There’s an FPS game called Darkest of Days I remember kinda liking, where you’re a time-travelling soldier who’s trying to put history on the right path.
But basically all of the game’s levels are centered around WW1 and the American civil war. If I had the means, I’d remake this game from the ground up, give it a more varied story that does the concept justice.
I’ve also filtered the word “slams” out of post titles.
Bill Paxton, holding hands with a slightly taller Bill Paxton wearing sunglasses. They’re standing in front of a poster for the movie Twister, but the title has been replaced with the logo for the board game.
My roommate made it during a literal fever dream over a decade ago, he was in bed, fiddling with his phone’s photo editor mumbling “I have a vision” over and over again. The tag line “he called me a ne’er do well, he’s dead” was something I said while playing GTA next to him at that time, and he added the quote to the final image.
I stole some bullets from my workplace once.
I was unloading a truck at work one day, many years ago. One of the items on my trailer was a pallet of rifle ammunition. Whoever loaded this trailer on the other side of the country did a shitty job of it; plastic wrap was shredded, several boxes were torn open, the cardboard “do not stack” cone was crushed under the weight of a car engine, among other things. When I managed to exhume this pallet from the trailer, the plastic gave way, spilling dozens of boxes and hundreds of loose bullets all over my trailer and loading dock. While I was cleaning up the mess, I impulsively pocketed a few bullets for myself. Nobody ever asked me about it. I don’t even own a gun. But I have a few bullets.
With our current calendar system, anything other than a 7-day schedule is going to shift from week to week. My schedule at that company was 8 days long, so it shifted ahead by one day each week. Your proposal would do the same, just in the opposite direction. Having employers stick to fixed schedules is a much easier ask than having the whole world change how we keep track of time.
I’ve worked a schedule like this before (4 on/4 off) and while it’s nice at first, it wreaks havoc for long-term planning, since your schedule shifts from week to week.
Whenever I’d try to make plans with friends, I’d have to cancel 75% of the time, because I’d either be at work, or I’d have work the next day and I couldn’t be out late. Extrapolating my schedule didn’t really help anything; there’d be entire months at a time where I simply wouldn’t see my friends with normal 9-to-5s.
3- or 4-day work weeks are great, but they should be fixed in place on the workers’ end.
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I’m starting a new job on Tuesday. Normally, I would’ve started on Monday, but day 1 at this company is just about watching training videos. So I’ve convinced my recruiter to let me watch those videos from home, instead.
It’s barely an hour of footage overall, no quizzes to take or paperwork to fill out. I would’ve spent more time on the commute. I have no idea how I’m going to fill the time after this.
I was playing video games with my little brother, until about 4 AM. Made no effort to keep track of time, although we were probably setting up a heist in GTA when midnight rolled around.
After growing up with a bunch of retail workers and hearing all their horror stories, I generally try to avoid all the “classic” Christmas tunes as long as possible - the only ones I ever seek out are Christmas At Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic, and Straight No Chaser’s album from 2009.
Braking doesn’t even have to factor into it, I can’t stand the feeling of going on and off the throttle. Cruise control exists for a reason, people.
An avocado! Thanks…
Separate idea: An open-world survival game, but using the TV show Jericho as the setting.
You find yourself stranded in western Kansas after dozens of American cities have just been nuked, and with nothing but the clothes on your back and a stolen car, you have to rob and scavenge the countryside to survive.
…I realized after typing out several paragraphs, that I basically want The Long Drive as a base game, but with BeamNG’s driving and crash physics, and Insurgency: Sandstorm’s gunplay.
Players would get most of their supplies from fighting NPCs, having to find a fine balance between crashing out their cars without destroying the stuff they’re carrying, or the player smashing up their own ride in the process. I feel like Jonah Prowse’s story on the show would make for a fun endgame: the player creating/joining an organized gang to fight with larger convoys/settlements.