u/space_keeper

Don't judge a fish by its ability to climb monkeys.

Playing it on release, after seeing the teasers. Cannot adequately describe the experience. We'd been waiting for bioware to do another KoToR and then we got ME. Some of us had been playing BW games for 10 years at that point, did not like Obsidian's KoToR or NWN entries at all, were waiting for something. In the context of late 00s games, it was absolutely one of a kind. My first run was a beautiful mess, I've never been able to replicate it.

Probably played ME2 more, because it's just easier to replay, but I also felt it lacked the atmosphere and musical chops, just like you're saying.

I could do with something that makes my lunch break seem longer, but actually it isn't.

Drugs maybe? Some sort of device that locally slows down time?

I say that to people when they ask me what it was like. Worked on the doors for a few years, 20 years ago, in a very rough town.

I tell people, you'd come up to me thinking you're going to challenge me because I'm much bigger than you or you're pissed off because of something or other, and you'll probably walk away thinking I'm sound. I'll figure out what's winding you up and work on it if I can. Or you'll wonder why I'm not reacting to anything you're doing and start questioning yourself while I stare at you, because you're not even remotely the scariest cunt I've run into.

Been in hundreds of random scraps. Very few I would call "fist fights". People who say that don't know what fighting is like. People start throwing hands properly, it doesn't last long. I have been hit by furniture and shit a fair few times though.

All flanges over 4" really should be done with a torque bar and a spec sheet. 4" and under you can just rattle them.

JSP EVOLite skyworker.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When all you need is a hammer, everything looks like a hammer.

Cold milk with hot porridge.

I tried to use launch system on my first character. Was really weak, and the multishot attack is not good.

Started hearing about DWDM in 2006 or so. People talking about measuring speed on fat lines in DVDs per second as a joke. And then it actually deployed, and now it's on a huge scale up.

Some older pipefitters I've worked with still use inches and fractions, purely because all steel fittings, especially weld fittings, are based on inches and work well with them.

But actually doing steel with millimetres is also very easy.

Wye is a water fitting. Tee is a vent fitting. You can poke your finger into the branch of a tee and touch the opposite side of the pipe. That's the air path. You can't do that with a wye.

I've had a few good laughs.

I have a special tape about that size that I hand to anyone asking me to borrow a tape. It's a soft tape in a case that looks like a fox, with a fluffy tail. The retract button is his nose. Or if there are people watching me fit pipe, I'll pull it out to take a size.

Or it'd go flying away to nowhere while you're carrying something big.

Epoxy it to the pavement somewhere. Film the results.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

A horrifying thought that keeps coming back is that it's not a bubble. The horse has bolted, and instead of popping, it'll be a very long, wet fart that leaves us all wretching.

Shut up, buy your spyware laden smart TV, and play games on five different cloud gaming subscription services.

A pipefitter I work with has worked on half the Tescos in Britain. He'll say things like "that's a pattern F Tesco, I worked on one just like it in..."

I remember back when I worked on the doors, everyone knew someone who was "a kickboxing champion" at some point. How many championships are there?

It's okay they can just buy new legs.

get pretty good at it and viola! 

Who has time for music lessons when they're trying to youtube their way into being a fake plumber?

Dominos.

And Subway.

I've been on three sites recently where guys have had fake tickets. Or guys doing things that are supposed to be skilled work on red cards with blatantly stolen tools which they're figuring out how to use on the job. I've personally met guys who brag about having dodgy blue cards.

I have to pass a barrage of right-to-work checks every time I go for a job. I don't know how they're getting around it. SIA badges is another one. In a past life when I worked in security, there was a period of a year or so where the number of stewards appearing who spoke zero English went through the roof.