The OOC Hangout Thread (New people introduce yourself here!)

[Magni Prime]

Yes, well, I am taking the car in for repairs tomorrow. I have that off. I also have Thursday off, and only am slated to work 3 hours on Wednesday. Methinks that wednesday will be a day for playing hooky. 3-day weekend sounds nice.  

[Magni Prime]

Apparently I was tired. Slept 12.5 hours lastnight. eek

Gots me a job interview tomorrow.  

[Magni Prime]

Apparently I did. Still, not sure I like sleeping for 12.5 hours.

Interview went well, I think. Still have a few hoops to jump through, some clearances to apply for and such. Hopefully that will go well.

On an unrelated note- I have an RP problem. I just wrote a 2257 word post in my role play, and have gotten at least one "oh, God" from fellow players. I tried to make it better by saying they could skip the first five paragraphs . . . and that made it sound worse.  

[Magni Prime]

It is indeed a psych job, one requiring my level of education. I am not counting my blessings before they occur, but there is hope.

Yeah, they can handle it- but it was a book. sweatdrop  

[Magni Prime]

Meh, it was so long because I was responding in detail to everybody and the thread is rather populated at the moment. It's a captain's meeting in the bleach guild.

Again, I am not trying to count my blessings too early . . . but if hired, it might be a hell of a boon.  

[Skreemer]

Aye, it was rather pleasant Yoder. To be honest my only real criticisms were the seats on public transport in LA are horrible, European style social healthcare is desperately needed and people should really be held to a higher standard for driving.
I could easily have blown a few hundred dollars on kits. Or just a single kit. But that's something I'll have to work towards. Plus I'll need to brush up on my electronics skills before I tackle something like the perfect grade kits.  

[Magni Prime]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKav0SxjTU0

I'm just going to leave this here about how America has gone downhill.  

[Magni Prime]

I believe it is indeed from newsroom, and is a bit of an older clip. Still, the truth and biting commentary on American Exceptionalism is just as valid. I feel that we are as a society not unlike Rome. At one point, we were on a steady growth. Coming back from the Great Depression, America was on a fast-track to becoming unstoppable and great. And we did it. We had become the largest and most unstoppable force on the planet, a global paladin fighting for what was right and none could withstand us. Then came the fall. We peaked, and then became introverted enough to stop being kind. Greed took our government. Apathy and complacency took our populace. Now we are a used car salesman of ethics. We can get by in most cases on the laurels of what once was. Unfortunately, we need help in getting back to where we were . . . or we will collapse upon ourselves.

Our leaders were bought and paid for decades ago by the people that run the oligarchy now. Profitmongering has led to one of the most staggeringly disparate economies in history. If you do not have the blessing to be born in the upper 2% of our populace, the deck is beyond stacked against you- they hold all the cards. Innovation has stalled to a near crawl, our stance in the world community is suffering, our military is a bloated joke as a group (though I will not dare to insult a single individual soldier, I attack the group, not the individuals), our infrastructure is literally collapsing under us, the middle class is almost extinct, and class/race warfare dominates the media to the point where a vast majority of Americans turn to comedians for the best source of factual news.

America was great once. This? This is a far more cynical and indecorous age. A time where we look to the titans of the past for inspiration, and the future is a bleak place nobody wants a part of.