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Apathetic Marine
Keeps trying to buffer for me. Which is weird because I am watching other youtube videos and they play just fine.Works fine for me. I watched it live, but I just tried pushing play and it did.
Keeps trying to buffer for me. Which is weird because I am watching other youtube videos and they play just fine.Works fine for me. I watched it live, but I just tried pushing play and it did.
Well, Wolf, congratulations on not sucking hind tit! Your book put in a respectable showing, especially considering that the winner could have no-shit passed for something that Chuck Palianiuk had put to the side.
And I think you probably learned the value of having other people look at your work and give you feedback on it. I wasn't expecting much (I mean...most of the stuff that people post in forums sucks, in accordance with Sturgeon's Law) but I found it to be fairly easy to read, with the setting and events described clearly. It does need an editor, however - not like with a machete, though. I can't speak to the actual plot, characters, concepts or dialogue, but from the first what, couple of pages, it seems like your writing is something that can be honed and polished into professional quality (and I just want to point out again that the overall winner was indeed a professional, with several books to her name so she's got a fair bit of experience writing and getting people to read it.)
So good job, dude! Find someone to read it whose opinions on fiction and writing you respect, so they can help add to what needs augmentation and tighten up what needs tightening!
"Mr. Kingsley, could you comment on allegations that you are a member of the National Wolf-Cub Love Association?"
"Mr. Kingsley, why were you spotted partying with ISIS?"
"Mr Kingsley, is it true that your book was, in fact, written by a hobo that you have chained in you basement and whip when he produces less than a thousand words a day?"
(Just effin' with you! Good luck and knock em dead!)
My only conplaint is that there is no marine mammal love club. We're cute too, you know? It's all furry this, feathery that, scaley this. Where's the blubber love? Where is my rightful adolation?
*Cries in the corner*
I think you may have misapprehended the joke that I was going for. The North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pro-pedophilia organization (though I don't know if it is current and genuine, or if it's just a fishing expedition for sex offenders).
The hyphen between 'Wolf' and 'Cub' was intended to evoke NAMBLA - basically joking that I was going to imply that StolenMadWolf was a furry pedophile (as well as a terrorist, a kidnapper and a plagiarist) on the chat for the show that his work was featured on.
It was not just an association for people who want to pet wolf cubs (which no one would need to do, because that association is 'everyone', because wolf cubs are ridiculously cute.)
Marine mammals...I'm sure many of them have very nice personalities.
I don't rightly know...I'd have to assume that there'd be a lot of hesitation for someone to join a 'yes I'd like to molest kids please and thank you' mailing list, so I'd think if it was a real thing once it would have dried out by now. But I don't really want to spend any time looking it up, frankly. One way or another, it's still a queasily funny thing to reference. As long as I've made the reference clear enough for people to pick it up, at least.Huh, is NAMBLA still a thing? I thought those were cringe jokes some asshole freelance subbers used to slip on those anime videos I used to torrent in uni.
Meh, the important thing is dugong wants his appreciation club too, darn it!
*Am cute too!*
And as for your desire for appreciation, I'd bet if you swim up to a small boat and roll over, people will rub your belly. Just be careful of channels so that you don't get hit by moving boats.
This is a very relatable story.So... (...)
So... I got a new job this week. Kroger bakery plant making 17.50 dollars a hour with the possibility to get up to 21 before planned annual raises hit. Great people. Work is not that bad in itself. The problem is the hours. This first week alone i was supposed to work 66. 3 12 hour shifts then 2 10 hours then a day off and presumably repeat. Only did not because i was pulled into the sanitation department for over nigh 9pm to 5 am shifts for what is supposed to be a 2 or 3 week duty shift to learn all that before going to bread line loading it on trucks then learning other parts of the line.
I am seriously considering walking already because I dont think i have it in me to even try work what amounts to 12 hour six days a week. From what i see bread never stops working. Never. They only stopped once i have seen because a pan got jammed in the rolling oven and it took several hours to pry it out. So much bread and dough thrown away because of it. Dont want to stay in sanitation because i have come to detest pushing a damn broom. Line work will see me quit inside a month or my family make me quit. Gonna see if i can use my mechatronics degree to get into the maintenance department but might be a long shot. They supposedly do 8 hour shifts and even more money and i could really use that experience if i want my degree to actually mean a damn.
What i dont get is how everyone else works those hours. From what i can tell everyone in bread is working at least 50 and i cant comprehend how they are not burning out. I mean yeah a 1000 dollar pay check each week sound awesome but you cant enjoy that money if you are dead. Literally or otherwise. Does explain why they are having so much trouble hiring new people though. People come in see this and then choose having a life.
This is a very relatable story.
It is a fact of life that well paying job suck the life out of you, while easy jobs don't pay much.
That being said. I'm surprised anyone would not know the hours a bread maker works. It is something children are thought in kindergarten.
As for my total unsilicited advice, that any sane person should both ignore and ridicule. I have worked hours similar to those you described since I was 17. With the exception of my military service for the last 20 years 300-400 hours months are the norm.
I managed to build a house in a nice part of the city. I am firmly middle class with a working class education. I am thinking about opening my own company, without the need to lend money from the bank.
Downside is I'm pushing 40 and have no kids no wife no family. I didn't had time for that.
This is a very relatable story.
It is a fact of life that well paying job suck the life out of you, while easy jobs don't pay much.
That being said. I'm surprised anyone would not know the hours a bread maker works. It is something children are thought in kindergarten.
So my advice is. Keep that job for a year or two. Save up your money and then when your savings give you enough of a security blanket find something else. It is always better to have financial safety and no personal life then the other way around.
You are doing good. You got actual useful skills and you got potential as a writer and artist. Stems would be better if you can but if you have repair and management skills that will take you pretty far. Just dont give up you will get somewhere eventually. As for Chimera you have to ask yourself do you even have a better title? Or can your kin give you a better idea?I can also relate as well somewhat, being 25 here. I currently work for a repair store that is spread around the country. The pay isn't perfect, only around £1200 a month but since I'm still at home it's helping in building up a fairly big reserve of savings to use, especially when coupled with lower vehicle insurence.
On the plus side, I've got an interview lined up and I'm reapplying for STEM fields, but I doubt they will let me come on in.
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Also, I've decided I'm going to go ahead with that short story, just sorting out all the details before I go ahead with it, even looking at doing a bit of art that might be used on a cover etc. Tenitively, I'm calling it The Ship of Aurora.
That leaves deciding whetever or not I want to try keeping the Chimera title for the main novel, or change it all together. I'm not keen on the latter, partly because the title name is referenced in the book as a major event and I'm hard-pressed to think of a better alternative. But a few people are saying because Chimera is such a common title, it's not worth using.
My big problem is I am near 40 myself and just now got a mechatronics degree in the last few months but without experience and a cv that is warehouse and retail i cant seem to get in anywhere.
You are doing good. You got actual useful skills and you got potential as a writer and artist. Stems would be better if you can but if you have repair and management skills that will take you pretty far. Just dont give up you will get somewhere eventually. As for Chimera you have to ask yourself do you even have a better title? Or can your kin give you a better idea?
Its funny two years of training and when i sit the exams to even get in half the stuff was never covered or only lightly. We had only one quick thing about welding and that was symbols. Nothing on plumbing or refrigeration and guess what a lot of stuff asks?I can relate to this as well, namely that I have two degrees and yet despite having that on hand, I never got past the interview stage, and alot of it came down to experience. Well, how am I supposed to get experience when no one is giving me any?
Just got to keep applying and see if something sticks.
Good luck. It should not be so hard to find something you enjoy that actually pays a living wages.Well, thanks. I'm hoping I can get into STEM or artistic/writing fields, but it is taking time. And whilst repair and management skills are handy... I don't want to spend my days in those kind of fields, unless I was diving or something, in which case I replace stress with completely wrecking my body before I'm 40. But you are right, just gotta keep trying and hope something sticks.
Like any word it only has meaning we give it. You could eventually make Nyulfur famous. Well maybe. That itself is something to consider. Think how many silly words Harry Potter made famous?As for the novel, I'm struggling to think of a title, especially due to that event in the lore being linked to it. A family member did suggest Nyulfur after a titular group in the setting... but given how people can get that pronounciation wrong... I'm not sure on it. And doesn't have the same kind of bite as Chimera.
I'll have to think it over.
This is a very relatable story.
It is a fact of life that well paying job suck the life out of you, while easy jobs don't pay much.
That being said. I'm surprised anyone would not know the hours a bread maker works. It is something children are thought in kindergarten.
As for my total unsilicited advice, that any sane person should both ignore and ridicule. I have worked hours similar to those you described since I was 17. With the exception of my military service for the last 20 years 300-400 hours months are the norm.
I managed to build a house in a nice part of the city. I am firmly middle class with a working class education. I am thinking about opening my own company, without the need to lend money from the bank.
Downside is I'm pushing 40 and have no kids no wife no family. I didn't had time for that.
So my advice is. Keep that job for a year or two. Save up your money and then when your savings give you enough of a security blanket find something else. It is always better to have financial safety and no personal life then the other way around.
36h ? pff, that's cute. try 96h*. Four days at work non-stop is a personal record I promised myself I will never break.COME ON!
36h shifts are cool!
12h dayworks are standart hours!
Everyone should work like that.
36h ? pff, that's cute. try 96h*. Four days at work non-stop is a personal record I promised myself I will never break.
As A side note I just finished a 21h shift today.
but jokes aside, I knew three guys that got heart attacks at work, only one of them is survived.
In my profession "work till you drop" sometimes has fatal consequences.
*Before anyone points out I couldn't physically be awake for four days straight and still be in a state to do my work correctly. Of course, I wasn't. If IBM is a bunch of cheap bastards I would be a fool not to sleep at work on their dime. F**K IBM and its money pinching shortsightedness.
Its funny two years of training and when i sit the exams to even get in half the stuff was never covered or only lightly. We had only one quick thing about welding and that was symbols. Nothing on plumbing or refrigeration and guess what a lot of stuff asks?
Good luck. It should not be so hard to find something you enjoy that actually pays a living wages.
Like any word it only has meaning we give it. You could eventually make Nyulfur famous. Well maybe. That itself is something to consider. Think how many silly words Harry Potter made famous?
I haven't heard Nyulfur in 40 other contexts, so on that measure it beats 'Chimera' handily. I can understand the urge to use the word 'chimera', since it sounds good, is pleasant to read in the English language, and the concept that it refers to is common in science fiction and fantasy. But that means that a lot of other people have been having the same thought for years, which is why it's already been very heavily used.
I haven't heard Nyulfur in 40 other contexts, so on that measure it beats 'Chimera' handily. I can understand the urge to use the word 'chimera', since it sounds good, is pleasant to read in the English language, and the concept that it refers to is common in science fiction and fantasy. But that means that a lot of other people have been having the same thought for years, which is why it's already been very heavily used.
Yeah. Just as casual search om Google reveals it's been used since the 70s as a novel title.
Well, either way, seems like Nyulfur seems to be the most popular title. Seems like I'm going to be changing to that.