bholdr
03-22-2005, 06:06 PM
the two have nothing to do with each other, but the metal gear comment doesn't deserve a thread.
First, my dilema:
I manage an apartment building in seattle. one of my tenants (who is also kind of a friend, in the sense that we chat in the hallways a lot and have a beer once in a while) owns some hot dog carts (i'll call him jon), he sells dogs to the drunks coming out of the bars down the street. He hooks me up with free hotdogs.
The other night at the bar, i run into one of his employees, i'll call him dave. Dave knows me 'cause i get my free hotdogs from him. He comes up to me in the bar, he's a little tipsy, and starts to dump his whole miserable life's story on me. great, i hate that.
"my wife's in the hospital, she tried to kill herself, i've been drunk for days, i smoked some crack last night, i was so depressed. I gotta get to an AA meeting. I'm trying to turn my life around, i got this job" etc, etc.
It was about the most depressing drunken whine session i've ever had to listen to. At the end, I'd concluded that this guy's a total loser, a hopeless drug abusing degenerate, though at the end of our chat, he did take my advice and go to his AA meeting.
The things he told me were obviously intended to be between two guys having a conversation, private, that is, but, i feel that it would be irresponsible towards my tenant not to tell him about the lowlife he's hired. if it were my hotdog stand, i'd fire this dude so damn fast...
now, jon's no fool, and he takes care of his own chit. but do i tell him about dave? i'm leaning towards yes, despite the fact that dave wouldn't have opened up to me had he known i would be speaking to his boss. do the hotdogs come into my descision?
**** ****
I finally got metal gear solid 3: snake eater. it's badass. i love tis series as a tactical 3rd person game, and some of the boss battles are AWESOME, particularly the long, slow, tense sniper battle against an aincient sniper named 'the end'.
But it DRIVES ME NUTS that 'circle' is the action button and 'x' is the cancel button. I can't stand that! it's the exact opposit of just about every other game out there, and has caused me all kinds of frustration. they should standardize 'x' as the action button on all ps2 games, dammit!
that is all.
First, my dilema:
I manage an apartment building in seattle. one of my tenants (who is also kind of a friend, in the sense that we chat in the hallways a lot and have a beer once in a while) owns some hot dog carts (i'll call him jon), he sells dogs to the drunks coming out of the bars down the street. He hooks me up with free hotdogs.
The other night at the bar, i run into one of his employees, i'll call him dave. Dave knows me 'cause i get my free hotdogs from him. He comes up to me in the bar, he's a little tipsy, and starts to dump his whole miserable life's story on me. great, i hate that.
"my wife's in the hospital, she tried to kill herself, i've been drunk for days, i smoked some crack last night, i was so depressed. I gotta get to an AA meeting. I'm trying to turn my life around, i got this job" etc, etc.
It was about the most depressing drunken whine session i've ever had to listen to. At the end, I'd concluded that this guy's a total loser, a hopeless drug abusing degenerate, though at the end of our chat, he did take my advice and go to his AA meeting.
The things he told me were obviously intended to be between two guys having a conversation, private, that is, but, i feel that it would be irresponsible towards my tenant not to tell him about the lowlife he's hired. if it were my hotdog stand, i'd fire this dude so damn fast...
now, jon's no fool, and he takes care of his own chit. but do i tell him about dave? i'm leaning towards yes, despite the fact that dave wouldn't have opened up to me had he known i would be speaking to his boss. do the hotdogs come into my descision?
**** ****
I finally got metal gear solid 3: snake eater. it's badass. i love tis series as a tactical 3rd person game, and some of the boss battles are AWESOME, particularly the long, slow, tense sniper battle against an aincient sniper named 'the end'.
But it DRIVES ME NUTS that 'circle' is the action button and 'x' is the cancel button. I can't stand that! it's the exact opposit of just about every other game out there, and has caused me all kinds of frustration. they should standardize 'x' as the action button on all ps2 games, dammit!
that is all.