Are you done yet?

“You need…”

Is not a command…

You keep placing false intent and meaning. That is a form of manipulation and gas lighting.

You need to let it go, or get over whatever this weird outrage this is that you are having.

I can feel however I want, you don’t get to gatekeep that.

I didn’t tell George RR Martin to do anything. I said a line on a social media forum.

You are choosing to take my words in the way you are describing and not in the way I intended. That is a form of manipulation and gas lighting. Especially after I clarified.

Who called me entitled? I guess I missed that. That’s a weird take, whoever said it.

You could at least come up with a response that already hasn’t been said several times.

Man the Sanderson hate in this post is real.

I only suggested him because he helped finish the Wheel of Time series.

Look at it this way.

He was clearly starting to stall in his later books, taking so long to get them out, and instead of starting to wrap up the storyline, he started introducing new elements.

I understand why he hasn’t moved forward, but I’ve lost all interest in ever picking up another book of his. The terrible writing by D&D certainly didn’t help.

My feelings of frustration are valid and my criticism is not unfounded.

I do appreciate your thoughtful response, thank you

I didn’t say anything remotely close to saying artists owed me anything. Dude bit off more than he can chew.

I have a right to be frustrated when I’m invested in a story and it just stops.

IIRC correctly, they were so checked out, working on potential future projects (that were also fucking terrible), that they had most of the work passed off to others?

Honestly though, I blame the author. GOT was great until they ran out of source material. Then you saw how terrible D&D really are at this. MF still hasn’t finished the series. If you can’t finish it, then don’t fucking start it.

Maybe Sanderson can pick up the mantle for this one too.

My cat does this. Never knew there was a name for it. Thank you!

Edit: He is also a weegie. Is this a breed thing?

When you are a kid, you haven’t let life pass you by yet.

Great story and I love this new meme.

My company has one every year. Heck, it is even just our regional department, so each department has its own.

It was 80’s themed this year. They had live music and even a Back to the Future mocked up Delorian outside of the venue. A couple of free drink tickets, free buffet style food all around, a bunch of 80’s arcade machines, and a pretty awesome raffle.

The company is also employee owned and not beholden to stockholder parasites.

It’s amazing what a company can do when your profits aren’t maximized and sucked out.

Wall Street should be burned to the ground and billionaires crucified over its ashes.

With that argument, nothing is a Christmas movie.

He is the one that brought the whole thing together. He really leaned in and played it straight. This one and Scrooged are the only versions I ever watch.

Michael Cain absolutely nailed it.

This is pretty close.

There was absolutely zero hit to their bandwidth for texts. Other than getting the software in place for it to work, there was almost no cost to them whatsoever.

So many people at work are having frustrating issues with Windows now.

It takes so fucking long to start up. Sure, you get a desktop and can open a program, but it just keeps locking up repeatedly for a good 20 minutes while whatever bloatware is running in the background during startup.

They cram OneDrive down your throat and it has constant issues.

They put so much shit in your way, in the name of “productivity” it makes your actual productivity worse.

FUCK COPILOT.

We’re not all hostile, but that one sure is acting like you pissed in his cereal.

Your point seems very valid to me.

I don’t even want to buy their products anymore because they constantly cancel them and remove any support.

The only ones they continue, seem to be the ones they can use for data collection .i.e. Pixels and Nests. (I shamefully own both).

It is so frustrating as a consumer. Especially when you know that you have become the product for them to sell.

I eat moldy cheese all the time!

But I imagine bleu cheese mold doesn’t have the toxins these other types do.

I can’t say much because of the NDA’s involved, but my wife’s company is in a project partnership with Google. She works in a very public facing aspect of the project.

When Google first came on board, she was expecting to see quality people who were locked in and knew what they were doing.

Instead she has seen terrible decision making (like “How the fuck do they still exist as company” bad decision making) and an over abundant reliance on using their name to pressure people into giving Google more than they should.

I remember when their motto was “Don’t be evil”. They are the very essence of sociopathic predatory capitalism.