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Having a 5-2 work-break day week is horribly unbalanced and draining; it should be 4-3, with Wednesday being the additional break day.

Also, it should be criminal to allow for back-to-back work meetings; at least give people 10 min breaks to mentally unwind or finish off business relating to the previous meeting (e.g. finish writing notes and save).

Oh, and organising a demonstration or meeting for a set amount of time (30 min, 1 hr, 2 hrs, whatever) then going over that allocated time because you keep going on tangents is incredibly poor form. You might like talking and explaining, but goddammit I've either got lunch to eat or other work things to do, so keep to the allocated time slot!
 
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I don't know why shows like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or the Walking Dead are so popular. Like, wow, zombies, drugs and people in a fictional Middle Ages setting having sex with their cousins. How original.
I don't see the value in TV shows, honestly. I especially dislike live-action shows; I just prefer the variety of styles and stuff animation brings.
 
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Having a 5-2 work-break day week is horribly unbalanced and draining; it should be 4-3, with Wednesday being the additional break day.
Personally I'm fine with 3-1-2-1, with Saturday and Wednesday as days off. Most places can't really accomodate for that though. Which is silly considering that it doesn't even change the amount of hours worked per week, so the end result is the same.
 
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Personally I'm fine with 3-1-2-1, with Saturday and Wednesday as days off. Most places can't really accomodate for that though. Which is silly considering that it doesn't even change the amount of hours worked per week, so the end result is the same.
3-1-2-1?
So...work on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, rest on Thursday, work on Friday and Saturday, rest on Sunday? Then how would Sat and Wed be the "days off"?
 

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Week starts on Sundays in my part of the world, sorry for the confusion.
Oh, okay. It's just that it's never made sense to me, since Sat+Sun is typically called the "weekend" which implies they're the last days of the week, instead of one of 'em being the start of the week; further, Monday is typically the first work day, so it should be the first day too.
 

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Oh, okay. It's just that it's never made sense to me, since Sat+Sun is typically called the "weekend" which implies they're the last days of the week, instead of one of 'em being the start of the week; further, Monday is typically the first work day, so it should be the first day too.
On the other hand, this way, the weekends are at each end of the week :P
 
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I think you don't like me too cause your rapist and if your not a rape victim then please shut the fuck up about metoo it's nothing to do with you privileged scum
>STFU I DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, PRIVILIGED SCUM! YOU MUST BE A RAPIST!
I never liked you to begin with, fuckwad. Yup, typical self-victimization, narcissism, self-absorbed attitude and general shit-flinging from Norris and other dumbass airheads from twitter, tumblr, Tiktok, and many parts of Discord. You claim that you don't have a tumblr nor a twitter' yeah because lying isn't possible! How "brave" and "progressive" of you and your comrade assclowns who follow the often rote memorization standards and one-size fits-all mentality of not only ""Common Core"", but also the lie that modern humans, regardless of what part of the world they come from, have no non-social differences beyond skin color, hair texture, eye color, and height. Plus, taking someone's testimony by their word and only their word, and only their word as truth is stupidity and utter gullibility.
 

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>STFU I DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, PRIVILIGED SCUM! YOU MUST BE A RAPIST!
I never liked you to begin with, fuckwad. Yup, typical self-victimization, narcissism, self-absorbed attitude and general shit-flinging from Norris and other dumbass airheads from twitter, tumblr, Tiktok, and many parts of Discord. You claim that you don't have a tumblr nor a twitter' yeah because lying isn't possible! How "brave" and "progressive" of you and your comrade assclowns who follow the often rote memorization standards and one-size fits-all mentality of not only ""Common Core"", but also the lie that modern humans, regardless of what part of the world they come from, have no non-social differences beyond skin color, hair texture, eye color, and height. Plus, taking someone's testimony by their word and only their word, and only their word as truth is stupidity and utter gullibility.
You typed a lot of words when you could have just said I get no bitches
 

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You typed a lot of words when you could have just said I get no bitches
That's not relevant to the argument, nor is it a valid argument point, oh projecting usefool. Ah, yes, like clockwork. You clearly don't care about rationally debating nor respecting others' points of view different from yours. You bitch and moan about how most, if not all of the people who wrote the constitution were wife-beating (something that was typically more common back in those days than in the past 30-40 years) "racists" (which is indeed true to an extent at least, never mind that the word "racist" is just another word that, like "chud" and "fascist", is moronically thrown back and forth by goons such as you). Yes, you sure have a MAJOR chip on your shoulder for them, viewing them as little more than vile folks who oppressed others. Similar to your hateboner for Trump (who BTW is only about 2% better than Hillary "Butcher of Benghazi" Clinton). Never mind that the term "racism" didn't exist until about the mid-18th to early 19th century, and it originally had nothing to do with hatred nor bigotry on the basis of race, and was simply a scientific term. Lastly, most of the black Africans who got sent off in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to places such as the Caribbean, Brazil, or the 13 Colonies (later the early United States until the 1807 cutoff in the Constitution) were the losers of their respective tribal communities via already having been enslaved, or were guilty of certain crime or crimes in their culture(s). Most of the rest were captured Prisoners of War from rival ethnic groups. Enjoy your last reply from me
 

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That's not relevant to the argument, nor is it a valid argument point, oh projecting usefool. Ah, yes, like clockwork. You clearly don't care about rationally debating nor respecting others' points of view different from yours. You bitch and moan about how most, if not all of the people who wrote the constitution were wife-beating (something that was typically more common back in those days than in the past 30-40 years) "racists" (which is indeed true to an extent at least, never mind that the word "racist" is just another word that, like "chud" and "fascist", is moronically thrown back and forth by goons such as you). Yes, you sure have a MAJOR chip on your shoulder for them, viewing them as little more than vile folks who oppressed others. Similar to your hateboner for Trump (who BTW is only about 2% better than Hillary "Butcher of Benghazi" Clinton). Never mind that the term "racism" didn't exist until about the mid-18th to early 19th century, and it originally had nothing to do with hatred nor bigotry on the basis of race, and was simply a scientific term. Lastly, most of the black Africans who got sent off in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to places such as the Caribbean, Brazil, or the 13 Colonies (later the early United States until the 1807 cutoff in the Constitution) were the losers of their respective tribal communities via already having been enslaved, or were guilty of certain crime or crimes in their culture(s). Most of the rest were captured Prisoners of War from rival ethnic groups. Enjoy your last reply from me
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Jeez go outside get a life
 

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the wii u is overrated. im tired of people gassing it up. it is a mediocre AT BEST console with a terrible controller that was only utilized well one or two times.
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Controller good (more comfortable than anything xbox has)
And gave us BOTW, and all the other things that were ported to switch because the Wii U library had some beautifu things :grog: best all around emulation console too
 
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Controller good (more comfortable than anything xbox has)
And gave us BOTW, and all the other things that were ported to switch because the Wii U library had some beautifu things :grog: best all around emulation console too
The sticks suck ass on the gamepad, and it's battery life is abysmal "at best". I'm tempted to do a 18650 battery mod on it with a custom battery cover, just so I can play Zelda for more than 40 minutes at a time.
 
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The sticks suck ass on the gamepad, and it's battery life is abysmal "at best". I'm tempted to do a 18650 battery mod on it with a custom battery cover, just so I can play Zelda for more than 40 minutes at a time.
The GamePad's still far more comfortable to use than the Wiimote ever was; motion controls only work when they're gyro-based, and supporting the classic dual-stick-and-buttons controls, and outside of the rarely-used Classic Controller the Wii wasn't even dual-stick.
Wii U > Wii, any day, and the Wii U Pro Controller is the best Nintendo-produced controller ever, imo.



That aside, it's been almost a year since my last post here (funny, that), and my new opinion is...Pokémon should've died on the DS. Black/White 2 was a fantastic swan song (Swanna song?) for the video game series, introducing a lot of great side content, and the PWT featuring every single past Gym Leader and Champion, and there were a ton of experimental spin-offs on that nifty handheld.
The 3DS ruined the franchise. The main series saw way too many nerfs and severe loss in quality, and the spin-offs became practically a desert in comparison - sure, Conquest wasn't the best game, but it was an interesting concept and spin on the series, and there wasn't much they could've innovated on with Ranger but it was fun regardless, and Mystery Dungeon did get two releases but they weren't nearly as fun as the DS games. Could've made another Trozei game, or Dash, or whatever.

If the 3DS was a desert, then the Switch is an empty void. Uninspired Sinnoh remakes, crap LGPE remakes of Yellow/RB, incredibly boring Galar and buggy Paldea games, and practically no spin-off games of note. Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX was a heavily-modified and thus heavily-flawed remake of Blue Rescue Team, Pokken Tournament was...meh, and did we get anything else worth talking about...?
Certainly nothing as memorable or notable as Ranger.
 

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the wii u is overrated. im tired of people gassing it up. it is a mediocre AT BEST console with a terrible controller that was only utilized well one or two times.
I don't think it is overrated, in any case it is underrated. Not because it is good, it is mediocre at best, but because everybody talks shit of it as if it were way below mediocre.

IMHO it was an OK console with a nasty unpractical gamepad, a couple of great Nintendo games (99% already ported to Switch) and almost 0 third party support. But back in the day you could only play Mario Kart 8 in the Wii U, and that game alone made it worth it.

Just to make the point on how flawed the gamepad was, it was a very expensive to replace big chunk of uncomfortable to hold plastic whose battery lasted less than half what the infamous DS4 controller lasted and which in case it broke it left you with a useless console.
 
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I don't think it is overrated, in any case it is underrated. Not because it is good, it is mediocre at best, but because everybody talks shit of it as if it were way below mediocre.

IMHO it was an OK console with a nasty unpractical gamepad, a couple of great Nintendo games (99% already ported to Switch) and almost 0 third party support. But back in the day you could only play Mario Kart 8 in the Wii U, and that game alone made it worth it.

Just to make the point on how flawed the gamepad was, it was a very expensive to replace big chunk of uncomfortable to hold plastic whose battery lasted less than half what the infamous DS4 controller lasted and which in case it broke it left you with a useless console.
the gamepad was cool as shit when your dad was watching rugby on the only tv in the one bedroom he rented lmao
 

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