free pass is up. I'll name and shame. I clawed my way back up from 6 feet underground and I'm not doing it again I'll defend this garbage tower to the death. PVP. I'll salt the earth I'll poison the water supply I'll burn the village down hand in unlovable hand I'll take everyone and everything down with me before I cede this stupid blog again it's on. sight.
If there was a sci-fi novel with a megalomaniac billionaire who was the son of an Apartheid emerald mine owner, and he was privatizing space exploration so the public no longer has a say in itā¦you know that would be considered bad, right? The heroes would fight to stop SpaceX.
The fact that anyone considers SpaceX as anything other than a continuation of the transfer of public sector science, that was run for the public good, into the hands of billionaires is a testament to our propaganda. Having space exploration controlled by one billionaire is bad.
Remember in the 60s when rockets launched and the credit was given to the scientists and astronauts that actually made it happen?
Now itās given to the billionaire who pillaged NASA tech and is now using it as his playground and promotion for his cars. Thatās bad. SpaceX is bad.
Thinking of all my Pacific friends and whÄnau right now, sending so much love šššš please message me if you find a link we can donate to (not the Red Cross or any missionary agencies) and I'll add some as soon as they are available
Guys Tonga is underwater. The tsunami swept through everywhere, the highest point on the main island of Tongatapu is just 28 meters above sea level. All power and communications have been cut off so we don't even know what's going on anymore, but at last report the sky is black and raining ash and acid rain. The water is undrinkable because of the acid. People can't breathe because of the ash. The entire island of 'Atata has gone underwater š
The explosion shook homes in Alaska, over 9500 km away. The tsunami has gone through the entire Pacific but nowhere has been affected as badly as Tonga. And no one outside the Pacific seems to be talking about it š„
Hi All, Pita Taufatofua, the Tongan Flag Bearer here. As you all know a large ā¦ Pita Taufatofua needs your support for Tonga Tsunami relief
Please consider donating to support Friends of Tonga's active projects and programs.
And an update:
[Image: a tweet from Anaseini Ulakai @fineutuvai reading "Latest Update Tsunami warning still in force, volcanic activities at ease. PM announced that gas stations, bakeries and shops will be open from 10am-2pm for ppl to get necessities. Settlements along Vuna Road from Sopu to Fasi & Maufanga heavily damaged. Source: British High Com." The timestamp is 12:35 16 Jan 22.]
MÅrena everyone, I woke up and I'm blown away by the attention that this has received! I'm a very small blog so this is quite surprising. Thank you to everyone who's spread the word and donated.
A few things! Some people said that the GoFundMe link wasn't working for them. Hopefully this one will! If not then you can google "gofundme pita taufatofua" and it's the first link that comes up.
Although communications are still extremely limited and only over satellite phone, the news that we've received so far is mostly positive! The main reason for the loss of communications is because of damage to the underwater communication cables. It's not clear at this point when this could be fixed.
There are no reports of serious injuries or fatalities at the moment, although some people are missing. There's also no word yet from the Ha'apai islands and the Tongan government is aiming to send a boat out there today if the still unstable sea currents allow. Incidentally, the man running the fundraiser above is the son of the Governor of Ha'apai. He's still waiting to hear what's happened to his family and home islands.
The volcanic activity has largely died down, although there are still tsunami warnings in place and the significant amount of ash and acid in the air is causing a lot of difficulties. Because of the ash, the government has urged all citizens to remain inside and wear masks.
(Weren't they already wearing masks, I hear people ask? No. Tonga shut its borders early in the pandemic, and despite the economic blow, it is COVID free. There has only been one case in Tonga and they have since recovered.)
I've also had people ask where they can get updates. The best places are the OneNews live update stream, although as of now (7:46 am 17 Jan, NZT) the stream hasn't started up again for the day yet. However, it has almost all of the information that we've been able to gather over the last few days.
If you're on twitter I also recommend following Aotearoa-based Tongan reporter Anaseini Ulakai @fineutuvai. If you want to know what's going on with Pita Taufatofua and his family, he is on twitter at @pitaTofua.
If you're interested in the science of the eruption and the scale of it, this is the best article I have so far.
Volcanologist Professor Shane Cronin said scenes on the ground would have appeared apocalyptic after the eruption.
Even after the initial crisis is over, Tonga is still going to be in serious trouble. The water and agriculture is going to be devastated in already low income country, which is also facing the rising threat of climate change.
Tongans are known for their friendliness, resilience, and generosity. Despite 1 in 5 Tongans living below the poverty line, in 2010 they raised over $700 000 NZD to help after the Christchurch earthquake and in 2011 they raised $300 000 NZD after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I hope that we can give even a little bit of that back.
Mark the electrician has been here for five minutes and heās already said āwell thatāsā¦weirdā twice from the other room and frankly Iām afraid to ask.
And now heās taking apart the ceiling. Iām not worried, are any of you worried? Iām not, haha, itās not like this house was previously owned by someone who would do something stupid like try to wire their house themselvesā¦or store tins of varnish under the furnace behind a secret alcoveā¦
Hey kids, we have a lot of silly fun here on Tumblr. But you know what not fun at all? Homes that arenāt built according to the International Residence Code.
Donāt die in a preventable fire, ensure your home is up to code today.
Literally do whatever it takes.
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