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Then why has every college kid that has been my boss been lazy and kind of stupid even in their field of study?
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Because good college kids get jobs that do not involve being the boss of people who have not been to college.

Like programming or science or petroleum engineering.

Meanwhile, college kids who think that it's just busywork to get their "Middle Class" stamp get other jobs. Also they get paid less money.
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Well, I am not smart enough to do any of that stuff. And I don't consider giving up because things aren't what I expected to be an option. College might not be a "golden ticket" but any job that isn't minimum wage or backbreaking has a bachelor's as the bare minimum. And even then the best you can do with a 4-year is be someone's anal whore.
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I got some pretty nice internships with a 2-year in Information Science and a partway-finished B.S. in Geography. It really depends on where you are and what kind of contacts you have.
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Part of my program includes an internship. End result is a bachelors in technology management, with a certification in water treatment halfway through. Making contacts is hard for me but I am not married to any geographical location. I looked into taking a job in Antarctica but the fact that Im not at least bilingual hurts my chances. (although if I find a way to learn Russian, Norwegian or Spanish that option would be back on the table.)
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What skills are you going to acquire? What will Technology Management teach you to do? A degree is often one requirement for a job, but its rarely the only requirement.
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I am working on minding my own goddamn business.
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Well, good luck, I guess.
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Hey, Ted, I have question related to your avatar: Where'd that cat come from? I love it.

It looks the same as the one from that image macro you posted about the world ending, and it gives me nightmares. The good kind.
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Ah, well then, that answers that.

Whoever owns that cat is the greatest human being to have ever been formed of physical matter.
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Too bad they named him Tard. I'd be grumpy too.
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That does explain the cat's perpetual bad mood...
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Apparently the cat is a happy beast, but just has a jaw that juts out like Judge Dredd. It also has fucked up looking legs, from what I've seen of it.
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Does video game porn exist?

I'm not talking about porn involving video game characters, that's obviously easy to find. I'm talking about porn in which two people play video games while having sex. Possibly with more focus on the game than on the sex. And totally real, not with stunt players. And classic stand-up arcade cabinets from the 80s are obviously better than modern home consoles.
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I thought Av had weird tastes, but wow.

What's that law that states "If it exists, there is a porn of it"? I'd try looking in the dirtiest, dingeist parts of the net, places where no mortal man would dare to tread. Places that make 4chan look like an old ladies book club.

Unfortunately, I'm very vanilla when it comes to porn, so I have know idea what those places would be. Good luck, though.
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One of the correlations to rule 34 is if you find something which porn doesn't exist of, you are obligated to make it yourself. So get crackin'!
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Does this count? Old and tame, but still:
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/2002/10/ ... rator.html
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hyzmarca wrote:Does video game porn exist?

I'm not talking about porn involving video game characters, that's obviously easy to find. I'm talking about porn in which two people play video games while having sex. Possibly with more focus on the game than on the sex. And totally real, not with stunt players. And classic stand-up arcade cabinets from the 80s are obviously better than modern home consoles.
I saw one that started with two people playing Atrai, and evolved into an Atari joystick insertion, but there was no sex happening at the time that video games were being played.

So, no, I have not seen what you're looking for.
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Probably somewhere in Japan . .
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EVERYTHING can be found in Japan. Everything.
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hyzmarca wrote:And classic stand-up arcade cabinets from the 80s are obviously better than modern home consoles.
I disagree. Console controllers let you use a variety of positions while still playing Legend of Legaia 2. Talk about RPG grinding.
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Shrapnel wrote:EVERYTHING can be found in Japan. Everything.
*nods*
everything strange you see on the web?
either photoshop or japan.
not neccessarely only one of the two . .
hell, japan basically IS Rule 34 <.<
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Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Which is bizarre because Japanese people are going extinct for the exact same reasons that pandas are: they've lost interest in fucking.
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Stupid pandas.
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